Truth And Common Sense

This reminds me of the creepy feeling I got when Obama went to Europe to give a speech to thousands of EUROPEANS.  What was an American candidate for President doing chasing the hearts and minds of Leftists in Europe?  In hindsight, it was a pretty clear window into Obama’s mind and his agenda.  At the time, I felt it was just tasteless and narcissistic.  Boy, did I undersell that!

Now he seems to have lost the Left on the other side of the pond because he turned out to be a self-serving, self-centered, amateur and the people who thought the world would heal and the oceans recede when he was voted in have been let down.

In Europe, where more than 200,000 people thronged a Berlin rally in 2008 to hear Barack Obama speak, there’s disappointment that he hasn’t kept his promise to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, and perceptions that he’s shunting blame for the financial crisis across the Atlantic.

In Mogadishu, a former teacher wishes he had sent more economic assistance and fewer armed drones to fix Somalia’s problems. And many in the Middle East wonder what became of Obama’s vow, in a landmark 2009 speech at the University of Cairo, to forge a closer relationship with the Muslim world.

In a world weary of war and economic crises, and concerned about global climate change, the consensus is that Obama has not lived up to the lofty expectations that surrounded his 2008 election and Nobel Peace Prize a year later. Many in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America were also taken aback by his support for gay marriage, a taboo subject among religious conservatives.

That’s right, he won a Nobel Peace prize too, I guess for just showing up, but that another discussion for another day when we want to tackle the utter uselessness of the prize.  All it does is reminds us EVERYTHING eventually gets corrupted by greed, politics and ideology.

Anyway, Obama is simply a man, and not that qualified of a man at that, who was given the American Idol experience and thrust out onto the stage LONG before he was ready.  But, then again, his job was never to really lead, only to distract and disrupt, which he does quite well.   Those who want to unwind America, arguably the greatest single experiment in opportunity and free will in history, like Obama just where he is- screwing things up.  Because the worse it gets, the more desperate the people will become. At some point, they  will give up freedom and free will in return for some kind of stability, until that  collapses.  (On a side note, given European history, you’d think they would be used to failed leaders and disappointment. Just saying…)

Welcome to the last days of Rome and our feckless Caesar plucking away on a violin.

Pay attention.  This is EXACTLY how they do it.

First- create a crisis that does not have a clear cause, or the cause is actually the Left’s fault.

Second- create a media frenzy with trumped up reports fed to the MSM that are in turn referenced to by the politicians.  Both are in concert with each other in a plan to gain further control of your lives.

Third- offer a solution that isn’t, but insist that it is.

Fourth- demand action and with that pass rules and regulations (if the attempt to pass law fails in a common sense debate).

Fifth- enact those new regulations, hoping the “sheep” in all of us allows you to get away with it.  Bring the full power of government and the media against those who dare to protest.

You might be thinking I’m talking about climate or oil or taxes, but nope I’m talking about cake.  Cake and fat kids.

Bake sales, the calorie-laden standby cash-strapped classrooms, PTAs and booster clubs rely on, will be outlawed from public schools as of Aug. 1 as part of new no-nonsense nutrition standards, forcing fundraisers back to the blackboard to cook up alternative ways to raise money for kids.

At a minimum, the nosh clampdown targets so-called “competitive” foods - those sold or served during the school day in hallways, cafeterias, stores and vending machines outside the regular lunch program, including bake sales, holiday parties and treats dished out to reward academic achievement. But state officials are pushing schools to expand the ban 24/7 to include evening, weekend and community events such as banquets, door-to-door candy sales and football games.

The Departments of Public Health and Education contend clearing tables of even whole milk and white bread is necessary to combat an obesity epidemic affecting a third of the state’s 1.5 million students. But parents argue crudites won’t cut it when the bills come due on athletic equipment and band trips.

“If you want to make a quick $250, you hold a bake sale,” said Sandy Malec, vice president of the Horace Mann Elementary School PTO in Newtonville.

Maura Dawley of Scituate said the candy bars her 15-year-old son brought to school to help pay for a youth group trip to Guatemala “sold like wildfire.” She worries the ban “would seriously affect the bottom line of the PTOs.

“The goal is to raise money,” Dawley said. “You’re going to be able to sell pizza. You’re not going to get that selling apples and bananas. It’s silly.”

Silly indeed.  Especially when you consider the real reason for obesity isn’t cakes but changes in society. Thirty years ago or more, kids played outside all day.  I did, my kids do on occasion.  Time has passed.  Gym and P.E. have been driven out of school by bureaucrats who were the geeky kids always picked last on the teams.  PS1 and 2 and 3 dominate the down time kids have.  Neighborhood pick up games are frowned upon because neighbors complain about the noise or the litigation potential.  Mothers are home because they have to work to pay for things due to the incredible amount of take home money swallowed up by taxes, forcing the kids to fast food or the mothers to fix meals that aren’t as well prepared.

Through all of that kids have gotten fat.  Right now elements on the Left are trying to take all sports out of society (attacking the NFL for concussions, Title nine issues to force closure of popular sports for example).  But the politicians want a cause because a “cause” gives them the opportunity to make you think they are doing something and deserve your vote.

State Sen. Susan Fargo (D-Lincoln), chairwoman of the Joint Committee on Public Health, said the problem of overweight children has reached “crisis” proportions.

“If we didn’t have so many kids that were obese, we could have let things go,” Fargo said.

“But,” she added, “this is a major public health problem and these kids deserve a chance at a good, long healthy life.”

