Author: Henry Barnard

I am a voracious reader and also enjoy writing. I often have a very different point of view than the popular one. I do see value in debate, and thought it might add to the public debate on controversial issues if I were to express my contrarian opinions. I also started keeping my poems recently (I've written little pieces my whole adult life but never kept any); and I've been a photographer now for over 25 years. So I will be adding an occasional poem and hopefully interesting photograph to the blog along the way, just to spice things up.

Black Racism

Blacks in the US are more racist than whites — for good reason, given the long history of discrimination against them.   But you only hear about whites as racists; never about blacks.

Yet what a heavy load to carry around with you if you are a black American who hates “whitey”.  Real hatred is extremely corrosive.

Reminds me of the famous line of the mother in The Grapes of Wrath: “Did they hurt ya and make ya mean-mad? … ‘Til ya ain’t no boy nor man anymore, just a walkin’ chunk o’ mean-mad.”  Slavery and all the post-slavery discrimination against blacks couldn’t help but hurt them and make them mean-mad.  So it is not surprising that racism among black Americans is common — but you never hear about it.

Bravo to the black American with so strong a character that he could overcome it.  I’m not sure I could have.

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Ending Mass Migration the Clear Trend

More and more European countries are wising up and putting a stop to mass migration.  Italy is a case in point where mass migration of Africans into Italy has gone from 180,000 a year to just 3,000, and this is a direct result of the government taking action to prevent it.

So one can easily make the argument that Trump’s attempt to limit mass migration from Mexico and Central America is far from unusual.  In fact, it is the clear trend internationally.  Countries just don’t want to be swamped by masses of poor immigrants.  It’s that simple.

Italy and African Mass Migration

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Spygate Against the Democrats

Spygate against the Democrats is going to have a lot more consequences than the hair-brained Russian collusion slur.  It’s all going to come out during the election year, and heads will roll this time.

Strikingly similar to Nixon and Watergate — one party spying on the other, but in this case actually using government agencies to do it.  Not covert like Nixon, but overt by the  Clintons.

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