THE GOVERNMENT AND THE LEFT WANT SOME BLACK HISTORY TO DISAPPEAR

  I just posted a comment on a site re the media and the US Govt and their refusal to recognize Black Nationalism and black extremism - which may best explain things like the cause of the black driver of the car into the Christmas parade, killing 6 whites, in Waukesha, Wisconsin in Nov or Dec 2021.  Many academics assert that blacks cannot be racists.  Of course they can, and they can be fascists too.  Hugh Murray

Blacks, like everyone else, can be racists, and can have thinking related to any political ideology. The largest black organization in the US in the 1920s, and which had influence far beyond, was the Universal Negro Improvement Assn., led by West Indian Marcus Garvey. He pushed for black dolls for black girls, the Black Cross nurses, and bought a ship for his Black Star line to return the American diaspora Back to Africa. He opposed the mulatto W.E.B. Du Bois and the then mainly white NAACP; and it may have worked to get the foreigner deported. The Garveyites in the 1920s appear to have worked with another large, similar organization of the 1920s, the KKK. Both sought to retain separation of the races. Even after his deportation, most Garveyites did not join the NAACP.

In the late 1920s, Stalin, a specialist on minorities, wanted the American Communist Party to become more active with blacks, and in the early 30s, a Finnish Party member was put on trial for racism in Harlem, tried, and found guilty by the CP, America's first show trial on racism. A CP front group fought the NAACP for control of the defence of the Scottsboro boys, young blacks accused of rape aboard a freight train in Alabama in 1931. Tho the NAACP hired Clarence Darrow, the radical International Labor Defense hire another top-flight attorney, who so successfully defended the blacks, that the ILD attorneys won 2 major ruling from the very conservative US Supreme Court, saving the lives of the blacks. The CP also promised a Black Belt of majority black counties in the South - an indirect appeal to the Garveyites.

By the mid-30s and Hitler's consolidation of power in Germany, Stalin decided to seek unity with moderates, colonialists, in the Popular Front. Some blacks felt betrayed and left the CP, like George Padmore and others who looked to Pan-Africanism. Garvey, angry at Mussolini for his invasion of Ethiopia (and at Stalin for supplying oil to Italy), Garvey asserted that his UNIA were the first fascists.

In the late 1950s the Black Muslims grew, and like the Garveyites, wanted racial separation. They were opposed to integration, the NAACP, CORE, SNCC. The Black Muslims made deals with the KKK and other segregationists. Malcolm X was ordered to negotiate with the KKK. After CORE began its Freedom Rides in 1961, George Lincold Rockwell, drove his counter - his "hate bus" from Virginia to New Orleans. Rockwell headed the small American Nazi Party. In New Orleans, he and his group also picketed the film Exodus, about the founding of Israel. The following month, Rockwell and several of his fellow Nazis, were invited guests at a large meeting of the Black Muslims in Washington, DC.

But because none of this fits the liberal distorted history of race in America, the media, the academics, the politicians pretend it does not exist.  Under President Biden, he wants to suppress white supremacy and ignore possible black supremists - even though the enormous amount of black on white crime and murder may indicate black supremacy is more of a problem that the white variety, which is more politically correct, especially to the far-left wing and corrupt Biden regime.  It may be politically correct, but historically incorrect.

"I LOVE LUCY" PRESENTED AN ALTERED VIEW OF THE ALL AMERICAN FAMILY

 

LUCILLE BALL'S LASTING INFLUENCE -

IN A FIELD WE NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT

by Hugh Murray

I had been arrested in the first lunch-counter sit-in in my native New Orleans in September 1960. We were a small group, 5 blacks and 2 whites, all of us members of the newly formed activist organization, CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality. One reason for its appearance in New Orleans and other cities in the South, the NAACP in New Orleans and elsewhere sometimes opposed non-violent direct action, and it opposed our sit-in. In 1961 CORE drew national attention when it sponsored the Freedom Rides, in which CORE members would purchase tickets to ride ordinary Greyhound or Continental bus tickets, ride like other passengers, but then, when the bus stopped for rest, CORE members would attempt to integrate the eateries and rest rooms located in the bus terminals. The courts had declared segregation in interstate travel to be illegal, but CORE sought to test the reality. In the deep South, many CORE Freedom Riders were badly beaten and arrested in these tests.

Not everyone was sympathetic to integration, and George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party, decided he would bring his Hate Bus and some followers from his base in Virginia down to New Orleans. New Orleans was also the final destination of the Freedom Riders, but with beatings and arrests along the way, many did not complete the journey.

When Rockwell's bus arrived in New Orleans, the signs that covered his vehicle caused a disturbance - “Gas Jews, Queers, Commies” or something similar. The New Orleans Police demanded that he cover the provocative signs.

