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The people Whose Lives Don’t Matter might
Ike a word with Her Highness about something.
https://dailycaller.com/2015/04/22/do-white-lives-matter-obamas-medal-of-freedom-honoree-says-no-kill-em-too/
I have to hand it to Toni Morrison. She wrote about 100 books no one ever read, but I don’t think she ever wrote about her hair . . . or how in grade school, a white girl asked to touch it.
As is typical for Toni Morrison, it’s not very good.
https://archive.is/wRLz1
As for that New Yorker article:
I’m sure there are plenty of great black writers, but Morrison is not one of them, and that story is not even decent, let alone one of the greats. Comparing anything she wrote to Melville and Shirley Jackson is laughable.
Towards the end of the article she drops this Morrison quote:
Let me quote the great philosopher Alanis Morrisette…
I enjoyed the sly joke of calling her a "master".
Her short story is here (pdf).
Don’t read it. All you need know is this bit from near the end:
Ctrl-F ‘hair’ = 11.
Ctrl-F ‘Chinaman’ = 1.
Toni Morrison was ahead of the curve in World War Hair and Blacks vs Asians.
Yes, this practice is quite gross and reflects that the progressive goal is not equality, but domination.
Why progressive whites think they will come out ok is very, very odd.
Practitioners of Negrolatry are pathetic. I find them repulsive. But I realy do feel sorry for them.
A higher class of black (damning with faint praise?) Worries about the kind of capitalization that matters:
Brookings: To expand the economy, invest in Black businesses
Brookings: Black-owned businesses in U.S. cities: The challenges, solutions, and opportunities for prosperity
Minority entrepreneurs at a tipping point as Black-owned banks dwindle in the U.S.
This black-owned bank’s assets look rather thin, don’t they?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/anti-gun-blm-activist-charged-alleged-shooting-murder-attempt-louisville-mayoral
Uh, am I the only one here that did not realize that the great poet laureate Toni Morrison had passed away? When did this tragedy occur? Was there no national day of mourning? I would’ve recalled if the flags were lowered to half-staff at some point for her demise.
I hate to be an ass, but what exactly is she known for? I’m sure it’s about something about black pain-and-suffering, but beyond that I can’t quite put my finger on it.
Tar Baby?
Somebody, somewhere must have read it.
Someone also forgot to tell her well-paid praisemakers that “novels” are a European art form and the most others can do is mimic. Not especially well either.
“Recitatif, Toni Morrison’s only short story, published posthumously this month, forces the reader to decide what it means to be Black or white.”
OK, but nobody is forced to BUY it, so it’s an experiment in loss leadership.
Here’s some great Morrison poetry for those who have already decided what it means to be White. Let him tell you about Texas Radio and the Big Beat. He’s got that White privilege though – easier to write poetry when you’re stoned immaculate.
Actually, I like this one much better:
If Edward Lear were still penning nonsense verse (eg The Owl and the Pussycat) he’d likely have fun writing limericks lampooning black names, less than reverentially. Eg.
There was a young buck called Deontay
Often mistaken for Deonte or Deante
One day he felt Darqueze
Noted his friend the Marquise
Or was he just in a Quandre?
And today, the 18th, happens to be Tony Morrison Day, in the small Ohio town in which she was born.
You’re not the only one. I don’t even know who she was. Admittedly, I am poorly educated, but still I don’t think she mattered one whit.
Then again, I’m WWWWWWWWhite!
Basically, Morrison was determined to be, by certain whites, to be a Writer Of The Black Experience. So kids have been forced to read her for a few decades. Also, intellectual types of a certain bent buy her books. Whether or not they actually read them is another matter.Replies: @G. Poulin, @Buffalo Joe
To organize such shabbiness with that much money is a skill unto itself.
Who knew?
Now he can save a few more bucks to donate to Justin Trudeau's re-election effort.
I use a capital N.
Morrison had nothing on “A River, A Rock, A Tree.”
I very much doubt Toni Morrison really even knew what the word “recitatif” actually means.
Now that I think of it (too lazy to look it up and check) is it maybe spelled “recitative”? I can’t remember.
Some authors try the obscure to be cute and endearing. I suspect she uses the obscure because she doesn't have all that much to say.
I’ve put initial caps on “Black” and “White” here. I had a rationale I can’t recall. I’ve read some poetry, and recited my own oafish verse when in middle age. Time on my hands. I’ve heard of Toni Morrison–y’know, celebrity writer, that sort of thing. Never read any of her stuff.
