A young <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/deadspin-writer-torched-for-accusing-child-of-blackface-at-kansas-city-chiefs-game" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kansas City Chiefs</a> fan reacted on Wednesday to allegations by a Deadspin writer who claimed the boy wore &#8220;blackface&#8221; when he painted half his face red and the other black for last Sunday&#8217;s game against the Las Vegas Raiders.
During 9-year-old Holden Armenta&#8217;s appearance on &#8220;<a href="https://x.com/JesseBWatters/status/1730033576404468100?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jesse Watters Prime Time</a>,&#8221; the boy and his father, Bubba Armenta, spoke to the Fox News host about being in the spotlight following the racism allegations by sports writer <a href="https://deadspin.com/roger-goodell-kansas-city-chiefs-fan-black-face-native-1851048905" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Carron Phillips.</a>
&#8220;It&#8217;s been a lot. It&#8217;s been a pretty crazy couple of days,&#8221; Bubba said. &#8220;I was mad, upset for him. I&#8217;m mad that he&#8217;s upset. He&#8217;s pretty devastated. I mean, he&#8217;s seen the videos and everything posted.&#8221;
&#8220;It was his dream to get on the jumbotron,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And I&#8217;ve had family and friends call and [say], &#8216;Oh, we saw you on Sunday night football.&#8217; So, he&#8217;s excited. But then everything else came up.&#8221;
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EXCLUSIVE: The 9-year-old Chiefs fan, who was falsely smeared as a racist for supporting his team, speaks out on Primetime.
Holden Armenta says this whole thing has been scary and overwhelming. His father, Bubba, says it&#8217;s too late for an apology- the damage is already done. <a href="https://t.co/8T4WsMsvm6">pic.twitter.com/8T4WsMsvm6</a>
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) <a href="https://twitter.com/JesseBWatters/status/1730033576404468100?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
Watters then asked Holden how he was holding up.
&#8220;It&#8217;s OK because a lot of kids at school are getting excited, but it&#8217;s starting to get me a little nervous because if they go a little bit overboard, it&#8217;s a little scary,&#8221; Holden said.
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The drama began after Phillips accused Holden of finding &#8220;a way to hate Black people and the Native Americans at the same time&#8221; when the boy wore an American Indian headdress and painted half his face red and the other half black to show his support for the Chiefs.
In the Deadspin article, Phillips called out the child&#8217;s &#8220;disrespect&#8221; and only focused on one side of his face. When the writer was criticized online, he just <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/deadspin-writer-torched-for-accusing-child-of-blackface-at-kansas-city-chiefs-game" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doubled down</a> on his accusations.
The Community Notes feature on X added a disclaimer saying the writer &#8220;failed to provide full context&#8221; that the boy&#8217;s face paint was in reference to the football team.
Holden&#8217;s mom later took to Facebook and defended her son, calling out the sports blog.
&#8220;This has nothing to do with the NFL,&#8221; Shannon Armenta wrote in her post. &#8220;Also, CBS showed him multiple times and this is the photo people chose to blast to create division. He is Native American — just stop already.&#8221;
Holden is from an American Indian family, and his grandfather is on the board of the Chumash tribe in Santa Ynez, California, according to <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-the-young-kansas-city-chiefs-fan-deadspin-tried-to-cancel-over-false-black-face-and-racism-accusations-is-native-american" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Post Millennial</a>.

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‘It’s A Little Scary’: Young Chiefs Fan Reacts ‘Blackface’ Accusations After Painting Face For Game

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Pop singer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/beyonce">Beyoncé</a>’s mother Tina Knowles had some strong words for fans who criticized her daughter’s appearance.
The 42-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">performer</a> debuted white-silver hair and a shiny silver Versace gown while promoting her Renaissance World Tour concert film at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater on Saturday night. Some followers accused Beyoncé of “lightening her skin” over the years, which they claim was apparent at the event.
Tina said these accusations were baseless and shared her thoughts in a lengthy Instagram post.
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“Came across this today and decided to post it after seeing all of the stupid ignorant self, hating racist statements about her, lightening her skin, and wearing platinum hair wanting to be white,” Knowles wrote of the video montage she shared, which was accompanied by the Beyoncé song, “Brown Skin Girl.” 
She accused detractors of criticizing Beyoncé due to “hate and jealousy.” 
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Tina continued, “She does a film, called the renaissance, where the whole theme is silver with silver hair, a silver carpet, and suggested silver attire and you bozos decide that she&#8217;s trying to be a white woman and is bleaching her skin?”
“Duh, she wore silver hair to match her silver dress as a fashion statement clown… ALIEN Superstar duh!” she added, referencing one of her daughter’s newest songs.
Tina chastised the critics questioning Beyoncé’s look. “I am sick and tired of people attacking her. Every time she does something that she works her ass off for and is a statement of her work ethic, talent and resilience. Here you sad little haters come out the woodwork. Jealousy and racism, sexism, double standards, you perpetuate those things,” she said. “Instead of celebrating a sister or just ignoring if you don&#8217;t like her. I am sick of you losers.”
Beyoncé’s mom also expressed her outrage that a reporter from TMZ had the “audacity” to ask the singer’s hairdresser for a statement about the skin lightening controversy overall. “That made…my blood boil that this white woman felt so entitled to discuss her blackness,” her mom wrote in the Instagram post.

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'Sick Of You Losers' Beyonce's Mom Goes Off On Her Daughter's 'Racist' Critics

