The "Kendi phenomena " has a lot of blame to go around; BU, the donor/dupes, Kendi. So both John and Glenn are correct when aggregated. The blame however overwhelmingly belongs to Kendi. John's argument is to me similar to the Flip Wilson famous line, "The Devil made me do it." Blame this whirlwind of fame and money that led the unsuspecting, innocent lad wrong. Enough of this off loading of guilt onto others.
At best, John's argument is similar to the Hamas defender of the slaughter of Jews a few weeks ago, when she said, "You have to take it in context." The Hamas slaughter and the Kendi phenomena and its rewards may have to be "understood" in context but not validated, approved, or accepted
Honest people do not accept a highly paid position for which they know themselves to lack the required competence. If you are honest, you say to whomever is offering the position, ‘I’m sorry I don’t know where to begin. I have no idea what is required to produce what it is you want. In fact I don’t even understand what it is you want.” You don’t accept money when you know you can’t produce anything. To blame only BU and the like is to deny Kendi the very agency that you rightly insist belongs to all members of society.
Let's nip it in the bud-buttered biscuit: Clarence Thomas, Larry Elder, Candance Owens, Tim Scott, Shelby Steele, Thomas Sowell... and you. I don't ride in the same car.
The Symbolic Betrayal of the Black Race: In his book, “Black Labor White Wealth”, Dr. Claude Anderson relates," the term Uncle Tom is not an appropriate label for an individual who is “white on the inside and black on the outside” and sells out his race by placirsonal gains with whites ahead of the rights and gains of his people. Contrary to popular usage of the label, the character Tom was not the culprit in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Uncle Tom was a brave man with dignity who cared about his family and race. The real villain was another black slave named Sambo. He wly committed to the white master and used every opportunity to undermine the other slaves.Sambo, in many respects, was like today’s black conservatives. Sambo always followed the white slave master, Simon Legree, and offered to show him how to “tree the coons.” It was black Sambo who beat Uncle to death for both refusing to whip a black female slave or sell out his people. Uncle Tom tried to empower his people by undermining and beating the social structure whenever he could. Uncle Tom felt it was important to get his people across the river to freedom. He risked his life to do so. The Sambo character personifies a very successful social control construct created by conservatives. He was such a successful phenomenon that the concept he personified became a greater danger to blacks than Uncle Tom. As blacks move towards structuring policies of racial accountability, it will be very important for them to know who helps and who hurts the race. Sambo was the black slave character in numerous novels and movies who was willing to pick up a weapon and defend his white master against the approaching Union army or hide the master’s silver from Northern carpetbaggers. What is the difference between the fictional Sambo characters and today’s real-life blacks who join the conservative movement to argue against affirmative action, black reparations, and set-asides? They declare that the world is now color blind and are opposed to any policies requiring whites to share the socioeconomic burden that centuries of slavery and second class citizenship have imposed on blacks. Isn’t espousing a color blind, race-neutral, melting pot society, a moderate way of hiding master’s silver? What are black conservatives conserving when black America is burdened by poverty, crime, unemployment, homelessness, and other social pathologies? Based upon historical treatment alone, there should be a general antagonism between blacks and conservatives. Though conservatives claim that they are not racist, for centuries, they have opposed programs and policies to help blacks. Andrew Hacker, a white writer, provided insight on this in his new book, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, and Unequal. Hacker asserted that: “There persists the belief that members of the black race represent an inferior strain of the human species…Of course, the belief is seldom voiced in public. Most whites who call themselves conservatives hold this view about blacks and proclaim it when they are sure of their company. Since white conservatives share their true feelings only in the privacy of other whites, there is a strong possibility that black conservatives do not know how white conservatives truly feel about them.”
Be brave and show us your real identity and a pic. I'm curious to see the look of defeat and death on your face. A failed white man who's now living as a transient in motels and dark alleys. Becky thinks you're nasty-looking, enough to make her vomit for hours. I will accept your pathetic unconditional surrender old man.
Right now, you're laying on your death bed with a depend diaper across your face and two between your scaly legs. The smell of death is upon you. People don't visit you because of the stench, especially insofar as your rancid racism. The uncle, Billy Bob, who touched you in private areas as a child, is the exception. He provides great comfort for you. Billy Bob is still required to register with local law enforcement.
No matter how long it lives, the Greatest Lion will eventually die miserably. That's the world.
At their Peak, they rule, chase other animals, catch, devour, gulp, and leave their crumbs for hyenas. But age comes fast.
