Tag: Vibrancy is our strength

Change or face real change

Radley Balko has an excellent article in the Wall Street Journal on the need to demilitarize American police culture:

[I]t is crucial to change the culture of militarization in American law enforcement. Consider today’s police recruitment
videos (widely available on YouTube), which often feature cops
rappelling from helicopters, shooting big guns, kicking down doors and
tackling suspects. Such campaigns embody an American policing culture
that has become too isolated, confrontational and militaristic, and they
tend to attract recruits for the wrong reasons.

If you browse online police discussion
boards, or chat with younger cops today, you will often encounter some
version of the phrase, “Whatever I need to do to get home safe.” It is a
sentiment that suggests that every interaction with a citizen may be
the officer’s last.

Now, we know that the police actively discriminate against the intelligent in building their department rosters, so perhaps we shouldn’t be too hard on those who have the inability to think through the logical consequences of their militaristic, short-sighted attitudes.

And demilitarization is without question in the material interests of the police as well.  They have started a war of escalation and attrition that they cannot possibly win.  Perhaps you recall how completely freaked out the LAPD was when the ex-cop went rogue and started targeting police families?  And maybe you remember how much fear was expressed throughout law enforcement communities when it appeared prosecutors were being targeted at home?

It does not take a master logician to observe that all the “whatever I need to do to get home safe” mentality guarantees is that abusive police homes will soon be unsafe.  And the growing Hispanic population means that there will likely be more Latin American-style infiltration, assassination, and terror directed at the lower levels of law enforcement.  Indeed, there are some analysts who believe this is already taking place in parts of the American Southwest.

Offended by reality

It took more than eight years for Gavin McInnes to shake off the diversity with which he was infected at university:

I first noticed I was brainwashed while on vacation in Jamaica. We went into a souvenir shop and I caught myself being offended by fridge magnets portraying black soccer players with huge grins. They had bugged-out eyes and exaggerated lips and it reminded me of the Golliwogs I had been taught are evil. Who was allowing this magnetic minstrel show of a soccer game to appear before my eyes? Why, Jamaicans, of course. They are allowed to create cartoon sculptures of themselves. As this basic truth seeped into my cranium I could feel the liberal-arts professor in my head say blacks can make these magnets because they’re not coming from a place of privilege…or something…but that feels like a Band-Aid solution to a hemorrhaging gash in the logic. Now we have to research who created what image before we deem it unacceptable? Former University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill tells us the Cleveland Indians logo is offensive. Is that because a white guy drew it? What if they hired an Indian to draw it? Is that OK? I thought my diploma would provide tools for the real world, but it was nothing more than a Ph.D. in Shit for Brains.

Racism doesn’t pervade every part of modern life, but when you have a liberal-arts education, anti-racism sure does. The fridge-magnet incident was disturbing because I felt myself having an emotion that wasn’t mine.

The second time this happened I almost pulled my brain out and threw it in the garbage. We were watching a movie at an old-timey theater and I saw a black man who worked there taking out the garbage. He was black as coal and was wearing an attendant’s uniform that included white gloves. His lips were very red and enormous. He also had big eyes. I feel racist even describing this guy. When I caught this human being wearing the skin in which he was born, I was not amused. I had been so brainwashed into finding that kind of depiction of a black person offensive, I even got offended when it was the guy’s actual face! I felt like politely sauntering over to him and asking him if he would kindly take it down a notch. Thanks, college.

That’s the beauty of the modern collegiate brainwashing.  It leaves the victim in a state of permanent offense, because he – or as now much more often the case, she – is programmed to be offended by reality.  It is a literally delusional state which leads the brainwashed victim to lunacies such as declaring, with a straight face, that Margaret Thatcher is not a woman.

Keep this in mind when you are contemplating where to send your children to university.

Fred Reed on Zimmerman v Martin

It’s not so much the trial as everything around it that bodes ill for America 3.0:

Never have I seen such sprawling, cacophonous, indignant ignorance
and frightful stupidity as that being exhibited by the American public.
We are doomed.  I am delighted. Curmudgeons love doom.

Has there ever been such focused inattention as the case has
produced? Nothing of importance is noticed, and everything lacking it
is. The crucial fact to come out of the whole adventure—crucial, and
therefore utterly overlooked–was that  Rachel Jeantel, a prosecution
witness and black girl aged nineteen years, can´t read. The grim
implication of this fact is confirmed by the illiteracy of tweets from
blacks regarding the case. “Ima kill dat dumass cracker be racis.” Here
we see as neatly displayed as if in a jewelry box why so many young
blacks will go nowhere in the remaining fifty years of their lives.
They can´t read, or barely can. In a fading techno-industrial
civilization—I use the latter word frivolously—this consigns them to a
life on charity. Is this not of more note than who started what?

