Tuesday, January 17, 2023

REPARATIONS FOR RACIST, ANTI-SEMITIC, HATE MONGERING, VIOLENT, STORE LOOTING BLACKS? - OR IS IT TIME FOR REPARATIONS FOR VICTIMS OF BLACK VIOLENCE?

 WE SEE THIS EVERY TIME WE GO INTO A STORE IN OUR COMMUNITY

NEVER UNDERESTIMATE HOW IGNORANT OR VIOLENT A TYPUCAL BLACK MAN CAN BE!

US Veteran takes down knife-wielding man in Walmart




HOW MUCH OF CRIME IN AMERICA IS BLACK?

With these vicious influences within the Black community (socialism, Islam, and the BHI), it’s not surprising that physical attacks against Jews tend to come from Blacks.  ANDREA WIDBURG

As the crime wave sweeps across President Joe Biden’s (D) America, citizens are “more likely now than at any time over the past five decades to say there is more crime in their local area than there was a year ago,” Gallup reported in October.

NEVER UNDERESTIMATE HOW IGNORANT OR VIOLENT A TYPUCAL BLACK MAN CAN BE!

US Veteran takes down knife-wielding man in Walmart


As the crime wave sweeps across President Joe Biden’s (D) America, citizens are “more likely now than at any time over the past five decades to say there is more crime in their local area than there was a year ago,” Gallup reported in October.


VIDEO: NYC Man Pleads Guilty in Fatal Beating of Elderly Chinese Immigrant




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A New York City man accused in the fatal beating of a Chinese immigrant has pleaded guilty and may spend the next 22 years in prison.

Fifty-one-year-old Jarrod Powell pleaded guilty to a hate crime manslaughter charge in the death of 61-year-old Yao Pan Ma that happened in 2021, Fox News reported Thursday.

“Jarrod Powell attacked Mr. Ma because of his race and is now being held accountable. My thoughts are with Mr. Ma’s family and friends as they continue to mourn this loss,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a press release.

On April 23, 2021 in East Harlem, the victim was collecting cans when he was shoved to the ground and kicked in the head, the Fox report continued.

Surveillance footage shows what happened and police escorting Powell, who was homeless and had previously been in prison, out of the 25th police precinct station following the incident:

Powell has been accused of stomping on the man’s head multiple times, and his injuries later put him into a coma.

Per the district attorney’s news release:

An MTA bus driver, who was stopped at a traffic light and witnessed the attack, flagged down a nearby ambulance. FDNY EMTs found Mr. Ma and transported him to Harlem Hospital, where he was treated for facial fractures and bleeding on the brain. As a result of the attack, Mr. Ma sustained a traumatic brain injury and was placed on life support. POWELL evaded authorities for four days until he was identified through video surveillance and apprehended by the NYPD on April 27, 2021.

Powell later claimed he had been attacked by two Asian men the day before the attack on Ma. However, he did not report the alleged robbery.

“Mr. Ma remained hospitalized in a vegetative state until he died from his injuries on December 31, 2021. As admitted in his plea to this hate crime, POWELL targeted Mr. Ma because he was Asian,” the district attorney’s press release noted.

In January 2022, community members gathered to remember Ma at a vigil:

Powell’s sentencing is scheduled for March 9 and “Bragg’s office currently has 44 open cases related to anti-Asian hate crimes,” the Fox report said.

In November 2021, billionaire Democrat mega-donor George Soros scored another local district attorney’s office when Bragg (D) won, according to Breitbart News.

“In June, Bragg was linked to Soros after it was revealed that the far-left Color of Change PAC which endorsed his candidacy was receiving millions from the billionaire investor,” the outlet said.

At Least 21 Shot During Weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago

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At least 21 people were shot, four of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.

ABC 7  / Chicago Sun-Times reports the weekend’s first fatal shooting occurred shortly before noon Saturday, when a 29-year-old man “in the South Austin neighborhood’s 5600-block of West Lake Street” was approached by three men, one of whom opened fire.

