For starters, Sen. Scott did something that most on the left would not expect from a black conservative: He acknowledged the existence of racism and even discussed his experiences. Moreover, he did so without pretending that Neo-Nazis are systematically murdering scores of unsuspecting black men every single day. //

Secondly, Sen. Scott gave them an argument that he knew they could not adequately debunk. If they disagree with the senator about the prevalence of racism in America, they have to prove that it is an overall racist nation in 2021. This is quite a gargantuan task, given that the vast majority of all Americans are not racist. For this reason, the so-called progressive crowd is lying about his remarks – they are unable to counter his assertion.

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WHAT TIM SCOTT SAID: "America is not a racist country"
WHAT LIBS HEARD: "Racism doesn't exist in America"

They're not the same thing. All you have to do is think about it for two seconds, which is clearly too much work. Don't blame Tim Scott for being smarter than you.

What is it with white liberals believing they have the right to levy racist attacks against black Republicans? That happened again last night from several corners of the left after Tim Scott delivered his rebuttal to Joe Biden’s boring, yet surprisingly dangerous address to Congress.

Keith Olbermann mocked Scott, claiming he had “Stockholm Syndrome,” for example. You know, because a black man can’t possibly think for himself. He needs a white savior like Olbermann to dictate to him.

Keith Olbermann
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Sen. Scott insisting America is not racist but our healing from racism isn’t finished and he’s been called racist names.

Incidentally, Senator, anybody calls you the N-word is a friend of Trump’s. We progressives refer to you as a victim of Stockholm Syndrome. //

I’m going to watch Senator Tom Scott’s speech later. I guess it was good if the reaction is the Left doubling down on being racist towards him.

— kaitlin, super mega RINO (@thefactualprep) April 29, 2021

[T]he way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.

A group that exists to “reform LA jails” doesn’t need $600 a night hotel stays to “meet” about how they plan to do that.

But this shows the kind of grift that Black Lives Matter and other activist outfits are perpetrating on people. I certainly wouldn’t give money to these people, but there are a lot of otherwise well-meaning individuals who have and do. They should probably reconsider that choice immediately. Behind every Marxist is a raging capitalist who wants the lavish lifestyle to stop with them. Cullors fits that bill to the letter.

In a more sane media environment that wasn’t so completely in the tank for BLM, there would be serious investigative reporting going on to expose this. As it stands, that job is left to smaller, right-wing outfits like The Daily Caller. It shouldn’t be that way, but here we are.

The Washington Post’s lead “fact-checker” Glenn Kessler issued a hit piece against Sen. Tim Scott on Friday targeting him for his black heritage.

Using the guise of a “fact-check,” Kessler spent nearly 30 paragraphs analyzing census documents and other records to try to counteract Scott’s claims that his grandfather left elementary school to pick cotton and “never learned to read or write.”

While the article sets out to prove Scott wrong, it confirms the narrative that the senator has repeated in his book and from the political podium multiple times. While Scott believed his grandfather, Artis Ware, dropped out of school in third grade, Kessler claimed to have uncovered that Ware may have left school in the fourth grade, a slight inconsistency which even Kessler admitted could occur because the records are old.

Despite the slight difference in his grandfather’s age when he left school, Kessler glossed over the fact that Ware worked “55 hours a week” in cotton fields at a young age in order to attack Scott for amplifying his family history “for political consumption.” //

Margot Cleveland
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"Some enterprising Black families purchased property as a way to avoid sharecropping and achieve a measure of independence from White-dominated society." Could this read any more like "Scott's uppity black family dared not be beholden sharecroppers?"

When you can convince people racism is rampant, you ignite a flame of division and destruction that can only end with bodies on the ground and cities leveled. //

These erroneous stories aren’t flukes. Recent history shows repeatedly that corrupt media and politicians aren’t surprised or embarrassed when body cam footage or crucial details emerge that debunk their initial “reporting.”

That’s because they don’t so much report as create. They don’t get clicks and clout by uncovering and reporting what actually happened, but by feeding people and politicians’ pre-existing narratives. That’s why every lede and headline seems to be some variation of Black Lives Matter talking points.

