Category: Ebony And Ivory
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This NPR story – about a group of black families buying property in Georgia to try to create a black, utopian city – is full of unspoken, and semi-spoken, assumptions that Honky is going to mess the whole thing up. Speaking as a person of honk, I wish them all well in their oddly segregationist…
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When “Progressives” Ask Me…
“…Mitch, why do you keep saying that media attention to ‘white supremacy’ is just a diversion tactic, a political cudgel with which to beat down, bully and shame dissent, with otherwise no substance whatsoever?”, I respond “because that’s exactly how your side treats it“.
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Remediation
To: Democrat StrategistsFrom: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous PeasantRe: Election results Dear Dem Strategists: How to rebuild? Here’s a thought: And more riot talk. Lots more talk about riots. Keep up the good work. That is all.
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Filed under “Things I Never Knew Were Problems“
We are told is that not enough Minnesota farmers are black. Let’s talk “root causes“ for a moment; i’m also told thatvery few farmers in Norway, Sweden and Germany are black, either…
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Prophets Of Manufactured Rage
Berg’s 20th Law of Social Justice Warmongering reads “All incidents of “hate speech” not captured on video (involving being delivered by someone proven not to be a ringer) shall be assumed to be hoaxes until proven otherwise.” Events continue to bear this out… A similar “attack” occurred at Albion College in Michigan. “KKK” graffiti and…
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Darn Those Science-Denying Trumpkins!
Vaccine mandates are on the hit list… …of Black Lives Matter: At a protest Monday in front of New York restaurant Carmine’s, Chivona Newsome, also a co-founder of the group, said of the vaccine mandates, “What is going to stop the Gestapo, I mean the NYPD, from rounding up black people, from snatching them off…
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Out Hateful Racist President
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Black people make up 13.5% of the US population but only 10% of vaccinated people. Executive Orders closing entertainment venues and employment opportunities to the unvaccinated, will have a disparate impact on Blacks. Disparate Impact discrimination is a hateful and invidious form of racism. The Usurper in the White…
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Karen Crow
The “attack” on Jussie Smollett was a reflection of everything wrong about Trump’s Amerikkka, until it almost inevitably turned out to be a hoax. Then it disappeared. The attack on Larry Elder by a “woman” (we weren’t given any actual pronouns to use, so I’m not positive about that) in a gorilla mask – a…
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Surprising Almost Nobody
So it turns out that “implied bias“ testing is based on some fairly dubious psychology, and “implicit bias training” actually makes things worse. Never saw that coming.
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One Evening At A School Board Meeting
SCENE: A group of parents are gathered at a school board meeting in “Anytown, USA” – a medium-sized city in a swing-ish state. The city voted for Trump in 2016, elected a Democrat cityi council in 2018, and was nearly statistically tied in 2020. While these meetings are normally somnolent affairs dealing with abstruse board…
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Approval
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I dislike federal holidays as partisan political propaganda but I’m rethinking my position. I’m willing to support Juneteenth, if this becomes the official advertising poster. It gets better. After the Yanks freed the last of those slaves, a number of black freedmen who’d served in the Federal army settled…
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Avoidance
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Iowa State University professor tries to limit contact with White People. Sounds fair. I try to limit contact with groups of Black people for my own safety, because I’ve read the statistical proof. Of course, that essay is nearly 10 years old so the numbers may be out of…
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It Could Be Merriam Park
Woman, teacher, paranoid racist? Product of a decade and a half of Critical Race Theory indoctrination? Why choose? Some of the social media feedback quips “this woman could be teaching your kids”. If your offspring’s teacher is a member of the Saint Paul Federation of Teachers, the odds are actually pretty decent she already is,…
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Double Standards, Bla Bla Bla
Tim Scott says America’s not racist. So many Democrats call him “Uncle Tim”, it trends. A journalist with an improbable sense of balance asks Kamala Harris the same question. Several times. Which ekes out an answer… …the same as Scott’s. Nothin’. I know I”m not the only one seeing a pattern, here…
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One Law, One Aphorism
The law? Berg’s Seventh, of course. This is a Twitter tag “responding” to Senator Tim Scott’s response to Biden’s prattling-on last night. The aphorism? “Being a Democrat means never being accountable for anything. Ever”. UPDATE: It’s been pointed out that his is also an example of Berg’s Eighth Law.
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Reconsideration
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I’m reconsidering my position on reparations for slavery. I’d be willing to have the United States government pay every person who was held as a slave in the United States. The proof could be DNA, family records, distinctive cheekbones or even oral family history. Once qualified, the applicant would…
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The Racism Of Commoditized Expectations
In the wake of the verdict yesterday, Speaker Pelosi thanked George Floyd for his “sacrifice”: “Thank you George Floyd for sacrificing your life for justice,” Pelosi said Tuesday outside the Capitol where she was joined by the Congressional Black Caucus. “Because of you and because of millions of people around the world who came out for justice, your…
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Subjective
There is no such thing as race, or gender, no objective reality, there isonly how I feel about it: Joe Doakes
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With Apologies To David Letterman (Back When He Was Funny)
The Top Ten Things you Never, Ever Hear in Real Life. 10. “Hey, hand me that piano”. 9. “Gosh, the Star Tribune does a great job of balanced coverage on divisive issues” 8. “You know what I could use right now? A plate of “Scrod” from Embers” 7. “The fact that the Vikings, T-Wolves, Wild…
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Money Pedals The World
SCENE: Mitch BERG is shoveling landscaping dirt into a wheelbarrow, distracted. Avery LIBRELLE pedals up the alleyway on, naturally, a recumbent fat-tire bike, catching BERG by surprise. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Aaaaah, fffffffor crying out loud, Avery, long time no see. What’s… LIBRELLE: America is built around structural racism. BERG: Our “structurally racist” country elected a…
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The Un-Justice
Just in time for Black History Month, Amazon scrubs references to one of the most accomplished black men in America today. Clarence Thomas’s bio-doc has been disappeared: Amazon appeared to drop the PBS title, “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words,” while still promoting a wide array of feature films under the category of…
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#Progsplaining
Kendall Qualls was the GOP endorsed candidate for the 3rd Congressional District seat in this past election. Having lost that time, he’s on to something potentially bigger – starting a conversation with the black community about…itself. The DFL’s brain trust needs to stomp on that idea, but quick: I raise you this, Zach: Imagine an…
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We Have Come Down From The Mountain
Today is Martin Luther King day. And it’s time to be intellectually honest – to today’s Big Left, if he were alive, he’d have been canceled decades ago. Because the historical record – one you have all seen, over and over, the “I Have A Dream” speech – flies in the face of the Critical…