The victim was shot twice and pronounced dead after being taken to the hospital.

The weekend’s second fatal shooting was discovered about 11:40 a.m. Sunday, when officers found an unresponsive man with multiple gunshot wounds “in the 400-block of East 82nd Street.”

The man was transported to a hospital and pronounced dead.

The third fatal shooting took place at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, when a 41-year-old woman was shot “in the 6200-block of South Michigan Avenue.” The woman was shot in chest and the neck. She was taken to a hospital, where she died.

A 25-year-old man was shot and killed just minutes before that on Sunday. The man was in a car “in the 2600-block of West Fitch Avenue” when someone in a black vehicle opened fire.

The 25-year-old was shot twice and taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The Sun-Times notes that 23 people were killed in Chicago during the first 15 days of 2023.

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 and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. AWR Hawkins holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.

Alabama Basketball Player Darius Miles Charged with Murder

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Alabama forward Darius Miles and another man have been charged with capital murder in the shooting death of a 23-year-old woman near the university campus in Tuscaloosa Sunday morning.

Miles, who has been officially removed from the basketball team, was taken into custody and booked into the Tuscaloosa County Jail at 6:45 ET, according to ESPN. The shooting occurred in an area known as The Strip, near university boulevard. The victim, Jamea Harris, is from the Birmingham area.

Tuscaloosa Police Captain Jack Kennedy said that the cause of the incident appeared to be a “minor altercation.”

“At this time, it appears that the only motive was a minor altercation that these individuals had with the victim as they were out on the Strip,” Kennedy said at a news conference.

Kennedy said, “…the driver of another vehicle, in which Harris was a passenger, approached campus police near Bryant-Denny Stadium at about 1:45 a.m. saying that someone had shot into the vehicle, and he fired back. One of the suspects was treated for non-life-threatening injuries at a local hospital, and Kennedy declined to disclose who fired the gun or who was hurt.

“Neither the driver of the other vehicle nor Harris nor Davis appeared to be affiliated with the university.”

The University of Alabama issued a statement in response to the shooting.

“The University of Alabama’s utmost priority is the safety and well-being of the campus community,” the statement read. “We are grieved by the incident that occurred near campus last night and extend our deepest condolences to the victim’s family and friends.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report

VIDEO: Elderly Postal Worker Fatally Stabbed in California on Walk Home

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A veteran postal worker was fatally stabbed in Oakland, California, on Wednesday as she walked home from her job.

Seventy-one-year-old Dilma Spruill was attacked on the street and stabbed multiple times, KTVU reported Thursday, adding she died at the scene and a motive remains unknown.

Following the incident, law enforcement arrested 28-year-old Wilber Winchester, whom the Daily Mail described as being homeless.

In a press release, the Oakland Police Department gave more details about the suspect:

The Oakland Police Department (OPD) arrested Wilbert Winchester for the homicide of Dilma Franks-Spruill, and an attempted homicide of another individual. Both of the incidents occurred in the city of Oakland. Winchester is also being investigated in connection to several other violent assaults throughout Oakland.

The department noted the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office charged the suspect with murder and attempted murder in the case.

“Three houses away. She was almost home, but she’s not coming home,” Spruill’s son, Miles, told reporters:

He also offered a message to the suspect, stating, “I bid you peace and I bid you farewell. You took my best friend. You took the only last living birth parent that I have.”

The incident happened around 12:30 a.m. after Spruill finished her shift at work and was on her way home.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Postal Service expressed its sadness at the loss, stating, “Dilma beamed with energy, joy and brought light to all who had the pleasure to know and work alongside her. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family and her co-workers at this time.”

According to ABC 7, Winchester previously served three years for elder abuse.

Video footage shows community members gathering to pay their respects to their beloved neighbor:

“Everything is missing, everything. I’m numb. I’m still sick to my stomach. I don’t sleep,” Miles said, adding he wanted to “live her legacy and spirit because that’s what she would want me to do.”