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A publisher halted sales for a tell-all book after the identity of the royal who made a &#8220;racist&#8221; comment about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/south-park-rips-harry-and-meghan-fake-privacy-tour-scores-new-fans-across-the-pond" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prince Harry</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/meghan-markle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Meghan Markle&#8217;s</a> first born was accidentally reportedly revealed in a foreign copy of Omid Scobie&#8217;s book.
Xander Publishers told the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12800721/Endgame-omid-scobie-meghan-markle-prince-harry-royal-racist.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Mail</a> on Tuesday that a request to halt sales in Holland of Scobie’s biography, &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=endgame+omid+scobie&amp;hvadid=646881366906&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvlocphy=9031857&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvqmt=e&amp;hvrand=14355421833746168803&amp;hvtargid=kwd-1943763126403&amp;hydadcr=22098_13323293&amp;tag=googhydr-20&amp;ref=pd_sl_25609aq0v9_e" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy&#8217;s Fight for Survival,</a>&#8221; had been approved after the identity of the royal who had &#8220;concerns&#8221; about Archie&#8217;s skin color had gotten through an editing process.
&#8220;I can&#8217;t talk about the details,&#8221; a spokesperson for the publishing house told the outlet. &#8220;We have, however, received a request to put the title on hold, and that is what we have done. We are awaiting further instructions. I do not know how long this will be.&#8221;
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Identity of ‘racist’ royal accidentally revealed in Dutch edition of bombshell book, sales abruptly halted <a href="https://t.co/5bYNy4t0LB">https://t.co/5bYNy4t0LB</a> <a href="https://t.co/cFiDDcBa60">pic.twitter.com/cFiDDcBa60</a>
— Page Six (@PageSix) <a href="https://twitter.com/PageSix/status/1729604038700806537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
In the final edition, Scobie doesn&#8217;t name the royal due to libel laws. However, an earlier copy sent to Dutch journalists did reportedly appear to reveal the person&#8217;s identity in the translation, according to the Daily Mail, who chose to redact it.
It is reportedly in a section of the book referencing letters written between King Charles III and Markle about the alleged conversation, &#8220;But in those private letters [the identity] was confirmed: ….&#8221; it read.
In the 2021 Oprah Winfrey tell-all interview, the Duchess of Sussex claimed there had been &#8220;several&#8221; conversations &#8220;about how dark his [Archie&#8217;s] skin might be when he&#8217;s born,&#8221; as previously reported.
&#8220;Potentially and what that would mean or look like,&#8221; Markle added.
Harry confirmed the alleged incident to Oprah, saying, &#8220;That conversation I&#8217;m never going to share. But at the time, it was awkward, I was a bit shocked. I&#8217;m not comfortable sharing it.&#8221;
In 2018, Markle and Harry tied the knot in a royal celebration at St. George&#8217;s Chapel in Windsor Castle.  Two years later, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex stepped down from their royal roles, and eventually ended up leaving the United Kingdom, moving to Southern California where they raise their two children.
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A writer for the sports blog Deadspin was skewered online after doubling down on his accusation that a child wore &#8220;blackface&#8221; to a Kansas City Chiefs game.
The small boy wore an American Indian headdress and painted half his face red and the other half black at Sunday&#8217;s game against the Las Vegas Raiders in Nevada.
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Of course. Also, though it is sometimes offensive, there&#39;s nothing inherently wrong with &quot;blackface.&quot; (Just ask Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Billy Crystal, Robert Downey Jr., Sarah Silverman, Dan Aykroyd, John Slattery, et al.!) <a href="https://t.co/ALZr3xiMGm">https://t.co/ALZr3xiMGm</a>
&mdash; Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1729321050821832880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Bruh. This kid is like 12. I know you idiots are obsessed with calling everyone racist but perhaps he was just honoring his favorite team?? <a href="https://t.co/ol8GRCkHa6">https://t.co/ol8GRCkHa6</a> <a href="https://t.co/jETWc4Pcm6">pic.twitter.com/jETWc4Pcm6</a>
&mdash; Olivia Rondeau 🇺🇸 (@rondeaulivia) <a href="https://twitter.com/rondeaulivia/status/1729303646708359380?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Deadspin senior writer Carron Phillips spotted the child and penned an article on Monday calling on the NFL to &#8220;speak out against&#8221; the young fan.
&#8220;It takes a lot to disrespect two groups of people at once. But on Sunday afternoon in Las Vegas, a Kansas City Chiefs fan found a way to hate Black people and the Native Americans at the same time,&#8221; Phillips <a href="https://deadspin.com/roger-goodell-kansas-city-chiefs-fan-black-face-native-1851048905" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
Phillips also threw a barb at the NFL, saying the league has &#8220;relentlessly participated in prejudice&#8221; and should have already changed the Chiefs&#8217; name.
&#8220;This is what happens when you ban books, stand against Critical Race Theory, and try to erase centuries of hate,&#8221; Phillips wrote.
Later in the day on Monday, Phillips doubled down on his accusation.
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&#8220;For the idiots in my mentions who are treating this as some harmless act because the other side of his face was painted red, I could make the argument that it makes it even worse. Y’all are the ones who hate Mexicans but wear sombreros on Cinco,&#8221; Phillips wrote in an X post.
Phillips was immediately pummeled in the replies to his post, which garnered thousands of responses. The Community Notes feature on X also added a note saying the writer &#8220;failed to provide full context&#8221; that the boy&#8217;s face paint is a reference to the football team.
The Daily Wire&#8217;s Michael Knowles <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1729321050821832880" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commented</a> that &#8220;though it is sometimes offensive, there&#8217;s nothing inherently wrong with &#8216;blackface,'&#8221; citing the many Hollywood performers who have performed in blackface over the years, including Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Robert Downey Jr., and Billy Crystal.&#8221;
&#8220;Deadspin writer here is trying to ruin the life of a child while insisting he’s actually the good guy in this situation,&#8221; one X user <a href="https://twitter.com/jameslynch32/status/1729283036007596279" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
&#8220;This race-hustling loser is tripling-down on attacking a young kid as &#8216;Racist!&#8217; for wearing Kansas City Chiefs face-paint,&#8221; another X user <a href="https://twitter.com/mrddmia/status/1729385180517769351" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve spent decades paying some of the dumbest and most sensitive people alive to produce absolute drivel like this,&#8221; posted Wilfred Reilly, a political science professor at Kentucky State University.
The Daily Signal reporter Tony Kinnett wrote, &#8220;as a federally-registered member of the Cherokee Nation, I give any and all of you full permission to wear headdresses and tribal clothing. Paint your face red. Do a rain dance (then repent and seek Jesus). Also bring back the Cleveland Indians.&#8221;

