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‘She Frequented the Truck Stop Often’: Murder Exposes Ex-Model’s Sad Decline

Posted on | February 24, 2021 | Comments Off on ‘She Frequented the Truck Stop Often’: Murder Exposes Ex-Model’s Sad Decline

Earlier this month, police found the body of 47-year-old Rebecca Landrith near an exit ramp off I-80 in rural central Pennsylvania. According to her online biography, Landrith was a former fashion model, but it appears her life had gone downhill in recent years. Perhaps the most significant passage in news coverage of her death was this:

[On Feb. 9] Milford Police in Connecticut shared that Landrith’s 2007 Honda Civic, which had South Dakota plates, was towed from a CITGO gas station there four days prior. The gas station owner reported it as having been abandoned several days, arrest papers state.
Investigators followed up with employees of a Pilot Travel Center next to the CITGO who recognized Landrith and said she frequented the truck stop often with truck drivers, according to arrest papers.

Ugh. What a horrible fate for any woman, to become a truck-stop whore and then to get murdered by one of her tricks:

The over-the-road truck driver accused of killing a woman at an Interstate 80 ramp earlier this month is in the Union County Prison without bail.
Tracy Ray Rollins Jr., 28, was arraigned Tuesday on charges of homicide and abuse of corpse following his return from Connecticut where he had been arrested Feb. 10.
Rollins said nothing as he was escorted from a state police plane at the Williamsport Regional Airport to a cruiser for the trip to the Milton state police barracks where he was arraigned by video.
Rollins, who is from Dallas, was advised by District Judge Jeffrey Mensch the maximum penalty for homicide is death.
However, District Attorney D. Peter Johnson said later it is not a death penalty case at this time but declined to elaborate.
Mensch’s stated reasons for denying bail were the homicide charge and Rollins’ lack of ties to the community. The preliminary hearing is scheduled on March 5.
Rollins is charged with killing Rebecca Landrith, 47, a model who lived in New York City.
Her body was found just before 7 a.m. Feb. 7 by a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation worker along the I-80 eastbound exit ramp at the Mile Run interchange near Loganton.
She sustained multiple gunshot wounds to her face, neck and chest area plus two on a hand that state police called defensive.
Eighteen bullets were removed from Landrith’s body during an autopsy, the arrest affidavit states. . . .
Landrith did not have any identification on her but investigators found in a jacket pocket a note containing Rollins name, cell phone number and email address along with receipts from businesses.
“A lot of incredible work” went into this case, [Pennsylvania State Police Capt. Sherman] Shadle said, citing all the state police divisions that were involved.
The victim’s brother, George Landrith, also has given investigators high marks not only for arresting a suspect but in the way they have treated the grieving family.
Rollins told investigators, according to the arrest affidavit, he had met a woman named Leslie at a truck stop near Milford, Conn., and she had been traveling with him.
Information was obtained from Milford police that Landrith had made hotel reservations in December under the name Leslie Myers, the document states.
According to Rollins, “Leslie” accompanied him to Maine, back to Connecticut, then to Brooklyn, New York and Wisconsin, where he picked up a load to be delivered in Maine.
Using the receipts found in the woman’s pockets and Rollins’ cell phone records, police said they traced his travel from Wisconsin to Maine with a stop at the Mile Run interchange from 12:11 until 12:26 a.m. on Feb. 7.
Because of the discovery of brain and flesh-like material, bullet holes and casings, it appears the shooting occurred in the cab of Rollins’ truck, police said.
No motive for the killing has been disclosed.

Eighteen bullets? Why shoot somebody 18 times?

This is just one of the mysteries surrounding Landrith’s death, but the largest mystery is how someone who was working as a New York fashion model just a few years ago could have ended up as the sort of woman who “frequented the truck stop often,” in a reporter’s euphemistic phrase.

“Lot lizards,” truckers call them, for the way they prowl around the truck-stop lots where truckers park to sleep overnight. If “lot lizards” are not the sleaziest whores on the planet, certainly they’re near the bottom of the prostitution hierarchy, and it’s difficult to fathom how a willowy blonde former New York fashion model could fall so low.

