Comment: A paleo news channel probably wouldn’t work (too intellectual and probably a bit too reactionary on economic and social issues for majority tastes) but a populist news channel probably would.
I’m sure there are plenty of working and lower middle class people in the Anglosphere are keen to watch a channel questioning immigration, attacking banks and financiers, questioning neocon foreign policy, slack law and order (the proles are big on law and order) and pointing out blatant examples of media bias and political correctness. Such a channel would also be very useful for educating non-Americans about what actually goes in the US in regard to issues such as immigration and law and order.
The problem wouldn’t be getting viewers, but making sure it wasn’t blocked by its opponents.
* A casual perusal of FOX’s ads indicate who their viewership is: pharmaceuticals, life-alert systems, hurricanes, diabetes supplies, reverse mortgages. As Richard Spencer at Radix has pointed out: the median age of Bill O’Reilly’s audience is north of 70 – the FOX News demographic is dying out.
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Steve Sailer writes: The DC metro area boomed between 1996-2000 and 2011-2012, in large part due to guys in the DC metro area failing to prevent 9/11. Thus, the War on Terror dumped huge amounts of money on the DC metro area.
When you are deciding where to raise your children, always try to anticipate long chains of events in the future like the World Trade Centers being blown up and the taxpayers shoveling hundreds of billions into the DC area in response.
* My guess would be that the long-term trend has been toward bigger cities winning, so Minnesota with one big urban area does better than Iowa with multiple smaller ones. I wouldn’t be surprised if it has to do with airports. Frequent fliers are crucial figures in the economy and their lives are typically easier living near a major airport with direct flights like Minneapolis rather than having to make connections like if they lived in Des Moines.
By the way, has anybody ever studied frequent fliers as a class? What are their demographics, how do they vote, etc? On the rare occasions when I fly anywhere, the passengers who look like they know what they are doing strike me as a fairly distinctive group, but the term “frequent flier” never seems to have caught on as a demographic shorthand the way “soccer mom” has.
Comments:
* Frequent fliers are mostly as you would expect – white, somewhat male, managers, professionals, sales people. Mostly in their 30s and up to retirement age. Well remunerated. Most would vote conservative I expect, to suit their demographics.
* Well, two novelists have taken on the subject, although one someone elliptically.
The Accidental Tourist could be taken as a first stab. Anne Tyler is a fine writer, by the way.
And then there’s Kirn’s Up In The Air. Book was better than the movie. A lot better.
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* Years ago the State Department tried to resettle the initial wave of Somalis to Atlanta. The Somalis didn’t like ‘the brothers’ there and, being an intercontinental vagrant population, had scouts who reported that Maine, with its almost entirely white population offered more value per welfare dollar. The Atlanta Somalis decamped en masse to Lewiston, Maine. It was quite a story at the time as the poor folks in Maine suddenly had stone age people showing up in town.
* I’ve lived in St Cloud for about thirty years. Up until about twenty years ago we were about 99% white in a metropolitan area of 100,000 (excluding the inmates of the local prison). We were fairly called “White Cloud”.
In the 1990′s, developers with Section 8 vacancies imported blacks from the Chicago and Gary Ind. areas. Previously unknown violent crime followed.
As Reg Caesar indicated previously, in the late ’90′s, Lutheran Social Services and Catholic Charities started settling Somalis in to St Cloud to the point now where there are about 5,000. Apparently we were starving for the benefits of diversity. Affirmative discrimination has progressed so far that this 95% white area has successively appointed a black police chief, a black transit director, and now a black school superintendent. They are punishing us for our whiteness.
Unlike the Somalis who settled in Minneapolis’s Cedar-Riverside area, the Somalis in St Cloud are not a source of excessive crime. We’d rather have them than the Chicago/Gary blacks we now have.
Generally, Somalis are quiet and keep to themselves. The older Somali men reflect a patriarchal society that rubs local white women the wrong way. The teen Somali girls who have been here many years seem to have acclimated better than the majority of Somalis whose allegiance doesn’t seem to have transplanted to America.
