Remember the hispanic thug who killed three people and injured one a couple of weeks ago? I told you last week that Jose Carranza was an illegal alien with a rap sheet.
Check out this blood pressure-raising revelation: local law enforcement didn’t report Carranza to Immigration and Customs Enforcement when they first arrested his sorry ***, despite pending charges on aggravated sexual assault of a child. The feds had never heard of him. From the AP (emphases added):
Mr. Carranza [Mr. Get a load of that...] had been free after posting a bond of $5,000 when the shootings occurred, but immigration officials say he may never have returned to the streets had local authorities contacted them after his first felony arrest in October 2006.
“We certainly would have been inclined to place him in a removal proceeding, however we came across him,†said Marc Raimondi, spokesman for United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “Given that he is alleged to have committed a very serious offense against a child, that would have put him at the top of our list.â€
New Jersey is among the places where local authorities aren’t required to check the immigration status of someone arrested, and some critics want that changed.
And George Bush wants to give millions of these people a free ride to citizenship. It’s a good thing states and locals are empowering their law enforcement officers to take up the federal government’s slack. Perhaps this high-profile Newark death-by-illegal-alien tragedy will turn up the heat under the cauldron of the so-called crackdown on illegal “immigration.” Won’t believe it until I see it, though.
Update (8/15): I don’t like Newt Gingrich. He’s a man of low character. But right now, he and Tom Tancredo are among the only Republicans saying things I want to hear, so I’m linking to “Enough is Enough.” An excerpt:
There is a war here at home, and it is even more deadly than the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Far more Americans are being killed by violent, evil people here in America than in our official military “combat zones” overseas.
The truth is, all too many Americans are being killed. But what is so completely senseless is having the lives of three young, achieving students cut brutally short by someone who not only should not have been in the United States in the first place but also, after two previous arrests for violence, should not have been on the streets. Instead, the suspected killer should have been in jail awaiting trial, sentencing, prison and eventual deportation.
Another case in point: Authorities are now seeking an additional suspect in the Newark killings — yet another suspected illegal alien.
Thanks to the U.S.’s immigration non-enforcement policy as it relates to Central Americans, not to mention its abdication of the duty to protect us from invasion at home, my support for the war in Iraq has waned considerably.
Even when I was still voting for Democrats, I noticed how condescending they and other white liberals tended to be. Trying to appear comfortable around black people, they usually ended up saying something dumb. Being yourself must be difficult when you’re trying to pretend you care about or even know any black people.
White liberals do have this going for them: as long as they’re self-deprecating around blacks, they can get away with saying just about anything, no matter how offensive.
Five years ago, when I first started calling myself a conservative, I wrote an op-ed about the lack of outrage among blacks over a white Maryland state senator calling then Lt. Governor Michael Steele an Uncle Tom during some redistricting controversy. In subsequent years, I noticed that no high profile black political bigmouth or journalist came to the defense of people like Condoleezza Rice when white liberals made offensive race-based comments to or about them.
That’s white Democrats’ privilege. As honorary blacks, they can shuck and jive with the best of them. And as long as they promise to feed more tax dollars into yet more social programs, they’re golden.
Yeah, I was 30, but so what? I called a radio station and asked the DJ to play the teenybopper hit “MMMBop.” And I wasn’t embarrassed.
“Already in the line-up,” he droned.
Mine probably was the one millionth request of the day for that song.
Silly yet catchy, “MMMBop” and those little blond-haired Hanson boys (who looked like girls) brightened up my first summer of sobriety in almost 12 years back in 1997. I was going through an “I’m 30!!!” mini-crisis and wanted to do something bold. Recovering from alcoholism and joblessness, I started planning for the next step. I soon left SC for DC, with no job and no place to live. Just a car full of stuff and a friend with a couch. That was bold.
I associate “MMMBop” with those days. Seems like eons ago. Ten years later, I’ve rediscovered Hanson. It’s a new day now:
Time for another bold moment, I think. Good weekend, all.
My view on this is somewhat controversial, too. There was a similar crackdown on milblogging in the U.S. If the Department of Defense believes milblogging is a security risk, it should restrict blogging. If blogging and social media sites are clogging up the works, then such activity should be reduced or eliminated on military computers.