Poring over news coverage, there were a few minor clues:

Landrith’s brother, George Landrith, told PennLive she had separated from the rest of the family five years earlier.
“For that reason, he said he knows little about her life since then,” PennLive reported.
Landrith was the youngest of five children. She had never married. Her parents were divorced, and their father lived in Utah.

What accounts for Rebecca Landrith’s estrangement from her family? We don’t know, but it seems a logical inference that her lifestyle choices might be connected to why she hadn’t communicated with her relatives for the past five years. Yet even if she was alienated from her family, how does it make sense that she became a “lot lizard”?

Was she on drugs? Opioids, methamphetamine, crack cocaine?

Here’s a wild guess: In addition to being a fashion model, one might suspect that Rebecca Landrith also once worked as a stripper.

As I say, that’s only a wild guess, but it might explain her otherwise inexplicable downfall into the status of truck-stop whore.

An attractive woman can make big bucks working strip clubs, but that business disappeared when COVID-19 shut down most bars last year. So a stripper who might have been making two or three thousand dollars a week could have found herself suddenly short of cash. Again, I must emphasize that this is only a wild guess, but it’s very difficult to come up with any other guess that would explain what happened here.

In reporting on Landrith’s death, the trucker site CDL Life notes that some have made inferences about the dead woman’s fate:

Although there have been several social media posts inferring that Landrith was to blame for her own situation because she had been willingly “running around with truckers,” officers say that position has no influence on the investigation, noting that Landrith is a victim of homicide and should be treated as such.

Well, most feminists are pro-“sex worker,” and feminists also routinely denounce “violence against women,” but I don’t expect them to pay attention to the murder of Rebecca Landrith, for some reason.




 

Category: Crime, Violence Against Women

In The Mailbox: 02.23.21

Posted on | February 24, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.23.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

The ship on the left is the IJN Atago, a heavy cruiser from WW2. The young lady on the right is cosplaying Atago from the mobile game Azur Lane.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: A High-Tech Civilization Was Nice While It Lasted
EBL: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, RIP
Twitchy: Elon Musk Just REKT Jeff Bezos & The Washington Post In One Teeny Tiny Sentence
Louder With Crowder: Barack Obama & Bruce Springsteen Plan To Unite America With A Podcast (No, Really)
Vox Popoli: Mimicry Is Not Protest, also, The Convergence Of Tolkien
Stoic Observations: Gina Carano & The Next Chivalry

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Ro Khanna Squares Off With UAE Ambassador
American Greatness: House Democrats Demand Censorship Of Fox News, Newsmax, & OAN
American Power: The “Honorable” Merrick Garland Goes Mum At Confirmation Hearing
American Thinker: Our Supreme Court Goes Full Nicaragua In PA Election Cases
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Minimum Wage News
Babalu Blog: Democratic Socialists Want Refugees From Socialism To Just Shut Up, also, Santeria Believers Persecuted By Castro’s Racist, Repressive Socialist Dictatorship
BattleSwarm: The Cheap Prepper’s Guide For Cold Weather & Other Disasters, also, Prepper Paul Martin’s After Action Report On The Texas Winter Storm
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, also, Starship #10 Completes Launch Dress Rehearsal, Static Fire Test
Cafe Hayek: Explaining My Position On COVID-19 & The Restrictions
CDR Salamander: The Sino-American War Of 2025?
Da Tech Guy: Lincoln Statues Under Attack In The Land Of Lincoln’s Biggest City, also, Andrew Sullivan, Nikki Haley, & Others Shocked, SHOCKED Under The Fedora
Don Surber: Weather Channel Owned BY Groundhog, also, Jeep Paid Springsteen; They Should Pay The Cherokees
First Street Journal: You Did Know The #ClimateChange Activists Would Be Coming For Your Lifestyle Too, Right?
The Geller Report: Joe Xiden Signs Executive Order Ending Trump Industry Apprenticeship Program, also, Amazon Banned Parler & Islamocritical Book, But You Can Still Buy Nazi & Jihadi Merchandise
Hogewash: Transferring Money From Red States To Blue, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto:  Raiders At 40 – Indy Hasn’t Aged A Minute, also, Women In Films Group Silent On Disney Bullying & Firing Gina Carano
The Lid: Trump CPAC Speech May Break Major News
Legal Insurrection: Iran Wants Biden Administration To Pay $1 Trillion In “Reparations” For U.S. Sanctions, also, Mexico Pulls Back From “Green” Energy, Begins Expanding Coal Use
Nebraska Energy Observer: Sensible
Power Line: Democrats Move To Silence Non-Liberal Speech, also, Democrats Play The Race Card On Behalf Of Tanden & Becerra
Shark Tank: Donalds Says Raising Minimum Wage Isn’t “COVID Relief”
Shot In The Dark:  When Everything Is Pathology
The Political Hat: Killing The Handicapped
This Ain’t Hell: Army Tests Benefits Of Meditation & Yoga In Basic Training, also, Loyalty Oaths Are Now A Good Thing
Transterrestrial Musings: AEI & Space, also, Naomi Wolf
Victory Girls: Kids In Cages Bad, Children In Migrant Facilities Good
Volokh Conspiracy: Making Sense Of Republican Party Of Pennsylvania v. DeGraffenreid
Weasel Zippers: Former Clinton Advisor Naomi Wolf Predicts America Becoming Totalitarian Nightmare State Under Biden, also, Interior Secretary Nominee Haaland Declares Jihad On New Energy Infrastructure
The Federalist: Officer Sicknick’s Mom Says Media Got Her Son’s Death Wrong, also, Media Botches Attempted Hit On Ron DeSantis While Trying To Coverup Blue State Failures
Mark Steyn: Claptrap & Self-Appendectomies, also, For People Like You Who Keep It Turned On

