Leaving Richmond Because of Racism

Charlemagne Institute

Who in this crowd is there of their own convictions and not someone else's?

"For most of his life, my friend John, 60, has lived near Richmond, Virginia. Much of that time his home was about 75 yards from the city limits, but for the last few years he has rented an apartment in Henrico County, still less than two miles from the city. He attended a private school in Richmond, used its doctors and hospitals, frequented its restaurants and bars, and attended various public events there.

"And now he’s done.
“ 'I’ve given money to Richmond all my life,” he said to me over the phone. “And I’m finished.' ” . . .
. . . 
"For years, John has watched his beloved city fall apart under its local and state government. “Richmond is broke,” he says. “The streets and public schools are a disgrace. There are entire neighborhoods where I can’t walk safely in broad daylight.”
"What capped off John’s disgust with the place of his birth were the recent riots and the ongoing destruction of statues on Monument Avenue.
“ 'I’m not paying money to anyone who abuses what I think America should be.”
"John is also carrying his one-man rebellion beyond Virginia’s capitol city. He vows to see no more movies starring actors who have bad-mouthed the country, he’s canceling his T-Mobile account because of its campaign against Fox’s Tucker Carlson, and he gave up watching the basketball games played by the University of Virginia, his alma mater, when its 2019 championship team refused an invitation to the White House.
“ 'I don’t encourage people to visit Richmond anymore,” John says. “Some people come for the beer and breweries, but you can get beer anywhere. Some come to tour the Civil War museums and Monument Avenue, but setting foot in those places now qualifies you as a racist.' ” . . .

White House says CNN refuses to give them airtime to refute scandalous claims detailed on Bolton’s book

Suppose CNN succeeds in deposing President Trump; in future administrations how will their reportage ever be trusted? If one really will want to know what is happening in the world, why go to CNN or MSNBC?

BPR  "More and more, CNN seems to be doing away with any pretense that it’s an actual news outlet when it comes to covering President Donald Trump.
"Casual viewers may be excused if they believe the network dedicates 24/7 coverage to destroying the Trump presidency, as it is all bad news all the time when it comes to the

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nations’ 45th president.
"After giving disgruntled former national security adviser John Bolton’s new book red carpet treatment, a book that features enough scandalous allegations against Trump to ensure brisk sales — one such claim being that he asked China to help him with the 2020 election — CNN apparently had little interest in offering the administration an opportunity to refute the claims.
"That’s according to a spokesman who spoke the Washington Free Beacon Thursday afternoon, insisting that CNN is refusing to give the White House airtime.
"The network reportedly told the White House it is “focused on other breaking news.”
"It’s not clear which officials were being offered to CNN to defend the president or to name the shows that declined their requests, the Free Beacon reported. CNN did not respond to their request for comment.
"More from the Free Beacon on CNN’s Thursday coverage:" . . .

Trump's Tulsa Rally — This Is The Speech The President Needs To Give

Cal Thomas

The president should not just use the Tulsa speech to fire up his base. He should propose something substantive that might provide, if not a solution to racial tensions, then at least begin to solve the underlying problem, something Democrats have only talked about for 50 years.

"President Trump on Tuesday unveiled a plan to make reforms in police departments and acknowledged for the first time the existence of “systemic racism.” He also promised to meet with some African American families whose relatives have been killed by police officers.

"That is one step toward healing our deep racial divisions.

The next opportunity comes Saturday as the president is scheduled to break his rally “fast” in Tulsa. The Trump campaign claims they have received 800,000 ticket requests. Though not all will get into the 20,000-seat venue, the Trump re-election effort will have mined additional names for its digital campaign.

"The president should not just use the speech to fire up his base. He should propose something substantive that might provide, if not a solution to racial tensions, then at least begin to solve the underlying problem, something Democrats have only talked about for 50 years.

"Here are my suggestions for what the president might say:

"There is only one race — the human race. We are one seamless coat of many colors, one “body” with many parts, each with an important function that contributes to the whole. We call ourselves the UNITED States of America for a reason. No other country exemplifies such unity. Though we have our disagreements and even sometimes divisions, our oneness is our greatest strength."There is no “pure” or “master” race. No race is superior to another. To hate someone because of the color of their skin is to hate one’s self because we all share the same origin story, the same human DNA. This is all part of God’s doing in His ultimate creative and most beautiful work – humanity. We are created in His image." "Historically, many of our churches have not always been on the right side when it comes to race. Many churches oppose civil rights for African Americans and wrongly quote Scripture to justify their positions. As Abraham Lincoln said during our most divisive war: “Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. … The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes.”"I am today proposing a new alliance between white evangelical churches and their African-American brethren. At bottom, racism and the many horrors that have flowed from it are matters of the heart. Who better to address heart matters than our evangelical churches, which preach a gospel of redemption and changed lives?" . . .

