Comments on: Biden stirs up racial fears – again

By: Abraxas

Abraxas — Tue, 16 May 2023 15:41:54 +0000

Being a lesbian didn’t save M. Carey Thomas, so neither would being transgender have saved her. For progressives, LGBT interests (and the desires of progressives themselves) can override African-American interests, but that doesn’t let dead members of the White elite off the hook for their racial attitudes, not even if they’re LGBT.

In politics, it seems like “love” needs “hate” and “unity” needs “disunion.” Politicians unite countries against opponents, or rivals, or (best of all) enemies, whether external or internal. Politicians who don’t have some threat or enemy to harp on tend to be swept aside by those who do. Politicians and parties who attempt big changes in society especially need the public to focus on created enemies so that it doesn’t question or oppose their innovations.

Notice too, how when Biden tells the Howard grads that they are the leaders of the future, he has to say ‘I’m not exaggerating’ or ‘that’s not hyperbole.’ That’s a tell, a clear sign that he doesn’t really mean it. The grads will be in the ruling party and will personally benefit from that, but they won’t be leading the movement (and it won’t benefit less fortunate African-Americans).

By: Mike K

Mike K — Tue, 16 May 2023 14:42:08 +0000

Glenn Loury’s observation a generation ago that the autonomy to deviate from group consensus is influenced by one’s confidence that one’s facial accomplishments are one’s own. The race patronage regime ‘socializes an individual person’s success’ and ruins intragroup discussion.

The black “middle class” is made up of mostly government employees. The Democrat Party is the party of government employees.

By: Cappy

Cappy — Tue, 16 May 2023 13:00:54 +0000

Biden – belligerent drunk at the end of the bar that needs to be clubbed.

By: Xylourgos

Xylourgos — Tue, 16 May 2023 12:40:42 +0000

PA+Cat at 7:04. The rot has infected Ireland as well, home of my Alma Mater: https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/top-stories/featured/trinity-college-dublin-to-dename-the-berkeley-library/

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Tue, 16 May 2023 11:20:29 +0000

Blacks, Latinos, and Asians are not going to swing in significant number against the Democrats.
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Making categorical statements like this is pretty stupid.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Tue, 16 May 2023 11:17:40 +0000

Howard is sort-of the black Harvard,
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It isn’t. It’s a private research institution and one of the more selective institutions among HBCUs. As we speak, about 45% of each youth cohort in geneeral is cadging a baccalaureate degree, v. 22% forty years ago. It really has been devalued. Even with that devaluation, you can tell from the number actually receiving diplomas from HBCUs that close to 40% of their students should be doing something else with their young lives. I suspect the metrics on Howard’s freshman indicate that Howard is recruiting students who belong in college by the standards of this age. That’s some distance from being an institution with cachet. (The most selective and rigorous HBCU is Spelman College in Atlanta, a teaching institution).
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If we had impersonal admissions standards in this country, perhaps 700,000 blacks would be enrolled in baccalaureate granting institutions, of whom you’d find maybe 80,000 at HBCU’s. It’s a minority taste among competent black students.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Tue, 16 May 2023 11:05:38 +0000

A large fraction of the black working population – especially the sort in salaried positions as you might expect Howard graduates to be in a few years time – are patronage recipients. Some of them are ironically detached about it, but many are defensive. Note Glenn Loury’s observation a generation ago that the autonomy to deviate from group consensus is influenced by one’s confidence that one’s facial accomplishments are one’s own. The race patronage regime ‘socializes an individual person’s success’ and ruins intragroup discussion. What’s quite peculiar (and sorely manifest today) is that one institution after another has now adopted as a priority mollycoddling blacks and injuring their white employees (especially common-and-garden white males) and done so in preference to pursuing their functional institutional mission.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Tue, 16 May 2023 05:59:37 +0000

“If you don’t vote for me, you ain’t an illegal immigrant—I mean New American…”

By: PA+Cat

PA+Cat — Tue, 16 May 2023 05:15:10 +0000

Glenn Reynolds’ opinion piece on the Dems’ replacement of black voters with “migrants” was posted just a few hours ago:

“Sorry, black voters. You’re being replaced. The Democrats just aren’t that into you anymore. They’ve got a new constituency they like better, and you’re being thrown under the bus. Blacks in Chicago are not happy about it. ‘We don’t care.’ ‘We don’t want them here.’ ‘Send them back.’ Those were some of the reactions of black citizens from Chicago’s South Side — which went 97% for Biden — to the importation of hundreds of illegal immigrants from Mexico and Central America.”

“For basically my entire lifetime, Democrats have courted the black vote and promoted black issues. But in the last few years, that’s changed. The Democratic Party is now run by well-off, mostly white, woke people whose interests diverge rather sharply from those of the party’s erstwhile black constituents. . . .”

https://nypost.com/2023/05/15/democrats-throwing-black-voters-under-bus-for-new-progressive-agenda/

What do y’all think? Is Chicago’s South Side protest a one-off or an indication of change?

As for well-off persons of pallor, some of them are now being affected by the tsunami of “migrants”: “A Florida couple has had their wedding upended after an Orange County [NY] hotel — set to take in migrants from New York City — abruptly canceled the rooms she booked for her guests . . . . ‘We felt discarded, disappointed and angry that they just tossed us aside to make an extra dollar for the hotel. It’s just not right,’ Deanna Mifsud, 35, fumed. . . . everything was upended when they learned the Crossroads [Hotel] was set to accept migrants from NYC, who are being bused to hotels in Westchester and the Hudson Valley as the city struggles to deal with the influx of immigrants pouring over the border.”

https://nypost.com/2023/05/13/wedding-guests-scramble-after-hotel-taking-nyc-migrants-cancels-rooms/

I’m surprised that Mayor Adams hasn’t yet taken over Citi Field (capacity 45,000)
and Yankee Stadium (capacity 46,500) to house the new arrivals.

By: M J R

M J R — Tue, 16 May 2023 05:10:28 +0000

Regarding the Fullmoon (10:07 pm) post:

Howard University
2022 – 2023 Undergraduate Cost of Attendance
On Campus: $46,930
and with indirect cost estimates, $51,450

( Reference: https://catalogue.howard.edu/cost-of-attendance-2223 )

Whitey may be holding them down, but not these (errmmm) privileged souls.

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And hey, dig this link from Howard University’s Admissions home page

( https://admission.howard.edu/ )

titled, “President Joseph R. Biden Inspires Hope at Howard University Commencement”

( https://thedig.howard.edu/all-stories/president-joseph-r-biden-inspires-hope-howard-university-commencement )

I cannot imagine what hope these privileged blacks require. Howard is sort-of the black Harvard, and the world will be at their feet as soon as they leave that commencement exercise. For the most part, it seems to me they’ll be able to name their price.