My white grandkids have black cousins. They love each other. They are all under six.
At some point, the “those who know everything” liberals will be trying to inject divisiveness and hate into them and their cousins in the name of wokeness. I hope they rebel against such trash.
I pray that wokeism has been euthanized before the wokesters try and brainwash them. Maybe your Cousin Angela will lead the charge.
I think there is a white parent suing one of the schools over this. Their kids are black and it is creating issues. The world has gone stupid with no common sense. What I want to know is what happened to all the liberals singing the earworms 'Its a small world and I love you, you love me?' Honest it wasnt that long ago. Now its, I love you unless you are white.
Thank God freedom of expression is alive and well on Substack! And praise God Don Surber is here, too. I hadn't known a video of Scott Adams' comments was even available, if it hasn't been deep-sixed by YouTube. At least I found out a lot about this issue by reading another excellent column by my (I count him as one) friend Don Surber. God bless you always, brother.
Communists take simple, commonplace things and beat people into submission. No gas for cars, only electricity. No nuclear reactors or hydroelectric dams or coalfired generating plants. Only windmills and solar reflectors. Communists are cruel, merciless, god-awful hypocrites.
These race-baiting, race-hustling evil communist hypocrites need to be shown the exit in no uncertain terms ASAP. I am sick to 100 feet over my head of this constant communist propaganda coming at me and everybody else from every media outlet 24\7.
I've got a good friend who lives in Los Angeles. He decided to stop driving his car except for long trips and now he takes the bus and rides the subways and trains all over the L.A basin. He is a wonderfully outgoing, highly intelligent and perceptive person. He has no trouble talking to anyone about anything. He said in his travels on the busses and trains he talks to anyone who can speak English.
L.A. is a magnet for humans on the go. There is some of every human race on earth living in L.A. My pal talks to them every day as he rides to work. He said that in ALL of his talking he never hears any racist malarkey or gets a bad vibe. Maybe he's just lucky, but I believe most people are normal and want to live and let live. So does he.
Like Don Surber's report today shows, this communist drumbeat of "racism" is being promoted by radio, teevee, internet, print and handheld device propaganda promoted by communist propaganda artists who have taken the high ground in the American Way of Life. Resist communist oppression in any and every way necessary. Learn to hate the communist as much as they hate you.
This is similar to the Day of Hate..... think there were all of 5 people maybe? But lordy, everyone and their brother opposed it. Ok. sure, so where is the hate? This is like Qnon. The only ones talking about it are the left. Rings pretty hollow and smells like FBI.
So you're saying the communists, who murdered more than100,000,000 human beings in the 20th century to enforce their dogma and their ideology don't hate anyone who opposes them? You're saying any freedom loving person of good conscience should not literally hate anyone or anything that resorts to outright cold-blooded killing to advance their cause? You're saying anyone (like me) who suggests that communism and communists are hateful, despicable murderous people is an FBI agent? You sound just like a communist, tj. Exactly.
No Oaf, that was not my point. Communists and everyone that supports them are evil. Every time they try it, saying it hasnt been done 'right' whatever that means, they kill millions more. They are trying to take America down from within.
My point was that this 'drumbeat of racism' is being pushed by everyone but the normal everyday Americans. The ones that have to deal with the results of propaganda. It was not a slam on your opinion of communists, it was just another example of the use of propaganda that is killing our country. It was a big deal just yesterday until the propaganda machine didnt get the results they wanted.
I wasnt clear on what I was responding to in your comment, so I apologize.
Well I certainly do owe you a likewise and most sincere apology, tj. Your response to my initial comment came across as accusatory. I mused for a good while before adding the line in my original comment, "Learn to hate the communist as much as they hate you." No doubt, them's fightin' words. I posted those serious fighting words because that's what it's come to now.
The communist FEDGOV bureaucracy and all of their acolytes in education, the arts, broadcasting, journalism--everywhere in the American Way of Life--communists are dead set against our Constitutional Law and everything that Law stands for.