” . . . forces the reader to decide what it means to be Black or white.” Spare me—just spare me the coy, glib, infiltrative summing-up that says the most epochal stuff in world literature is about Blacks and Whites sorting out their issues over and over and over again in a place called the United States.
BTW-there are fine Black writers: Crouch, Baldwin, Watkins, a few dozen more.
And that’s alright!
Basically, Morrison was determined to be, by certain whites, to be a Writer Of The Black Experience. So kids have been forced to read her for a few decades. Also, intellectual types of a certain bent buy her books. Whether or not they actually read them is another matter.
Of course at some point capitalization will not be enough. The word will have to be all caps–“BLACK”–and probably bolded. Or maybe ornamented in additional ways, like “BLACK!!!” or “***BLACK***” Later certain (reverential) fonts will be required for the word and the point size increased dramatically. Ten years from now those who write the simple “Black” will be branded racists, like some one today who uses the words Negro or colored.
When the AP adopted it's current anti White "style" I suggested here on Unz w/ iSteve that mere capitalization was insufficient.
I then deployed the superior 'Black!' format and some have even bulked up that to 'Black!'
That's pretty much it unless you capitalize every letter. That tends to suggest ranting and shouting something. But maybe that's where we are headed.
The other colors are still seething over this. Especially 'red'. No one can spell 'indigenous' and most of them aren't any redder than anyone else. "Feather Indian" (versus "Dot Indian") is pretty clear but still no real boost for the "red man/woman." Of course using "red" or "yellow" is probably a white racist thing too.
With modern computer typography, perhaps what is now required to demean whites is to insist that the point size for the word "white" be reduced."
Modern grammar is so hard...Replies: @Hangnail Hans
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But their are certain people for whom BLACK? would be an appropriate usage.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dd0hbRgV0AAb_W7.jpg
Toni Morrison was the Final Jeopardy answer on 6/12/20.
The clue was “on this woman’s passing in 2019, Oprah Winfrey called her “a magician with language, who understood the power of words”
One of the contestants guessed Maya Angelou.
Alex Trebek: “You guessed the other lady”.
The whole episode was hilarious, but if you have just seconds to spare in your day, skip to right at 02:00 of this Seinfeld episode:
"Wait, you got the Mark McEwan TV Guide."
"That's Al Roker."
"Well, they're both chubby weathermen."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8PVsMm4uK4Replies: @ScarletNumber
https://archive.is/wRLz1
As for that New Yorker article:I'm sure there are plenty of great black writers, but Morrison is not one of them, and that story is not even decent, let alone one of the greats. Comparing anything she wrote to Melville and Shirley Jackson is laughable.
Towards the end of the article she drops this Morrison quote:Let me quote the great philosopher Alanis Morrisette...Replies: @dearieme, @bomag, @ScarletNumber
Morrison is the great master of American complexity
I enjoyed the sly joke of calling her a “master”.
Basically, Morrison was determined to be, by certain whites, to be a Writer Of The Black Experience. So kids have been forced to read her for a few decades. Also, intellectual types of a certain bent buy her books. Whether or not they actually read them is another matter.Replies: @G. Poulin, @Buffalo Joe
Not entirely a new phenomenon, except for the color of the officially promoted poet. In grade school we were forced to memorize a lot of truly crappy poetry by regime-approved writers like Carl Sandberg, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Frost,Walt Whitman, and others. But even that stuff, bad as it was, was still better than anything cranked out by the likes of Toni Morrison.
You're wrong about these two. I'm no expert on either, but what I have read is very good.
I watched a TV documentary about the supersonic Concorde aircraft. The featured flight ( which was the final one before British Airways retired the plane) carried many celebrities including Toni Morrison. I recall thinking how nice it must be to be a member of an oppressed minority and to have been handsomely paid for a handful of mediocre books.
There once was a poet named Toni
whose poems were phony baloney.
Head big as a breadbox
with mildewy dreadlocks,
she loved her some cheese macaroni.
Morrison is your example of black intellectuals. As I’ve said some time ago …
Reading black authors, a long time ago- Richard Wright, James Baldwin, … – I have noticed that they (especially Wright) frequently have an alien ethical stance. For instance, in his major novel “Native Son”, Wright vividly depicts his anti-hero Bigger Thomas as a psycho; yet, at the ending of the novel, Wright was explicit that Bigger Thomas was just a victim of a racist society.