Corrections, if issued at all, are usually stealthy and get buried instantly, and there’s no room for nuance on a protester’s poster board or in a presidential press release. Thus the narrative is set before any details emerge, and narratives are more powerful than facts in ginning up emotional responses and revolutions.

The media know this. The ruling class knows this. If they can convince enough people that America is systemically racist, they can infiltrate government schools with critical race theory — and they have.

If they can make people believe police officers are irredeemably evil, they can nationalize local law enforcement and funnel more money toward their pet social programs. If they can convince corporations that performative “antiracism” is more important than profits, they can blackmail state lawmakers into passing legislation that gives them more power — and they are. //

Make no mistake: The ruling class is absolutely inciting violence. The same crowd that insisted President Donald Trump “incited an insurrection” is the one that outrageously lies to demonstrators claiming white cops go on search-and-destroy missions against innocent black Americans. These are the people who gaslight Americans with buzzwords like “peaceful protests” while they watch their cities light up in flames.

The way to bring revolution is to provoke unrest, and the best means to do that is to convince the public that isolated instances of evil represent endemic institutional problems through inflammatory rhetoric and disproportionate attention. It’s a strategy, and it works. //

They said, “Destroying property … is not violence.” They said protests don’t need to be peaceful and called riots a “proportionate response.” They denied evidence of anarchy. They said violence works. They condemned the term “riot” as “loaded,” instead calling it “democracy.” They released a documentary claiming “Riots Built America.” And they flat-out pretended cities weren’t being ravaged, with Gov. Jay Inslee saying “That’s news to me!” when asked about the so-called Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, and Rep. Jerry Nadler calling Antifa a “myth.”

It isn’t just sins of commission either. The media transgress with omission as well. That’s why you’ll hear Ma’Khia Bryant’s name infinitely more than you’ll hear Mohammad Anwar’s. His life was stolen by two black teens when they violently carjacked him in broad daylight in D.C. last month. One story can be spun to further the narrative that foments riots. One cannot.

Back in January, left-wingers in the media, on Twitter, and in the halls of Congress breathlessly reported that Trump had incited in insurrection. He was a seditionist and a fascist, they said, and he posed such a grave threat to public safety that his social media accounts were nuked from orbit, and Democrats immediately drafted articles of impeachment again. When he urged rioters at the Capitol to go home, calling for “NO violence, NO lawbreaking and NO vandalism of any kind,” a ban on his Twitter prevented the message from going out.

Although the events of that day were awful, the ruling class lied about and amplified them to the point of repeated falsehoods, with The New York Times peddling a false story that rioters bludgeoned a Capitol Police officer to death with a fire extinguisher, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claiming Sen. Ted Cruz tried to have her murdered. //

The biggest lie is that the entire United States of America — with its white people, police officers, institutions, and norms — is irredeemably racist and evil to its core. The race-baiters who peddle this lie have incited more violence than Trump ever did. When you can convince people racism is rampant, and that silence about it is violence while actual physical vigilante violence is justice, you ignite a flame of division and destruction that can only end with bodies on the ground and cities leveled. //

As Shelby Steele says, “America’s original sin is not slavery. It is simply the use of race as a means to power.” While the ruling classes exploit tragedy to accrue more and more power, Americans become increasingly powerless as pawns in the race war, many paying with their sanity, others with their livelihoods, and even some with their lives.

Wiley was harsh on James, but also sternly challenged him to use his platform to talk more about his own life and the odds he overcame to become one of the greatest basketball players of all time.

I’d love to hear that story, of how you became Lebron James against all odds, instead of always professing the odds are against all people.

Lebron James says “I’m so damn tired of seeing Black people killed by police!” How about this sentence, instead of that… “I’m so damn tired of seeing Black people killed.”

How about this sentence? Even more idealistic. “I’m damn tired of just seeing people killed.” //

"Your skin is not your sin."

