The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

‘To Enlighten My People’

To show his solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter, NFL star Desean Jackson used a fake quote attributed to Hitler: Jackson shared an image to his Instagram stories on Monday that said Jews “will blackmail America. [They] will extort America, their plan for world domination won’t work if the Negroes know who they were,” ESPN reported. The wide […]

Black-on-Black Crime Explodes in the Wake of #BlackLivesMatter Protests

So entirely predictable that it’s scarcely “news” to report it: It was a violent night in Chicago on the heels of a violent of Fourth of July weekend including the fatal shooting of a 7-year-old girl on the West Side. 19 people were shot, four fatally Monday in violence across Chicago including six people who […]

Crazy People Are Dangerous

  Protesters in St. Louis are angry because . . . Well, does it really matter why they’re angry? They’re protesters. Being angry is sort of a prerequisite for being a protester. “Defund the police” is their demand, because the protesters are Democrats and Democrats hate police. The mayor of St. Louis is a Democrat […]

The New York Times Smears French Author Who Predicted Our Current Crisis

Twenty-five years ago, when a friend sent me a copy of Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints, it was a book so taboo that you were considered racist merely for knowing of its existence. The 1973 novel, which imagines France invaded by a flotilla of refugees from the Indian subcontinent, pointed out how Western […]

Fake Noose, Fake News

  Not a hate crime: The FBI has determined that a noose found in NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace’s garage at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday had been there since at least last year, according to the bureau. A statement issued by U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town said that an investigation has concluded that no federal crime […]

The Hotepping of America

  Do you know what “hotep” means? Supposedly, hotep is an ancient Egyptian word meaning “peace,” but the word has become slang for promoters of a crude system of Afrocentric beliefs, with overtones of black nationalism tending toward paranoid conspiracy theories: In Afrocentrism and black nationalism of the late 20th century, influenced by the “Black […]

The Definition of ‘Execrable’

  The word originally meant, deserving of curses: Nikole Hannah-Jones, the lead writer for the New York Times’ “1619 Project,” caught backlash Sunday for telling people to “read” a conspiracy theory about the use of fireworks being an attack by the government “on Black and Brown communities.” Hannah-Jones’ “1619 Project” suggests America’s “true founding” was […]

Violence Against Women Update

Derrick Lashun Hobbs was probably an honor student. Not all murders of black people make national news. Despite their devotion to #BlackLivesMatter, CNN will never mention this crime: DOUGLASVILLE, GA — A Douglasville man who authorities say murdered his mother and niece is in the Douglas County Jail as of Thursday afternoon. Derrick Lashun Hobbs, […]

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