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One of the many remarkable things about activists who want to remake society, and invert every hierarchy that civilization has ever had in the name of &#8220;equity,&#8221; is how aggressive and totally unflinching they are. They don&#8217;t ask permission, they just do it. And they do it in such great numbers, in so many different areas, that it&#8217;s impossible to even keep track of them. Even if you object to their project, as most people do, there&#8217;s no way to keep yourself fully informed about what&#8217;s happening, simply because of the scale of the whole operation.
Here&#8217;s a recap, which is nowhere near exhaustive. In just the last couple of months, we&#8217;ve <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2023/06/22/lapd-officers-claim-dept-is-lowering-standards-for-diversity-numbers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">learned</a> that the LAPD is relaxing its standards for new officers in order to recruit fewer white males. 
We&#8217;ve heard that the San Francisco school board will <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/san-francisco-considers-lowering-admission-standards-prestigious-schools-improve-student-outcomes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lower</a> entrance requirements, and that the Regents Exam in New York will soon be optional for high school graduates. (As the New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/13/nyregion/regents-exams-new-york.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">put it</a>, &#8220;The test had once been seen as a hallmark of academic rigor, but high-stakes graduation tests have fallen out of favor nationally.&#8221;) 
We&#8217;ve also been informed that the law school admission test, the LSAT, will <a href="https://dailynous.com/2023/10/23/lsat-drops-logic-games-section/#:~:text=The%20elimination%20of%20logic%20games,that%20portion%20of%20the%20test." target="_blank" rel="noopener">drop</a> its challenging &#8220;logic games&#8221; section, supposedly to help blind applicants. 
Meanwhile, some medical schools — like U.C. Davis — have started <a href="https://x.com/nytimes/status/1675510893860335616?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ranking</a> applicants not based on merit, but on the supposed &#8220;hardships&#8221; they&#8217;ve faced. Pretty much everywhere you look — whether it&#8217;s <a href="https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-launches-be-atc-campaign-recruit-next-diverse-generation-air-traffic-controllers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">air traffic control</a>, or <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/united-sets-new-diversity-goal-50-of-students-at-new-pilot-training-academy-to-be-women-and-people-of-color-301262479.html#:~:text=United%20Aviate%20Academy%20expects%20to,said%20United%20CEO%20Scott%20Kirby." target="_blank" rel="noopener">airline piloting</a>, or Silicon Valley, or even the National Association of <a href="https://www.aza.org/connect-stories/stories/importance-of-diversity-equity-access-inclusion-zoos-aquariums?locale=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zoos and Aquariums</a> — standards are dropping in order to increase &#8220;diversity,&#8221; meaning to make everything less white, less male, and less Asian.
So you might think, with all that in mind, that it&#8217;d be impossible to be shocked anymore by any industry that decides to lower its standards in the name of diversity. After all, if everyone&#8217;s doing it, how surprising can any of these initiatives really be? 
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That&#8217;s what I thought, until a couple of days ago, when I learned about a new plan to &#8220;diversify&#8221; what is, frankly, one of the least rigorous and least demanding professional fields of all. This is a field that I genuinely didn&#8217;t think could possibly lower its standards, given how low they already are. 
Here&#8217;s NBC News Washington to explain:
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They&#8217;re now lowering the standards for social workers because not enough people with “darker skin” are passing the test, apparently. It&#8217;s important to stop the clip there for a second to underscore how insane this segment is, already. This black woman, Sarah, is saying that she desperately needed to find a black therapist for treatment because she needed a therapist with the same &#8220;views&#8221; that she has. And for that reason, she couldn&#8217;t tolerate having a white therapist, or a Hispanic therapist, or an Asian therapist. NBC News never challenges this reasoning, or the implications of it. 
So let&#8217;s consider those implications. The first assumption, of course, is that you can only benefit from having a therapist who sees the world exactly like you do. That&#8217;s just a given in this segment because indeed, the vast majority of &#8220;therapy&#8221; is really just paying someone to agree with you. That&#8217;s all it is. There&#8217;s no science behind it. Patients self-select doctors who tell them what they want to hear, and doctors know that. In fact they have a word for this, it’s called “affirmative care.” That&#8217;s why the doctors tell children they&#8217;re &#8220;transgender,&#8221; or have &#8220;ADHD.&#8221; Their job is not to offer pushback or conduct any kind of independent diagnosis of symptoms. If they tried anything like that, they&#8217;d probably get fired for transphobia on the spot. This is how therapy and counseling works these days. But it’s not how it’s supposed to work. 
In theory, the person counseling you should be someone who quite specifically does not see the world the way you do. The whole reason you are in counseling is that there is a problem with the way you see yourself and the world. You want — or should want — someone from the outside, someone who sees it differently, to offer guidance. 
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But the more interesting part of that clip is how Sarah asserts that the only way to find a therapist who thinks the way she does, is to get a therapist with the same skin color. The term &#8220;racism&#8221; gets thrown around a lot, so I won&#8217;t use that term. A better (or at least mildly more creative) term for this is &#8220;race essentialism.&#8221; At its most extreme, race essentialism is the belief that your race determines your abilities, your personality, and all of your other characteristics. 
This is a perspective that, if it&#8217;s endorsed by a white person, will result in Merrick Garland sending a SWAT team to that person&#8217;s door at 6 AM. That person will be branded a domestic terrorist and banned from school board meetings. But if a black person endorses race essentialism, live on NBC News, then nothing will happen. In fact, NBC News will endorse what she&#8217;s saying.
But let&#8217;s continue with the clip, so we can get to the argument from these activists — these racists, these race essentialists, whatever you want to call them — for why the social worker exam needs to change. Watch:
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Let&#8217;s go over those statistics one more time. Between 2018 and 2021, roughly 76% of whites passed the bachelor&#8217;s level test the first time. Sixty percent of Asians passed, followed by 53% of Hispanics and 33% of blacks.  
For the most part, those rankings mirror the normal <a href="https://www.bestcolleges.com/research/average-sat-score-full-statistics/">distribution of SAT scores</a>, with one very notable exception. This social worker exam is one of the few tests you&#8217;ll find in which Asian test takers perform so poorly, relative to the overall pool. Normally, as with SATs, Asians are in the lead. But in this case, they&#8217;re in a distant second place.
There could be a number of reasons for that. Most likely, all the talented Asian test takers are busy with the MCAT or the LSAT or the GRE or some other test, which can get you a better job than being a social worker. But in any event, the point is that no one at NBC News even pretends to care about the relatively poor Asian performance on this test. Instead, they&#8217;re laser-focused on the low number of black students who pass. That&#8217;s really their only focus. 
For my part, I will admit that I take some pride in the fact that white people are beating Asians in at least one category. We have to take our wins where we can get them. 
Now, we’re led to believe that the 33%pass rate among black test takers is de facto evidence that the test is the problem. Somehow, these tests are racist. But how? I decided to look into this test by going on YouTube and checking out some study sessions, to see if I could identify any racist social worker questions. I was looking for dog whistles, microaggressions, slut shaming — everything you can think of. I didn&#8217;t find any of that. Instead, as I predicted, I was bored to tears. 
I won&#8217;t subject you to all of it, small sample will suffice:
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Spoiler alert: the answer to that particular question is &#8220;regression.&#8221; The video goes on like that for an hour. Incidentally, the training session you just saw was run by a black woman. At no point does she say the test is invalid because it&#8217;s racist, nor is there any way a reasonable person would find the test to be racist. All of the questions are like this one. They&#8217;re anodyne to the point of inducing death by boredom.
After looking into the questions that social workers are asked, I have to admit, I didn&#8217;t detect any racism. But maybe that&#8217;s just because I have a very untrained eye. NBC News, as you saw, quotes an expert, a college professor named Michael Massey, who tells us that the test isn&#8217;t capturing cultural nuances, and is making the profession less diverse: “We have great social workers of color who came to social work schools to serve their communities, and they&#8217;re not being allowed to do it despite rigorous preparation at school,” he says.
Of course, it&#8217;s not clear why &#8220;preparation in school&#8221; should matter more than a standardized test, especially in a field like social work, where there&#8217;s a glut of for-profit diploma mills that specifically advertise to black and Hispanic populations. At major institutions, like Tulane&#8217;s School of Social Work, the <a href="https://tssw.tulane.edu/about/aswb-licensure-pass-rates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pass rates</a> are much higher, for every demographic group. But putting that aside for a second, the implication is that the test is somehow flawed. But nowhere in this NBC report does anyone — including Michael Massey — explain specifically what&#8217;s wrong with the test.
Let&#8217;s take stock of where we are. On the basis of no evidence whatsoever activists and elected officials in D.C. are now trying to pass a law eliminating the testing requirement for social workers — entirely. Watch:
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It&#8217;s a pretty funny clip. This woman, with the &#8220;Consortium for Child Welfare,&#8221; has to tell the reporter that the whole purpose of licensing requirements — whether it&#8217;s in medicine, or law, or any other profession — is to ensure that you have competent people in the profession. That&#8217;s how you protect the public and maintain standards. You don&#8217;t admit everyone, and then when an incompetent person gets someone killed, decide to start culling the herd. 
But now the script is completely flipped. We&#8217;re deliberately hiring morons in every conceivable profession. This is a terrible idea regardless of the profession, of course, but in the field of social work, it&#8217;s particularly ironic. The Left is lowering the bar for social workers after they spent the last few years insisting that social workers should replace law enforcement in a wide array of situations. So they are trying to expand the power and scope of social work while at the same time lowering the standards.
The only good news here, if you can call it that, is that for the most part, social workers are functionally useless anyway. Therefore, it&#8217;s not clear what the practical implications of lowering the bar will be, given how low it is already. But as a symbol for a much larger problem — for the regression we&#8217;re seeing in virtually every major industry — what&#8217;s happening in the field of social work is actually notable. What they&#8217;re doing makes it very clear that they&#8217;re trying to remake all of society, from the most important and demanding professions, to the jobs that are neither important nor demanding. Yesterday it was the police, today it&#8217;s social workers, tomorrow it will be dog walkers. They will not stop until they have eliminated the legitimacy of every conceivable job in this country.
Well, maybe that&#8217;s not true. The Left won&#8217;t implement any kind of &#8220;diversity initiative&#8221; for the NBA or the NFL or any other major sports league, because their preferred demographics are already dominant there. But in every other field, this is what they&#8217;re planning. This is an effort to reduce standards across the board, to the point that they&#8217;re nonexistent. If even social workers don&#8217;t have to endure the indignity of taking a simple, straightforward test, then that proves they truly can eliminate the standards for everything else. We can either have a functioning society, or we can allow them to succeed.
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More than a hundred <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/animals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bird</a> species are about to be renamed because their monikers have been deemed &#8220;offensive&#8221; and &#8220;exclusionary&#8221; by some due to their connection to the &#8220;racist&#8221; pasts of the people who the birds were named after.
The American Ornithological Society, an organization responsible for standardizing English bird names across the Americas, <a href="https://americanornithology.org/about/english-bird-names-project/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> on Wednesday that dozens of birds in U.S. and Canada will be renamed because birds who were named in honor of people can be upsetting to some, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/01/science/birds-ornithology-names-audubon.html#:~:text=The%20American%20Ornithological%20Society%20has,honor%20figures%20with%20racist%20pasts." target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a> reported.
&#8220;There is power in a name, and some English bird names have associations with the past that continue to be exclusionary and harmful today,&#8221; Colleen Handel, the society&#8217;s president and a research wildlife biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Alaska, said.
&#8220;We need a much more inclusive and engaging scientific process that focuses attention on the unique features and beauty of the birds themselves,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Everyone who loves and cares about birds should be able to enjoy and study them freely—and birds need our help now more than ever.&#8221;
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&#8220;We&#8217;ve come to understand that there are certain names that have offensive or derogatory connotations that cause pain to people, and that it is important to change those, to remove those as barriers to their participation in the world of birds,&#8221; she continued, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/11/01/1209660753/these-american-birds-and-dozens-more-will-be-renamed-to-remove-human-monikers#:~:text=Flickr%20Creative%20Commons-,The%20Steller's%20jay%2C%20Cooper's%20hawk%2C%20and%20Wilson's%20warbler%20will%20all,from%20U.S.%20and%20Canadian%20birds.&amp;text=Get%20ready%20to%20say%20goodbye,%2C%20Bullock's%20Oriole%2C%20and%20more." target="_blank" rel="noopener">NPR</a> noted.
Some of the birds who will be affected include such fine-feathered creatures as Gambel&#8217;s Quail, Lewis&#8217; Woodpecker, Anna&#8217;s Hummingbird, Bullock&#8217;s Oriole, Bewick&#8217;s Wren, and many more, NPR noted.
The Audubon&#8217;s shearwater, who was named after the famous bird illustrator John James Audubon, will be among those renamed because Audobon was a slave owner who adamantly opposed abolition, the Times noted.
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The Scott&#8217;s oriole will also get a new name because it was named after U.S. Civil War General Winfield Scott. Scott led a force of thousands who removed the Cherokee Indians from their land, as part of the Trail of Tears, <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/grant-scott/#:~:text=In%201838%2C%20Scott%20led%20a,many%20of%20their%20possessions%20stolen." target="_blank" rel="noopener">PBS</a> noted.
The move to change the birds&#8217; names comes from birders who were upset about the connection to historical figures. In 2020, following the death of George Floyd, the organization received a petition from the Bird Names For Bird&#8217;s group, which <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/01/science/birds-ornithology-names-audubon.html#:~:text=The%20American%20Ornithological%20Society%20has,honor%20figures%20with%20racist%20pasts." target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed out</a> that the names were &#8220;isolating and demeaning reminders of oppression, slavery and genocide.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;re really doing this to address some historic wrongs,&#8221; Judith Scarl, the executive director of the American Ornithological Society, said, adding that the change &#8220;will engage even more people in enjoying and protecting and studying birds.&#8221;
The renaming of the birds is expected to begin next year, starting with 10 birds and eventually working to 70 to 80 bird species. The new birds&#8217; names will based on their habitats or distinct features, NPR noted.

