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Former New York Times reporter and Howard University professor Nikole Hannah-Jones has long been controversial as a writer who expressly rejects objectivity and neutrality in journalism. That was most evident in her “1619 Project,” which was ridiculed by historians and law professors in claiming that slavery was the driving force behind American independence. Nevertheless, the project was awarded the Pulitzer Prize despite glaring historical errors. Yet, this month, Hannah-Jones is back on the pages of the New York Times again rewriting history. This time, she is praising cop-killer and 1960s revolutionary Assata Shakur.

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The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is furious with journalist Megyn Kelly after she accused prominent Jews in the media – Ben Shapiro and Bari Weiss – of “making antisemites” through their attempts to censor criticism of Israel.”

Well, they’re certainly giving it the old college try.

(If you don’t care about any of these people, feel free to stop reading here… fair warning)

Don’t call them ‘conspiracy theories’—call them ‘spoiler alerts’.

To bring you up to speed: Following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, podcaster Candace Owens pointed the finger at Israel, suggesting that Kirk’s shifting views on Israel made him a target – and suggesting that Israel and France plotted Kirk’s death. This drew sharp criticism from the Daily Wire‘s Ben Shapiro (Owens’ former boss), journalist Bari Weiss, and the ADL – with Shapiro further accusing Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson of amplifying ‘antisemitism’ by platforming Owens and refusing to condemn her claims, while Kelly says attempts to censor criticism of Israel is in fact ‘making’ people into antisemites.

So – a lot going on here. Prominent Jews are condemning conservatives who haven’t condemned Candace Owens – accusing them of fueling antisemitism, while Megyn Kelly says that in general, attempts to label conservatives critical of Israeli policy as ‘antisemites’ is actually creating antisemites.

Tensions peaked at Turning Point USA’s AmFest conference last week, where Shapiro downplayed the 1967 USS Liberty incident in which Israel attacked a US Navy ship and killed 34 Americans – calling it a ‘mistake’ that’s now largely irrelevant because it happened so long ago.

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Slavery is often discussed in fragments—confined to one region, one trade route, or one time period. However, the global slave trade was an interconnected system that spanned continents and lasted for centuries, reshaping societies, economies, and cultures in ways that still reverberate today. From the transatlantic slave trade to the lesser-known enslavement of Europeans and Asians, the movement of human lives under force has left an undeniable mark on history.

However, human trafficking existed in many forms across the world. The Barbary slave trade, active from the 16th to 19th centuries, saw an estimated 1.25 million Europeans captured and enslaved by North African pirates. The Crimean-Nogai slave raids devastated Eastern Europe, with an estimated 3 million people enslaved between 1441 and 1774.

Bet you didn’t know that.

In the Ottoman Empire, slavery was deeply entrenched in society. Between 1450 and 1700, approximately 2.5 million Europeans were sold into bondage. The Arab slave trade, spanning over a thousand years, trafficked millions from Africa across the Middle East and Asia. These markets, though lesser known, left an enduring legacy on the demographic and cultural fabric of many regions.

Slavery was a universal human institution since time out of mind down to the early 19th century. That it is today considered exceptional rather than business as usual is the result of a bunch of British activists who actually took their Christianity seriously. (Islam, by contrast, never had—and, if truth be told, still doesn’t have—a problem with slavery.)

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Note that the fat ugly black chick in the Build Large Mansions t-shirt has the trigger discipline of a five-year-old.

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India plans to include castes in its upcoming census for the first time since 1931 and it is causing a polarizing discussion in the country. While opponents say that castes are an outdated social construct that India should move beyond instead of legitimize, proponents argue that the country will be better off having more information about modern-day caste membership as it can be used to better steer equality initiatives often based on caste.