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As America falls apart, who will defend her?

God bless America; Land that I love; Stand beside her, And guide her Through the night with the light from above. Irving Berlin

Statues Are Part of History

It seems that Italians have more common sense than some Americans.  The removal of hundreds of Civil War monuments, including the recent removal of a statue of Jefferson Davis and an attempt to remove the imposing image of Robert E. Lee in Richmond, are part of a similar attempt to suppress an aspect of our history that some now see as offensive.

I'm sure this song will be verboten, along with all our historical monuments: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

De Blasio Announces NY Commission to “Reevaluate Historical Narratives” and Look at Removing Thomas Jefferson Statue in City Hall

David Limbaugh: The Silent Majority can be silent no more  . . . "It was surreal that some of their leading presidential candidates openly supported the abolition of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But this widespread move to defund the police takes the insanity to French Revolution-crazy levels.
"How can parents not fear for their kids' future? How can an entire political party give itself over to a lawless mob? How can it condone the systematic suppression of political speech by Hollywood, the corporate left and social media giants?
"Do rank-and-file liberals want to live in a country whose culture destroys people who won't toe the leftist line?
"Ironically, it will only be a matter of time before the mob they legitimized will turn on them, as surely as the French revolutionaries turned on their mastermind Maximilien Robespierre."
. . .
"Too many on the right also mistakenly believe that this Democratic frenzy and leftist unrest is all based primarily on their contempt for President Donald Trump. He has made them crazy, and they'll do anything to get rid of him. Then everything will return to normal.
"Yes, he makes them crazier, more desperate and more unreasonable -- mainly because he's fighting them hammer and tongs -- but he didn't make them leftists, and leftists don't need any prompting to unleash their hell on America. It stands for everything they hate.
"With or without Trump, their goals remain the same. But without Trump, their chances of finally undoing America immeasurably increase."
"I began this column saying we can't afford to be discouraged. We can't. But that doesn't mean we can afford to be blind to the gravity of the threats we face." . . .

You Can’t Learn From a History That’s Been Deleted  "The “memory hole” is one of the most haunting images in George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Used by government workers at the Ministry of Truth, this chute in the wall enabled Oceania’s one-party government to edit history at will and incinerate all evidence of their propagandistic deeds:" . . .

Tucker Carlson: There's a reason racial tension is rising in America - it's by design

The sponsors he has lost must be afraid of the mob and their torches. I'm sure mobs in our history had those who were repulsed by what they saw but feared the consequences of speaking out. Much I'm sure like some in the Southern lynch mobs or the witnesses to
Nazi Kristallnacht. Why must civilized people live in fear of those without an original thought in their heads? TD

Tucker Carlson

Is anyone in power defending absolute equality under the law? If there was ever a time to remind America that we all have equal value under God, that time is right now. But no. No one in charge is saying that. Our leaders are cowards when we need them to be brave. They are muddled when we need them to think clearly. It's possible they no longer even believe in equality.

. . . "But Democrats know better than that; they don't lie to themselves. They understand there is a revolution in progress. The death of George Floyd may have sparked widespread outrage -- sincere outrage -- and they may share that outrage. But they also know that what is happening now has very little to do with George Floyd or people like him. Like all revolutions, the point is to destroy the current system and replace it with something new.
"Or replace it with what? That's the question the rest of us should be asking right now. We should know what's coming.
"We know what we have now. Our current system has been in place for hundreds of years. It's based on a very simple idea: All people are created by God with equal moral value. Period. Every one of them." . . .
. . . In California, Democrats are moving to repeal Proposition 209. Proposition 209 explicitly bans racial discrimination in hiring and education. In other words, Democrats in California are now fighting for discrimination. This is not considered strange in 2020. No one even mentions it." . . .

Tucker has become a national treasure; here he asks: 
Why was stepmother of cop charged in Rayshard Brooks shooting fired from her job?  . . . "The following day, Equity Prime Mortgage took another pass at it on Twitter. This latest tweet made no mention of Rolfe’s social media posts, though it does hint at her “personal views.” Instead it read:

As an employer, it is imperative to maintain a safe environment for all employees. Melissa Rolfe’s termination was a direct result of her actions in the workplace and violation of company policy. While working with Melissa as she transitioned to a leave of absence granted by our organization, we discovered she violated company policy and created an uncomfortable working environment for many of our employees. As an HR director, she ultimately lost the confidence of her peers, leadership, and many employees who no longer felt comfortable engaging with her. We value diversity of thought and respect Melissa’s personal views and the views of all employees; however, when those create a hostile working environment, we must make difficult decisions to part ways.