In May 1961 the film “Exodus” was playing at one of the movie theaters in New Orleans, and Rockwell and his Storm Troupers decided to picket the theater. I asked a young woman studying law at Tulane U. if she would go with me so we could see (and perhaps boo) the Nazis. Janet Smith was, like myself, a member of the Unitarian Church in New Orleans. She lived near the university, just off St. Charles Ave. I parked across from her building in my car, and it was pouring rain. I rushed to her building and got her and back to my car, when I discovered I had locked my keys inside the car. Could not get the side window vent open, would take forever to get help, so we took the nearby St. Charles streetcar.

The streetcar is not the fastest form of transportation, but we had time before the film began. Soon after the trolley turned on Lee Circle we got off. The water had risen up nearly 2 feet, touching the hem of her dress, and my long pants that I had rolled up lto my knees. We walked only one block, and the deep water was now merely a wet sidewalk. And the rain had lightened. When we got to the theater, we were too late to see the the police arrest the uniformed Nazis, but some plain-dress sympathizers handed us fliers The pickets were breaking up, the drama was over, and we had missed the main event. Back on the streetcar, we read the flier - Do Not Invite These Reds into Your Home. Top of the list was Lucille Ball. We laughed. Well she did have red hair.

The American Nazis were not in New Orleans that long, for by the end of the next month, June 1961, George Lincoln Rockwell and several of his members, were invited guests, in Nazi uniforms, to the mass rally of the Nation of Islam held at Uline Arenal in Washington, D.C. (The arena had a capacity of 8,000, and in 1964 was the venue for the first Beatles' concert in the USA.) If some missed the point, Rockwell and his Storm Troupers were again, invited guests, in uniform, to the mass Saviour's Day event of the Nation of Islam in February 1962 at Chicago's International Amphitheater. Rockwell was even invited to the podium to address the crowd of over 12,000.

The Smithsonian Magazine on line, perhaps as part of Women's Month, March 2022, published “Who Was the Real Lucille Ball?” 22 March 22, by Jackie Mansky, part of “Women Who Shaped History.” The author discusses Ball as an actress, a comedienne, a business woman, and a hard worker. The article describes some of the interplay among the 4 main characters of the “I Love Lucy” program, Lucy, her real live husband Desi Arnaz, William Frawleyz, and Vivian Vance, who played neighbors Ethel and Fred Mertz. Yet, perhaps the author omitted a most important part of the real Lucille Ball.

If you go to Wikipedia, you will find that while residing in California, Lucille Ball went to register to vote in 1936, and she registered, not as a Democrat or a Republican, but as a Communist. Her brother and mother registered as Communists too. In testimony, she said she so registered to satisfy her grand father, but there was other testimony, some saying she was on the central committee of the Communist Party in California. She denied ever being a party member.

In the 1930s the Communist Party was well known for pressing equal rights for blacks. They led the fight to free the Scottsboro boys, accused of rape aboard a freight train in Alabama in 1931, made in into a international cause celebre, and took the case to the conservative US Supreme Court twice where significant judgments were rendered. The CP and its front groups were involved in many racial cases round the nation.

In the 1930s Ball was often 2^nd fiddle in major films, but might be the star of a b film. One of the “queens of the b films.” She also did radio work to supplement her income. Beginning in 1948 she would be the wife in a new radio comedy, “My Favorite Husband,” on CBS. Except for the first of the series, her co-star would be Richard Denning, her favorite husband.

In 1951 CBS wanted to transfer the program to the new medium of television. Ball was quite willing, but adamant that this time her husband would have to be her real husband, Desi Arnaz. The Smithsonian article relates how much of the show was Lucy's attempt to get work in show business, or just to get work. Though during WWII, with men drafted and away from industry, which now needed more workers to build ships, tanks, planes, and everything else. So women were recruited for jobs outside the home, unlike anything before. However, after the war, when men returned, they wanted the jobs, and women were being pushed out of the job market and back into the home. This tension produced much of the humor of I Love Lucy.

But there is something else, something important, so obvious that we do not see it. In 1951 the majority of American states had laws forbidding interracial marriages of one kind or another. The typical American family, in all the films, and in the new tv, the typical American family was Anglo or Irish or generic white. Desi as a husband was different. His music was different. And his accent was very different. Singing “Babaloo” was not typically American. Richard Denning would have been the typical all American husband. But Lucy demanded Desi. The 1950s were sometimes called the age of conformity; it was also the age of assimilation. Immigrants were to assimilate, adopt the clothing of Americans, drop the accents of the distant homelands, become true Americans. Desi, playing Ricky Ricardo, was not assimilated. His accent and antics were part of his character, and the American public began to love Lucy and her “unassimilated” husband. And with the popularity of I Love Lucy, as it became the #1 program for 3 years, it undoubtedly changed the notion of the ideal American family. THAT is no small accomplishment.

I have no idea if Lucille Ball was ever a member of the Communist Party or not. But she must have been influenced by some of the racial and ethnic ideas circulating on the left. Remember, in 1931 the Communists held a show trial in Harlem, accusing a member of “racism.” In Communist circles, racism was a great crime, and forcing assimilation may have taken on some of that disapproval. By dropping Denning and demanding Desi, Lucy was hoping – not only for a successful tv show, but to expand the notion of what an all-American family was.