As the crime wave sweeps across President Joe Biden’s (D) America, citizens are “more likely now than at any time over the past five decades to say there is more crime in their local area than there was a year ago,” Gallup reported in October.

“The 56% of U.S. adults who report an increase in crime where they live marks a five-percentage-point uptick since last year and is the highest by two points in Gallup’s trend dating back to 1972,” the article read.


Providence mayor thwarted in cash grab for reparations

Mayor Jorge Elorza (Providence, RI) is an accomplished race baiter who never anticipated confronting charges of “racism” over his altruistic vision of launching a “truth and reparations commission.”

The mayor is well-known for his ugly accusations against white constituents alleging their perpetrating “generations of pain and violence,” but that’s not his first line of offense. The best way for whites to atone for their sins against people of color, according to Mayor Elorza, is to monetize their transgressions as far as the city budget will stretch.

That entailed a cash-grab of $10 million in a city budget already stretched to the limit. Then the mayor encountered a stumbling block to what would have been a payout of $346.00 for each black resident in Providence. Ironically, the funds could not be distributed on the basis of color because they had been earmarked from the federal government, which prohibits distribution of monies on a discriminatory color basis.

This didn’t stop Mayor Elorza from sermonizing about “uncomfortable truths” to a growing number of unrepentant non-slaveholders (i.e. Caucasians). He was considered tone deaf by many white constituents, who did not think of themselves as culpable for “systemic oppression” or give merit to the mayor’s pushing the “white guilt” issues, according to social media posts.

The suggestion to “heal by discussing” did not go in the direction the mayor had in mind.

He is now confronting “uncomfortable truths” about the noble history of the tiny state’s position on slavery -- none of which was considered by the “truth and reparations commission.” Chief among these historic facts is that Rhode Island was the first state to ban slavery, and mobilized more than 25,000 residents who served in the Civil War.

As a further testament to the courage of Rhode Islanders, more than 1,700 lost their lives in the conflict and an astounding 20 soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor.

Should the mayor include reparations for white families whose loved ones paid the ultimate price in the conflict?

This isn’t the first time the mayor has found himself disparaged for his “equity” arguments, and his misguided legislative attempts to “close the equity gap.”

He was the target of a lawsuit filed by the city’s former Department of Public Works director, Paul J. Thomas, who claimed he was fired for attempting to maintain integrity in hiring practices. The director refused to “hire unqualified people based on discriminatory color practices” and was “banned from hiring qualified applicants of a different ethnic background.”

One thing Mayor Elorza cannot complain about is the color make-up of his 15-member city council. It is a diversity officer’s dream come true, with all Democrats including six Latino members, and several of African heritage.

Such a formidable “progressive” force continues to legislate a city now confronting its own “uncomfortable truths” about the horrible socioeconomic decline taking place in every aspect of life. The poverty level is a dispiriting 23 percent, crime continues to escalate annually (due to decriminalizing crime laws), and students in public schools are rated at an appalling level of academic proficiency.

There isn’t any amount of “virtue signaling” the mayor can offer that will hide his appalling track record and he shows no sign of recognizing these ugly realities in his city. Perhaps he should divert his efforts from allocating funds based on skin color and targeting public statues for destruction to issues of real concern to the taxpayers of Providence.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Introduces Bill Criminalizing ‘Conspiracy to Commit White Supremacy,’ Criticism of Non-White People

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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) introduced a House Bill criminalizing “conspiracy to commit white supremacy,” which includes criticism of non-white people which influences an individual to commit a hate crime. 

The legislation, H.R.61 “Leading Against White Supremacy Act of 2023,” introduced last Monday by Democratic congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, seeks to “prevent and prosecute white supremacy inspired hate crime and conspiracy to commit white supremacy inspired hate crime.”

The congressional bill, which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, states that someone engages in a white supremacy inspired hate crime “when white supremacy ideology has motivated the planning, development, preparation, or perpetration of actions that constituted a crime or were undertaken in furtherance of activity that, if effectuated, would have constituted a crime.”

