Today’s Poser

Have some black Americans stopped seeking racial equality and are now really demanding supremacy?


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The New Slavery

I like the way W. Lewis Amselem (the Diplomad) thinks and writes. His latest blog post has a paragraph about the plight of blacks in America that hit home with me. Here it is:

“The progs have done what neither slavery nor segregation could: they have kept millions of black people as a permanent underclass to be exploited by the prog urban political machines. The progs get to decide who is black and who is a Fake black; they decide what political views black people can and cannot hold; which black "leaders" will emerge and get media time. Behold, the new slavery.”

This is a pithy bit of thought and scribing. If you want to read all the finery inspiring and surrounding this gem, read his entire posting at: Diplomad 2.0. And yet it was Joe Biden who once said to blacks that the Republicans were “gonna put y’all back in chains.”

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Obvious Truth

Something close to ten times as many blacks will be killed this year by Planned Parenthood than by the coronavirus ... and something like 10,000 times more than by police brutality.

National Conversation

Democrats keep insisting, “We need to have a national conversation”  ... apparently except when Senator Tom Cotton writes an op-ed in the New York Times.

OK, I’ll give it a try ... how about this for a stater? — ‘“Black Lives Matter except when killed by blacks.”

Afterward: And here is another voice that needs to be silenced: Candice Owens.

Headlines

Trump’s top health officials predict diminished coronavirus death toll

Coronavirus live update: MLB may play all games in Arizona, USNS Comfort crew member tests positive

Food bank line stretching miles in Florida ...

CDC Director: Death toll will be ‘much, much, much lower’ than predicted

Biden : ‘We cannot delay’ November’s general election

New York coronavirus deaths jumped by 731 Monday, the single-biggest daily increase, Gov. Cuomo says

More than half of Chicago’s cases are African-American ...

Harry and Meghan plan U.S. non-profit amid coronavirus pandemic

Kudlow leaves door open for more small-business funding

JP Morgan’s market guru, who called the rebound, sees ‘limited reopening’ of the economy soon

Poll: 73% say Trump should wear mask ...

Peter Navarro memo in late January warned of coronavirus

While Our President Slept

The contrast is dramatic. Donald Trump's ability to multitask effectively is quite impressive. His focus and energy are daunting. In comparison, our current much-younger president is lackadaisical by his nature and ideological by his actions ... but I suspect history will judge him even more harshly because of this Trump juxtaposition. Most of the kinetics in the Obummer administration came not from our Teleprompter-in-chief (apparently, his primary function) but instead from his bloated go-get-em staff. He can often sound and look sincere when reading his staff's well-crafted rhetoric. But his indifference to the full spectrum of his presidential duties is often obvious by his body language or lack of action ... and is brought even more into focus by comparison to our new president elect.

Obummer was too often an inattentive president. There is little argument that he would mainly focus on five things: getting back at those whom he saw as oppressors of blacks, open borders, global warming, setting Muslims a place at the table ... and his golf game. Everything else; the economy, entitlement reform, the loss of our middle class, rebuilding our infrastructure, defeating terrorism, strengthening our national defense, reducing government waste, tax reform, regulation reform, etc. seemed to be distractions to him. I don't think he even gave a hoot about health-care reform or free trade These were treated merely as check boxes for his expected legacy. I think if you were to ask him to explain the ups and downs of Obamacare or TPP in detail without his Teleprompter, he would stutter and flounder.

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Cultural Appropriation

Whites sporting dreadlocks is "cultural appropriation." Sexy burka Halloween costumes is "cultural appropriation" ... see: RT! Story. White rapping such as with Eminem is "cultural appropriation." Is wearing moccasins "cultural appropriation?" Is adopting the annoying speech patterns of valley girls "cultural appropriations?" Such silliness! Is one sector of society not allowed to imitate any aspect of another sector without opprobrium?

It would seem to this observer that such imitation is flattery and should not be condemned. When such "cultural borrowing" occurs, it suggests that the borrowing sector somehow admires the passive lenders. Why the lending sector would deny the borrowers such liberties seems selfish and almost paranoid. That famous ditty from My Fair Lady, "Why Can't a Woman be More Like a Man?", suggests that men actually want their idiosyncrasies copied by the distaff side. (And it looks like we may be finally getting our wish.)

We have recently seen that this cultural pilfering has even gone so far as 100% WASPs claiming to be blacks ... and males claiming to be females ... often just for a day or two. (I have no problem with transgenderism as long as one's plumbing is changed.)

So, you grudging lenders of culture ... please relax and consider yourselves flattered by the borrowers. At some point, these borrowers might want to return the things appropriated ... all ragtag and rusty. Then you can get upset.

Spinning Out of Control

It's a lethal cocktail ... live cell-phone videos of confrontations between police and potentially dangerous black men in which the black men are shot and killed ... instant messages from eye witnesses who foment racial hatred by lying or jumping to conclusions before all the facts are known ... a black president who prematurely goes on television implying that the police are most often to blame in these matters ... media which too quickly jumps to stereotyping these incidents from a racial point of view. For a fairly balanced and thoughtful bit of opinion journalism on this issue, read : Yahoo Analysis.

It is now much more of a "we" and "they" world ... everything has become overly stratified ... Beyoncé comes out with a letter that decries police brutality and says, "Stop killing us" ... see: Breitbart Article. The "us" are blacks ... it's blacks versus the police ... thanks partially to our fixated president who has again convinced many blacks, using the shooting of two armed black men by police,  that cops are racists by nature. President Obummer, before all the circumstances are fully known, went on Polish television and slyly spun out his bigoted view of law enforcement. On the other hand, the Dallas black Police Chief, David Brown, did a far far better job than our president of calming things down and bringing the races together ... see: TMZ Video.