I have argued elsewhere that the influence of the American Communist Party is far greater that most people are aware of. Much of the political correctness and cancel culture of today can be traced back to efforts of the small, but extremely influential Communist Party in the US. Some of that influence, I would conclude has been good for the nation. Some, like the narrowing of free speech, the firing of people of alleged racism, the toppling of monuments of our heroes, and stealing atomic secrets, has been disastrous. However, in this particular case, expanding the idea of what a good husband could be like, I would say the result has been good.

THE “NEAR SPUTNIK MOMENT” - REFLECTIONS

         By Hugh Murray

After China launched its hypersonic missile in July 2021, one which circled the globe and returned to China to come close to its target, American Gen. Mark Milley called it a “near Sputnik moment.” America had been shocked by the Soviet launch of its first satellite into orbit in 1957, and America's military is similarly stunned by China's rapid advance in hypersonic technology that may be a game changer in the military balance of power. Such missiles, traveling at 5-times the speed of sound, might sink our air-craft carriers before radar could detect, much less destroy, the incoming projectiles. I described this in my previous blog post, a review of Andrei Martyanov's DISINTEGRATION. Here I shall discuss other aspects of this “new” sputnik.

When the original Sputnik first orbited, much of America was truly shocked, as there was massive media coverage of the new moving star in the night sky. In 1957 America was enjoying unheard of prosperity in the history of the world. We were #1. The Great Depression of the 1930s was over; the sacrifices of WWII, the loss of lives, the shortages, the rationing, all seemed to end with Allied victory. The fears of a post-WWII depression proved wrong. True, some like the appliance makers Powel and Lewis Crosley, who in 1920 introduced a cheap radio and soon became the world's largest radio manufacturer, a few years later owned the world's most powerful radio station of 500 thousand watts, and in 1939 introduced a cheap, compact car, sold at department stores. Thinking there might be an economic downturn, Crosley returned to its small, cheap, compact autos after the war while competitors issued larger, more comfortable vehicles. By the early 50s Studebaker introduced its airplane influenced auto (which did not sell well), but the Crosley disappeared. Others added more chrome. Bigger, speedier, with cheap unrationed gas, America was on the go. And real estate developers were attracting them to the new suburbs, combining the airiness of the country with nearness the city with access by the big cars. Pres. Eisenhower, who helped defeat Germany, was impressed by its autobahn. Under Ike the federal government invested huge sums to build a national highway system in America.

Most factories and people transitioned well from armed services and war work to new peace-time employment with good wages. At first, they were rare, expensive, perhaps seen inside a bar or a special place, but prices of the new televisions dropped, soon they were the new entertainment center, and inside the home. Air-conditioning changed the South from people sitting out on the porch, to inside watching TV. Kitchen appliances changed house work, as women who had had their first jobs during the war were replaced by men, but found house work easier. These appliances provided VP Nixon ammunition to defeat Khrushchev in the famous kitchen debate in Moscow. America was clearly #1, and living better then any other people in the history of the world.

While all of this was happening, our image of Russia and the USSR was of the dark, dreary, poor dictatorship, backward in everything – except weapons, propaganda, brainwashing, and spying. The only reason they had the A bomb and H bombs was because spies had given them our secrets. The Russians surely could not have done it on their own, Americans concluded.

This is why Sputnik 1957 was such a shock. How could they steal this from us, if we did not have it at all? How could a land of shoddy, simple products beat the US into space? It made no sense. Then, the first explanation – it was the Germans, the German scientists captured after WWII and taken to the Soviet Union, it was they who gave the Russians the ideas and technology to create Sputnik. When America responded by placing in orbit a tiny baseball sized satellite, an American cartoonist portrayed the 2 satellites passing each other in space, and speaking to each other in German. Of course, one of the leaders of the American space program was Werner von Braun who had helped develop the V-1 and V-2 rockets for the Reich.

Americans quickly realized we were in a new area of competition with the Soviets – space. And we were behind. America responded. Schools placed more emphasis on math and science, universities gave more scholarships in these fields. Nerds gained esteem. Politicians got in the act, and in the 1960 Presidential debate between Nixon and John Kennedy, the Democrat accused the Republicans of allowing a missile gap to develop. (It may not have been true, but after Sputnik, it was credible). Kennedy won, and promised America that we would be first to the Moon. And in 1969, just 12 years after beginning late and behind, America landed a man on the Moon; we won the race.

By contrast, the Chinese hypersonic missile feat of 2021 has received little publicity in America. And it is not just the news of 2021. On 7 March 2022 Tony Capaccio wrote for Bloomberg News, “U.S. Efforts to catch up with China and Russia in developing hypersonic weapons may be set back after Lockheed Martin Corporation's air-launched missile suffered 3 consecutive test failures that left it on a tight schedule.”