No. The educational disaster that will leave Rachel and
millions of her confreres in meaningless lives on welfare pales in
importance compared to the question: Did Trayvon Martin and Zimmerman
have the proper racial attitudes?

It is interesting, is it not, that questions concerning proper attitudes are deemed so much more important than other, much less important questions such as “are multicultural and multiracial societies sustainable in the absence of the greatest credit boom of all time?”  I understand many people believe that they are.  What I don’t understand is the basis for their belief, beyond the prosaic observation that the previous straw did not break the camel’s back.

As for Fred, the old curmudgeon is quite clearly enjoying all of this.  As he should, considering that he’s doing so from the safety of Mexico.

Black on brown

I suspect this sort of response isn’t going to end well for the African-American community:

[R]eal estate agent
Christina Dudley said she was walking to her car just before 9 p.m.
when she saw several young black males and two black females chasing a
37-year-old Hispanic man west on North Linwood Avenue past East Fairmont
Avenue. “One of the boys had a handgun out and it was pointed at the back of him,” Dudley said in an interview.

They
caught up to the man at the corner of Fairmount and N. Streeper Street,
and the male with the gun beat the victim with what appeared to be his
gun while others kicked and stomped him, Dudley said.

“They were
just yelling and calling him names as they ran after him, but once they
were hitting him and after that they started yelling, “This is for
Trayvon, [expletive],” said Dudley, who heard the chant repeated
multiple times….

Using a translator, police spoke to the victim, who knows some
English, according to the police report. The victim told officers that
he was standing in the intersection of Fairmont and N. Potomac Street
when a group of five black males first approached him. He
described all of the males as between 16 and 18 and told police a 6-foot
suspect with a black “stretchy” shirt and mohawk told him, “What’s up,
[expletive].” When the victim raised his phone to call 911, the suspect
raised his shirt and flashed a silver handgun in his waistband.

The
victim turned and ran before he was caught in the 2800 block of
Fairmont and was beaten, police said. He sustained abrasions to his
elbows and forearms but refused medical attention. Police listed all of the suspects involved as black males. Three were “skinny” while one was described as overweight.

As can be seen in Mexico, the moderate time preferences of Hispanics tend to make them more organized than blacks and less temperate than whites when they turn violent. When black and white communities collide, the result tends to lean towards segregation. When black and brown communities collide, the result tends to lean towards the eradication of the former.

Blacks not infrequently engage in this sort of random public group beating.  Hispanics not infrequently leave collections of dead bodies neatly displayed in public.  Welcome to America 3.0.

However, it is interesting to note that the black community understands George Zimmerman is Hispanic, even though the mainstream media still wants to affect that he is white.

Mistrial or he walks

“A lot has been made of the fact that there are six women on the Zimmerman jury.  My expectation is that he will be found not guilty, less because he isn’t actually guilty of anything but self-defense, but because there is a Hispanic woman on the jury.  On matters of race, Hispanics not only tend to stick together, but more importantly, tend to be considerably less guiltable, for lack of a better expression, than whites.”

I wrote that last night but didn’t post it because I was intending to write more and didn’t get around to finishing it.  As it happens, the post was overtaken by events, because last night the jury rightly found George Zimmerman not guilty of murdering Trayvon Martin:

George Zimmerman never denied shooting Trayvon Martin, but he said he did so in self defense. Late Saturday night, a Florida jury found him not guilty in the teenager’s death. The verdict caps a case that has inflamed passions for well over a year, much of it focused on race and gun rights. The six jurors — all of them women — deliberated for 16½ hours. Five of the women are white; one is a minority.

I tend to doubt there will be any massive riots; it’s been pretty clear that the prosecution completely failed to make any coherent case against Zimmerman’s claim of self-defense.  Also, unlike Rodney King, this wasn’t an official cop thing and the black community in America knows very well that it is getting its clock cleaned by the Hispanic community everywhere from Compton to Miami.

This tweet sums it all up: “So a Hispanic shoots a black and is acquitted by women, but it’s still white men’s fault.”

The hit-and-runs Americans won’t cause

More blessings of diversity in Mogadishu on the Mississippi:

A 24-year-old Minneapolis man was charged Tuesday
in last week’s hit-and-run death of a bicyclist, in which the driver
allegedly sped through a stop sign with his car’s headlights off, ran
over the victim and then fled. Abdirahman Abdi Ali, 24, was charged in Hennepin County District
Court with two counts of felony criminal vehicular homicide. Each charge
carries a penalty of up to 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine.

Authorities believe Ali was driving the car that struck 24-year-old
Jessica Hanson around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Whittier neighborhood
as she biked to her boyfriend’s house. Witnesses said the car’s
headlights were off on when it sped north on Pleasant Avenue South, went
through the stop sign at West 28th Street and hit Hanson in the
intersection and didn’t stop….

