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Poll: MOST Black Americans Believe in Anti-American Racial Conspiracy Theories

By Selwyn Duke

What are the fruits of propaganda, of playing the woke racial-grievance card? Here’s one consequence:

Most black Americans today, a new study has found, believe in racial conspiracy theories — i.e., that U.S. institutions were designed to hold them back.

What’s more, the entity conducting the study, the normally sober Pew Research Center, descended into wokeness when reporting the results.

Salon Complains: “Minneapolis Isn’t Sorry About George Floyd”

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By Selwyn Duke

We now live, some would say, in an upside-down world. Back in 1934, police ambushed criminals Bonnie and Clyde by a remote highway, firing approximately 130 rounds. There were so many holes in the corpses, the undertaker later said, that he had trouble embalming them. But the cops didn’t end up in prison, and nobody said the government and larger society should be sorry about the pair’s plight. They were infamous lawbreakers, after all.

Yet today police can become infamous if they treat criminals just a bit too roughly — or even merely do their jobs. An example is miscreant George Floyd’s 2020 death, whose five-year anniversary occurred on Memorial Day.

And, boy, is he ever being memorialized. Just consider an article at left-wing Salon by one Taylor Carik. “Minneapolis isn’t sorry about George Floyd,” Carik laments and scolds. Yet he’s not surprised because, as he explains, Minnesota is “The Jim Crow of the North.” We don’t know if Carik wrote this with a straight face. But it’s likely as true as Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s claim that conservatives find his masculinity intimidating.

The Yawning Electorate: “Black Fatigue” in America Is Real — and Intensifying

By Selwyn Duke

In case you missed it, and the most blessed among us did, Sunday was the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s death. Activists who didn’t succeed in getting police defunded, and others, gathered to mark the event and have a complaint-fest. Race hustler “Reverend” Al Sharpton, for example, compared Floyd’s plight to that of 14-year-old lynching victim Emmett Till.

“What Emmett Till was in his time,” Sharpton said in Houston, “George Floyd has been for this time in history.”

Mind you, Floyd was a criminal strung out on drugs, who was resisting arrest, when he died in Minneapolis. Till was at worst a cheeky adolescent boy who ran into the wrong people while visiting relatives in Mississippi. But, yes, Sharpton is right: There are similarities (i.e., both individuals are rumored to have drunk water at some point in their lives).

To such racial agitation, though, there’s increasingly a certain profound reaction.

Yawn.

This phenomenon has a name, too: “black fatigue.”

De Facto “Hate Speech” Law in America? Woman Falsely Arrested for Using Racial Slur

By Selwyn Duke

Founded by Puritans in 1638 as a safe harbor against religious persecution, New Haven, Connecticut, is, ironically, now no safe haven from the dark religion of wokeness’ speech suppression. A shocking example is a conservative woman who was put through the city’s criminal-justice crucible for an entire year. Her trespass?

She allegedly used a racial slur.

Videos would ultimately exonerate her, but not before she incurred heavy legal fees and suffered intense, life-rending stress. An added irony is that the woman, First Amendment advocate Lauren Noble, is the founder of the Buckley Institute. This is an entity that exists to promote “freedom of speech at Yale University,” which is located in New Haven.

Monumental DEI: Statues of Generic Black Women Being Erected — Replacing the West’s Greats

By Selwyn Duke

Does it matter when a society’s long-present statues are torn down and replaced with very different ones? Well, consider an analogy. Imagine that upon coming home each day, you noticed that more and more pictures of your family members, which had adorned your walls, mantels, and desktops, were disappearing and were being replaced with those of people you don’t even recognize.

Would it matter?

Well, this is essentially what has been happening with our national family. For many years now, statues have been continually torn down/removed, replaced with people of little accomplishment and/or poor character. One of late cocaine-using Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry, erected in his city in 2018, is an example. Even further down the rabbit hole of risibility, statues and other monuments honoring criminal George Floyd appeared in 2020-2021.

This brings us to a new monument in Times Square of a black woman of, uh, let’s say, generous proportions. Oh, unlike Floyd, we can’t say she’s a criminal; she’s got that going for her. But that’s for an odd reason:

She’s not anybody.

Leaked Docs: Nashville “Trans” Shooter’s Homicidal Fantasies Were Known YEARS Before She Killed Kids

By Selwyn Duke

Should healthcare professionals have reported “trans” school-shooter-to-be Audrey Hale to authorities after she related experiencing suicidal and homicidal ideation? And they did know about these troubling developments, too, leaked documents show — years before her violent act.

What’s more, should Hale’s travails have raised extra alarms because, research shows, “trans” individuals are more likely to kill than be killed?