On 1 December 2021, when VP Kamala Harris addressed the new Space Force, she stressed that the new priority should be, nothing to do with hypersonic weapons, but climate change. She also wanted to get more students into the STEM courses.

But unlike the 1950s, can America's new educational establishment accommodate getting the best students into STEM?

At a recent televised press conference of the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team, one player declared how proud he was of the diversity there as he looked to the others being filmed. They were all black players. Diversity once met varied, but in some areas of America now, it means people of color, or simply blacks. The left proclaims Diversity is Our Strength. If it were an all-black squad, this would violate the rules set by government in other areas of life, like the workplace and university enrollment. To the government, diversity is quotas in one form or another promoting proportionality in most fields. Should quotas be enforced to require diversity on basketball teams? Whites are still a majority nationally. So each major basketball team should have a majority of white players. About 20% Hispanic, 14% Black, and about 6% Asian. If this were required of all basketball and football teams, would it improve the play of the teams? Their standing? Each team would decline in skills and play as diversity was imposed.

So why do we play this quota game in corporations, and especially at major universities? And even more and more in the STEM departments?. Do you think this will improve those departments? Make them more able to catch up with China? In the 1950s, universities were allowed to choose the best qualified students. Any could apply at some excellent schools, and most accepted were white males. And America got to the Moon before the Soviets. Filling seats in hard subjects with lesser qualified candidates, simply because they are black, Hispanic, trans, women, Amerindians, deprives the department of the best qualified, and will result in resentment by the quota people who cannot follow what is happening, and encourage racism and sexism in the truly qualified, who observe that some quota hires cannot keep up.

If America wants to win the hypersonic race with China and Russia, we should engage with our best performers, not those who did poorly but fit the race or gender requirements of our politically correct comisars. Racial and gender favoritisms holds America back. And we are in a serious race for survival. Restore merit and the color blind ideal; end racial and gender quotas, preferences, disparate impact law, diversity, and equity. Those are all terms for racial and gender discrimination. If we return to merit, we have a chance against Russia and China. We have a chance to win.

Why is the new hypersonic Sputnik important?

The perfect storm may be on the horizon. From the time of the Nixon and Kissinger trip to “open” China in 1972, a major objective of American foreign policy has been to split the USSR and China. Russia and China surely had their differences, so generally the American policy was successful, until recent years. With the fall of the wall, the Soviets withdrew its forces from the east European nations and the West pledged not to expand NATO beyond the Elbe River. However, NATO did expand to Poland and other former members of the Warsaw Pact. As the book RED HANDED shows, many influential American politicians were less worried about China, because they were being heavily bribed, directly or indirectly. The Biden family had received a large sum, through Joe's son Hunter, from the Ukraine. When Putin invaded the Ukraine in 2022, Pres. Biden and the West strongly favored Ukraine.

Before the invasion, Putin attended the Opening Ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics in February 2022. He may have dozed for part of the event, but the visual was the reality – Russia and China stood together. American policy of keeping them apart seems to have failed. China is still not condemning Putin's thrust into Ukraine. Ukraine as a distant nation means little to the United States. Even if Russia would annex all of it, that would not change the balance of power. But America needs Taiwan to remain independent from mainland China. Taiwan has only been a part of mainland control for about 2 years since 1894. China sees Taiwan as part of its territory, and America agreed to a one-China policy when Nixon went to China and Carter confirmed it later in the 1970s. We divided China from Russia, but at the same time we were seemingly pulling the rug that held up the island nation, abandoning Taiwan to the mainland.

In recent years China made vast claims on the South China Sea, built up islands there and militarized them. China overtly threatens the Philippines and Vietnam and other nations on that sea. There is a string on non-Communist nations, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, and then down to Australia and New Zealand. If Taiwan falls to Communist China, the chain is broken. If Taiwan falls, it is a main producer of computer chips, and our production of many products will be disrupted. If Taiwan falls, it will be treated as Hong Kong, with no democratic freedoms. Even though legally, we may have a weaker case, militarily, we must not let it fall to the repressive Chinese Communist Party.

The new Putin-Xi alliance makes it more difficult to contemplate a war we may have to fight – for Taiwan and for free Asia, and for ourselves. Ukraine will not change the balance of power much either way. Taiwan will. Many of our politicians are bought by Beijing. Will we be prepared for the storm that is coming?

AMERICA'S DISINTEGRATION?