Let’s rename everything!

Carol Brown "It’s hard to keep up with the pace of insanity and destruction that’s sweeping across our nation. (Perhaps even harder to grasp is the fact that no one is doing anything to stop it.)
"Part of the new world order includes the breathless rush to rename, or remove, just about everything because RACISM!, which has become code for the fundamental transformation of America by any means necessary.
"Two recent victims of the renaming frenzy include ice cream and skin cream (of no relation to each other beyond: RACISM!!!).
"Dreyer’s will be renaming “Eskimo Pies” because the company (on bended knee?) has determined it’s offensive." . . .

. . . "Despite this, there must be the appearance of striving for an absolute purity of heart and mind. Toward that end, Black Lives Matter will need to make a few minor adjustments to their mission and disavow their commitment to Boycott, Divest, Sanction (BDS) which is blatantly anti-Semitic.

"Oh, wait. Jew hatred is ok. Sorry, I got off track." . . .

America's rush for the exits from freedom in an absolute panic.

Dreyer’s Changing the Name of Eskimo Pies, Altering Marketing Scheme

Most Alaskans continue to accept the name “Eskimo,” particularly because “Inuit” refers only to the Inupiat of northern Alaska, the Inuit of Canada, and the Kalaallit of Greenland, and it is not a word in the Yupik languages of Alaska and Siberia.

Johnson & Johnson Will Stop Selling ‘Whitening Cream’ Over Concerns Of Racism…
What if facelifts are considered racist, Nancy?

Pelosi Orders Four Portraits of Former Democratic Speakers Removed From U.S. Capitol  

 So another minority becomes more invisible. I will hazard the wild guess that not a single Eskimo ever complained about Eskimo Pie. . . . "It is all idiotic pandering and virtue signaling driven by corporate suits in the marketing departments of conglomerates who couldn’t possibly care less about native peoples who live above the Arctic Circle, but care a great deal about their standing with fellow liberals. I deleted an adjective before that last noun." . . .

Howard Zinn Update: High School History Teacher Throws Out Textbooks For Radical Marxist ‘History’ Book

"The race riots, destruction of historical monuments, the Pulitzer Prize winning 1619 Project, and the damaging notion of collective American guilt and specifically, white guilt, are all products of the Zinn narrative."

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The Federalist
Howard Zinn’s radical revisionist ‘history’ book, 'A People’s History' of The United States, is the new normal in the American education system.

"A young high school history teacher, named Annie, posted a TikTok video raving about Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States,” which she explains will be her new classroom textbook. 
"Howard Zinn’s 1980 left-wing revisionist history book, “A People’s History of the United States,” is a Marxist’s take on American history. This class warfare, victim narrative, famously praised by Matt Damon in his 1997 academy award winning movie, Good Will Hunting, has sold more than two million copies and gone through five editions. In short, the book is a Marxist narrative whereby American history is viewed exclusively through the prism of race and class.
"In her TikTok video, posted in the wake of the George Floyd riots, Annie explains she will no longer be using official textbooks in her classroom because they “omit a lot of the truth from our past.” Ironically, “A People’s History” is replete with factual omission to twist history in order to fit a narrative of American shame. For example, according to “A People’s History,” the American Revolution was waged in order to defeat “potential rebellions and create a consensus of popular support for the rule of a new, privileged leadership”. Civil War soldiers fighting to preserve the Union were deceived by “an aura of moral crusade” against slavery which “worked effectively to dim class resentments against the rich and powerful, and turn much of the anger against ‘the enemy.'”
"Interestingly, Howard Zinn made no bones about his motivation and goals for writing “A People’s History.” Reputable historians attempt to teach history without being selective and misleading. Zinn on the other hand, openly admitted that he became a historian in order to inspire a social revolution, “I came to history with a very sort of modest objective, I wanted to change the world.' ” . . .

  It will take a massive effort on the part of honest historians to undo the damage done by Howard Zinn and restore the truth about America’s founding, shortcomings and proud history as the architects of freedom and self-government. Eva Duffy

Eva Duffy is an intern at The Federalist and a junior at the University of Chicago where she studies American history. She loves the Midwest, J.R.R. Tolkien, writing, & her family.

