REVOLUTIONS - ONE OFTEN REMEMBERED, THE OTHER FORGOTTEN

 The following will be a few paragraphs from my forthcoming book.  Hugh Murray

Unbeknownst to me, there was another revolution going on beneath the surface that year, 1955-56, occurring in Baton Rouge. Most educators, university and high school coaches in all sports knew various truisms. One was obvious: those who built up large muscles became muscle bound, restricted by their bulk. They were slower than others, less agile, more of a klutz. Keeping up to date with trends in health, in Physical Education classes, instructors discouraged use of weights because the results were loss of steadiness, loss of control. Coaches were aware of these truths also, so don't look for weights around locker rooms. True, some like Charles Atlas advertised weight training and body building as the way for the weakling on the beach to retaliate against the bully who kicked sand on him. But who paid attention to the back page of comic books for tips on health? And those muscles were more for show, or worse, a pose; they did not help the natural athlete. And sports was basically for the natural athlete, the one born with the right body. You either had it or you didn't. Not much an individual could do to change his fate in sports.

One man who had believed this, Alvin Roy, had had some strange experiences after WWII. An officer in the US Army, he was ordered to get some soldiers into shape to partake in the first post-war weightlifting championships in France. He was amazed to see men weightlifting, who were faster than most, extremely agile, and they were stronger too. This was contrary to everything he had ever learned. But now Roy sought to learn from those who were doing this so successfully. In 1952 Roy was the lead trainer for the successful American weightlifting team at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki. He opened a weight training studio in his native Baton Rouge, and though the coach of his alma mater, Istrouma High was not initially interested in experimenting with such outrageous changes, after a less successful season, he hired Roy for training the team. Weights, studying what muscles could be imporved and how, and some of the young athletes on the football team also went to Roy's gym. Istrouma High School in Baton Rouge took the new ideas seriously, and the Istrouma Indian football team, began using weights in training. Among the high schoolers learning these new techniques was Billy Cannon. He was soon breaking school and even state records in track, excelling in basketball, and leading the Indians to a state championship in football in 1955. Istrouma would be Louisiana champs again in 1956, 1957, 1959, 1961, and 1962. Meanwhile, Cannon who graduated, studied at LSU, and worked wonders on the field. LSU would be chosen national champion college team in 1958. In the 1960s Cannon would play in the NFL and AFL, winning many awards. The use of weights in sports training would spread far beyond Istrouma and LSU, as Billy Cannon burst on the scene and shattered the old disdain for such training. It was a revolution in football. And not just football, but the training spread to basketball, tennis, swimming, even golf. It was a revolution in sports that in many ways began in Louisiana in the mid-1950s, but is now so ubiquitous, so universal that we do not even notice what has happend.(See Henry Ball, “Sport's Big Gamechanger,” The Southern Voice, July 13, 2022) Ponder, how we speak of a Civil Rights Revolution of this era, but not of the contemporaneous Sports Revolution. It was a revolution so successful it is forgotten.

In high school I had friends in the debate and speech class, and in other classes too. One was a larger guy, Tex Sanders. Quite friendly, with a number of brothers and sisters and an outgoing mom. Sometimes he and I bowled together. One weekend we doubled-dated to see a film at the Saenger, “Rebel without a Cause” with James Dean, Natalie Wood, and Sal Mineo. When it ended, the large, crowded theater seemed to release a collective breath of relief. Tex's date that night was a sweet student at Easton, Mary Jane. In the various informal conversations, Mary Jane began to worry about me. Talk of race-mixing, changing the schools, the society, this was communist talk. She urged me to speak with her father, who knew a lot about the problem. Her dad was Guy Banister. I did not know it until later, but he had been an FBI official in Chicago, came to NO as acting Superintendent of Police, and then had a detective agency. Many alleged he was connected to the intelligence community. I did not know till later, he also paid young people to keep tabs on young radicals. I did not want to meet him, and suspect he had no interest in meeting with me, but to satisfy Mary Jane, I went to their home, and walked up to him inside as he was sorting mail. I gave a brief introduction, and he barely grunted, as he kept sorting. With no real conversation, I walked away. We both had “formally” filled our obligation to Mary Jane.

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FRAUD IN AMERICAN SOCIAL "SCIENCE", TO COINCIDE WITH THE POLITICS OF THE LEFT

The following report comes from RT

US professor quits over fake racism data allegations – media

The Florida State University criminologist was under investigation after six of his studies were retracted.

https://www.rt.com/news/574621-florida-professor-fake-racism-stats/

The prof earns $190,000 a year, writes 6 papers, distorts, trying to show racism against blacks where it may not exist.  A more recent paper also had to be retracted, but not before being cited in 186 additional papers.  The black professor accuses a white professor, of trying to lynch him academically.  That white had co-authored an early paper with the black professor, and became aware of how later papers distorted data.  A  univ. committee to inquire into the accusations, found no reason to condemn the black professor, but then it was discovered that some members of this special committee had co-authored some of the disputed papers with the black prof.  (Conflict of interest).

    So much for objectivity in American social "science" dealing with criminality, and we can assume similar distortions on anything touching on race.  

