Racism is alive and well in America
Lately, when it comes to racism, whites are America’s new blacks, circa 1900. Cut, a Seattle-based video-maker, is surfing that trend, with a video asking blacks “So what exactly are white people superior at?” The answers aren’t cute or funny – they’re the 2020 equivalent of accusing blacks of eating watermelons and “shufflin’.”
Cut isn’t some fringe company. It boasts 10.1 million YouTube subscribers. Whether funny or serious, its videos are meant to be hip in a leftist way. Here are some recent titles:
- Sex Workers & Their Parents Play Truth or Drink
- Queer Parents & Their Queer Kids Play Truth or Drink
- My Trans Daughter & I Play Truth or Drink
- What are the gun laws in your country (people all over the world explain how bad guns are)
- Kids Share Their BLM Protest Signs
It’s all about leftist indoctrination and reinforcing leftist ideas.
Even for a site like Cut, it’s still shocking to watch “So what exactly are white people superior at?” (You must view at YouTube because age-limits mean it cannot be embedded here.)
Writing at Not the Bee summarizes what’s going on with the 100 black people interviewed:
The question seems to be a tongue-in-cheek take on the concept of white supremacy. [snip] But this video quickly devolves into a racist hate-fest demonizing all white people.
The first few answers to the question are fairly benign: White people are superior at talking about their pets too much, making bland food, extreme sports, corn mazes and liking mayonnaise. That's all pretty funny, I suppose. I get it, humor sometimes pushes boundaries and we can laugh at our cultural idiosyncrasies.
But obviously, people would rightfully lose their ever-loving minds if a bunch of white people made a video just listing racial stereotypes about black people.
[snip]
But the video takes a dark turn fairly quickly.
One young lady wearing a T-Shirt that depicts a police officer in a KKK hood firing a shotgun (yeah.), without a hint of mirth simply says white people are superior at "smelling funky."
Attributing negative qualities to people because of their skin color is classic racism. As I said, above, what these people are saying is indistinguishable from someone in a KKK hood, circa 1900, throwing out ugly answers when asked “what are black people superior at?”
Rose nails the root of the problem:
If you haven't already noticed, latent in many of these answers are the same ideologies behind BLM, the 1619 Project, and movements to defund the police. These are devotees of the religion of Wokeism. True believers.
The leftism behind their answers isn’t subtle: “Conquering.” “Imperialism.” “Colonizing.” “Colonialism.” “Violence.” Genocide.” “Taking our ideas.”
Leftism destroys everything – absolutely everything – that it touches:
- It took first and second wave feminism (right to vote, equal pay for equal work) and turned it into third wave man-hating feminism.
- It took the Great Society and welfare, and turned them into the destruction of the black family in America, with all the pathologies that follow.
- It took the concept of avoiding cruel and unusual punishment when dealing with criminals, and turned it into no punishment at all, which increases crime, destroys societal trust, and puts criminals at grave risk of vigilantism.
- It took the idea that the state cannot promote or interfere with religion and turned it into a state hostile to religion.
- It took the Civil Rights movement, one premised on the fact that we are all equal before God and the law, and turned it into a foundation for dangerous, divisive, and tragic anti-white hatred.
Trump tried hard to be president for all Americans. Unlike other Republicans, he did reach out to the black community (prison release, support black colleges, creating opportunity zones) but he also refused to embrace a racial divide in America. He talked about values, not skin color. He talked about jobs, not victim politics. It was the left that forced racism upon him. None of it came from Trump.
If -- God forbid – Biden gets into the White House, expect his administration to stir up more racial animus than Obama ever did. In the four years since Obama left office, the left has been busy fomenting the type of hatred America last saw with George Wallace and Orville Faubus in Alabama and Arkansas.
Image: Cut: Blacks racially insult whites. YouTube screengrab. Caption added in Pixlr.
DO A SEARCH FOR BARACK
OBAMA AND BILL AYERS!
“Professor Paul Kengor has
extensively researched the Chicago communists whose progeny include David
Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and Barack Hussein Obama. Add the openly Marxist, pro-communist
Ayers, and you have many of the key players who put Obama into power.”
"Cold War historian Paul Kengor goes deeply into
Obama's communist background in an article in
American Spectator, "Our First Red Diaper Baby President," and in an
excellent Mark Levin interview. Another Kengor article describes the Chicago communists whose
younger generation include David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and
Barack Hussein Obama. Add the openly Marxist, pro-communist Ayers, and you have many of the key players who put Obama into
power." Karin
McQuillan
"We
know that Obama and his inner circle have set up a war room in his D.C.
home to plan and execute resistance to the Trump administration and his
legislative agenda. None of these people care about the American people,
or the fact that
Trump won
the election because millions of people voted for him." Patricia McCarthy
In their 1969
declaration, You Don’t Need a Weatherman to
Know Which Way the Wind Blows, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, John Jacobs, and other
revolutionary leaders of the Weather Underground spoke of black people not so much
as the reason for their push to destroy American society and institute world
Communism, but as a means to achieve their goals.
September 1, 2020
The Social Order
The protests that sprang
up in the wake of George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis seemed like spontaneous
outpourings of grief and anger. They weren’t entirely. Though many who joined
their ranks may have been moved by outrage at the images of Floyd’s death,
those operating behind the scenes have prepared for this moment for a long
time.
Indeed, the leaders of
the Black Lives Matter organizations fueling this summer’s disturbances were
trained by self-described Marxist revolutionaries who have long used the plight
of black Americans as justification for overthrowing America’s constitutional
order.
They frankly admit that such “organizing” is the key to their goal of world
revolution. Our political leaders owe it to themselves and to their fellow
Americans to understand this blueprint before rhetorically embracing, let alone
implementing, the radical changes that the protesters and rioters are
demanding.