That struck me as very strange. Evidently, the guy was a psycho (sadistic murder, almost cannibalism,..); true, he was a victim, too, but not simply an almost deterministic product of an anti-black society. Wright implies that his psychotic anti-hero would be basically a rather good fellow in a color-blind society.
I am well aware that one should not generalize too much from literature (there are tons of anti-French rubbish in English literature or anti-Polish nonsense in Russian), but black American authors seem to live in a different moral universe. And if this is so for the best among them, what can one expect from others?
Very, very few blacks are free of that racial psychopathology – Ralph Ellison, Thomas Sowell & a few others …
Fallin' For His Thug Passion: An African American Romance Paperback – November 19, 2020
Not to be confused with:
Thug Love: Full Series (New African American BBW Contemporary Urban Thug Hood Romance Series)
I wouldn’t have. The flags are lowered to half-mast so much these days that they may as well just install shorter flag polls.
(I mean for John McCain, the old Bush guy, Nancy Pelosi, hopefully soon, etc …)
https://archive.is/wRLz1
As for that New Yorker article:I'm sure there are plenty of great black writers, but Morrison is not one of them, and that story is not even decent, let alone one of the greats. Comparing anything she wrote to Melville and Shirley Jackson is laughable.
Towards the end of the article she drops this Morrison quote:Let me quote the great philosopher Alanis Morrisette...Replies: @dearieme, @bomag, @ScarletNumber
Need a button here to convey Thanks, Agree, and LOL.
The clue was “on this woman’s passing in 2019, Oprah Winfrey called her “a magician with language, who understood the power of words”
One of the contestants guessed Maya Angelou.
Alex Trebek: “You guessed the other lady”.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Jon
Ha, on that last part! “The other worthless black lady poet that we’re told to revere” is what he .. meant to not say.
The whole episode was hilarious, but if you have just seconds to spare in your day, skip to right at 02:00 of this Seinfeld episode:
“Wait, you got the Mark McEwan TV Guide.”
“That’s Al Roker.”
“Well, they’re both chubby weathermen.”
At the beginning of the clip, if the actor looks familiar, it isthe late Sam Lloyd, who is the nephew of Christopher and was the downtrodden lawyer on ScrubsReplies: @Achmed E. Newman
She is best known for Beloved, a novel about a black girl growing up under the pressure of her dad (traditional mom &dad!) screwing her. Also reported it was thinly autobiographical but never saw an interview with either of her parents on the topic.
The clue was “on this woman’s passing in 2019, Oprah Winfrey called her “a magician with language, who understood the power of words”
One of the contestants guessed Maya Angelou.
Alex Trebek: “You guessed the other lady”.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Jon
Please be true.
https://twitter.com/amorak/status/1271593904132034563
I haven't been able to find a video, but here is the show archive showing the question.
https://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=6699
There is lower-case, there is upper-case, and now, apparently, there’s Uppity-case.
Wow.
To organize such shabbiness with that much money is a skill unto itself.
Brookings: To expand the economy, invest in Black businesses
Brookings: Black-owned businesses in U.S. cities: The challenges, solutions, and opportunities for prosperity
Minority entrepreneurs at a tipping point as Black-owned banks dwindle in the U.S.
This black-owned bank's assets look rather thin, don't they?
https://image.cnbcfm.com/api/v1/image/103893776-GettyImages-528595428.jpg?v=1598021187&w=717&h=403Replies: @Bill Jones
Perhaps they can tap these guys.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/anti-gun-blm-activist-charged-alleged-shooting-murder-attempt-louisville-mayoral
Now that I think of it (too lazy to look it up and check) is it maybe spelled "recitative"? I can't remember.Replies: @bomag
Yeah, I had to look it up. Appears to be the French form of recitative.
Some authors try the obscure to be cute and endearing. I suspect she uses the obscure because she doesn’t have all that much to say.
I had to read quite a bit of her output in college. I was… unimpressed, which I was told was because I was sexist (this term was more au courant than racist at the time). I just didn’t appreciate her whole “bad things happen to men, women hardest hit” routine. Song of Solomon wasn’t bad, because I seem to remember something happens outside the home in that one. The Bluest Eye is laughably bad, on par with something a precocious theater kid would write in high school to show how dark and tortured she is. Beloved is, I think, a genre horror story that eschews with horror? I’m going off memory here. A ghost shows up, and it’s her dead daughter, but it’s really her haunted past as a slave? (That, class, is called a metaphor.) There was another one about black prostitutes. You get the idea.
