exactly. I'll take the first sentence from the post i had on the WWII photo because it applies here as well...

It's just the continued example that our lives are so good that we have to find something to complain about.

The woman who recused herself has ties to K Harris. Could K Harris be a witness?

Excellent article.

"Hail Mary" phone call delays grand jury testimony....?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jussie-smollett-empire-nigerian-brothers-testimony-hail-may-call/

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A source close to the investigation tells CBS News the brothers were set to appear in front of a grand jury Tuesday. But CBS News correspondent Dean Reynolds reports those plans were abruptly scrapped after a "Hail Mary" call from Smollett's defense team.

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Great read. A bit preachy but still good.

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Another good article

https://www.city-journal.org/jussie-smollett-bigotry

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The Smollett and Covington cases, and others, are grounded in the #BelieveSurvivors mantra of the Kavanaugh hearings: the Left demands utter credence toward any claim of racism and sexism, and the merest act of questioning these claims or trying to pin down details is regarded as hateful. Anti-racism preferably of a performative nature is now the national religion of white elites, who would rather blame themselves (and the deplorables) for nonexistent racism than speak honestly about the behavioral problems and academic skills gaps that lead to ongoing socioeconomic disparities. The Senate just passed an anti-lynching bill, backed by Senators Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, and Tim Scott as if lynchings were a fact of our current reality. Don't be surprised if Democrats appropriate funding for a new underground railroad.

The current anti-racist frenzy is the product of a poisoned academic culture that has declared war on Western Civilization and that teaches students, more than anything else, how to hate the greatest accomplishments of our civilization, to hate America, and to hate one another.

We continue to play with fire.

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Haha. Can you imagine AOC chiming in on this. Underground railroads are the solution.

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A fantastic dive into the victim culture that celebrates people like Smollett:

What the Jussie Smollett Story Reveals

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Certainly, the professional martyr is a race-neutral personality type. However, since the civil-rights victories of the 1960s, when whites became open in a new way to understanding black pain, that personality type has been especially useful to black Americans. With positive racial self-image possibly elusive after hundreds of years of naked abuse, the noble-victim position can seem especially, and understandably, comforting. It can also be handy, in a fashion quite unexpected to anyone who was on the front lines of race activism 50 years agoas a road to stardom.

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Only in an America in which matters of race are not as utterly irredeemable as we are often told could things get to the point that someone would pretend to be tortured in this way, acting oppression rather than suffering it, seeking to play a prophet out of a sense that playing a singer on television is not as glamorous as getting beaten up by white guys. That anyone could feel this way and act on it in the public sphere is, in a twisted way, a kind of privilege, and a sign that we have come further on race than we are often comfortable admitting.

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Was just about to post a separate thread about this article. I honestly think it deserves its own thread. I think what I love most about it is that it was written by John McWhorter who is a black liberal, himself. Unfortunately more reasonable individuals on the liberal side of media refuse to call their own side out like this. Hilariously, the victimhood culture that has become increasingly more pronounced on the left will likely be the reason that Trump gets re-elected, and was primarily the reason he was elected to begin with.

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She is refusing herself because she knows he's guilty and doesn't want to be seen as the sista that convicted a gay black man. Not a good look in that community.

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She is in an elected position and she knows she'll be ousted if she prosecutes.

It is a sad day, when an AA woman is too afraid to prosecute an AA man.

Smollett would not be a witness. He would not testify. We've seen his rehearsal on ABC and it was terrible. No good lawyer will put him on the stand.

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Could be something to this. The guy replacing her as lead prosecutor is a middle aged white guy. Optics of him prosecuting Jussie are probably not as bad politically as her.

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DallasAg 94 said:

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She is refusing herself because she knows he's guilty and doesn't want to be seen as the sista that convicted a gay black man. Not a good look in that community.

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She is in an elected position and she knows she'll be ousted if she prosecutes.

It is a sad day, when an AA woman is too afraid to prosecute an AA man.

Smollett would not be a witness. He would not testify. We've seen his rehearsal on ABC and it was terrible. No good lawyer will put him on the stand.

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Could be something to this. The guy replacing her as lead prosecutor is a middle aged white guy. Optics of him prosecuting Jussie are probably not as bad politically as her.

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I'm still holding out hope Jussie implicates Kamala Harris...heck, even if she didn't put him up to it he could lie and say she did. That's what happens when you play with fire Kamala.

Hell even if that didn't happen

1.Jussie might believe it did - some innocent enough conversation where she mentioned a high profile case would help propel the bill and jussie thinks he was just greenlighted for the gig.

OR

2.just perpetuating his lies deeper looking for his own scapegoat.

All it takes his him accusing her of it and she is toast. Trump will put that **** on twitter blast. It'll make his Pocahontas attacks look like nothing.