If we don't become as active as possible against them, the communists will do what they did in Russia, China, Cambodia. There is no rest for the wicked and godless communists never rest.
Here in the United States communists have used Justice William O. Douglas' 1965 dodge of "penumbras and emanations" in Constitutional Law to murder, by abortion, a hundred million unborn children. In death, communists have a big head start on us. We need to catch up fast.
Again, I apologize to you tj for my misunderstanding of your meaning.
No worries, with the state of our current society it is hard not to be passionate. The communists set their sights on our country because it is a beacon of hope and prosperity. They are having to destroy it from within because they havent been able to destroy it from outside. I only can hope and pray we can stop them. Places like Don has provided gives us places to congregate and talk.
I am glad we were able to straighten out our misunderstanding. There are so many things wrong right now, fighting each other when it wasnt supposed to be a fight just wastes the energy we need to fight our real enemies.
Plus, I will try and drink more coffee before posting.... lol
Trayvon and the Professor Gates Beer Summit, what a lovely visit down memory lane with the Creator (O-BAH-MA) of modern racism. Both events in our history were caused by Rev. Al and Obama pouring gas on the fire instead of minding their own business and let local law enforcement handle it (which they were correctly doing at the time). The NAACP is seriously a "hate group" with all the hate towards LEOs which has made them millions. Next time when an officer is killed by a black guy, why not sue the NAACP on behalf of that cop's family. His life mattered more, imho.
My family is made up of white, black, and red folks, with a bit of Irish and German thrown in on my parents side. My oldest adores his mixed-race little brothers, and my in-laws, whom I love dearly, love me, too. It has never been about what we look like, but our character alone. I fell in love with the girl for her heart (she being the proverbial Brick House was a bonus!), and we've passed the last 32 years together, raising kids to be great people.
While "video killed the radio star", the Democrats killed America. This was through a long string of policies, such as the immigration bill of 1965, the safety net programs of the 60s, and the invention of the iPhone. Each in their own way, effected negativity on the melting pot of America.
The immigration bill allowed for increased tribalism, the safety net programs destroyed the family unit and the iPhone created generations of uncaring loners. If we don’t value each others lives, then we value nothing.
There is no reality but reality. Emotional or historical reality is in the eye of the beholder, not in reality itself. Only God sees reality as it is. We see reality only as we see God's reality-- really see Him, since we can't see reality. Our finitude can only be overcome by trusting God and His Spirit in Jesus Christ. That's why people insist on controlling other people's "reality" and why they detest Christians and our God: God controls our reality and that reality is the only reality.
Actually I think we are born "racist" but only as it refers to a being that will identify that which is different from itself and therefore may pose a threat. This is simple biology. So until you determine that the being you are seeing is more like you than not and shares your values then you either fear it, avoid it, or in extreme cases, kill it. Those are your choices. It is called the survival instinct.
Yeah, this is actually the thing. And the commies utilize this basic biological fact to their advantage to create division. The US is the most successful multi-cultural society ever on this planet. I realize Mr. Adams got a bit heated, and a bit sloppy (which you cannot do when you jump into this particular pool) but am happy it appears he will survive it.
I am still of the belief that MLK's lasting legacy of content of character over color of his skin will win the day. Even now we see the DEI hustlers getting run out of an increasing number of places. It's the start of what will become a flood. Not that it will be easy or painless. But it is coming.
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The Angela Davis thing is funny. As someone pointed out in another comments section, she had a about the same reaction that a KKK member would finding out he had descended from slaves.
I know very little about Scott Adams other than he created Dilbert and he had one of the most powerful monologues shortly after his wife died where he talks about going for a walk and listening to Peter Gabriel's Solsbury Hill and how life is more powerful because of the pain we suffer. I tried to find it to share, but alas, YouTube is not that searchable.