Ali, who had a revoked driver’s license, called police Friday evening
and said he had struck a person as he drove along Pleasant Avenue. He
said his vehicle was being shot at and that he did not know whom or what
he hit when he sped away. Ali’s mother later told police she had spoken
with her son Friday morning and that he had told her he had been in an
accident and thought he might have struck a bicyclist.

Police said Abdirahman Ali is the older brother of Ahmed Shire Ali,
who is serving an 18-year prison sentence for pleading guilty to his
role in the January 2010 slayings of three people at Seward Market &
Halal Meats on East Franklin Avenue in Minneapolis. The gunman in that case, Mahdi Hassan Ali, was tried in 2011,
convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the deaths of store clerk
Osman Jama Elmi, 28; his cousin, Mohamed Abdi Warfa, 30; and customer
Anwar Salah Mohamed, 31.

As I mentioned last month, we were in Rome with some friends from Minneapolis and they commented on how they were surprised to see fewer Africans and Muslims in Rome than in Minneapolis.  Of course, the Romans recall what eventually happens in every multicultural society.

But what is just another dead white girl in comparison with the manifold blessings of St. Diversity.

The wrong question

Horrified by a picture of observable reality with which he was hitherto unfamiliar, ESR asks: how can we keep the bigots from winning?

I have read very little in the last few decades that is as shocking to me as this: Essay by a teacher in a black high school. My first reaction was that I wanted to believe it was a bigot’s fabrication. I’d still like to believe that, but it was reposted
by a black man who claims it is representative of “dirty laundry”: bad
stuff [known among blacks] about black folk never to be said around
whites.

My second reaction, afterwards, was: for those of us who insist that
people ought to be judged by the content of their characters rather than
the color of their skins, what emotionally compelling argument do we
have against anti-black racism that reading this doesn’t blow to
smithereens?

But if this is really where they came from – if this is what they’re
right-end-of-the-bell-curve exceptions to, and that reality becomes
widely known or believed – rational argument won’t be enough. How can
we keep the bigots from winning?

That’s not the right
question.  ESR is still making false assumptions in ignorance; he still
believes “all the rational arguments against racism are still sound”.
It is said that one must let reason be silent when experience gainsays
its conclusions, so the correct question for the genuinely rational
individual is: “what if those we called bigots were right all along?”

I
have to admit, all this shock and horror from politically correct
goodthinkers is more than a little amusing to me.  I linked to a similar post back in 2007 and wrote about my own experiences with the cruelty of affirmative action in 2011.  And, of course, I was called raciss and bigoted and so on, even though I have been entirely open about the fact that I am, by every political and genetic measure, a bona fide Person of Color.

And
as such, I can reassure ESR that the facts are simply the facts.  Facts
can only be true or false, they cannot be purple, or racist, or
ruffled.  They don’t change depending upon whether the individual
acknowledging them is white, black, or canine.

Anti-scholastic diversity

One wonders what it will take for the West to realize that while it is at war with terror, the global jihad is at war with it? Apparently beheadings on the street in London are not enough.  I tend to doubt this sort of thing will convince anyone either:

Islamic militants attacked a boarding school before dawn Saturday, dousing a dormitory in fuel and lighting it ablaze as students slept, survivors said. At least 30 people were killed in the deadliest attack yet on schools in Nigeria’s embattled northeast.

Authorities blamed the violence on Boko Haram, a radical group whose name means “Western education is sacrilege.” The militants have been behind a series of recent attacks on schools in the region, including one in which gunmen opened fire on children taking exams in a classroom.

Perhaps once dozens of American or British children are murdered in a public school by vibrantly anti-scholastic immigrants, a leader will be found who is willing to openly admit that the problem isn’t a few bad apples ruining diversity, but excess diversity.

Vibrancy in South Africa

Keep the ongoing race war in South Africa in mind as you listen to half-savage race hustlers posturing about how dangerous Australia, Texas, and Florida are for “people like [her]”.  African-American leftists and their liberal white knights like little better than to wax nostalgic about the dangers of 19th century lynching while remaining utterly silent about 21st century savagery that is now seen everywhere from Africa to Europe and the Americas.

Mandela’s passing and the looming threat of a race war against South Africa’s whites. As a widow mourns the latest murdered Afrikaner farmer, a chilling dispatch from a nation holding its breath.

  • Roelof du Plessis, 46 shot on his farm outside Pretoria by gang of black intruders
  • Fears rise that killings are part of a systematic bid to drive white people out of South Africa
  • President Jacob Zuma known to sing ‘struggle song’ about killing white Afrikaners

The statistics — and the savagery of the killings — appear to support claims by these residents that white people, and farmers in particular, are being targeted by black criminals. Little wonder that what unfolded on the Du Plessis homestead has sent tremors of fear through the three-million-strong white community.

