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For anyone interested, Glenn and John explored the "people of color" question earlier this year: https://glennloury.substack.com/p/the-unified-field-theory-of-non-whiteness

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John, I don't see that in my ordinary conversations. Not between friends or even family discussions. Perhaps this type of ordinary conversation you mention is mainly occurring among those that have been told they can't be racist so they now feel they can say anything and not worry about how it is heard or how it's received.

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On the topic of voter suppression that maybe wasn't:

This was written in a reasonably straight style by a Daily Kos front-pager. 39% of the voters on the first day of early voting in GA were Black, and Abrams gave signs of understanding that she needs Black men to vote overwhelmingly for her.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/19/2129917/-Despite-Kemp-s-efforts-to-suppress-their-vote-39-of-Georgia-s-first-day-early-voters-were-Black

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Has anyone noticed that diversity isn't really a strength?

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White kids running up and down the aisles of planes!! That was hysterical.

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I am not too worried about how little white kids run around. I am very interested how black male adults victimize so many people and the media ignores it.

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Was revealing the conversation legal? If it was not, didn't the participants in the conversation have a reasonable expectation that it would not be revealed? Why are the media concentrating on how shocking they claim to find the conversation, and not how shocking the violation of privacy is?

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I've been saying for some time now that the acronym BIPOC is a fantasy concept, mashing together groups of people who really have not much in common and in some cases don't like one another all that much. Now, courtesy of the Los Angeles City Council, my opinion is backed by empirical proof...

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Yo Glenn, John, what they said was racist and obnoxious. Wish the Dems would take as much interest as black on black shootings in Philly. Seems the latter is far more insulting than the former.

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Call me crazy, but when you divide people up along racial lines why are people surprised you get racism? Great column as always and always look forward to the unique analysis from Glenn and John.

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In the end, people are a tribal species. That there might not be complete harmony among every hue in the "of color" spectrum is only surprising to those who see people as group members first and individuals after that. Maybe. And now that resignations have been handed in, then what?

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I am especially curious what John thinks linguistically about the usage of the mexican spanish term for monkey here. It is not clear to me if the meaning is the same as if it was spoken in english?

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Time 46:45 - John speaks of being disturbed by (a) exaggeration of victim status, (b) a coddling news media and public. Both a and b are abnormal behavior. Hitler was part of “a”. In mental health and psychology, there is a concept known as “Locus Of Control”” (LOC). A mentally healthy person is one who has an internal LOC (I am in control of much) vs. external LOC (Others are in control of my fate).

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Several years ago, a co-worker who knew I was Muslim would tease me and joke about Islam. He had a good sense of humor, without being disrespectful. Another co-worker teased me about having a sex-change after HR corrected a mistake in my file. He made me laugh. Both male and born before 1965. Another co-worker (female) who was retiring- I asked her, “You are single - do you want to get married?” Her: “Are you going to be loyal?” Then we both exploded in laughter. That is the result of comraderie and bonding. At work whenever there was any Equity discussion- complete silence from everyone every single time. No way is that healthy.

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Welcome to the real world. Shocking? Not really.

Years ago when the trickle of illegals crossing the border became a flood I became alarmed. I saw what was happening: the takeover.

An online group discussed what could be done about it and set a meeting in Santa Monica at a Burger King. I'm not a joiner but I thought it would be interesting and volunteered to join the meeting.

I drove to the Burger King but there were no cranky white nativists to be seen. I drove around the block and circled the Burger King. Still no cranky white nativists, but there was a table filled with young black men.

I approached the table. "Are you here for the meeting?" "Yeah," they enthusiastically replied.

My father was the co-head of national trade union, and a frequent guest at our house was A.A. Randolph, President of the Pullman Worker’s Union, who was trying to get more blacks into AFL trade unions with my father's support. (They were not successful; high-paying trade union jobs were family legacies and ethnic enclaves.) I thought that since the Civil Rights era, things must have surely changed.

The cranky white nativists finally showed up and they were everything I expected, cranky white nativists. But I was interested in the young black men and asked them why they were there. Jobs. They were looking for what all recent immigrants looked for: construction work. The first step in The American Dream. (Everyone in California is an immigrant.)

All construction in Los Angeles is dominated by Hispanics. I was building my own home in Santa Monica and begged the contractor to hire at least a few black workers. He hired one. A "helper, “ but finally had to let him go because the Hispanics froze him out.

All white contractors in California speak Spanish, the saturation is so deep. A few of the black young men I met at the Burger King took me to a construction site in Pacific Palisades from which they had been fired. I spoke to the foreman and he was not polite. Get off the site he demanded. I refused, backed up by the young black men. The Mexican crews laid down their tools and gathered around. It became clear that if we did not leave, there would be violence.

This is the reality. The recently emigrated Irish during the Civil War rioted against the Union Army draft and lynched several blacks while almost destroying the city. Racist? Sure.

But the real fear was that freed slaves would take their jobs.

I guided my young black friends (my wife is black) to contact the LA City government (a Democrat machine) and file Civil Rights claims against the contractors. I kept track of their progress for a while (I am a writer-producer and was making a tv show and the hours were round-the-clock) but eventually lost track. In sum, nothing happened.

And there is another factor: on my own home site, nearly all the skilled Mexican workers were related. Behind them was the force and disciplined power of family. Nothing had really changed since my father’s time.

As for “the people of color” fantasy, it was yet another Democrat lie. It never existed.

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What it revealed was what Glenn referred to at the end. It revealed a hoax.

What was that hoax? That the Democratic Party is the party of “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” It revealed that the Democratic Party is lead by racial tribalists and people who encourage racial tribalism.

The best Democratic politicians just learn to speak the newspeak even behind closed doors. When a politician reveals the hoax, well they are told to resign by the ones that are better at keeping it concealed.

Remember when Biden stated that a black person who isn’t a Democrat isn’t black? Same sort of mindset we hear in the audio recording of the LA City Council. People are expected to do what is conceived as the interests of their “race”, rather than themselves, their family, the country, or their religion. When it comes to “identity”, race takes precedence.

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