I ♥ the Hodge twins
They’re not just funny, although they’re that. They also have a succinct way of stating common sense, a quality which is all too rare these days:
They’re not just funny, although they’re that. They also have a succinct way of stating common sense, a quality which is all too rare these days:
That was very good! These guys are terrific, and absolutely correct.
Since I don’t watch CNN, this is the first time I’ve ever heard Don Lemon. He’s completely eliminated any Louisiana Creole accent he ever had. Too bad he didn’t cultivate his mind while changing his image.
Got turned on to these guys a few weeks ago. Great stuff.
And Lemon is of course wrong when he says “Black Lives Matter” is only about police brutality. The BLM website and leadership make it clear it’s about a laundry list of progressive/socialist causes, very few of which have anything to do with police brutality and very few of which would benefit black Americans (or anybody else).
Could we get them to do a show with Diamond and Silk?
Having never heard of the Hodge Twins, I looked them up — so far the Internet Censors have not consigned them to the memory hole.
https://en.everybodywiki.com/Hodgetwins
The process of coming out has not been cost-less, but they have apparently chosen this hill to die on (“that’s a metaphor!”)
That post gave a couple of links in the footnotes.
The twins are among several other people quoted in this article.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/03/27/jussie-smollett-perversion-proves-white-privilege-is-a-myth-say-black-conservatives-737719
Because, cancel-culture is what leftists do.
https://davidharrisjr.com/doug/watch-hodge-twins-comedians-venues-canceled-our-sold-out-shows-after-realizing-were-conservative/
The #Black Lives Matter scam is not unlike the one about reparations, which many black people now recognize as Democrat snake-oil: once the Dems get the black votes, the reparations bottle go back onto the shelf (because the whole idea is indefensible).
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/04/07/slavery-reparations-hustle-and-blame-whitey-mania-is-a-scam-says-former-aclu-leader-741898
They’ve been a Facebook fixture for a while.
Their smiles and laughter are what wins you over.
First time I have seen them. Funny stuff.
These guys have been around for years. The early stuff was just weird, but fun.
Some, select, Black Lives Matter. #BabyLivesMatter
I have to believe that at least a third of the black population laughs with the Hodge Twins . . . and with us white conservatives. People that can laugh together can live together, and they can talk about the problems we all share. Eliminate the hyphen, we’re all Americans.
That was nice. I’ll keep my eyes open for them.
One very pointed remark by one of the twins, after describing the horrendous numbers of black-on-black murders, including the “random” (Lemon’s words at 3:33) deaths of so many children.
Don Lemon said (at 6:31): “when it comes to crime black on black crime people who live near each other black people kill each other same as White’s 80 some percent of white people are killed by white people because of proximity same thing with black people it happens in every single neighborhood”
The Twin said (at 10:03):
“if close proximity is a thing, then show me a white Chicago”
I couldn’t think of an example of a white Chicago.
Lemon is right that 80% (or thereabouts) of white people are killed by other whites; 90% of blacks are killed by other blacks (if you accept the charts in this post about the numbers in 2015).
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-29/race-and-homicide-in-america-by-the-numbers
What Lemon didn’t mention, because it radically undercuts his point, is that those are percentages of much different base numbers.
I have to use stats from a different year, but they are close enough for this argument.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/251877/murder-victims-in-the-us-by-race-ethnicity-and-gender/
In 2018, the number of murder victims was 14,123; men were 10,914 (77%) and women were 3,180 (23%).
White male victioms-4,255 (30%); black male victims-6,237 (44%); white female victims-1,832 (13%); black female victims-1,168 (8%).
The rest were “other” or “unknown” races, and were relatively small (628 total, or 4%).
Stay tuned for part 2.
part 2:
On the surface, the numbers for blacks and whites look pretty close.
However, if 80% of the white victims (6087) were killed by white people, that’s 4870 intraracial murders. If 90% of the black victims (7405) were killed by black people, that’s 6665 intraracial murders.
That looks much worse.
What blows the proximity analogy all to pieces, though, is that the victims come from hugely different demographics.
The Census Bureau has the most detailed data.
https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=United%20States&g=0100000US&tid=ACSDP1Y2018.DP05
Total population in 2018 – 327,167,439; white – 236,173,020; black – 41,617,764.
White intraracial murder victims therefore constituted .0026% of their racial demographic; black intraracial murder victims comprised .016% of theirs, a rate that is 6 times higher.
It’s not just the proximity of people having the same skin color that’s the problem.
Read as a echoing companion piece to the Twins’ video.
https://spectator.us/all-black-lives-matter-blm/
They are also former Marines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_IcJXNEyF4
It’s not just the proximity of people having the same skin color that’s the problem.
AesopFan: No, it is not. Don Lemon had the look of a stone cold inquisitor in that video with a dishonest script and a strong desire to burn the heretic.
AesopFan: Back in the 2000s I crunched the number on extraracial violence between whites and blacks from the DOJ 2005 numbers:
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White-on-Black-completed-violence-cases: 9,025
Black-on-White–completed-violence-cases: 131,006
White-on-Black-sexual-assault-cases: 10
Black-on-White–sexual-assault-cases: 37,460
Whites outnumbered Blacks by a ratio of 5.67 in 2005. If you normalize these numbers to compare as if there were as many Blacks as Whites
White-on-Black-completed-violence-cases: 9,025
Black-on-White–completed-violence-cases: 742,807
White-on-Black-sexual-assault-cases: 10
Black-on-White–sexual-assault-cases: 212,401
So the likelihood of a Black completing violence against a White is 82x higher than the other way around.
And the likelihood of a Black committing sexual assault against a White is more than 20,000x higher than the other way around.
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During the Obama years the DOJ stopped breaking the numbers out so these disparities could be seen.
It’s hard not to see the numbers above as a result of decades of encouraging black rage against whites and requiring white guilt about blacks so as not to notice.
I am surprised that their videos are not banned by our left wing media as being “racist”.
“Don Lemon had the look of a stone cold inquisitor in that video” – huxley
You noticed that too, huh?
(It’s our Native American hunter-genes at work.)
Ymar may be right about the demon-possessed walking among us.
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Lemon, being an ignorant (to all appearances) pundit already in a hole, keeps on digging.
If someone had given the Left a playbook on how to lose at least some black voters (finally), they couldn’t have done better than the Democrats on their own.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/10/nfl-coach-tony-dungy-cnn-don-lemon-jesus-christ-sinner-read-bible-twitter/
huxley; AesopFan:
I immediately noticed that cold hard look in Lemon’s eyes. It was almost shocking to see that he didn’t even bother to hide it.
Been watching them for a long time..
they will probably be banned soon as many others are getting banned
From PowerLine on banning.
https://quillette.com/2020/07/09/it-wasnt-my-cancelation-that-bothered-me-it-was-the-cowardice-of-those-who-let-it-happen/