The goal of upending the
American system is, moreover, also evident among the consultants now conducting
“anti-racism training” within major corporations and foundations. These
facilitators of anti-white struggle sessions disdain the capitalist system and
seek its replacement—and the mainstream media cheers them on. In a July New York Times article
on the BLM movement, Douglas McAdams, professor emeritus at Stanford, wrote: “It
looks, for all the world, like these protests are achieving what very few do:
setting in motion a period of significant, sustained, and widespread social,
political change. We appear to be experiencing a social change tipping
point—that is as rare in society as it is potentially consequential.”
But who initiated this
demand for change? After the initial protests following Floyd’s death, public
outrage was channeled—by trained activists working from a playbook—into
manifestations that often grew riotous. The Black Lives Matters Global Network
and Movement for Black Lives organizations have been the nerve center of the
protests. They have been laying the groundwork for years, carefully cultivating
a network of groups that could organize protests when the moment came and
amplify the message through social media.
Consider the BLM Global
Network. The three women who thought
up the BLM name in 2013, and then added the hashtag, later founded the
global network. They remain in charge. As the New York Times Magazine explained, “while much of the
nation’s attention drifted away from Black Lives Matter, organizers and
activists weren’t dormant.” One of the three founders, Alicia Garza, said that
“the movement’s first generation of organizers has been working steadily to
become savvier and even more strategic over the past seven years, and have been
joined by motivated younger leaders.”
As the Times report elaborates, “One of the reasons there have been
protests in so many places in the United States is the backing of organizations
like Black Lives Matter. While the group isn’t necessarily directing each
protest, it provides materials, guidance and a framework for new activists.”
Deva Woodly, a professor at the New School, told a Times reporter that, “those activists are taking to social media to
quickly share protest details to a wide audience. . . . These figures would
make the recent protests the largest movement in the country’s history.”
Melina Abdullah, of BLM’s
Los Angeles chapter, told an interviewer that the
demonstrations in that city had been strategically planned: “We built kind of
an organizing strategy that said, build black community [to] disrupt white
supremacy.” Their targets, she said, were the neighborhoods where “white
affluent folks” lived. “That’s one of the reasons the marches and the protests
were in Beverly Hills.”
A Los Angeles Times story emphasizes the
central role that the BLM organization played, saying: “The unprecedented size
and scope of recent rallies speaks to how Black Lives Matter has transformed
from a small but passionate movement into a cultural and political phenomenon.”
Weeks after Floyd was killed, BLM members were “continuing to channel their
outrage and grief over his killing into a sustained mass campaign for profound
social change. The group has political sway that would have seemed unimaginable
just a few months ago.”
In a 2015 interview,
Patrice Cullors, another of the three founders, said that she and Garza were
“trained Marxists.” Abdullah, of the Los Angeles BLM chapter, was born a
red-diaper baby—“Raised in the 70s, in the picket lines of Oakland, by activist
parents,” as the interviewer put it. Her paternal grandfather was Gunter
Reimann, a member of the German Communist Party. Garza cut her organizing teeth
as director of People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER), founded by
Marxists Garth Ferguson, Patty Snitzler, Regina Douglas, Brian Russell, and
Steve Williams. To Williams we owe the concept of “transformative organizing,”
which insists “that effective
organizing for social change cannot simply be based on an apolitical and highly
specific analysis of what is possible in the short term.”
Cullors trained for a
decade as a radical organizer in the Labor/Community Strategy Center,
established and run by Eric Mann, a former member of the Weather Underground,
the 1960s radical faction identified by the FBI as a domestic terrorist group. The
“Weathermen” explained in their 1969 foundational statement that they were
dedicated to “the destruction of U.S. imperialism and the achievement of
classless world: world communism.” The ties between the BLM Global Network and the
Weathermen run deep. National Review’s Andrew McCarthy
revealed in a recent exposé that Weather
Underground supporter Susan Rosenberg, whose 1984 sentence of 58 years
in prison for possession “of 740 pounds of
explosives, an Uzi submachine gun, an M-14 rifle, another rifle with a
telescopic sight, a sawed-off shotgun, three 9-millimeter handguns in purses
and boxes of ammunition” was commuted by President Bill Clinton, serves as vice
chair of the board of directors of Thousand Currents—the radical, grantmaking
institution that until July sponsored the BLM Global Network. Rosenberg was
also sought on federal charges that she aided the 1979 prison escape of Joanne
Chesimard, a Communist now living in Cuba, and whom Cullors quotes approvingly
in her book When They Call You a Terrorist. (Since July, the
Global Center has become “a project” of the Tides Center, another donor and
supporter of the hard Left and its ideas).
Mann, who served 18
months in prison for assault and
battery and disturbing the peace, remains committed to overthrowing the
American system and achieving world revolution through organizing. He calls his
Strategy Center the “Harvard of Revolutionary graduate schools,” or “the
University of Caracas Revolutionary Graduate School.” The Center’s purpose, he told a seminar at the
University of California, San Diego in 2008, is “to build an anti-racist,
anti-imperialist, anti-fascist united front.”
Mann says that the Center
must teach people to organize strategically because “people think they can join
an organization, and go out, and change the most dictatorial country in the
world by just showing up. We don’t think so. Organizing is a skill, is a
vocation.” During the Center’s “six-month, intensive training program,” classes
offer a mix of theory—Mann’s wife teaches a class on “problems of imperialism,
women’s studies, strategies and tactics”—with street activism, where students
are held accountable. “How many people did you organize? How did it go?”
