Then too…
https://up-ship.com/blog/?p=37913

That sounds a lot like Voltaire; and given his lifestyle, I’ve imagined him saying it drunk, at a party with lots of powdered wigs.

Forgiveness isn’t something you do for the other parties benefit—it is something you do to assert agency over your own life.

Become too apologetic—you get used…and get bitter over that. I’ve been there.

He even asks Mr Z do defend someone else’s post

This is a typical left action to try to force censorship and suppression of speech.

No, I say, let the idiots post their drivel, so we may see them for who they really are.

That includes both Richard and Mike A.

However, I do not ask our host to block your clearly useless commentary, because you make a point that I have been espousing for years: People like you should be allowed to have their say, and we all should listen, because we will all then understand how tenuous your position is. You cannot make any good points to support your position, so you resort to emotion. “I am right, because I say so,” is not an argument. What if I were to ask Robert to remove all your commentary, just because I disagreed with it? Clearly, we would not lose any clarity or thought; nothing has been added to this discussion, so nothing would be lost by removing your comment. At least Richard has a thought about a best known alum.

So, Mike, I hope Richard continues to comment here. At least he has a thought to bring to the discussion. Wouldn’t it have been so much better for you to have disagrees with Richard and explained why you disagreed? Long-term, I think that the guy who has a national holiday named after him will become, once again, the best known alum.

I also hope you continue to comment here. Without trying, you make one of my major recurring points, here on BTB, and that is just peachy for me. By continuing to give both of you a platform, history will look kindly on Robert for supporting free speech, even though he may disagree with what is said. Who was it that said, “I Disapprove of What You Say, But I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It?” Patrick Henry? Voltaire? Beatrice Hall?

Mike a: You aren’t reading very carefully. My last comment was addressed to both you and Robert. I was not defending him, I was criticizing both him and you.

How can you defend

“Best known alum is Oprah Winfrey.”
“Sportsball…”

As an attempt at a good faith “debate?”

Remove your own emotions from the discussion and see things for what they are.

Do better Robert.

And hey Richard-
Don’t forget that the best known alum is actually a former President.

I know that sticks in your craw even more than the leftists saying the same for Trump, based on your statements.

Mike a and Robert: Why is it that so many people today think good argumentation and debate is achieved with insults? It is so barbaric.

My readers and I are intelligent and quite willing to hear different perspectives, based on facts and thoughtful analysis. It remains a fact that the black community, saddled with slavery and racist oppression from its past and then further damaged badly by the government since the 1960s, remains the source of much of our nation’s violent crime. This is reality. Nor is it racist to note it. In fact, to solve it we all — and most especially the black community — are required to recognize it. Only by doing so can good people of all races begin to fix the problem.

Insults accomplish nothing however.

If you really feel that way, I feel sorry for you and your ignorant world view.

Robert – Continue to give this small minded drivel a platform and history will not look so kindly on you.

Pure nonsense.

The folks that held them captive for so long were, and still are, the leftists. The Democrats — leftists — have always been for power, control, and slavery. It is why, when they lost their slaves, they formed the KKK: to rid the south of the pesky Republicans, then to re-subjugate their once and future slaves. In that order. Jim Crow laws, segregation, and other evil deeds kept some amount of control over those who remained in the South. They were still captive, as long as they didn’t run to the North or to the West. Their culture was still dysfunctional, angry, and dependent on the very Democrats who had enslaved them.

The folks that held them captive for so long were, and still are, the leftists. When it looked like the Civil Rights Act would end the power, then Johnson and his Democrats shifted strategies to pretend to be best buddies, complete with their Uncle Toms. They were still captive, it just looked like freedom. Their culture was still dysfunctional, angry, and dependent on the very Democrat Party that had enslaved their ancestors. The Democrat leadership is not as dumb as their followers behave.

The folks that held them captive for so long were, and still are, the leftists. There was no mysterious and sudden “switching of sides.” The racists were racists before LBJ, and they remain racists after him. The conservatives were conservatives before LBJ, and they remain conservatives after him. The difference is that the leftists changed strategies from open hostility to pretending to be friendly while stabbing them in the back. “Aren’t we such nice guys, giving you freebies, but remember that you have to remain poor in order to continue receiving the free stuff.” Who doesn’t want free, unearned stuff, especially when they are poor? With frenemies like that, who needed conservatives (who think that people should earn what they get, not have it handed to them for free)? They were still captive, they just didn’t feel like it. Their culture was still dysfunctional, angry, and dependent on the very Democrat Party that had enslaved their ancestors.