Data from the National Family Health Survey by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare conducted between 2019 and 2021 shows that three quarters of Indians name themselves as members of castes that are eligable for reservations, a term for affirmative action programs. Among them are 22 percent of the Indian population describing themselves as Scheduled Caste, also known as Dalits or Untouchables, which are identified as such in the Indian Constitution. A further 42 percent count themselves as part of a group called Other Backward Class, which combines disadvantaged castes not listed in the Constitution. On top of these are 10 percent of the Indian population who are members of Scheduled Tribes, on average the most underpriviledged people in today’s India.

This leaves only less than a quarter of Indians who are part of the so-called upper castes, while 5 percent of Indians claimed no caste or tribe membership. However, lines of wealth and economic hardship have blurred in India and are diverging from caste membership. While almost half of Scheduled Tribe members fell into India’s lowest wealth distribution quintile, this number stood at one quarter for Scheduled Caste, 16 percent for Other Backward Class and 11 percent for those not falling into these categories.

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TeleSURtv reporter André Vieira captured video showing dozens of what he described as “indigenous people” breaking through barriers and storming the UN’s annual global climate summit in Belém, Brazil. The summit brings together globalist world leaders, left-wing climate activists, and “trust-the-science” researchers to discuss climate pledges that they aim to transform into enforceable actions.

“Indigenous people occupied the #COP30 on the night of this Tuesday to demand that negotiators place them at the center of the debates,” Vieira wrote on X, adding, “Nearly 3,000 indigenous people are in Belém to participate in the activities over the coming days.”

Vieira’s X post also featured a video of indigenous people storming COP30, the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

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The Democratic Party never stops talking about accountability. But when it comes to its own history of supporting slavery and enforcing Jim Crow, the silence is deafening.

For all its moral posturing, the Democratic Party has never issued a formal apology for its direct role in some of the darkest chapters of American history. That’s not a small detail. It’s a glaring double standard.

From the early days of the Republic through the Civil War, Democrats were the party of the slaveholding South. Its leaders defended slavery as an economic necessity and a moral good. They fought to protect it politically and, eventually, militarily. And when the war ended and slavery was finally abolished, Democrats didn’t seek redemption—they found new ways to keep power.

Southern Democrats built the Jim Crow system, a web of laws designed to control and humiliate Black Americans. These laws segregated schools, blocked voting rights, and enforced second-class citizenship through intimidation and violence. For nearly a century, the Democratic Party was the political engine behind racial oppression in the South.

This isn’t opinion. It’s historical fact. Yet despite all the talk about “equity” and “justice,” the Democratic Party has never said the simple words that matter: We were wrong. We’re sorry.

And reparations! Don’t forget reparations!

Victor Davis Hanson.

There’s been a lot of recent controversy over the indictments of former national security adviser John Bolton, former FBI Director James Comey, and now New York Attorney General Letitia James.

And people are arguing that President Donald Trump had promised not to have a so-called revenge tour and use the law, in a weaponized fashion, against his political enemies, given what they did to him. And now he’s doing it.

I think it’s time to pause.

First, there’s a question of magnitude. Donald Trump was indicted 91 times in four different jurisdictions, local, county, federal. Those were coordinated.

Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis’ main prosecutor, Nathan Wade, met with the White House counsel just three days after Donald Trump announced his 2020, Nov. 15, reelection bid. That same day, Jack Smith was appointed by Merrick Garland, the Biden Justice Department attorney general, to be special counsel, to go after Donald Trump at the federal level. That same day, Matthew Colangelo, who had come from the Letitia James state prosecution of Donald Trump, resigned his blue-chip job—No. 3 in the DOJ—to go to work for whom? Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

And that was 91 indictments. So far, we’ve only seen three key people indicted. In addition to that, we’re not even talking about the SWAT raid on Donald Trump’s home or the effort to get 25 states to de-ballot him.

The Telegraph (UK).

A prominent Syrian influencer living in Denmark said she has been forced to return home to protect her children from being taught about LGBT rights in school.

Salma Naddaf fled the civil war in 2014 and built a new life in Denmark as a refugee, gaining millions of online followers for DIY home improvement content.

