Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Race

  • Race is Real; Report It!

    A black girl viciously assaults a white girl, but no mention is made of the race of the assailant or the victim. The business of a journalist is to report the facts. Now we expect journalistic malfeasance at CNN, but Laura Ingraham last might, on Fox, also refrained from referring to assailant and victim by…

  • A ‘Temporal’ Argument Against Race Change

    The following excerpt is 'cannibalized' from my Substack article, Can One Change One's Race? ………………… Can I change my race? No. I can no more change my race than I can change the fact that I was born in California.  I might have been born elsewhere, of course, but as a matter of contingent fact,…

  • ‘Racism’: Supply and Demand. ‘Cultural Appropriation’

    Because the demand exceeds the supply, new variants of 'racism' have to be invented by leftist race-hustlers. One of the latest is digital blackface.  (I wrote this in March of last year.) What might that be?  Here: Digital blackface is a practice where White people co-opt online expressions of Black imagery, slang, catchphrases or culture…

  • Claudine Gay Resigns

    Good riddance:  Gay, Magill and Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth testified before a U.S. House of Representatives committee on Dec. 5 about a rise in antisemitism on college campuses following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war in October. The trio declined to give a definitive "yes" or "no" answer to Republican Representative Elise…

  • The Racism of Reduced Expectations

    To tolerate and excuse Harvard president Claudine Gay's  plagiarism has been cited by some as an example of the so-called 'racism of reduced expectations' (RRE). For what you are then doing by your toleration and excusal is lowering the standard for blacks when, or rather on the assumption that, they are as capable as any…

  • Ruling Class Banana Republicans

    Rod Dreher.  Includes this nifty graphic from an IBM DEI indoctrination session:

  • The ‘Reel’ Truth about George Floyd

    Here Tony Flood chimes in: Jesse's interview with Liz Collins: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6341513639112 Jesse's excerpt from Collin's new documentary The Fall of Minneapolis: https://www.foxnews.com/media/jesse-watters-george-floyd-story-very-different-depending-on-who-you-talk-to   Here's the book the film is based on: https://www.amazon.com/Theyre-Lying-Media-Death-George/dp/B0BKS611C6/   When Crump, Floyd's attorney, said his client was a healthy man, he lied (or didn't know what he was talking about, take your pick).…

  • Chess is Racist!

    Proved beyond a shadow of a doubt over at Substack.

  • White Flight and Racism

    Does racism explain white flight? Here is an interview with Jack Cashill. Excerpts: Your book challenges the conventional “white flight” narrative. In brief, what were whites fleeing, if not black Americans moving into their neighborhoods? I got the book’s title from a childhood friend, the last guy to leave our block. When I asked him…

  • Asian Family Harrassed by Three Black Teens on NYC Subway

    Leftists have something like the Midas touch. Everything  King Midas touched turned to gold; most of what leftists touch turns to crap. NYC and San Fran are prime examples. No surprise that these crapholes are bleeding population 'big time.'  The Asians, bien-pensant 'liberals' apparently, blamc 'society' and not the racism of the black teens.   More…

  • A Short History of Slavery

    Candace Owens, about five and a half minutes.  A crisp refutation of widespread leftist lies and omissions. Do your bit and propagate this video. "Truth is not a leftist value." (Dennis Prager) Some of you think that I came up with the line. Not so. I got it from Prager. Always give credit where credit…

  • Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America

    Some notes on Charles Murray. Substack latest. Includes a comment by 'Jacques,' a credentialed philosopher who dare not appear under his real name in these race-delusional and totalitarian times. The Republic is collapsing into a police state. Here is another bit of evidence of how the totalitarian state can and will mercilessly crush anyone it…

  • Emmett Till

    Top of the Stack.  Emmett Till is back in the news. This being the case, the inevitable comparisons of Till with Trayvon Martin will start up again. My purpose is to provide you with some background so that you can appreciate just how inane the comparisons are that assimilate the defensible killing of Martin by…

  • Victor Davis Hanson on Barack Obama

    In less than eight minutes.

  • France’s Agony

    Rod Dreher reports on the ravages of the allowance of the mass immigration of unassimilable elements. Will we learn? Little chance of that. Dreher concludes: I feel strongly that one reason so many of us in the West — including many conservatives — cannot bring ourselves to deal with realities like those posed by mass…