    Note, I found this out on RT, not on CBS, NPR, or even Drudge or Breitbart.-- Hugh Murray

Now from RT

 

12 Apr, 2023 18:29

 

US professor quits over fake racism data allegations – media

The Florida State University criminologist was under investigation after six of his studies were retracted

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Florida State University criminology professor Eric Stewart has resigned after a month-long absence, amid an inquiry into whether he faked data in multiple studies to inflate the prevalence of racism in the US, the Florida Standard reported last week.

A fellow of the American Society of Criminology, Stewart was first publicly accused of falsifying data in 2019 by University of Albany criminology professor Justin Pickett, who claimed Stewart had made several misleading changes to the data in a 2011 paper the pair co-authored.

Titled ‘Ethnic threat and social control: Examining public support for judicial use of ethnicity in punishment,’ the study proposed that public desire for harsher sentences for black and Hispanic offenders increased in proportion with the size of the minority populations in a community. However, the data showed no such relationship existed, and that the opposite might even be true.

Pickett has revealed since then that Stewart had doubled the sample size while leaving out nearly three quarters of the counties polled, mangling the data to the point of incoherence, and had refused to turn over the raw data so that Pickett could re-run the calculations. 

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That study and four more were subsequently retracted, but when Pickett tried to bring the matter to the university’s attention, he claims he was stonewalled. It subsequently transpired that two of the three people eventually chosen to investigate the claims had co-authored studies with Stewart, violating Florida State’s conflict of interest policy.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, that inquiry concluded that it did not have enough evidence to substantiate fraud claims and advised against continuing the investigation.   

Pickett told the Florida Standard that coverups by colleagues are common in the field, explaining “there’s a huge monetary incentive to falsify data and there’s no accountability. If you do this, the probability you’ll get caught is so, so low.”  

Stewart, who is black, complained to the university that Pickett – who is white – had “essentially lynched [him] and [his] academic career.”  

In 2020, a sixth paper authored by Stewart was retracted – though not before being cited by 186 other papers. Another investigation found enough merit in the fraud claims to pursue them, apparently imperiling Stewart’s $190,000 per year position. Florida State declined to discuss the matter with the Florida Standard, and Stewart’s profile is still live on the university’s website.

LONDON DAILY MAIL - U S PRESIDENTIAL ENDORSEMENT

 This story from London's Daily Mail.

RFK Jr gets his first major endorsement for president - Aaron Rodgers: Packers QB who said he was 'immunized' from COVID indicates support for anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist

• Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s presidential campaign got a boost Tuesday night from Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers
• Rodgers wrote 'kennedy2024' on an Instagram story, sharing an upcoming interview featuring Kennedy, a prominent anti-vaxxer
• Rodgers made waves for his own vaccine skepticism, telling reporters he was 'immunized' before revealing he hadn't received any COVID-19 jabs  

By NIKKI SCHWAB, SENIOR U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM 

PUBLISHED: 15:18 EDT, 12 April 2023 | UPDATED: 16:01 EDT, 12 April 2023

DON'T LET THE DEMOCRATIC BULLHORN BULL SH***ERS BACK INTO THE TENNESSEE LEGISLATURE

Ann Coulter makes that point in her article," On Democrat 'Insurrectionists' with Bullhorns: Expel Them Again!"  Here is part of her fine, informative article:

Please explain how the Jan 6 QAnon Shaman showed more contempt for the democratic process than Jones and Pearson did. How about compared to a representative sending naughty texts to female colleagues outside of business hours—the casus belli of the last expulsion in 2016.

But according to MSNBC, the only reason Jones and Pearson were expelled was because the “predominantly white, predominantly male” lawmakers refuse to “coexist with representatives who are female or young or black”—as Nicole Wallace put it. (Nicole: Relax. You’ve got the job.)

In bafflement, Wallace asked, “Why did they have to be expelled? Why did this come to this?”

Rep. Gloria Johnson, the body-positive white representative, begged not to be expelled, pointing out with some justice that, unlike Jones and Pearson, she broke no House rules—never shouted, pounded the podium, displayed a protest sign or used a bullhorn.

But as soon as her argument succeeded and she wasn’t expelled, Johnson rushed to MSNBC to say racism was the only reason she wasn’t. The sole deciding factor, she said, was “the color of our skin.”

If so, then why did she flap her gums about not breaking any House rules? Why not just say, Hey, guys! I’m white! (Amazon is now accepting pre-orders for her forthcoming memoir, "Profiles in Craven.")

Some conservatives say the Republicans should have expelled the white lady just to avoid (false) charges of racism. Yes, and innocent whites and Asians should be sent to prison so no one can say our criminal justice system is racist.

I’m sorry if black people break rules out of proportion to their numbers in the population, but we don’t punish the innocent to achieve some childish idea of “equity.”

Rep. Johnson is a liar, but she didn’t break any House rules. Jones and Pearson did.

Johnson defended the assault on democracy by her black colleagues, saying, “The younger generation has a different way of speaking. They have a different way of addressing things.” So get used to bullhorns during legislative sessions, America! It’s just black style.

Apparently, we’ve returned to the Treating-Black-People-Like-Children phase of “Diversity.” I just wish liberals would state their racism plainly: We simply can’t expect black people to abide by white norms of dignity and decorum.