Abagond

The top image for “blacks” on Breitbart News, according to Google Images, 2017.

Here is some of what I have learned about Black people from Breitbart News. I read its top 15 articles for the search term “blacks”. The articles were written from 2015 to 2017.

I have not fact-checked any of these:

• “Of course, there is racism in America. But, the fact is lacing your shoes up and working hard every day opens up broad opportunities.”
• “The Huey P. Newton Gun Club says on its website it is seeking to ‘develop over time to a regimented Black Army.'”
• “Despite the media’s overindulgence on white cops killing blacks, there is still a far-larger amount of black bodies being sent to morgues by black killers. Here’s five devastating facts, liberals can’t deny, that prove it.”
  • “FACT 1. Over 1,400 more black Americans murdered other blacks in two years than were lynched from 1882 to 1968.”
  • “FACT 2. Black People (mostly men) commit a grossly disproportionate amount of crime.”
  • “FACT 3. Despite making up just 13% of the population, blacks committed half of homicides in the United States for nearly 30 years.”
  • “FACT 4. Chicago’s death toll is almost equal to that of both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, combined.”
  • “FACT 5. It would take cops 40 years to kill as many black men as have died at the hands of others black men in 2012 alone.”
• “a Republican president would do a far better job of insisting that places like Baltimore and Ferguson are policed properly. Whacking black families on welfare and turning a blind eye to crime – the Democrat way – is why so many black Americans are miserable, and why they riot.”
• “Blacks aren’t benefitting from the Hispanic invasion: in fact, it’s making their lives even worse.”
• “You have to worry for black neighbourhoods when Hispanics, who have no lingering slavery guilt to worry about, are the ethnic majority in America.”
• “Blacks seem to identify with Trump’s swagger: they put him in enough rap songs, after all.”
• “Members of the #FYF911 or #FukYoFlag and #BlackLivesMatter movements called for the lynching and hanging of white people and cops.”
• “BLACK HARVARD ECONOMIST FINDS NO BIAS AGAINST BLACKS IN POLICE SHOOTINGS”
• “There is no epidemic of police killing black people in America. It simply is not true.”
• “Kaepernick could save a million dollars and countless lives by addressing the wanton disregard for life in black America.”
• “Historians estimate that 90 percent of the slaves captured and shipped across the Atlantic were the victims of a commercial partnership involving African tribes who had been in that business for centuries.”
• “Whatever the intent of the abortion industry, by functional standards, abortion is a racist institution in the United States, with black children aborted at nearly four times the rate of white children.”

Sage Steele

Advice gleaned: Black people should work hard, not kill White people, vote Republican (especially Trump), get their news from places like Breitbart, and, like Sage Steele, have the courage to call out the hypocritical Black racists who call them a coon.

Breitbart News is read by President Trump and was led by one of his top advisers, Steve Bannon, from 2012 to 2016.

– Abagond, 2017.

Source: Breitbart News (February 6th 2017), namely:

• NBA COACH GREGG POPOVICH SAYS HARD WORK WON’T HELP BLACKS ATTAIN AMERICAN DREAM, TOO MUCH RACISM
• EXCLUSIVE–NEW BLACK PANTHER LEADER: BLACKS NEED TO MIGRATE TO FIVE SOUTHERN STATES, FORM ‘COUNTRY WITHIN A COUNTRY’
• SUBURBAN CHICAGO SCHOOL TEACHES ‘BLACKENOMICS,’ ‘TRANS-RIGHTS,’ AND ‘WHITE GENOCIDE AGAINST BLACKS’
• ESPN’S SAGE STEELE: STOP THE ‘HATRED AT OTHER BLACKS WHO FEEL DIFFERENTLY’
• 5 DEVASTATING FACTS ABOUT BLACK-ON-BLACK CRIME
• DONALD TRUMP WOULD BE THE REAL FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT
• BLACK LAWYER CALLS ON BLACK JURORS TO VOTE ‘INNOCENT’ FOR ANY BLACK PERSON ACCUSED OF MURDERING A WHITE PERSON
• CNN IMPLIES BLACKS WON’T BACK TRUMP IF HE DOESN’T GIVE FELONS VOTING RIGHTS
• TEXAS NEW BLACK PANTHER PARTY LEADER: BLACKS ‘ARE BEING PIMPED LIKE PROSTITUTES’ BY DEMOCRATS
• BLACK ACTIVISTS CALL FOR LYNCHING AND HANGING OF WHITE PEOPLE AND COPS
• BLACK HARVARD ECONOMIST FINDS NO BIAS AGAINST BLACKS IN POLICE SHOOTINGS
• EXCLUSIVE: ‘BLACK MEN FOR BERNIE’ FOUNDER TO END DEMOCRAT ‘POLITICAL SLAVERY’ OF MINORITY VOTERS… BY CAMPAIGNING FOR TRUMP
• FIVE FACTS ABOUT ‘BLACK OPPRESSION’ COLIN KAEPERNICK NEEDS TO KNOW
• MUHAMMAD ALI WAS WRONG: ISLAM ENSLAVED BLACKS FOR CENTURIES, DID NOT FREE THEM
• AFRICAN CARDINAL DEMANDS APOLOGY FOR ABORTION ‘GENOCIDE’ OF BLACK BABIES IN U.S.