The old Lion can't hunt, can't kill, or defend itself. It roams and roars until it runs out of luck. It will be cornered by the hyenas, nibbled at, and eaten alive by them. They won't even let it die before it is dismembered.
Life is short. Power is ephemeral. Physical beauty is short-lived, I have seen it in lions. I have seen it in old people. Everyone who lives long enough will become weak and very vulnerable at some point.
Therefore, let us be humble. Help the sick, the weak, and the vulnerable, and most importantly never forget that we will leave the stage one day
I agree with Glenn. I eschewed purchasable credentials in favor of broad - VERY broad - knowledge. My Linked-in page relates that story and reaches the point where "Finally I know almost nothing about almost everything.
I spent 50 years in Watts and Compton doing the same thing. Paying for private schools, mentoring, tutors, field trips.
Little if any return on time and money invested. I suppose you saw what happened with the Gates Foundation trying to help out. A couple of decades and a couple of billion spent, then some bean counter put a pencil to the project and they withdrew after finding out results were very negligible. This is a extremely difficult problem. It's not really solvable.
A white man who was arrested this year for having dozens of weapons and hundreds of rounds of ammunition on North Carolina A&T State University’s campus approached police himself, according to a bond order.
The bond order, which set Brandon Bentley’s initial bond at $75,000 when he was charged early Sunday morning for having numerous weapons in his car on campus, says that the bond was issued to “reasonably assure the appearance of the defendant” and alleges the “defendant poses a danger of injury to another person.”
According to the document, Bentley allegedly swerved into the “PVA of A&T” and approached officers asking for help. The officers saw a handgun in the passenger seat, along with “numerous” other weapons.
My first cousin is the chancellor at this Historically Black College/ University.
Two black senior citizens were murdered in Louisville, Kentucky, on October 24, 2018. Maurice Stallard, 69, was at a Kroger supermarket when Gregory Bush, a 51-year-old white man, walked in and shot him multiple times. Bush then exited the store and shot Vickie Lee Jones, 67, in the parking lot before an armed bystander reportedly fired back, prompting him to flee. Police were unable to confirm accounts that Bush encountered a second armed man, who engaged him in a brief standoff where no shots were fired, according to the New York Times. “Don’t shoot me and I won’t shoot you,” the man’s son, Steve Zinninger, claimed Bush told his father. “Whites don’t kill whites.” Police apprehended Bush minutes later. Bush had no known connection to either of his victims. Any doubt of a racial motive seemed quelled when surveillance footage showed the shooter forcibly tried to enter a black church minutes before moving on to
the supermarket. The Times reports that a member of the 185-year-old First Baptist Church of Jeffersontown grew alarmed when she saw Bush yanking “aggressively” at its locked front doors. Up to ten people were inside the chapel following a midweek service. “I’m just thankful that all of our doors and security was in place,” church administrator Billy Williams said.
A Texas man was sentenced to 90 consecutive life sentences in prison for carrying out a mass shooting at the Cielo Vista Walmart in El Paso, Texas, on Aug. 3, 2019, killing 23 people and injuring 22 more.
On Feb. 8, Patrick Wood Crusius, 24, pleaded guilty to a 90-count indictment with 45 counts of violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act and 45 counts of using a firearm during and in relation to crimes of violence. The defendant was sentenced to one life sentence for each count in the indictment, including for hate crime acts that resulted in the deaths of Andre Anchondo, Jordan Anchondo, Arturo Benavides, Jorge Calvillo Garcia, Guillermo Garcia, Leonardo Campos, Angelina Englisbee, Maria Flores, Raul Flores, Adolfo Cerros Hernandez, Alexander Hoffmann, David Johnson, Luis Alfonso Juarez, Maria Legarreta Rothe, Maribel Loya Hernandez, Ivan Filiberto Manzano, Gloria Irma Marquez, Elsa Mendoza Marquez, Margie Reckard, Sara Regalado Monreal, Javier Amir Rodriguez, Teresa Sanchez, and Juan Velasquez.
Crusius was also sentenced for 22 counts of hate crime acts that caused bodily injury and involved attempts to kill 22 people injured in the shooting. In addition to the hate crimes, Crusius was sentenced for 45 firearms violations, including 23 counts of using a firearm in a federal crime of violence resulting in death, and 22 counts of using a firearm in a federal crime of violence.