Just when it looked like their culture was gaining functionality, peace with the world, and independence, Obama came along and stirred everything up all over again. Uncle Tom is still doing his thing, making sure that they don’t feel free and that their culture remains dysfunctional, angry, and dependent on the very Democrat Party that had enslaved their ancestors.

The folks that held them captive for so long were — and still are — the leftists. So, since they learned their culture from their captors, year after year, decade after decade, century after century, they learned it from the left, because six decades ago they learned to reject the right, the right that had helped them earn their Civil Rights Act. A decade and a half ago, they relearned to reject the right. Now the left pretends that they gave them their civil rights along with all that free stuff. Their culture is dysfunctional, angry, and dependent on the government that the left’s bureaucrats still control and are loath to lose.

Yes, and no. Read Thomas Sowell on “Black Rednecks”, about the culture (honor culture, acceptance of lawlessness, etc.) that some freed slaves took with them when they dispersed across America. They learned it from at least some of the folks that held them captive for so long. (It’s an Irish-Scots thing, and the same culture from which sprang things like “the Hatfields and McCoys.”)

Then along came a certain set of people needing to maintain the grievance grift, and demanded we not hold folks to a better culture. Because doing that was “racist.” And it goes from there.

At least, it’s the only way to do it without some very unpleasant carp along the way.

I would also use the video to identify and sue everyone involved in destruction of property, and false imprisonment. And then add the university as accessory – before and after the fact. Also, deprivation of civil rights under color of authority, as the cops did not stop the violence against a “peaceable assembly.”

Look, folks, until they’re held accountable in a fashion that impacts their daily lives and their futures, THEY. WILL. NOT. STOP.

And, if the state can’t protect your rights, then you appeal higher. And if no one in government is willing to actually protect your rights, then we must return to a founding document of the United States. But you have to push a lot harder on holding them accountable, first.

We all remember the brother of the prodigal son. I think there was some hard-heartedness where only single moms could benefit. It sounded good at that time.

After WWII, Russia was a whole country without fathers…those war children turned mean. I think Russia and China felt used after we propped up former Axis nations.

I just wish to high heaven that the United States had stayed out of WWI.

You have it right. Johnson eventually accepted the Civil Rights Act, but in exchange he planned to have ‘blacks voting Democrat the for the next two hundred years.’ He did not use the word “blacks,” but he is almost a third of the way to his planned schedule. Slavery 2.0 is a good way to describe the results.

By James Street:
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/todays-blacklisted-americans-abraham-lincoln-and-george-washington/#comment-1107376
– Democrats, the party of the Confederacy.
– Democrats, the party of slavery.
– Democrats, the party who extended the Civil War to extend slavery.
– Democrats, the party who maintained slavery in Texas until Juneteenth.
– Democrats, the party of segregation.
– Democrats, the party of the Klan.
– Democrats, the party of Jim Crow laws.
– Democrats, the party of the president who interned Japanese-Americans.
– Democrats, the party of the president who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
– Democrats, the party of the president who dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
– Democrats, the party who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
– Democrats, the party who opposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
– Democrats, the party who opposed the Fair Housing Bill of 1968.
– Democrats, the party of George Wallace.
– Democrats, the party who used fire hoses and dogs for crowd control.
– Democrats, the party who kills unborn babies.
– Democrats, the party whose policies decimate the African-American community today.
– The “Big Switch” is a lie.

My contribution:
– Democrats, the party founded specifically to defend the institution of slavery. Slavery 2.0
– Democrats, the party of The Trail of Tears.
– Democrats, the party of eugenics.
– Democrats, the party of Wilson, who segregated the armed forces.
– Democrats, the party of Franklin Roosevelt, who instigated the redline policy for black neighborhoods for FHA loans.

And who is it who destroyed the black family structure in America that has caused this disparity and violent attitude towards others in American society?

Hmmm let me think, what and who could it be?????

And those statistics are absolutely stunning.

1 of every 22 black males have murdered someone (usually another black person) in their lifetime. And these are just the solved murders–a whopping 50% go unsolved.

50% of ALL black males will be arrested at least once before the age of 23. The Left of course blames racism.

That community clearly is massively broken while the Left spins one fairy tale after another to try to explain it away or blames bellringers like Charlie.

Deploying a massive police/military patrolling force is an effective short term solution in these communities, but the only long term solution is to somehow keep the fathers in the home.

Blacks in that culture can’t participate in the American dream.