Majorities of whites (74%), blacks (73%), and other minorities (82%) say voters should be required to show photo identification before being allowed to vote. SOURCE: Rasmussen

87% of black people have some form of confirmed photo ID. SOURCE: ProjectVote (pg. 3)

90% of Latin Americans have a form of confirmed photo ID. SOURCE: ProjectVote (pg. 3)

Percentage of Americans who have ID vs. percentage who vote. SOURCE: CNN

87% of black people have ID, only 13% voted in the 2020 Election.
90% of Latin Americans have ID, only 13% voted in the 2020 Elections.
95% of white people have ID, only 67% voted in 2020 Elections.
97% of registered voters in Georgia have a valid ID. SOURCE: AJC

Voter ID laws have been shown to actually INCREASE turnout in states that recommend them, such as Georgia and Indiana. SOURCES: Heritage, Heritage

Mitti Hicks
@MittiMegan
Just an update on this, protestors said later they're heading back to Brooklyn Center because they need more information about what happened in Burnsville first. //

First problem? The suspect was white, like most of the people who are shot by the police. So, pretty hard to argue the narrative.

Second problem? Not only did the guy fire at the police, a lot, he also carjacked a woman and took off in her vehicle. The police chased him, he shot at them and then abandoned the vehicle. He then pointed a gun at another motorist and then tried to carjack another car.

To believe Kristen Clarke in 2021 you have to accept that she spotlighted racists advocates of “melanin-based racial superiority” science to expose them as absurd, but one month later advocated and later defended a racist anti-semite academic

Put me at the front of the line for the “We shouldn’t crush adults for things they wrote and did when they were 19” group.

But Kristen Clarke was 45 when she testified last week and lied about her October 1994 letter.

She lied.

Is there no one else with a “D” next to their name who is worthy of occupying the post of Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division?

The discussion starts with Geraldo speaking as an expert on how police wear their weapons and suggesting the gun should be moved to the non-dominant hand’s side. As Bongino points out, that’s a ridiculously stupid idea. Anyone that has tried to cross-draw knows the problems with it, and that’s specifically true when you might be pinned down on the ground with someone on top of you.

The reason police wear their guns where they wear them is so they can access them and shoot them accurately in situations that may be completely out of control. If you’ve ever shot a gun single-handed with your non-dominant hand, you understand. It’s not that it’s not possible, but it’s not ideal, and “not ideal” can be the difference between life and death in policing. That includes possibly hitting a bystander due to decreased accuracy.

Geraldo also tried to claim that black people are killed at twice the rate of white people by police per capita, insinuating there’s some kind of racial animus driving those numbers. What that ignores is the increased number of police encounters due to higher crime rates among certain demographics. There is no evidence, for example, that the warrant being served on Daunte Wright was motivated by racism. The same is true for the attempted arrests of George Floyd and Jacob Blake, to name a few. That doesn’t give license for police to go outside of what is legal and proper, but it is valuable context when you consider the predominant narrative being pushed by groups like Black Lives Matter.

Bongino rightly points out that there is no data to back up the idea that there is a plague of police officers hunting down and murdering black men. Geraldo then launches into an obscenity-filled tirade about how Bongino is why protesters have the rage they do. Apparently, facts make them outraged?

Look, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Be skeptical of police power. To do so is actually a good thing because you should be skeptical of all government power institutions. But that does not mean a-factual narratives not backed by data get to form an excuse for rioting and stupidity, nor should they shape our public debate. Bongino was right on the facts here. That’s what should matter.

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Let's see if I can articulate this properly.

"White Man's Burden" has been used for proto -Progressives and Progressive descendants since mid/late 1800s. I'm sure there are enough here that are acquainted with it, but for those who aren't the basic gist was that White People had a responsibility to care for the "lesser" races. I am 100% certain that there are and were those in the movement that went for this with complete pure and benevolent reasons (road to hell and all).

But it never was meant for good intentions. The intention was always to establish, or maybe enshrine would be a better word, a ruling elite (mostly WASPs). You can see it in the policies in the early 20th century ranging from the creation of the current education paradigm, the creation of the Administrative state, and to eugenics. The last bit being the one I wish to focus on.