White violence? On February 23, 2020, Amad Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was murdered in Satilla Shores, a neighborhood near Brunswick in Glynn County, Georgia, United States. Arbery had been pursued by three White residents – Travis McMichael and his father Gregory, who were armed and in one vehicle, and William "Roddie" Bryan, who was in another vehicle and recorded the pursuit and shooting on his cell phone. After Travis exited his vehicle and wielded a shotgun, Travis and Arbery engaged in a physical confrontation, during which Travis shot Arbery. Police interview transcripts detailed that Gregory initiated the chase after seeing Arbery running past his house,suspecting that Arbery had committed burglary or theft in Satilla Shores, but no evidence has emerged of Arbery doing so. According to police testimony, Bryan told police that he saw the chase and joined in
independently but was not sure if Arbery done anything wrong. Arbery had entered an under-construction house with no doors five times in five months, including once shortly before the shooting. Security camera video from inside the house showed no evidence of theft.
The convicted are being gang raped in dark prison rooms as we speak. Lol!
On June 17, 2015, an anti-black mass shooting occurred in Charleston, South Carolina, in which nine African Americans were killed and a tenth was injured during a Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Among the fatalities was the senior pastor, state senator Clementa C. Pinckney. Emanuel AME is one of the oldest black churches in the United States, and it has long been a center for civil rights organizing.
In August 2023, three people were killed in a racially motivated attack after a gunman targeted Black people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, in one of several weekend shootings that again shocked Americans in public places – from stores to football games to parades.
“This shooting was racially motivated and he hated Black people,” Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters said at a news conference early Saturday evening.
Waters said the shooter, who he described as a White man in his 20s, shot and killed himself after the attack. The suspect left behind what the sheriff described as three manifestos outlining his “disgusting ideology of hate” and his motive in the attack.
On May 14, 2022, a mass shooting occurred in Buffalo, New York, United States, at a Tops Friendly Markets supermarket in the East Side neighborhood. Ten people, all of whom were black, were murdered and three were injured. The shooter, identified as 18-year-old Payton S. Gendron,livestreamed part of the attack on Twitch, but the livestream was shut down by the service in under two minutes. Gendron was taken into custody and charged with first-degree murder. He formally entered a plea of "not guilty" on May 19, 2022. On November 28, 2022, Gendron pleaded guilty to all state charges in the shooting, including murder, domestic terrorism, and hate crimes. On February 15, 2023, Gendron was sentenced to 11 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole; as of that date, federal charges are still ongoing.
The "Kendi phenomena " has a lot of blame to go around; BU, the donor/dupes, Kendi. So both John and Glenn are correct when aggregated. The blame however overwhelmingly belongs to Kendi. John's argument is to me similar to the Flip Wilson famous line, "The Devil made me do it." Blame this whirlwind of fame and money that led the unsuspecting, innocent lad wrong. Enough of this off loading of guilt onto others.
At best, John's argument is similar to the Hamas defender of the slaughter of Jews a few weeks ago, when she said, "You have to take it in context." The Hamas slaughter and the Kendi phenomena and its rewards may have to be "understood" in context but not validated, approved, or accepted
Ron Lubbers.
Honest people do not accept a highly paid position for which they know themselves to lack the required competence. If you are honest, you say to whomever is offering the position, ‘I’m sorry I don’t know where to begin. I have no idea what is required to produce what it is you want. In fact I don’t even understand what it is you want.” You don’t accept money when you know you can’t produce anything. To blame only BU and the like is to deny Kendi the very agency that you rightly insist belongs to all members of society.
Let's nip it in the bud-buttered biscuit: Clarence Thomas, Larry Elder, Candance Owens, Tim Scott, Shelby Steele, Thomas Sowell... and you. I don't ride in the same car.
