TUNISIA'S PRESIDENT COMPLAINS ABOUT MIGRANTS FROM SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, PRO-INVADER PROTESTORS CALL HIM RACIST

A headline from Newser, 25 February 2023 

Protesters Oppose Racism, Back Migrants

Tunisia's president had made allegations of a sub-Saharan plot

My comment is below

The irony - American Black Nationalists often claim Egypt and Carthage as Black; Cleopatra, Hannibal, etc. Tunisia, where ancient Carthage is located, does not want invaders from black Africa.  Seems that Tunisia's President Kais Saied might disagree with them.  Indeed, Kevin Hart's proposed special on a Black Nat history of Egypt was cancelled, by the Egyptians.

Jared Diamond, in his book famous book of excusiology Guns, Germs and Steel, on why sub Saharan could not develop as other lands had, asserted, for example, the elephants of India could be trained, but African elephants could not. Yet Hannibal was able to take AFRICAN elephants across the Alps with his army in his war with Rome. If the Spaniard/Carthagian Hannibal could train the African elephants (coins of the era showed ears of African elephants, not those of India), then why did not the sub-Saharan peoples train the elephants too??

99 RED BALLOONS

 I think it was in the 1970s when a German song came to the US, "99 Luft Ballons," which became a hit here as "99 Red Balloons,"  Now we can sing it as "99 Red Party Balloons," as the new balloons are white, but unleashed by the Chinese Communist Party government.

NEW EXCUSE

 To All,  Sorry I have been too lazy or something.  Rather than leave this blank, I suggest you visit the other side of the blog - Hugh 2 Murray.  There is a list of most of my previous publications, going back decades.  Some you might like to read, some you might hate.  I tend to write controversial pieces.

I will be back to this site soon.  Now that we're in the year of the Rabbit, a new year.  Hugh Murray

HELLO 2023! A Personal Note

 To All,  I took a trip outside the US for the first time in several years, thanks to the virus making things too uncertain.  They were still uncertain for me.  I am 20th century in many ways.  If I text, on a phone, it takes me forever because unlike kids, my fingers hit the wrong keys on the small key-board.  Then I must erase and try again.  With poor eyesight, I often repeat the error.  Frustration.

       Though I had never been to the Philippines, I decided not to try a new place at age 84 and alone.  I love Saigon (officially now Ho Chi Minh City), but I no loner know anyone there.  Hanoi in December is NOT 90 F, so I was less inclined for that or Taiwan.  I still have a friend in Bangkok, so that is where I went.  My friend was working full time, and after work, had liver problems, so we were not together too often this trip.  We did phone and had a few meals together, but some of the restaurants near my hotel had closed during the virus, so we ended one night just eating at my hotel.  We did have a tasty meal at another restaurant after some wandering.

    The hotel had not travel and tourist brochures.  I was told many of the businesses that had supplied them had succumbed to the virus.  Told to try the hotel's computer.  Did so and found several notices about tourism in Bangkok, but when I phone the numbers listed, got the message that that number no longer existed.

      Happily I had brought a tour book with me, borrowed from my local American library, and at the back, it had a general map of Bangkok and a map of the subway system.  That was most helpful.  I had hoped to have a side trip to a nearby beach resort, but as nothing seemed certain, decided simply to use the hotel's lounge area and swimming pool - which is always so cold, even in the sun.

     The World Cup provided entertainment, even tho some of the games were shown beginning at 2am BKK time.  Most were shown at 10pm, so I could enjoy most.  In some bars chatted with other tourists from many parts of the world.  Amazed to see the locals still wearing masks, while most Americans and Europeans went everywhere without them.

    I did not travel there using America's Southwest Airline, but had trouble on the one I did, and got stuck in a part of the Tokyo air terminal, not allowed into the city or the larger part of the airport, and plane cancelled, and had to sleep on a bench there over night.  When told the next day's flight could be cancelled too, I made other arrangements and left Tokyo to return to the good old USA.