As for the Rasmussen "survey," I hate these things for this reason. (Here is a link to the article. Most of it is behind a paywall, but if you subscribe, I'd love to hear what the rest of the article says: https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/lifestyle/general_lifestyle/january_2023/not_woke_yet_most_voters_reject_anti_white_beliefs). Surveys like this are a Rorschach test. It was a survey of just 1000 people, and Rasmussen trends conservative (heavily sometimes). The survey asked a second question, Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: "Black people can be racists, too." 79% of respondents answered "agree." So how do you explain the paradox that of the black people cited in the survey, nearly half of them agreed or were undecided on whether or not it was okay to be white and then turned around, at least a portion of them, and said that black people can be racist too. It doesn't make sense unless . . .
Unless you consider that a yes-or-no question can be answered the same way for many reasons. Take the "wrong direction" question. Nearly 83% of people agreed before the last election that the country was going in the wrong direction. That should have been a bloodbath for the Democrats, yes? But it wasn't. Why? (And, no, Bad Orange Man did not sabotage all those good Republicans' chances.) Because there are a million reasons to think this country is headed in the wrong direction. You can't just ask the question and walk away. You have to ask them *why* they think that. The same thing holds here. "Why is it not okay to be white?" It could simple be that a lot of black moderates and conservatives (remembering that Rasmussen trends conservative) have the same queasiness about all this anti-racist BS that most white people do, that white people are being "othered" in a new age of racism and segregation. That would cause them to answer "no, it is not okay to be white" not because they think there's anything inherently wrong with being white but because they recognize the growing trend of state and society sanctioned racism against white people.
As for Scott Adams, I don't blame him for his conclusions. He's a product of the times, and had the question been reversed and nearly half of all white people agreed with the statement "It's not okay to be black," Joy Reid would be suggesting that every non-Democrat-voting white person in America immediately be designated a domestic terrorist and citing it as evidence.
i expect the survey sample was much more woke than the general population. i interact with black neighbors every day. most are as kind and friendly as neighbors of other ethnicities, the exceptions being government employees and recently arrived immigrants from Somalia.
I am not sure that the survey is that nuanced. To be honest, all the hate and racism that I hear is mostly coming from academics and the government who rely on think tanks. I dont hear it from neighbors or elsewhere.
You are correct though use leading questions, and it is statistics, so you can make a perfectly good survey say anything you want. Polls are not designed to ask why. Usually they dont have time or with some, dont want the answers because it makes a lie of the poll.
The race baiting issue, is the ones talking dont want to listen. They know they are spewing a mess. But they get paid if they can train more people to be racist or better yet, make everyone feel guilty for the color of their skin that they have no choice over. Its (D)ifferent when they do it.
I hear "they" will re-write James Bond novels in order to replace objectionable things: can we then read about "Vagina Galore?" Perhaps "Cisperson from Uncle."
Interracial slavery did not become commonplace until a leap in transportation technology in the 16th Century allowed slaves sold by Africans to be transported to the Americas to provide sustainable renewable energy for the elites. When visiting the northern Mediterranean coast you see homes built in seemingly inaccessible places. It’s as if there was something from the sea that they feared.
This country's population is still white-majority. If you live in a community that is not mostly white, the reason is probably racism. We used to understand that all-black communities got that way because of prejudicial practices of different sorts, and we very sensibly adjudged it to be wrong. Ms Blackwell now thinks it's a really good idea. My, how times have changed.
My white grandkids have black cousins. They love each other. They are all under six.
At some point, the “those who know everything” liberals will be trying to inject divisiveness and hate into them and their cousins in the name of wokeness. I hope they rebel against such trash.
I pray that wokeism has been euthanized before the wokesters try and brainwash them. Maybe your Cousin Angela will lead the charge.
Just thinking about those precious, pure, innocent kids and what they are coming up against makes me want to cry.
I think there is a white parent suing one of the schools over this. Their kids are black and it is creating issues. The world has gone stupid with no common sense. What I want to know is what happened to all the liberals singing the earworms 'Its a small world and I love you, you love me?' Honest it wasnt that long ago. Now its, I love you unless you are white.