If it is a big deal, then pass laws to prevent parents from being targeted for frivolous lawsuits.  Pass a law that mandates P.E. and competition.  Or better yet, just get out of the way and let kids be kids.  They’ll stay slim given the chance regardless of the number of cookies they eat.

She can’t deny it.  Had she been honest or made Harvard stay honest, the institution would have had to go out and find a real Indian professor  to satisfy the diversity dilemma it faced. (Native-American kind of Indian, not the other kind of Indian..uh Indian..man I really hate PC.) But both parties, Harvard and Warren, were comfortable lying about this.  One wonders why? Why were they so happy not to do the right thing?  My theory is simple. They were never serious about the whole diversity thing in the first place.  They are snobbish and elitist.  They want the “masses” to obey the rules they promote, but at the same time want to exempt themselves from the unworkable regulations.

And Elizabeth Warren, in all her elitist white privileged ways, didn’t have a problem with it.

Which means some qualified Indian lost out.

And she didn’t have a problem with that either.

And you wonder why they can’t be trusted to make the right decisions.

Why vote someone like that into Congress?  Its filled with those types already.

Social justice requires treating people the same way in which bureaucrats treat regulations.  Most people resent this dehumanization.  Even Americans who have been genuine victims of bigotry prefer to retain their individuality and take pride in true accomplishments made on merit alone.  No Jews, no Greeks, no Irish, no Armenians, and no Japanese pound at the door of colleges or corporations demanding that their group be represented in numbers equal to their percentage of the population.

Which group of Americans has historically suffered the most vicious persecution on account of their creed?  The Mormons can probably make that claim.  They were driven from one part of America to another until they finally found Utah, where they could live in peace.  Mitt Romney is not laying a claim to the presidency based upon some version of social justice (nor did Jon Huntsman make that claim when he was running for the Republican nomination, or for that matter, Mitt’s father George).

Catholics were persecuted throughout America and were special targets of the Ku Klux Klan.  A Catholic has won precisely one presidential election in American history, when John Kennedy won 52 years ago.  Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich are both Catholics, yet neither has demanded that a Catholic ought to be the next president.  These Republicans do take licks because of their creed, but they simply ignore the weak and clammy hand of old bigotries.

Most Americans act this way.  Nikki Haley has been hissed at because her parents are Sikhs and she was raised in their faith.  Other narrow minds have said similar things about Bobby Jindal, whose parents are Hindu.  Eric Cantor’s mail doubtless includes vitriol from anti-Semites.  But the American way demands that the blessings of our nation far outweigh the liberty of some to be prejudiced fools and knaves.

Elizabeth Warren was in no sense at all “disadvantaged” to grow up with 1/32 Native American blood in Oklahoma City, where most of her classmates had more tribal blood than she did.  She does not claim even to have been the victim of bigotry — only that she is “officially” a member of a class entitled to a big helping of “social justice” perks.  So this blonde, fair-skinned woman who looks more like the Pilgrims who landed on Plymouth Rock than the Indians who met them there greedily included her victimhood chit, which would tilt the scales in her favor when she applied for an academic position or a job.

In doing this, Warren placed herself above the dirt-poor people of Appalachia or the white sharecroppers in rural Oklahoma, who sweated in the summer sun picking cotton while Warren perused the metropolitan libraries.  But what she did, and what so many other “official” minority members did, was even worse than that.

The competition within the allocated “Native American” college admission set aside, or the employment “goal” set by the EEOC, is tough.  When an Ivy League selection committees is given the choice between picking a well-spoken young blonde whose name could have some out of a social register and picking the poor child of full-blood Indian parents on a South Dakota reservation, which one will be selected?

Obviously they picked the blonde chick.

They can’t figure out why some of us, regular Joe’s who don’t have a dog in this fight, would be upset.  It isn’t that we consider affirmative action a good idea, we don’t.  But we do have an issue with some people making us follow the rule of law while they skirt it at their convenience.  It is the same complaint we have when we see GM and Chrysler get bailed out with some pretty fancy legal maneuvering while the rest of us are struggling to make ends meet.  We have nothing against GM, we do have something against cheating.

And ol’ Lizzy cheated. She cheated early and often and without conscience to promote her life at the cost of someone else’s.

That is just plain wrong. So send her home packing in November.  Don’t worry about her though, she’s rich.  Not like that Native-American guy/gal she shorted all those years ago.  Besides, given time she’ll probably “discover” she’s 1/64 Asian/Pacific Islander and start all over.

From GatewayPundit.

A well done video.  Well worth watching.  It took a long time for us to get where we are, it will take just as long to reverse the decline.  France just voted to stick their collective heads back into the sand. Hopefully, we are stronger.

Man, I’m telling you these guys are trying to kill me.  I think I’m going to stroke if I see one more “the seas are rising” threat.  They live the principle taught by the Germans in the thirties and forties, if you tell a lie big enough long enough to enough people it will become the truth.  The trouble with the AGW lie is too many people know the truth.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta declared global warming a national security threat yesterday during a speech before an environmentalist group in Washington, D.C.

“The area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security,” Panetta told the Environmental Defense Fund last night. “Rising sea levels, severe droughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.”

The Defense Secretary must have missed Examiner Columnist Mona Charen’s recent piece on how symbols of global warming aren’t working out the way environmentalists predicted.

For instance, The United Nations climate change panel “admitted that the melting Himalayas prediction was not based on science but on a 1999 media interview given by one scientist,” Charen observed.  “They said they regretted the error. Now, a study in nature, based on satellite imagery, has shown that some melting of lower altitude glaciers is taking place but that higher glaciers have been adding ice.”