Accordingly, “conspiracy” to engage in white supremacy inspired hate crime entails the publishing of material “advancing white supremacy, white supremacist ideology, antagonism based on ‘replacement theory’, or hate speech that vilifies or is otherwise directed against any non-White person or group.”

It also calls for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to gain “authority to conduct operations and activities pursuant” to what it deems “necessary and appropriate to interdict, mitigate, or prevent such action from culminating in violent activity.”

The bill would grant the department authority to “prosecute” persons engaged in such actions, with “records of white supremacy inspired hate crimes” maintained and annual reports provided.

In response, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) accused Democrats of “making a mockery of the First Amendment.”

“In case you weren’t aware of what the Democrats were prioritizing in the 118th Congress, just take a look,” she wrote. “When they’re not bankrupting our country, they’re busy making a mockery of the First Amendment.”

“Who wants to tell her about the First Amendment?” asked conservative attorney Harmeet Dhillon.

“Congressman Sheila Jackson Lee just introduced a bill that would make it a federal crime for White people, and White people only, to criticize mass immigration or to say anything that she claims would vilify ‘a non-White person or group,’” wrote one Twitter user.

“Sheila Jackson Lee should be introduced to the Bill of Rights. Particularly the first amendment pertaining to free speech,” another wrote.

“This is a disturbing, yet not surprising, piece of #AntiWhite legislation,” yet another user wrote.

Previously, Jackson Lee has argued that institutional and systemic racism “taints and spoils” the way America treats minorities, adding that there are “aspects of America’s laws, America’s structure as relates to the black community in particular and other communities that is racist.”

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As the crime wave sweeps across President Joe Biden’s (D) America, citizens are “more likely now than at any time over the past five decades to say there is more crime in their local area than there was a year ago,” Gallup reported in October.


Alabama Basketball Player Darius Miles Charged with Murder

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Alabama forward Darius Miles and another man have been charged with capital murder in the shooting death of a 23-year-old woman near the university campus in Tuscaloosa Sunday morning.

Miles, who has been officially removed from the basketball team, was taken into custody and booked into the Tuscaloosa County Jail at 6:45 ET, according to ESPN. The shooting occurred in an area known as The Strip, near university boulevard. The victim, Jamea Harris, is from the Birmingham area.

Tuscaloosa Police Captain Jack Kennedy said that the cause of the incident appeared to be a “minor altercation.”

“At this time, it appears that the only motive was a minor altercation that these individuals had with the victim as they were out on the Strip,” Kennedy said at a news conference.

Kennedy said, “…the driver of another vehicle, in which Harris was a passenger, approached campus police near Bryant-Denny Stadium at about 1:45 a.m. saying that someone had shot into the vehicle, and he fired back. One of the suspects was treated for non-life-threatening injuries at a local hospital, and Kennedy declined to disclose who fired the gun or who was hurt.

“Neither the driver of the other vehicle nor Harris nor Davis appeared to be affiliated with the university.”

The University of Alabama issued a statement in response to the shooting.

“The University of Alabama’s utmost priority is the safety and well-being of the campus community,” the statement read. “We are grieved by the incident that occurred near campus last night and extend our deepest condolences to the victim’s family and friends.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report

VIDEO: Elderly Postal Worker Fatally Stabbed in California on Walk Home

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A veteran postal worker was fatally stabbed in Oakland, California, on Wednesday as she walked home from her job.

Seventy-one-year-old Dilma Spruill was attacked on the street and stabbed multiple times, KTVU reported Thursday, adding she died at the scene and a motive remains unknown.

Following the incident, law enforcement arrested 28-year-old Wilber Winchester, whom the Daily Mail described as being homeless.

In a press release, the Oakland Police Department gave more details about the suspect:

The Oakland Police Department (OPD) arrested Wilbert Winchester for the homicide of Dilma Franks-Spruill, and an attempted homicide of another individual. Both of the incidents occurred in the city of Oakland. Winchester is also being investigated in connection to several other violent assaults throughout Oakland.