Thank God freedom of expression is alive and well on Substack! And praise God Don Surber is here, too. I hadn't known a video of Scott Adams' comments was even available, if it hasn't been deep-sixed by YouTube. At least I found out a lot about this issue by reading another excellent column by my (I count him as one) friend Don Surber. God bless you always, brother.
IMHO Scott Adams was practicing Rush Limbaugh's tactic by "illustrating absurdity by being absurd".
Yep.
Communists take simple, commonplace things and beat people into submission. No gas for cars, only electricity. No nuclear reactors or hydroelectric dams or coalfired generating plants. Only windmills and solar reflectors. Communists are cruel, merciless, god-awful hypocrites.
These race-baiting, race-hustling evil communist hypocrites need to be shown the exit in no uncertain terms ASAP. I am sick to 100 feet over my head of this constant communist propaganda coming at me and everybody else from every media outlet 24\7.
I've got a good friend who lives in Los Angeles. He decided to stop driving his car except for long trips and now he takes the bus and rides the subways and trains all over the L.A basin. He is a wonderfully outgoing, highly intelligent and perceptive person. He has no trouble talking to anyone about anything. He said in his travels on the busses and trains he talks to anyone who can speak English.
L.A. is a magnet for humans on the go. There is some of every human race on earth living in L.A. My pal talks to them every day as he rides to work. He said that in ALL of his talking he never hears any racist malarkey or gets a bad vibe. Maybe he's just lucky, but I believe most people are normal and want to live and let live. So does he.
Like Don Surber's report today shows, this communist drumbeat of "racism" is being promoted by radio, teevee, internet, print and handheld device propaganda promoted by communist propaganda artists who have taken the high ground in the American Way of Life. Resist communist oppression in any and every way necessary. Learn to hate the communist as much as they hate you.
This is similar to the Day of Hate..... think there were all of 5 people maybe? But lordy, everyone and their brother opposed it. Ok. sure, so where is the hate? This is like Qnon. The only ones talking about it are the left. Rings pretty hollow and smells like FBI.
So you're saying the communists, who murdered more than100,000,000 human beings in the 20th century to enforce their dogma and their ideology don't hate anyone who opposes them? You're saying any freedom loving person of good conscience should not literally hate anyone or anything that resorts to outright cold-blooded killing to advance their cause? You're saying anyone (like me) who suggests that communism and communists are hateful, despicable murderous people is an FBI agent? You sound just like a communist, tj. Exactly.
No Oaf, that was not my point. Communists and everyone that supports them are evil. Every time they try it, saying it hasnt been done 'right' whatever that means, they kill millions more. They are trying to take America down from within.
My point was that this 'drumbeat of racism' is being pushed by everyone but the normal everyday Americans. The ones that have to deal with the results of propaganda. It was not a slam on your opinion of communists, it was just another example of the use of propaganda that is killing our country. It was a big deal just yesterday until the propaganda machine didnt get the results they wanted.
I wasnt clear on what I was responding to in your comment, so I apologize.
Well I certainly do owe you a likewise and most sincere apology, tj. Your response to my initial comment came across as accusatory. I mused for a good while before adding the line in my original comment, "Learn to hate the communist as much as they hate you." No doubt, them's fightin' words. I posted those serious fighting words because that's what it's come to now.
The communist FEDGOV bureaucracy and all of their acolytes in education, the arts, broadcasting, journalism--everywhere in the American Way of Life--communists are dead set against our Constitutional Law and everything that Law stands for.
If we don't become as active as possible against them, the communists will do what they did in Russia, China, Cambodia. There is no rest for the wicked and godless communists never rest.
Here in the United States communists have used Justice William O. Douglas' 1965 dodge of "penumbras and emanations" in Constitutional Law to murder, by abortion, a hundred million unborn children. In death, communists have a big head start on us. We need to catch up fast.
Again, I apologize to you tj for my misunderstanding of your meaning.