The real reason people “like” Morrison, especially college students who otherwise have to wrestle with Faulkner or Chaucer etc, is the exact same reason no one will remember her lurid and pornographic oeuvre in even fifty years time: it is easy, it is humorless, it makes no demands of the reader, it tells you what to think and how to feel, and it exists merely to reaffirm your already firmly held beliefs. It’s also easy to shit out an essay on the stuff. I cannot tell you a single thing that happens in the utterly retarded Beloved, which I read probably 15 years ago. On the other hand, I can still recite entire poems from Pound, Eliot, etc, or talk at length on Borges, that I read at the same time.
Beloved also depicts rape and violence towards women, described in such detail, and so often, as to cause a reader to wonder if Toni was really condemning it, or if this "feminist" had some sort of bizarre masochistic festish? Feminist fiction has often left me wondering that. Honestly, she has one trick, and her novels seem more like an attempt to shock, stupefy, and play mind games with her readers than to actually tell stories.
As usual, Sailer turns the deadly serious assault on our common language into a matter of ironic jest. The Z man better approached the subject on 10 Feb in his post “After Left and Right.” And in the comment thread appended, one gentleman noted this truth: “Language is of central importance to human thought because it structures and limits the ideas that individuals are capable of formulating and expressing.” Followed by another gentleman noting: “It’s not the number of words that’s decreased, but the number of shared concepts. Communication becomes meaningless because mutual understanding is impossible. Indeed, what we have now is not thought crime, where you think double plus ungood ideas; but feel crime, where you fail to express the proper emotions.” Finally, yet another gentleman correctly concluded that Globohomo represents “a war on human consciousness itself. ”
For all of the above reasons, this is a serious subject deserving serious discussion. And it’s why I and many others deliberately choose to capitalize White and not black. Language represents thought and ideas. My consciousness and language reflect my identity. The left chose to weaponize this fundamental characteristic of what makes us human and Sailer’s response to a direct attack in the war on White existence is his standard weak mockery. Huzzah for ‘citizenism’ and ‘democracy.’
You make a fundamental error here. Their is no deadly serious assault here, just hyperbole on your part. I suppose that does represent your identity.
White people expressly made second-class citizens by Trudeau’s emergency declaration:
The order bans people from taking part “in a public assembly that may reasonably be expected to lead to a breach of the peace.” However, the law does not apply to “any person in a class of persons whose presence in Canada, as determined by the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration or the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, is in the national interest.”
This includes Indians, refugees, immigrants, asylum seekers and ‘protected temporary residents’
Morrison’s narrative style, in Beloved and her other books is straight out of 80’s cheesefest “Highlander” jumping around in time and space so much and suddenly blending multiple viewpoints that the reader might as well by riding in the TARDIS with Dr. Who.
Beloved also depicts rape and violence towards women, described in such detail, and so often, as to cause a reader to wonder if Toni was really condemning it, or if this “feminist” had some sort of bizarre masochistic festish? Feminist fiction has often left me wondering that. Honestly, she has one trick, and her novels seem more like an attempt to shock, stupefy, and play mind games with her readers than to actually tell stories.
https://archive.is/wRLz1
As for that New Yorker article:I'm sure there are plenty of great black writers, but Morrison is not one of them, and that story is not even decent, let alone one of the greats. Comparing anything she wrote to Melville and Shirley Jackson is laughable.
Towards the end of the article she drops this Morrison quote:Let me quote the great philosopher Alanis Morrisette...Replies: @dearieme, @bomag, @ScarletNumber
I agree with this. The problem was that when I was supposed to read it as a high school sophomore, we had just finished Moby-Dick and I wasn’t in a good place to read more Melville. After having worked for a living, I now could fully appreciate the understated beauty of
The whole episode was hilarious, but if you have just seconds to spare in your day, skip to right at 02:00 of this Seinfeld episode:
"Wait, you got the Mark McEwan TV Guide."
"That's Al Roker."
"Well, they're both chubby weathermen."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8PVsMm4uK4Replies: @ScarletNumber
To state the obvious, while Al Roker and Mark McEwen are indeed both chubby weathermen, this isn’t the most obvious physical similarity between them.
