The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and related causes received an astonishing $82.9 billion from corporations.
“As a point of reference, $82.9 billion is more than the GDP of 46 African countries. In 2022, the Ford Motor Company’s profits were $23 billion.”
The list reveals that several popular corporations from a wide range of different industries supplied the movement with large sums of cash. Walmart, for example, which is based in Arkansas, gave a whopping $100 million in support of BLM and related causes focusing on “racial equity.” Amazon gave even more, supplying the movement with an astonishing $169.5 million. Silicon Valley Bank gave the movement $73.45 million.
If you want to read the whole article.
Afro-American Studies
“Professor Leonard Jeffries, head of the Afro-American Studies Department at City College, New York, taught that whites were biologically inferior to blacks, that Jews financed the slave trade, and that the ‘ultimate culmination’ of the ‘white value system’ was Nazi Germany.
Jeffries’ students were informed that white genes were deformed in the Ice Age, producing an inadequate supply of melanin, which in turn made whites capable of appalling crimes, while black genes were enhanced by ‘the value system of the sun.’
Other self-evident truths were unveiled by Professor Becky Thompson, head of the Women’s Studies Department at Brandeis University—the college named after the first Jew to attain the Supreme Court—who described to a meeting of the American Sociological Association her teaching methodology: ‘I begin the course with the basic feminist principle that in a racist, classist and sexist society we have all swallowed oppressive ways of being, whether intentionally or not. Specifically, this means that it is not open to debate whether a white student is racist or a male student is sexist. He/ she simply is. Rather, the focus is on the social forces that keep these distortions in place.”
— A History of the American People by Paul Johnson
https://a.co/1V11C6q
The link will take you his book.
Lighter Stuff
“In the 1920s, Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) had created for herself a special upper-class accent of her own—a special little drawl that was very attractive’—and used it to become the first American woman who could swear with impunity and make sexual wisecracks:
‘She hurt her leg sliding down a barrister;’
‘She wouldn’t hurt a fly—Not if it was buttoned up;’
‘We were playing ducking for apples—There, but for a typographic error, is the story of my life;’
‘If all the girls at a Yale prom were laid end-to-end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised;’
‘She speaks eighteen languages and can’t say no in any of them’—and so forth.”
— A History of the American People by Paul Johnson
https://a.co/6BOAo0u
Going Green – Lithium Batteries
E-bike lithium-ion batteries have already ignited 25 fires within New York City limits this year, killing at least two and injuring 36.
Doctor, My Ass
The only people that rate being referred to as doctor have an MD. Lawyers have a doctorate, but no one calls them doctor. Countless people have a doctorate in many disciplines. Seems those who have a doctorate in education are the only ones that refer to themselves with the honorific. I guess they need the boost as they know their phony-baloney paper is worthless.
I am more than just a white racist
Students at Auburn University (just down the road from us) came up with seven pages of names for honkies.
They call them Creaker names. I had to look that up. Creaker is slang for an old white man.
Women are not left out – they might be called Klux Klux Karen.
Auburn is a different place now.
You Still Here?
I wrote this in 2009. It still rings true.
Ah, I’ve finally met someone who is as cranky as I am. I think that in my case, it’s that I-don’t-give-a-shit-what-people-think pill I take every morning. Cheers.
… any time a POC (person of crime) starts some kind of racist rant, it’s all I can do to not say, “well I suppose it could be worse; I could be obsolete farm machinery.” Except he probably wouldn’t get it.
You have indeed fallen in with bad company, Jim. You are right they would not get it. They don’t live in a rational world, where facts and humor exists.
There’s some real left wing wackos out there for sure, and you’ve provided some examples.
As someone who leans left, they’re an embarrassment to me and other folks I know. (The recent debacle at Stanford Law School really drives me crazy.)
But please don’t throw out the baby with the bath water. There’s a place for meaningful dialogue on most issues of the day.
“There’s a place for meaningful dialogue on most issues of the day”.
I am not seeing much from either side the last few years. And I am sure I am guilty of torching sometimes when I lose hope.
I dont believe the figures Breitbart quote are accurate. According to Reuters, the donations these companies have made are to a variety of different organisations.
Here is the link to the article.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-minneapolis-police-pledges-factbox-idUSKBN23H078
What you are saying something the web could wrong? 1.7B does sounds more plausible. The only thing I know that was done with the money was to buy two homes for the founder. Surely some good was done. I hope.
What you are saying something the web could wrong? 1.7B does sounds more plausible. The only thing I know that was done with the money was to buy two homes for the founder. Surely some good was done. I hope.