“You might remember a couple of months ago Blackfive put on an email campaign requesting emails of support for Marine RCT 6 (Regimental Combat Team 6). They managed to get over 20,000 emails. I was so impressed with Blackfive’s efforts…I’ve been in contact with the PAO at 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division and they said they could definitely use the letters.”
Find out more about the letter writing campaign at Jim’s blog.
Friday, August 10: I’m sure most of you’ve read about the three black people murdered execution style last week (one wounded) in Newark, New Jersey. The police have two suspects in custody.
“Lots of folks are asking about the accused killer in the Newark execution-style murders of four young students. Yes, he’s here illegally according to media and law enforcement officials and he just pleaded not guilty this morning. More: ‘Carranza, who spoke through an interpreter, admitted he was not a U.S. citizen and was staying in the country illegally.’ And, yes, he has an extensive rap sheet…”
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According to a story in the LA Daily News, an hispanic gang has made it known that it targets blacks. Nothing new here. See this post for a link to a so-called hate crimes report for Los Angeles County. More links in yesterday’s post.
An excerpt from the article:
Since July 2006 there have been 12 shootings targeting Canoga Park blacks. Following two recent attacks, police have stepped up warnings to African-Americans to be wary of Canoga Park Alabama.
Some blacks in the community, as well as educators working with African-American students, said they have felt the wrath of the gang’s racist campaign of violence firsthand. But other blacks paint a more idyllic picture of Canoga Park, one that helped it become the first Los Angeles community to win the All-America honor in the award’s 58-year history.
Once a predominately white community, today Canoga Park is about 50 percent Latino, 28 percent white, 15 percent Asian and 4 percent black, according to a 2005 American Community Survey listed in a California State University, Northridge, report.
Although police can’t pinpoint why “CPA” has focused on blacks, one possibility is street culture emulating prison life, where black and Latino inmates have repeatedly clashed as they align themselves along racial lines.
“Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.” — Justice Thurgood Marshall
To be competitive with Hillary Clinton, Barack “He speaks so well!” Obama will have to pander to Hispanics, including illegal aliens. He has to align with racialist groups like National Council of La Raza and compare black Americans’ struggle to be treated like first class citizens with illegal aliens’ “struggle” to guilt-trip our government into exempting them from the law.
According to illegal aliens’ theory of civil rights, it is racist for a sovereign country to set its own immigration policy. Foreigners ought to have the right to come and go at will, and whatever rights citizens and legal aliens have should be subjugated to theirs. Illegals have a “right” to benefit from America’s generosity (and stupidity), while those who follow the rules just have to grin, bear it, pay the bills, and shut the heck up.
Mr. Obama’s message of a shared black-Latino struggle may strike a chord with political activists, but could ring hollow with core Latino voters.
“The Hispanic and black elites may be singing ‘Kumbaya’ together. But at the neighborhood level, they’re duking it out,” says Paula McClain, a Duke University political scientist who studies black-Latino relations. “Obama needs to understand the nuance and not assume a broad-brush coalition” between them.
Ms. McClain and other academics say Hispanics have negative stereotypical views of blacks. Generally, Hispanics feel they share more in common with whites than blacks, says Ms. McClain. “In a primary contest, one has to wonder how a Latino electorate will feel about voting for a black person.”
It is so funny to hear liberals complaining about the lack of skin color-only diversity at their own gatherings. (Lord knows they complain enough about other groups’ events.)
The Washington Post has a write-up about the predominance of middle-aged white men at Yearly Kos, a convention held this past weekend for liberal (political only?) bloggers.
By the way, the title of the article is, “A Diversity of Opinion, if Not Opinionators.” It should read, “A Diversity of Opinionators, if Not Opinions.” Different skin colors, not opinions, is the kind of diversity liberals obsess over.
I think the whole chasing-diversity thing is a bit ridiculous…but…since white liberals — not white conservatives, thank goodness — are the ones preaching it to the rest of us, I find them hypocritical and the situation ironic (and funny) when they end up with lily white conferences.
Look, I’m used to being either the only black or one of a few blacks at conservative and/or Christian bloggers conferences. Wish it were different, but I’m not complaining too loudly. I like going to events to meet like-minded people, regardless of color. I like being around the kind of whites who aren’t nervous about the “lack of diversity” at a particular conference or constantly asking me about “black” issues.