If was not just meant to 'contain' the blacks, but also those inferior whites. The massive backlash after the world discovered what the natural final state of the philosophy as implemented by the Nazis, and to an extent the Japanese, blunted that effort. Add to that, the relative quick adoption of Americanism by immigrants at the time complicated the plans of the elites. So what to do? Lower the standards, and don't encourage assimilation and adoption of the prevailing culture.

Trash the value of citizenship, allow those from corrupt backwards countries to vote and you will have these people handed power legitimately. Call it white replacement, citizen replacement it really doesn't matter except which era you are talking about. Because back in the day Europe had the only 'tradition' that gave rise to Americanism and it wasn't extended to many minorities because of the attitudes of the time. Now, those issues were settled and now it is clearly citizen replacement.

I just can't wait to see organizations like BLM react when they realize they have been relegated to the back of the bus (which is already happening) for the newcomers by the Democrats. Just desserts imho.

Coincidentally, today is Booker T. Washington’s 165th Birthday: he was born April 5, 1856. In a time when racial disparities and tension were the real deal, rather than so much of this manufactured nonsense, Washington made this controversial statement in his 1911 book, My Larger Education.

“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”

Washington described them as “problem profiteers”, and it is interesting that Booker and Barkley saw this so clearly. There are some people for whom it is more important to drive their agenda than it is to actually get things done and solve problems. If work is accomplished and problems are resolved, it means those profiteers can no longer earn their prestige or dollars. Both Booker T. Washington and Charles Barkley are the latter. Our political class and much of our legacy media are the former. //

It was at a second job in a local coalmine where he first heard two fellow works discuss the Hampton Institute, a school for formerly enslaved people in southeastern Virginia founded in 1868 by Brigadier General Samuel Chapman. Chapman had been a leader of Black troops for the Union during the Civil War and was dedicated to improving educational opportunities for African Americans.

Washington walked the 500 miles from Malden, Virginia to Southeastern Virginia to get to the Hampton Institute. //

Brigadier General Chapman was so impressed by Washington, that he was invited to return to Hampton as a teacher. Chapman then referred Washington for a role as principal of a new school for Blacks in Tuskegee, Alabama: The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, now known as Tuskegee University. At age 25, Washington took on the task, and was there until his death in 1915.

Washington is too often seen as a supporter of segregationist views, and he and W.E.B. Du Bois famously battled in their writings over this. Washington encouraged Blacks to embrace skilled labor and the trades to build their own wealth as an avenue of integration, rather than Du Bois’s chosen method of pushing to change laws and forcefully integrate into what was at that time, white society.

In an 1895 speech which Du Bois dubbed, “The Atlanta Compromise,” Washington told a majority white audience in Atlanta that the way forward for Blacks was self-actualization to “dignify and glorify common labor.” Washington saw showing through actions and accomplishments that you are a valuable part of contributing society as a wiser path toward desegregation than some of the attempts being made by his contemporaries. Washington encouraged a measured approach, as opposed to blowing up the system:

“The wisest of my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than artificial forcing. The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than to spend a dollar in an opera house.” //

So Barkley and Washington embody a powerful work ethic and an insatiable drive that sadly, is lacking in much of what is touted as “success” today. Instead of upping that quotient, some would rather blame a generation of Blacks’ lack of success on racism. //

Bottom line, both men encourage us to: Get our own. Then, OWN it. Then, BUILD wealth and legacy through it.

My people still have not exploited these lessons to their full extent. We’re still fighting the battles that W.E.B. Du Bois waged and that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and many others fought and won. Both should capture our attention, and where we have allowed that legacy of civil rights to erode, we need to shore it up. But what I most find is a fixation that no progress has been made. When someone like Barkley points out this is not the case and that certain actors are invested in ensuring we stay divided, his premise is questioned and marginalized, rather than examined for its veracity.

Washington had this to say in his autobiographical novel, Up From Slavery, page 103.

I said that the whole future of the Negro rested largely upon the question as to whether or not he should make himself, through his skill, intelligence, and character, of such undeniable value to the community in which he lived that the community could not dispense with his presence.

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Gov. @RonDeSantisFL announces Florida's curriculum will "expressly exclude...Critical Race Theory."