The 36-year-old mother announced this week that she had left her adopted homeland because the Scandinavian country had made gender transition “part of education”, arguing the country no longer reflected her family values.

In a tearful video, she called it the “hardest decision” she had ever made in her life, but said she was “absolutely convinced that my children shouldn’t grow up in a place where neither the customs nor the traditions are like ours”.

Savor the irony.

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A probe into the Marxist nonprofit Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF), which was initially opened under the Biden-Harris administration, has seen renewed interest from federal prosecutors in President Trump’s second term over allegations that the far-left group defrauded donors.

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Eleanor Holmes Norton, Washington D.C.’s 88-year-old congressional delegate, claims to sit on multiple boards at prestigious institutions, but investigations reveal she hasn’t been active with them in years. Some of these positions no longer even exist according to a report by Luke Goldstein and Dan Boguslaw.

According to her latest financial disclosure, Norton lists positions on roughly half a dozen boards. However, when contacted, three organizations reported no recent contact with her, while two confirmed their boards had been dissolved years ago.

These revelations follow a troubling NBC4 report that obtained a police document detailing how scammers posing as HVAC repairmen defrauded Norton of $4,400 for services never performed. The report also noted that Norton has a caretaker with power of attorney who reported the fraud.

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The Justice Department is investigating whether leaders in the Black Lives Matter movement defrauded donors who contributed tens of millions of dollars during racial justice protests in 2020, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.

In recent weeks, federal law enforcement officials have issued subpoenas and at least one search warrant as part of an investigation into the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc. and other Black-led organizations that helped spark a national reckoning on systemic racism, said the people, who were not authorized to discuss an ongoing criminal probe by name and spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press.

It was not clear if the investigation would result in criminal charges, but its mere existence invites fresh scrutiny to a movement that in recent years has faced criticism about its public accounting of donations they have received. The recent burst of investigative activity is also unfolding at a time when civil rights groups have raised concerns about the potential for the Trump administration to target a broad variety of progressive and left-leaning groups that have been critical of him, including those affiliated with BLM, the transgender rights movement and anti-ICE protesters.

UPDATE: Federal prosecutors investigate BLM leaders over alleged misuse of $90M+ in donations (Fox News)

Newsbusters.

On Sunday’s Velshi show, frequent MSNBC guest Elie Mystal charged that Chief Justice John Roberts is the “biggest enemy towards black people” on the Supreme Court since the pro-slavery Dred Scott decision from1857.

His typically hyperbolic attack on Justice Roberts came during a segment devoted to fretting over the possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court will strike down legal precedents that for decades have required that oddly shaped congressional districts be drawn to ensure the existence of black-majority districts, mostly filled by black legislators.

Host Ali Velshi suggested that a conservative court ruling would be as bad as taking voting rights back to 1964 as he posed his first question to the race-obsessed justice correspondent for the far-left The Nation magazine.

Victor Davis Hanson.

Here in California—which might be a model for other states as well—Gov. Gavin Newsom has now approved a formal commission to administer reparations to black Californians. And they’re trying not to use the word reparations since it has such a bad connotation. But it’s a bad idea in so many ways.

Remember, when California was admitted to the Union, it came in as a free state. It had no prior record of being a slave state. It has never been a slave state. It has no historical baggage as, perhaps, the former Confederacies. So, there’s no argument that people who happen to be in California are owed anything from it, by the state, of any race.

The second thing is we don’t know how many black Americans that are residents of California could trace their lineage back to California. In other words, do we really believe that most of the African Americans in California, who came after World War I and during World War II, have descendants that were suffering the fallout from slavery in California? It’s really absurd.

The third thing to remember is the black population of California is about 5.4% of the 41 million people. Who are going to be paying the reparations? The so-called white oppressor, victimizer class is only 42%. It is a minority. And many of them can trace their lineage back to the Oklahoma diaspora of the 1930s and ’40s, when they arrived here completely destitute.