 

DISINTEGRATION: INDICATORS OF THE COMING AMERICAN COLLAPSE

By Andrei Martyanov (Clarity Press: Atlanta, GA, 2021)

Reviewed by Hugh Murray

     On December 1, 2021, Vice President Kamala Harris met for the first time with the leaders of the new U.S. Space Force. She outlined the Biden Administration's position on space, essentially continuing most of the Trump policies – however, there was to be one major new emphasis: “Climate Change.” When I heard this on the news, I laughed, and then was saddened. Why? First, because there were news reports in October 2021, a month before VP Harris's address, stating that the Chinese had launched a hypersonic missile around the earth, and when it returned to China, it came within a few kilometers of its target. That was major news. Later in mid-November 2021, Gen. Mark Milley would call the Chinese success “a near Sputnik moment,” meaning that the US was as stunned by the Chinese advance in 2021 as the Americans were by the Soviets launching the first satelite on October 4, 1957. Further information released in November was that such missiles travel at over 5 times the speed of sound, and can carry nuclear weapons. Because they travel so fast, radar may not be able to detect, much less defend against them. In 2021 we were entering a new age of weaponry. And VP Harris ignored the “sputnik” of 2021 to urge us to prioritize climate change!

Another reason I was saddened by Harris's remarks is because I had recently read Martyanov's short, excellent, provocative Disintegration, published in 2021. As a foreigner, Martyanov's sentences seem overly long, repetitious, but as a foreigner he views America in a different light, revealing weak spots often oblivious to us who live in our milieu. Indeed, he often sees weaknesses where we assume there is strength.

Is America's economy #1? Martyanov thinks it is padded to appear stronger than it is. He questions the position of FIRE, finance, insurance, real estate, in estimating the size of an economy. He thinks those bloat the statistics, and contends an economy's real measure is how it makes things. He blames Pres. Clinton, who was supported by the elder Pres. Bush, in passing trade legislation like NAFTA, and worse, working to get China into the World Trade Organization. The effect of these, especially the latter, was a giant vacuum cleaner to remove American industry and send it to China. With its cheap labor, one-part system, China would become the work-house of the world. And China would make things. The Council on Foreign Relations reported, ”While the US real economy started its prolonged dive, China's grew 8-fold since 2001.”(p. 84) America imports finished products from China, while we export petroleum and gas and agricultural products and chicken feet to China. Martyanov describes America becoming a 3^rd world economy.(90)

In her Feb. 23, 2022 article, Ann Coulter wrote: As Americans discovered to their dismay when the pandemic hit, we can't make our own masks, pharmaceuticals or aspirins. We can't make our own computer chips, razors, toys, sneakers, Levi's jeans...But boy, do we make weapons!” She mentions 4 large corporations who have earned huge contracts with the US government over recent years – Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, General Dynamics, and Boeing.

Martyanov agrees with Coulter, to a point. But he questions now, how good are some of the weapons we make? And the ones we sell to NATO, Saudi Arabia, and other allies? He goes into detail about the commercial airliners that were American made and the stars of the skies. Boeing, when they updated one, they did not properly redesign it, trying to accommodate new factors on old designs improperly, skimping here and there, paying off so it looked liked they passed all the tests. Results, Boeing plane crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia resulting in hundreds of deaths. There followed law suits, the loss of sales and confidence while many air fleets were grounded in the desert. Is the same shoddy quality going into military aircraft?

Martyanov believes that the US is losing the arms race. He notes that on 14 April 2018 Syria shot down 70% if our Tomahawk Land Air Attack Missiles. Our weapons were not getting through as easily as they had in the past. It is not only on the offensive. After the assassination of Iranian General Suleimani, in retaliation Iranians fired missiles to attack NATO and US bases in the region. Shock: their missiles got through. It “demonstrated the impotence of U.S. Defensive anti-missile technology which failed to intercept a single Iranian ballistic missile.”(166)

Following WWII America did not win the Korean War, nor the one in Vietnam, not in Yugoslavia. Martyanov adds that America has lost all its wars in the 21^st century. Is he correct that the the balance of power has changed?

America is a naval power and the gems of the fleet are the air-craft carriers that defeated the Japanese in the war for the Pacific in WWII. Martyanov concludes that with the arrival of hypersonic weapons, the American super-carrier is dead as a viable weapon.(163) Such missiles changed warfare forever.(164) Radar could not track, much less defend against such weapons, and the huge carriers would be easy targets and sunk.(165)

Well, what about our submarine fleet? The New York Times 8 November 2021 reported: “Metallurgist Admits She Falsified Test Results for Steel Hood. She was testing the metal to be used in hulls of American submarines, letting the lesser quality steel pass tests, and thus, endangering the lives of the seamen, and in nuclear subs, perhaps the lives of many others. Elaine Marie Thomas falsified strength and toughness tests from1985 to 2017. How many subs did her subversion infect?

VOA News 14 July 2021 had an interesting report too. Seaman Apprentice Ryan Mays was charged with setting a fire on the ship Bonhomme Richard while it was in dock in San Diego. The fire destroyed the warship, a loss of $1.2 billion and $4 billion to replace. One might blame recruiters, but more important, who was in charge? How could one man start the fire and no one noticed for days while the ship burned until lost? Perhaps the officers were out checking on and climate change.