The Symbolic Betrayal of the Black Race: In his book, “Black Labor White Wealth”, Dr. Claude Anderson relates," the term Uncle Tom is not an appropriate label for an individual who is “white on the inside and black on the outside” and sells out his race by placirsonal gains with whites ahead of the rights and gains of his people. Contrary to popular usage of the label, the character Tom was not the culprit in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Uncle Tom was a brave man with dignity who cared about his family and race. The real villain was another black slave named Sambo. He wly committed to the white master and used every opportunity to undermine the other slaves.Sambo, in many respects, was like today’s black conservatives. Sambo always followed the white slave master, Simon Legree, and offered to show him how to “tree the coons.” It was black Sambo who beat Uncle to death for both refusing to whip a black female slave or sell out his people. Uncle Tom tried to empower his people by undermining and beating the social structure whenever he could. Uncle Tom felt it was important to get his people across the river to freedom. He risked his life to do so. The Sambo character personifies a very successful social control construct created by conservatives. He was such a successful phenomenon that the concept he personified became a greater danger to blacks than Uncle Tom. As blacks move towards structuring policies of racial accountability, it will be very important for them to know who helps and who hurts the race. Sambo was the black slave character in numerous novels and movies who was willing to pick up a weapon and defend his white master against the approaching Union army or hide the master’s silver from Northern carpetbaggers. What is the difference between the fictional Sambo characters and today’s real-life blacks who join the conservative movement to argue against affirmative action, black reparations, and set-asides? They declare that the world is now color blind and are opposed to any policies requiring whites to share the socioeconomic burden that centuries of slavery and second class citizenship have imposed on blacks. Isn’t espousing a color blind, race-neutral, melting pot society, a moderate way of hiding master’s silver? What are black conservatives conserving when black America is burdened by poverty, crime, unemployment, homelessness, and other social pathologies? Based upon historical treatment alone, there should be a general antagonism between blacks and conservatives. Though conservatives claim that they are not racist, for centuries, they have opposed programs and policies to help blacks. Andrew Hacker, a white writer, provided insight on this in his new book, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, and Unequal. Hacker asserted that: “There persists the belief that members of the black race represent an inferior strain of the human species…Of course, the belief is seldom voiced in public. Most whites who call themselves conservatives hold this view about blacks and proclaim it when they are sure of their company. Since white conservatives share their true feelings only in the privacy of other whites, there is a strong possibility that black conservatives do not know how white conservatives truly feel about them.”
Be brave and show us your real identity and a pic. I'm curious to see the look of defeat and death on your face. A failed white man who's now living as a transient in motels and dark alleys. Becky thinks you're nasty-looking, enough to make her vomit for hours. I will accept your pathetic unconditional surrender old man.
Right now, you're laying on your death bed with a depend diaper across your face and two between your scaly legs. The smell of death is upon you. People don't visit you because of the stench, especially insofar as your rancid racism. The uncle, Billy Bob, who touched you in private areas as a child, is the exception. He provides great comfort for you. Billy Bob is still required to register with local law enforcement.
No matter how long it lives, the Greatest Lion will eventually die miserably. That's the world.
At their Peak, they rule, chase other animals, catch, devour, gulp, and leave their crumbs for hyenas. But age comes fast.
The old Lion can't hunt, can't kill, or defend itself. It roams and roars until it runs out of luck. It will be cornered by the hyenas, nibbled at, and eaten alive by them. They won't even let it die before it is dismembered.
Life is short. Power is ephemeral. Physical beauty is short-lived, I have seen it in lions. I have seen it in old people. Everyone who lives long enough will become weak and very vulnerable at some point.
Therefore, let us be humble. Help the sick, the weak, and the vulnerable, and most importantly never forget that we will leave the stage one day
~Dumida Lakmal
I agree with Glenn. I eschewed purchasable credentials in favor of broad - VERY broad - knowledge. My Linked-in page relates that story and reaches the point where "Finally I know almost nothing about almost everything.
I spent 50 years in Watts and Compton doing the same thing. Paying for private schools, mentoring, tutors, field trips.
Little if any return on time and money invested. I suppose you saw what happened with the Gates Foundation trying to help out. A couple of decades and a couple of billion spent, then some bean counter put a pencil to the project and they withdrew after finding out results were very negligible. This is a extremely difficult problem. It's not really solvable.
"They made him make himself into an embarrassment. It wasn't his fault."
Wow. Rapidly losing respect for John McWhorter.
A white man who was arrested this year for having dozens of weapons and hundreds of rounds of ammunition on North Carolina A&T State University’s campus approached police himself, according to a bond order.
The bond order, which set Brandon Bentley’s initial bond at $75,000 when he was charged early Sunday morning for having numerous weapons in his car on campus, says that the bond was issued to “reasonably assure the appearance of the defendant” and alleges the “defendant poses a danger of injury to another person.”
According to the document, Bentley allegedly swerved into the “PVA of A&T” and approached officers asking for help. The officers saw a handgun in the passenger seat, along with “numerous” other weapons.
My first cousin is the chancellor at this Historically Black College/ University.