With reference to the story of an apparently-marooned polar bear floating on an ice floe — puzzling, as polar bears can swim for hundreds of miles — Charen cited a new Canadian study showing that the polar bear population is on the rise.

Honest to God, the guy is killing me!  Panetta goes up in front of fairly intelligent people who have access to the real facts and STILL LIES!!!  “Jews burning in ovens?  No, of course not, that whole complex in the woods is bratwurst factory. Yes, yes, that’s the ticket! A sausage making factory.  That explains the smells.”

At some point all of these guys are going to look like this guy.

It would be hard for me to get up and lie like that, but then again, I’m not a liberal.

Sometimes it is what it is. You can be liberal, hopeful, blind to the reality on the ground, or just in denial, but the truth is we are in trouble when it comes to overall education and the effects of bending backwards over multiculturalism and political correctness has on education.

What I saw in Jada was hope.  As soon as certain groups in our nation realize they are being used the healing can begin.  Don’t get me wrong, it took forty years of corrupting due to some really hard work by the Left to get here. It will take just as long to get out of it, but only after the generation that spawned the madness either is discredited into silence or dies out.

One of the poster on the blog sent me a link. It is worth exploring because it does give a hard punch in the nose by exposing the difference between what MSM and the educational elite would want you to believe and the reality on the ground.  It is this reality that will haunt us for generations. As a former detective who grew up working around and in the black neighborhoods dealing with the people who inhabit it from the early seventies to late 2008, I can attest to the accuracy of the teacher’s comments.  Sadly.  Here is the article in part.

What is it Like to Teach Black Students?

by Christopher Jackson

Until recently I taught at a predominantly
black high school in a southeastern
state.

The mainstream press gives a hint of
what conditions are like in black schools,
but only a hint. Expressions that journalists
use like “chaotic” or “poor learning
environment” or “lack of discipline” do
not capture what really happens. There
is nothing like the day-to-day experience
of teaching Black children and that is
what I will try to convey.

One of the most immediately striking
things about my students was that so many of them were
were loud. They had little conception of
ordinary decorum. It was not unusual
for five students to be screaming at
me at once.

It did no good to try to quiet them and
white women were particularly inept at
trying. I sat in on one woman’s class as
she begged the children to pipe down.
They just yelled louder so their voices
would carry over hers.

So many of them seemed to have no conception of waiting for
an appropriate time to say something.
They would get ideas in their heads and
simply had to shout them out. I might be
leading a discussion on government and
suddenly be interrupted: “We gotta get
more Democrats! Clinton, she good!”
The student may seem content with that
outburst but two minutes later, he would
suddenly start yelling again: “Clinton
good!”

It was not uncommon for 15
boys to swagger into a classroom,
bouncing their shoulders and jiving back.
They were yelling back and forth, rapping 15 different sets of
words in the same harsh, rasping dialect.
The words were almost invariably
a childish form of boasting: “Who got
dem shine rim, who got dem shine shoe,
who got dem shine grill (gold and silver
dental caps)?” The amateur rapper often
ends with a claim-in the crudest
terms imaginable-that all womankind
is sexually devoted to him. For whatever
reason, many of my students would often groan
instead of saying a particular word, as in,
“She suck dat aaahhhh (think of a long
grinding groan), she f**k dat aaaahhhh,
she lick dat aaaahhh.”

So many black girls dance in the hall, in the classroom,
on the chairs, next to the chairs, under
the chairs, everywhere. Once I had to take a
call on my cell phone and stepped
outside of class. I was away about two
minutes but when I got back,
girls had lined up at the front of the
classroom and were convulsing to the
delight of the boys.

My argument is as along as there is a Clarence Thomas or Thomas Sowell or Condi Rice, then the issue isn’t genetics is it nurture.  Simple basic cultural behavior.  I can also attest from experience that it wasn’t always this way. I related in an earlier post about being “schooled” in black/white relations by a senior black deputy back in about 1976.  Back then his statement was only a small percentage of the overall population of blacks were troublemakers.  The rest of them were married, had kids, worked, went to church and tried to live a good life, just like everybody else. I saw with my own eyes this behavior.

But it changed.  No one with eyes, ears or even half a brain can deny the black culture has suffered from welfare and the constant promotion of victimhood. Here is more to highlight what we all know but refuse to talk about.

My department head once asked all
the teachers to get a response from all
students to the following question: “Do
you think it is okay to break the law if it
will benefit you greatly?” By then, I had
been teaching for a while and was not
surprised by answers that left a young,
liberal, white woman colleague aghast.
“Yeah” was the favorite answer. As one
student explained, “Get dat green.”

How the world looks to Blacks
One point on which most Blacks agree
is that everything is “racis’.” This is
one message of liberalism they have
absorbed completely. Did you do your
homework? “Na, homework racis’.”
Why did you get an F on the test? “Test
racis’.”

I was trying to teach a unit on British
philosophers and the first thing the students
appeared to care about Bentham, Hobbes,
and Locke was “Dey all white! Where da
black philosophers’?” I tried to explain
there were no Blacks in eighteenth century
Britain. You can probably guess
what they said to that: “Dat racis’!”
One student accused me of deliberately
failing him on a test because I
didn’t like Black people.

“Do you think I really hate Black
people?”
“Yeah.”
“Have I done anything to make you
feel this way? How do you know?”
“You just do.”
“Why do you say that?”