The department noted the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office charged the suspect with murder and attempted murder in the case.

“Three houses away. She was almost home, but she’s not coming home,” Spruill’s son, Miles, told reporters:

He also offered a message to the suspect, stating, “I bid you peace and I bid you farewell. You took my best friend. You took the only last living birth parent that I have.”

The incident happened around 12:30 a.m. after Spruill finished her shift at work and was on her way home.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Postal Service expressed its sadness at the loss, stating, “Dilma beamed with energy, joy and brought light to all who had the pleasure to know and work alongside her. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family and her co-workers at this time.”

According to ABC 7, Winchester previously served three years for elder abuse.

Video footage shows community members gathering to pay their respects to their beloved neighbor:

“Everything is missing, everything. I’m numb. I’m still sick to my stomach. I don’t sleep,” Miles said, adding he wanted to “live her legacy and spirit because that’s what she would want me to do.”

As the crime wave sweeps across President Joe Biden’s (D) America, citizens are “more likely now than at any time over the past five decades to say there is more crime in their local area than there was a year ago,” Gallup reported in October.

“The 56% of U.S. adults who report an increase in crime where they live marks a five-percentage-point uptick since last year and is the highest by two points in Gallup’s trend dating back to 1972,” the article read.


Does DC want to be the carjacking capital of the USA?

Washington, D.C.'s city council has just provided incontrovertible proof of the willful incompetence of the gun control movement.  The same people who want to outlaw the possession of firearms by law-abiding people passed legislation to reduce penalties for carjacking, home invasion, and similar violent crimes.  Use of a gun to commit a violent felony in the nation's capital can now be punished by no more than four years in prison.  This makes it clear that the D.C. city council has no real desire to keep firearms away from violent criminals who really shouldn't have them, and the legislation is so dysfunctional that Mayor Muriel Bowser, who is certainly no conservative, intends to veto it.

It also makes Washington, D.C. the ideal place for carjackers, robbers, home invaders, and gun felons to ply their trades because, in contrast to almost every other jurisdiction in the United States, they won't get much prison time.  If you want to stick a gun in somebody's face to demand money, then you should do it in D.C., where you can't get more than four years (unless U.S. attorneys step in, as discussed below).

If you want to force somebody out of a car at gunpoint, then D.C. is the place to do it.  If you do it in Florida, you can get up to life in prison. The mere possession of a firearm during a crime of violence in Florida is punishable by ten years, or twice the five-year mandatory federal sentence available under 18 U.S. Code §924.  If the offender shoots a victim during the felony, there's a 25-year mandatory minimum in Florida.  Carjacking is punishable by up to 20 years in Texas, and life in prison if a weapon is used.  It looks, in fact, as though you can do five or more carjackings in D.C. for the price of one in Texas, assuming consecutive sentences in D.C.

Pennsylvania Republicans have meanwhile proposed impeachment of Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner for apparently letting off violent criminals with lenient sentences.  As but one example, a man who was charged with murdering a carjacking victim was let off with ten years.  "McSwain's office alleges Tuggle shot Petersen in the chest, dragged him out of the car, robbed him, and left him for dead in the road as he screamed in pain."  Pennsylvania law allows death or life in prison without possibility of parole for a crime of this nature, but Krasner allowed this felon to plead to third-degree murder in exchange for information the felon never provided.

But you can't impeach somebody for doing a poor job.  What they really want is a recall election, which is not available.  U.S. attorneys have, however, stepped in to do Krasner's job for him by adding charges under 18 U.S. Code §924.  These are prosecuted in federal court, and Krasner has no say over them.  This law says in part (emphasis is mine),

[A]ny person who, during and in relation to any crime of violence or drug trafficking crime (including a crime of violence or drug trafficking crime that provides for an enhanced punishment if committed by the use of a deadly or dangerous weapon or device) for which the person may be prosecuted in a court of the United States, uses or carries a firearm, or who, in furtherance of any such crime, possesses a firearm, shall, in addition to the punishment provided for such crime of violence or drug trafficking crime 

  1. be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than 5 years;
  2. if the firearm is brandished, be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than 7 years; and
  3.  if the firearm is discharged, be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than 10 years.