They also teach how to
raise funds. “If we’re going to build a revolution, you gotta ask people for
money . . . the poor must pay for their own liberation, so we need to teach you
to ask for money,” Mann told the students. “I spend my time organizing mainly
young people who want to be revolutionaries,” Mann said. If you’re not in
organizing, “your life is meaningless,” and you risk becoming a “bourgeois
pig.”
The challenge for
students, Mann told the class, was to ask themselves, “Am I making decisions to
change the system? Am I being tied to the masses?” Universities serve as vital
centers of recruitment and radicalization. “The university,” Mann explained,
“is the place where Mao Zedong was radicalized, where Lenin and Fidel were
radicalized, where Che was radicalized. The concept of the radical middle class
of the colonized people, or in my case the radical middle class of the
privileged people, is a model of a certain type of revolutionary.” The goal for
students, he told his class, was to “Take this country away from the white
settler state, take this country away from imperialism and have an anti-racist,
anti-imperialist and anti-fascist revolution.”
In their 1969
declaration, You Don’t Need a Weatherman to
Know Which Way the Wind Blows, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, John Jacobs, and
other revolutionary leaders of the Weather Underground spoke of black people
not so much as the reason for their push to destroy American society and
institute world Communism, but as a means to achieve their goals. American blacks were
considered a colonized subject of the United States, along with the people of
Vietnam and Bolivia—another victim of U.S. imperialism. Their liberation was
secondary to the general struggle; seeking black liberation for its own sake
was just a form of bourgeois nationalism. “No black self-determination could be
won which would not result in a victory for the international revolution as a
whole,” the document affirmed.
These are the ideological
sources for what could be the largest radical movement in American history—one
that could lead to real policy changes. One component is street pressure,
driven by the likes of Mann and Cullors. Another takes place in plusher
environments, such as Fortune 500 companies or the halls of Congress.
Consultants like White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo
told 184 Democratic legislators in a conference call in June that their
policies hurt black lives. DiAngelo told The New York Times that “capitalism is
so bound up with racism. … [it] is dependent on inequality, on an underclass.
If the model is profit over everything, you’re not going to look at your
policies to see what is most racially equitable.”
Up to now, the American
system has resisted socialism by offering prosperity and opportunity. Our politicians
today need to understand what they’re facing from the BLM movement and what is
at stake. The “white settler state” of Eric Mann’s fevered mind is in reality
the American constitutional order. The imperialism that Mann, Rosenberg,
DiAngelo, and others imagine is the American free-market system that has been
the most successful weapon against poverty ever devised. Political leaders of
either party feeling pressured to adopt BLM policies or even just mouth the
rhetoric should spend some time examining the movement’s intellectual
sources—and its political goals.
“Professor Paul Kengor has
extensively researched the Chicago communists whose progeny include David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and Barack Hussein Obama. Add the openly
Marxist, pro-communist Ayers, and you have many of the key players who put Obama into power.”
Black Lives Matter Founder Mentored by
Ex-Domestic Terrorist Who Worked with Bill Ayers
CNN
The co-founder of the Black
Lives Matter (BLM) movement, Patrisse Cullors, was the protégé of a
communist-supporting domestic terrorist for over a decade, spending years
training in political organizing and absorbing the radical Marxist-Leninist
ideology which shaped her worldview.
Eric Mann, who mentored Cullors
for over a decade in community organizing, was a member of radical-left
militant groups: Students for a Democratic Society and the Weather Underground,
which bombed government buildings and police
stations in the 1960s and 1970s.
In a newly resurfaced video from 2015, Black Lives
Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors reveals that she and her fellow BLM founders
are “trained Marxists.”
In the video, Cullors is interviewed by Jared Ball of the Real
News Network and discusses the direction of the BLM movement.
“The first thing, I think, is
that we actually do have an ideological frame. Myself and Alicia in particular
are trained organizers,” she said. “We are trained Marxists. We are
super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories. And I think that what we really
tried to do is build a movement that could be utilized by many, many black
folk.”
In previous interviews in 2018,
while promoting her then-new book titled, “When They Call You a Terrorist: A
Black Lives Matter Memoir,” Cullors describes her introduction to and affinity
for Marxist ideology.
In an interview with Democracy Now!,
Cullors describes how she became a trained organizer with the Labor/Community
Strategy Center, calling it her “first political home” and the center’s
director, Eric Mann, her personal mentor.
She told The Politic that it was
there that she was trained from her youth and grew as a leader.
The Labor/Community Strategy
Center describes it’s philosophy as “an
urban experiment,” utilizing grassroots organizing to “focus on Black and
Latino communities with deep historical ties to the long history of
anti-colonial, anti-imperialist, pro-communist resistance to the U.S. empire.”
The center teaches and studies the history
of the “Indigenous rebellions against the initial European genocidal
invasions,” the “Great Slave Haitian Revolution of the 1790s,” and the “Great
Slave Rebellions that won the U.S. civil war for the racist north.”
The center also expresses its
appreciation for the work of the U.S. Communist Party, “especially Black
communists,” as well as its support for “the great work of the Black Panther
Party, the American Indian Movement, Young Lords, Brown Berets, and the great
revolutionary rainbow experiments of the 1970s,” while flaunting its roots in
the new communist movement.
Speaking with ACLU’s At Liberty
weekly podcast, Cullors described the center
as her “foundation,” claiming it was there that she developed the skills which
helped her found the Black Lives Matter movement, after having been recruited
by its director, Eric Mann.
Mann, an avowed communist
revolutionary, was the New England coordinator for Students for a
Democratic Society (SDS) in 1968. The following year, a more radical wing
splintered from the SDS, led by Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, calling for
violent “direct action” over civil disobedience.