A few months ago, a facebook photo of a Somali girl in a wheelchair suggesting she was a terrorists resulted the Somalis disrupting their high school. CAIR jumped in to agitate the local Somalis. By the way, about one week after the incident, six Somalis from Minneapolis were indeed indicted for attempting to join a terrorist group.
When a local VFW invited a speaker from California to speak about the refugee program, the local SJWs blocked access to the venue. Weeks later, the speaker was able to give their talk in a private venue. No fireworks ensued.
Gov. Dayton came to St. Cloud and the local NAACP meeting as one-upsmanship to the locals who were trying to figure out any excessive benefits that refugees receive. Dayton’s visit was intended to keep the rubes in their place and empower the existing SJWs to continue to use affirmative discrimination.
When I first came to St Cloud from the Twin Cities thirty years ago, I was stunned by the friendliness and trusting nature of the locals. That is now changing thanks to the SJWs who know what is good for us.
* I agree, the real enemies are those whites that are purposely destroying white cities with these black buggers. From what I understand they get something like $10-20K per Somali that they settle.
And lets be clear about these “Christian charities” – they are leftwing political groups nowadays. If they were Christian they would be petitioning Obama to help the Assyrian Christians, etc. They aren’t. But instead importing hundreds of thousands of hostile Muslims they’ve shown their true colors – anti-white and anti-Christian.
We might as well consider them the logistical arm of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Adventists tend to be apolitical and when they do get political, they are evenly split between left and right.
Washington Post: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Donald Trump on Saturday contrasted his Presbyterian faith with that of Seventh-day Adventists, apparently attempting to draw attention to and raise doubts about Republican presidential rival Ben Carson’s religious beliefs.
Speaking at a campaign rally here, Trump was in the midst of discussing his standing in the polls, including recent Iowa surveys that showed him falling behind Carson in the GOP race. Then, he brought up religion.
“I love Iowa. And, look, I don’t have to say it, I’m Presbyterian,” said Trump. “Can you believe it? Nobody believes I’m Presbyterian. I’m Presbyterian. I’m Presbyterian. I’m Presbyterian. Boy, that’s down the middle of the road folks, in all fairness. I mean, Seventh-day Adventist, I don’t know about. I just don’t know about.”
Politically, the matter could become an issue in the lead-up to the Iowa caucuses. As the Des Moines Register notes, “some conservatives have argued Seventh-day Adventists … aren’t Christians.”
Carson is a twice-baptized Seventh-day Adventist, which he describes in his book “Gifted Hands.” Seventh-day Adventists are Protestants who observe the Sabbath on Saturday, unlike most Christians, including Presbyterians, who observe it on Sunday. The church also takes a very literal view of the Bible.
“We believe that the biblical events recorded in Genesis 1-11, including the special creation of human beings, are historical and recent, that the seven days of creation were literal 24 hour days forming a literal week, and that the Flood was global in nature,” reads the church’s official Web site.
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Quanita Roberson I love the support but I can’t help but notice there are no people of color on (Tenure-Track) faculty. We need to start with ourselves first!
Department of Anthropology, University of Cincinnati Quanita, I hear you. These photos are just the first step. Our department is coordinating more actions with the students and colleagues in other departments to agitate for real change at the university. With only two other departments (Sociology & WGSS) issuing statements and coming out in unified support of #theIRATE8 student activists and #BlackLivesMatter movement, we wanted to show our solidarity and lend our anthropological expertise to spread their message further. Stay tuned for more. This is not lip service.
Christopher Noblett How can forensic scientists tell the race of a dead person from a few pieces of bone if there’s ‘no biological basis for race’ ?
Billy Bob Race doesn’t exist, but BlackLivesMatter – The mental gymnastics here are awesome.
James Rustler Anthropologists are not biologists, and their opinions in that field carry no more weight than those of a waitress at Denny’s.