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In The Mailbox: 02.22.21

Posted on | February 23, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.22.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
ImNsho Redux: All Politics All The Time
357 Magnum: More Problems For Texas Infrastructure
EBL: If You Can, Help Zilla Of The Resistance, also, Operation Swamp Fox
Twitchy: Bill Kristol Just Sent What’s Left Of His “Conserving Conservatism” Mask Crashing To The Floor
Louder With Crowder: Coca-Cola Making Employees Complete Online Training To Be “Less White”
Vox Popoli: The Education Offensive, also, If You Want Your Fake Elections
Stoic Observations: Farewell To A Dream Of Baldwin

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Ethiopia’s Looming Insurgency
American Greatness: Is The Biden Administration Stumbling Into War? also, The Muppets & Other Disney Products Receive “Offensive Content” Disclaimer
American Power: Whistleblower Jodi Shaw Out At Smith College
American Thinker: McConnell’s Bitter Turtle Soup, also, How The Biden Administration Is Politicizing The Military
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Mexican Doctors Protest Being Sent To Cuba For Special Training
BattleSwarm: A Californian Moves To Texas, also, Michael Malice On The Biden Chaos
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, also, NASA Postpones Second SLS Static Fire Test
Cafe Hayek: Courageous Jodi Shaw, also, JP Sears On Occasional Cortex & Other Dishonest & Arrogant Politicians
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, Late Winter LIVE Free For All – On Midrats
Da Tech Guy: Don’t Worry, Facebook Will Cancel You Next, also, Zilla Could Use Some Help
Don Surber: Why Mitch Is A Bitch, also, Trump Saved NYC’s Ice Rink. City Erases It.
First Street Journal: We’re From The Government And We Know Better Than You What You Should Be Driving
The Geller Report: WOKE COKE – Racist Coca-Cola’s New Slogan “Be Less White”, also, Justice Thomas – SCOTUS Refusal To Hear Pennsylvania Election Cases “Inexplicable”
Hogewash: Rule 5 & Trees, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Nick Searcy Adds Gravitas To Reagan, also, SNL Called Trump Fans Nazis But Clutches Pearls Over Gina Carano’s Nazi Analogy
The Lid: Lauren Boebert Tells Democrat Who Whined About Her Gun Display “Do Your Dishes, Hon”
Legal Insurrection: Newsom Recall Petition Hits 1.7 Million Signatures, also, House GOP Circulates Playbook Outlining Pork In $1.9 Trillion “COVID” Bill
Nebraska Energy Observer: Sunday Funnies – Freezing With Renewable Energy, also, Rowan’s Way – 12 Revealed
Power Line: Remembering The Indispensable Man, also, Is Black Lives Matter Killing People?
Shark Tank: Fried To Disobey DeSantis’ Order To Lower Flags To Half-Staff For Rush Limbaugh
Shot In The Dark: Required Listening
STUMP: Mortality With Meep – Digging Into CDC Report On The First Half Of 2020
The Political Hat: New Hampshire Vs. Critical Race Theory
This Ain’t Hell: Another Three Accounted For, also, Stolen Valor – Department Of Offense
Transterrestrial Musings: That 777 Incident In Denver, also, The New Administrator
Victory Girls: Biden Is Making America Last
Volokh Conspiracy: Antisemitism Continues Its March Toward Acceptability On The Far Left 
Weasel Zippers: Biden Cancels ICE Operation Removing Sex Offenders From US, also, Biden’s Energy Department Allegedly Blocked Texas From Increasing Power Generation Because It Would Violate Green Energy Policy
The Federalist: 31 Days In, The Democrats Haven’t Kept A Single COVID Promise To American Workers, also, Twitter Locked Focus On The Family’s Account For Saying Boys & Girls Are Different
Mark Steyn: Galaxy Quest, also, Kathryn In For Rush Today