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Republican senator and presidential candidate Tim Scott says the racist ads attacking Kentucky Republican Daniel Cameron as an &#8220;Uncle Tom&#8221; are the &#8220;epitome of racism,&#8221; and says the silence of his Democrat opponent Andy Beshear is &#8220;despicable.&#8221;
The ads from a liberal Super PAC funded by billionaire George Soros call into question whether Cameron, the first black attorney general in Kentucky history, is truly a friend of the black community. The ad from Black Voters Matters PAC refers to Cameron as “Uncle Daniel Cameron,” and uses the saying, “Skinfolk ain’t kinfolk” — a refrain used by black liberals to suggest that anyone who disagrees with them politically is a race traitor.
Scott, who in 2014 became the first black senator elected in the south since reconstruction, said Beshear, Kentucky&#8217;s sitting governor, has a duty to stand up to the overt racism in his state.
&#8220;Why in the world would the governor of a state with the type of diversity he has, with the mantle the people have given him,  remain silent?&#8221; Scott said in an interview with The Daily Wire. &#8220;For one reason: Power. Unless it&#8217;s that he just authentically believes it all.&#8221;
&#8220;The simplest way to state what these yoyos are doing is race-baiting, and feeding the fire for the purpose of power,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;They feel like they can do whatever it takes to divide the state of Kentucky, to fan the flames of racism, to be small and to be so addicted to power that you will call that man, Uncle Tom.&#8221;
Beshear has declined to comment on the ad, telling the Lexington Herald-Leader that because the ad came from &#8220;an African American-led PAC,&#8221; the governor has opted to &#8220;let them comment for themselves.&#8221;
The PAC has doubled-down on the attack, putting up a new ad using the same &#8220;Skinfolk ain&#8217;t Kinfolk&#8221; refrain along with an image of Cameron as the fictional black character played by Samuel L. Jackson in film Django Unchained — the character was vicious to his fellow slaves, and was described by Jackson as the film&#8217;s &#8220;hateful negro.&#8221;
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Scott says Beshear&#8217;s failure to condemn the ad sends the wrong message to black youth.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a signal to every little kid growing up in Kentucky who happens to be brown, that if you stick your head up at all and espouse conservative virtues, you might be next. To think of the signal and the message that they&#8217;re sending, it&#8217;s just despicable,&#8221; Scott said, adding that those who are silent about it are &#8220;complicit.&#8221;
Cliff Albright, the co-founder of Black Voters Matter Action PAC, told radio host Roland Martin that he had no regrets about the ad, and that Cameron is a white supremacist.
&#8220;He has shown himself to be just as much of a threat to the black community as the staunchest white supremacists,&#8221; Albright said. &#8220;You don&#8217;t have to be white to pursue and reinforce white supremacist policies. As we said in the ad, all skinfolk ain&#8217;t kinfolk.&#8221;
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Albright also said that calling Cameron an Uncle Tom, a slur derived from Harriet Beecher Stowe&#8217;s Uncle Tom&#8217;s Cabin novel, would be an insult to Uncle Tom.
&#8220;Technically, we didn&#8217;t call him Uncle Tom right? To do so actually would probably be more of an insult to the actual Uncle Tom,&#8221; Albright said.
Cameron has condemned the ad as &#8220;racist and hateful.&#8221;
“I never faced racism or discrimination while growing up or working in Kentucky until I decided to stand up to the national Democrat establishment.” Cameron told The Daily Wire, which was first to report on the ad. “I don’t support their policies, so the Left attacks me for my skin color.”
Beshear has not responded to requests for comment.

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‘Epitome Of Racism’: Tim Scott Blasts ‘Despicable’ Racist Attack On Kentucky’s Daniel Cameron