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Another good article

https://www.city-journal.org/jussie-smollett-bigotry

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The current anti-racist frenzy is the product of a poisoned academic culture that has declared war on Western Civilization and that teaches students, more than anything else, how to hate the greatest accomplishments of our civilization, to hate America, and to hate one another.

We continue to play with fire.

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Sadly, the fine university that we all love is part of this poisoned academic culture as well.

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"poisoned academic culture" is pervasive. My question...how did it get that way? What are academicians drinking / smoking? What exactly is it, they hope to achieve that in their minds will be an improvement? Can they point to any society, any form of govt. or institution that is evidently superior to America's achievements?

Room for improvement...certainly, but what I'm hearing is not an addition or even a remodel. It's a complete razing and new (?) construction of only God knows what. Ever more sadly, this country is about to lose its way.

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A fantastic dive into the victim culture that celebrates people like Smollett:

What the Jussie Smollett Story Reveals

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Certainly, the professional martyr is a race-neutral personality type. However, since the civil-rights victories of the 1960s, when whites became open in a new way to understanding black pain, that personality type has been especially useful to black Americans. With positive racial self-image possibly elusive after hundreds of years of naked abuse, the noble-victim position can seem especially, and understandably, comforting. It can also be handy, in a fashion quite unexpected to anyone who was on the front lines of race activism 50 years agoas a road to stardom.

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Only in an America in which matters of race are not as utterly irredeemable as we are often told could things get to the point that someone would pretend to be tortured in this way, acting oppression rather than suffering it, seeking to play a prophet out of a sense that playing a singer on television is not as glamorous as getting beaten up by white guys. That anyone could feel this way and act on it in the public sphere is, in a twisted way, a kind of privilege, and a sign that we have come further on race than we are often comfortable admitting.

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So spot on. A rich, black, celebrity, is literally so not afraid of repercussion, that he can stage his own fake assault and humiliation for the sheer purpose of garnering additional sympathy to further his career and to stoke the fires of racial tension. Racial tension that he and his ilk desire.

Unbelievable.

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A fantastic dive into the victim culture that celebrates people like Smollett:

What the Jussie Smollett Story Reveals

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Certainly, the professional martyr is a race-neutral personality type. However, since the civil-rights victories of the 1960s, when whites became open in a new way to understanding black pain, that personality type has been especially useful to black Americans. With positive racial self-image possibly elusive after hundreds of years of naked abuse, the noble-victim position can seem especially, and understandably, comforting. It can also be handy, in a fashion quite unexpected to anyone who was on the front lines of race activism 50 years agoas a road to stardom.

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Only in an America in which matters of race are not as utterly irredeemable as we are often told could things get to the point that someone would pretend to be tortured in this way, acting oppression rather than suffering it, seeking to play a prophet out of a sense that playing a singer on television is not as glamorous as getting beaten up by white guys. That anyone could feel this way and act on it in the public sphere is, in a twisted way, a kind of privilege, and a sign that we have come further on race than we are often comfortable admitting.

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Another good one from the article:

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Dolezal, white, spent years with a spray tan, "identifying" as black and even heading a local NAACP branch, and had fabricated episodes of racist discrimination against herself. As Bryan Cranston's dentist character on Seinfeld adopted Judaism for the jokes, Dolezal, one might say, took on blackness for the victimhood. She felt that her existence was more meaningful while she was "playing" an oppressed black person than living as a white person despite all the attendant privileges. Few news events more perfectly illustrated that in our moment, a claim of victimhood from a black person is a form of power. Only in an America much further past the old days than many like to admit could a white person eagerly seek to be a put-upon black person out of a sense that it looked "cool." A Dolezal would have been unimaginable until roughly the late 1990s.

One could imagine that Smollett, if he was playacting, had a similar motivation. For Smollett, being a successful actor and singer might not have been quite as exciting as being a poster child for racist abuse in Trump's America.

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His actions after the alleged incident clearly demonstrate how much trade space he thought he'd earn with victimhood, which is a sad sign of the times. Thank God he's being exposed for what he is vs. the potential "prestige" he was briefly earning. Our society needs to end this phenomena.

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BassCowboy33 said:

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A fantastic dive into the victim culture that celebrates people like Smollett:

What the Jussie Smollett Story Reveals

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A couple of other things that bother me about this article:

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Yes, my skepticism made me feel a little guilty. We are justly sensitized to violence against people for being black and for being gay in the wake of incidents I need not name. We are also just past watching legions of people who should have known better refuse to credit Christine Blasey Ford's accusation against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Maybe fear and trauma distorted Smollett's memory somewhat? Maybe the media were getting some of the details wrong? Wait and see, I and others thought.

