Rodney King Riots 1992
James Byrd 1998
Travon Martin 2012
Ferguson MO 2014

See a pattern? Feel free to add others.

From “the police acted stupidly” to the notion that Trayvon Martin looked “like my son, if I had one”, the highest office of our land has pushed racial dissension at every possible turn.

Do the nation’s top Alinskyites believe they can stir up enough urban hot-spots to make martial law palatable to the masses? I can see that their tactic is “sow chaos” (financial, social, racial, etc) . . . but I don’t know what the Progressives think they will reap at the end.

I assume they’re not simply nihilists – but do they think this nation is ANYWHERE near ready for the famous “Strong Leader” who can “weed out corruption” and “fix what’s wrong” if we just allow him to bypass the protections of our Constitution/ Bill of Rights (but ONLY temporarily, of course!)??

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Africa was self-segregating long before the Dutch ever reached the Veld.

Because of American Jim Crow laws — and slavery — Americans conflate essentially EVERYTHING that ever happened in southern Africa with what happened in Antebellum southern America.

But the Dutch / Africaans never, ever enacted slavery. They didn’t even have indentured Irish.

Hard as it is to believe, most of the Blacks in South Africa migrated hundreds of miles — on their own volition — to hook up with the Dutch/ Africaans economic engine.

The original (European) settlers entered a land that was literally no-mans-land. Lacking modern firearms, no African tribe was ever able to make a go of it down on the ‘flats.’ (Veld/ Veldt)

So from the very outset, the Dutch wanted to self-segregate — generations before apartheid.

Likewise the Africans and the South Asian Indians also self-segregated.

This practice was never codified into any statute, it just happened. This was a natural evolution of a multi-tribal economy. Neither African, Indian nor Dutch trusted their young women in the hands of the others.

And they still don’t. The White, Brown and Black tribes of South Africa are STILL largely self-segregating… even after statutorial apartheid has been swept away.

Americans have this cockeyed attitude that the rest of the planet is socially able to blend into a harmonious polity. The exact opposite is normally the case. Africa is so fractious that most everything breaks upon tribal lines.

Who could forget the Ibo? (Nigerian civil war) The Hutsi-Tutsi genocide?

As for apartheid — as enacted by the Africaaners (circa 1948) — it smacks of totalitarianism. It’s just too much government meddling in economic and social arrangements.

It prohibited any opportunity for lawful, hard-working, native Africans to break out of their lower economic caste. While the Zulus were obviously in the stone age less than two-centuries ago, it is a manifest evil to keep them so backward.

(This reality must really be conflicting for anthropologists — and Stanley Ann Dunham.)

Nothing like that is true for modern Israel. Yet the slur is cast around, far and wide. I do believe the younger generation does not comprehend how unjust and bizarre that insult is.

Agitprop is debasing political argument at every turn.

We need a “Godwin’s Law” for when folks do use the word apartheid.

“Twenty-four years ago, it was a majority white town. Fourteen years ago, it had the slimmest of black majorities. And four years ago, it was almost 70% black. Although the town demographics changed rapidly, the police demographics did not.”

So would these race hustlers and media folks expect towns and cities to review census bureau information on their racial demographics and staff accordingly – is that what we’ve come to in Obama’s America? That’s what Beutler is implying – that the police force should have laid off its white officers and hired blacks based on the shifting population of the town (violating the law and likely union rules, too). Should they have kicked out the white City Council members, too? Maybe included race as a candidate qualification (say X number of white seats and Y number of black seats on the City Council).
It’s an ugly assumption on Beutler’s part that people can only trust and relate those of their own race.

I used to think that Carter was just feckless but now I believe the man is evil.