At the beginning of the clip, if the actor looks familiar, it is
Thanks for letting me know Emil. So Beloved is about an adolescent black girl being sexually violated by her black dad? Yuck!!! No wonder I never heard of this book. It sounds like another ripsnorting piece of highly esteemed black literature, The Color Purple.
Reminder that “white” and “black” are American legal categories crafted for the convenience of the Regime, not races. Limey is a race. Bantu is a race. Kraut is a race. Frog is a race. The former pair are slander every time they’re used. Among other things, the intent is to stir up strife and envy. At which it’s quite successful.
To be “Black” instead of “white” is to be so pathetic your life can be meaningfully improved by unusual orthography.
Meanwhile I regularly allow usage of things that aren’t my name, because a rose by any other etc.
Looks like it was true–based on this tweet.
https://twitter.com/amorak/status/1271593904132034563
I haven’t been able to find a video, but here is the show archive showing the question.
https://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=6699
Ike a word with Her Highness about something.
https://dailycaller.com/2015/04/22/do-white-lives-matter-obamas-medal-of-freedom-honoree-says-no-kill-em-too/Replies: @Pop Warner
If Toni can point me to a single instance of this actually happening, convict away.
At the beginning of the clip, if the actor looks familiar, it isthe late Sam Lloyd, who is the nephew of Christopher and was the downtrodden lawyer on ScrubsReplies: @Achmed E. Newman
Right, that was Jerry doing his best to avoid PIC faux paws with his (as usual, hot) feather-Indian date. The climax (not the kind Jerry wanted) was just after a part of this video ends, when the hot squaw wants her copy of the Al Roker issue TV Guide back.
Thanks for that info on that funny actor, something I believe I’d been told before. Speaking of his brother, Christopher Lloyd, I saw a guy in a 1974 Rockford Files episode last night who might have been him.
Hey, that’s a good idea. If anyone asks which pronouns I prefer, I’ll explain to them that I identify as God, so all of my pronouns should be capitalized.
The only reason Toni Morrison has any culture wide recognition is because every American under the age of 30 was/is being forced to read something of hers in high school. I told my daughter’s HS English teacher how displeased I was was with the dysfunctional Morrison crap her class was being subjected to. I got no argument from her…it was a school board thing, she said. So angry parents nationwide are “terrorizing” school board meetings.
I wasn’t bothered as much as I could’ve been by the Morrison material because my daughter genuinely thought it was lousy. Some kids are more easily brainwashed, though.
So Jeff Bezos doesn’t like to be scammed so publicly?
Who knew?
Now he can save a few more bucks to donate to Justin Trudeau’s re-election effort.
You are behind the curve here.
When the AP adopted it’s current anti White “style” I suggested here on Unz w/ iSteve that mere capitalization was insufficient.
I then deployed the superior ‘Black!’ format and some have even bulked up that to ‘Black!’
That’s pretty much it unless you capitalize every letter. That tends to suggest ranting and shouting something. But maybe that’s where we are headed.
The other colors are still seething over this. Especially ‘red’. No one can spell ‘indigenous’ and most of them aren’t any redder than anyone else. “Feather Indian” (versus “Dot Indian”) is pretty clear but still no real boost for the “red man/woman.” Of course using “red” or “yellow” is probably a white racist thing too.
With modern computer typography, perhaps what is now required to demean whites is to insist that the point size for the word “white” be reduced.”
Modern grammar is so hard…
https://www.unz.com/isteve/tom-brady-retires/#comment-5153723
“forces the reader to decide”
Any art that needs a description of what it “does” to the reader or viewer is bad art.
“…it forces to reader/viewer to confront their assumptions about…”
No it doesn’t, it makes me think about how gullible the public is and how boring and conformist the artist.
“…it causes the reader/viewer to contemplate…”
No it doesn’t. If a piece of paper next to a work of art caused me to contemplate something for the first time, I’d be a moron.
“…makes the viewer question..”
NO
The order bans people from taking part “in a public assembly that may reasonably be expected to lead to a breach of the peace.” However, the law does not apply to “any person in a class of persons whose presence in Canada, as determined by the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration or the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, is in the national interest.”
This includes Indians, refugees, immigrants, asylum seekers and ‘protected temporary residents’Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic
That wouldn’t survive equal protection analysis in the US, but maybe Canada doesn’t have an equal protection clause in its charter. Of course, equal protection, like everything else in the Constitution, means only what a group of Ivy League grads with lifetime tenure says it means, so maybe it would.