And then, in addition, we have about 15% to 16% Asian. Some of them came from horrendous conditions in Vietnam. Some of them have families that were Japanese, have received money from the government as direct compensation for property they lost during World War II during the relocations. Some of them can argue that they were oppressed from the 19th century. Leland Stanford Jr., the president of the Southern Union Pacific Railroad, used Chinese labors in a very exploitive manner.

The point is that each particular minority group will then argue that they have claims on—whom? Who is going to be the victimizer class when the so-called white population is the minority?

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Imagine my distress.

The growing opposition in Hollywood to AI generated “actors” is in many ways similar to the growing feminist fury over AI girlfriends: If you’re a good actor (or a good woman), then you should have no fear of being replaced. If you can’t compete with a robot or software for the affections of the masses, then perhaps you deserve to lose your exalted position in society.

AI design is not particularly impressive (at least not yet). Characters are graphically realistic but the Uncanny Valley effect is ever present; the human mind processes them as off-putting in most cases and making an entire film using them would require extensive input from human CG artists. Still images and short clips are effective enough, but this is not film making.

I’ve seen any number of those ‘robot girlfriends’ and I have to say they’re very low maintenance compared to the Modern SingleWoman.

Meanwhile, I’m waiting for the Cherry 2000.

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On Monday the Daily Mail revealed that James’ has been letting her grandniece Nakia Thompson – along with Thompson’s three children – live in the Norfolk, Virginia house at the center of James’ federal indictment.

Thompson has been living at the property since 2020, after ducking authorities in North Carolina for failing to finish her probation. She is considered a fugitive and has an active warrant for her arrest if she’s located in North Carolina.

“Ms Thompson was sentenced to probation for misdemeanor convictions for assault and battery and trespassing, and has willfully avoided probation supervision,” Keith Acree, communications director for the North Carolina Department of Corrections told the Mail, adding “An absconder is considered a fugitive.”

And Democrats are crooked every age.

The Times (UK).

Socialists and their running dogs on the Left always blame other people for the problems that they themselves cause.

Only days earlier, at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool, Starmer had drawn rapturous applause from delegates after he said Nigel Farage was a “snake oil merchant” who promulgated racist policies.

One might say the same of DEI advocates.

Washington Examiner.

The chaotic event unfolded in downtown Montgomery right after a college football game between Tuskegee University and Morehouse College.

Both Tuskegee and Morehouse are ‘historically black colleges’.

Imagine how low the crime rates would be if young black males were prohibited from possessing firearms.

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Thereby admitting that ‘transgender’ people are mentally unstable. Good to know.

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For years, many of us have raised concerns over the political weaponization of the New York legal system from the civil fraud case against the Trump company by New York Attorney General Letitia James to the criminal prosecution by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. The popularity of these lawfare warriors shows how a dual legal system has taken hold in the city. That was never more evident than in the outrageous decision of Bragg to drop the case against Brianna J. Rivers, 30, who assaulted a pro-life advocate in a case of political violence. The refusal to prosecute Rivers is only the latest example of enabling those who turn to violence in our political system.

Rivers was captured on videotape attacking Craven Antao after she asked Rivers questions about abortion and repeated her answers.

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Boston Black Lives Matter activist Monica Cannon-Grant is expected to plead guilty to federal fraud charges stemming from allegations that she and her late husband defrauded donors out of more than $1 million in grants and donations to fund their lavish lifestyle, according to multiple reports.

The Boston Herald reported Thursday that Cannon-Grant, who was honored as ”Bostonian of the Year” in 2020, is set to plead guilty to all 18 charges, including mail and wire fraud. She filed a motion for a change-of-plea hearing last week.

Her trial was scheduled to begin in U.S. District Court in Boston on Oct. 14.

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A young woman is facing hate crime charges after allegedly assaulting a fellow passenger in a violent, unprovoked attack on a Manhattan subway train, according to the NY Post.

The incident unfolded around 2:10 a.m. Sunday aboard a southbound L train at the 1st Avenue and East 14th Street station. Authorities said Genesis Gittens — who had just celebrated her 20th birthday on Monday — was yelling when a 28-year-old man sitting nearby glanced in her direction.