Martyanov's point is that the US is not necessarily the most powerful military on earth any more. And our economy? Bloomberg reported in 2019 that manufacturing had reached the lowest portion of the American economy in 72 years.(107) We make less, and we lose the skills that are honed in making things. We complain when other nations fail to import large numbers of our automobiles – Ford, Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, these were once the envy of the world. Martyanov notes that the American car manufacturers no longer dominate their home market. We export treasury bills and dollars; that is we export inflation. We are a seafaring nation, yet when constructing large commercial container ships in 2016, we produced 10; the rest of the world 1,408.(53) In steel, China out produces us 11 to 1.

He admits the US has some of the best universities in the world, and we lead in STEM Ph. D.s, but of those 37% are temporary visa holders; 25% Chinese nationals. He brags that the STEM doctorates in Russia are Russians. Moreover, despite Kamala Harris's talk of stressing STEM studies, how can the US maintain any lead when more education departments declare math to be “racist,” and it is racist for a white to give the correct answer in class, and some question if there is any one correct answer or even any truth. Is postmodernism compatible with STEM? Is a woke dominated educational system?

I certainly do not agree with Martyanov on many issues. He believes the US is no longer a nation – but a multicultural cacophony of rival tribes, nearing full Balkanization. Not only does the West not make things any more, it has ceased to produce babies. He blames decadence, gays. Yet, China now has a demographic problem too, and it has not had a pro-gay policy under communism. One need not agree with all of his assertions; Martyanov is provocative. His book surely contains insights that we should ponder if our NATION is to survive and thrive again.

I bring another point of contention between us related to his title. In 1960 seven of us participated in the first lunch-counter sit-in in New Orleans, We were arrested, found guilty, and became convicted felons. Our purpose was to allow Blacks to purchase coffee at the counter like any other patron of the store. The word of the time was INTEGRATION, to treat people without regard to race, color, or creed, to stress Pres. John Kennedy's declaration that “our Constitution is color blind,” to live in a land where the children of Martin Luther King would be judged by their character, not by the color of their skin. These ideals of integration for all citizens would surely have made our NATION stronger. However, these ideals were subverted by champions of division, treating people differently, quotas, racial preferences, diversity, and now equity. Martyanov contends that the multi-ethnic, racial, cultural, approach will end in a divided land, as Yugoslavia sundered into various smaller warring nations. I argue when you treat all equally, integrate without preferences for this group or that, then you can have a strong, united NATION. We can avoid disintegration and grow again.

POOR WHITES IN FILMS - SOME RAMBLING THOUGHTS

 Another site had a short article on films that portray poor whites sympathetically.  I have seen none of the films mentioned in that article.  I did leave a comment, and repeat it here, wherein I mention 3 films that I thought included interesting portrayals of poor whites.  Hugh Murray

I saw it years ago, but "Th Outsiders" 1983, with all the young stud actors of the era is one example. The protagonists were not the wealthier ones. Poor, but sympathetic. Not the Okies of the 1930s trekking to California who might wrather wine to grapes.These Outsiders were Okies who were outsiders because they had little money, poor whites. The film helped make several of the players stars for a decade, or even longer.

Even the young Nick Cage film Valley Girl (also 1983) has some of the conflict between poor and mid-class whites, but it is far more romance than social commentary.

Two years later, 1985, from the UK, a surprisingly un-politically correct film was shown: My Beautiful Laundrette. Some have wealth, but they are immigrants from Pakistan. The whites are poor, all at some point skin-headish, some remain so. Daniel Day-Lewis plays one of the poor whites, who gets a job working for the immigrants, as he had been a school-chum with one of the young immigrant lads. These two become lovers. Day Lewis may even have a flirtation with one of the female Pakistanis too. Who exploits whom? Which community exploits the other? It is not the simple, p.c. answer. Which group is more lawless? Heartless? Surely, you will not find a film on race relations in America to be so nuanced.

On the other side, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre films and their derivatives depict totally unsympathetic poor whites.  I assume the new West Side Story portrays the white Jets in similar strokes to the Puerto Rican gang, but have not seen it.  Most Hollywood films portray middle-class and above.  Poor whites are not as glamourous according to the lords of film.  When I was young, decades ago, there were many films made by Republic Pictures and Monarch Pictures, westerns.  The heroes and villains of these films were middle class or poor.  But the Western genre that was still so popular on tv into the 1960s, has disappeared, except for a special once in a while, with different values, Broke Back Mountain, or now Power of the Dog.  Poor whites now are more likely PBS specials on drug addiction, crime, racism.

Another genre, particularly when I was young, was the war movie. Indeed, a real war hero, Audie Murphy starred in both war and western films. The war film did not center on class, and as most of the services during WWII had been segregated, blacks may not have appeared in these films. I saw them decades ago, but if blacks appeared, they were in unimportant roles. Class differences might be discussed, but as back-story, what they did before volunteering or being drafted. The back-story might have been merely oral, or it could have been a short visual to accompany the soldier's story. More common was the assimilation: the Italian, the Irish Catholic, the Jew, the Hispanic, and of course, the WASP. In these films, the melting pot melted the ethnicities into a fighting unit for the nation, as they de-emphasized their backgrounds, ethnicity, and class, thinking now of the next assault they would make against the enemy. Yet, of these early films, the one I recall most is From Here to Eternity, in which Frank Sinatra plays a boxer who does not want to continue fighting, while the sergeant wants him to fight and win for his unit. Not class, not race, not ethnicity, but a rebel heart, a maverick who rejects the sergeant's desires that he fight, win, and bring the unit a trophy. The sergeant punishes Sinatra sadistically. All this ends when the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. In these war films, class was de-emphasized, race did not exist, and ethnicity rallied round the American flag.

