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If you’re a Russian or Chinese Air Force General, all you have to know is the United States Air Force and the US Military Top Brass are actively at war with promoting white males into the officer ranks in exchange for increasing diversity in ROTC program. So time is on your side until the US goes the way of South Africa when it comes to producing an effective officer corps. [New Docs Shed Light on Air Force’s ‘Goal’ to Reduce ‘White Male Population’ Joining Officer Ranks, Daily Caller, September 19, 2024]:

The Air Force finally handed over a trove of documents pertaining to its sweeping “goal” of reducing the number of white male applicants in a popular officer program after spending months stonewalling requests for their release.

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman C.Q. Brown — at the time the highest-ranking member of the Air Force — issued a memorandum in 2022 that the branch was updating its racial and gender demographic goals for applicants seeking to become officers, in a bid to prioritize “diversity and inclusion.” Internal documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation include a slideshow from 2022 where the Air Force outlines racial and gender quotas and details how it hopes to “achieve” a reduced number of white males in its Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) officer’s applicant program.

The documents reflect the Biden-Harris Pentagon’s intense focus on implementing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies in the armed forces, even as the military continues to combat dwindling morale among its rank-and-file, recruiting and retention shortfalls and low pay.

One of the slides in question, labeled “AFROTC White,” depicts a graph that shows the percentage of white male ROTC officer applicants declining from approximately 60% in fiscal year 2019 to a projected 50% in fiscal year 2023. The graph further details how the Air Force’s goal is to reduce that percentage down to approximately 43% by fiscal year 2029, denoted by a star with the label “achieve(d) goal.”

“White male population will decline as other demographics increase,” the slide reads.

The respective slides in question also explain that the Air Force is either on track or needs to do more to hit racial and gender quotas in the ROTC’s officer applicant pool.

For example, with the African American population, the slideshow suggests the Air Force “target [the] male population through ongoing programs and marketing” and notes it has already met its “female goal” for ROTC officer applicants. For the American Indian, Asian and Hispanic applicants, the slideshow says the Air Force is “on track to grow diversity.”

Included in the slide deck are funding requests for diversity recruiting initiatives, including $500,000 for “diversity advertising campaigns” and $250,000 for “influencer engagements.”

In a separate set of documents from as early as 2022, the Air Force outlines its efforts to modify ROTC scholarship programs, which “play an important role in accession and diversity goals.” The Air Force suggests modifying the scholarship models could remove certain “testing barriers” to entry for under-represented groups.

So the goal of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is to effectively institute racial quotas into the Air Force ROTC program, so that the application pool of white applicants drops to 43 percent by 2029… somewhere right now, Russian and Chinese Air Force Generals are having a good laugh looking at this slide show celebrating the decline in white ROTC candidates as the goal of our military, for they know with this decline comes the decrease in effectiveness of the US Air Force.

We are going to lose a major in the 21st Century because our leaders are more committed to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion than in promoting individuals based on merit, because white people collectively prove to provide the bedrock of an effective US Air Force.

As the flood waters of Hurricane Helene start to recede, Western North Carolina is ravaged in an apocalyptic manner. Our Federal Government is AWOL, with billions of dollars shipped overseas to continue the NATO proxy war with Russia, and FEMA committed the goals of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in emergency management. Loose translation: our distribution of resources in an emergency situation will not go to help out a population group that is disproportionately white, because systemic inequality, implicit bias, and white privilege must always be fought (principles of DEI), even as fellow countrymen lose everything from a natural disaster of Biblical proportions. [Biden admin’s FEMA ‘equity’ plan faces backlash amid historic hurricane damage: ‘What an embarrassment’: FEMA states on their website that ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion cannot be optional’, Fox News, September 30, 2024]:

The Biden-Harris administration’s disaster relief agency is facing backlash after its unearthed emergency management blueprint went viral amid the destructive hurricane that recently ravaged the southern U.S.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) website lists a set of three goals as part of their strategic plan to “address key challenges” in emergency management. The number one goal listed in the agency’s priorities is to “instill equity as a foundation of emergency management.”

The second goal is “Lead Whole of Community in Climate Resilience” and the third goal is “Promote & Sustain a Ready FEMA & Prepared Nation.”

The Biden-Harris administration’s disaster relief agency is facing backlash after its unearthed emergency management blueprint went viral amid the destructive hurricane that recently ravaged the southern U.S.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) website lists a set of three goals as part of their strategic plan to “address key challenges” in emergency management. The number one goal listed in the agency’s priorities is to “instill equity as a foundation of emergency management.”

The second goal is “Lead Whole of Community in Climate Resilience” and the third goal is “Promote & Sustain a Ready FEMA & Prepared Nation.”

“This requires that FEMA’s leadership and workforce demonstrate an increased commitment to integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion in delivering the agency’s mission. FEMA must draw upon its staff’s diversity and range of experiences to consistently inform programming, policy, and decision-making,” the FEMA plan continued. “Through investment in diversity and inclusion efforts – including Employee Resource Groups and multicultural training – FEMA can increase its employees’ involvement and participation in cultivating a culture of inclusion.”

After Hurricane Helene broke out, leaving over 100 dead across six states and millions without power, social media users began criticizing FEMA’s strategic plan in the midst of the damage.

“I’m sure people who’ve lost loved ones, lost their homes and now see their town underwater feel really great knowing that FEMA’s #1 goal is to be woke. Everything about their terrible response makes sense now. What an embarrassment,” conservative activist Robby Starbuck said in a post on X.

“Our government is broken,” wrote author and scientist Robert Malone, M.D., of the agency’s plan. “I heartily disagree – the first priority of FEMA should be emergency response management.”

“If FEMA response for #HurricaneHelene is slower, it could be attributed to the agency making equity a ‘foundation of emergency management,’” Gabriella Hoffman, an Independent Women’s Forum’s director, said on X. “Yikes.”

The people of Appalachia are Scots-Irish, the backbone of our nation. They are people who sign up for our foolish foreign wars in numbers far beyond any other group, and they are the people who put on their work clothes in the morning to make sure the power stays on, the water remains potable, and our streets/highways are safe for civilization to flourish. Now, they are left behind in the floodwaters of Hurricane Helene, because our government – every Federal agency – has mandated DEI as the overriding goal of every taxpayer supported three-letter/four-letter organization.

DEI simply means white individuals are collectively judged by the color of their skin by the Federal Government, meaning the implementation of “equity” as the highest moral imperative of FEMA ensures aid for the overwhelming white residents of Western North Carolina are on their own. Our government after this ordeal, is irredeemable.

The silver-lining in all of this carnage unfolding is millions of Americans are now seeing the consequences of a Federal Government committed to “equity” policies that exclude white people from receiving the basic function of their tax-dollars and the complete breakdown of the social contract, all because of the color of the skin of those in Appalachia.

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Birmingham, Alabama is 69 percent black. It has a black mayor, black bureaucracy, majority black city council, and a serious gun crime problem courtesy of its majority racial group. After a weekend mass shooting by black shooters saw four people dead and 17 wounded, one black lawmaker representing Birmingham in the State House has called on the National Guard to be deployed in the Magic City to help keep the peace. [‘Unsafe’ Birmingham may need National Guard to help shorthanded police after mass shooting, lawmaker says, Al.com, September 24, 2024]:

A mass shooting Saturday that left four dead in Birmingham’s historic Five Points South entertainment district prompted one Jefferson County legislator to say that Birmingham is unsafe, that its police department is dangerously understaffed and that the National Guard may have to be called in to help.

While Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin called for more gun control legislation and a return to requiring permits for handguns, State Rep. Juandalynn Givan said no amount of laws will fix the problem.

