The claim that Michael Steele and Marc Lamont Hill were particularly talented and somehow suppressed by the prominence of race-grifters like Jesse Jackson seems to have aged rather poorly, given that Steele and Hill ([Edit: who just today wrote that OJ *did* in fact kill two people, but his acquittal was nevertheless "necessary" because of racism or something]) have turned into rather pathetic race-grifters these days.
"suddenly there was a renaissance of talented blacks – Thomas Sowell, Michael Steele, Ron Christie, Ken Blackwell, Allen West, Niger Innis, Star Parker, Angela McGlowan – and those are just the conservatives."
How talented are any of these people really? Would I know their names if they weren't black, and didn't thereby obtain a special immunity allowing them to say what whites cannot? I like Sowell and all, but I recently read Hanania's poll of his readers (yes, the ex alternative-right commentator) on how his readers ranked figures and he was ranked better than Adam Smith, capitalism's most important economist. So even readers of the right wing commentariat's least black friendly guy still practice obscene levels of affirmative action. What are Sowell's great new findings, as opposed to rehashings of earlier work? 'American blacks behave as an exaggerated version of blacks in basically every African country because of southern white culture'? It's an innovative theory, I'll give you that.
At some point we are gonna need to drop the pandering. All the figures in question would do well in white society, but if we are gonna be worshipping them like this and pretending they are genuinely exceptional; then every wignat will have been proven correct.
Excellent piece. Bottom line: by refusing to treat people like grownups we only continue to infantilize them. That’s the way the world works and we don’t seem to be able to learn that.
But once again black criminals are being coddled not only in NYC but virtually every major city. Today's woke and stridently pro-black crime policies make the policies of 70's through the early 90's look Hitlerian by comparison. Back in those days cities usually lacked the funding and had short staffed police depts. but today we're seeing a revolutionary far left regimes who believe all violent black criminals are victims of an unjust society and if America wasn't so darn racist and white privileged these cretins would be astronauts chemical engineers.
As it happened, I was driving cab at the time of the murders and my car's radio didn't work, so a couple days after the murder when I heard the name Simpson I thought the story was about the TV family. Similarly, I didn't pay attention to the trial but I did tune in for the verdict.
Long story short, all one ever needed to know about the trial was what Ann wrote in reply to Kim Goldman saying that 'if only Furhman hadn't used the N word, OJ might have been convicted.'
Ann's response was to the effect of 'let me save you the suspense; there was no way that jury was ever going to find OJ guilty.
That might have been around the time I first heard the term jury nullification.
Thinking back to the OJ trial, and fiasco verdict, is an interesting moment in time to compare then versus now.
If the very same events occurred today, there probably would be riots and looting, AFTER OJ was found not guilty!
Much the way that major sports championship wins, all lead to violent riots now.
And 90% of it all goes back to Obama, and the democrats spending 8 years claiming that every objection to him was racism.
For those of us old enough to remember it, back in the 70's and 80's, race relations had actually gotten pretty good, before being re-inflamed by the race hustlers, hoax racial crime frauds, and the BLM movement to offer sainthood to known guilty black criminals.
To anyone that needs a reminder, go re-watch the movie "48 Hours" with Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte- There is an exchange in that movie, that would get everyone involved thrown into the "shame" federal prison today. I won't spoil it, but Nick calls Eddie something that no audience could suffer today, without drowning in their virtue signaling tears.
While in high school and Jr Collage I worked for a pharmacy delivering meds to individuals and nursing homes. Time flies so
The exact year is fuzzy, but in reference to”Tawana Brawley”, she was working as a nurses aid in Hopewell Convalescence Center in Hopewell Va. Rev Al evidently did not share his race baiting income with her.
Thank you for this thought provoking writing Ann. Yes. One only need to have been present when President Obama was elected to see how much the race card had been played. The racial demagoguery was/is back. I pray for a day when a person’s outward appearance doesn’t define their wholeness.
I forgot the circumstances of how the story popped in the news, but Tawana Brawley resurfaced as an LPN or RN somewhere. The pittance Pagones received was abysmal.
And O’Reilly lost my respect when he kid-gloved Obama in that Super Bowl interview. Pathetic.
After Al Sharpton lost his grip on NYC, he moved on and became regular guest at Clinton's White House. Along with Jesse Jackson he used his newfound White House influence to force corporations to adopt "diversity" divisions and donate millions of dollars to anti-White causes. The subsequent "cancel culture" is the direct result of Jackson/Sharpton influence.
The claim that Michael Steele and Marc Lamont Hill were particularly talented and somehow suppressed by the prominence of race-grifters like Jesse Jackson seems to have aged rather poorly, given that Steele and Hill ([Edit: who just today wrote that OJ *did* in fact kill two people, but his acquittal was nevertheless "necessary" because of racism or something]) have turned into rather pathetic race-grifters these days.