Chioma Iwuoha Why are most Sociology & Anthropology departments all white?
Maerwynn Griffin So basically, your entire source for all citations includes solely Franz Boas and that’s all. Hey, cherry picking is fun! Ignore the evidence you don’t like, run with the evidence that supports your own personal narrative. It’s just like the selective application of legislation these days, or the complete non parity of the media. What does the truth matter when your side can win the argument? And these are the same people who sit there, pie eyed, wondering why the US is so politically polarized these days.
Geoff Lyon Some of the most Orwellian doublethink I have ever encountered in real life. Race is a biological fact, and this faculty is delusional in its level of Cultural Marxism. Disgusting perversion of science is what this is.
Jan van Riebeeck Give three DNA samples to a geneticist and he can tell you the exact race of each of the DNA donors. Race is a genetic reality. If somebody says Blacks do better in the NBA because physically they are just better for that kind of sport than whites nobody disagrees. Everybody is then perfectly willing to say that better genetics is why this happens.
Joshua Bates If racism is taught then why do scientists and psychologists recognize inherent racial bias in babies who cannot be taught?
Dennis Low Who do you un-teach racism to, apart from students who 1.) pay loads in fees and 2.) happen to pick courses from your department? and how many of those students a year do you think stop being racist because of your instruction?
* Leftism is a social status contest in which participants jockey for position by trying to outdo each other in extremeness of deed and word, no matter how absurd their behavior may seem to outsiders.
Anthropologists from another civilization would very likely be puzzled as to why anthropologists in our civilzation are so willfully ignorant and childish. I see no reason why anthropology would be inherently predisposed to this shitbrained lunacy.
* Obviously Yeb’s handlers never wanted him to appeal to Anglos. They banked on the “naturally conservative” Mexicans voting for him en masse. But the shamelessly ethnocentric MexAm voters whose primary concern is la reconquista de Atzlan would never vote for Jeb! because in the general election there is absolutely no way that the Democrat candidate would allow themself to be out-liberaled on immigration by a Republican. Anyone doubting this should refer to last week’s Dem debate in which the candidates tripped over themselves to boast who would roll out the fanciest red carpet to Undocumented Democrats.
A general election with Boosh would go like this:
Shrub 2.5: I support instate tuition for undocumented immigrants.
Rodham/Bernie: I support Free Tuition for them plus a 30,000 dollar a year stipend paid for by our white supremacist taKKKspayers.
* I could spend all morning writing a few thousand words on the range of opinions I encounter, but the one opinion I never hear is the “open borders, let them all in amnesty” version so popular with economists and politicians. The one end of the spectrum is the high walls with wide doors option. The other end is high walls with locked doors for now option. Yet, our rulers are all open border fanatics who openly preach what has no constituency.
Why?
My sense is it is a new religion or a modification of the old Public Protestantism. In a prior age, the Yankee religious impulse was focused on the salvation of society, not of the individual. You had men in black clothes making sure you were observant of the Sabbath and not having too much fun. Once God faded from the picture and the world got smaller, this impulse folded into what we call social activism. The moonbat woman next door with the Prius really does think she is saving the planet.
History is not without examples where the rulers have a different religion from the ruled and set about converting the populace. Britain was largely converted to Christianity one noble family at a time. I’m at a loss to think of an example where the rulers adopted a religion of cultural suicide though. The only thing that comes to mind is the People’s Temple in the 70′s.
* Jeb dropped when he pushed amnesty and Trump rose when he went against illegal immigration. The American people don’t want to be merged with Mexico despite what the plutocrats who run both parties want. They voted the Republicans in to control Congress to stop illegal immigration, but the Republicans are almost as bad as the Democrats. The Republicans don’t seem to care that they are writing their own death warrant. I wonder what replaces them.
* The Bush brand is toxic. Jeb’s ability to raise vast sums of money for himself and his son from the oligarch class is not a strength. It merely serves to highlight what has long been suspected about where his family’s true loyalties lie.