The splintered faction became
known as the Weather Underground, with the stated goal of overthrowing the U.S.
government. As a result, the FBI classified the organization as a
domestic terrorist group in 1969.
Mann led a group of fellow
Weathermen who launched their own violent direct action at the Harvard
University Center for International Affairs.
In an article titled: “Band
Invades, Violently Disrupts Center for International Affairs,” the Harvard
Crimson reported that a band of 20 to 30
activists invaded the Center for International Affairs, “roughing up” several
staff members and employees before fleeing.
Several slogans, including
“Pig,” “Fuck U.S. Imperialism,” and “Imperialists Screw All Women,” were
sprayed on the building’s walls. Rocks thrown by the group broke several
windows and a telephone was damaged to prevent police from being notified.
Undergraduates who saw the
group leaving the building and chanting “Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh; NLF is going to
win,” said they recognized some of them as members of Weathermen, a militant
spin-off of the older New Left Caucus of SDS.
Mann was later charged with five counts of
assault and battery, disturbing the peace, damaging property, defacing a
building, and disturbing a public assembly, for which he spent 18 months in
prison.
At the 2010 United States
Social Forum in Detroit, under the
slogan “Another World Is Possible. Another U.S. Is Necessary,” the
Labor/Community Strategy Center sponsored a session titled: “Transformative Organizing
Theory: Conscious Organizers Seek to Build Anti-racist, Anti-imperialist
Politics Rooted in Working Class Communities of Color.” In it, Cullors––rising
to prominence––was chosen by Mann to be a panelist along with him.
There, Cullors spoke about growing up as a
working class, queer, Black woman, in a single-parent household, with a father
who was in and out of prison.
Cullors stated that
“positionality in this country is supposed to devastate us” and had done so
somewhat successfully, while stressing the need to “fight this thing.”
Both Cullors and Mann strongly
endorsed Bernie Sanders. Cullors was a primary speaker at a Sanders campaign
event the day before Super Tuesday, which Mann attended.
Cullors, viewing Biden as far
too moderate, pushed for the latter to end his
campaign, accusing him of having an “old guard mentality” and coming from an
“old establishment.”
Now with Biden leading as the
Democratic presidential nominee, Cullors and Mann are finding a sympathetic ear
for their radical agenda.
As Breitbart news reported, a group of 50 leading
national progressive groups representing millions of active members across the
country, are pressuring Biden to adopt the
radical platform of the Movement for Black Lives which was co-written by BLM.
The group is calling for Biden
to immediately incorporate their radical policies, including putting forward a
transformative and comprehensive policing and criminal justice reform laid out
by the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL).
Citing his “moral
responsibility in this moment” to make amends for past harms he had caused, the
groups demanded that Biden make commitments such as advance reparations and
defund police, prisons, and weaponry in order to fully fund healthcare,
housing, education, and environmental justice.
“We ask that you revise your
platform to ensure that the federal government permanently ends and ceases any
further appropriation of funding to local law enforcement in any form and
redirect those and additional resources towards much needed community-led and
community-controlled public safety efforts,” the letter reads.
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There is Nothing ‘Loony’ About Bill Ayers as Obama’s Muse
By Jack Cashill
This past week several people called my attention to a post by Scott Johnson on his influential PowerLine blog that
addressed the literary relationship between Barack Obama and his radical
friend, Bill Ayers.
In the post Johnson spoke of his high regard for David
Garrow’s “staggeringly researched” 2017 Obama biography, Rising Star. “Without
resolving all mysteries,” Johnson writes, “[Garrow’s] scholarship belies the
notion that [Dreams from My Father] was ghostwritten by Bill Ayers or
other such collaborator.”
Johnson emailed Garrow to follow up on the authorship
question, and Garrow responded, “I don’t recall exactly where the Bill Ayers
[stuff] got started, but it, like the Frank-Davis-as-father notion, is just
beyond loony, ’cause Dreams is already *in galleys* when
Barack and Bill first get to know each other.”
I did not advance this theory casually. I understood then
what Obama biographer David Remnick would later affirm, namely that my theory,
“if ever proved true, or believed to be true among enough voters, could have
been the end of [Obama’s] candidacy.”
My research on this topic, aided by several helpful literary
detectives, culminated in my 2011 book, published by Simon &
Schuster, Deconstructing Obama. I think I can safely assume
Garrow has never read it. I would invite those curious about the evidence to
read the book or even to read the preliminary article cited above.
That Garrow does not know the source of a theory he dismisses
offhand as “beyond loony” is, unfortunately, altogether typical of
establishment political writers. His airy dismissal, in fact,
reinforces the theme of my forthcoming book Unmasking Obama: The Fight
to Tell the True Story of a Failed Presidency.
In the book, I use the phrase “samizdat” -- Russian for
underground press -- to describe the loose coalition of conservative blogs,
online publications, talk radio shows, and legal monitors such as Judicial
Watch that challenged the Left -- and, occasionally, the “responsible” right --
for control of the Obama narrative.
For eight-plus years, the samizdat broke virtually every
major unflattering story about Obama and his presidency, some of which the
major media grudgingly confirmed, some of which they continue to suppress. In
the book I tell how the individuals in question managed to break these stories
out. In every case, as you might imagine, the samizdat journalists were met
with condescension, if not outright contempt, from the major media.
Obama’s biographers were among the more contemptuous.
Curiously, the four major biographers are all named David -- Mendell, Remnick,
Maraniss, and Garrow. The last three are Pulitzer Prize winners. To his credit,
Garrow was the only one of the four who refused to prop up what Remnick called
Obama’s “signature appeal: the use of the details of his own life as a
reflection of a kind of multicultural ideal.”