I heard the cancer that killed OJ has been declared Not Guilty.
"suddenly there was a renaissance of talented blacks – Thomas Sowell, Michael Steele, Ron Christie, Ken Blackwell, Allen West, Niger Innis, Star Parker, Angela McGlowan – and those are just the conservatives."
How talented are any of these people really? Would I know their names if they weren't black, and didn't thereby obtain a special immunity allowing them to say what whites cannot? I like Sowell and all, but I recently read Hanania's poll of his readers (yes, the ex alternative-right commentator) on how his readers ranked figures and he was ranked better than Adam Smith, capitalism's most important economist. So even readers of the right wing commentariat's least black friendly guy still practice obscene levels of affirmative action. What are Sowell's great new findings, as opposed to rehashings of earlier work? 'American blacks behave as an exaggerated version of blacks in basically every African country because of southern white culture'? It's an innovative theory, I'll give you that.
At some point we are gonna need to drop the pandering. All the figures in question would do well in white society, but if we are gonna be worshipping them like this and pretending they are genuinely exceptional; then every wignat will have been proven correct.
Excellent piece. Bottom line: by refusing to treat people like grownups we only continue to infantilize them. That’s the way the world works and we don’t seem to be able to learn that.
But once again black criminals are being coddled not only in NYC but virtually every major city. Today's woke and stridently pro-black crime policies make the policies of 70's through the early 90's look Hitlerian by comparison. Back in those days cities usually lacked the funding and had short staffed police depts. but today we're seeing a revolutionary far left regimes who believe all violent black criminals are victims of an unjust society and if America wasn't so darn racist and white privileged these cretins would be astronauts chemical engineers.
And then a new generation of grifters and hustlers arose and it went right back down the crapper!
As it happened, I was driving cab at the time of the murders and my car's radio didn't work, so a couple days after the murder when I heard the name Simpson I thought the story was about the TV family. Similarly, I didn't pay attention to the trial but I did tune in for the verdict.
Long story short, all one ever needed to know about the trial was what Ann wrote in reply to Kim Goldman saying that 'if only Furhman hadn't used the N word, OJ might have been convicted.'
Ann's response was to the effect of 'let me save you the suspense; there was no way that jury was ever going to find OJ guilty.
That might have been around the time I first heard the term jury nullification.
Thinking back to the OJ trial, and fiasco verdict, is an interesting moment in time to compare then versus now.
If the very same events occurred today, there probably would be riots and looting, AFTER OJ was found not guilty!
Much the way that major sports championship wins, all lead to violent riots now.
And 90% of it all goes back to Obama, and the democrats spending 8 years claiming that every objection to him was racism.
For those of us old enough to remember it, back in the 70's and 80's, race relations had actually gotten pretty good, before being re-inflamed by the race hustlers, hoax racial crime frauds, and the BLM movement to offer sainthood to known guilty black criminals.
To anyone that needs a reminder, go re-watch the movie "48 Hours" with Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte- There is an exchange in that movie, that would get everyone involved thrown into the "shame" federal prison today. I won't spoil it, but Nick calls Eddie something that no audience could suffer today, without drowning in their virtue signaling tears.
Amen!
R.I.P. OJ and hopefully find the real killer.
It's funny the pictures I see today with OJ wearing his infamous gloves, the gloves appear to fit!
While in high school and Jr Collage I worked for a pharmacy delivering meds to individuals and nursing homes. Time flies so
The exact year is fuzzy, but in reference to”Tawana Brawley”, she was working as a nurses aid in Hopewell Convalescence Center in Hopewell Va. Rev Al evidently did not share his race baiting income with her.
Thank you for this thought provoking writing Ann. Yes. One only need to have been present when President Obama was elected to see how much the race card had been played. The racial demagoguery was/is back. I pray for a day when a person’s outward appearance doesn’t define their wholeness.
" ...then guess what happened? Nothing." Exactly! Brilliant and engaging analysis as usual.
I forgot the circumstances of how the story popped in the news, but Tawana Brawley resurfaced as an LPN or RN somewhere. The pittance Pagones received was abysmal.
And O’Reilly lost my respect when he kid-gloved Obama in that Super Bowl interview. Pathetic.
After Al Sharpton lost his grip on NYC, he moved on and became regular guest at Clinton's White House. Along with Jesse Jackson he used his newfound White House influence to force corporations to adopt "diversity" divisions and donate millions of dollars to anti-White causes. The subsequent "cancel culture" is the direct result of Jackson/Sharpton influence.