Jeb doesn’t exactly have to answer for the massive incompetence of his brother, but he needs to acknowledge, in a convincing manner, where they part ways. He hasn’t done that, and it may not even be possible. In addition, Jeb’s spent a decade defending a policy, his support for amnesty, that his brother could downplay prior to his reelection, even as the debate over illegal immigration has grown more heated and gained an ever higher profile.
On every pressing issue, Jeb seems to be only to the left of his brother. He literally identifies as Hispanic. He openly embraces abolishing our borders. He embraces federal control of schools.
I thought that Bush’s best strategy was to hunker down and wait it out as other, more weakly funded candidates dropped out of the race. I no longer think that’s possible. Marco Rubio is probably the only establishment candidate who might be able to do that. There are more Republican voters than I thought who won’t vote for Jeb under any condition.
* I’ve seen some guys who just rollover for their wives in my life, but I’ve never seen one who just completely adopted her country, culture, language, and even ethnicity (which is of course impossible, but he tried.)
* The consultants thought that they had a master strategy with Jeb, his Mexican wife was going get all the latino voters for him and together with the white votes he would become president. They seemed to have completely overlooked the problem that white people decided not to back somebody who endlessly pandered to Mexicans and sneered at whites.
I can only guess they had this oversight because they were afraid to ask the very obvious question why white people should vote for him, they would probably talked about the voting habits of other ethnic groups but PC prevented them from asking about the one voting block that Bush really does need.
* To run for president in Mexico it is required not only that you be a natural born citizen but that both of your parents be natural born citizens. Jeb, not being a natural born citizen, isn’t even eligible to run for dogcatcher in Mexico; all elected offices are open only to natural born citizens.
Some countries are sick of being run for the benefit of outside powers that hold their citizens in contempt. Mexico’s immigration laws and its citizenship laws are stricter than those of El Norte and actually enforced.
* My local NPR station had a thing on the other day with a few Latino immigration advocates. They kept saying how much the business community loves immigration, and how much the religious community loves immigration. H1B’s great. Good god fearing folk, great.
Not one mention of – housing prices, wage stagnation, sovereignty, etc.
I think one of them brought up the discussion of *comprehensive* immigration reform, in that they shouldn’t go along with enforcing immigration law until the millions of current illegals get citizenship. (Roughly paraphrasing).
I keep seeing numbers about how American’s want some sort of legal pathway for the 11 million (or so) illegals here now. For the sake of argument, I might be counted in that number. The question is – why can’t we have a taste of enforcement first? Then legalization?
* You can thank the U.S. Supreme Court for that since it struck down the sensible Texas law making it illegal for unauthorized aliens to attend free public schools in a 5-4 decision more than 30 years ago. You can blame Congress for the other large magnet, free healthcare at hospitals. Free education for the kids, and free healthcare for the family. Sure beats Mexico.
* George W. would have had a better instinct for how to handle Trump than Jeb does. I think of the debate when Al Gore (acting on some consultant’s advice) left his lectern and went over to stand by Bush as he spoke, as if to intimidate him. Bush glanced over at him and then made an expression like, “What’s up with this dude?” and it made Gore look silly.
Not saying that Trump couldn’t have bulldozed W, just that W probably wouldn’t have been the pushover that Jeb has proved to be.
* Anthropologists likely aren’t any stupider than the average American academic, but their field has been perhaps uniquely gutted by pomo/identity politics. When I was in grad school in the late 80s, the anthro people were already wandering around campus with glazed, lamb-to-the-slaughter expressions on their incredulous faces, as they went from one seminar to the next in which the entire premise of their field — i.e. that by close, ‘thick’ observation and description, a la Clifford Geertz, members of one culture could analyse and understand the practices and beliefs of another culture — was relentlessly undermined by pomo diatribes such as Edward Said’s Orientalism. They were left with not much else to do but write whiny, self-abnegating pseudo travel books in which they minutely examined their own prejudices and unworthiness as they came face to face with the Exalted Other.