The story Obama told about his happy multicultural family at
the conventions was pure fiction. According to Garrow, Obama’s mother, Ann
Dunham, and Barack Obama Sr. “never chose to live together at any time
following the onset of Ann’s pregnancy.” Garrow quotes approvingly one
unnamed scholar to the effect that Obama Sr. was no more than “a sperm donor in
his son’s life.” All of this was common knowledge in the samizdat as
early as 2008, but it came as news to many of Garrow’s readers in 2017.
Like his fellow Davids, however, Garrow has no use for
information gleaned from the samizdat, especially information I introduced. On
the subject of the Obama poem “Pop,” for instance, Garrow notes, “Most
commentators presumed that Obama had written about his grandfather, Stan
Dunham, not Frank Marshall Davis.”
This much was true, but “hostile critics,” Garrow continues,
insisted the poem was about Obama’s bi-sexual Communist mentor, Davis. The
“hostile critics” Garrow cites in the footnotes are historian Paul Kengor and
me.
Instead of giving me credit for being the first to decode
“Pop,” Garrow describes me in the footnote as “someone who is cited with the
greatest reluctance.” What I did to deserve this slight is left unsaid,
especially since Garrow knows I nailed the identity of “Pop” two years before
anyone in the mainstream media did, including the other Davids.
As to Bill Ayers’s involvement in the writing of Dreams,
Garrow does not even deign to dismiss the possibility. He has a discovery of
his own, namely that outside literary help came from a law school buddy of
Obama’s named Rob Fisher. This is an important find if for no other
reason than it undercuts Obama’s 2008 boast to a crowd of schoolteachers,
"I've written two books. I actually wrote them myself."
An established economist before starting law school, Fisher
became good friends with Obama at Harvard. There, they co-authored a
manuscript that perhaps prophetically was never finished. One completed chapter
dealt with the always sexy topic of plant closings.
“The quest is to develop guidelines,” they wrote, “on how
politically progressive movements can use the market mechanism to promote
social goals.” Garrow quotes the unfinished manuscript extensively. Its style
is wonkish and ungainly throughout.
Sentences like the following suggest that one author wrote as
awkwardly as the other: “While Yuppies can afford the expensive frivolities
provided by The Sharper Image, others receive insufficient nutrition to allow
their minds to develop properly.”
I do not question Fisher’s involvement. Obama needed all the
help he could get. What I do question is Fisher’s ability to provide the
poetry, the rage, the postmodern rhetoric, and the Homeric structure that
inspired Oona King of the London Times to overpraise Dreams as “a
beautifully written personal memoir steeped in honesty.”
Garrow seems to dismiss my thesis for no more substantial
reason than his belief that Dreams was already in galley form
when “Barack and Bill first get to know each other.” Garrow traces the first
meeting of these two gentlemen to a breakfast some time in early 1995. He bases
this timing on the suspiciously well-remembered account of a common friend who
claims to have introduced them.
Garrow, however, has a problem with chronology. He writes
that Obama took six weeks off from his law firm job “in late spring 1994” to
finish Dreams. He needed time to complete the book’s third section,
the one on Africa. Garrow claims Obama worked largely from letters he sent in
1988 while in Kenya and retrieved from his girlfriend at the time, Sheila
Jager.
David Maraniss told a different story in his 2012 bio.
According to Maraniss’s source, Crown editor Henry Ferris, Obama made an
additional trip to Kenya for further research. Obama confirmed this trip when
interviewed by Marannis. Garrow makes no mention of this mysterious trip, which
would have taken place in 1994. No one else does either. Like much in his life,
Obama appears to have made it up.
A more likely possibility is that Obama lied to Ferris about
the trip. Instead of going to Kenya, Obama may have contented himself with
going to the local library and pillaging the memoirs of longtime
Kenya resident Kuki Gallmann.
This is the theory proposed by
tireless researcher Shawn Glasco. He was intrigued by the many words and
phrases in Dreams that also appeared in Gallmann’s book, African
Nights, which was published in 1994. These include Baobab [a tree], bhang
[cannabis], boma [an enclosure], samosa [a fried snack], shamba [a farm field],
liana [a vine], tilapia [a fish], kanga [a sheet of fabric], shuka [decorative
sashes], and many, many more.
Based on Garrow’s imprecise timeline, Obama flew to New York
to hand the completed book off to Ferris no later than early June 1994. In
other words, he spent six weeks to finish the last third of the 400-page book
between “late spring” 1994 and early June 1994, which is, in fact, late spring.
In his 2009 book, Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an
American Marriage, celebrity biographer Christopher Andersen offers a much
more credible account of how Obama managed to finish a project that hung over
his head ever since he finished law school.
According to Andersen’s two sources in Chicago’s Hyde Park,
Obama found himself deeply in debt and “hopelessly blocked.” At “Michelle’s
urging,” Obama “sought advice from his friend and Hyde Park neighbor Bill
Ayers.” Noting that Obama had already taped interviews with many of his
relatives, both African and American, Andersen elaborated, “These oral
histories, along with his partial manuscript and a trunkload of notes were
given to Ayers.” Andersen’s six-page account makes sense, logically and
chronologically, but Garrow fully ignores it.
Andersen is a best-selling, mainstream author. He even
appeared on MSNBC’s Hardball to discuss the book. Said Chris
Matthews at the end of the interview, “You‘re amazing, successful guy. You
have a winning streak here.” Matthews likely did not read the book. Garrow did
read it and cites the book in the footnotes but, oddly, not on the subject of
authorship.