Last month alone there were 25 murders of white landowners, and more than 100 attacks, while Afrikaner protest groups claim that more than 4,000 have been killed since Mandela came to power — twice as many as the number of policemen who have died.

It is not just the death toll, but the extreme violence that is often brought to bear, that causes the greatest fear in the white community. Documented cases of farm killings make for gruesome reading, with children murdered along with their parents, one family suffocated with plastic bags and countless brutal rapes of elderly women and young children.

It’s not an accident that the first thing the US government did once de Klerk was elected and it became obvious that apartheid was coming to an end was to arrange for the removal of South Africa’s nuclear weapons from its arsenal and the decommissioning of the weapons development program.  This was because both the US and the de Klerk administration knew the ANC government could not be trusted to behave responsibly with them and there was a real risk that they would be used against the Boers or Zimbabwe.

FrontPage reported in 2012: “There are now white refugee camps in South Africa with an estimated 300,000 or 7 percent of the white population living in tent cities and shacks. If any other ethnic group or race were on the receiving end of such treatment, it would be denounced as ethnic cleansing. Dr. Stanton of Genocide Watch, a respected human rights organization, has stated that the white population of South Africa is now in the sixth of the center’s eight stages of genocide. That sixth stage is defined as “Preparation.””

Keep that in mind as you hear the usual suspects encouraging you to celebrate the wonders of diversity.  Because historically, diversity has been a precursor to genocide.  And if Malema comes to power and he succeeds in following the example set by Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, don’t spare South Africa an ounce of sympathy once his goal is achieved as people who are absolutely every bit as civilized as everyone else on the planet mysteriously turn out to be unable to maintain an existing agricultural system capable of feeding the country for inexplicable reasons that no rational mind could possibly discern.

A bogeyman to white South Africans, Malema is popular among young blacks, and has also been an enthusiastic singer of Kill The Boer and another song called Bring Me My Machine-Gun. Polls this week showed a huge surge in support among young black South Africans for his policies, which he says will ignore reconciliation, and fight for social justice in an ‘onslaught against [the] white male monopoly’.

With chilling echoes of neighbouring Zimbabwe, where dictator Robert Mugabe launched a murderous campaign to drive white farmers off the land in 2000, Malema wants all white-owned land to be seized without compensation, along with nationalisation of the country’s lucrative mines.

Ominously, Malema, 32, who wears a trademark beret and has a fondness for Rolex watches, this month promised his new party will take the land from white people without recompense and give it to blacks.

‘We need the land that was taken from our people, and we are not going to pay for it,’ he said. ‘We need a party that will say those who were victims of apartheid stand to benefit unashamedly, and those who perpetuated apartheid must show remorse and behave in a manner that says they regret their conduct.’

And Malema isn’t merely thinking of South Africa when he encourages blacks to breed for the cause of global revolution.  “We want to see many kids, why? Because we must reproduce ourselves. For
our ideas to be sustainable, we have to reproduce ourselves. In the
whole of Africa, we are not more than one billion and the world has
seven billion people. In Africa we have not more than one billion
people… facing more than six billion. We have to be half of that so that
our ideas can dominate. I know that in some instances size does not
matter… but when it comes to a revolution, size matters.”

The multiculturalists and devotees of St. Diversity think that it doesn’t matter if America loses its white majority.  They don’t understand what Malema does, which is that demographics is destiny.

How dare you say ignorant!

An illuminating development in the Zimmerman trial:

A teenage friend of Trayvon Martin was forced to admit today in the George Zimmerman murder trial that she did not write a letter that was sent to Martin’s mother describing what she allegedly heard on a phone call with Martin moments before he was shot.

In a painfully embarassing moment, Rachel Jeantel was asked to read the letter out loud in court.

“Are you able to read that at all?” defense attorney Don West asked.

Jeantel, head bowed, eyes averted whispered into the court microphone, “Some but not all. I don’t read cursive.”

It sent a hush through the packed courtroom.  Jeantel, 19, was unable to read any of the letter save for her name.

Note that for all of the recent pointing and shrieking, crying “raciss”, asserting “white privilege”, and public demands for expulsion from non-crimethinking society, not a single individual has attempted to contest the observation that Ms Jemisin and “people like [her]“, who are imperiled by the laws of Florida and Texas, appear to be incapable of building or maintaining an advanced technological civilization.  Indeed, if we are to consider the examples of the late Mr. Martin and the sub-literate Ms Jeantel, (who claims to have graduated from Norland High School and to be studying criminal justice at Miami University), it is not unreasonable to ask what percentage of “people like [her]” are capable of constructively participating in one in now that we are twenty years into the Age of Information.  It is clearly greater than zero. It is not at all clear that it is 100.

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This is not to imply that Ms Jemisin is sub-literate.

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Or that she did not write the books with her name on them.

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