“Birmingham has a problem, that even if you pass 15 pieces of legislation with gun violence, or any type of gun bills, the problem is you do not have the manpower to enforce the laws,” Givan said. “There are already laws on the books.”

While in the past the city has employed about 800 police officers, that’s now down around 400, she said.

“The issue that is going on in the city of Birmingham is that you have criminals who now see that the Birmingham Police Department is understaffed, undermanned,” she said.

“They just don’t have the manpower. We moved four years ago from 800 officers to now minus 400 officers. It’s numerically impossible to believe that in many of these cases now that we’re seeing that law enforcement will be able to catch these criminals.”

The criminals gunning down innocent civilians in Birmingham do not obey gun laws, or any other laws, she said.

“‘Let’s pass gun laws,’ yeah, it’s universal, everyone around the world talks about it,” said Givan, a long-time proponent of passing stricter gun laws.

“These thugs, these punks, these criminals, these killers, are not going into the store buying guns. They’re buying them off the black market. They’re buying pump stocks off the black market. Nobody’s going after the seller. You’ve got to get to the distributor, but beyond that, the problem will still remain that the city of Birmingham, law enforcement, police department, can not take much more in its current state.”

Birmingham’s police chief has long talked about the difficulty in recruiting and keeping police officers, but city leadership needs to make sure that police are at full staff and police have the resources they need to patrol and prevent crime, she said.

“The folks that are leaving in record number, that cannot take the current administration, they feel that they are devalued, that they are underpaid, they are disrespected,” Givan said. “The morale of the Birmingham Police Department is going down so low. There’s a lack of confidence in leadership.”

Finally getting the police department back to full staffing must be a priority, she said.

“How do you get at least 100 police officers in the next six months to a year?” she said. “You cannot go on like this. It’s very frustrating.”

Short-staffing of the police department has dragged on too long, Givan said.

“You got to fix the police department,” she said. “Your officers are leaving at rapid rates of speed. You cannot retain, nor can you bring back any officers right now. You’ve sent all of the wisdom and the knowledge out the door. You have officers leaving to take $20,000-$30,000 pay cuts to get away from the city of Birmingham. That’s a problem.”

There’s a reason white people abandoned the city of their ancestors to rebuild Birmingham Over The Mountain (OTM) in Vestavia Hills, Mountain Brook and Hoover. And it’s all contained in this story.

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Shot [Haiti Travel Advisory: Haiti – Level 4: Do Not Travel, US State Department, September 18, 2024]:

Do not travel to Haiti due to kidnapping, crime, civil unrest, and limited health care.

Country Summary: Since March 2024, Haiti has been under a State of Emergency. Crimes involving firearms are common in Haiti. They include robbery, carjackings, sexual assault, and kidnappings for ransom. Kidnapping is widespread, and U.S. citizens have been victims and have been hurt or killed. Kidnappers may plan carefully or target victims at random, unplanned times. Kidnappers will even target and attack convoys. Kidnapping cases often involve ransom requests. Victims’ families have paid thousands of dollars to rescue their family members. 

Protests, demonstrations, and roadblocks are common and unpredictable. They often damage or destroy infrastructure and can become violent. Mob killings and assaults by the public have increased, including targeting those suspected of committing crimes.

The airport in Port-au-Prince can be a focal point for armed activity. Armed robberies are common. Carjackers attack private vehicles stuck in traffic. They often target lone drivers, especially women. As a result, the U.S. embassy requires its staff to use official transportation to and from the airport.

Do not cross the border by land between Haiti and the Dominican Republic due to the threat of kidnapping and violence. These dangers are present on roads from major Haitian cities to the border. The U.S. embassy cannot help you enter the Dominican Republic by air, land, or sea.  U.S. citizens who cross into the Dominican Republic at an unofficial crossing may face high immigration fines if they try to leave. The U.S. Coast Guard has concerns about security in the ports of Haiti. Until those are addressed, the Coast Guard advises mariners and passengers traveling through the ports of Haiti to exercise caution.

The U.S. government is very limited in its ability to help U.S. citizens in Haiti. Local police and other first responders often lack the resources to respond to emergencies or serious crime. Shortages of gasoline, electricity, medicine, and medical supplies are common throughout the country. Public and private medical clinics and hospitals often lack trained staff and basic resources. In addition, they require prepayment for services in cash.

U.S. government personnel are subjected to a nightly curfew and are prohibited from walking in Port-au-Prince. Personnel movement is restricted throughout Haiti. U.S. government personnel in Haiti are also prohibited from:

  • Using any kind of public transportation or taxis. 

  • Visiting banks and using ATMs. 

  • Driving at night. 

  • Traveling anywhere after dark. 

  • Traveling without prior approval and special security measures in place.

Chaser. [Fairhope residents voice concerns over immigrant rumors, FoxTV10.com, September 23, 2024]:

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – Reports of up to one thousand Haitian immigrants coming to Baldwin county in the next few weeks — specifically Fairhope — prompted an overwhelming turnout at Monday night’s City Council meeting.

Mayor Sherry Sullivan and council members tried to shut it down — not only dismissing the report — but calling them “rumors.”

“To be clear we have not seen or received any notification that — that is happening — nor that it is expected to happen in Fairhope,” said Mayor Sullivan.

“Imagine my surprise when I start getting text messages and emails that we were inviting residents to live in our city. Folks let me tell you — that’s just patently false. It’s just false. We’ve never even had a conversation — not even in a work session — not even in a council meeting,” said Fairhope City Councilman Jack Burrell.

“We will never be a sanctuary city — we have no desire to be that. And the last number I heard was up to 30,000 refugees. So, it went from 1,000 to 5,000 to 15-to-30,000,” said Fairhope City Councilman Jimmy Conyers.

It’s definitely a hot button issue that had standing-room only in council chambers with the overflow filling up the lobby.

Some of the council members — even saying they felt like he issue had gotten “out of control” on social media — and telling people to use “common sense” — when reading stuff online. Residents did not like that.

However, some of the report in question — stems from a letter signed in 2022 — by Council President Corey Martin at the height of the Ukrainian War — and a program that would help women and children refugees. Martin says he does not know how it got to this point.

Meanwhile — some who spoke compared it to Springfield, Ohio — and the Haitian immigrant population there. Most who spoke — say whether they’re legal are not — they don’t believe Baldwin County nor Fairhope could support a mass relocation of immigrants.

“And I would say — I support legal immigration and I think most people in Fairhope probably do. We do. But not illegal immigration,” said one woman.

“I really wanted to come and address that our schools really cannot take on any more students, especially students that don’t speak English. Our schools are maxed out — our teachers are at capacity. I was at my son’s baseball game when I listened to what you were saying — and I want to remind everyone why we’re here. We’re here because of a letter that you signed. We’re not here because we’re incompassionate or we don’t have feelings or we don’t care about people. And you know what — all I could think of when you were talking — you were gaslighting every single one of us,” said one woman.

“Looks like y’all stepped in it — didn’t you,” said one woman. “Tell us what you’re going to do — if this does come to pass. Ok… Y’all are sitting up here all smug and everything — tell us what we need to know.”

Potentially 1,000 Haitians coming to Fairhope, Alabama (a 90 percent white city), even if just a rumor, caused the good citizens of the city to stand up for their hometown. Meanwhile, our State Department warns Americans not to travel to Haiti, because of the type of country Haitians uniquely create in their home country.

So why not just bring Haitians here, to make places like Springfield, Ohio and Fairhope, Alabama places where you can longer visit because of the threat of Haitians kidnapping, committing crime, and creating civil unrest?