What a sad indictment of our nation's leaderless leader.

Another Boycott

Michael Moore is supporting the black boycott of the all-white Oscars award ceremonies ... see: Breitbart Article. But he is also upset because there are no obscenely obese nominees in any of the Oscar categories ... just kidding.

Has anyone commented on the unfortunate linguistic slight when blacks " boycott" the  Oscars? (I could have been more au courant and used the modern, clumsy term "microagression" instead of the older, elegant term "slight").

Anti-Big Bird

The Republicans' anti-abortion stance has now wrapped this party even further around the axel ... and this should cause them to lose the 2016 presidential election. Their denouncing of Planned Parenthood's selling of baby body parts has clearly inspired Robert L. Dear to shoot up the Planned Parenthood's clinic in Colorado Springs ... killing three, wounding nine and casting a pall on this altruistic national provider of women's health care ... and forcing this fine organization to have to justify these widely-needed services ... see: Daily Kos Story.

Clearly every Republican candidate for president has jumped on the anti-Planned Parenthood bandwagon as a result of those doctored interview tapes besmirching these fine clinic people. This places all of these Republican turkeys on the wrong side of this history and shows that they are soldiers in the war on women. They thus deserve to be denounced and voted against.

And Republicans are also obviously anti-blacks, anti-gays, anti-transgender, anti-marijuana, anti-unions, anti-immigrants, anti-disabled people, anti-infrastructure, anti-poor people, anti-gun control, anti-socialism, anti-Hispanics, anti-middle class, anti-global warming, anti-Native Americans, anti-senior citizens, anti-Muslims, anti-women, anti-media, and anti-Big Bird. (Did I forget any?) Are these not enough reasons to pull the lever for Hillary?

The Race Card

Let me see … the United States freed the slaves about 150 years ago and, in the process, sacrificed over 600,000 of our young men. It also stopped school segregation and Jim Crow laws about 60 years ago. And, as an act of atonement, it has long encouraged racial preferences to be used in employment and education. It has had two black Supreme Court justices, two black Secretaries of State, one black Attorney General and multiple black Presidential cabinet secretaries and top-level advisers, many black Senators, Representatives, state Governors and city Mayors, and numerous black corporate CEOs, university Presidents, sports personalities, movie/music stars, TV poobahs, and other millionaire glitterati … and now the U.S. has a black in the highest office in the land … its President … all elected, appointed or appreciated by a population which is, by its majority, not black.

One would think that these many enlightened accomplishments might begin to remove the stain of slavery from the American psyche (our original sin as so aptly described by Condoleezza Rice.)  But no … we are still racists. Not only are whites racists, but we are often compared to the Klu Klux Klan … itching to scare the black man into submission with a burning cross. We are an unrecoverable and vile form of humanity who cannot be reformed or forgiven for the sins of our forebearers … even beyond the seventh generation (the seeming Biblical limit of sin’s legacy.)

Recently, Michelle Obama, in a high-school graduation address, told her starry-eyed audience that they still hold secret prejudice against the likes of her … see: here. And Attorney General, Eric Holder has let go with both barrels. First saying that anyone who opposes President Obama’s policies is guilty of “quiet prejudice” … see: here. And then, paradoxically suggested that colorblindness is not the way to end discrimination … see: here.

I guess playing the race card in politics has become second nature to many on the left … particularly when your pile of accomplishment chips is so diminished. But, I for one am more than ready to call the left's bluff.

Continued winning at political poker requires a lot more than just bluster … and a race card.

For the Want of a Nail

Why did Mitt Romney lose an election which most pundits thought he was sure to win (including myself … a non- pundit). Other than the voting loyalty of obvious major blocs that worshiped at the feet of Obama -- single women, Hispanics and blacks, Romney may well of lost because his team could not get out the vote. In fact in 2012, the Romney/Ryan ticket received 464 thousand fewer votes than the McCain/Palin ticket did in 2008. This was a shocker to me … particularly given the surge that Romney and Ryan seemed to be receiving in the waning days of the campaign.

When you couple this with another surprising statistic – the Obama/Biden ticket got almost 6.3 million fewer votes than they did in 2008, one is even more perplexed. Obviously something was seriously wrong with both candidates’s ground games, but Romney had an opening through which he could have driven an American Motors car … and he flubbed the dub. If he just could have picked up half the votes that Obama surrendered, he might well have been elected. But alas, not to be.

The question then is, what happened? And I think I have a little-reported answer. The Romney/Ryan team was depending on a piece of software dubbed ORCA to get out those voters that were expected to and should have pulled the Republican levers. This software was supposed to identify for more than 34,000 eager Romney poll-watchers specific names of those voters in key districts who needed to be rounded up and brought to the polls. However, this lauded software pooped the bed and did not perform as anticipated. And what is worse, the Romney team had no back-up plan … so perhaps millions of their expected Republican voters stayed home and watched the sad results on television … see: National Journal Article

Exactly why this software crashed to the point of non-functionality on election day is probably now being hotly debated … lack of beta testing, lack of user training, insufficient computer power, a denial-of-service attack from the Obama team, a Democrat techie mole, etc.; but what is clear is that Romney, despite his reputation for getting things done, did not have the right techies and technical managers on his campaign staff. See: SD Times Article for additional details. Too bad … for all Romney’s psychic and organizational efforts and the hundreds of millions of dollars that were expended on his behalf … the lack of this one I.P. nail may well have cost him the election battle.