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Let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re a 25-year-old adult male living in Compton, California, and you flip burgers for a living. Then one day, after a fight with your parents or your siblings, you decide you&#8217;ve had enough of the day-to-day. You get high and no-show at work. You go on a road trip with your friends to Las Vegas for a long weekend. It&#8217;s all very fun and irresponsible behavior, and as it happens, it&#8217;s not exactly unheard of in places like Compton.
Then let&#8217;s say your boss at the burger shop notices you didn&#8217;t show up for work. And he reports you missing. Following company protocol, he calls the police, and tells them that you&#8217;re AWOL. He says he has no idea why this is happening, or what&#8217;s going on. 
How should law enforcement respond in that situation? 
Starting next summer, in the biggest state in the country, the answer to that question will depend on one thing: your skin color. If you&#8217;re black, the cops will respond to your boss&#8217; call by buzzing every cell phone in the state, telling millions of people to be on the lookout for you. State authorities will plaster your name and description all over billboards on the interstate. They&#8217;ll even put you on television, in the ticker at the bottom of all the college football games. That&#8217;s if you&#8217;re black, to be clear. If you happen to be white, on the other hand, well, it’s a different story. If you&#8217;re white, the authorities will do precisely none of that. Instead, they&#8217;ll hang up the phone and tell the burger guy he&#8217;s wasting their time.
If that sounds far-fetched, you should know that it&#8217;s not. It is, in fact, what&#8217;s coming very soon in the state of California. It&#8217;s the result of a new law that was just signed by California&#8217;s governor and future presidential candidate, Gavin Newsom. Under this law, if black people age 25 and under go missing for any reason, then law enforcement has the authority to issue something called — and I’m not making this name up — an &#8220;Ebony alert.&#8221; This is kind of like an Amber alert, but in several key respects, it&#8217;s very different. Watch:
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There&#8217;s a lot going on here, starting with the fact that California already has something called &#8220;Feather alerts&#8221; for Indians. And now they&#8217;re adding &#8220;Ebony alerts&#8221; to the mix, because naturally, when you think of black people, you think of the word &#8220;ebony,&#8221; just like feathers come to mind when you&#8217;re talking about native Americans. I suppose there are more stereotypical and insulting names they could have come up with. But these are still pretty bad.
For the record, I had to double-check that news clip to make sure it wasn&#8217;t satire. But it&#8217;s real. They really have &#8220;Feather alerts&#8221; out west. People in California will be sleeping, or watching a football game, or drinking some zesty craft beer, and then they&#8217;ll get a &#8220;Feather alert&#8221; on their phones. And they&#8217;re expected to drop everything they&#8217;re doing and scramble to find some missing &#8220;indigenous person&#8221; once they see a Feather alert pop up. That&#8217;s a real thing that happens in California, at least since last year, when &#8220;Feather alerts&#8221; were implemented.
This, however, didn&#8217;t strike anyone in California as being completely and totally absurd. We can speculate as to why that might be. Maybe a lot of Berkeley grads honestly believe that white supremacist cowboys are still out there, tormenting the indigenous peoples at every turn. Whatever the case, they do indeed have &#8220;Feather alerts&#8221; in California, and they&#8217;re not joking about it. This is serious business.
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Given that simple, if incredible fact, you have to wonder why California authorities haven&#8217;t deployed a whole assortment of other stereotypical alerts for every conceivable ethnicity under the sun. They have an alert that&#8217;s tailor-made for Indians, but why stop there? The possibilities are endless. They could have a &#8220;General Tso&#8217;s alert&#8221; for missing Asians, for example. They could implement a &#8220;Sombrero alert&#8221; for Hispanics, or a &#8220;Leprechaun alert&#8221; for missing Irish Americans. Of course the Left doesn&#8217;t care about two of those three groups, so this probably wouldn&#8217;t happen. But given that they&#8217;re now embracing every stereotype imaginable, in their quest to be &#8220;anti-racist,&#8221; it&#8217;s not hard to picture something like this down the line.
On second thought, by the way, I think “Kung Pao” alert has a better ring to it. And if they don’t implement this for missing Asian people, then at least this would be a good system to put in place for when the Uber Eats driver doesn’t show up with your Chinese food order. 
At the same time, if you paid close attention to that news clip, you probably have more pressing concerns. For example, you might wonder why black people need a separate system of emergency alerts at all. For one thing, Amber alerts don&#8217;t do much, no matter what your skin color might be. As a recent USA Today <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2023/02/23/amber-alert-missing-children-usa-today-data-analysis-finds-kids-rarely-helped/11089397002/">analysis</a> found, &#8220;Amber Alerts are extremely rare and, even when they are used, it’s unclear how much they help bring children home safely.&#8221;
On top of that, the data we have suggests that the Amber alert system isn&#8217;t discriminating against anyone. According to that same analysis, &#8220;From 2017 through the end of 2021, Black children made up 37% of missing-child reports and nearly 37% of Amber Alerts &#8230; indicating the alerts are issued proportionately.&#8221;
So what&#8217;s the problem exactly? What conceivable reason could there be to implement yet another iteration of a useless system that clearly isn&#8217;t discriminatory in any way? Here&#8217;s an NAACP flack and California state Senator Steven Bradford to explain:
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First of all, note how they frame this. They say these Ebony alerts are for &#8220;Black youth and young black women.&#8221; But these new Ebony alerts in California, by law, will also sound for 25-year-old black males. Let&#8217;s just be clear about that.
Moving on — what they&#8217;re saying is that a lot of black people who vanish aren&#8217;t being counted as &#8220;missing persons&#8221; and therefore aren&#8217;t eligible for Amber alerts. And they&#8217;re saying that&#8217;s racist. To understand their argument, you need to know that, in order for authorities to issue an Amber Alert, by law, authorities need some evidence that a child was abducted, or disappeared for some reason against their will. If there&#8217;s no evidence of that, then that child is not classified as &#8220;missing.&#8221; They&#8217;re classified, instead, as &#8220;runaways.&#8221;
What the proponents of Ebony alerts are saying is that the police are deliberately misclassifying black people as &#8220;runaways&#8221; just to cook the missing persons data, because of course, the police are racist. In fact, that&#8217;s exactly what California legislators state in the text of their legislation on Ebony alerts. We don&#8217;t have to guess about this. Here&#8217;s what California lawmakers put in the bill:
<blockquote>Being identified as a runaway can also be a legal loophole for law enforcement, because when a child is listed as a runaway, the police are allowed to delay response and investigation time. In cases where the child is mislabeled as a runaway, this delay is crucial time that could be spent locating a child in danger.</blockquote>
So, they&#8217;re just coming out and saying that the police are lying about the large number of black runaways. The cops are taking advantage of a &#8220;loophole&#8221; in the law, so that black youth can be abducted without any investigation. That&#8217;s the claim, which is spelled out in legislation from the California State Assembly. They can&#8217;t think of another conceivable explanation for why a lot of black people might be unaccounted for. Their theory is that all these young black people are being abducted, and all the racist cops have decided to conspire to hide that fact. They know that all these missing black people definitely can&#8217;t have anything to do with the fact that 70% of black children are born to unmarried mothers. They also know it can&#8217;t possibly be related to the fact that more than 64% of black children grow up in single-parent homes. None of that is relevant, in their view.
Instead, California&#8217;s legislature is convinced that the problem is racist cops, who have apparently decided, in unison, not to investigate missing persons cases involving black people. And the California government&#8217;s solution to that invented problem is to implement the same solution that South Africa implemented long ago, which is race-based policing, where people with preferred skin colors are entitled to a police response, while people of disfavored skin colors are ignored. They&#8217;re codifying this into law.
Here&#8217;s the key part of this new Ebony alert legislation in California:
<blockquote>A law enforcement agency may request that an Ebony Alert be activated if that agency determines that an Ebony Alert would be an effective tool in the investigation of missing Black youth, including a young woman or girl.</blockquote>
That&#8217;s it. That&#8217;s all that&#8217;s necessary. There&#8217;s no requirement that authorities suspect an abduction, or some kind of kidnapping. That&#8217;s the standard for issuing a statewide alert for non-black people when they go missing, under the Amber alert system. The text of this new legislation in California admits that. Here&#8217;s what it says: 
<blockquote>The Amber Alert system must fulfill strict criteria for the message to be broadcast. If these criteria are not met, an AMBER Alert cannot be issued, and the child is labeled as a runaway.</blockquote>
But the Ebony alert system does not have to obey any such restrictions. It&#8217;s enough, according to this new legislation, for authorities to determine that an Ebony alert would be an &#8220;effective tool&#8221; for finding a young black person who&#8217;s missing. There are no other standards outlined in the law. There&#8217;s just a bunch of suggestions. The bill goes on to state, for example, that if a black youth disappears under &#8220;unexplained&#8221; circumstances, then that could be sufficient to trigger the statewide alert. By contrast, non-black victims essentially have to show they&#8217;ve been kidnapped.
Let&#8217;s take stock of what&#8217;s happening here. The state of California is taking a system that doesn&#8217;t appear to work, which is the Amber alert system, and they &#8216;re duplicating it — only this time, they&#8217;re baking in a policy of explicit racial segregation. It&#8217;s not even clear how this will work, by the way. Let&#8217;s say a 17-year-old black teenager goes missing. Does that teenager get an Amber alert, in addition to an Ebony alert? And for that matter, what happens if an elderly native American disappears? Do they get a Feather alert, along with a Silver alert? Is there some way to combine all these categories, and have an Ebony Silver Feather alert? All it would take is a black guy who identifies as a native American, and we can do it. We can achieve the singularity. The possibilities are truly endless.
Or maybe, in that scenario, the 17-year-old black teenager wouldn&#8217;t get an Amber alert. Maybe he&#8217;d just get an Ebony alert. In that case, California will have established a truly segregated emergency alert system, with a separate alert for whites and blacks. At that point they might as well go all the way, and change &#8220;Amber alert&#8221; to &#8220;Ivory alert.&#8221;
Of course, either scenario is insane and counterproductive. It defies logic, really. Think about it. If you&#8217;re really worried about racist cops and MAGA Republicans who supposedly aren&#8217;t trying to find missing black people, why would your solution be to categorize all future missing persons alerts by race? Now the racist cops and MAGA Republicans can simply ignore the alerts for whatever race they don&#8217;t like. You&#8217;re making it easier for them.
Again, we can mock this all day. But all of these contradictions and inconsistencies aren&#8217;t simply the inevitable result of top-down, state-driven social engineering. They&#8217;re also the inevitable result of the worldview of California politicians, and liberals more generally, who refuse to recognize reality even when it hits them in the face. The truth is that a lot of young black people do run away from their homes. They do it voluntarily. And the reason they do it is that, when they were young, their fathers may have run away from them. That is a tragedy that repeats itself, generation after generation. It&#8217;s one of the reasons every urban center in this country is getting more dangerous every year.
But predictably, instead of doing something about that problem — instead of addressing the crisis of single-parent homes in the state of California — Democrats have once again decided to blame their political opponents. They&#8217;re saying the cops are responsible. They&#8217;re claiming MAGA Republicans are behind it. That&#8217;s the explanation they&#8217;ve settled on.
As a result, a lot of Californians are about to wake up at 3:00 am to random, blaring alerts on their cell phones, along with all the earthquake notifications and the push alerts about newly deposited poop on the sidewalk. Of course, many Californians will decide to opt out of these alerts indefinitely, because they&#8217;re too constant and too annoying. A lot of police resources will be wasted pursuing &#8220;runaways&#8221; who left home voluntarily. And in the end, black people will continue to disappear. 
Unless something extraordinary occurs, this cycle will continue — unburdened, as Kamala Harris might say, by what has been. For California liberals like Gavin Newsom, that&#8217;s good enough. For everyone else — and especially for every non-Ebony person who goes missing in the state of California — this sends a very clear message. It is an explicit betrayal of the race-neutral system of laws that this country has upheld for generations.
This new law in California needs to be struck down, as quickly as possible. It must be condemned by every Republican politician and conservative power center in this country. If that doesn&#8217;t happen — if your race can somehow dictate how you&#8217;re treated by the police — then nothing else matters, really. All of the debates about Ukraine and the debt ceiling and the speaker of the House pale in comparison. When they come for you, whatever the charge may be, you will be judged on the basis of characteristics you cannot control. If you&#8217;re not &#8220;indigenous&#8221; or a &#8220;person of color,&#8221; then no cell phone alert will sound when you disappear. There will be no signs on the highway telling motorists to be on the lookout for someone matching your description. You will be isolated and demonized and condemned. You will be classified as a &#8220;runaway&#8221; and forgotten immediately. That&#8217;s a depressing realization, in some respects. It may seem demoralizing. But in reality, it&#8217;s clarifying. It tells you something important.
It communicates, loud and clear, the intent of the people who hate you more than anything else in the world. It tells you that everything they pretend is an injustice is, in reality, a punishment that they desperately want to inflict on you.
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California Passes An ‘Anti-Racist’ Law So Insane That It Seems Like A Joke