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Rule 5 Sunday: Niece Waidhofer

Posted on | February 22, 2021 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Niece Waidhofer

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

“Texas model. Kind of a dork.” Well, that’s what it says on her personal web page, and who I am I to disagree? She’s an Instagram/OnlyFans model, has appeared in a couple of obscure films, and doesn’t appear to have indulged in any deranged publicity stunts. So she’s got that going for her. 

One of the pics from her personal site.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1267, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. 

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Patent Pending Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon

EBL: La Boheme, Falstaff, The White Tiger (Review), Etta James, Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci, Tosca, Jorja Smith, Don Giovanni, The Waifs, Carmen, Turandot, & MAGA CPAC

A View From The Beach: A Master of Sex – Lizzy Caplan, Star Trek Boob Blames Republicans for Texas Weather, Fish Pic Friday – Dana Summers Findley, Free Trees!, Tattoo Thursday, Fairfax County Explores Leaf Bag Ban, Some Wednesday Wetness, Now or Never, Your Monday Morning Stimulus, Happy Valentine’s Day! and I Guess I Need to Buy a Few More

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe of the Week is Valerie Leon. 

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious linkagery!

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FMJRA 2.0: Imperial March

Posted on | February 22, 2021 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Imperial March

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Rule 5 Sunday: A Death Goddess For Your Consideration
Animal Magnetism
Harsh Brutus
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

N.Y. Times Doxxes Scott Alexander Because They Hate Free Speech
The Political Hat
Bacon Time
The Pirate’s Cove
357 Magnum
EBL

The Lincoln Project Implodes
Gregor Mendel Blog
Proof Positive
357 Magnum
EBL

Impeachment 2.0 Farce Is Over
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Loser
A View From The Beach
EBL

Get Up And Fight
imNsho Redux
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.15.21
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

Why Wasn’t He Already Behind Bars?
Bacon Time
357 Magnum
EBL

The Death of ‘Teflon’
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.16.21
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

Rush Limbaugh, R.I.P.
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.18.21 – The Rush Limbaugh Memorial Edition
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Family Demands Answers
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.19.21 (Morning Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Yes, China Caused This Pandemic
357 Magnum
EBL

Erasing America’s Anglo-Saxon Heritage
Dark Brightness
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.19.21 (Evening Edition)
EBL
Proof Positive

Top linkers for the week ending February 19:

  1.  EBL (15)
  2.  357 Magnum (12)
  3.  A View From The Beach (9)
  4.  Proof Positive (7)

Thanks to everyone for all the linkagery!

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Philadelphia: Carjack City, U.S.A.

Posted on | February 21, 2021 | Comments Off on Philadelphia: Carjack City, U.S.A.

Carjackings increased 80% last year in Philadelphia, when there were 404 carjackings, and January’s numbers show an even further rise:

There has been a surge in the number of these brazen crimes across the city in recent months. Police aren’t quite sure what’s fueling the rise.
In January, there were 59 carjackings, up from 18 at the same time last year, according to the Philadelphia Police Department — a more than threefold increase.
This year’s uptick is a continuation of a disturbing trend that unfolded through last year, when many were out of work or had to work from home because of the coronavirus. There were 404 carjackings in 2020, up from 225 in 2019 and 230 in 2018, according to the department.