#23
“In grade school we were forced to memorize a lot of truly crappy poetry by regime-approved writers like Carl Sandberg, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Frost,Walt Whitman, and others.”
Someone there is who does not love them all?
Someone there is who would put them against the wall?
For all of the above reasons, this is a serious subject deserving serious discussion. And it's why I and many others deliberately choose to capitalize White and not black. Language represents thought and ideas. My consciousness and language reflect my identity. The left chose to weaponize this fundamental characteristic of what makes us human and Sailer's response to a direct attack in the war on White existence is his standard weak mockery. Huzzah for 'citizenism' and 'democracy.'Replies: @Corvinus
“As usual, Sailer turns the deadly serious assault on our common language into a matter of ironic jest.”
You make a fundamental error here. Their is no deadly serious assault here, just hyperbole on your part. I suppose that does represent your identity.
Don't read it. All you need know is this bit from near the end:Ctrl-F 'hair' = 11.
Ctrl-F 'Chinaman' = 1.
Toni Morrison was ahead of the curve in World War Hair and Blacks vs Asians.Replies: @Buffalo Joe
Change, and yet when you look at the portrait of Morrison, with that gray octopuss on her head, admit it, you want to touch her hair.
Basically, Morrison was determined to be, by certain whites, to be a Writer Of The Black Experience. So kids have been forced to read her for a few decades. Also, intellectual types of a certain bent buy her books. Whether or not they actually read them is another matter.Replies: @G. Poulin, @Buffalo Joe
Red, thank you for pointing out that kids are forced to read her writing while a teacher struggles to explain why it is great.
Toni Morrison should have been happy to be born in the USA where white elites would tell their lessers that her writing was great. Fact is, illiteracy is a huge problem in this country. Tens of millions of adults can’t read and millions of HS graduates can’t read. I remember reading that 47% of adults in Detroit were functionally illiterate. So, who in fact reads Morrison? Few.
As someone from the city of the big shoulders, I demand that you take back what you said about Carl Sandburg.
Michael Jackson settled this in the 90’s . . . it don’t matter if you’re Black or White. (And he spent time as both, so he clearly knew.)
Like this guy.
But their are certain people for whom BLACK? would be an appropriate usage.
Reading black authors, a long time ago- Richard Wright, James Baldwin, … – I have noticed that they (especially Wright) frequently have an alien ethical stance. For instance, in his major novel “Native Son”, Wright vividly depicts his anti-hero Bigger Thomas as a psycho; yet, at the ending of the novel, Wright was explicit that Bigger Thomas was just a victim of a racist society.
That struck me as very strange. Evidently, the guy was a psycho (sadistic murder, almost cannibalism,..); true, he was a victim, too, but not simply an almost deterministic product of an anti-black society. Wright implies that his psychotic anti-hero would be basically a rather good fellow in a color-blind society.
I am well aware that one should not generalize too much from literature (there are tons of anti-French rubbish in English literature or anti-Polish nonsense in Russian), but black American authors seem to live in a different moral universe. And if this is so for the best among them, what can one expect from others?
Very, very few blacks are free of that racial psychopathology - Ralph Ellison, Thomas Sowell & a few others ...Replies: @Sick 'n Tired
You must not have read any of these soon to be literary classics.
Fallin’ For His Thug Passion: An African American Romance Paperback – November 19, 2020
Not to be confused with:
Thug Love: Full Series (New African American BBW Contemporary Urban Thug Hood Romance Series)
Leftists and Progressives constantly redefine terms to suit their needs. witness the recent ADL contortions on the definitions of Racism.
Conservatives and Traditionalist should do the same. White is only not worthy of capitalization , it’s not defensible at all. It’s being used as a racial slur.
How about People of Indigenous European Descent? PIED.
It’s no more ridiculous then the word games the other side plays, portraying European as Indigenous would be triggering to some idiots. It’s much more defensible the w(W)hite. It emphasizes the culture and tradition of European peoples.
I’m sure many of her ‘readers’ were grateful for her one short story. Toni Morrison sold thousands of copies of her novels but how many of those copies were actually read?
I tried to read Song of Solomon a few times but it was like Apu from the Simpsons trying to read his early American history: “Cotton Mather zzzzzzzzz…”
I don’t remember reading anything by TM but I did read The Color Purple many years ago just to see what all the fuss was about and it was terrible. Blackety blackety black. to quote The Derb.