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What "incidents" that don't need to be named?

People "who should have known better" than to refuse credit to a liar??

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Until this twist, smart people were claiming that the attack on Smollett was the story of Donald Trump's America writ smallthat it revealed the terrible plight of minority groups today. But the Smollett story, if the "trajectory" leads to evidence of fakery, would actually reveal something else modern America is about: victimhood chic. Future historians and anthropologists will find this aspect of early-21st-century America peculiar, intriguing, and sad.

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The bolded phrase. As if Donald Trump were the be-all end-all reason why this "America" exists. This "America" exists thanks to people like Kamala and Harris and Pelosi and Schumer and the Clintons and Obama. Divisive, anti-America Socialists.

McWhorter is an erudite dude. In some aspects, he fits the bill of the "college professor", but I've always liked his ability to convey and communicate.

I guess what I like about him most of all is his calm demeanor and clear critical thinking. Yep, he's a Dem, but at least he's not a hyperbolic buffoon.

He used to be on Redeye pretty regularly.

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Prosperdick said:

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Another good article

https://www.city-journal.org/jussie-smollett-bigotry

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The Smollett and Covington cases, and others, are grounded in the #BelieveSurvivors mantra of the Kavanaugh hearings: the Left demands utter credence toward any claim of racism and sexism, and the merest act of questioning these claims or trying to pin down details is regarded as hateful. Anti-racism preferably of a performative nature is now the national religion of white elites, who would rather blame themselves (and the deplorables) for nonexistent racism than speak honestly about the behavioral problems and academic skills gaps that lead to ongoing socioeconomic disparities. The Senate just passed an anti-lynching bill, backed by Senators Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, and Tim Scott as if lynchings were a fact of our current reality. Don't be surprised if Democrats appropriate funding for a new underground railroad.

The current anti-racist frenzy is the product of a poisoned academic culture that has declared war on Western Civilization and that teaches students, more than anything else, how to hate the greatest accomplishments of our civilization, to hate America, and to hate one another.

We continue to play with fire.

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Haha. Can you imagine AOC chiming in on this. Underground railroads are the solution.

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AOC: Why do we need an underground railroad? Doesn't the subway already run underground?

Smollett should have hired this guy, then he would have been more "believable".

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvAs1pos3TA

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Believe me--- I wish that were true but I think this is just a bridge too far. We should focus on the bird in our hand.

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please tie this whole pile a **** back to Harris.

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Believe me--- I wish that were true but I think this is just a bridge too far. We should focus on the bird in our hand.

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I don't. Nothing the dims do isn't orchestrated. May not be able to prove it, but...

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please tie this whole pile a **** back to Harris.

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Believe me--- I wish that were true but I think this is just a bridge too far. We should focus on the bird in our hand.

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Why then are people recusing themselves from the investigation. my guess is there is so many people trying to cleanse their social media right now it isn't even funny

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please tie this whole pile a **** back to Harris.

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Believe me--- I wish that were true but I think this is just a bridge too far. We should focus on the bird in our hand.

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Why then are people recusing themselves from the investigation. my guess is there is so many people trying to cleanse their social media right now it isn't even funny

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I don't think anything was orchestrated at that level. I think this was just one dumbass who thought he was a lot smarter than he is. The rest are just so desperate for something like this to pin on Trump that they took the bait hook, line, and sinker. Now they're just trying to make everybody forget about it and how they showed their true colors of not giving a crap about actual justice.

MooreTrucker said:

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Urban Ag said:

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BassCowboy33 said:

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A fantastic dive into the victim culture that celebrates people like Smollett:

What the Jussie Smollett Story Reveals

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A couple of other things that bother me about this article:

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Yes, my skepticism made me feel a little guilty. We are justly sensitized to violence against people for being black and for being gay in the wake of incidents I need not name. We are also just past watching legions of people who should have known better refuse to credit Christine Blasey Ford's accusation against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Maybe fear and trauma distorted Smollett's memory somewhat? Maybe the media were getting some of the details wrong? Wait and see, I and others thought.

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What "incidents" that don't need to be named?

People "who should have known better" than to refuse credit to a liar??

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Until this twist, smart people were claiming that the attack on Smollett was the story of Donald Trump's America writ smallthat it revealed the terrible plight of minority groups today. But the Smollett story, if the "trajectory" leads to evidence of fakery, would actually reveal something else modern America is about: victimhood chic. Future historians and anthropologists will find this aspect of early-21st-century America peculiar, intriguing, and sad.

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The bolded phrase. As if Donald Trump were the be-all end-all reason why this "America" exists. This "America" exists thanks to people like Kamala and Harris and Pelosi and Schumer and the Clintons and Obama. Divisive, anti-America Socialists.

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This times eleventy million.