When you realize the Historic America Majority lost the Civil Rights War of the 1960s, you realize why many of our new Navy ships are now being honored exclusively for non-white Civil Rights leaders who championed the rights of non-whites to the detriment of the dwindling white majority in America. [Future Navy oiler named for civil rights and labor icon, Stars and Stripes, September 19, 2024]:

Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro on Wednesday announced that a future John Lewis-class oiler (T-AO 205-class) will be named for the prominent labor and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta, a major figure in the farmworkers’ labor movement from the 1950s to the 1990s. Del Toro’s announcement about the naming of the future USNS Dolores Huerta (T-AO 214) came at a speaking engagement at the Veteran Affairs Center for Minority Veterans Hispanic Heritage Month Commemorative Event in Washington. In his remarks, Del Toro — who is the first Cuban-American Secretary of the Navy — commented on his background as a refugee from Cuba and noted the history of Hispanic American contributions to the U.S. military. He then added that service to the country can also take the form of “championing causes to improve the lives of other Americans,” and announced the future oiler’s renaming. Huerta cofounded the National Farm Workers Association, a precursor to the United Farm Workers, with Cesar Chavez in 1962. She went on to lead various strikes and boycotts and famously coined the term motto “Sí, se puede” (“yes, we can”). She is a recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

The USNS Dolores Huerta will be the 10th ship of the John Lewis Class, and its naming is a continuation of the trend of bestowing John Lewis-class oilers with the names of civil rights leaders. Other ships following the convention include the USNS Thurgood Marshall, USNS Ruth Bader Ginsberg, USNS Harriet Tubman and the lead ship USNS John Lewis. The John Lewis-class oilers are intended to supply the U.S. Navy’s carrier strike groups and replace the aging Kaiser-class oilers, according to the Navy. They have a capacity to carry 162,000 barrels of oil. Current Navy plans call for procuring a total of 20 such replenishment ships, though experts have expressed doubts about the branch’s capacity to fully staff them, given that they are primarily crewed by civilian mariners who are at-will employees that can resign at any time.

Marshall, Ginsberg, Tubman, Lewis, and of course, the USNS Harvey Milk. Somehow I don’t think the highest ranking military leaders of the Russian or Chinese Navy are too frightened about the US Navy in 2024. No other way to put it – “The US Navy: A Global Force for Gay Race Communism in 2024.” Just quoting Tucker Carlson there…

This isn’t the Navy of John Paul Jones anymore. And it’s not about winning wars or keeping the United States safe anymore: it’s about projecting morality worldwide under the auspices of Black-Run America (BRA).

Charleroi, Pennsylvania is a town of 4,000 people. It’s 81 percent white. Since Biden became US President in 2021, the city has seen a 2000% increase in its Haitian population, with thousands of other immigrants now calling Charleroi home. We call this The Great Replacement in action. Journalists call it immigrants coming to America to make their life better. [Charleroi thrust into national spotlight after Trump disparages Haitian population, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 17, 2024]:

When Queen Augusta Goll moved to Charleroi in 2019, she found abandoned homes and businesses — a “ghost town” as she describes it.

It’s when immigrants like herself began flocking to this small southwestern Pennsylvania borough that she saw some change. They were starting up businesses, contributing tax dollars and turning decaying properties into homes again, she said.

Ms. Goll, who was born in Liberia, opened a grocery store in the downtown.

She’s frustrated, though, that people across the country may now have a much different impression of her community.

At a rally in Tucson, Ariz. last week, former President Donald Trump promoted inflammatory rhetoric about Haitian immigrants in Charleroi on the national stage, saying the borough’s Haitian population was costing local taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars. He also suggested the town is “virtually bankrupt” and that the immigrants are bringing an increase in crime, neither of which are true.

Local residents and business owners told the Post-Gazette that the comments are only adding fuel to already existing tensions and uncertainties among Charleroi residents.

“They’re people trying to make it in a strange place where they’re not welcome,” said Casey Jageman, who owns a boutique in town called Lil J’s Blessings. “People complain that their town is getting torn down, but it’s the foreign people that are building it.”

Charleroi, a borough of just over 4,000 people, sits along the Monongahela River in Washington County and has long been known as the local center of glassmaking, a bastion of industry in the valley. According to 2020 U.S. Census estimates, Charleroi’s population of foreign-born individuals was just under 3%.

On Tuesday, Charleroi Borough Manager Joe Manning told KDKA Radio that the claims Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, have made were completely false.

“It’s a very negative connotation for a reality that just doesn’t exist,” he said. “They’re not a drain on resources, they don’t cause problems. It’s nothing at all like what has been portrayed by the former president.”

Charleroi Council President Kristin Hopkins-Calek issued a statement saying the community is “steeped in a rich history of immigration” and that the Haitian immigrants have contributed to a rise in population there for the first time in decades.

There’s no doubt that the makeup of Charleroi is changing, said resident Tray Matthews, who’s lived in the borough for about two years. “If someone says no, they’d be lying,” he said.

But he doesn’t necessarily think that’s a bad thing.

“When you have that many new people to come in, even people from Ohio or New York, you would see a difference,” he said.

To him, the problem is figuring out how to bridge the gap between the local immigrant community and other residents.

“I don’t feel unsafe or anything in my community, I just don’t know what’s going on,” Mr. Matthews said. “They’re nice people. It’s just there’s a cultural difference. There’s a language barrier.”

Erica Husosky just took over a floral shop along Charleroi’s main drag on Fallowfield Avenue about six months ago. She wouldn’t call Charleroi the most welcoming for new arrivals, she said, often hearing complaints from her customers.

“They don’t want them here at all,” she said.

She finds that the rhetoric is creating isolation, possibly steering people away from her business.

“See, there’s people passing by right now, I try to wave to them and say hello, and, you know, be friendly,” Ms. Husosky said. “We don’t get many Haitian customers, unfortunately.”

At times, the hostility turns into “vicious” rumors, she said. And not unlike those that Trump spread about Springfield, Ohio.

Before Trump’s debunked remarks about Charleroi, he made claims that Haitian immigrants in the small town in Ohio were eating dogs, cats and geese.

Ms. Husosky has heard similar things in Charleroi.

“Like they’re killing animals and killing goats, and using it as chop meat or something,” she said. “I heard a rumor that they were selling meat to the McDonald’s down the street. Who would believe that?”

Since the accusations about Springfield, schools, government buildings and elected officials’ homes were among the targets of more than 30 hoax threats that forced evacuations and closures. Two more schools had to be evacuated on Monday, and Republican Gov. Mike DeWine said that a foreign actor was largely responsible, but he declined to name the country.

Trump and Mr. Vance have doubled down on their claims, while President Joe Biden has condemned them.

“It’s simply wrong. There’s no place [for it] in America. This has to stop, what he’s doing,” Mr. Biden said last week. “It has to stop.”

Ms. Jageman said her boutique looks quite different than it did a few months ago, with Trump shirts, posters and American flags now populating the store’s front window. She added the merchandise after the attempted assassination of the former president on July 13 at a rally in Butler County, and she said it’s certainly attracted attention, including from local immigrants who come in and tell her they do support Trump.

Despite the conflict, she doesn’t see the rise in immigration in Charleroi as disruptive. If anything, it’s boosted a borough still reeling from the downfall of the steel industry decades ago. Over time, she’s come to learn people’s stories and what they left behind.

“Some of the things that they have left are just atrocious,” Ms. Jageman said. “They’re just trying to make their life better, just like the rest of us.”

Charleroi is an American city left behind by globalization and the hollowing out of nation’s manufacturing capabilities, only to see the actual population replaced with a people largely from Haiti. This island nation was of course birthed in the mass killing of French by the slave rebellion and the institution of a Black Republic, that notable in 2024 for cannibalism and a massive wall separating the Dominican Republic from the inhabitants of Haiti.

We are being replaced one city at a time in America. There’s nothing great about it.

The Great Replacement has consequences.

