Those charging that General Flynn’s criticism of Congresswoman Frederica Wilson is racist aren’t entirely wrong. I don’t take racism as it’s defined seriously, and I don’t imagine the general is personally “racist” or motivated by racial animus. But in adding to his criticism of her behavior towards Trump the charge of an earlier graceless publicContinue reading “When Dindu Meets GI Joe”
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Implicit Civil War
After General John Kelly called out Frederica Wilson by name he called her out by implication: I’ll end with this: In October — April, rather, of 2015, I was still on active duty, and I went to the dedication of the new FBI field office in Miami. And it was dedicated to two men whoContinue reading “Implicit Civil War”
Climates of Cluelessness
Political hate creates its own “climate” or “environment” according to those protesting (and reporting on) the seemingly endless acts of racist terror, many of them not proven hoaxes, occurring on college campuses. There’s irony in how the actual physical environment of the American university, itself a product of that demonic white supremacy (Steve Sailer hasContinue reading “Climates of Cluelessness”
More on the NFL
The military has long used spectator sports to target mostly young white men for recruitment. This is coupled with a strong emphasis on patriotism in such as truck commercials–appealing to the fathers of those same young men. After 9/11 and through the second Iraq invasion this grew in intensity and became just one more reason,Continue reading “More on the NFL”
A Note on the NFL
But for a shocking exposure to it last Thanksgiving, I haven’t watched the NFL on television for years as part of a deliberate decision to cut spectator sports entirely out of my life, finally. Football was the last to go. Objectively I love the game, even in its perverse aspects: its violence, its physical specialization,Continue reading “A Note on the NFL”
What’s in a Name?
In denying Robert Lee a desirable assignment because his name incidentally causes a (questionable) racial offense between two groups, neither of which he belongs to, did ESPN violate civil rights law? Lee is discriminated against by default: Asian man can’t do this (granted, very particular, silly-ass) thing, because it would constitute an offense upon blacks by whites. Well,Continue reading “What’s in a Name?”
Today in Dispossession
Yesterday at the annual Netroots Nation conference a white candidate for the Democratic nomination for Georgia governor was “de-platformed“, in-the-parlance-of-our-time, when a gang of black activists surrounded her and shouted her down, demanding we “trust black women.” Stacey Evans is a state House representative running for governor against Stacey Abrams, Who Is Black, Peace Be Upon HerContinue reading “Today in Dispossession”
A Confederacy of Dindus
HBO announces it’s developing an alternative history of the South. The show-runners from something called Game of Thrones, that appears to have had a bit of success, are writing and producing. Let the games begin. They’re White Guys! If only it were so; I’m always a little depressed for our side to learn, as so often, it’s just anotherContinue reading “A Confederacy of Dindus”
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