Charges of this nature were in fact filed against Petersen's killer, who now faces up to life in prison, noting that ten years is the minimum and not the maximum sentence for firing a gun during a violent crime.  18 U.S. Code §924 focuses squarely on individuals who should not have firearms, and prison is about the only place in the country where they cannot gain access to them.  It is to be noted that, had this law been applied to George Floyd, he might still be in prison and still alive, as he would not have run into Derek Chauvin.  Floyd was convicted of robbing a woman at gunpoint which means he brandished the firearm in question, but he never faced the federal charges for this.

If the D.C. city council declares open season on law-abiding citizens with relatively trivial punishments for crimes that could be punished by 20 or more years in prison elsewhere, then U.S. attorneys need to step in for every single case that involves a firearm to add no less than five to ten years to the consequences, depending on whether the gun is possessed, brandished, or fired during the crime.

Civis Americanus is the pen name of a contributor who remembers the lessons of history and wants to ensure that our country never needs to learn those lessons again the hard way.  The author is remaining anonymous due to the likely prospect of being subjected to "cancel culture" for exposing the Big Lie behind Black Lives Matter.

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VIDEOS: Americans step up because the police aren’t there

One of the things criminals don’t understand is that, in a country governed by the rule of law, law enforcement doesn’t exist only to protect the law-abiding. It also exists to protect criminals. That’s because, in the absence of law enforcement, you get vigilantism, which is usually much more brutal than anything the police can dish out. Even worse, when vigilantism gets too out of control, the response is tyranny, with the tyrant promising to renew order.

Last week, a video made the rounds showing what happened to a man who entered a restaurant, waved a gun around (later shown to be fake), and demanded people’s valuables. That’s a common enough occurrence nowadays, but this one went viral when one of the customers, recognizing that a criminal pointing a gun at others poses an imminent threat to life, shot the man…again and again and again.

Most people agree that the initial shots were righteous, but there’s debate about the last shot when it appeared that the threat the robber presented had been neutralized. However, we really don’t know whether the robber was still a threat. After all, we’ve all seen videos of bad guys absorbing round after round and still killing or wounding people. (E.g., here.) The law allows citizens to keep defending themselves as long as necessary.

Two more videos of citizens taking action have emerged. One is wonderfully amusing because it shows Guitar Center employees in Phoenix unceremoniously throwing out a would-be thief:

I’m willing to bet that the Guitar Center tells its employees that, if someone steals, they should just let it happen and then call the police. That’s what all stores have done for some time now, after all. But what employees are figuring out is that, at a certain point, a store cannot absorb losses from chronic shoplifting. And when the store goes, so do their jobs. Once again, vigilantism begins to take over.

The second video shows people corralling a would-be purse snatcher. When he makes a break for freedom, a woman who had a gun trained on him shoots him in the back as he flees. Under the classic American standard, unless she can colorably claim that he still posed an imminent threat as he fled, she’s in trouble:

Regardless of the shot’s righteousness, this is another example of what happens when citizens feel they’re on their own. In Houston and El Paso, crime in Texas has run rampant, and the authorities are doing nothing to protect law-abiding citizens. So, again, citizens will protect themselves.

There’s no way this can end well. If the government doesn’t step up soon, we’ll start having the type of self-help we periodically see coming out of Africa or Latin America, where mobs beat suspected criminals to death or set them on fire. That’s a return to a pre-modern time that was bad enough the first time around.

Likewise, if crime continues to spiral with citizens left on their own, you can bet your bottom dollar that someone with totalitarian instincts will step in to “restore order.” At that point, you find yourself in the world Tacitus described: “They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.”

As for me, I sometimes suspect that a top-down tyrannical peace is the real goal behind the Democrats’ sustained attack against the rule of law across America.

