The War Against Italian Americans
How beheading Christopher Columbus statues became a thing.
For the last sixty or so years the media-education complex has established a rule that only ethnic groups of color are permitted to have grievances. Indeed, since the emergence of Barack Obama, these groups have formed something of a grievance-industrial complex.
Italian-Americans apparently don’t pass the color test. Although they come from roughly the same Mediterranean stock as people from Spain, Americans of Spanish descent get a bump up the swag wagon. Italians get niente.
People of Spanish descent even get a designated month, National Hispanic Heritage Month. In that month begins on September 15, it overlaps and overshadows the one day historically allotted to Italians, the second Monday of October, as well as the real Columbus Day, October 12.
“UNTENABLE: THE TRUE STORY OF WHITE ETHNIC FLIGHT FROM AMERICA’S CITIES”
A REVIEW
Great civilizations are known for their cities. Babylon, Alexandria, Rome, Constantinople, Baghdad, Paris, London, and New York, all evoke stronger associations than their countries. Cities are both pearls and pillars. Although all great cities, like all great civilizations, have their cycles, only modern Western civilization has watched some of its finest cities simultaneously, as if on cue, degenerate from healthy multicultural metropoles to crime-ridden monocultural hellscapes in one generation.
Untenable: The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America’s Cities by 75-year-old American author, blogger, and urban native Jack Cashill tells the story of one of them: his hometown of Newark, New Jersey. The story of Newark is the story of families of generations of working-class immigrants who put aside their Old World animosities to forge the new American Dream, before experiencing its violent post-Sixties implosion. Cashill weaves together dozens of moving individual stories: the stories of people whose memories read like eulogies to what they lost and the city they abandoned to its fate.
Time to rethink the martyrdom of George Floyd
With the fall of the House of Kendi – the $40 million Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University – it may finally be
allowable to discuss the death of the man who turned on the spigots, George Floyd.
In the way of background, Kendi was born Ibram Henry Rogers in 1982 to middle class parents. Along the way he rebranded himself “Ibram X. Kendi” to better exploit the ascendant “antiracism” movement.
Given the mania following Floyd’s death in May 2020, Kendi had little trouble raising money to fund this “collaborative research and education effort across multiple disciplines,” the immodest goal of which was “to build a world where racial equity and social justice prevail.”
Kendi’s Troubles Threaten the Whole ‘Antiracist’ Biz
As blue-collar philosopher Eric Hoffer reportedly observed some years back, “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” Ibram X. Kendi’s brand of antiracism skipped the first two phases. It was conceived as a racket.
Like most rackets, Kendi’s depended for its success on finding suckers to support it. Kendi found his at Boston University. In a perverse effort to atone for imagined sins, the BU administration funded a Kendi brainchild, the Center for Antiracist Research. Hysteria over the death of George Floyd inspired the center, but hysteria alone cannot sustain it.
“After suddenly laying off over half his employees last week and with his center producing almost nothing since its founding,” writes David Decosimo in the Wall Street Journal, “Mr. Kendi is now facing an investigation and harsh criticism from numerous colleagues complaining of financial mismanagement, dysfunctional leadership, and failure to honor obligations attached to its millions in grant money.”
Barack Obama: Pied Piper of smiley-face fascism
A sentence that begins, “People like Putin and Steve Bannon …,” tells the savvy observer that he is watching a demagogue in
action, a demagogue of the worst sort – the smarmy, smiley-face, sanctimonious kind, the kind that children will follow.
The above sentence was one Barack Obama gem out of many in a talk at Stanford last April titled “Disinformation Is a Threat to Our Democracy.”
In September of this year, the United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit issued the sequel to Obama’s talk with the shorthand title, Missouri v. Biden. Both should be required reading.
Media Malpractice and the Murder of Andreas Probst
Two weeks ago, I had breakfast with George Zimmerman — yes, that George Zimmerman, the Florida man whose life was ruined by a national media eager, as always, to highlight the killing of a black person by a white man.
Within a week or two of Trayvon Martin’s death, the media had transformed the innocent, Hispanic, Obama-supporting civil rights activist Zimmerman into the poster child for white nationalism.
In my 2013 book, “If I Had a Son”: Race, Guns, and the Railroading of George Zimmerman, I document all the editing tricks Big Media — NBC, ABC, CNN, the New York Times — used to pull off this evil alchemy. As a result, ten years after his acquittal, having narrowly survived one assassination attempt, Zimmerman continues to live a life in the shadows.
Banned Books Week in the Age of Biden
With the election of a self-declared “lesbian Marxist” to be its new president, the American Library Association (ALA) gave
away the game. Now, only the naïve can think of the ALA’s upcoming “Banned Books Week” as a celebration of free speech. The observant — and the complicit — know it to be something else, namely one more goose step in the ALA’s long march through the institutions.
The event, which kicks off on October 1, comes at an ironic time. Earlier this month, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit smacked down the Biden White House for its unprecedent effort to censor its ideological foes. Said the three-judge panel in summation: “The Supreme Court has rarely been faced with a coordinated campaign of this magnitude orchestrated by federal officials that jeopardized a fundamental aspect of American life.” (READ MORE from Jack Cashill: Cancel Culture Trickles Down: An Up-Close Look)
Media watchdog attacks Musk over Vegas thrill kill
As half of America now knows, last month two teenagers in a stolen Hyundai consciously targeted an innocent Las Vegas cyclist and ran him over, killing him in the process.
The other half of America does not know about this incident because their media have chosen not to tell them.
The Poynter institute, a nonprofit that “provides fact-checking, media literacy and journalism ethics training to citizens and journalists in service to democracy,” weighed in on this issue Tuesday.