California Passes An 'Anti-Racist' Law So Insane That It Seems Like A Joke

Amber Alert

California

Law Enforcement

State Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/letitia-james" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Letitia James</a> (D-NY) fired back at former President Donald Trump on Wednesday, claiming that Trump&#8217;s complaints — about the ongoing fraud trial against him — amounted to &#8220;race-baiting.&#8221;
James, who ran her campaign on a promise to &#8220;get Trump,&#8221; told reporters that Trump&#8217;s loud and frequent objections to the Manhattan Supreme Court Trial — which he has referred to as, among other things, a &#8220;witch hunt&#8221; — were &#8220;offensive&#8221; and &#8220;baseless&#8221; as well.
WATCH:
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/NewYorkStateAG?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NewYorkStateAG</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TishJames?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TishJames</a>: &quot;Trump’s comments [criticizing N.Y.&#39;s fraud case] were offensive, they were baseless. They were void of any facts and/or any evidence. What they were were comments that unfortunately fomented violence, comments that I would describe as race-baiting&quot; <a href="https://t.co/4zVd2QYxrT">pic.twitter.com/4zVd2QYxrT</a>
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&#8220;Trump’s comments [criticizing N.Y.&#8217;s fraud case] were offensive, they were baseless,&#8221; she complained. &#8220;They were void of any facts and/or any evidence. What they were, were comments that unfortunately fomented violence, comments that I would describe as race-baiting, and comments that unfortunately appeals to the bottom of our humanity.&#8221;
James went on to defend her reasons from bringing the case in the first place, saying that it was about the alleged fraud and nothing more.
&#8220;I will not sit idly by and allow anyone to subvert the law,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;And lastly, I will not be bullied. So Mr. Trump is no longer here, the Donald Trump show is over. This was nothing more than a political stunt.&#8221;
Trump, who is standing trial while still holding his position at the head of the pack in the 2024 Republican primary, has lashed out at a number of people associated with his trial — James included.
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Since the first day of the trial, the former president has <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/donald-trump-new-york-ag-letitia-james-civil-trial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called James</a> &#8220;corrupt,&#8221; &#8220;racist,&#8221; and a &#8220;radical-left attorney general&#8221; — and complained that the &#8220;witch hunt&#8221; trial was keeping him away from the campaign trail, making it an attempt at election interference.
&#8220;Letitia James should resign for purposeful and criminal Election Interference. She is fully aware that Mar-a-Lago, and other assets, are worth much more than what she is claiming. Both of these Democrat Operatives are a disgrace to New York, and to the United States of America!&#8221; he said.

Former President Donald Trump Attends Start Of Civil Fraud Trial In New York City

NY AG Blames Trump’s Trial Criticisms On … Wait For It … Racism

AG Blames Trump's Trial Criticisms On ... Wait For It ... Racism

Courts

Donald Trump

Fraud

Letitia James

New York

You remember Ibram X. Kendi. 
He’s a genius. How do I know he’s a genius? He’s such a genius that he actually won a MacArthur “genius grant” in 2021. The grant was a $625,000 no-strings-attached fellowship honoring his “exceptional creativity, scholarly achievements, gift for communicating his antiracist work and ideas with diverse audiences.”
<a href="https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/ibram-x-kendi-macarthur-fellows-genius-grant-winner/#:~:text=The%20%24625%2C000%20no%2Dstrings%2Dattached,promise%20for%20further%20benefiting%20society&amp;text=Boston%20University's%20Ibram%20X." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boston University</a> gave him an anti-racist grant. For those who have not followed the prodigious career of Ibram X. Kendi, the founder of the new Center for Antiracist Research, he is the author of a bunch of mediocre books and he speaks nonsense for a living. The nonsense that he speaks is all about how America is deeply and irrevocably racist. 
He has written that America was literally racist in all of its iterations from the very beginning, up to and including all of the constitutional protections of the Bill of Rights. So what exactly does this genius say about racism? He can’t really define the term. He just knows racism exists wherever there is a disparity. In his book, “How to Be an Antiracist,” he says, ”Racism is a powerful collection of racist policies that lead to racial inequity and are substantiated by racist ideas.”
Let me give you an example of how stupid that is. The vast majority of the NBA is black. That is a massive racial disparity. Only 13% of the American population is black. Does this mean there has been some sort of deep and abiding racism in the NBA to make all of that happen? Conversely, in hockey, virtually all the players are white. Does that mean there is deep and abiding racism that exists at the roots of hockey, and that is why there are not that many black hockey players at the NHL level? Of course not. That’s incredibly silly. If you see 99% of people in prison for violent crime are men, is that because of deeply sexist roots in society? 
The truth is, disparities exist across virtually every industry and every metric in society — and they have for all of time. They’re tied to everything from geography to environment. The idea that if two groups by race do not stack up identically in any particular area is because of systemic and abiding racism is absolute nonsense. But all Kendi has to show is any disparity, which makes his job really easy because I too can point to disparities in every arena of life.
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In 2020, we decided as a society that you no longer had to prove racism was at the root of, for example, crime statistics. Instead, you could just simply claim that it was. And then everyone who said it wasn’t was deemed to be racist. That was a scam. The idea that American society rests in unidentifiable but ever-present racism is a lie. The notion that disparities in crime statistics are caused by racist policing is a lie. This is the magic of Kendi. He says colorblindness is racist. If you think race shouldn’t matter, that’s because you’re racist. According to Kendi, race does matter. And the way we know race matters is because of disparities. And those disparities are evidence of racism. And if you say that’s why race shouldn’t matter, that’s because you’re a racist, don’t you see?
So why am I discussing Ibram X. Kendi today? Because Boston University is now announcing an inquiry into his anti-racist center. It turns out the whole thing is a scam. 
You don’t say. 
A person who can’t define the word racism but is being paid not to define the word racism — you mean that was a scam? You mean just like any other cult? If the cult leader can’t define the terms, it can still be a cult.
This was the Emperor’s New Clothes garbage. Everyone knew this at the time. Anti-racism is a collection of anti-racist policies that target racist disparities backed by racist ideas. But everyone could tell this was gobbledygook nonsense. And now Boston University has announced an “inquiry” into Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research. The predicate for this is that the center laid off some 20% of their entire staff and has been accused of misusing millions of dollars in funds. They have published hardly any research.
It’s hard to have a research-based approach when you do no research. A giant scam.
That is the message here: If you can’t articulate why someone should give you money to do something, all you can do is threaten them that you will call them a racist or a bigot if they do not do that something.
Boston University professor Phillipe Copeland, who is black and used to work for Kendi’s center, stated, &#8220;Boston University needs to explain how one of its premier Centers ended up in this situation and how mass layoffs are ’antiracist.’ This act of employment violence and trauma is not just about individual leaders. It’s about the cultures and systems that allow it to occur.”
“It’s about the culture and systems that allow it to occur.” I love it. Kendi preaches the grift, and then when he actually uses the grift to fire his own people, creating a disparity in outcome, this means he is now violating his own anti-racist precepts.
It’s a snake eating its own tail here.
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Ibram X. Kendi’s Grift Catches Up With Him