That look reportedly sent Gittens into a fury. She began striking the rider in the face multiple times while hurling slurs, shouting, “White boy” and “cracker,” according to a criminal complaint. The repeated punches left the victim with a bloody nose, though he declined medical treatment, police said.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised,

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The U.S. Department of Education has stopped awarding grants to colleges based on the share of minority students they enroll, saying it is unconstitutional to use taxpayer dollars to promote “racial or ethnic quotas” at those schools.

As indeed it iw.

John Derbyshire used to say that there was nothing wrong with New York City that adding about a million ethnic Chinese couldn’t fix.

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Around 200 migrants who arrived in the UK illegally by crossing the Channel from France could collectively receive millions of pounds in compensation—paid for by the taxpayer—for being kept in “inhumane” conditions.

Lawyers representing the asylum seekers have lodged legal claims against the Home Office for the alleged unlawful detention and mistreatment of migrants at the Manston migrant holding centre near Dover, citing the favourite weapon of the pro-open borders crowd, the European Convention on Human Rights.

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Tuesday’s CBS Morning Plus may have clinched the single dumbest and most tone-deaf segment on last month’s brutal murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, North Carolina by declaring the murder was proof of a “mental health crisis…within this country” and that America has failed to properly “invest in” and “rehabilitate” people like the alleged killer, DeCarlos Brown Jr.

The claims were leveled by two CBS News contributors — former Suffolk County, New York Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison and KFF Health editor-at-large Dr. Céline Gounder — and despite solid, appropriate questions from co-host Tony Dokoupil and fill-in co-host Kelly O’Grady about the need for law and order.

The Telegraph (UK).

Another year, another report on “racist” rural Britain. Every few months, a new piece of research seems to emerge based on anecdotal evidence that our countryside is a hostile place for people like me. I am under no illusion that racism is alive and well in Britain today, but having spent the first 40 years of my life in inner city Birmingham and the last 27 in deepest Devon, my experience is rather different from the one often peddled by these reports.

The latest, from the University of Leicester, says racist abuse is “tolerated or even normalised” in rural areas. Most participants say racism in rural England “is getting worse”, pointing to low levels of visible diversity. I’d agree that visible diversity is still a problem (and have thoughts on how to improve access to landowning – namely, have institutions like the Church of England and the National Trust give up some of their vast swathes of land), but I think branding our countryside as racist is a mistake.

My life as a farmer is peaceful and productive. I am embedded in a community that looks out for me. I have raised a family and built a successful business here. My story completely contradicts the popular opinion that someone who looks like me wouldn’t be welcome in the English countryside, let alone making a life here.

Newsbusters.

The headline on the front page of the Labor Day New York Times, “Black Women Most Affected By Trump Cuts,” was silly enough in its wokist immersion. but the online headline deck — “In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit — President Trump has cut hundreds of thousands of jobs from the federal work force, disproportionately affecting Black employees” — was even more amusing.

It brought to mind the old joke about a hypothetical Times headline after nuclear Armageddon: “World Ends, Women & Minorities Hardest Hit.” (The paper’s reputation for knee-jerk liberalism goes back decades.)

The immediate suspicion is that these were DEI hires that were ill-qualified in the first place other than their sex and the color of their skin. That competent managers would get rid of them first is hardly surprising.

Note that this includes people who claim to be disabled (for the purpose of claiming taxpayer-funded benefits?), not just people who are actually provably disabled.

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It was the White House ambush that shocked the world. A South African delegation headed by president Cyril Ramaphosa arrived in Washington DC with big grins and smug confidence, ready to milk the American taxpayer for even more foreign aid. What they received instead was thorough embarrassment.

Trump confronted Ramaphosa on the issue of race-based land seizures through the Expropriation Act of 2024, which largely targets white farmers for confiscation (There are 140 race based laws that oppress whites in SA) . The land is then redistributed to black citizens who often run the farms into the ground. The leader has denied that land confiscation is taking place. The South African government and the leftist media has spent the better part of the year trying to spin the issue and deny their motives.