Shot. [The Changing TradiTional Uses of JamaiCa Bay, new york, National Park Service, 2012]

Between 1980 and 2008, the White-Non Hispanic population of the Jamaica Bay Watershed declined by 313,000 persons, or 37%, and their proportion of the total was reduced from almost 50% in 1980 to an estimated 26.5% in 2008. In the same period, the population of Hispanics increased from 11.4% to 16.5% of the total, while the proportion of Black, non-Hispanics increased from 36.8% to 44.9%. And although they remain relatively small, at 8.7% in 2008, the Asian/Pacific population is expanding rapidly in numbers, though their use of Jamaica Bay resources remains limited.

Chaser. [Feds, city to crack down on animal sacrifices in NYC’s Jamaica Bay after dog-carcass with snapped neck, wounded pigs found, New York Post, September 14, 2024]:

City and federal parks authorities are beefing up resources near Jamaica Bay in Queens following The Post’s expose last week of surging animal sacrifices in the area.

The National Parks Service promised to install a pair of mobile lights by the Addabbo Bridge in the federally-managed Spring Creek Park to ward off people torturing and killing animals under the cover of darkness, Councilwoman Joann Ariola (R-Queens) announced.

NPS spokeswoman Daphne Yun said the agency would also provide additional parks police patrol in the area, where animal rescuers said at least eight animals were found dead or maimed since late July.

These have included five wounded pigs, a near-dead baby rat stuffed in a bag with chicken bones, and a dog carcass with its neck snapped.

The city’s Parks Department also pledged to increase overnight patrols in Sunset Cove Park, Broad Channel, where gruesome animal remains also have been found, Ariola’s office said.

“I’ve gotten in touch with my partners at both the federal and city level, and we are going to bring a new level of enforcement to the area and really crack down on this sickening behavior,” Ariola told The Post. “Animals should not be getting tortured and mutilated for any reason. This ends now.”

Sloane Quealy, president of Zion’s Mission Animal Rescue, called the additional enforcement resources a “great first step,” but called for more patrols.

“Until then we’re going to do 12 a.m. to 6 a.m., we’re going to walk the beach, just to see about interrupting anything that’s going on,” she said.

Our new country’s going to be great! Cities across the nation, in every state, are being enriched by diversity. With this, comes the erosion of the customs that once created and maintained social capital making the United States the greatest nation on earth. Now? You have to make sure your pets are locked up so they aren’t eaten or used in sacrifices.

All across the USA, the demographic replacement of the people who made America AMERICA results in America becoming more like the dominant population group inhabiting the city.

We all knew it was true. When the Media-Run State does everything to discredit a story, it was only a matter of time before it was reframed as, “it’s totally for African migrants/refugees to eat and barbecue cats.” [Shocking video appears to show African migrants grilling cats in Ohio town in 2023, Post Millennial, September 14, 2024]:

Christopher Rufo shared a video that was previously posted to social media on August 25, 2023, that appears to show Africans grilling cats in Dayton, Ohio, about a half hour from Springfield, where the recent controversy over Haitian migrants allegedly eating dogs and cats originated.

“We identified a social media post, dated August 25, 2023, with a short video depicting what appear to be two skinned cats on top of a blue barbeque,” Rufo reported. The caption on the video read “Yoooo the Africans wildn on Parkwood,” which Rufo said refers to Parkwood Drive, in Dayton.

The video shows two cats walking on the grass near a broken-down fence and a voice over says “There go a cat right there. His ass better get missin’, man. Look like his homies on the grill!”

That source told Rufo that his son “was friendly with the neighbors” and that “there was no doubt about what happened last summer.”

“They was barbecuing the damn cat!” The source said, going on to explain that. “His son’s mother had previously witnessed the family butchering a mammal on the street, but the cats on the barbecue put him in such a state of shock, he felt the need to film it.”

Rufo reported that the author of the video, with whom he spoke, preferred to remain anonymous but did “confirm “its time, location, and authenticity.” That source told Rufo that he filmed the incident when he was picking up his son from his son’s mother’s home and he saw what appeared to be cats being grilled by the Africans who lived next door.

“It was some Africans that stay right next door to my kid’s mother,” he said, per Rufo. “This African dude next door had the damn cat on the grill.” Rufo’s team investigated, checking in with the families who lived in one of the identified apartment units, one of which was from the Democratic Republic of Congo. That family confirmed that there were many other African nationals living in the area.

One resident said that previous tenants had a blue grill like the one seen in the video and that the father of that family would take a knife out into the neighborhood to “find meat.” The grill had been left behind and Rufo’s team was able to see it, confirming that it was the same make and model as that in the video.

In the recent debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, Trump brought up concerns that were apparently raised by residents in Springfield, both at city council meetings and elsewhere, that Haitian refugees were eating cats, dogs, and wild Canadian geese, which are protected.

Those migrants came to the US under the Biden-Harris administration’s refugee resettlement program and are eligible for full welfare benefits, from food stamps to housing to medical care.

As President Trump stated, “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs, the people that came in,” Trump said. “They’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people that live there. This is what’s happening in our country, and it’s a shame.”

Nothing says cultural enrichment and joys of diversity in our once lily-white communities like Haitians eating our pets.

They all have to go back. Then, we use RICO to arrest all NGOs who profited off of destabilizing our communities and putting not just our fellow citizens, but pets in danger.

As Raw Egg Nationalist documented, the Community Relations Service of the Department of Justic e got to Nathan Clark to ensure the white father of a murdered white son (by a Haitian) never, ever blamed the black individual who took his life. But instead, wished his son had been murdered by a 60-year-old white man…[Aiden Clark’s father said he doesn’t want his son’s death to be used for political gain, Fox8.com, 9/11/24]:

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (WJW) — The bereaved father of an 11-year-old boy, who was killed when a car reportedly driven by a Haitian immigrant crashed a car into his school bus last year, said he doesn’t want his son’s memory to be used for political gain.

Aiden Clark’s death in August 2023 has become one backdrop for growing local concern about the burden an influx of Haitian immigrants is having on the region’s public safety as well as its health care and school systems. About 15,000 Haitians have immigrated there since 2020, back when the city had about 58,000 residents, FOX 8 News reported.

Aiden’s father Nathan Clark appeared before the Springfield City Commission on Tuesday to address what he perceives as “hate” directed toward the growing immigrant community, wrapped as grievance for his son’s death. Read his remarks in full:

I wish that my son Aiden Clark was killed by a 60-year-old white man.

I bet you never thought anyone would say something so blunt. But if that guy killed my 11-year-old son, the incessant group of hate-spewing people would never leave us alone. The last thing we need is the worst day of our lives violently and constantly shoved in our faces.

But even that’s not good enough for them. They take it one step further. They make it seem like our wonderful Aiden appreciates all your hate; that we should follow your hate. And look what it’s done to us. We have to get up here and beg them to stop. Using Aiden as a political tool is, to say the least, reprehensible for any political purpose.

Speaking of morally bankrupt, politicians [Republican U.S. Senate candidate] Bernie Moreno, [Republican U.S. Rep.] Chip Roy, [Republican vice-presidential candidate] JD Vance and [former Republican president] Donald Trump — they have spoken my son’s name and used his death for political gain. This needs to stop now.

They can vomit all the hate they want about illegal immigrants, the border crisis and even untrue claims about fluffy pets being ravaged and eaten by community members. However, they are not allowed — nor have they ever been allowed — to mention Aiden Clark from Springfield, Ohio. I will listen to them one more time to hear their apologies.

To clear the air, my son Aiden Clark was not murdered. He was accidentally killed by an immigrant from Haiti. This tragedy is felt all over this community, this state and even the nation — but don’t spin this towards hate. In order to live like Aiden, you need to accept everyone, choose to shine, make the difference, lead the way and be the inspiration.