No worries, with the state of our current society it is hard not to be passionate. The communists set their sights on our country because it is a beacon of hope and prosperity. They are having to destroy it from within because they havent been able to destroy it from outside. I only can hope and pray we can stop them. Places like Don has provided gives us places to congregate and talk.
I am glad we were able to straighten out our misunderstanding. There are so many things wrong right now, fighting each other when it wasnt supposed to be a fight just wastes the energy we need to fight our real enemies.
Plus, I will try and drink more coffee before posting.... lol
Trayvon and the Professor Gates Beer Summit, what a lovely visit down memory lane with the Creator (O-BAH-MA) of modern racism. Both events in our history were caused by Rev. Al and Obama pouring gas on the fire instead of minding their own business and let local law enforcement handle it (which they were correctly doing at the time). The NAACP is seriously a "hate group" with all the hate towards LEOs which has made them millions. Next time when an officer is killed by a black guy, why not sue the NAACP on behalf of that cop's family. His life mattered more, imho.
My family is made up of white, black, and red folks, with a bit of Irish and German thrown in on my parents side. My oldest adores his mixed-race little brothers, and my in-laws, whom I love dearly, love me, too. It has never been about what we look like, but our character alone. I fell in love with the girl for her heart (she being the proverbial Brick House was a bonus!), and we've passed the last 32 years together, raising kids to be great people.
While "video killed the radio star", the Democrats killed America. This was through a long string of policies, such as the immigration bill of 1965, the safety net programs of the 60s, and the invention of the iPhone. Each in their own way, effected negativity on the melting pot of America.
The immigration bill allowed for increased tribalism, the safety net programs destroyed the family unit and the iPhone created generations of uncaring loners. If we don’t value each others lives, then we value nothing.
The Democrats are definitely killing America.
Maybe Bill O'Reilly will write a book on this for his Killing series books.
🎯 EXACTOMUNDO!
Once again, Leftist policies coming home to roost. They created this monster.
"'Because through feeling and exploring your ignorance you’ve created a genuine opening for my reality.'"
My reality? Like, 'my truth?'
I'd prefer she just be honest and candid about her racist bigotry.
There is no reality but reality. Emotional or historical reality is in the eye of the beholder, not in reality itself. Only God sees reality as it is. We see reality only as we see God's reality-- really see Him, since we can't see reality. Our finitude can only be overcome by trusting God and His Spirit in Jesus Christ. That's why people insist on controlling other people's "reality" and why they detest Christians and our God: God controls our reality and that reality is the only reality.
Actually I think we are born "racist" but only as it refers to a being that will identify that which is different from itself and therefore may pose a threat. This is simple biology. So until you determine that the being you are seeing is more like you than not and shares your values then you either fear it, avoid it, or in extreme cases, kill it. Those are your choices. It is called the survival instinct.
Yeah, this is actually the thing. And the commies utilize this basic biological fact to their advantage to create division. The US is the most successful multi-cultural society ever on this planet. I realize Mr. Adams got a bit heated, and a bit sloppy (which you cannot do when you jump into this particular pool) but am happy it appears he will survive it.
I am still of the belief that MLK's lasting legacy of content of character over color of his skin will win the day. Even now we see the DEI hustlers getting run out of an increasing number of places. It's the start of what will become a flood. Not that it will be easy or painless. But it is coming.
The Angela Davis thing is funny. As someone pointed out in another comments section, she had a about the same reaction that a KKK member would finding out he had descended from slaves.
I know very little about Scott Adams other than he created Dilbert and he had one of the most powerful monologues shortly after his wife died where he talks about going for a walk and listening to Peter Gabriel's Solsbury Hill and how life is more powerful because of the pain we suffer. I tried to find it to share, but alas, YouTube is not that searchable.