* In the 2008 elections there were also subtle physical games. Both Obama and Biden grasped McCain and Palin by the arms. It showed McCain as a cripple and Palin as weak.
* Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the US legal system paid some attention to reality and did not seem to be full of aggrieved people bent on abolishing the historic US nation?
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You could write an reoccurring series on how the Advertising Industry favors left-wing media outlets over conservative news and talk radio channels.
CNN has a third of the FNC audience yet it seems to at least pull in substantially more Fortune 1000 advertising.
Part of this is perhaps the fact that the Advertising Industry’s bias to the 18-35 demographic.
When in the car I am amazed that despite his huge audience, Rush Limbaugh as a pretty down market selection of advertisers.
But I lot of this suspect is the work of Liberal TPTB and TWMNBN networking. So much for the persistent left-wing myth of the power of Conservative Madison Avenue as in IKE was still president.
* It’s the left wing bias of those in advertising. How come GM, Ford and other automobile makers don’t advertise on Fox News and Rush Limbaugh? The advertising “industry” has a de-facto boycott of right wing media. Rupert Murdoch’s sons run Fox now. They are silly rich liberals and they salivate after getting the same mix of national advertisers CNN gets. And they know that all they have to do is steer Fox News left-lib and they will get them. In fact they are already doing it by putting Meygyn Kelly in her slot
I have seen the most cheap-ass advertising on Fox’s big 6PM news hour for automobile window repair and they will be on night after night. And that’s just the one that immediately comes to mind.
* Murdoch explained to a friend of mine: To do business in America, you don’t need all the Jews in New York on your side, but you do need some of them.
* That’s partly behind Trump’s current success running a Buchananite campaign, which generally would repel more or less all New York Jews if run by a Pat Buchanan or similar figure.
* RT’s coverage of the European migration crisis has been top notch, complete contrast to the BBC. The Russians will stick up for their fellow Europeans and ultimately don’t want a bunch of failed states on their western border. Thing is in Europe you have a whole bunch of nationalist parties who are sympathetic to Russian concerns, in the US you have just Trump.
* I follow some other European news outlets, and the Euros are really clueless about the racial/ethnic/HBD issues, of the sort that gets discussed on this blog. The stuff that we discuss here routinely is so far outside of their frame of reference, it may as well be from a different planet.
What I said above holds most strongly for ethically homogeneous countries, so Eastern Europe, Nordics, etc. I would assume that the French, the Brits, and the Germans have had the most exposure to these topics, by the virtue of their sizable non-Euro minority populations. But with their lack of First Amendment-type protections of free speech (not that ours is worth much), they are even more unwilling to discuss the issues openly, or even acknowledge the issues exist.
* Although paleocons probably make up 25% of Internet commenters or bloggers, they make up at most 5% of the general population. There’s simply just not enough of a market to pay for a cable news channel. Same reason you don’t see a libertarian, democratic socialist or fascist news channel in the US.
* Benghazi is a red herring, heaven forbid that FoxNews actually talk about the flood of Muslims and Africans into the Europe or our open borders or the nightmarish impact that free trade has had on our economy.
It’s really amusing to watch FoxNews talk about our economy, nothing but rah, rah, pump monkeys. They never touch off-shoring, H1-B visa workers, etc. Then they wonder why the consumer has stopped buying Chinese made junk.
And their constant attacks on Trump are just revolting. Murdoch’s attack barbie – Megan Kelly can’t stop trying to stab Trump, same with a bunch of the other NeoCon talking heads. They hate him because he’s a populist and the only one who wants to secure the borders and throw the bums out.
FoxNews is at best a Neo-Con/Globalist propaganda network.
Conservatism is a movement of cowards led by crooks.
This is perhaps the best definition of Conservatism I’ve ever read. The whole movement is a joke and snob fest for a lot of monied types to a large extent. These people never cared about anything about Western civilization or it’s preservation.