What many people in this community and state and nation are doing is the opposite of what we should be doing. Sure, we have our problems here in Springfield and in the U.S., but does Aiden Clark have anything to do with that?

Did you know an 11-year-old boy could be passionate about gardening? That he could haggle for a better price at a yard sale? Did you know that he researched different cultures to better appreciate and understand people that he interacted with?

Did you know that one of the worst feelings in the world is not being able to protect your child? Even worse, we can’t protect his memory when he’s gone.

Please stop the hate. I said to Aiden that I would try to make a difference in his honor. This is it. Live like Aiden.

NATHAN CLARK OF SPRINGFIELD

The man who killed Aiden Clark is 36-year-old Hermanio Joseph. It happened on the first day of school in 2023 on state Route 41, reported FOX 8 sister station NBC4. Joseph’s vehicle reportedly went left-of-center, forcing the school bus driver to swerve onto the shoulder. The vehicles collided and the bus went off the road and down into an embankment, overturning.

Aiden was killed when he was ejected from the bus, authorities said. Another 26 students were hospitalized, one with serious injuries and others with non-life-threatening injuries, NBC4 reported.

In May 2024, Joseph was convicted by jury of involuntary manslaughter and vehicular homicide and sentenced to between nine and 13 1/2 years in prison, Clark County court records show. A motion to stay his sentence pending an appeal was overruled.

Suicidal empathy? What words or actions – save state intervention – could compel a father to wish his son had been murdered by a white male instead of what actually happened (a Haitian killing his son)? The malaise of which our nation has been under for so long is regrettably personified by this story, where a white father laments his white son wasn’t murdered by a Haitian, but instead by a white male.

There are apparently 727,000 Haitians living in the United States. That’s 727,000 too many, but for one small town in Ohio, three percent of the entire Haitian population in the USA now calls it home.

Eric Swalwell, who slept with a Chinese spy and demanded I be arrested for jury tampering, losing his mind over Trump kitten and duck memes is perfectly on brand: pic.twitter.com/raGuCD31WE

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) September 10, 2024

Watch out for your pets. [Springfield, Ohio man tells city council Haitians are taking ducks from parks, cutting their heads off, eating them, Post Millennial, September 8, 2024]:

A resident of Springfield Ohio, a small town which has gained national attention in the topic of immigration after it has been flooded with 20,000 Haitian illegal immigrants, has alleged that Haitian migrants in the community have been eating local wildlife.

At a Springfield City Commission meeting in late August, a resident shared concerns, stating that Haitian illegal immigrants are “in the park grabbing up ducks by their neck and cutting their head off and walking off with them and eating them.”

The allegations come as Springfield has struggled to cope with a massive influx of 20,000 Haitian illegal immigrants in recent years, dramatically straining city resources and increasing homelessness in the area. Another resident at a city commission meeting recently described how her neighborhood is no longer safe due to the aggressiveness of Haitian illegal immigrants, who have harassed her and trespassed on her property.

“I don’t understand what you expect of us as citizens,” the resident said at a city council meeting. “I understand they’re here under temporary protected status and you’re protecting them… but who’s protecting us? If we’re protecting them, who’s protecting me?”

The Haitian immigrants may have been given the protected status under the Biden-Harris administration’s parole program, which allows migrants from Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to seek entry into the US if they have a US-based sponsor. However, there have been concerns about the program having widespread fraud.

Despite these concerns, the Department of Homeland Security recently resumed its parole program, which allows Haitians and other immigrants to come into the US, often without proper vetting.

All the ducks, cats, and dogs in Springfield combined have more value than every Haitian in not just the United States, but on the island of Haiti. Who would have thought importing Haitians en mass to the USA and having rumors of these individuals eating pets would be the catalyst for pushing Donald Trump to the POTUS in 2024?

Imagine spending your entire life creating an amazing family, having grandchildren and great-grandchildren, being a positive member of your community and even serving your country in the Navy, only to watch it all end at the age of 90-year-old when a 21-year-old black male pistol whips you and runs you over with your vehicle.

His name is Nelson Beckett, a 90-year-old white Navy veteran who was murdered by a black male on a random Saturday afternoon in Houston. [90-Year-Old Veteran Killed by Carjacker in Houston, InfoWars.com, 9/3/24]:

A 90-year-old Navy veteran was brutally murdered in broad daylight by a suspect who shot him, stole his car, and ran him over in Texas over the weekend, authorities say.

The shocking incident unfolded at around 12:45 p.m. on Saturday afternoon in Houston.

The victim, Nelson Beckett, was sitting in his vehicle at an independent living community when he was approached by a “black male, believed to 25 to 30 years of age,” according to Houston Police.

The suspect assaulted Beckett and then shot him before stealing his car.

Beckett was run over by his own vehicle as the suspect fled the scene.

Authorities later located the stolen car abandoned at an apartment complex in the city, but the suspect had not been identified or apprehended as of Monday afternoon.

“A devoted family man, Nelson Beckett, had five grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, and another on the way. He often spoke of how blessed he felt to have such a big, wonderful, loving Christian family,” Fox 26 reports.

“He spent much of his time helping others, driving people without cars to doctor’s appointments, FEMA offices, stores, and even to church on Sundays. He was known to help friends from a halfway house, taking them to panhandle or driving them to church, where he even baptized several of them.”

Kyliel Denzel Arceneaux, 21, has been charged with capital murder, two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and tampering with evidence, police said.

Kyliel Denzel Arceneaux, 21, has been charged with capital murder, two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and tampering with evidence, police said.

We don’t have to live this way. Unfortunately, Nelson Beckett, who lived an incredible, blessed life, and raised a loving Christian family, found out that in the current year, none of his accomplishments in life mattered when a gun was put to his head on a random Saturday afternoon in Houston.

As California goes, so goes the nation…[White supremacy, patriarchy and colonialism’: Behind S.F.’s $3 million plan to cull its monuments, San Francisco Chronicle, August 28, 2024]:

San Francisco is about to begin evaluating its nearly 100 statues and monuments to figure out which ones no longer represent the city’s values and should be removed from view, relocated or reinterpreted with explanatory plaques.

The debate over the city’s monuments began in 2018 with the removal of the “Early Days” sculpture from the Pioneer Monument in Civic Center because it represented a Native American seated before a Spanish Catholic missionary. The effort gathered steam amid the racial justice movement in 2020 that followed the murder of George Floyd. That year, crowds toppled statues throughout the country that glorified Confederate Civil War leaders, which critics said paid homage to the country’s racist past.

The survey of San Francisco’s civic art collection — funded by a $3 million Mellon Foundation grant — will be conducted by an outside firm and should be completed by January.

The project, called “Shaping Legacy,” was discussed at an Arts Commission meeting last week when senior project manager Angela Carrier explained that looking at San Francisco’s monuments and memorials as a whole shows “a concentration that talks about power, privilege, white supremacy, patriarchy and colonialism.”

“These monuments no longer represent the values that we say the city stands for,” she added.

The monuments and memorial were listed in an inventory last updated in June 2023. They range from Lotta’s Fountain installed on Market Street in 1875 to the bust of George Moscone at City Hall to a dozen or more statues of explorers and war heroes in Golden Gate Park. The most recent addition is a 9-foot bronze sculpture of Maya Angelou being installed at the Main Library in September. It, too, will be subject to review. The entire Civic Art Collection consists of 4,000 objects valued in excess of $100 million.

The project’s mission statement says its goal is to confront the inequities of the past to confront the inequities of the present.

The overall effort is a $250 million undertaking called the “Monuments Project,” which seeks to remake the public art landscape, and it’s all funded by Mellon.

