Our NBA and China…US corporations are not the only ones in bed with their Communist Party. Interesting to me that our left wingers in the US never say anything negative about the government in China — a totalitarian dictatorship that imposes its will ruthlessly. But not a peep out our so-called liberals, despite the fact that the Chinese Commies are busy crushing any liberty/freedom out of Hong Kong. I guess Chinese lives DON’T matter.
The Coronavirus Good News
The good news about this coronavirus pandemic is that the death rate is much lower than what happened in 1918/1920, and now the entire world has had its experience with trainer wheels in dealing with a pandemic, so if and when we get hit with a more virulent one, the world will already have been experienced in dealing with it — we all know exactly what needs to be done. Back in January, we were all newbies, but now we are all veterans.
TikTok
Ban it in the United States. Definitely.
Dogs
Are people who talk to their dogs a little bit crazy? On a bumper sticker: “Dogs are angels with fur.”
Gangland Equals Chicago
There are 60 gangs in Chicago.
Leave!
There’s only one word for people who hate this country and stomp on its flag. Leave! We are better off without you.
Future of New York City
What the future of New York City looks like when the police get humiliated by the mayor. NYC becomes Chicago.
College Education
Send your kid to college and get back a snarky, left-wing lunatic with Marxist leanings.
Democrat Mayors in Big Cities
The criminal element, illegal aliens, Antifa, drug dealers, gang members, not to mention terrorist cells, must love Democrat mayors in big cities. What a constituency!
Playing the Victim
Read a piece by a college-educated black woman who complained about rape carried out by white masters on female slaves during the period when slavery still existed, which no doubt happened and perhaps was even common. She claimed bitterly that her skin was “rape skin,” as her DNA showed Caucasian strains. Here was a woman who was bitter about rapes that took place over 170s years ago.
She was never herself a slave who was raped. Her parents were never slaves. Probably not even her grandparents were ever slaves. You would have to go back to her great grandparents to arrive at actual slaves who might have been exposed to this travesty, yet she was wrapping herself in this victim mentality for what happened way back when slavery existed in the 19th century. Sorry, but I don’t buy this victim-diatribe by a college-educated and therefore clearly somewhat privileged individual today.
Where I do see real victims among Afro-Americans today is among the young male, inner-city dropouts from high school, whose only option is to trade drugs and some other crimes, out of necessity. The drug dealers often carry a large wad of money (and a gun) with them in their “business,” so they present themselves as targets by others who prey on them with robberies and, if necessary, killings. Here is a person who does qualify for my sympathy, as he has a predictably short lifespan and no way out.
If we were to do something real to approach black inequality in the United States, doing something about that precise situation would be a good place to start. Getting the young black drug dealer or petty criminal out of that situation and into a viable alternative lifestyle would be tangible progress. But how do you do that? How do you rescue that person from his dangerous and likely short life? How do you save this real victim whose terrible circumstance deserves our sympathy?
To take this a step further, just talking about drug dealers and petty criminals is way to narrow. I would say that all black high-school dropouts in the inner city are the real — as opposed to imaginary — victims of our society today. How do you provide this underclass with a viable alternative for a more successful life — because they are the real victims, the ones left behind?
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