He just smirked, looked out the window,
and sucked air through his teeth.
Perhaps this was a regional thing, but
the Blacks often sucked air through their
teeth as a wordless expression of disdain
or hostility.

One of the funniest things you’ll ever see is a white rookie cop with little exposure to the black culture running full tilt into street blacks.  They couldn’t be more confused if they were astronauts landing on Mars and finding there is life, and it wears baggy pants, crooked hats, grills and hates everything about them.  Inner city blacks, street blacks and sadly some more sophisticated blacks like to show their lack of civility by acting out for no apparent reason.  It just is and it is sad to see.  Trying to reason with them will get the same result the teacher pointed out in the above paragraph.  Lacking a good argument as to why they as being asses, they just dismiss you as being unable to understand their position.  Oh, we understand it, we just don’t agree with it- because it is based on lies.

And no matter how hard we try, we cannot break the cycle until pressure is applied from within the black community to really change.  Frankly, there is no incentive to do so, where’s the money in that?  Can you teach blacks to learn?  Absolutely! My kids are friends with a black family, headed up by one of the smartest, gentlest, strongest mother I’ve ever met.  SHE is the reason her kids are going to college, say “yes ma’am and no ma’am, wearing normal clothes and will do good in life.  She fled Miami and came to my city to get her kids away from what I’ll call the “Trayvon Martin” environment.  She homeschooled her kids and now one is a straight A student going to college on scholarships.  She will tell you from the get-go she has no love for the liberal mindset.  She reminds me of the mothers I knew back in the sixties and seventies.  Sadly, her type is dwindling. This is an example of what she fled.

Black schools are violent and the
few whites who are too poor to escape
are caught in the storm. The violence is
astonishing, not so much that it happens,
but the atmosphere in which it happens.
Blacks can be smiling, seemingly perfectly
content with what they are doing,
having a good time, and then, suddenly
start fighting. It’s uncanny. Not long
ago, I was walking through the halls
and a group of Black boys were walking
in front of me. All of a sudden they
started fighting with another group in
the hallway.

Blacks are extraordinarily quick to
take offense. Once I accidentally scuffed
a Black boy’s white sneaker with my
shoe. He immediately rubbed his body
up against mine and threatened to attack
me. I stepped outside the class and had
a security guard escort the student to
the office. It was unusual for students
to threaten teachers physically this way,
but among themselves, they were quick
to fight for similar reasons.

The real victims are the unfortunate
whites caught in this. They are always
in danger and their educations suffer.
White weaklings are particularly susceptible,
but mostly to petty violence. They
may be slapped or get a couple of kicks
when they are trying to open a bottom
locker. Typically, Blacks save the hard,
serious violence for each other.

There was a lot of promiscuous sex
among my students and this led to
violence. Black girls were constantly
fighting over Black boys. It was not uncommon
to see two girls literally ripping
each other’s hair out with a police officer
in the middle trying to break up the
fight. The Black boy they were fighting
over would be standing by with a smile,
enjoying the show he had created. For
reasons I cannot explain, boys seldom
fought over girls.

I will always admire her.  When her children are grown, have kids of their own that understand respect and responsibility, we will all be better for it.  Her sacrifice is our gain.  How we can separate her from the rest in order to make sure she is protected and helped if necessary is something I cannot give an answer to.  But we are doomed unless we can provide the opportunity for people like her to thrive while “starving out” those who would be damaging to our nation.

On on one last note, the teacher points out something the Republicans might want to take notice of.

My Black students had nothing but
contempt for Hispanic immigrants. They
would vent their feelings so crudely
that our department strongly advised us
never to talk about immigration in class
in case the principal or some outsider
might overhear.

Whites were “racis’,” of course, but
they thought of us at least as Americans.
Not the Mexicans. Blacks have a certain,
not necessarily hostile understanding of
white people. They know how whites
act, and it is clear they believe whites
are smart and are good at organizing
things. At the same time, they probably
suspect whites are just putting on an
act when they talk about equality, as if
it is all a sham that makes it easier for
whites to control Blacks. Blacks want a
bigger piece of the American pie. I’m
convinced that if it were up to them
they would give whites a considerably
smaller piece than whites get now, but
they would give us something. They
wouldn’t give Mexicans anything.

That is true about the Hispanic/Black thing, especially now that the Hispanic voting block is bigger than the black voting block.  Given a choice the Democrats are showing more attention to the Hispanics and sending more money their way than blacks.  Jackson and his crew have figured it out, just wait until the average street black realizes his job and his free benefits are going to another race in exchange for voter loyalty!

Think it is bad now…

I grew up in the South. I ran the entire city I lived in, including the area designated “black” by both description and demographics.  What I didn’t witness was the random violent crime perpetrated by a certain element within the black community.  To say they are acting like Afghan tribal terrorists may be an insult to the Afghans.  At least they have a long range plan- to drive out the infidels.  What plans do the ones committing this kind of crime have, outside enjoying the moment?

Ethical questions are being raised both inside The Virginian-Pilot and in the Norfolk, Va. area after two of the paper’s reporters were attacked and beaten by a mob of at least 30 blacks, but was downplayed by police and withheld from the public for more than two weeks by the newspaper’s editors.

Reporters Dave Forster and Marjon Rostami were leaving a concert on the night of April 14 when a crowd of around 100 young people gathered on the sidewalk near their car. Rostami reached over to lock the door.