San Francisco is one of nine cities to receive grants. The city saw its share of monuments destroyed in 2020 when bronze statues of Junipero Serra, Ulysses S. Grant and Francis Scott Key were all knocked off their pedestals by protesters in Golden Gate Park. The city removed the statue of Christopher Columbus at Coit Tower to avoid a similar fate. All four statues are now secured in storage.

So, yes, 98 statues are being audited to decide if they will go the way of the Serra, Grant and Key statues that were destroyed during the George Floyd riots of 2020. [SF Performing an Audit of City’s 98 Statues to Determine If Any Should Be Removed for Being Racist or Sexist, SFist.com, August 28, 2024]:

An outside firm has been hired to perform an audit of the 98 statues and monuments in SF, and recommend which ones should be removed or altered if they “no longer represent the values that we say the city stands for.”

You may recall that a statue at Civic Center called “Early Days” was removed in 2017 over its depiction of a Spanish vaquero standing over a Native American, a depiction that did not age particularly well. And then of course there was that Christopher Columbus statue by Coit Tower that was vandalized so many times that the city just tore it down and threw it into storage in June 2020. This was during the George Floyd protests, when several statues in Golden Gate Park were also toppled by protesters because of their subjects’ association with colonialism, slavery, or historical genocide.

And now the Chronicle reports that the City of San Francisco has commissioned an audit to determine whether any SF statues should be removed, or maybe just given disclaimers or content warnings.

“These monuments no longer represent the values that we say the city stands for,” SF Arts Commission senior project manager Angela Carrier said at a meeting last week, per the Chronicle, saying that SF’s overall collection of 98 statues and monuments shows “a concentration that talks about power, privilege, white supremacy, patriarchy, and colonialism.”

“…power, privilege, white supremacy, patriarchy, and colonialism.” As the old America is dismantled brick by brick in the name of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), perhaps we start to think about what it truly means to celebrate what made America great in the past.

Manifest Destiny wasn’t a bad thing, nor should we fail to celebrate those who made the greatness of America possible for their posterity, but to engage in such thought is to reject every premise of DEI.

Time to remember your George Orwell… “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.”

We won’t even have ruins of our civilization for future historians to pour over and reflect upon the collapsed civilization that erected them to honor long dead men who inspired in life, only to run afoul of political commissars in the final stages of the American Empire. [Base of John C. Calhoun statue turned into rubble, ABCNews4.com, January 21, 2021]:

CHARLESTON, SC (WCIV) — The spot that once held the monument of John C. Calhoun high in the sky is now nothing more than a bunch of rubble and dirt.

Since Monday, crews have been working at Marion Square to demolish what was left of the monument.

Now, it’s just a bunch of piles of rock and concrete.

City officials said they expect the process to take between seven to 10 days to take down the monument and remove all the debris from the area.

Back in June, Charleston City Council voted to remove the monument dedicated to John C. Calhoun, a 19th century South Carolina politician and white supremacist who upheld slavery as a “positive good.”

Soon after that vote, the statue was removed, but it’s been a slow process to demolish the rest of it, including its column and the base.

So far, there has been no decision on what to do with the statue. A couple months after the statue removal, the Charleston Museum declined to take it, citing its size and weight.

In October, crews also took apart the base in order to find a time capsule. There’s still no update to what is inside the capsule.

Not even the base of the John C. Calhoun Statue could remain, but was pulverized into rock and concrete. Meanwhile, in 2014, a statue to Denmark Vesey was put up in Charleston. Vesey was a black man who tried to lead a slave rebellion in 1822 to kill all white people in the city of Charleston and then have all freed slaves emigrate to Haiti.

His statue far better reflects the prevailing attitude of the elite in America in 2024.

The complete destruction of the John C. Calhoun Monument in Charleston, South Carolina, base and all, is a reminder of the fate that awaits all statues to Dead White Males in America. What’s the point of talking about white supremacy and white privilege if not to create the conditions were all statues to Dead White Males are deemed intolerable to the status quo, and monuments to genocidal black men like Denmark Vesey go up in their place?

There can be no detente with those pushing the Diversity/Equity/Inclusion line, for they are beyond true believers. There have no desire for adhering to a concept of Mutually Assured Destruction, because they seek the total dismantling of our civilization, believing it was built to maintain white supremacy. Thus, the concept of ‘queering nuclear weapons’… [Biden-Harris Department of Energy official calls for ‘queering nuclear weapons’ as part of radical DEI agenda, Fox News. August 20, 2024]:

Biden-Harris official says, ‘Queer theory is also about rejecting… the tenet that nuclear deterrence creates security and disarmament creates vulnerability’

A recent hire at the nuclear security wing of the Department of Energy has previously called for disarmament policies – which reduce or eliminate nuclear weapons –arguing that advancing “queer theory” was essential to that agenda as well as important to America’s national security.

The Biden-Harris administration announced Sneha Nair had been appointed as special assistant at the National Nuclear Security Administration in February 2024. Nair believes in eradicating purported “White supremacy” in the nuclear field as well as “queering nuclear weapons” as part of a diversity, equity and inclusion push she believes is essential for deterring threats to nuclear energy facilities in the U.S.

“Finally, queer theory informs the struggle for nuclear justice and disarmament,” she wrote last year. “Queer theory helps to shift the perception of nuclear weapons as instruments for security by telling the hidden stories of displacement, illness, and trauma caused by their production and testing.”

Nair argues that DEI, more broadly, “is essential for creating effective nuclear policy.”

Before she joined the administration, she worked for the Stimson Institute, which has received hundreds of thousands from Soros’ Open Society Foundations and millions from “The Embassy of the State of Qatar” over the years, Fox News Digital’s review of their funding sources revealed.

Stimson and the Department of Energy were contacted for comment for this story but did not respond.

DEI IN NUCLEAR ENERGY

Nair believes that without a DEI agenda, the workforce of a nuclear security facility is at risk for becoming “insider threats,” Nair said in an article from April 2023.

“By understanding DEI as a set of values critical to security, and therefore as an element of an effective nuclear security culture, stakeholders can explore how DEI can contribute to stronger security at nuclear facilities,” she said.

“Collectively, these principles (of DEI) can work to mitigate counterproductive work behavior and prevent disgruntled employees from becoming insider threats,” she claimed.

Regarding race bias, Nair believes that White staff at nuclear facilities don’t have the ability to properly evaluate threats from people of the same racial group, notably radical White supremacists.

“Diversifying the perspectives included in nuclear security decision-making can expand the definition of who or what constitutes a ‘threat’ for nuclear security,” she said. “The notion of ‘threat’ and ‘security’ are defined by the dominant culture, which inherently sidelines how marginalized groups … perceive ‘threats.'”

Dominant culture is an academic concept about power which refers to how the U.S. has traditionally been shaped by White people.

“An example of this is the threat posed by some White supremacist groups to nuclear facilities may go undetected if a White-majority workforce does not perceive these ideological leanings as indicators of a relevant nuclear security threat,” she claimed.

“[I]ntegrating DEI into nuclear security culture can help reimagine how each state’s nuclear security regime understands ‘threat’ to ensure a comprehensive assessment of the security risks facing a facility,” she concluded.

By her line of thinking, why should any white person be employed in a nuclear facility? Are you beginning to understand why South Africa dismantled their nuclear bombs before handing over power to the African National Congress (ANC) in the early 1990s?

Confession: I’m a fourth-generation Birmingham-ian (Alabama). It’s an amazing city, left in ruins by white flight Over The Mountain (OTM), where white people rebuilt the city in Mountain Brook, Vestavia Hills and Hoover. Well, not left in ruins, but allowed to decay in the slowness of time and what occurs via the Regression to the Negro Mean. Again… white people left behind a fully functioning city and infrastructure. What happened in the subsequent years of black rule? [Birmingham tries blocking streets to reduce crime. Is it working?, Al.com, August 20, 2024]:

For weeks, cars have tried to drive into Birmingham’s Eastlake neighborhood, only to be stopped by road closed signs and bright yellow concrete barriers.