* Steve, you are missing the big point about Benghazi. Obama/Hillary ran guns to the ISIS folks to fight Assad through Benghazi and when their pet jihadis killed the Ambassador and Navy SEALS were fighting for their lives they threw them under the bus.
Not only an Iran-Contra moment in violation of about a dozen laws, but massive disloyalty to their own ambassador and Navy SEALs. So that is a big issue. Deservedly.
And as noted, Murdoch’s sons run Fox News, and its moving VERY Liberal. Megyn Kelly and the rest of the actual anchor and editorial people DESPISE Donald Trump as a traitor to their class, and are out to get him. As are the uber-liberal Murdoch sons who despise Israel, White people in general, White ethno-states, and want mass third world immigration into the West because that’s their religious dogma.
Yes Fox News when it fires Roger Ailes and makes the people who work there and the Murdoch sons happy will implode in audience share and likely trigger cable-dumping among its viewers. And Fox News will no longer supply the $1 billion in profits that pays down the heavy debt load of Fox/News Corp. So what? The Murdoch sons are idiots — they really believe their own diversity/pc/anti-White stuff.
But to start up a competitor to Fox News is now almost impossible because of capital costs. Not even Trump could fund it. Cable is in rapid decline over consumer pressure — people can’t afford $100 a month just to watch TV when rabbit ears or some flat wave antenna can pull in broadcast for free and there is a lot of low cost or no cost streaming content. People will pay a $40 internet bill over a $100 cable bill every month.
And its affecting mobile phones too. What’s behind T-Mobile/ATT/Verizon price wars? Consumers don’t have the money to spend. See also the wave of SoCal grocery store consolidations and the failure of Haagen and Fresh and Easy.
Meanwhile Ben Carson has a big lead in Iowa. No surprise, the Magical Negro, Republican Version, is a failing of White people who having abandoned belief in Jesus have found it in some Racial Redeemer: King, Obama, now Carson. [I say this as an agnostic who understands that the vast majority of people MUST believe in something to give meaning to their lives.]
Steve Sailer writes: A big hurricane is headed toward the mountainous west coast of Mexico, so don’t be surprised if the Obama Administration subsequently invites into the United States a lot of Mexicans.
I’m not in the business of making specific forecasts, but let me offer a general concern: There are currently 418 million people in South America, and the U.N. says there will be 510 million by midcentury. What are the odds that at some point something will go wrong in Latin America that interested parties in the U.S. will try to define as justifying our own Camp of the Saints? Last year, the Obama administration tried to pass off Central American gang violence as justification for letting in unaccompanied youths. Next year, it could be an earthquake, hurricane, civil strife, recession, inflation, sexism, homophobia, or transgender insensitivity.
The immigration / refugee program is already in place. From Wikipedia:
Temporary protected status (also called “TPS”) is a temporary immigration status to the United States, granted to eligible nationals of designated countries.
In 1990, as part of the Immigration Act of 1990 (“IMMACT”), P.L. 101-649, Congress established a procedure by which the Attorney General may provide TPS to immigrants in the United States who are temporarily unable to safely return to their home country because of ongoing armed conflict, an environmental disaster, or other extraordinary and temporary conditions. …
During the period for which a country has been designated for TPS, TPS beneficiaries may remain in the United States and may obtain work authorization.
Anchor babies are American citizens, of course.
Countries that are currently under TPS[edit]
El Salvador — initiated in response to the 2001 El Salvador earthquakes
14 years now
Haiti — initiated in response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake[2][3]
A mere 5 years
Honduras — initiated in response to Hurricane Mitch in 1998
17 years ago, but whaddaya whaddaya …
Nicaragua
Somalia
Sudan
Syria — as of March 29, 2012, in response to the ongoing Syrian Civil War
Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone — as of Nov 21, 2014, in response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak [4]
Nepal as of June 25, 2015, in response to the conditions resulting from the devastating magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Nepal on April 25, 2015, and the subsequent aftershocks[5]
Yemen as of September 3, 2015, in response to ongoing conflict in the area as a result of the Yemeni Civil War.[6]
What are the odds that the New York Times demand that the Obama Administration put giant Mexico next on the list? In contrast, what are the odds that the New York Times demand that giant Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim use some of his sketchy fortune to alleviate the suffering of his fellow Mexicans in Mexico?