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According to a police report obtained by Fox News, a black male hurled a rock at the car. Forster got out and tried to confront the individual who damaged his car. Instead, a gang of attackers began punching and pound the reporter. Police would not confirm the exact number - but at least one account put the number at 30.

Rostami tried to pull him back inside the car, but others in the crowd began attack her, the police report stated.  She was beaten a half dozen times by an unidentified black man.

Rostami was eventually able to call 9-1-1. Police officers responded, they wrote an incident report and labeled it “simple assault.”

The reporters had to take a week off to recover from their injuries. To date no one has been arrested for the crime.

There was no mention of the attack in the pages of The Virginian-Pilot until Tuesday - more than two weeks later - when columnist Michelle Washington wrote a detailed story on the police department’s handling of the attack and she raised questions about her own newspaper’s lack of coverage.

And she also mentioned another previously undisclosed component to the story.

The day after the attack Forster searched Twitter and found a chilling tweet Washington wrote.

“I feel for the white man who got beat up at the light,” one person wrote.

“I don’t,” wrote another, indicating laughter. ‘(do it for trayvon martin) (sic)”

“Were Forster and Rostami beaten in some kind of warped, vigilante retribution for a killing 750 miles away, a person none of them knew?” Washington wrote. “Was it just bombast? Is a beating funny, ever?”

A police spokesman tells Fox News that the incident is still under investigation and they are also looking at whoever wrote the tweet. But as of now - the case is still a simple assault - and does not rise to the level of a hate crime.

Let’s see, a Hispanic man, misidentified as white, shooting a black teenager who is beating the man’s head into the cement, and the DOJ is running down to Florida like rabbits on crack.  But a group of blacks surrounding white people (in a number of incidents this year alone) and beating the crap out of them while saying this for “Travyon” or calling the victims “whitey” and it is a Leslie Nielson “Alright, move on, nothing to see here” moment.  And the government and the MSM wonder why they are so disrespected.  Not only by the people who are victimize, but by the offenders who see both the government and the MSM as useful idiots when the two entities allow the offenders to get away with crime.  Trust me, they are laughing behind the backs of the types of people like Matthews, Olbermann, Holder, and even Obama. One of the things I learned early on was that even the bad guys respect the law IF it is applied evenly. You let them get away with bad things, they will only want to do more bad things.  It’s human nature.

Why is this important?  If you ask Glenn Beck it is because chaos will lead to crackdowns, and crackdowns lead to a government you can no longer control.  In reality, even if the smartest more cunning, most diabolical wannabe tyrant plans this out, he won’t be able to control it.  You can’t un-spin certain elements.  They are too eager to act out.  To ready to “wreak havoc” or “seek revenge” to pass up on the opportunity to kill, maim, steal and destroy.

When the crowds erupt, and they will when Zimmerman will be found innocent, the need for them will have long passed.  Sharpton will have moved on to his newest set of lies.  Obama will be in another mode of campaigning, Pelosi will be dreaming of sugar plums and gavels as she wishes to regain Speaker, but you and I will be driving or walking or shopping in some place where the crowds decide this is the time and location where they “get their justice”.  When that happens, people will get injured, people will get killed and those who started it, those who promoted it, those who profited by it, will be safe, but you and I won’t.

Here is some video from 1992 highlighting the Denny beating.  Tell me this is something you can reason with.

If it starts, or in some cities WHEN it starts, do what you must to protect yourself and your family.  Don’t stop, don’t get out, don’t try to reason.  There is no reasoning with them, all they want is to separate you from the crowd or any protection you might have and then pounce- for the simple pleasure of feeling dominant over you as they pound the flesh from your body.  If you get cornered in a car, remember you are driving a four thousand pound defensive tool, use it.  You break them up  good, you may save someone else down the road as they won’t be able to reorganize quickly enough.

It is going to be a matter of survival.  Make sure you win.

Wow.  She is something.  And how the teachers she criticized hounded her is unconscionable.  But her words and their reaction exposes just how bad things have gotten.

Here is her story.

Do you know the name Jada Williams?

You probably know the name Sandra Fluke.  She received a phone call from the incumbent president after the mean old white man on the radio called her a name.  You probably know the name Trayvon Martin.  The incumbent president answered a planted question from a White House reporter to indicate that Trayvon, slain by an individual representing the heretofore unknown demographic of white Hispanic, looked like he could be the president’s son.

Jada Williams is a 13-year-old student from Rochester, New York.  Earlier this school year, she was given a copy of the book The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, written by the great patriot Frederick Douglass.  Her assignment was to read the book and write an essay about her impressions.  Her essay was to be entered in a contest.  Jada Williams happens to be black.  Many of her teachers are white.

Reading Douglass can — and should — incite rage and astonishment at the depths to which barbaric slaveowners and their deputies sank in treating their fellow men.  The violence perpetrated upon Douglass and other slaves by the protected class of overseers is relayed in stark detail — to wit, an anecdote about an overseer named Mr. Gore:

Mr. Gore once undertook to whip one of Colonel Lloyd’s slaves, by the name of Demby. He had given Demby but few stripes, when, to get rid of the scourging, he ran and plunged himself into a creek, and stood there at the depth of his shoulders, refusing to come out. Mr. Gore told him that he would give him three calls, and that, if he did not come out at the third call, he would shoot him. The first call was given. Demby made no response but stood his ground. The second and third calls were given with the same result. Mr. Gore then, without consultation or deliberation with any one, not even giving Demby an additional call, raised his musket to his face, taking deadly aim at his standing victim, and in an instant poor Demby was no more…He (Gore) was asked by Colonel Lloyd and my old master, why he resorted to this extraordinary expedient. His reply was, (as well as I can remember,) that Demby had become unmanageable.