Black Americans in Africa Learn: The Grass Is Actually Meaner on the Other Side of the Fence

By Selwyn Duke

“Thank God our grandpappies caught that boat!” is a line generally attributed to late boxing great Muhammad Ali. It appears, however, that it might’ve actually been uttered by rival George Foreman’s manager, Dick Sadler, in 1974. Regardless, the meaning is the same. The man was happy his ancestors ended up in America — even if it was slavery that brought them here. (The issue arose because Ali and Foreman were at the time in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for their “Rumble in the Jungle” heavyweight title fight.)

Someone else who learned this is a black American woman who, distressed about the “racist” United States, moved to Ghana. How’d it go? Well, she didn’t exactly find her Wakanda.

Killer Karmelo Cashes in: Family Parlaying Knifing of White Boy Into Bling Lifestyle

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By Selwyn Duke

The warning that “crime doesn’t pay” is surely true — in the spiritual sense, that is. Yet the material one may be a different matter, especially in this time in which villainy is confused with virtue. A recent example is healthcare CEO murderer Luigi Mangione, whose crowdfunding donations have reached close to $1 million.

An even more recent example is Karmelo Anthony. Anthony is the 17-year-old who brutally stabbed to death fellow teen Austin Metcalf over what should’ve been a minor seating dispute. The incident occurred April 2 at a high-school track meet at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas.

As with Mangione — whose crime was caught on video — there’s no disputing Anthony’s guilt. In fact, when the police labeled him the suspected perpetrator, he reportedly replied, “I’m not a suspect; I did it.” (He unabashedly claims self-defense, even though the case’s particulars say otherwise.) One difference between the killings, though, is that while Mangione had a political motive, Anthony’s case has a racial component. Anthony is black; Metcalf was white.

Another difference is that Anthony’s family is apparently quite shameless about parlaying their son’s crime into a payday. It’s not just using money donated for Karmelo’s legal defense for a new house, car, and other luxuries, either. This they have done.

(Note: The Anthonys have raised almost half as much as the Mangiones in approximately one-ninth the time. White privilege, anyone?)

It’s also that, unbelievably, the family is now reportedly marketing murderer merch.

Wokeness as Bold as Trump: Arrested for a Meme, Dead-naming Punishment, Black Bird-watcher Bias

By Selwyn Duke

Legendary president Ronald Reagan authored a “revolution,” seeking to shrink government, lower taxes, reduce regulations, and defeat the Soviet menace. He accomplished much governmentally, too, earning the ire of leftists who dubbed him “Ronald Ray-gun.” Yet in truth, he could do little about our cultural trajectory, and American society was notably more “politically correct” (i.e., Woke 1.0) when he left office in 1989 than when he’d entered it in ’81. It’s an old story: You can change who’s at the government’s helm, but who’s at the cultural “government’s” helm — that of academia, the media, and entertainment — remains the same.

(That is, unless you have an autocratic state playing cultural puppeteer.)

This said, one difference between the Reagan and Trump revolutions is that MAGA apparently has greater cultural focus. Despite this, though, and as during Reagan’s time, wokeness marches on. This is illustrated, too, by some recent stories, ones that in the ’80s would’ve been unheard of — or satire.

The Case for Race and Sex Discrimination

By Selwyn Duke

A few decades ago a woman I knew well, of Japanese descent, told me a story about a time she walked into a Korean restaurant. “We don’t want your kind in here,” someone staffing the eatery bluntly told her. Old prejudices die hard, and the woman promptly left. She could’ve filed a lawsuit, of course, as some people might have; really, though, the restaurateur did her a favor. How? Let’s consider an alternative reality in her situation.

The restaurant owner, fearing government anti-discrimination law and court action, could’ve felt compelled to seat my friend. Then, with the prejudice-born hatred exacerbated by resentment over having to serve someone they detest, the staff could have—and likely would have—contaminated her food with foreign matter. (Use your imagination. Yuck.) So, question:

Is it wise creating a situation in which someone who hates your guts is forced to serve you? Do you want that person preparing your meal? Are you fine with such an individual baking your cake and sticking his wrathful hands in the dough?

Trump Must Scrap Discriminatory, Anti-white Obama/Biden School Discipline Policies, Says Parents Group

By Selwyn Duke

White students can be suspended and expelled from school at higher rates than Asian-descent students, and they are. Yet no one calls it discriminatory; in fact, almost nobody even mentions it.

Boys can be suspended and expelled from school at higher rates than girls, and they are. Yet no one calls it discriminatory; in fact, almost nobody even mentions it.

When black and Hispanic students are suspended and expelled from school at higher rates than white students, however, it’s a different story. Then not only is it called discriminatory, but the government will pressure schools to “equalize” the numbers. Yet as Professor Thomas Sowell put it in 2014, “Unless you believe that black boys cannot possibly be misbehaving more often than Asian American girls, what does this political numbers game accomplish?”

The answer: the implementation of social engineering.