WHY AMERICANS SHOULD NOT HAVE BOYCOTTED THE BEIJING OLYMPICS OF 2022

      Many compare the Beijing 2022 Games to those of Berlin in 1936. In the US, there were many voices demanding a boycott of the German games. If they had won, if the boycott forces had succeeded, it would have been a truly German dominated Olympics. The world would never have heard of Jesse Owens, and Metcalf and the black American track stars who defeated Europe's best. The crowds in the Olympic Stadium shouted Owens' name as a hero, to the chagrin of Nazi officials.

The Berlin games provided the locale for the greatest Olympic film, that of Leni Riefenstahl. Moreover, during the Games, many of the anti-Jewish signs were removed, so Jews could go to places that had become forbidden to them. Richard Plant noted some gay bars were allowed to reopen too. By attending, the Americans proved to be excellent athletes, and diminished the hopes of the Germans. And Berlin was a slightly freer place for a short time.

Had we boycotted Beijing in 2022, as we did Moscow in 1980 under Pres. Carter, the only ones to really lose would have been our own athletes. I voted for Trump, and I am glad the US did not boycott the Beijing Olympics in 2022.

Hugh Murray

MORE RACISM FROM THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION & OPINION OF ANN COULTER

Many may find it hard to believe the teaching of hatred against white people now occurring in the USA.

 

The anti-white racism of the Democrats (and liberal Republicans) is more than teaching to hate whites in schools (like the Nazis did against the Jews in Germany in the 1930s. Indeed, in January 2021 I was already comparing the beginning of Biden's term in office to that of Hitler's term as Kanzler.) 

 

But it is worse than just teaching hatred. The hatred of whites was clearly shown by Biden's Administration early on when vaccines first became available. 

 

Who should be first to get the vaccines? All data indicated that the most vulnerable group was the elderly, for among the elderly, of those who got the virus, about 5% would die. 

 

So the medicrats thought that the elderly should be first to get vaccinated. But then the left-wingers noted, the elderly are too white. Can't give them priority. 

 

So the medical workers, many of whom are people of color, they would be #1 in line, and then the elderly.

 

Science does not rule in the medical bureaucracy - left wing politics does.   

 

Let more of the elderly die - they are too white anyway! 

 

That is only one aspect of life in Biden's America, where teen and young Black criminals are released from jails to cause more violent crimes, where some can walk into a store take what they want from counters, NOT PAY, and walk out knowing they will not be prosecuted, and will keep their stolen goods. 

 

The Black Lives Matter rioters and their allies, the Antifa(scist) groups set fires to stores, looted, injured many cops and others, even killed some, and got away with it. Kamala Harris (now VP) contributed to their bail funds. 

 

When I watch the TV news now, I see the decline of America, like a Roman in 400 AD watching the collapse of the Roman Empire. 

 

Biden is the worst President of the USA, and if the next election is stolen too, he will be the last President of the USA, as there

won't be an America left.    Hugh Murray

 

Enjoy Ann Coulter's article below.

 

Ann Coulter: Desantis Shocker—It’s Not OK To Hate Whites!

 

Ann Coulter

01/26/2022

Gov. Ron DeSantis is pushing a bill through the Florida legislature to put a stop to the modern pedagogy of making little girls cry because they’re white. The bill, called “Stop the Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees Act (WOKE),” prohibits classroom instruction that contradicts these concepts:

• “No race is inherently superior to another race”;
• “An individual, by virtue of his or her race or sex, does not bear responsibility for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex”;
• “An individual should not be made to feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race.”

The left has been having a sneer-fest over the proposed law, howling that it protects “white people” from feeling “uncomfortable.” SNOWFLAKES!

E.g.:

“A bill pushed by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that would prohibit public schools and private businesses from making white people feel ‘discomfort’ when they teach students or train employees about discrimination in the nation’s past …”—The Associated Press (emphasis added)

 

“The right likes to talk so much about, you know, snowflakes. It seems like they may be raising snowflakes because if they think people are going to be uncomfortable by the actual facts—facts are uncomfortable.”—CNN’s Don Lemon

“Ron DeSantis and his GOP allies are pushing a bill … that would prohibit public schools [from making] white people squirm. Those poor, wittle babies.