When asked by reporters what he could do to convince Trump there there was no threat of “white genocide” in South Africa, Ramaphosa chuckled and shrugged off the accusation, suggesting that Trump had been misinformed. Trump surprised the leftist political leader with a video montage proving otherwise.

Africans will be Africans.

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Left-wing talking heads, particularly on CNN, keep referring to the Minneapolis Catholic school shooter as a male — despite their usual fanatical support of delusional transgender ideology. It appears TV journalists are so loath to discuss the shooter’s “trans identity” that some of them can’t stop accidentally referring to him with biologically-accurate male pronouns.

ALSO: ‘Women-Only’ Smith College Faces Civil Rights Complaint For Admitting Trans Students

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It was fireworks in federal court Friday morning as lawyers for Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook squared off against the Trump administration after Trump fired her on Monday over mortgage malarkey.

Cook (who was busted in 2024 for plagiarism and only got her job because Kamala Harris was the tiebreaker vote during her confirmation) responded by filing a lawsuit – asking a judge to issue a temporary restraining order (TRO) which would allow her to keep her job, for now.

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The courtroom drama unfolded amid the backdrop of Federal Housing Finance Authority Chief Bill Pulte having dropped a Thursday night bombshell: a second “criminal referral” accusing Cook of “misrepresentations” about properties she owns – specifically that she claimed a second residence as an investment property, which follows Pulte’s initial criminal referral over Cook simultaneously claiming two properties as her ‘primary residence.’

Politico, a Voice of the Crust.

The Voting Rights Act ought to have been ruled unconstitutional when it was first passed: It violated the longstanding but unwritten right of Freedom of Association and attempted to correct race-based voting by turning it upside down while still enshrining race-based voting.

Politicians always try to fix problems by applying force to the symptoms rather than searching out the root causes and dealing with them first. This is a perennial problem with ‘democratic’ governance that I guess we’re going to be forever stuck with.

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Britain’s newspapers, pointing this week to a rise in the number of children being sent home from school due to alleged ‘racist behaviour,’ would have their declining readerships believe there is a real problem with child racism.

But critical commentators have highlighted that some of those children being suspended are as young as four, and that even in cases involving older pupils, the problem often lies more with the teachers themselves.

More than 15,000 suspensions for ‘racism’ took place last year, compared to 7,400 in 2021—a more than 100% increase. Almost 2,500 of the 2024 suspensions related to children at primary school, attended by those aged four to 11.

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Those arrested on Aug. 20 were Devon Collier, 37; Tyrone Tisby, 47; Frank Tisby, 38; Jeremy Shepard, 38; Jermaine Kimbrough, 22; Michael Lewis, 20; and Marquell Lewis, 26.

Let’s see: Tyrone, Jermaine, Marquell … obviously white supremacists.

Newsbusters.

The latest hot clip of former MSNBC host Joy Reid losing her mind came on the podcast The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali. The August 15 episode was titled “How Mediocre White Men and Their Fragility Are Destroying America.”

Joy was wearing a hat with the abbreviation “FDT.” It was especially kooky when the subject was Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center and the Kennedy Center Honors.

If it weren’t for white people, Joy [oxymoron] Reid would be sitting outside of a grass hut in West Africa pounding out millet porridge for supper. That’s gratitude for you.

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Unbelievable.

Black community leaders in Cincinnati held a press conference on Monday to demand the arrest of one of the victims of the black-on-white mob attack that garnered national attention, last month.

Six alleged assailants – Aisha Devaughn, Jermaine Matthews, Montianez Merriweather, Dekyra Vernon, Dominique Kittle, and Patrick Rosemond – have been indicted on eight charges each, including felonious assault and aggravated rioting, following a grand jury indictment.

Victor Davis Hanson.