See also:

• Black people according to:
  • -425: Herodotus
  • 1787: Thomas Jefferson
  • 1906: Franz Boas
  • 1911: Britannica
  • 1913: Jim Crow racism
  • 1959: Golden Book Encyclopedia
  • 2010: White people
  • 2010: US television
• Breitbart News
• Steve Bannon
• Guide to Trump
• Colin Kaepernick
• Black Lives Matter
• The word “coon”
• killer cops
  • Baltimore
  • Ferguson
• tropes
  • Bootstrap Myth
  • selective outrage
  • Black-on-Black crime argument
    • Chicago shootings
    • Black crime statistics
  • Black Brute stereotype
  • Welfare Queen stereotype
  • Mexican Reconquista
  • White paternalism
  • “Africans sold their own people as slaves”
  • White innocence
  • Five Rules of Racial Standing

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Remarks:

When this came out in 2008, I did not think much of it at the time, but now it reminds me of those times. I like her song “I Remember” (2007) way better, one of my all-time favourites. Both songs went to #1 on the US R&B chart.

The video was shot in Oahu, Hawaii.

See also:

• songs, the 2000s

Lyrics:

Sent from heaven.
Sent from heaven.

Now you can wait your whole life wondering
When it’s gonna come or where it’s been.
You may have got your heart broken
A few times in the past
Never last strong as it used to,
Don’t feel as good as it used to (before)
And all the things you used to say,
Things you used to do, went right out the door

Oh no more, will you be the one
That’s what you tell everyone around you
But you know they’ve heard it all before
What more can you say
When love won’t let you, walk away
And you can’t help who you love
And you find yourself giving it away
When you think you’re in love

[CHORUS:]
I wanna be the one who you believe
In your heart is sent from (sent from heaven)
There’s a piece of me who leaves when you gone
Because you’re sent from (sent from heaven)
I wanna be the one who you believe
In your heart is sent from (sent from heaven)
There’s a piece of me who leaves when you gone
Because you’re sent from (sent from heaven)

Now you can wait your whole life tryna change
What the fear from what it’s been
You may have put your whole life into a man
Loving what you thought that could’ve been.
notice when you change
When you don’t feel as good as you used to (before)
And everything you used to say,
Everything you used to do clear right out the door

Oh no more, will you be the one
That’s what you tell everyone around you
But you know they’ve heard it all before
What more can you say
When love won’t let you, walk away
And it can’t help who it loves
And you find yourself giving it away
When you think you’re in love

[CHORUS]

Everybody say
I wanna be the one you love
I wanna be (sent from heaven)
Everybody say I wanna be the one you trust
I wanna be (sent from heaven)
Everybody say I wanna be the one you need
I wanna be (sent from heaven)
Everybody say I wanna be the one who sent from heaven

[CHORUS:]
I wanna be the one who you believe
In your heart is sent from (sent from heaven)
There’s a piece of me who leaves when you gone
Because you’re sent from (sent from heaven)
I wanna be the one who you believe
In your heart is sent from (sent from heaven)
There’s a piece of me who leaves when you gone
Because you’re sent from (sent from heaven)

I wanna be the one who you believe
In your heart is sent from (sent from heaven)
There’s a piece of me who leaves when you gone
Because you’re sent from (sent from heaven)

Source: A-Z Lyrics.

I am going on a Kool-Aid diet! From February 5th to the 11th, from Sunday to Saturday of next week, I will be getting nearly all my news from Breitbart News. Maybe then Trump’s actions will make more sense! I will stay off of YouTube, Tumblr, Twitter and any other sort of feed. No cable news or newspapers or newsmagazines either, of course. Apart from Breitbart News, all I will have are the New York Times newsflashes that appear on my phone from time to time and whatever news seeps into the comments here, but I will not follow any links to a non-Breitbart news outlet.

The top story right now on Breitbart is:

ANN COULTER’S REPORT CARD FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP’S FIRST TWO WEEKS: ‘I GIVE HIM AN A+++’

Just to give you an idea of the sort of hard-hitting news source it is.

I may try to do a post based only on Breitbart News as a source. If so, there will be a disclaimer. Otherwise I will avoid doing news-oriented posts. I will do a post on Breitbart News itself the week following.