Ms. Williams struggled with the initial part of the assignment.  She found it difficult to encounter some of the vocabulary used by Douglass.  Exasperated at being unprepared to confront the text, she sought definition to that which she did not comprehend.  Once she became satisfied that she grasped Douglass’s use of the language, she understood what Douglass was describing.  She was struck by comparisons between her life and Douglass’s characterizations of the plantation overseers and masters and mistresses who denied him knowledge for fear of his becoming aware of his humanity.

In her essay, Ms. Williams drew a parallel between what she saw as a group of self-satisfied “white teachers” overseeing dysfunctional students (characterized by Ms. Williams as “so-called ‘unteachable’” students) who were not being properly taught, illiterate and perpetually ignorant.  This she considers a form of slavery.  Ms. Williams quoted an arresting passage from Douglass’s description of one of his masters, a Mr. Auld, happening upon his wife instructing Douglass in basic reading:

If you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there will be no keeping him. It will forever unfit him to be a slave. He would at once become unmanageable, and of no value to his master.

Williams stung the establishment which had focused not on creating good citizens with free minds, but instead tried to create life long, dependent voters for one party. It really is that simple.  What upset them so much was her challenge to them and to her people. Here is her full essay.  It speaks for itself.

Jada Williams

December 30, 2011 English

Expressions from the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas

During my Christmas break I had the opportunity to read the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas.

The Rochester City School District supplied us with this novel to read and expected me to expound on what I read and how it made me feel, as I myself being an African American and an eighth grader in the Rochester City learning institute.

Before, I began to read this novel, I had heard about it prior from a few older people that have read it and raved about it. I myself experienced it differently; I had some mixed emotions towards it.

When reading the novel my first impression was “what am I reading”? The content of the narrative was far more advanced for me. I found myself getting a dictionary/thesaurus to look up words I have never seen before in my life. On the other hand I was appreciative because it helped to expand my vocabulary. So with that I am grateful.

After, being able to cross-reference the words unknown to me I was able to read through the novel again with a clearer understanding.

That’s when it all sank in. So then I began to feel very angry to read such material that was brutal and degrading to African Americans.

Furthermore, I myself began to question,” as to why the Rochester City School District would supply us with a novel that would evoke such emotions?” I, also began to question,” what were the District motives and the intent behind us reading about history that doesn’t compliment the white race and their behaviors at all; what would come about of this?”

Would they even consider my thoughts and my opinions? So I’m very curious to see what the turn out will be.

The one passage I would like to focus on was written on page 20, where it quoted Mr. Auld’s  opinions towards black and education, and I quote:

“Very soon after I went to live with Mr. and Mrs. Auld, she very kindly commenced to teach me the A, B, C. After I learned this, she assisted me in learning to spell words of three or four letters.

Just at this point of my progress, Mr. Auld found out what was going on, and at once forbade Mrs. Auld to instruct me further, telling her, among other things, that it was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read. To use his own words, further, he said, if you give a nigger an inch, he will take an ell. A nigger should know nothing but to obey his master-to do as he is told to do. Learning will spoil the best nigger in the world.

Now,” said he, “if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there will be no keeping him. It will forever unfit him to be a slave. He would at once become unmanageable, and of no value to his master.

As to himself, it could do him no good, but a great deal of harm. It would make him discontented and unhappy.” (Skipping down)

“I now understood what had been to me a most perplexing difficulty- to wit, the white man’s power to enslave the black man. It was a grand achievement, and I prized it highly. From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom,”

My thoughts: This type of thinking is somewhat still prevalent in our society today.

Most white teachers that I have come into contact with, over the last several years of my life, has failed to instruct us even today. The teachers are not as vocal about us not learning how it has been described in this narrative; but their actions speaks volumes.

When I myself sit in crowded classrooms and no real concrete instruction is taking place. It makes that saying “history does repeat itself” all the more true.

For white teachers to be able to be in a position of power to dictate what I can, cannot and will learn, only desiring that I may get bored because of the inconsistency and the mis-management of the classroom and remain illiterate and ignorant; or better yet distracted because some children decide to misbehave because they don’t understand, and ashamed to ask for help.

The teacher recognizing all of these things and still not addressing the matter at hand, so much time has been wasted- then the bell rings and on to the next class, same drama different teacher, different class. When do we get off of this roller coaster?

When the white teachers began to pass out pamphlets and packets, they expect us the black students to read the directions, complete it, and hand it in for a grade. The reality of this is that most of my peers cannot read and or comprehend the material that has been provided.

So, I feel like not much has changed, just different people, different era, the same old discrimination still resides in the hearts of the white man.

In closing, my suggestions to my peers, people of color, and my generation to try achieve what has been established by the African Americans and Abolitionists that paved the way for us to receive what’s rightfully yours. Blood, sweat, and tears have been shed for us to obtain any goals, which we may set for ourselves.

Never being afraid to excel and achieve, because our ancestors have been bound for so, so, so, so, so long. We are free to learn, and my advice to my peers, people of color, and my generation- start making these white teachers accountable for instructing you. They chose this profession, they brag about their credentials; they brag about their tenure, so if you have so much experience, then find a more productive way to teach the so-called “unteachable”.

They contain this document that states they have all this knowledge to teach, so show me what you know, teach me your ways. What merit is there, if you contain all this knowledge and not willing to share because of the color of my skin.