 

Their feelings are hurting. Some poor, wittle white people are uncomfortable about the hundreds of years of racism and hate that built this nation.”—Laura Washington, Chicago Sun-Times

(Saving the best for last …)

“[H]e’s trying to make it illegal, Governor Ron DeSantis, to teach history that would make white people uncomfortable. Does that law include saying you can’t make black people feel uncomfortable or indigenous people? The history of indigenous and African Americans could make one uncomfortable? Is that illegal too, or is it just white people?”—MSNBC’s Joy Ann Reid

To know the answer to Joy Ann’s question, you’d have to actually read the bill. Or an article about the bill. Or commentary on an article about the bill. Joy Ann Reid: highly literate and well-informed Harvard graduate.

 

But, duh: A bill prohibiting the teaching of race hatred will primarily prevent the teaching of white hatred for the simple reason that it’s the only race we’re allowed to hate. Not merely allowed to hate, but taught to hate, encouraged to hate, paid to hate.

 

We’re now entering the sixth decade of open, widespread, official discrimination against white people on the basis of their race.

 

Even the Asians suing Harvard dare not stress the humungous advantage given to blacks and Hispanics. No, their beef is about white applicants getting preferential treatment over Asians.

 

This is odd, to say the least. According to the plaintiffs’ own expert witness, an Asian with a 25% chance of admission to Harvard would increase his chances to 36% if he were white—but to 77% if Hispanic, and to 95% if black.

 

Asians sure have assimilated to our culture!

 

Everybody’s copacetic with the idea that universities discriminate against white people—in abject defiance of the clear language of our civil rights laws. They have done so, loud and proud, at least since 1973, when Allan Bakke was rejected from the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine, because he was white.

 

In fact, no one under the age of 50 has ever lived in an America where universities and other elite institutions have not discriminated against whites. Three generations of hating whites are enough.

School districts around the country teach white children that they were born racist and assign books like, “Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness,” that portrays “whiteness” as a contract with Satan.

 

So yes, a race-neutral law that prohibits teaching race hatred will, in practice, prohibit teaching hatred of whites because that’s the only race-hate that’s taught.

 

Liberals jeer at whites who object to this constant disparagement, calling them “poor, wittle babies.” Does the left have any self-awareness at all?

 

A 6-year-old girl is a total pussy if she can’t take a little abuse for being white—at a school her parents are paying for. But our entire country has been turned upside down for the past half-century to prevent any other race from experiencing a fleeting moment of discomfort.

 

Historic Confederate statues are torn down and melted; newspapers refuse to identify the race of criminals—or even show photos of the arrestees; the Oscars will not consider a movie for Best Picture that does not have 30% non-whites.

 

Otherwise, black people might feel uncomfortable.

 

Professor Amy Wax of the University of Pennsylvania Law School is routinely threatened with suspension or firing from her tenured position for stating facts about black students’ performance. Her remarks make black people feel uncomfortable.

 

Hey, where’s the rush to review Charles Murray’s recent book “Facing Reality” about black crime and I.Q.? Nope, might make black people uncomfortable.

 

A few years ago, Kansas City officials were advised not to impose a curfew in response to the violent mobs of black teenagers descending on a shopping plaza because, as the black mayor said, it would “make a lot of black kids angry.” His remark inspired the title of Colin Flaherty’s book about black crime, “Don’t Make the Black Kids Angry”—a book that is currently banned from Amazon. It might make black people uncomfortable.

Anti-whiteness books are flooding the grade schools, but you aren’t allowed to spend your own money to purchase books on Amazon that make some people “uncomfortable.” Not only Flaherty’s book, but:

• Ryan Anderson’s When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment—might make transgenders uncomfortable.
• Jared Taylor’s If We Do Nothing, as well as two books he contributed to: Race Against Time and Face to Face With Race—might make black people uncomfortable.
• The Kindle edition of the widely praised 1973 dystopian novel by French author Jean Raspail, Camp of the Saints—might make third worlders uncomfortable.
• David Cole’s rollicking autobiography, Republican Party Animal—makes Debra Messing uncomfortable.

The FBI allowed the 9/11 attack to happen by blowing off an Arizona agent’s warning that a lot of Arabs were enrolled in flight school. Three thousand Americans had to die because noticing Arabs in flight school might make some people uncomfortable.

Last week, a Muslim terrorist, Malik Faisal Akram, seized a Texas synagogue and held four hostages for 10 hours.

 

The media universally identified Akram as: “British man.” He didn’t even call himself “British”! A week later, the Anti-Defamation League’s Jonathan Greenblatt went on MSNBC and tried to suggest “Republicans” were responsible for the attack. The truth might make Muslims uncomfortable.

 

A virus that originated in China cannot be called anything with “China” in the name. That might make Asians uncomfortable.

Before we go, here’s another “actual fact,” as Don Lemon put it, and “facts are uncomfortable” (especially for the black Harvard grad on MSNBC who can’t read a bill): By Harvard’s own admission, nearly 60% of the black students it admits are there only because they are black.

 

It’s so great that liberals have finally turned against snowflakes so we can discuss “actual facts” again! 

 

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