If in the meantime some huge news story comes up that you want me to do a post on, please tell me in the comments below. If it is seconded I will likely do a post on it. If it is big enough, I will break my fast and do it later in the month.

If you want to throw me some links I should read after my Kool-Aid diet is over, please put them in the comments below. That will help me to catch up!

Thanks!

– Abagond, 2017.

See also:

• Breitbart News – the only news link I will need!
• Steve Bannon
• Guide to Trump
• Sarah Palin’s Kool-Aid Drinking Society
• RationalWiki media guide
• media diet
  • My Black Media Month review
• Republican Bubble
  • alternative facts
  • fake news

The cosmopolitan model of US society is my name for the idea that the US brings together people from all over the world to create something new, hopefully the best the world has to offer, from pizza to jazz to the Magna Carta. What makes the US great is not a particular culture or race or religion, but its political ideas of freedom, equality and democracy.

Sappy catchphrase: Diversity is our strength.

Now in charge of the US: Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump, Steve Bannon.

Its evil twin is what I call the diseased-host model: the US as a White Christian nation. What Trump and many Whites seem to believe. To them Mexicans and Muslims and so on are a threat to America As We Know It. For Steve “Clash of Civilizations” Bannon and the alt-right it is not just the US that is under threat but all of Western civilization!

Near beer: There are some closely related models that are not quite cosmopolitan:

• melting pot – assumes everyone should assimilate and take on Anglo American ways.
• multiculturalism – a White paternalistic model where “we” “tolerate” or “appreciate” “other” cultures – or throw them in as window-dressing tokens.
• nation of immigrants – can also be assimilationist.

In practice, these centre-stage Whites. But under the cosmopolitan model the US does not even have to be White. In fact, it is White racism and nativism, a la Donald Trump, that is the threat to America As We Know It Can Be.

Beliefs:

• Western universalism: US political ideas are the best for the whole human race. In this sense it is ethnocentric, an excuse for imperialism.
• Immigration: a good thing. The US as a coat of many colours held together by its political ideas and institutions, not by Anglo-American culture.
• Equal opportunity: what is meant by “equality”. The US succeeds or fails to the degree this is offered to everyone. You should be able to come from nothing and make it. The Bootstrap Myth assumes this is already true. The numbers on social mobility say otherwise.
• Racism: a backward and dangerous idea. See equal opportunity.
• Religion: a private matter, not something to shove down people’s throats. But public displays of religion (burkas, yamulkes, mosques, etc) are fine. Live and let live. Freedom of religion is part of what makes the US great.
• US American exceptionalism: yes!

Amy Chua argues that the US lead in science and technology, and therefore its military edge, comes from its openness to taking in people from all over the world. It made possible the Jewish and then Asian brain drains, the atom bomb and Silicon Valley.

Making America great: Both the cosmopolitan and diseased-host models believe in American exceptionalism and try to bottle what “makes America great” as a guide to thought and action. But both models are fairy tales. The “greatness” of the US comes not from the bloodlines of Europe’s economic failures and religious misfits, those who came to the US. Nor does it come from the political ideas of John Locke and Thomas Jefferson. It comes from the barrel of a gun.

– Abagond, 2017.

See also:

• other models:
  • The diseased-host model
  • nation of immigrants
  • the three pillars of racism
• its political ideas:
  • Magna Carta
  • John Locke
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • democracy
  • equality
• Amy Chua
• Asian brain drain
• Bootstrap Myth
• Donald Trump
  • Steve Bannon
  • Jeff Sessions
  • alt-right
  • clash of civilizations
  • Muslim ban
• Anglo Americans
  • How White America got rich
  • White paternalism
  • ethnic contributions
• burka

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Trump’s Muslim ban (2017) was issued by US President Donald Trump on Friday afternoon on January 27th 2017. It stops those from entering the US who are:

• non-Christian Syrian refugees;
• refugees from anywhere for 120 days;
• citizens of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for 90 days.

The seven countries are all Muslim-majority and account for 82% of the Muslim refugees who come to the US, most of them countries the US itself has screwed up.

The order was issued on Holocaust Remembrance Day, in which Trump remembered the Holocaust but not the Jews.

President Trump said the order was to keep out “radical Islamic terrorists”:

“We don’t want them here. We want to ensure that we are not admitting into our country the very threats our soldiers are fighting overseas.”

Only 6% of terrorist suspects in the US are Muslim (based on FBI numbers for 2008 to 2012).

Of Muslim terrorists who have carried out deadly attacks in the US since 1975, 0% come from those seven countries:

• The 9/11 terrorists came from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates. Not on the list.
• Muslim terrorists since 9/11 have come from Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Egypt and the US states of Washington, Oklahoma, Illinois, Tennessee, Ohio, Virginia and New York. Not on the list.

Green = countries Trump banned. Red = where Muslim terrorists since 9/11 actually come from.