COMMENTS TO STEVE SAILER:
* And yet there are people, maybe even a majority, who will not vote for the one candidate who is even remotely close to being correct about immigration, Donald Trump. God help us if our next president is Hillary Clinton, or one of the establishment GOP types.
Think of it this way: immigration to the United States right now is like a heavy freight train going downhill. As long as the engineer is able to control the train’s speed and its braking, everything is OK. But if the calculations of the train’s weight were incorrect and/or the train begins to go even just a little too fast, even an emergency application of the brakes might not be enough to stop it. Once that threshold has been passed, it is inevitable that the train will gather speed very quickly, hurtling down the line faster and faster, until it eventually jumps the tracks and crashes, obliterating everything and everybody unfortunate enough to be in its way.
Trump is probably all that stands between us and an immigration train wreck right now.
* He already provides telecom services for the Mexicans. What more do you want? Free donkey shows? Free personal moustache rides?
* Rush Limbaugh of all people predicted just this today.
However, we’ve already had our Camp of the Saints, last summer’s “children’s” crusade.
* How many decades will it take Wall Street to recover from Sandy?
* Steve Sailer, the premier content provider of immigration-related information, and not read by Rush Limbaugh? The expected value of that is quite close to zero. Limbaugh either reads Sailer or he has adopted his perspective indirectly. The former is more likely than the latter.
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BALTIMORE — The most famous mom in Baltimore is uneasy. It is noon on a Wednesday, and she is six hours into her shift driving addicts from a halfway house to a treatment center. She has only made $60 so far today, which is not nearly enough. She withdraws an eviction notice from her purse. It says she owes $1,381.50. Ten bucks an hour is not going to cut it.
If you do not know Toya Graham by name, you know her by what she did. At the apex of the Baltimore riots, as the city buckled under the weight of Freddie Gray’s controversial death, Graham strode into the maelstrom clad in a blazing yellow shirt to find her rebellious son. And when she did, she clobbered the youth, meting out the discipline that millions of Americans, watching it unfold on television, thought he deserved.
Toya Graham, who until that moment was just another struggling mother in a city full of them, became the hero of a Baltimore story without one. She was the avenging mother, determined to save her boy from social forces ravaging her community. A YouTube video of her striking her son shot past 6 million views, then 7 million, then 8 million. There was a parade of interviews — with Anderson, with Whoopi, with Gayle. Oprah called. The media crowned Graham “Baltimore’s Hero Mom” and the “Mother of the Year.”
People told her she was going to be a star. They told her she was going to get a job. She was going to anchor a reality TV show. She was going to write a book. She was going to meet Michelle Obama. And Graham believed it. Her life of struggle was over. She was Baltimore’s Mom.
Graham now sits alone at the wheel of a Ford van. She just dropped off 12 addicts at a treatment center on Broadway. She feels unmoored. So much has happened in her life, but so little has changed. She still can’t pay her bills. She still can’t escape the circumstances into which she was born.
Comments at WP:
* I don’t get it. Why should a mother expect to cash in after disciplining her son?
* The life story of Toya has many useful illustrations about life for too many in modern America. Get rich quick schemes, fleeting fame, fatherless families, struggling moms, wayward kids. The one lesson not discussed as a reason for her struggles is she has six children and a unknown number of grandchildren, most of whom have different fathers, and apparently none are active in supporting her.
I am sympathetic to her plight, but by her choices in men and having a large family she has out herself in this position. Worse, are the odds her six children will not break this cycle of poverty and poor decision-making will lead to 15 to 20 more poor children in the next generation. Add to that another 15-20 or more into her great-grandchildren’s generation.
That’s the untold future.