To all of our surprise, we all have the same warm, red blood running through our veins, regardless of what race I may be. If you don’t believe me, then poke me and poke a white man and you will see.

To my peers, people of color, and my generation, start asking questions, start doing the research, get involved. A grand price was paid in order for us to be where we are today; but in my mind we should be a lot further, so again I encourage the white teachers to instruct and I encourage my people to not just be a student, but become a learner.

Again I say wow. I wish for some person of substance to step forward and fund this young woman’s scholastic career. I think we are looking at another Condi Rice.

Hanson spends some time here outlining how he sees the world changing due to new liberal agenda which he thinks is really the old agenda.  Why?  Because all the new stuff  has been proven to be foolish, dangerous and frankly a series of outright lies.  Now the gloves are off and we are going to see what some (like Beck) think will be the final push.

Our New Regressivism

About fifteen years ago, many liberals began to self-identify as progressives-partly because of the implosion of the Great Society and the Reagan reaction that had tarnished the liberal brand and left it as something akin to “permissive” or “naïve,” partly because “progressive” was supposedly an ideological rather than a political identification, and had included some early twentieth-century Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover.

But twenty-first century progressivism is not aimed at political reform. There is no new effort at racial unity. There is not much realization that we are in a globalized, rapidly changing, high-tech economy or that race and gender are not as they were fifty years ago. Instead, progressivism has become a reactionary return to the 1960s-or even well before. The new regressivism seeks to resurrect the machine ethos of Mayor Daley, the glory green days of the Whole Earth Catalog, the union era of George Meany, Jimmy Hoffa, and Walter Reuther, the racial polarization of the old Black Panther Party and the old Al Sharpton, and a Walter Cronkite, John Chancellor, or Peter Jennings reading to us each evening three slightly different versions of the Truth.

The New Old Chicago

Barack Obama is trying to turn back the way of politics to the era of the pre-reform Chicago machine. He was the first presidential candidate to renounce campaign-financing funds since the law was enacted. He opposes any effort to clamp down on voting fraud. Even his compliant media worries that the president’s current jetting from one campaign stop to another in the key swing states is a poorly disguised way to politick on the federal government’s dime. Bundlers are, as was the ancient custom, given plum honorific posts abroad. Obama has held twice as many fundraisers as the much reviled George Bush had at a similar point in his administration. Obama supporters now target large Romney givers and post their names with negative bios on websites, as if we are back to Nixon’s enemies of the people. Websites sprout up that go after administration critics in Agnew style, but without the latter’s self-caricature. The 2008 criticism about ending the revolving door, lobbyists, and pay-for-play renting out of the Lincoln bedroom was, well…just examine the career of a Peter Orszag. An embarrassed media keeps silent about the new reactionary ethics, apparently on the premise that not to would endanger four more years of the “progressive” agenda. On matters of presidential style, we are likewise retro, as Obama sets records for playing golf, and in Marie Antoinette style the First Family bounces between Vail, Aspen, Martha’s Vineyard, Vegas, and Costa del Sol, often in separate jets, as if we, the people, receive vicarious joy from catching glimpses of the Obama versions of Camelot. We have Kennedy wannabes without their own Kennedy money.

It is and always has been about exerting as much power of other people as they can. In some cases, like the EU’s bureaucratic embarrassment of trying to manipulate the size and bend of bananas, it is a case of people simply justifying their jobs and their urge to “tweak” their authority.  Do they think it really matters in the big picture how “bendy” a banana is?  No, probably not, but what else do they have to do with their time but justify their time?

Others see a far greater opportunity.  They are ideologues who believe they are smarter and better suited to use your life as they wish so they can achieve some goal they feel is grand.  Steven Chu is a good example.  Here is some of the links that show him for what he is. I don’t want to single him out.  There are plenty of radicals in the Congress and Executive Branch, and more than I’m comfortable with sitting on the bench.  Another example is Lisa Jackson over at the EPA who was poised to celebrate another closing of a coal fired power plant until someone with more than half a brain pointed out the obvious.  You shut them all down (based on now discredited science I might add) and the nation will suffer unavoidable rolling blackouts, especially through parts of the nation heavily Democratic.

Or as my MENSA bright buddy put it something like this, with a sarcastic twist.  “The EPA was shutting down the coal fired plants UNTIL someone from the NSA came to visit and pointed out it would be a national security risk to blackout most of the eastern seaboard.  As they put it, there are only so many power plants generating only so much power that can be transmitted over only so many power lines to only so many places.  This summer, when Obama is running for reelection there will be rolling blackouts across the east.  The people who listen to MSNBC and NBC and CNN won’t be able to because they’ll be standing in the dark.  However, they will have a battery operated radio that tunes in AM stations, which are dominated by conservative talk show hosts who will be more than happy to tell them who did it to them!”

You have to laugh when  you imagine that gaggling group of radicals yipping and hooting about the hundredth plant they forced closed and suddenly going stone quiet with a stare of confusion and disbelief like you’d see on a punished puppy dog.  “Huh?!”

Then Hanson delves into what I think will be our future.  Obama did the exact opposite he promised when he was elected.  We are more racially divided now than ever, and most of the bad actors are the lower end of the cultural spectrum,  and that is dangerous.