Recently, a large group of black youths began pummeling several white adults in downtown Cincinnati.

The original altercation apparently broke out between a black and white male in he-said/he-said fashion.

But that dispute soon turned into a virtual free-for-all.

Numerous male and female black youths sucker-punched a middle-aged woman and a man. Others continued to kick or body slam the victims, who were sprawled on their backs and seemingly unconscious.

There were many disturbing aspects to the beat-downs.

One, the violence broke out along racial and age fault lines. After the initial one-on-one dispute, groups of black youths swarmed solitary older white bystanders to pound them.

Two, the surrounding assembled group of black youths not only failed to intervene to restrain the bullies. They also recorded the beatings for social media and were heard cheering on the one-sided violence.

Three, there was neither a police presence nor any timely Good Samaritan interventions.

Instead, what ended the attacks was simply the fact that at least two of the targets appeared nearly comatose. So their assailants apparently concluded that their agenda of beating whites into unconsciousness was mostly complete.

Four, oddly few of the usual black spokespeople who habitually comment on interracial violence were to be seen.

During the fake Jussie Smollett attack, self-appointed leaders from Al Sharpton to Kamala Harris immediately issued warnings about so-called systemic white racism that had reared its ugly head to victimize Smollett.

Yet when it was revealed Smollett had concocted the entire charade—and even hired his own assaulters—there were few if any retractions from those once so eager to shout “racist!”

Such demagoguery is a well-known pattern dating back to the days of the Tawana Brawley rape hoax, the Duke Lacrosse charade, the Covington kids ruse, the Michael Ford “Hands-up-Don’t Shoot” fabrication, the “pseudo-transformation of George Zimmerman into a ‘white Hispanic,’” or the NASCAR noose fable.

Victor Davis Hanson.

There was a very disturbing event this past weekend in Cincinnati, Ohio. There was an altercation between two males, apparently.

Things were said. We don’t know what was said. We don’t know if anything untoward was said.

But they developed—that altercation expanded. And what was disturbing of it, there was a racial component—black, white—but more importantly, after this altercation expanded, it was all asymmetrical. The black group was much larger than the white group. It was much younger. Most of the people were males, maybe 50 or so. Most of their attackers in the second part of this altercation were young and black.

More importantly, once people hit the ground or were sucker punched, people from the crowd came in, stomped on them, body slammed them, and it was almost like a free-for-all, that people smelled blood and they wanted to go in for the kill. It was very disturbing.

And the other thing that was disturbing about it was they sucker punched a woman, knocked her unconscious, and then people continued to pelt her. More importantly, there were black females that joined in this ruckus, like it was a celebration. They were stomping people on the ground. And then the reaction of the crowd, it was almost people were celebrating it.

And what was the reaction to law enforcement? They said they’re going to investigate the people who were involved. But I guess a lot of the reaction is that none of the media covered it, at least the legacy media. It was on Fox News and the New York Post, etc., but not in the legacy media. It was almost as if they were saying, “This is a taboo subject.”

Black people can beat on random white people and nobody dares take any action. Yet if something happens to a black person, even a drug addict under the influence or a criminal caught in the act, it’s all FREDDY GRAY and TRAYVON MARTIN and GENTLE GIANT and CIVIL RIGHTS and BLACK RIGHTS MATTER and riots and so on. Eventually white people are going to get fed up and black people will not enjoy what happens next.

UPDATE: Here’s How Attack in Cincinnati Gained National Attention and the DOJ Became Involved

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Cory Bowman, the half-brother of Vice President J.D. Vance and also running for mayor of Cincinnati, ignited outrage on X after exposing a disturbing social media post by Cincinnati Council Member Victoria Parks, who said the Whites “begged for that beat down” in downtown Cincinnati last weekend. This comes on the heels of Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge’s absurd attempt to downplay the Black mob assault, raising very serious concerns about the city’s woke leadership.

“They begged for that beat down! I am grateful for the whole story,” Parks wrote on what appears to be a Facebook post. Bowman took a screenshot of the post and reposted it on X.