Garrow nonetheless offers some valuable insights into the
Ayers-Obama relationship, insights that I believe strengthen my thesis. Once
Ayers helped launch Obama’s political career in 1995, Garrow writes, “Barack
and Michelle began to see a great deal more of not only Bill and Bernardine
[Dohrn] but also their three closest friends, Rashid and Mona Khalidi and
Carole Travis."
According to Garrow, the three couples attended "almost
nightly dinners” together up until the time Obama ran for the U.S. Senate in
2004. This information, of course, makes complete hash out of Obama’s infamous
claim during a 2008 debate that Ayers was “just a guy who lives in my
neighborhood.”
Khalidi, a radical Palestinian, begins his 2004 book, Resurrecting
Empire, with a tribute to his own literary muse. “First,
chronologically and in other ways,” writes Khalidi, “comes Bill Ayers.” Unlike
the calculating Obama, Khalidi had no reason to be coy about this
relationship. He elaborates, “Bill was particularly generous in letting
me use his family’s dining room table to do some writing for the
project.” Khalidi did not need the table. He had one of his own. He
needed help from the skilled neighborhood editor and writer who obviously could
and would provide it.
There is nothing “loony” about Bill Ayers helping a good
friend finish his book. That is what Ayers did. He was grooming Obama for
higher office and was savvy enough to keep his writing relationship with Obama
under wraps. Being a friend of a terrorist, Ayers knew, would not exactly help
Obama’s career.
Jack Cashill’s most recent book, a political
thriller called “The Hunt” co-authored with Mike McMullen, is available
wherever you buy books. For a signed collector’s edition, see
www.TheHuntBook.com.
Democrats
Allow Communists to Infiltrate Their Party Across the Nation
https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2019/06/obamas-lackey-judge-blakey-hands-obomb.html
*
“Professor Paul Kengor has
extensively researched the Chicago communists whose progeny include David
Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and Barack Hussein Obama. Add the openly Marxist, pro-communist
Ayers, and you have many of the key players who put Obama into power.”
*
We are all victims of the Obama cabal’s collusion with Russia – President
Trump’s voters and all Americans who believe in our free and fair election
process.
BARACK
OBAMA: Was he America’s first closet Communist president?
https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2019/05/karin-mcquilan-barack-obama-and-his.html
Obama choose Communists and Marxists
for the highest, most powerful positions in our land, including his closest
political advisors, and his head of the CIA. These facts are not in
dispute. Most are openly admitted by the people in question, as necessary
damage control. Our press chooses not to report them.
Professor
Paul Kengor has extensively researched the Chicago communists whose progeny
include David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and Barack Hussein Obama. Add the openly
Marxist, pro-communist Ayers, and you have many of the key players who put
Obama into power.
OBAMA’S WAR ON THE JEWS
The
Democrats are now officially the party of Jew-hatred. This is largely due to
the disastrous presidency of Barack Hussein Obama. PAMELA GELLER
*
https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-disaster-of-barack-obama-democrats.html
*
Abunimah’s piece -- and
Obama’s numerous anti-Semitic associations -- got little attention. Throughout
his life Barack Obama has been close friends with numerous virulent
anti-Semites: Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Khalid al-Mansour, Rashid Khalidi
and others.
PAMELA GELLER
THE
OBOMBS AND HARVARD
OBAMA
AND HIS SAUDIS PAYMASTERS… Did he serve them well?
Malia, Michelle, Barack and the College Admissions Scandal https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2019/03/malia-michelle-barack-and-college.html
Michelle was the next to attend Harvard, in her
case Harvard Law School. “Told by counselors that her SAT scores and her grades
weren’t good enough for an Ivy League school,” writes Christopher Andersen in
Barack and Michelle, “Michelle applied to Princeton and Harvard anyway.”
GOOGLE WHAT THE OBOMB
DID FOR HIS SAUDIS PAYMASTERS
Barack Obama’s back door, however, was unique
to him. Before prosecutors send some of the dimmer Hollywood stars to the
slammer for their dimness, they might want to ask just how much influence a
Saudi billionaire peddled to get Obama into Harvard.
“Of course, one of the main reasons the nation is now
“divided, resentful and angry” is because race-baiting, Islamist,
class warrior Barack Hussein Obama was president for eight
long years." MATTHEW VADUM
THE OBAMA MARXIST-MUSLIM
BANKSTER-FUNDED THIRD TERM for life:
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/03/obamas-marxism-still-hankering-for.html
"Cold War historian Paul Kengor
goes deeply into Obama's communist background in an article in
American Spectator, "Our First Red Diaper Baby President," and in an
excellent Mark Levin interview. Another Kengor article describes the Chicago communists whose
younger generation include David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and
Barack Hussein Obama. Add the openly Marxist, pro-communist Ayers, and you have many of the key players who put Obama into power." Karin McQuillan
*
"We know that Obama and his inner circle have set up a war room in his D.C. home to plan and execute resistance to the Trump administration and his legislative agenda. None of these people care about the American people, or the fact that Trump won the election because millions of people voted for him." Patricia McCarthy
Fifty people were shot, five fatally, over another violent weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.
Yesterday, Breitbart News reported nearly 40 people were shot Friday into Sunday morning alone in Lightfoot’s Chicago. The nearly 40 victims included four people were fatally shot during that time-frame.
On Monday morning, ABC 7/Chicago Sun-Times reported the numbers had increased to 50 people shot, five fatally.
The first firearm-related fatality of the weekend occurred Friday around 5:15 p.m., the second about 8:30 p.m. the same night, and the third at 12:30 a.m. Saturday.
The fourth fatality occurred about 7 p.m. Saturday and the fifth around 10:15 p.m. Saturday.
The Chicago Tribune reports 673 people were killed in Chicago between January 1, 2020, and November 9, 2020. The Tribune notes that a total of 3,619 people were shot–fatal and non-fatal combined–between January 1, 2020, and November 9, 2020.