UPDATE: How Howard Zinn’s Anti-American Textbook Inspired The Antifa Bombing Attempt  . . . "Zinn’s ‘History’ Text Preys on the Naïve and Uninformed.
"By any reasonable definition, Zinn’s book does not deserve to have “history” in the title. Zinn’s book is filled with lies, omissions, distortions of evidence, logical fallacies, and plagiarism from dubious sources. In my forthcoming book, “Debunking Howard Zinn,” I detail all of these critical problems. I also describe Zinn’s life, from budding teenage communist to Pied Piper professor at Spelman College and Boston University, and globe-trotting anti-American agitator." . . .

“A People’s History” places a wildly disproportionate amount of focus on the past sins of the United States. The work teaches students to view history through the lens of toxic identity politics. The enslavement of blacks and women, exploitation and murder of workers and Indians, imprisonment of political dissidents, and America’s World War II treatment of Japanese-born Americans all get prime billing. For Zinn, America is irredeemable and merits comparisons to Nazi Germany.

Hoaxes: a database of hate crime hoaxes in the USA

Hoaxes   "The purpose of this site is to compile a comprehensive database of the false reports of "hate crimes" committed (mostly) in the USA. It builds on the work of Laird Wilcox, whose Crying Wolf (PDF) is the original book on this subject. The books Hate Crime Hoax and Hate Crimes: Criminal Law & Identity Politics are recommended, as are the websites Watching the Watchdogs and Fake Hate Map."

Today is the day to talk about the blacks who didn’t riot

We have to get the Sharptons and Waters' out of our minds. TD

Bookworm
The media keeps the focus on blacks whom leftists have taught to hate. In America, though, there are probably more blacks who don’t hate. Here are 3 of them.

"I went to the gun store again today, which is always a pleasant way to pass time. (By the way, thanks to all of you for your helpful ideas about which guns to buy.) Having handled about a dozen semi-automatics and test-fired the top three candidates, I think I’m going to get a Ruger because it fits my hands. I also stocked up on ammo. Better to have it when you don’t need it, than to need it an not have it.

"As always, I find gun stores and ranges delightful places to be. The employees are friendly and helpful — and so are the other shoppers. If you say “Hi, how’s your day?” to a gun store shopper, they’ll stop and answer and you’ll have a nice conversation. Which gets me to my first story about the blacks who didn’t riot.

"Regarding racism, my friend and I were standing in line outside the store (stores here are open but they have to limit the number of customers), when a black man came to stand in line behind us. I immediately said hello to him and asked him how his day was going. He responded that his day was great and asked us how ours was going. A little civil chit-chat followed.

"Then, bless him, this young man went out of his way to assure us that he was not someone who hated us because of our skin color. He didn’t say so directly. Instead, he told us that it’s great to have guns and that people here have them because “We’re all in this together.” Those stupid rioters, he said, they burned a car and made some mess, but they’re not who we are.

"It was an utterly endearing thing to do, and further conversation revealed that he was as nice as his first instincts showed him to be. But his kind gesture also made us aware of how much the world has changed. Once upon a time, nice white people hastened to assure black people not to worry. Now it’s the other way around. I want to us all, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, blue, green, purple, to live in a world in which such assurances are unnecessary, but I am so grateful to those who realize we’re not in that world yet and who make the effort to ensure that their own little patch of earth is a friendly place." . . . 
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Let’s ‘Demonetize’ NBC News And Google

Go to any far-left website and you’re likely to find hate-filled comments, offensive language, and calls for violence and mayhem, right next to ads placed there by Google’s ubiquitous ad network.

I & I Editorial Board  "This week saw a depressing new low in the attempt by the left to silence voices with which it disagrees when an NBC News “reporter” tried to enlist Google to block two conservative websites’ ability to make money.
"In a report on Tuesday, NBC News’ London-based Adele-Momoko Fraser claimed that Google had banned The Federalist and Zero Hedge from its ad platform over articles that were “pushing unsubstantiated claims about the Black Lives Matter protests.”
"Google soon tried to correct the record, saying that “The Federalist was never demonetized.” Google had only threatened to blacklist the site from its ad network. (It did “demonetize” Zero Hedge.)
"What’s more, contrary to NBC News, Google’s actions against The Federalist and Zero Hedge had nothing to do with articles they published, but with reader comments on those sites. Google told Fox News that it has “strict publisher policies that govern the content ads can run on, which includes comments on the site. This is a longstanding policy.”
"It turns out that not only did NBC’s Fraser botch the story, she also played an active role in generating the “news” in the first place. It was NBC News that notified Google of “research conducted by the Center for Countering Digital Hate,” a heretofore unknown and sketchy outfit, which got the ball rolling.
"When her initial story published, Fraser tweeted out a cheery thanks to the CCDH for “their hard work and collaboration.”
"Since Fraser hasn’t been fired or disciplined – that we know of – it’s apparently acceptable at NBC News for a reporter to actively try to silence other journalists, while playing fast and loose with the facts. So long as it’s in service of a leftist agenda. This isn’t media bias. This is media malpractice." . . . Full article...