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Last week, Cincinnati, OH made the national news after video footage went viral of crowds exiting a “black culture” jazz music festival. Marauding groups of the fatigue subset (the usual suspects) attacked at least three unsuspecting white victims as they walked along the bustling business district. One victim was an older man who was stomped and punched repeatedly into the road by multiple assailants. Another victim was a woman who was beaten unconscious.

Why did they do it? Because those people were convenient targets, it would seem. Or, perhaps simply because they were the most convenient white targets. It’s hard to say, but one can make an educated guess according to the evidence and common sense.

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Milwaukee is the latest in a long list of US cities facing a rapid retail exodus in minority neighborhoods and once again the blame is being placed on the companies in question rather than the behavior of the residents as they protests the rising tide of “food deserts”.

At the beginning of July, city officials mounted a public outcry after Cincinnati-based Kroger Co. announced the decision to close at least five Pick ‘n Save supermarket locations, including one in Milwaukee’s Metcalfe Park neighborhood.

The city was also notified by Walgreens that they will be closing at least seven locations over the next two years and CVS will be closing some locations as well. Activists argue that the closures center around “black and brown neighborhoods” and that these areas “deserve access” to nearby grocery outlets.

Except when they do have ‘access to groceries’, they don’t buy them; they shoplift them. That’s why the companies are closing the stores. If the companies could do business there without crippling losses, they’d be happy to keep the stores open. s

The Times (UK).

Over the weekend thousands of people attended anti-immigration marches organised in at least 50 Polish towns and cities by Confederation, a far-right party, and various football hooligan groups. In Warsaw rival rallies took place near by.

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Remember former Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) who got censured for pulling the fire alarm in the Capitol Building as lawmakers prepared to vote to prevent a government shutdown? He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor, paid a $1,000 fine and lost the next Democrat primary.

He’s back.

Bowman, appearing June 25 as a panelist on MSNBC, said, “The reason why heart disease and cancer and obesity and diabetes are bigger in the black community is because of the stress we carry from having to deal with being called the n-word directly or indirectly every day.”

In my experience, the N-word is used mostly by other black people. Black comedians use it all the time. Why no complaints there?

Read it.

A man is on life support after he was injured during an immigration raid at an agricultural area of Camarillo on Thursday, according to a family member.

A woman who reached out to Eyewitness News said her family member, Jaime Garcia, fell 30 feet off a building while he was possibly trying to run from federal agents.

He was taken to the hospital with a broken neck and skull.

So basically it’s his Own Damned Fault. Memo to self: Don’t run from Federal agents. The neck you save may be your own.

And, of course, Trump is to blame.

John McWhorter.

I’m no fan of performative identity politics, and I think racial preferences are long past their expiration date. Yet I don’t think the New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani did anything wrong when, as was reported last week, he checked off “Black or African American” on a college application. As a man of South Asian descent who spent the first part of his life living in Uganda, he was within his rights to call himself African American. The problem is that the term appeared on the application, or anywhere else. Plenty of Black people have never liked it, and ever more are joining the ranks. It’s time to let it go.

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A term that is meant to be descriptive but that can refer to Cedric the Entertainer, Trevor Noah, Elon Musk and Zohran Mamdani is a little silly.

The Left has never shrunk from silly. Indeed, their entire program is to make the silly into a semblance of normal.

New York Post.

Self-described “nepo baby” Zohran Mamdani declared a measly $2,000 in the bank on his latest state disclosures.

That’s despite his privileged upbringing and family money — and an annual salary of $131,000 as a state lawmaker, a job he’s had for five years.

The $2,000 on his form comes from a retirement plan from the housing-focused social-justice organization Chhaya, where he worked briefly as a “foreclosure prevention counselor” in 2019, before he was elected in 2020 to represent Queen’s 36th District in the state Assembly.

So he’s never had a Real Job, just been sucking on the public teat all his working life. A perfect Child of the Crust.