Ill-conceived and badly executed: Trump did not ask for the opinion of experts from the government departments of State, Justice or Homeland Security, nor did he give them advance warning – the very people who know something and who would carry it out. He did not even wait for his own people to be in place to carry it out.

So:

• A five-year-old was held apart from his mother like he was a terrorist.
• An Iraqi translator, who received death threats for working with the US military and was promised entry to the US, was being turned back.
• Those with green cards, which let them live and work in the US, were not let in unless it was in the “national interest”- even though most of them presumably have jobs, businesses or families in the US for which they are responsible. Trump later backed off of this part.
• Government lawyers were unprepared to defend it when it was challenged in court.
• Trump fired Sally Yates, the acting attorney general, an Obama holdover who refused to defend the order, what Trump sees as being “weak”.

From 2004 to 2015 Donald Trump played a savvy business executive on US “reality” television.

The good news, for those who see Trump as a proto-fascist, is that he respected the court orders, which put part of the ban on hold.

Barring people by religion is unconstitutional. Trump’s campaign rhetoric makes clear that barring Muslims is his intent. It is what Jesus or the Two Corinthians would do, apparently.

Barring people by nationality is perfectly legal. It was a common US practice from 1882 to 1965. The US stopped partly because it created ill-will with its allies.

Blue state: Protests at JFK airport in New York.

Blue state, red state: airports, mainly in blue states on the east and left coast, filled with thousands of protesters. Meanwhile in red-state Texas a mosque burned.

Red state: A mosque burns in Victoria, Texas.

– Abagond, 2017.

Update (February 4th): a Republican judge in Washington state has put a stop to the Muslim ban nationwide:

• The state is home to Microsoft and Boeing, which oppose the ban. So do the state’s universities. 
• The Department of Homeland Security could not show a single case where any of the hundreds of thousands of refugees let in since 9/11 had killed anyone in the US in a terrorist attack.
• The ban was ruled unconstitutional, as going against the establishment of religion clause of the First Amendment. 
• The case for the ban was further damaged when it was found that someone in the State Department, presumably under orders from Trump, had secretly invalidated 60,000 to 100,000 visas as a way to get round earlier court rulings.

The Trump Administration says it will fight the ruling in court. If Trump had listened to Sally Yates instead of firing her, he could have avoided all of this. 

Sources: mainly The Economist and New America.

See also:

• Donald Trump
• 9/11
• diseased host model of US society
  • Islamophobia
  • Hitler: Mein Kampf: Race and People
• The nadir of US race relations
  • Chinese Exclusion Act
  • Japanese American Internment
• Holocaust
• White American terrorists
• White Evangelical Protestants

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“The Nightmare” (2017) is the best picture of Donald Trump I have seen so far. It is by Mark Bryan, he who painted George W. Bush’s cabinet as a mad tea party, featured here in 2008 in the dying days of those days.

Bryan, with his apologies to octopuses everywhere:

“The Kraken has been released from the depths and the Trumpocalypse is at hand. Hang on tight, it’s gonna be a rough ride Back to when things were ‘great’.

“To clarify, This was meant to be a “Kraken”, not an Octopus. The Kraken is a mythological sea monster of Norwegian lore. Derived from krake, a word designating an unhealthy animal or something twisted (cognate with the English crook and crank) Historically depicted as an Octopus like animal. This image was inspired by the famous cartoon about the Standard Oil monopoly by Udo Keppler in 1904. The tentacles are also an irresistible metaphor for political satire. I had reservations about using an octopus like image because they really are amazing and intelligent beings. I apologize to them everywhere.”

Here is that inspiring picture of Standard Oil, Rockefeller’s old oil company, broken up by the US government, the biggest piece of which we now call ExxonMobil:

– Abagond, 2017.

Source: Art of Mark Bryan.

See also:

• Mark Bryan: The Mad Tea Party
• Donald Trump
  • The Trump Era
  • Guide to Trump

This song never charted, but it was played on US prime-time television week after week from 1970 to 1977 at the beginning of the “Mary Tyler Moore Show”. It is probably one of the better known television theme songs. To sing it properly,  you should throw your hat up in the air at the end, as demonstrated in the video. For extra credit you can drive your white 1970 Ford Mustang down Interstate 494 towards Minneapolis.

Sonny Curtis is a country music singer and childhood friend of Buddy Holly, he who died the day the music died. Mary Tyler Moore, born the same year as Holly, passed away on Wednesday at age 80.

Requiescant in pace.

See also:

• songs, the 1970s

Lyrics:

Who can turn the world on with her smile?
Who can take a nothing day, and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?
Well it’s you girl, and you should know it
With each glance and every little movement you show it
Love is all around, no need to waste it
You can never tell, why don’t you take it
You’re gonna make it after all
You’re gonna make it after all