Ben Shapiro

Boston

Ibram X. Kendi

Opinion

Universities

A decade ago, a man in his 30s by the name of Henry Rogers was one of 32,000 faculty members working in the state university system of New York. Henry was an assistant professor, making a modest salary as he taught history classes to undergraduates. He wasn&#8217;t exactly lighting the academic world on fire, but he was doing pretty well, all things considered. Henry had graduated from high school with a GPA below 3.0, and SAT scores hovering around 1,000. With numbers like that, many students decide to pass on college entirely and for good reason. But here was Henry Rogers, *teaching* college students. He wasn&#8217;t simply going to college; he was educating the next generation. So he was something of an unexpected success story.
Nevertheless, despite the many blessings that were bestowed on him by affirmative action, Henry Rogers dreamed bigger. He didn&#8217;t want to be stuck at SUNY forever. He knew that if he wanted to make a lot of money and advance in academia, he needed a rebrand. You can only go so far with a white-sounding name like Henry Rogers in the American university system, especially in a state like New York. So in 2013, Henry Rogers changed his name.
Overnight, he became Ibram Xolani Kendi, or Ibram X. Kendi for short. From that point forward, anyone looking at the C.V. of this assistant professor at a middling state school wouldn&#8217;t immediately think of someone boring and generic and pasty. Instead, they&#8217;d think of black revolutionaries like Malcolm X.
Looking back, Henry Rogers&#8217; name change may go down as the single most effective rebrand in the history of this country. His timing could not have been better. At the moment Henry Rogers transitioned into Ibram X. Kendi, corporate media in the United States was looking for something to cover besides wealth inequality and Occupy Wall Street. They decided, apparently in concert, to craft a narrative that innocent young black people were being hunted by deranged white supremacists. To advance that narrative, the media lied about the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and George Floyd, and so on. And during this period, they needed talking heads with names like Ibram X. Kendi to tell Americans that their real problem wasn&#8217;t Citibank or JP Morgan — it was white people.
One thing led to another, and before you knew it, Henry Rogers was on the move. He was hired by American University in Washington, D.C., in 2017, which at the time, was <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/17/us/american-university-bananas-nooses-hate-crime-protests/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">struggling</a> with the news that bananas had been spotted hanging from trees on campus. This was presumed to be a racist incident, and Henry Rogers was going to fix things. Specifically, Rogers promised to develop a &#8220;racial reporting guidebook&#8221; and to conduct a symposium on &#8220;racial reporting.&#8221;
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None of that ever materialized, even though Rogers received tens of thousands of dollars in grant money — from places like the Ford Foundation — to make it happen. But Rogers was not completely idle during this period. After two years at American University, Henry produced a now-famous book called &#8220;How to Be an Antiracist,&#8221; which offered a novel theory. Henry argued that the solution to racism is more racism. “The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.&#8221;
If your IQ is higher than Henry Rogers&#8217; — and unless you&#8217;re a house cat, it almost certainly is — then that might seem counterintuitive. In fact it might seem like the single dumbest idea ever committed to paper. But in 2019, this theory — this explicit endorsement of racism — lit the academic world on fire. That same year, Henry Rogers was invited to speak at the &#8220;Aspen Ideas Festival,&#8221; where he had the opportunity to expound on his ingenious thesis before an audience of adoring, mostly white sycophants. And yet, despite the friendly audience, things didn&#8217;t go well. Not to oversell it, but this is maybe the single most amusing clip to come out of the entire DEI/anti-racism craze. In case you missed it at the time, you&#8217;re in for a treat. Here is Henry Rogers, AKA Ibram X. Kendi, explaining his definition of racism:
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It&#8217;s an amazing clip for so many reasons. For one thing, even in the moment — with everyone in the room on Henry Rogers&#8217; side — there&#8217;s still nervous laughter when he tries to articulate the definition of the central concept animating his entire life&#8217;s work. Even by the standards of woke academics, this was bad, and they all knew it. &#8220;Racism is when you&#8217;re racist.&#8221; Okay, thanks Henry. Everyone just smiles and nods awkwardly, because that&#8217;s what academia is now. It&#8217;s a grift. There&#8217;s no integrity or dialogue at all. There are no ideas at the &#8220;Aspen Ideas Festival.&#8221; There&#8217;s &#8230; whatever this is.
This moment was not the end of Henry Rogers&#8217; academic career, of course. Criticizing Henry Rogers, or denying him promotions, is white supremacy. So the promotions kept coming. Henry went on to spend a year as a fellow at Harvard after this. Then he received yet another prestigious offer. Just weeks after George Floyd&#8217;s overdose, Rogers was hired to lead Boston University&#8217;s &#8220;Center for Antiracist Research.&#8221; Within weeks, massive donations were flowing in. Jack Dorsey, the weird-beard founder of Twitter, donated $10 million to Rogers&#8217; new center. Random companies, like Vertex Pharmaceuticals, contributed millions of dollars as well. In total the center raised well over $40 million.
Where was all of this money going? According to Boston University, it was going to fund some really path-breaking, original research in the field of anti-racism. In December of 2020, for example, B.U. published an article on its website, promising that Kendi would be &#8220;bringing antiracist investigators together with data scientists to tackle racial inequities,&#8221; and to &#8220;establish Boston University as the nation’s leading academic institution for data-driven antiracist research.&#8221;
What came of this unprecedented collaboration between Rogers&#8217; anti-racist experts and B.U.&#8217;s data scientists? Were racial inequities &#8220;tackled?&#8221; Not quite. The Washington Free Beacon looked into this. They found that Kendi&#8217;s anti-racist center established something called the Racial Data Lab, which is now completely defunct: &#8220;As of September, the Racial Data Lab only compiled information on COVID-19 infections and deaths. That COVID-19 tracker stopped collecting information in March 2021. The center has since removed the names of anyone who worked on that project from its website.&#8221;
So they compiled information from a bunch of other sources about COVID deaths. And then they stopped after about a year. That&#8217;s it. We reached out to Boston University to see if there was something we were missing, but they didn&#8217;t reply. So it&#8217;s clear that the sum total of B.U.&#8217;s big anti-racism data initiative — the one they touted with articles and a lot of marketing materials — was this little COVID tracker. That&#8217;s it.
To be fair, in its three years of existence, Roger&#8217;s anti-racist center also managed to take other steps towards anti-racism. For example, scholars at the center managed to produce not one, but two published papers. In three years. One of these papers looked at Google street view images, and concluded that neighborhoods with mostly black residents had more &#8220;dilapidated buildings&#8221; than neighborhoods with mostly white residents. It&#8217;s really groundbreaking stuff.
For his part, Kendi had some <a href="https://www.politico.com/interactives/2019/how-to-fix-politics-in-america/inequality/pass-an-anti-racist-constitutional-amendment/">bright ideas</a> that he occasionally shared with media outlets in this country. For example, he told Politico: &#8220;To fix the original sin of racism, Americans should pass an anti-racist amendment to the U.S. Constitution. &#8230; The amendment would make unconstitutional racial inequity over a certain threshold, as well as racist ideas by public officials. &#8230; It would establish and permanently fund the Department of Anti-racism (DOA) comprised of formally trained experts on racism and no political appointees. The DOA would be responsible for preclearing all local, state and federal public policies to ensure they won’t yield racial inequity.&#8221;
Imagine spending millions of dollars investing in a &#8220;research center&#8221; written by someone who sincerely believes something like that. It&#8217;s so unbelievably degrading, so stupid that it defies analysis, really. What would you tell your shareholders? What would you tell yourself when you look at yourself in the mirror? Is there literally anyone on the planet who thinks a Department of Anti-Racism — literally the acronym is &#8220;DOA,&#8221; dead on arrival — would be a good idea?
Maybe if you were one of Roger&#8217;s investors, you&#8217;d hold out hope that, sooner or later, the scholars in this prestigious anti-racism center are eventually going to buckle down and get to work and produce something that&#8217;s actually useful. But if you thought that, you&#8217;d be wrong. That&#8217;s now very clear. This week, we learned that Kendi&#8217;s anti-racist center has just fired more than half of its staff. They&#8217;ve apparently burned through much of the $40 million they&#8217;ve raised. To be clear, this is an operation that does not involve particle colliders or expensive equipment. This is a bunch of &#8220;anti-racist experts&#8221; telling white people they&#8217;re terrible. They managed to blow through $40 million in three years. And now, at long last, Boston University says it&#8217;s opened an inquiry into where all of this money went exactly. If we&#8217;re being honest, federal prosecutors should probably be doing the same thing at this point. But of course, we know they won&#8217;t, because Henry Rogers is doing their bidding.
At this point it would be easy to gloat over the aftermath of the complete and total implosion of this whole project. There&#8217;s the fact that one of Roger&#8217;s former staffers called these layoffs an example of &#8220;employment violence&#8221; and systemic racism, for example. Many observers have made the point that the woke inevitably eat their own, and that&#8217;s true for the most part. Get a bunch of professional whiners in one room, give them $40 million, and pretty soon they&#8217;ll be out of money, and still complaining. In case that&#8217;s not obvious, Henry Rogers just proved that point.
So what&#8217;s going on here? Why did his anti-racist center really collapse? Was it just mismanagement? Is this an isolated incident confined to Boston University? That&#8217;s possible, but if you look at broader trends, it seems like something else is afoot. It seems like, all over the country, major institutions are ditching DEI scammers. It&#8217;s not just happening in Boston. According to one recent analysis, job postings for DEI positions fell by roughly 20% last year. The average tenure of senior DEI executives that Fortune 500 companies hired since 2018 has been less than two years, according to a consulting firm that specializes in this area. BLM is in the red as of the last fiscal year. They&#8217;re bleeding cash, much of which they wasted on mansions in California.
Seeing all this, it&#8217;s tempting to say that the whole anti-racism scam is collapsing. But as welcome a development as that would be, I think we have to resist the temptation to come to that conclusion. I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s exactly what&#8217;s happening here. As we&#8217;ve all learned over the past ten years, the race hustle is far too useful and profitable to the people in power. And multiple generations of Americans have been too thoroughly indoctrinated into it. Millions of black Americans really do believe that they are victims, while millions of whites really do see themselves as guilty of imaginary racial sins. Just because Henry Rogers and a lot of his imitators have been exposed doesn&#8217;t mean that the underlying ideology has been defeated. These charlatans are low-hanging fruit. They&#8217;re grunts that are easily replaceable.
Think of how quickly these grifters took control of every major cultural and political institution. We went from &#8220;Don&#8217;t judge people based on their skin color&#8221; to &#8220;discrimination is anti-racist&#8221; in a very short period of time. It feels like it happened overnight. The Protestant Reformation took longer to get going, if only because people were communicating by horse or ship-borne letters. The woke social credit/equity/bio-surveillance state can take hold much faster. They can elevate con artists like Henry Rogers so quickly that we don&#8217;t know it&#8217;s happening until they&#8217;ve got $40 million and control of major universities. They can scam the most sophisticated investors on the planet, from tech executives to Big Pharma.
Henry Rogers and his team haven&#8217;t done much in their tenure as highly paid anti-racist activists. But they have demonstrated one thing, albeit inadvertently. And that&#8217;s the fact that there isn&#8217;t any substance to so-called anti-racist ideology. It&#8217;s just mega corporations looking to give big payouts to the first guy they find with an exotic name. If it&#8217;s not fraud, it&#8217;s something very close to it. If the Right can finally admit that, instead of playing along with these charlatans and funding the universities that promote this garbage, then things can change very quickly. But if we can&#8217;t take those steps, then nothing will change. If we continue to tolerate this, then no matter what happens to Henry Rogers, we can look forward to many more Ibram X. Kendis down the line. 
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Is The Anti-Racism Grift Collapsing?

Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI)

Students for Fair Admissions, the group that brought the lawsuit to the Supreme Court that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-issues-landmark-ruling-on-affirmative-action-at-universities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ended affirmative action</a> for admissions at colleges, is now targeting West Point military academy, filing a lawsuit asserting the academy discriminates against white applicants.
The SCOTUS ruling written by Chief Justice John Roberts that ended affirmative action exempted military academies; Roberts wrote a footnote that military academies had “potentially distinct interests.”
“For most of its history, West Point has evaluated cadets based on merit and achievement,” the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/1ab01e56-458f-4df8-94f4-338d720fed51.pdf?itid=lk_inline_manual_18" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> — filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York — notes. “For good reasons: America’s enemies do not fight differently based on the race of the commanding officer opposing them, soldiers must follow orders without regard to the skin color of those giving them, and battlefield realities apply equally to all soldiers regardless of race, ethnicity, or national origin.”
After pointing out that President Harry Truman desegregated the military, the lawsuit charges, “Over the past few decades, however, West Point has strayed from that approach. Instead of admitting future cadets based on objective metrics and leadership potential, West Point focuses on race. In fact, it openly publishes its racial composition ‘goals,’ and its director of admissions brags that race is wholly determinative for hundreds if not thousands of applicants.”
“West Point has no justification for using race-based admissions,” the lawsuit declares. “Those admissions are unconstitutional for all other public institutions of higher education.”
The lawsuit mentions two prospective candidates for West Point, both white, who joined Students for Fair Admissions in the lawsuit because they supports its mission. Both have excellent grade point averages, are in excellent physical condition, have family members who served in the military, and believe it would be an honor to serve their country.
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“Unless West Point is ordered to stop using race as a factor in admissions, his race will prevent him from competing for admission on an equal footing,” the lawsuit states of each candidate, adding that each preferred to remain pseudonymous, “because he is a high-school student, and he fears reprisal from West Point and others if his participation in this litigation becomes public.”
President Joe Biden has urged the military to continue filtering applications by race.

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Group That Ended Affirmative Action Admissions At Colleges Sues West Point, Claims Discrimination Against Whites

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