It has been awhile but I believe Morrison/Beloved is worse. Alice Walker did not accuse her father of being a child rapist.
The #1 luxury good in post-War America, has been to live in or near a major US city–and its cultural amenities–but in a “99%” “whitetopia” community/neighborhood with no crime and “great schools”.
But now our elites have insisted that not only should blacks be free of the “disrespect” from the police, but that the rest of us must constantly gaze upon the black visage in our culture and entertainment.
Something’s a little off here. You’re one of the 1% and live in one of the elite neighborhoods in America but when you venture out for culture or entertainment you must be dosed with blackness like the rest of us? Your kids must be dosed with blackness in their studies?
One of the most pleasant things in the world is … “whiteness”. Civilized white culture. Heck even just white faces and past times. And–unpleasant, but truthful–the absence of blacks and their behavior. I’ve got to think that someone, somewhere is going to figure out a way to offer curated experiences of “whiteness” and “free-from-blackness” … for a price. What’s the point of being rich, if you can’t get nice things?
This is particularly important if e.g. you are English and think living in Germany would be fine. It won't be fine. Nor does the reverse transposition work well.Replies: @Hangnail Hans, @TTSSYF
But now our elites have insisted that not only should blacks be free of the "disrespect" from the police, but that the rest of us must constantly gaze upon the black visage in our culture and entertainment.
Something's a little off here. You're one of the 1% and live in one of the elite neighborhoods in America but when you venture out for culture or entertainment you must be dosed with blackness like the rest of us? Your kids must be dosed with blackness in their studies?
One of the most pleasant things in the world is ... "whiteness". Civilized white culture. Heck even just white faces and past times. And--unpleasant, but truthful--the absence of blacks and their behavior. I've got to think that someone, somewhere is going to figure out a way to offer curated experiences of "whiteness" and "free-from-blackness" ... for a price. What's the point of being rich, if you can't get nice things?Replies: @Alrenous
Whiteness is not a country. England is a country. Ireland is a country. Germany is a country. Rwanda is a country. Sweden is a country (more’s the pity). Zimbabwe is a country.
This is particularly important if e.g. you are English and think living in Germany would be fine. It won’t be fine. Nor does the reverse transposition work well.
“Robert Frost,Walt Whitman ….But even that stuff, bad as it was,…. ”
You’re wrong about these two. I’m no expert on either, but what I have read is very good.
Okay then, Professor Prissypants, tell us your idea of a good American poet.
“Das Kapitalization — An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Decay of Nations”
When the AP adopted it's current anti White "style" I suggested here on Unz w/ iSteve that mere capitalization was insufficient.
I then deployed the superior 'Black!' format and some have even bulked up that to 'Black!'
That's pretty much it unless you capitalize every letter. That tends to suggest ranting and shouting something. But maybe that's where we are headed.
The other colors are still seething over this. Especially 'red'. No one can spell 'indigenous' and most of them aren't any redder than anyone else. "Feather Indian" (versus "Dot Indian") is pretty clear but still no real boost for the "red man/woman." Of course using "red" or "yellow" is probably a white racist thing too.
With modern computer typography, perhaps what is now required to demean whites is to insist that the point size for the word "white" be reduced."
Modern grammar is so hard...Replies: @Hangnail Hans
Here you go….
https://www.unz.com/isteve/tom-brady-retires/#comment-5153723
This is particularly important if e.g. you are English and think living in Germany would be fine. It won't be fine. Nor does the reverse transposition work well.Replies: @Hangnail Hans, @TTSSYF
Civilized people can live in civilized societies and do just fine.
Anywhere. The problem is that both of these things are disappearing.
>"but why is civilization disappearing?"
>>passive voice
This is particularly important if e.g. you are English and think living in Germany would be fine. It won't be fine. Nor does the reverse transposition work well.Replies: @Hangnail Hans, @TTSSYF
An English person might do just fine in Germany if he/she respected the norms of German society and didn’t lecture Germans about “how it’s done back in England” or the like. (Some of my co-workers from the Northeast could do with some of the same respect here in the South. They appear to love living and working in the South but can’t always hide their disdain, if not contempt, for Southerners.)
>can’t tell the difference between Bulgarians and the Dutch
>”but why is civilization disappearing?”
>>passive voice