      I seem to have suffered more jet-lag this time and am still overly tired.  I do hope to return to finishing my book soon.  The big question today: will America be able to survive two more years of President Biden's policies? ---------Hugh Murray

CHINA PROTESTS; IRAN PROTESTS; and the US IS STUCK WITH BIDEN INSTEAD OF TRUMP

 I just posted this on a Newser site that discussed the many protests now occurring in mainland China.

And the globalist elite assert that Communist China is the role model for the future of the world! They think that because they favor slavery for most of us.
The tragedy is that Biden (who has received millions from Chinese Communist fronts) is in the White House. If Trump were President with all the protests in Iran and China, we might have been on the threshold of a truly free world. Sadly, Biden is in the White House instead.
We sorely miss Trump because of the scandal election of November 2020.

Hugh Murray

On Whose Tax Returns Should Be Scrutinized

 

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION & THE U.S. SUPREME COURT - NOV. 1, 2022

               by Hugh Murray

      It was good to see that America's High Court finally took another look at affirmative action policy.  My views are clear - for every one who is aided through affirmative action, another person is hurt by its related negative action.  I see it as racist, sexist, ethnist, helping one race at the expense of another; helping one sex at the expense of the other, etc.  I was involved in the early days of the civil rights movement, and then the demand was for equal rights for all citizens, for what Pres. John Kennedy said in his speech on the subject that our Constitution was color-blind, and what Martin Luther King, Jr. declared at the March on Washington in 1963 about judging people by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.  Affirmative action is the denial of all that.  It rejects the color-blind approach, and demands that people be treated differently depending on their race, ethnicity, sex, etc.

     Some are pleased by some of the comments by members of the Supreme Court in the presentation of the cases by the attorneys on both sides.  I am pleased to hear such judges criticize the policy.  As in 2003 major corporations will submit friend of court briefs urging continuance of affirmative action.  So has the high brass of the US military, contending diversity is our strength and universities must continue affirmative action so the military may have people of color officers.  This occurred in 2003 when the issue was previously before the court.

     My point in this posting - even if we win, even if the Supreme Court declares affirmative action un-Constitutional, it will not be the end of the struggle for equal rights.  Over the past decades, the believers in quotas, in diversity, in affirmative action, have been hired in every personnel office, every human resources office, and their purpose was to impose quotas.  Will they quite because of mere Supreme Court decision?  Of course not.  They will rally their base, especially the unqualified students admitted to universities, the unqualified workers hired and promoted because of these policies.  This empire of the ill-qualified exists throughout America, ready tp defend its turf.

     The military.  During WWII, the armed services were generally segregated.  It has sometimes been called the greatest generation.  The American armed services certainly did their part in Europe, and led the victory over Japan in the East.  After WWII, the American armed services became diverse.  After WWII, America stopped winning wars.

     Eleanor Holmes Norton led the fight agaisnt objective testing (on which blacks and Hispanics often did poorly as groups)   Most such exams were banned by judicial decrees as "racist" in that they showed the real abilities of the exam takers.  Norton pressed for lower standards, tests that almost everyone could pass, and then the government could force hiring by quota.  Norton said all the new hires would be "basically qualified."  But they would NOT be the BEST QUALIFIED.  So the American workforce has become ever more mediocre in a more competitive world.  Why not return to seek the best, not the bottom of the barrel?

     Even if we win in the Supreme Court. all the commissars of diversity will still have jobs, with one intent, restoring racist, racial favoritism for their particular group.  Their main job is to insure that the lesser qualified, the ill qualified, and the unqualified are hired, promoted, admitted to university, awarded scholarships, etc.  The truly qualified minorities will be admitted without them.  The positions of the diversity officers will be on the line.  Expect protests, rallies, violence - a long and dirty fight.  We must fight them for equal rights and the promotion of the best, the best worker, the best student, the best for America.