“There's no room in our classrooms for things like Critical Race Theory. Teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other is not worth one red cent of taxpayer money.” //

An unequivocal rejection of this harmful ideology being taught in schools is the right move. Critical race theory is a racist scourge, and Republicans should treat it accordingly. No child should be taught they are lesser than because of a supposed innate, uncontrollable racism within them. Further, no child should be taught to hate someone else because adults tell them that person is a racist simply because of the color of their skin. There is nothing more discriminatory in mainstream America right now than critical race theory and its associated offshoots. That it’s even gained any notoriety is a disgusting indictment of our current culture. //

Republicans have to get in the trenches over this and be willing to pay whatever costs come with waging this war. Nothing is more important than preventing the further ideological manipulation of children. The left is counting on critical race theory being forced upon society to help entrench their political power. That can’t be allowed to happen.

compliments of The Heritage Foundation:

“The New Intolerance: Critical Race Theory and Its Grip on America.”

Critical Race Theory (CRT) and public policies based on this worldview will not alleviate racial inequality in the real world. In fact, this dogma undermines human and social factors—such as family, entry-level work, and merit-based education—the wellspring of upward mobility. Yet, the rigid persistence with which believers apply this theory has made CRT a constant, daily presence in the lives of hundreds of millions of people.

CRT underpins Identity Politics, an ongoing effort to reimagine the United States as a nation riven by the division between racial groups, each with specific claims on victimization. In education and the workforce, as well as entertainment and social media, CRT has become entrenched, driving decision-making based on skin color rather than individual merit and talent.

As Critical Theory becomes more familiar to the public in everyday life, CRT’s intolerance, and the idea of systemic racism is being “normalized” in the American psyche. This weakens public and private bonds that create trust between citizens and allow for civic engagement.

In short, he’s an expert in tax legislation, not simply a black man there to give the GOP cred as Reid suggested.

Scott himself called Reid out for her ridiculous assertion that he’s nothing more than his skin color for the GOP.

“Woke supremacy is as bad as white supremacy. We need to take that seriously,” said Scott. “When she calls a United States Senator who’s a subject matter expert a prop, a token, or a superficial covering, that’s personal and that’s wrong and she should be held to account.”

My story of growing up as a little black girl in an all-white region of Canada is wrought with racial abuse which often manifested as physical abuse. In fact, I fled Canada at 18-years-old because my Canadian life had been defined by racism and racist abuse up until that point. //

People who claim that the United States is the worst place on earth when it comes to racism are too privileged to know better. They have never made the effort to understand cultures outside their own, and in fact pride themselves on their ignorance. They are so immersed in American privilege that they assume everyone else on earth lives like we live and thinks like we think – the “we” being the intellectual Left, naturally.

The truth is, the United States is the most racist country on the planet, except for everyone else. Humans are tribal. No amount of shaming, canceling or legislation can thwart human nature, human sin. If you think America is the most racist place on earth I invite you to move anywhere else and begin telling the people of color who live there what a utopia they live in.

So if Biden is cancelling mention of Seuss, when can we cancel mention of Joe Biden? We can point to all his racist remarks over the years, including his more recent remarks about “you ain’t black” if you don’t know to vote for him and about “Hispanic and African-American” people having trouble knowing how to get online to register for the Wuhan coronavirus vaccine. //

Rich Lowry
@RichLowry
Let’s definitely begin airbrushing from history the author who has brought delight to countless millions of children, and helped open the way for them to the world of reading and books.

How stupid, humorless, and disturbing

https://nypost.com/2021/03/02/biden-removes-mention-of-dr-seuss-from-read-across-america-day/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons via @nypost
Biden removes mention of Dr. Seuss from ‘Read Across America Day’
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A new website called Critical Race Training in Education allows users to quickly access information about more than 230 schools and the ways in which those schools are instituting critical race theory on campus.

Critical race theory holds that whites use their social status or their legal and economic advantages to create or maintain power over people of color.

The rapid embrace of critical race theory training programs for students and faculty is “very troubling,” website founder William Jacobson told The Daily Signal in a phone interview earlier this month.

https://criticalrace.org/