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CalNativist
13 hours ago
Wait a minute. Affirmative Action has been a real "thing". For like 50 years. Everything the federal government touches is infused with racial policing and many liberal metro enclaves have been run on a racially-driven basis for decades.

Consider the case of Oakland. It has a department of Race and Equity in the municipal government. Look up the ghastly tale of the "Ghost Ship" fire and see how much good that did.

This is why you should not be able to get out of Sociology 1 or maybe even high school history without learning about the Moynihan Report "Crisis o the Negro Family". The stunning reality that black and white social statistics were roughly equivalent in the 1950s has to be considered in light of what has come since.

There is a false premise that "nothing has changed". No, every statistical indicator has gotten WORSE. Except for one: income, which did go up in part through lessening of legal discrimination but largely by the acquisition of public sector jobs. There is a treasure trove of historical material at a web site called TheBlackPast. Look at the page they have on the Moynihan Report; the story is encapsulated in one graphic at the top of the page.

Education itself, what should have been the Great Levelor, has instead been weaponized by corrupt political elements who I would accuse of outright sabotage because they want to cultivate dependence on the government.

But remember you get another cohort to educate every year. Look up the young man who was the first black Valedictorian in the long history of Oakland Technical High School, whose story I first learned about right here (it "went viral" later after his speech went up on Youtube).

I appreciate Condi stepping up to this extent but we are not where we are because of what happened in the distant past. We are where we are because of policies that were implemented SINCE that past was over. And now Harvared and Yale discriminate AGAINST Asians while a newly-annointed Nobel Prize winning economist endorses it? (That's Card the one from UC Berkeley).

A Florida man has been accused of breaking the copyleft license of Mastodon by running an online instance of the software without providing its source code as required.

And not only that, the real-estate baron and wannabe tech tycoon has been told he has a month to fall in line with the fine print or put himself potentially at risk further action.

Mastodon is a Twitter-like microblogging service that you host yourself. Servers running this software can form a larger, decentralized social network. //

The aforementioned Palm Beach businessman, known for his failed casino, discontinued line of steaks, and a recent stint in public office, chairs an online media group that this week promised to launch a social network for selected users next month. A wider rollout is expected in the new year following a period of beta testing, apparently.

On July 24, as I reported, we had already paid out $2 billion not to build the wall.

Earlier this month, they canceled the contracts — in the middle of a border crisis — and this is what they are spending the money on instead.

The unspent cash that Congress allocated for wall construction will be spent on environmental projects — including “biological, cultural, and natural resource surveys” in the border region — instead, according to the statement. //

According to the NY Post, Department of Homeland Security money to the tune of $456,548 — almost half a million dollars — was shelled out to a Delaware construction company to build fencing around Biden’s beach house in Rehoboth Beach. It’s listed on USAspending.gov, which tracks federal spending. The project started on September 21 and is expected to be completed by December 31.

Biden not only gets a wall, but the Secret Service has created a checkpoint to get past an intersection on the way to the home and they’ve also created “security zones” in the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal and Atlantic Ocean, not to mention frequent restrictions on the airspace in the area. I’m sure that’s not at all bothersome to the neighbors.

Meanwhile, while Biden is safe with his wall, the Border Patrol revealed that we had the highest number of people entering illegally across the southern border since 1986 — 35 years ago — with 1.7 million migrants. It’s anticipated that 400,000 will enter illegally this month. //

Insider Paper
@TheInsiderPaper
NEW: Texas AG sues Biden administration, demands continuation of border wall construction, "Let's Go Brandon. We'll see you in court!"
2:14 PM · Oct 22, 2021

Corey A. DeAngelis
@DeAngelisCorey
Congressman Fred Keller: Why are women-held positions disproportionately affected by COVID-19?

Inez Stepman: That's a question you should take up with Randi Weingarten
12:39 PM · Oct 21, 2021

Stepman’s response is more than just a mic drop moment. It is a moment of clarity that we need to touting over and over again. The Democrats are trying to fix problems that they created by making more problems which will require more legislation in order to fix the problems that come from the solutions to the problems they made in the first place.

It is utter insanity and hypocrisy and should be called out as such at every opportunity.

Who knew? Vladimir Putin. Vladimir Putin. The former KGB agent and current murderous dictator of Russia is more woke about wokeism in America than are Joe Biden and the Democrat Party.

The Russian “president for life” slammed wokeism, correctly saying it is causing societal ills, and claiming it is no different than the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Putin made his extraordinary remarks in Sochi, where the topic was “Global Shake-up in the 21st Century.” His remarks were translated by an interpreter and the video was uploaded to the Russian government’s website.

Not the Bee
@Not_the_Bee
Putin blasts Wokeism and compares it to the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, slams CRT and the practice of calling women "birthing people"
Putin blasts Wokeism and compares it to the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, slams CRT and the practice...
notthebee.com
1:58 PM · Oct 22, 2021

I went to segregated schools till we moved to Denver. My parents never thought I was going to grow up in a world without prejudice. But they also told me “that’s somebody else’s problem, not yours, you’re going to overcome it, and you are going to be anything you want to be.” And that’s the message that I think we ought to be sending to kids. //

One of the worries that I have about the way that we’re talking about race is that it either seems so big that somehow white people now have to feel guilty for everything that happened in the past. //

The former secretary of state also said she doesn’t think it’s “very productive” that “black people have to feel disempowered by race.” She continued:

I would like black kids to be completely empowered to know that they are beautiful in their blackness. But in order to do that, I don’t have to make white kids feel bad for being white. So somehow this is a conversation that has gone in the wrong direction. //

If leftists truly wished to diminish the impact of racism, they would focus more on doing what Rice said: Empowering black people. Instead of lowering learning standards so that more black students can graduate, it would make far more sense to focus on improving the quality of education that many black students receive. Despite constantly asking for more funding, they have not done much to provide better education for minority children. Indeed, they oppose measures like school choice, which would empower black parents to ensure their kids attend the best schools. //

During her appearance on “The View,” Rice never pretended racism didn’t exist. She never even downplayed it or pretended that it has no impact. Her contention is that black people can succeed despite the effects of bigotry. It is a sentiment expressed by people like Malcolm X, who routinely chastised black Americans for not focusing on building in their own communities instead of soliciting whites for relief.

Yes, racism does exist. Yes, it has an impact on black Americans and, by extension, the United States. But attempting to villainize nonracist white people is not the way to help black America.