Two black senior citizens were murdered in Louisville, Kentucky, on October 24, 2018. Maurice Stallard, 69, was at a Kroger supermarket when Gregory Bush, a 51-year-old white man, walked in and shot him multiple times. Bush then exited the store and shot Vickie Lee Jones, 67, in the parking lot before an armed bystander reportedly fired back, prompting him to flee. Police were unable to confirm accounts that Bush encountered a second armed man, who engaged him in a brief standoff where no shots were fired, according to the New York Times. “Don’t shoot me and I won’t shoot you,” the man’s son, Steve Zinninger, claimed Bush told his father. “Whites don’t kill whites.” Police apprehended Bush minutes later. Bush had no known connection to either of his victims. Any doubt of a racial motive seemed quelled when surveillance footage showed the shooter forcibly tried to enter a black church minutes before moving on to
the supermarket. The Times reports that a member of the 185-year-old First Baptist Church of Jeffersontown grew alarmed when she saw Bush yanking “aggressively” at its locked front doors. Up to ten people were inside the chapel following a midweek service. “I’m just thankful that all of our doors and security was in place,” church administrator Billy Williams said.
A Texas man was sentenced to 90 consecutive life sentences in prison for carrying out a mass shooting at the Cielo Vista Walmart in El Paso, Texas, on Aug. 3, 2019, killing 23 people and injuring 22 more.
On Feb. 8, Patrick Wood Crusius, 24, pleaded guilty to a 90-count indictment with 45 counts of violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act and 45 counts of using a firearm during and in relation to crimes of violence. The defendant was sentenced to one life sentence for each count in the indictment, including for hate crime acts that resulted in the deaths of Andre Anchondo, Jordan Anchondo, Arturo Benavides, Jorge Calvillo Garcia, Guillermo Garcia, Leonardo Campos, Angelina Englisbee, Maria Flores, Raul Flores, Adolfo Cerros Hernandez, Alexander Hoffmann, David Johnson, Luis Alfonso Juarez, Maria Legarreta Rothe, Maribel Loya Hernandez, Ivan Filiberto Manzano, Gloria Irma Marquez, Elsa Mendoza Marquez, Margie Reckard, Sara Regalado Monreal, Javier Amir Rodriguez, Teresa Sanchez, and Juan Velasquez.
Crusius was also sentenced for 22 counts of hate crime acts that caused bodily injury and involved attempts to kill 22 people injured in the shooting. In addition to the hate crimes, Crusius was sentenced for 45 firearms violations, including 23 counts of using a firearm in a federal crime of violence resulting in death, and 22 counts of using a firearm in a federal crime of violence.
White violence? On February 23, 2020, Amad Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was murdered in Satilla Shores, a neighborhood near Brunswick in Glynn County, Georgia, United States. Arbery had been pursued by three White residents – Travis McMichael and his father Gregory, who were armed and in one vehicle, and William "Roddie" Bryan, who was in another vehicle and recorded the pursuit and shooting on his cell phone. After Travis exited his vehicle and wielded a shotgun, Travis and Arbery engaged in a physical confrontation, during which Travis shot Arbery. Police interview transcripts detailed that Gregory initiated the chase after seeing Arbery running past his house,suspecting that Arbery had committed burglary or theft in Satilla Shores, but no evidence has emerged of Arbery doing so. According to police testimony, Bryan told police that he saw the chase and joined in
independently but was not sure if Arbery done anything wrong. Arbery had entered an under-construction house with no doors five times in five months, including once shortly before the shooting. Security camera video from inside the house showed no evidence of theft.
The convicted are being gang raped in dark prison rooms as we speak. Lol!
On June 17, 2015, an anti-black mass shooting occurred in Charleston, South Carolina, in which nine African Americans were killed and a tenth was injured during a Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Among the fatalities was the senior pastor, state senator Clementa C. Pinckney. Emanuel AME is one of the oldest black churches in the United States, and it has long been a center for civil rights organizing.
In August 2023, three people were killed in a racially motivated attack after a gunman targeted Black people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, in one of several weekend shootings that again shocked Americans in public places – from stores to football games to parades.
“This shooting was racially motivated and he hated Black people,” Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters said at a news conference early Saturday evening.
Waters said the shooter, who he described as a White man in his 20s, shot and killed himself after the attack. The suspect left behind what the sheriff described as three manifestos outlining his “disgusting ideology of hate” and his motive in the attack.
On May 14, 2022, a mass shooting occurred in Buffalo, New York, United States, at a Tops Friendly Markets supermarket in the East Side neighborhood. Ten people, all of whom were black, were murdered and three were injured. The shooter, identified as 18-year-old Payton S. Gendron,livestreamed part of the attack on Twitch, but the livestream was shut down by the service in under two minutes. Gendron was taken into custody and charged with first-degree murder. He formally entered a plea of "not guilty" on May 19, 2022. On November 28, 2022, Gendron pleaded guilty to all state charges in the shooting, including murder, domestic terrorism, and hate crimes. On February 15, 2023, Gendron was sentenced to 11 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole; as of that date, federal charges are still ongoing.