Project Safe Streets is a City of Birmingham four-month pilot program that aims to make the neighborhood and city safer by controlling and limiting access points to the neighborhood. Officials hope to deter speeding, shootings, theft, prostitution and violent crime. City officials also are identifying abandoned properties and illegal dumping sites for cleanup and revitalization. The city has put up barriers at 18 entry points and alleys within the neighborhood.

Since the initiative’s launch in July, the barriers have been a hot topic for many Eastlake residents. For some residents, the barriers are a nuisance and a punishment. For others, they are a symbol of safety and hope.

Marquis Tucker has lived in Eastlake for 23 years and was one of the artists who painted the barriers with black and red abstract shapes, green peace lilies and children. He said the barriers represent a future for his 2-year-old son.

“I think the barriers are definitely a great thing to have in place. Something needed to be done and things have improved a lot.”

Birmingham is on track to have the most number of homicides in a year in recent memory; so far in 2024 100 people have been killed, including 8 justifiable death rulings and eight children who have been killed. The youngest victim was 5-year-old Landon Brooks, who died after being shot.

The other seven children were Markell Sanders, 15; Aston Starky, 13; Jonathan O’Dell Thomas Jr., 18; Jaylin Lee Jenkins, 16; Jaquavius James Weston, 18; Cornelia Rose Lathan, 15; and Prentice Lovell Little, 15.

Eastlake has seen several violent crimes and deaths in recent months; in May, before the barriers were deployed, a 10-year-old boy was shot while walking in East Lake Park.

In June, Kameron Connell, 30, was shot and killed in an Eastlake parking lot near a dice game.

Later that same month, a shootout on First Avenue North in front of East Lake Park left Martavius Williams, 19, dead and two other people seriously injured. Shot Spotter registered more than 50 rounds fired.

Since the implementation of the Safe Streets initiative, the city has hauled more than 292 tons of trash to the landfill, made more than 45 arrests, identified over 35 structures for condemnation, cut over 120 overgrown lots and written more than 100 traffic violations just in the Eastlake area, according to city officials.

“We do see some impact being made,” Alicia Lumpkin, the City of Birmingham director of process improvement, said.

Mayor Randall Woodfin told AL.com in July that the city would track and assess the effectiveness of the Eastlake program at the end of the pilot to determine if the initiative will continue or if the city will reopen the streets.

“Painting the children onto these barriers not only reminds us of the losses we’ve had to violent crimes but shows that there’s a future that is still living in these communities that deserve to see tomorrow,” Tucker said.

Nothing happening in 70 percent black Birmingham is the fault of white people. Freedom of Association and the freedom to seek another city to raise your children free of the burden of post-Brown v Board of Education is still allowed, and no city in America is more demonstrative of this than Birmingham, Alabama.

A city where, under black democratic rule for decades, barriers must go up on streets to stop black crime from proliferating.

Another aspiring rapper becomes an expiring rapper… How many country music singers striving to make it big in Nashville get gunned down on the route to being a real big star? [Rapper Tan DaGod Reportedly Shot & Killed At Grand Opening Of Beauty Shop, 949TheBeat, July 24, 2024]:

Tan DaGod, a rising rapper out of California, was shot and killed during her meet-and-greet at the grand opening of a beauty shop.

The shooting occurred on Saturday afternoon, July 13, at the Glamor Beauty Supply on 40th Street and Telegraph Avenue in Oakland. According to KRON4, shots were fired at the strip mall around 5 p.m. after Tan did a meet-and-greet with fans. Police arrived at the scene and found one victim, who they later identified as Tan a.k.a. Alliauna Green. She was transported to a nearby hospital where she was pronounced dead. Witnesses say they saw a man pull up to the event and started shooting.

Just connection vibes, just family vibes, it’s peaceful, and people just showing off their talents and just being themselves,” artist and witness Rakeem “Hazpain” told NBC’s Bay Area affiliate. “Then they started letting off more rounds. Then the building across the street got hit like five times. When shots went through the window and I was ducking behind the chairs in a donut shop.”

“They were just doing party, and he just stopped by and started shooting,” another witness Saul Cho said. “I heard like 20 shots in like five seconds.”

Tan DaGod was an aspiring artist and entrepreneur who had just opened her beauty shop as well as an Airbnb in Florida. She’s released a lot of music since 2021 including her most recent EP Ex Wood Pack. Once news about her passing went viral, fellow Oakland rapper Mistah F.A.B paid tribute to her.

“The violence is beyond understanding the hurt the pain the trauma has made a forever lasting impact,” he wrote on Instagram. “I will always remember you as a hustling ass go getter, with a world of ambition,drive and courage and a heart big as TEXAS!!!! I love you lil sis and told you on several occasions sad to see this happen!!! They had me booked to be there with you but GOD had different plans .. to #Tannation family and friends may our warmest condolences be with you!!”

Spoiler alert: zero.

In the upcoming 2024 Presidential election, literally one thing needs to happen for Donald Trump to secure his 2nd Term as POTUS: win the white working class vote at the levels he won in 2016 in Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina and in places like Virginia as well. In 2016, he won 64 percent of the non-college educated white vote, to Hillary Clinton’s 28 percent, but in 2020, the Democrats increased that percentage to 33 percent (Trump only one percentage point higher at 65%).

You can spend all the money in the world trying to court the black vote, but in the states that matter to turn the election into a victory President Trump, it’s simply increase the non-college educated white vote to around 70 percent for him, and you’ll have a victory even larger than 2016 (and with more separation). [Donald Trump’s Support Among White Working Class Has ‘Shrunk Significantly’, Newsweek, August 14, 2024]:

Donald Trump’s support among white working-class voters has “shrunk significantly” since President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race, said CNN data expert Harry Enten.

The latest New York Times/Siena College poll, conducted between August 5 and August 9, found that in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, more white voters without a college degree, a group that has typically favored Republicans, are backing Vice President Kamala Harris.

According to the poll, Trump’s lead among the demographic has been slashed by 13 points since May, when Biden was still the presumptive candidate for the Democratic Party. In a New York Times/Siena College poll conducted between April 28 and May 9, Trump was 26 points ahead of Biden among white non-college-educated voters when third-party candidates were included—with 52 percent to his opponent’s 26 percent.

Trump now only leads by 13 points among white non-college-educated voters, 53 percent to 40 percent when third-party candidates are included. The former president is also 13 points ahead of Harris in the demographic in a head-to-head matchup. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

“Donald Trump still leads, but look at that margin. It has shrunk significantly…nearly been sliced by half,” Enten said on CNN.

“Those are the types of numbers that Kamala Harris needs to put up in order to win,” Enten continued. He said Biden did not want to drop out of the race because he was worried that Harris could not break in with white non-college-educated voters, “but it turns out she absolutely can.”

White non-college-educated voters have historically voted Republican and were critical to Trump’s victory in 2016, when he won the group by 64 percent to Hillary Clinton‘s 28 percent.

However, in 2020, white non-college-educated shifted slightly toward the Democrats, with 33 percent voting for Biden, while 65 percent voted for Trump, the Pew Research Center found.

While white working-class voters still lean Republican, experts have said Harris’ vice presidential nominee, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, could help her appeal to white working-class rural voters, particularly in the “blue wall” states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.