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New poll reveals rising antisemitism in the Democrat party

One of my favorite pastimes is reading the Facebook feed of an extremely nice man I know who is both an ardent Democrat and an ardent Israel supporter. For several years now, he’s been trapped in a state of cognitive dissonance, trying to square the circle created by his preferred political party’s increasingly open hostility to Israel, as well as the rising anti-Semitism on the left. This struggle may escalate soon, as a recent poll shows that anti-Semitism is worst among two groups who have come to define the Democrat party: Young voters and Blacks.

Just The News summarizes the poll’s results:

Black Americans were the most likely demographic to agree with anti-Semitic stereotypes overall despite the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.’s tireless work fighting in support of the Jews.

When asked whether “Jews have too much power in the business world,” 31% of black Americans agreed. Additionally, 29% of black Americans agreed that “Jews think they are better than other people.”

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About a quarter of young adults, however, agreed that Jews talk too much about the Holocaust, have too much business power and think they are better than others.

The poll was conducted with YouGov from Jan. 5-Jan. 9 with 1,000 respondents and had a margin of error of 3.55%.

As a general matter, also, the poll showed that Democrats are more anti-Semitic than Republicans. These results were inevitable as the left gained ascendency in society and, specifically, in education, and as Islam made inroads into the Black community.

Image: YouTube screen grab.

What people too often forget is that the Nazis weren’t some bizarre right-wing animal called a “fascist.” That was a canard the socialists came up with after the war to tar their opponents. The Nazis were open socialists whose nickname came from their full identity: National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei).

In the 1920s and 1930s, the umbrella concept of “socialism” divided itself into two rival parties: the communists, who believed the state should own all the means of production, and the fascists, who believed the state should control all the means of production while allowing private ownership. That’s why in Britain, in the 1930s, so many upper-class people supported the Nazis. They assumed democracy would die and that the only choice would be socialism. Therefore, they preferred the version of socialism that would allow them to retain their property.

As for Hitler’s and Germany’s antisemitism, that was also baked into the leftist cake. It’s true that Germany, like all European countries, had a history of antisemitism going back to the Roman era. However, it was Marx, a Jew whose father converted the whole family to Christianity for pragmatic reasons when Marx was a child, who made antisemitism an integral part of socialism. He did this by arguing that Jews and capitalism were inextricably intertwined. And in typical self-loathing fashion, he hurled epithets at Jews that were indistinguishable from the things the Nazis later said.

It was, therefore, inevitable that, as the left indoctrinated young Americans in socialism, these same young people would be more open to antisemitism. The trajectory was to side with the “oppressed Palestinians,” then to hate Israel and, finally, to hate all Jews.

American Blacks have been getting antisemitism from two directions. The first is the Democrat party’s open embrace of socialism. The second is the rise of two antisemitic sects within the Black community.

American Black communities used to be very Christian. It was the Black Christian church that was the foundation for Martin Luther King’s bully pulpit. (Incidentally, King was hugely philosemitic and a big Israel supporter.)

That changed with Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. Farrakhan is openly antisemitic, and his church reflects that. Although only 1% of American Blacks are Muslim, they account for 20% of the Muslim population in America, and they are a vocal minority. Given those numbers, the fact that Muslims have openly genocidal attitudes toward Jews is invariably going to help fertilize the growing antisemitism that leftism is bringing to the Black community.

It doesn’t help that the Black Hebrew Israelites (“BHI”), an openly antisemitic group that claims to be the true heir of the Biblical Jews, is also ragingly antisemitic and gaining traction.

With these vicious influences within the Black community (socialism, Islam, and the BHI), it’s not surprising that physical attacks against Jews tend to come from Blacks.

Jews understand that this rising antisemitism from the left carries the risk of turning into the same existential threat that almost wiped out Europe’s Jews in the 1930s and 1940s. Some of them are finally wising up enough to become conservatives. Let’s hope that my Facebook friend and his pro-Israel, Democrat followers eventually make the same choice. 

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