I have been remiss in not linking to Fred’s excellent post on media mendacity. As it happens, one example he cites is quite appropos in light of the fears of a few regarding homeschooling:
The hemorrhaging circulation of the paleomedia gratifies me better than bubblegum. Lord I love it. The tube worms of the network suites have discovered that lo! Fewer of the citizenry sit nightly before the flickering propaganda modem. The readership of newspapers yet falls. This dereliction they ascribe to declining literacy, the lack of public spirit, and indeed anything but their own uselessness….
I suggest that the reasons for the loss are otherwise and several. Permit me a few thoughts:
What are the topics of most fascination in the United States? Of most importance? Certainly among them are race, sex in the social sense, crime, and immigration. Now, let’s see whether we can name four subjects about which the media speak with calculated mendacity obvious to everyone one. How about…oh, say…race, sex in the social sense, crime, and immigration?
Race, for example:
A story on the site of ABC News led with the lurid headline, “Young Singers Spread Racist Hate.” Now, if young singers have ABC’s bowels in a racial uproar, you can be sure that the singers are white. We all understand that hate is what white people do. Thus it was. A pair of very young girls, calling themselves Prussian Blue, say that they want to maintain the purity of the white race. (Why this is precisely hate eludes me.) Various authorities are quoted as to the effect that they are shocked, appalled, disappointed, and so on.
At about the same time, I found the account of a black man, one Dr. (of what, I wonder?) Kamau Kambon , who while speaking to a panel at the law school of Howard University (a black school in Washington, DC) said that the white race should be exterminated.
This is not my interpretation but rather his explicit, repeated statement. I quote: white people “have retina scans, they have what they call racial profiling, DNA banks and they’re monitoring our people to try to prevent the one person from coming up with the one idea. And the one idea is, how we are going to exterminate white people because that, in my estimation, is the only conclusion I have come to. [sic] We have to exterminate white people off the face of the planet to solve this problem.” He wants to kill me, my daughters, and my friends.
This produced from the media…near silence. From Howard University…silence. From professional blacks…silence.
As Fred has hammered home the media point with all the force of mighty Mjolnir, I shall content myself with highlighting the irony of people who worry about a woman teaching her pretty blonde daughters that she would like them to continue the line of pretty blonde people – and I must say, the world would be a sadder and uglier place without pretty blondes – whereas these same people remain completely unconcerned that a Professional Educator teaching other people’s children that the white race must be exterminated, even though they are paying for him to do so.
As it has been affirmed by numerous courts that the expenditure of taxpayer money on behalf of an educational institution is evidence of a government establishment, the fact that the nominally private institution received $182,348,000 in federal funds in 1996 suggests that the extermination of the white race is a federal government-approved policy.
Therefore, it is clear that the concerns of the Prussian Blue mother regarding the survival of her race, however overwrought, are not entirely unfounded. Upon second thought, irony does not suffice to describe the position of those who suggest that she should be forcibly prevented from teaching her children by the very institution which pays 65 percent of Professor Kambon’s salary to teach genocide.
UPDATE: Apparently Fred confused the venue for the job as Professor Kambon actually teaches at NC State. Neverthless, the point remains. (For those who can’t read, the institution referred to in the paragraph above is the federal government, not the professor’s employer.) Instead of $1.20, most Americans are only contributing $.046 to the pool that pays the professor’s salary, although North Carolina taxpayers are on the hook for $10.82 more.