As for the Rasmussen "survey," I hate these things for this reason. (Here is a link to the article. Most of it is behind a paywall, but if you subscribe, I'd love to hear what the rest of the article says: https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/lifestyle/general_lifestyle/january_2023/not_woke_yet_most_voters_reject_anti_white_beliefs). Surveys like this are a Rorschach test. It was a survey of just 1000 people, and Rasmussen trends conservative (heavily sometimes). The survey asked a second question, Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: "Black people can be racists, too." 79% of respondents answered "agree." So how do you explain the paradox that of the black people cited in the survey, nearly half of them agreed or were undecided on whether or not it was okay to be white and then turned around, at least a portion of them, and said that black people can be racist too. It doesn't make sense unless . . .
Unless you consider that a yes-or-no question can be answered the same way for many reasons. Take the "wrong direction" question. Nearly 83% of people agreed before the last election that the country was going in the wrong direction. That should have been a bloodbath for the Democrats, yes? But it wasn't. Why? (And, no, Bad Orange Man did not sabotage all those good Republicans' chances.) Because there are a million reasons to think this country is headed in the wrong direction. You can't just ask the question and walk away. You have to ask them *why* they think that. The same thing holds here. "Why is it not okay to be white?" It could simple be that a lot of black moderates and conservatives (remembering that Rasmussen trends conservative) have the same queasiness about all this anti-racist BS that most white people do, that white people are being "othered" in a new age of racism and segregation. That would cause them to answer "no, it is not okay to be white" not because they think there's anything inherently wrong with being white but because they recognize the growing trend of state and society sanctioned racism against white people.
As for Scott Adams, I don't blame him for his conclusions. He's a product of the times, and had the question been reversed and nearly half of all white people agreed with the statement "It's not okay to be black," Joy Reid would be suggesting that every non-Democrat-voting white person in America immediately be designated a domestic terrorist and citing it as evidence.
i expect the survey sample was much more woke than the general population. i interact with black neighbors every day. most are as kind and friendly as neighbors of other ethnicities, the exceptions being government employees and recently arrived immigrants from Somalia.
I am not sure that the survey is that nuanced. To be honest, all the hate and racism that I hear is mostly coming from academics and the government who rely on think tanks. I dont hear it from neighbors or elsewhere.
You are correct though use leading questions, and it is statistics, so you can make a perfectly good survey say anything you want. Polls are not designed to ask why. Usually they dont have time or with some, dont want the answers because it makes a lie of the poll.
The race baiting issue, is the ones talking dont want to listen. They know they are spewing a mess. But they get paid if they can train more people to be racist or better yet, make everyone feel guilty for the color of their skin that they have no choice over. Its (D)ifferent when they do it.
I hear "they" will re-write James Bond novels in order to replace objectionable things: can we then read about "Vagina Galore?" Perhaps "Cisperson from Uncle."
"from a parent's sibling"
G-d bless William Bradford for recognizing communism killed people.
It is okay to dislike people of any immutable characteristics.
Interracial slavery did not become commonplace until a leap in transportation technology in the 16th Century allowed slaves sold by Africans to be transported to the Americas to provide sustainable renewable energy for the elites. When visiting the northern Mediterranean coast you see homes built in seemingly inaccessible places. It’s as if there was something from the sea that they feared.
Not true both the Greeks and Romans had slaves long before the leap in transportation technology.
The concept of slavery is as old as humans.
The key words here are “interracial” and "commonplace". The very word "slave" comes the Slavic people enslaved by the Romans
95% of the "institutional racism" crapola comes from the halls of academia. I don't know how good people like Glenn Reynolds can breathe that miasma.
They went after him once. It is Tennessee not California or the Eastern Seaboard north of North Carolina
I think that Glenn has recently retired.
This country's population is still white-majority. If you live in a community that is not mostly white, the reason is probably racism. We used to understand that all-black communities got that way because of prejudicial practices of different sorts, and we very sensibly adjudged it to be wrong. Ms Blackwell now thinks it's a really good idea. My, how times have changed.
Cleveland let the lake burn. BTW the rock and roll HOF, isn't.