It’s the Non-College Educated White Vote, Stupid! It’s really that simple. Increase this percentage of the vote in the key battleground states, secure the White House for a 2nd Term, and then spend the next four years worrying about increasing the black turnout in subsequent. But victory first before virtue signaling (or, just retire the virtue signaling and realize it’s okay to put the interest of your actual constituency first!).

Years ago, Delta Airlines had a tremendous tagline – “You’ll love the way the fly.”

Now? Courtesy of a Black Chief DEI Officer, using the phrase “Ladies and gentleman” is now an antiquated reminder of reforming gender norms. [Delta’s top DEI officer jettisons ‘ladies and gentlemen’ gate announcements as part of equity push: Delta had a plan to ‘boldly pursue equity’ where no airline had gone before, Fox News, August 8, 2024]:

Over the last few years, Delta Air Lines has embraced the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) agenda under the purview of a chief officer who believes that the phrase “ladies and gentlemen” isn’t inclusive.

Delta’s Chief Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Social Impact Officer Kyra Lynn Johnson has said publicly Delta is striving to “boldly pursue equity” which has impacted every level of the company, from its hiring practices to the language it uses in gate announcements.

“So we’re beginning to take a hard look at things like our gatehouse announcements. You know, we welcome ‘ladies and gentlemen.’ And we’ve asked ourselves, ‘Is that as gender inclusive as we want to be?’” Johnson said during a February 2021 panel with other DEI insiders. “You know, we’re looking at some legacy language that exists in some of our employee manuals. And getting to the root of the way some things are described and saying, ‘Does that actually send a message of inclusivity?’”

Delta released an inclusive language guide in December 2020 which advised employees and leaders against using terms that reinforce the notion that there are only two genders.

“Use gender-neutral language and pronouns. Do not use language that suggests a gender binary (male-female),” the Delta guide said.

A Delta spokesperson told Fox News Digital that the company encourages its employees to use inclusive language.

“Delta encourages our people to use language that is inclusive of everyone as our global customer base includes a broad range of diversity in cultural backgrounds, identity and experiences,” the spokesperson said.

Also, during the DEI panel in 2021, Johnson stressed how it was important to Delta to be an “antiracist company.”

“To really come out and say, as an organization, that we are an antiracist company was really important to us,” she said. “We are going to actively seek diversity. We’re also talking about how we’re going to boldly pursue equity. And we’re talking about the steps we’re taking to consciously promote inclusion.”

The concept of being antiracist was significantly popularized by activist Ibram X. Kendi, with the publication of his book, “How to Be an Antiracist,” in 2019. Some critics say that Kendi argues for current discrimination in order to atone for historical wrongs. Kendi believes, like Johnson, that it is not enough to not be racist; one must be an activist against racism.

“So, we realize, like many of you have, that it’s not enough just to say, ‘We aren’t racist,’ but to say that you are antiracist,” Johnson added.

In addition to recommendations for employees’ communications, Delta has also pursued a top-down approach in its talent pipeline.

“We said we’re going to reimagine and redefine our talent strategy,” Johnson said, with a focus on being “intentional about the representation that we need.”

She added how those metrics would be closely tracked and measured by Delta’s DEI team.

“We’re starting on a quarterly basis to specifically measure those representation gaps at every level of the company. So we’re looking at the front line representation gap,” she said.

It’s not about getting passengers from Point A to Point B anymore. It’s about reminding them the past is dead and the brave new world of Diversity/Inclusion/Equity means everything we once took for granted has been replaced and you are a racist if you dare disagree.

It doesn’t matter that 10 years ago today Michael Brown tried to steal Darren Wilson’s gun and shoot him with it. Obama’s DOJ even proved the “hands up, don’t shoot” myth was a lie. None of that matters. Today, black leaders and black citizens will march in Ferguson, Missouri to remember Brown, the “unarmed black teen” who was sacrificed on the streets of the St. Louis suburb by a white police officer. [St. Louis community remembers Mike Brown 10 years after he was killed, FirstAlert4.com, August 8, 2024]:

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) – Friday marks 10 years since a white police officer shot 18-year-old Mike Brown, an unarmed Black teen, to death in Ferguson.

On Thursday, on the street where his body lay for hours, a memorial grew.

Ferguson: A decade later

On Friday, the All Roads Lead to Ferguson unity walk kicks off at 9 a.m. The march will start at Normandy High School and end on Canfield Drive. There will be a moment of silence and memorial service for Brown.

This event is being put on by Michael Brown Senior’s Chosen for Change organization.

Welcome to Black-Run America (BRA).

Previously on SBPDL: In 69% Black Birmingham, al, the Birmingham City Schools System (88% Black) Is Paying Parents to Ensure Their Kids Go to School…

Birmingham, Alabama is 69 percent black.

Birmingham City Schools are roughly 88 percent black, 10 percent Hispanic, and 1 percent white. It’s one of the worst school systems in America:

In Birmingham City, 21% of elementary students tested at or above the proficient level for reading, and 6% tested at or above that level for math. Also, 19% of middle school students tested at or above the proficient level for reading, and 4% tested at or above that level for math. And 12% of high school students tested at or above the proficient level for reading, and 5% tested at or above that level for math.

Call the previous paragraph the shot. And now the chaser, where not only will parents be paid if their kids attend school, but they’ll get even more money if they have perfect attendance. [Birmingham gives $16,000 to families with perfect school attendance: A ‘blessing’, AL.com, August 2, 2024]:

Jerica Magee, 29, a single mother of five, got help paying her rent one month last spring.

The reason? Her three oldest children logged perfect attendance at Oxmoor Valley Elementary School.

“I wasn’t working at the time and was asking my family to help me. It was a struggle to get the money that I needed to pay my rent with my children’s needs, and household needs and bills,” Magee said. “So this was a big blessing to me because I was struggling and I was in need.”

Birmingham, which recently has seen high rates of absenteeism in the city school district, started a program in January to encourage more families in public housing to get children into classrooms. Each month, students with perfect attendance are entered into a monthly Every Day Counts drawing where one qualified household is chosen from each of the housing authority’s 13 eligible properties.

The awards, $300 toward the households’ rent, are sponsored by community partners and coordinated by the City of Birmingham, Birmingham City Schools and the Housing Authority of the Birmingham District.

Officials say the program is improving school attendance. And with the district’s first day of school quickly approaching on Aug. 5, they’re going to keep drawing names through the 2024-25 school year.

Magee said that with the money she saved on rent, she bought diapers and household products for her children, ages one, two, six, eight and 10.

She said she always made sure they got to school on time every day, so she was happy for the additional reward.

“It’s definitely important to get your kids to school on time and make sure that they go to school every day because education is just so important,” Magee said. “I definitely believe that children being in school keeps them out of trouble.”

Birmingham City Schools faces a high rate of chronic absenteeism; last year, local officials sounded alarms about the amount of students missing schoo l.

About 23% of local students were chronically absent in 2022-23, higher than the statewide rate of 18%, according to the most recent information available. Many districts have seen increasing rates of absenteeism since the pandemic.

Regular school attendance of school-aged children is a requirement of housing authority lease agreements and state law.

Kids stay home for many reasons: finances, housing instability, illness, transportation issues, school staffing shortages, anxiety, depression, bullying or generally feeling unwelcome at school, experts say.

Absent students miss out not only on what is being taught in class but also on all the other things schools provide such as free meals, counseling, socialization and safety. Students who are chronically absent are at higher risk of not learning to read and eventually dropping out.

The 98 percent non-white (88 percent black) Birmingham City School system spends just over $12,000/per student. Birmingham Public Housing is, back of the napkin math, probably boasting a racial population of close to 100 percent black. So, we are now paying those black guardians living in public housing money to ensure their black progeny attends school as a way to battle extremely high rates of chronic absenteeism and if they have perfect attendance, they get even more money…

Wakanda… Birmingham is not.

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