Fifty-nine carjackings in a single month — that means there are two carjackings in Philadelphia on a typical day. I learned of this disturbing trend last night after I watched video of a Friday police chase:

Philadelphia police arrested a man late Friday night who they believe carjacked two people, including a pizza delivery driver whose family was inside the car when it was stolen.
Investigators say a driver for City View Pizza was making a delivery on the 3600 block of North Broad Street around 9 p.m. when Marcel Jenkins hopped into his Saturn L200 and drove away.
The delivery driver’s 25-year-old wife and 2 young children were inside the car when it was stolen, according to police. The family was later reported safe.
Jenkins, who police say lives in North Philadelphia, rammed into several parked cars on the 700 block of Race Street and later abandoned the stolen car on Spring Garden Street.
Police say Jenkin stole a Toyota Scion from a 29-year-old woman shortly after ditching the Saturn. Jenkins then lead officers on a high-speed chase through the city during which he ignored traffic signals and drove opposite of traffic.
The chase came to an end when Jenkins drove into Franklin Square Park and eventually came to a stop. He was pulled from the car by officers and taken into custody. He is being held on $750,000 bail.
The District Attorney’s Office on Saturday announced four sets of charges being brought against Jenkins following his rampage through the city. The charges include kidnapping, carjacking, criminal mischief, vandalism and assault.

The District Attorney’s office won’t do anything to stop this epidemic of carjacking in Philadelphia. Lawrence Krasner is one of the “progressive” District Attorneys elected with funding from billionaire George Soros. Krasner has implemented a “turn ’em loose” agenda that guarantees most criminals will be back on the streets within hours of their arrest.

Allowing criminals to terrorize Philadelphia is “social justice,” you see, and if anyone in Philly complains about Krasner’s pro-criminal agenda, these complaints are dismissed as right-wing racism.

Remember that Philadelphia rioted last October when police shot a black man, Walter Wallace Jr., who charged at them with a knife. This is what “social means” — black men have a right to stab police, because the knife-wielding criminal is a victim of “systemic racism.”

Walter Wallace Jr. had more than a dozen arrests on his record before he made the fatal mistake of bringing a knife to a gunfight last October. In any sane community, Wallace never would have been released from prison, but Philadelphia is not a sane community. Joe Biden got more than 80% of the vote in Philadelphia, and if you don’t think that is conclusive proof of insanity, I don’t know what will convince you.

Crazy People Are Dangerous and the madness in Philadelphia has had fatal consequences. Skylar Owens-Mooney was one of the victims.