* So where is the useless father of this boy child that she had to smack upside the head to keep him from joining the looters and arsonists?
Child support would go a long way toward assisting with her financial situation, and the boy probably wouldn’t be acting up if there were a father in the picture.
* Most people learn early one of the most important lessons in life: If it is too good to be true, it usually is.
It’s good that this mother has finally opened her eyes to the fact that she will unlikely be successful as a celebrity, and that those that tell her this nonsense are lying.
What is terribly ironic is that even if she had spurned the aggressive celebrity news machine, they would likely have turned on her and instead of a “hero”, the story would have been reframed very differently.
* how about the kid gets a job! my father died when I was 10. I started working 20 hours year around at 13 and 40 hours heat around at 16 while going to school. Zzz doing menial work at a young age is very beneficial as it teaches you that I better work harder in school.
* Her son should have disassembled and reassembled an old electric clock radio and taken it to school, to show to his science teacher.
* Serves her right for trying to capitalize off of what she should have been doing from the start. And for those who think beating black kids is the answer then why don’t you ask the millions in prison if they were beaten by their mothers. Yep, a lot of good that did.
* Ms. Grey just attempted suicide Wed night. So evidently becoming a millionaire is not always the answer. She also must give her disgusting lawyer, Billy Murphy, at least a third of the settlement (likely more).
She is a pathetic drug addict who probably did hit Freddie while he was growing up, a lot, when she was alert enough to have a sense of who and where she was.
I worked in Head Starts and public education in Baltimore for 35 years. Smacking your child is the norm, it’s a cultural thing. Poor blacks largely believe that it is not only normal, but highly appropriate, to hit their kids, from an early age. It is but one contributing factor to the violence that seems to permeate the disadvantaged black culture. It is consistent with the violent narrative that continues to dog them since slavery. And you cannot tell them otherwise. It is a deeply rooted and held child rearing belief. It’s sad, and part of the cycle of beliefs and behaviors that keeps them where they are – a permanent underclass.
* in the end, she didnt bring enough to the table. When on TV, she should have came out as a male transgender homeless crack addict trying to raise his/her son by themselves. Then, the White House would have given her an award and the reality TV gig would have materialized.
* The math confuses me. Less than six months ago she was given $25,000 outright. She has made numerous appearances and given interviews for which she has been paid. Now she’s on the verge of eviction, even though she has a job?
* Watching a brand new CVS be looted and burned is not exactly a chamber of commerce moment.
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Eugene Volokh writes: One more data point on the “When does your religion legally excuse you from doing part of your job?” question — like it or not, under American law, employers sometimes do have to excuse employees from tasks that the employees find religiously objectionable. Tuesday, two Muslim truck drivers who were fired for refusing to deliver shipments containing alcohol were awarded $40,000 in compensatory damages and $200,000 in punitive damages by the jury in their discrimination claim.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission brought suit on their behalf (EEOC v. Star Transport Co., Inc. (N.D. Ill.)), arguing that the employer had failed to provide “reasonable accommodations” to the employees — i.e., accommodations (including an exemption from job duties) that could be provided without “undue hardship” to the employer or others. The court noted that Star Transport had indeed often “swap[ped]’ loads between drivers,” and Star Transport conceded that it could have easily accommodated this request, too, but argued (unsuccessfully) that it shouldn’t be liable for punitive damages.
This concession was important, and if Star Transport had fought the case, and shown that such a swap would indeed be difficult (and that its “forced dispatch” policy, which on its face generally required drivers to deliver what they were told, was consistently enforced), it should have won. But when accommodating an employee just requires a bit of extra administrative hassle, in the form of arranging a swap (given that most other drivers presumably wouldn’t care about whether they are delivering alcohol), the federal Civil Rights Act requires the employer to do this.
But as the Peoria Journal Star (Andy Kravetz) notes, “Whether the men collect their money is another story. Star Transport went out of business earlier this year and it’s unknown who is now responsible for the judgment.”
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