Breitbart News reported 23 people were shot in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago on Monday, November 16, 2020, alone.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.
Nearly 40 Shot Friday into Sunday Morning in Lightfoot’s Chicago
Nearly 40 people were shot, four fatally, Friday into Sunday morning alone this weekend in Mayor Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.
ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times reports that 38 people were shot Friday into Sunday morning. The shooting victims included six people who were shot in Auburn Gresham Neighborhood Saturday morning and four people who were shot around 12:40 a.m. Sunday morning in Pullman.
The Sun-Times reports the first fatality of the weekend was discovered around 5:15 p.m. Friday, when 28-year-old Alexander Fletcher was found in a vehicle with a gunshot wound to the chest. He died at the scene.
The second fatality of the weekend occurred at 8:30 p.m. Friday, when a 35-year-old woman was shot in the head while sitting in a vehicle “in the 8300 block of South Yates Boulevard.” She was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.
The third fatality of the weekend occurred when a 32-year-old man was shot and killed in West Pullman around 7 p.m. Saturday. The man was sitting in a vehicle when the shooting occurred. He was transported to a hospital and pronounced dead.
The fourth fatality of the weekend involved a 30-year-old in a vehicle “in the 7900 block of South Brandon Avenue” who was shot and fatally wounded about 10:15 p.m. Saturday. The man shot multiple times and “taken by friends to Jackson Park Hospital,” where he died.
Breitbart News reported 23 people were shot in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago on Monday, November 16, 2020, alone. Over 2o people were shot, one fatally, in Chicago over the weekend of November 13-15, 2020.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.
He was waiting in line for a hamburger in McDonald’s just a few
blocks from the White House when a large group of fellas and lovely ladies
started taunting him about Black Lives Matter. Outside, a few minutes later,
they beat
him within an inch of his life -- all on
high tech video.
One way or another, sooner or later, Judge Barrett’s family will
learn the real threat to their safety in their new hometown of Washington, D.C.
is not white racism but black violence: How black crime is so wildly out of
proportion and how so many reporters and public officials -- and federal judges
-- are in denial, deceit, and delusion about it.
COLIN FLAHERTY
Coming soon, food desert: BLM shakes down Seattle Trader Joe's
for a 15% cut
Grocery retailer Trader Joe's, which refused to cave
in to political correctness in its product names, is experiencing
new problems with Black Lives Matter protestors in Seattle, according to
Breitbart News:
Black Lives Matter protesters
pushed their way into a Seattle Trader Joe’s demanding the company give “15
percent at least.” The group has repeated the tactic of harassing the store’s
staff and customers over the past few months.
A video tweeted
Thursday night shows a large group of BLM activists entering a Seattle Trader
Joe’s store. They chanted and beat drums as they marched through the grocery
chain location.
Seattle has five Trader Joe's locations
and Breitbart reports that three of them have been hit in this way. It shows
that Trader Joe's, which resisted the demands, remains a target, based on
Seattle's failure to send police to protect them.
This is exactly how mafia works. Either you pay us something - il “pizzo”
it’s called in Italian - or we burn down the place at least. This can happen
when the State is absent, that’s why defunding the police in crucial in every
mafia system.
— Dadah Umpah (@UmpahDadah) October 23, 2020
No business of any kind can run a business with this
kind of shakedown activity going on. The company is being held hostage to
pirates, while the city stands by and does nothing.
As anyone familiar with hostage-takers
knows, if Trader Joe's caves on the 15% ransom demand, the next move will
be a bigger ransom demand, all in the name of keeping the peace, and BLM,
which is obviously descending into a money-making mafia racket, can
move on to the next target, taking them down one by one. The big corporate
shakedowns of the past month, which have yielded millions of dollars in
revenue, it seems, have not been enough. They want more. Trader Joe's is one of
the few that resist, which makes it the holy grail for shakedown fanatics.
In Seattle, Trader Joe's has in fact resisted on
related matters, and not just in the package labeling. According to the Seattle
Spectator, the company has been hit by march-in protests in
early October over its refusal to permit employees to wear BLM gear on the
job, plus boycotts to boot. The Trader Joe's near the CHOP zone this past
summer did shut its doors indefinitely, not just because of the chaos and
disorder of CHOP, but also because of the wokesterism of many employees. Who'd
want to do business with those kinds of employees in permanent opposition? They
relented when 22,000 customers signed a petition asking them to stay.
But don't bet on them staying so long as the
shakedowns are now a thing from BLM now that the riot thing has grown old, and
some leftists have noted that it's hurting Joe Biden's bid to oust President
Trump.Shakedowns are a horrid reality in places like Sicily, Latin America,
Russia, and any place where people flee.
We see this way of doing business all over
Latin America, for one.
To take one example, just because I am familiar with
it, FARC's Marxist narcoterrorists, who once terrorized Colombia and now
Venezuela, also conduct business by shaking down business with no police
protection as the police are occupied with arresting political prisoners.
The local shop owners and farmers in small towns
were forced to pay what was known as "a vaccination" to the
terrorists to ensure that their businesses didn't go up in flames,
prompting vast numbers of them to just shut their doors. The example is not
that farfetched for what's going on in Seattle, either.
BLM of course, is led by "trained
Marxists" who just happened to have learned their tactics at Hugo
Chavez's knee. Here's a piece I did on their pilgrimages to Caracas,
where these kinds of shakedowns are what goes on in that hellhole.
And don't think the Chavista agenda they embrace isn't to harm the entire
U.S. Here's one I wrote from 2019.
And Venezuelans have noticed the similarities.