Freedom Riding Forever

On matters racial, we are endlessly back in the 1960s with more Bull Connors and Lester Maddoxes, with Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson fighting them on Freedom Marches, not a half-century distant from the “I have a dream speech,” in a troubled era where over 90% of African-Americans who die violently at the hands of another are not lynched, but shot by other African-Americans, and where blacks are 30-40 times more likely to commit some sort of violent crime against whites than vice versa. Without more of the Great Society, there is always said to be the threat of another “resurrection” like Watts, not periodic flash mobbing to rip off iPhones and iPads. In the world of Eric Holder, affirmative action is yesterday, today, and tomorrow, as if we are Old Confederates who measure non-white lineage by a 1/16 drop standard, as if blond Elizabeth Warren, candidate for senator in Massachusetts and one-percenter Harvard professor, really is a “native-American” as she and Harvard claimed for purposes of minority status. In the real world, the problem is not the absence of civil rights, but an absence of courage to discuss the causes of racial disparities in categories beyond income, from rates of illegitimacy to crime. For the new regressives, someone like John Foster Dulles, the old white guy, is still secretary of state, rather than the truth that a white male has not held the office in over fifteen years. We live in a suspended animation world of To Kill a Mockingbird where the Duke Lacrosse players are still guilty by the fact of their association with a black stripper, Trayvon Martin is a martyred hero (and even if a court proves it is not so, he still will be), and the members of the Black Caucus are given exemptions to utter racist and inflammatory rhetoric, given the burdens they shoulder of a segregated society peopled by George Wallaces and Strom Thurmonds everywhere.

There is no way Martin Luther King wanted this.  Right or wrong, good or bad, I believe the man wanted all of us to move past race.  The trouble is elements from all sides of our culture seems unable or unwilling to move on.  There is no money or fame or celebrity involved in moving on.  Spike Lee tweets what he thinks is the address of George Zimmerman, only later to find out his half assed effort from two thousand miles away gave out the wrong address for the wrong guy.  Why did Lee think he had the right to do such a thing? Because he makes a living by NOT moving on.  As does Sharpton and Jesse and the rest of the crew.

But here’s the danger of all of the 99%’ers and the NBP’ers and such, once spun up, you can’t un-spin them.  They are now on automatic, and only need a little direction and motivation to do what they have wanted to do all along.  I lived through the sixties as a small boy and watched the nightly news show over and over streets filled with protestors.  It was ugly.  People who didn’t live through it only heard the romanticized version of the “fight for a good cause.”   They don’t know the dangers.  Like I said earlier, a spun up community in L.A. killed 53 people and injured 2300 over a courtroom verdict.  Once unleashed by their handlers, they had to riot and destroy until they were killed or exhausted.  It was not pretty.  It won’t be pretty this time. I predict because the man in the White House wants the chaos, there will be far more this time than last.

Retreads

What is scary for the new regressive is present-day and future America. It is changing by the hour and making obsolete all the old big government, big union, big race, big university, and big media liberal assumptions of the past. And as the world leaves behind the progressive and as he turns regressive and bitter, give him some credit: he does not go down without the old fight against Rockefellers everywhere, Shell, the Alabama racists who insist on IDs to vote, union-busting scabs, tabloid journalists who threaten Cronkite-like Truth, and all the other old enemies of the people.

And that fight is going to get some of us killed.  So be on guard.

Seriously folks, you just can’t make it up.

Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard professor (pronounced “Haaavaarrd” by those from that neck of the woods) gladly allowed her university to claim her as a Indian in order to create the perception they were diverse.

Again, you could go a long time in this world without saying that sentence, outside that other freaking idiot professor in Colorado- another Leftist who stretched the truth for convenience sake.

Jeeez, at their standards I’M a freaking full blood!

Now Warren, who lied for convenience and didn’t see a problem with that, wants to be a U.S. Senator.  I guess she figures she should get paid for lying like the rest of them.  Can’t fault her for dreaming.

A prominent Native American group says Massachusetts Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren had “better be able to defend” her past claims of being an Indian-American minority.

The Democratic candidate is facing questions about her heritage following the revelation on Friday that she described herself as a Native American minority in professional law school directories during the 1980s and ’90s.

“Once you put that down, you better be able to defend it,” Ray Ramirez of the Native American Rights Fund told The Daily Caller on Monday.

Warren, who no longer publicly refers to herself as Native American, has disputed that she claimed Indian-American minority status then to give herself a professional advantage.

Asked for evidence of her ancestry to back up the candidate’s past statements, a Warren spokeswoman told TheDC on Monday that the campaign is “working on digging up some sort of evidence to appease” inquirers.

But the campaign hasn’t been able to immediately provide any documentation. The Boston Herald reported Friday that the Warren campaign said the “tales of Warren’s Cherokee and Delaware tribe ancestors have been passed down through family lore.”

The sad part is the people from her state might just vote her in, knowing full well she’s a half a nut college nimrod.  Like we need more academics running Washington.  Frankly, I’m voting for the next non-lawyer business guy I can find.  No professors, no egghead theorists.  Somebody please run a carpenter or a janitor or a mechanic for office. I’m in.  At least I won’t have to put up with someone claiming they are an Indian or acting surprised they are Jewish like Madeline Albright.

I mean on one hand we have Warren whose family is full of “lore” about their heritage and on the other hand we have Albright whose family apparently never mentioned her grandparents and immediate family were Jewish and killed in the Holocaust.  I mean really?  Not a hint, a peep, even at family get togethers?  What kind of conversations occurred?

“Hey, you remember Poppa Albright?  He was killed in the war by the Nazis.” “I’m sorry to hear that. Why did they target him?”  “I don’t know, but it certainly wasn’t because he was Jewish.  Nope, none of that around here!”

Jeezzz…