Our concerns over Trump far outweighed by fear and dread of Democrats

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Bolton kneels to libs, collects $2 million

Conservatives burned by Bolton can cry that he will never be invited to their parties again, but he does not care. He wants the coveted John Dean seat, where you go on CNN and pronounce every act by any Republican president as worse than Watergate. Dean's getting up there in age. He's the RGB seat for former Republican swamp critics.

The media suddenly loves the far-right, neo-con, war-mongering, dangerous John Bolton . . . "Bolton says that Trump caters to dictators he likes. He clearly is mixed up as to which president he is referring to.

"It was Obama/Biden, not Trump who:

• Catered to the Castros and Cuba.
• Gave kickbacks and rewards to the terrorist tyrants in Iran who pledge death to America.
• Did not honor commitment to put missile shields in Poland and the Czech Republic to appease Putin.
• Refused to give defensive weapons to Ukraine to appease Putin.
• Had Putin monitor the chemical weapons of Assad and Syria.
• It was Obama/Biden and several previous Presidents that continually allowed manufacturing jobs to China.

"On that last point, to take just one of them, Trump has been fighting to bring them back since he took office." . . .

National Review likes Bolton but... . . . "Bolton is a longtime friend of this publication and we take his honesty as a given. Any credibility contest between him and Donald Trump is laughably lopsided.
"That said, Bolton is facing legitimate questions about the propriety of taking a sensitive, high-level job in an administration and then immediately turning his experience into a best-selling book when back out of office. He’s also getting dinged for having information that he believed would have made the case for impeaching the president more compelling, yet not sharing it while impeachment proceedings were ongoing (although there would have been complications — including disputes over what material was classified or privileged — and nothing he said would have changed minds in the Senate)." . . .
NR wanted Trump impeached but was disappointed by the "Stache".

U.S. Trade Rep Shoots Down John Bolton’s Outrageous Claim About Trump: “Absolutely untrue, never happened. I was there.”  "Before anyone takes a word of John Bolton’s new book seriously, they should be reminded that Bolton refused to testify under oath without a subpoena and that Democrats didn’t want to subpoena him because, without lying, he had nothing." . . .

Adam Schiff: Democrats May Investigate Claims Against Trump in Bolton Book

Schiff, who led the Ukraine-related impeachment trial against Trump, told CBS News he would be discussing with top Democrats whether Bolton's claims warrant further inquiries.

The Millennial Taliban; the left doesn't build up; it only destroys

Kinda like radical Islam only with spoiled millennials. Later when this mob calms down we'll all look back and cry, "What have we done?".  There is evil permeating this nation'.

Portland: George Washington Statue Torn Down, Draped in Burning U.S. Flag

"A statue of George Washington, the first president of the United States, was toppled and draped in a burning American flag by protesters in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday evening.

"KOIN 6 reports:

Thursday marked the 21st day of protests in Portland sparked by the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. Two groups — Rose City Justice and Lavender Caucus — hosted a sit-in rally at Jefferson High School in the evening where community members shared their experiences with racism to a crowd of a few hundred. The group did not hold a march.

A separate group of about 20 people met at NE Sandy Boulevard and NE 57th Avenue around 10 p.m. at the site of a large bronze statue of George Washington. Some wrapped the statue’s head in an American flag and lit the flag on fire. Their numbers grew over the next hour until there were enough people to pull the statue to the ground. They quickly scattered. A KOIN 6 News crew found the statue face down and covered in graffiti. Portland police arrived a short time later.

 'This Is Where Our Country's Going': Rolfe's Stepmother Fired From Job
" 'Apparently…[her] only crime was being officer Rolfe's stepmother.' " 

Teen Who Makes Teddy Bears for Children of Fallen Police Officers Receives Death Threats for Her Kindness to Police

. . . "In an episode of Behind the Uniforms from season one, she shared the story of how she started her non-profit to help them.
"Meg is the daughter of a cop. As such, she understands what families of law enforcement go through…
"…Sadly, the recent high school graduate is coming face to face with just how vile and depraved some people can be in their hatred for EVERY cop and ALL those who love and support them.
"Recently, she posted supportive statements on her personal social media page, only to have people, many of whom she considered friends, lash out at her and her family and then block her.
"The post that led to all of the horrific comments, which included things too vile to print, but wished death on her dad and other officers: . . ."