Philadelphia police on Friday [Oct. 9, 2020] identified the 29-year-old man an officer fatally shot in Germantown early Thursday, and said it occurred after the man entered a church around 3 a.m. carrying an assault rifle, confronted a woman he knew who lived in the rectory there, and said he wanted to kill somebody.
The gunman, Stanley Cochran, then made a series of “bizarre” demands for nearly an hour before leaving the church, police said. What he did next cost two people their lives.
One of them, according to Lt. Jason Hendershot, of the unit that investigates police shootings, was 19-year-old Skylar Owen Mooney, who Hendershot said was fatally shot by Cochran when he tried to steal the car she was driving.
The other was Cochran, who Hendershot said had several confrontations with police officers while trying to run away from the area — refusing to drop his gun, firing at at least one officer, and at one point attempting to steal a police cruiser. . . .
Homicide Lt. Norman Davenport said Cochran was a suspect in a double slaying committed in West Oak Lane on Monday, but that police had not developed enough evidence to be sure that Cochran was the killer. . . .
Hendershot said Thursday’s events started when Cochran entered the rectory at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church carrying a rifle and confronting a woman who lived and worked there. Cochran named a person he wanted to kill and asked the woman to bring that person to him. The woman said she didn’t know who Cochran was talking about, Hendershot said.
Over the next 30 to 60 minutes, according to Hendershot, Cochran made a series of demands, telling the woman to give him food and money, and to drive him to Wawa. She declined.
Cochran ultimately fired a shot, missing the woman. But she dropped her car keys, and he stole her Kia Spectra and drove away, Hendershot said. He crashed near Chelten Avenue.
Cochran then approached a woman driving a black Volvo and told her to get out of the car, Hendershot said, causing her to speed away in reverse for several blocks. She saw police nearby and alerted them about Cochran.
Meanwhile, Hendershot said, Cochran fired shots at an Infiniti sedan being driven by Mooney. She was struck in the head, and later taken to Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia, where she was declared dead. . . .
Cochran, according to Hendershot, then encountered several police officers in different parts of Germantown as he attempted to flee. Police said he did not obey commands to put his gun down, and that four officers fired shots at him. Hendershot said Cochran fired at one of the officers and unsuccessfully tried to steal that cop’s patrol car.
After Cochran was shot, he was taken to Einstein, where he was pronounced dead at 4:36 a.m., Hendershot said.
Hendershot said a Mini Draco firearm was recovered at the scene; it was purchased in 2018 in Richmond, Va., but Hendershot said authorities were still investigating how Cochran — who has a criminal record and could not have legally owned the gun — obtained it.
Cochran had several convictions, according to court records, most recently a guilty plea in 2017 to firearms charges. He was sentenced to 11½ to 23 months in jail and five years probation, the records say. In February 2020, his probation was continued, according to the records, which do not provide additional details.
Davenport said homicide detectives received a call Thursday from someone who said Cochran was responsible for a double slaying Monday on the 6500 block of Lambert Street, where a 48-year-old woman and 29-year-old man were found fatally shot inside a house.

Did you catch that? Cochran was a career felon with “several convictions,” including weapons charges, and was prohibited from possessing firearms. Keep this in mind when Democrats try to pass gun-control legislation. Criminals don’t obey existing gun-control laws, and Democrats don’t want to put criminals in prison for violating those laws.

“Social justice” means that Stanley Cochran served less than two years for his most recent conviction, and was then turned loose on the streets of Philadelphia where he killed a 19-year-old woman. If the January numbers are any indication, there will be more than 700 carjackings in Philadelphia this year. How many more people will be killed by “social justice” in Philadelphia and other hellhole cities run by Democrats?




 

Category: Crime, Pennsylvania

Arithmetic Is Now ‘White Supremacy’?

Posted on | February 20, 2021 | Comments Off on Arithmetic Is Now ‘White Supremacy’?

That seems to be the belief of public education bureaucrats:

The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) recently encouraged teachers to register for training that encourages “ethnomathematics” and argues, among other things, that White supremacy manifests itself in the focus on finding the right answer.
An ODE newsletter sent last week advertises a Feb. 21 “Pathway to Math Equity Micro-Course,” which is designed for middle school teachers to make use of a toolkit for “dismantling racism in mathematics.” The event website identifies the event as a partnership between California’s San Mateo County Office of Education, The Education Trust-West and others.
Part of the toolkit includes a list of ways “white supremacy culture” allegedly “infiltrates math classrooms.” Those include “the focus is on getting the ‘right’ answer,” students being “required to ‘show their work,'” and other alleged manifestations.
“The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false, and teaching it is even much less so,” the document for the “Equitable Math” toolkit reads. “Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity as well as fear of open conflict.”

You see? “Objectivity” is now oppression, and the whole idea that there are “right and wrong answers” in math is white supremacy.

So if you flunked algebra in high school, you’re a victim.

John Hoge has a question:

I wonder how many of the education bureaucrats who are promoting the course would object to the calculations on their paychecks being done on the basis of 2 + 2 = 3.

If you wonder what’s wrong with America, start with the schools.




 

Category: Education, Racism

The Media’s Squirrel Patrol

Posted on | February 20, 2021 | Comments Off on The Media’s Squirrel Patrol

For the past two days, the liberal media have been acting as if Ted Cruz’s vacation to Cancun was the biggest news story of the week. As Scott McKay points out, this is a “squirrel” distraction, intended to draw the public’s attention away from the COVID-19 scandal around Andrew Cuomo and other news they don’t want us to notice.




 

Category: Media Bias, Ted Cruz
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