Now their successors in the U.S. turning
Seattle into a hellhole, too, complete with Venezuela-style shakedowns.
Seattle is getting pretty comparable to Caracas
without police to enforce rule of law, but Trader Joe's is no battered
Venezuelan storefront shop. They're a huge national private corporation whose
structure protects them from activist shareholders stirring up the
pot and calling for woke acts, and they have always put the interests of their
customers first. Instead of pay the danegeld, they're in a position to walk
out.
They've shown backbone in standing up to rioters,
and who knows how many shakedowns they have fended off. But if it gets bad --
and Breitbart notes that three stores in Seattle have been targeted, they may
well decide that the cost of doing business outweighs the benefits and pull out
of the city.
By then, the city may become a food desert.
Self-inflicted, of course, based on the majority's voting choices.
Amy Coney
Barrett has some ‘splainin’ to do on white racism
Amy
Coney Barrett has some ‘splainin’ to do.
Last
week, Judge Barrett said the death of George Floyd from “racist” police was
“very personal” to her.
She
worried that someday her adopted black children -- and grandchildren -- might
suffer the same kind of “brutality.”
She
even told the national audience turned in to her Supreme Court confirmation
hearing that her family cried about all the violence white racism could wreak
upon them.
One
way or another, sooner or later, Judge Barrett’s family will learn the real threat
to their safety in their new hometown of Washington, D.C. is not white racism
but black violence: How black crime is so wildly out of proportion and how so
many reporters and public officials -- and federal judges -- are in denial,
deceit, and delusion about it.
What
then?
How
is Judge Barrett going to let her children know about all the Metros they
cannot ride, all the schools they cannot attend, all the parts of town -- black
neighborhoods -- they must not visit because white people are just not safe
there?
So
many examples. So few tears shed for the victims of black crime.
How
about the white kids visiting D.C. on a college inspection tour?
From
the moment they stepped on the campus
of Howard University -- America’s most
notorious black college -- they were threatened, assaulted, and robbed. Then
run out of the cafeteria and off the college grounds because they were white,
and one was wearing a Trump hat.
The
school paper opined about how proud they were of the Howard students for
protecting their school. Soon after the school president tweeted in agreement.
Judge
Barrett should know the students and staff of Howard are equally hostile to
white neighbors who want to stroll
through their campus on a Sunday
afternoon.
They
mutter something about black sacred ground and how they cannot let white people
desecrate it. All that was A-Okay with the Washington Post.
Who
is going to tell the judge and her family to beware?
He
was waiting in line for a hamburger in McDonald’s just a few blocks from the
White House when a large group of fellas and lovely ladies started taunting him
about Black Lives Matter. Outside, a few minutes later, they beat
him within an inch of his life -- all on
high tech video.
When
the Washington Post got around to reporting the story weeks
later, dozens and dozens of Post readers said the Marine
must have said something racist to them. After all, black people do not
just go around attacking white people for no reason whatsoever.
But
that is exactly what happened there -- and it is hardly an isolated event.
Two
years ago, during the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme
Court, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse reminded us that not all racial bias and
violence is accompanied by signs and slogans. Prosecutors and judges use
patterns to establish bias all the time in American courts, he said.
Judge
Barrett better learn to recognize that pattern real quick. Pro tip: 85 percent
to 95 percent of inter-racial crime and violence in America is black on white.
Seventy-five percent of mass shooters are black. Black on white rape outnumbers
white on black by a factor of 10,000 to one.
Violent
crime in D.C. is a black thing.
How
about all the black violence against commuters on the D.C. Metro? My favorite
example is when a group of black people almost killed the husband
of an NPR executive while his wife waited
to greet him at the station.
That
story never made it to NPR. But every hour of every day NPR reminds of us
relentless black victimization, relentless white racism, all the time,
everywhere that explains everything.
They
call that Critical Race Theory.
And
how many Capitol Hill staffers and media member have decided their adopted town
is safe, only to find out the hard way -- often too late -- about their fatal
misjudgment?
Maybe
Judge Barrett lives in a legal bubble where solutions to violent crime are
straightforward: Go to jail.
That’s
not how they roll in D.C., where black crime is excused as a reaction to white
racism. And if the perpetrator is really a victim of white racism, then they
really don’t have any business in jail, do they?
A
now-famous law
professor at Georgetown University said just
that in an opinion piece he wrote for the Post. He said if
black jurors felt the black defendant was a victim of racism, they should not
convict him.
And
oh yeah, all black people are victims of white racism. That is why crime is the
new black entitlement.
The
city named an entire park to enshrine this fairy tale of black victimization
and white racism: Black Lives Matter Plaza, right in front of the White House.
Judge
Barrett might want to look up the Washington Post story
about how the city council decided it was not really fair to keep violent
black teenagers behind bars. So they let
them out, creating a crime wave with more than 100 murders.
When
do we tell the children that their mom’s predecessor, Notorious RBG, was also a
victim of black violence in Georgetown? As was John Kerry’s wife.
This
is a very long list of black crime, violence, murder and denial in
Washington D.C. on hiking and biking trails, restaurants, parks, homes, stores,
restaurants, schools… you name it.
All
wildly out of proportion. All ignored by Judge Barrett as she focuses on the
minuscule percentage of white cop on black violence and ignores the tsunami of
victims of black violence.
We
call that the Greatest Lie of our Generation. And it is troubling to see how
eagerly Judge Barrett has swallowed it hook, line and dangerously delusional
sinker.
Colin Flaherty i(@ColinFlaherty) is the author of the #1 Amazon
bestsellers, Don’t Make the Black Kids Angry and White
Girl Bleed A Lot. You can also catch his podcasts everywhere except
iTunes.
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