I guest-hosted “The Casey Lartigue Shop” on XM satellite radio earlier this year with host and friend Casey Lartigue. I’ve known the former Cato education analyst since 2003. I quoted one of his studies in my one and so-far-only Washington Post clip, and we’ve been pals ever since.
Casey told me a couple of months ago he’d been dumped by his radio station. As he told me his story, I wasn’t surprised. I had a bad experience with that particular channel. During an interview, the black liberal host, who didn’t like me, started yelling at me. On the air. I lost my cool, yelled back, and ended up hanging up on him. I hated that I’d lost control like that. Bad form. Weeks later, a producer called and apologized on behalf of the host, and asked me to return to the show. Not in a 1,000 lifetimes, honey. Casey later told me that for a couple of weeks after that show, the station played a clip (as the show’s intro) of me and the host going at it.
Last month, Casey and I appeared on NPR’s black bloggers roundtable, and he told me afterward he was writing a piece about his firing for the Washington Post. He and co-host Eliot Morgan exposed a conspiracy theory that former President Jimmy Carter issued a memorandum back in the day, which purportedly outlined a strategy to undermine black “leaders” in America and “sow discord with Africans abroad,” as a lie.
Casey and Eliot learned that Carter’s actual memo was “a bland call for a bureaucratic review of U.S. policy toward Central American issues.”
“[I]f you think that was the end of the story, you don’t know the world of black talk radio,” they write. “These are the airwaves in which the first president of the United States was a black man, in which AIDS was cooked up in a government laboratory to decimate the black population and in which major corporations lace their food with chemicals to make black men sterile.”
Anti-miscegenists will hate it. Black women ready for a change will love it. And everybody else, well…
Featured in an Associated Press article are black women who’ve crossed the color line in the dating and marriage field. The article is about how difficult it can be for black women to find marriage-worthy black men. Black men date and marry outside their race at a higher rate than black women, and some of these women are waking up to the possibility themselves.
In my latest Townhall column, Blacks and Hispanics Natural Allies?, I outline why these two “oppressed” groups are not “natural allies.” Fighting over limited resources and petty concerns is not conducive to an alliance. But joining together for the common goal of keeping America great, that’s a different story. This is The Economist article I cited in the column.
Here’s one of many reasons why people should create a stable home before procreating. Comedian Eddie Murphy knocked up Spice Girl Melanie Brown, and fled. He ordered DNA tests, and the baby is indeed his, but “[h]e has not indicated in his statement or to us that he plans to visit the baby,” said Brown’s “feminist” lawyer Gloria Allred.
Because Murphy lost interest in sleeping with Brown, a child is fatherless. Yes, the girl will receive checks from her wealthy father, but in all likelihood, that’s all she’ll get. Given the shameful epidemic of fatherless children among blacks, my tolerance for listening to blacks blame white racism for everything from the academic achievement gap to higher loan interest rates has hit rock bottom.
How much more damaging to a child are parental neglect and apathy than the most virulent racism? Oh, let us count the ways…
I was surfing the web researching something yesterday afternoon, and I stumbled upon this web site.
Remember the “MMMBop” Hanson boys from 10 years ago? They looked like girls, didn’t they? Well, the “boys” are all grown up, still harmonizing. And married.
Isaac is 26, Taylor is 24, and “little” Zac is 21. They’re singing, writing, and making music under their own independent label. The talented Hansons have got a heck of a following. I don’t know if the mainstream music world is paying attention, but it ought to be.
I thought you might like to see an interview and performance they did on some British TV show a few months ago. That’s Zac on lead vocals.
“Employers across the country are preparing to fire workers with questionable Social Security numbers to avoid getting snagged in a Bush administration crackdown on illegal immigrants…The Department of Homeland Security is expected to make public soon new rules for employers notified when their worker’s name or Social Security number was flagged by the Social Security Administration.†(Source)
So George Bush’s mega-billion-dollar agency is, at long last, doing something useful.
According to the article, employees with “questionable” Social Security numbers will have 60 days after notification to resolve the issue. If they can’t, employers must fire them or face fines ranging from $250 to $10,000 per illegal.
To get a handle on illegal “immigration,†we must go to the main source of the problem. I’ve ranted often enough about illegal aliens on this blog, but now’s the time to focus on businesses and individuals who hire illegal aliens.
If the executive branch does its job and actually enforces immigration laws, it would go a long way toward stemming the tide of foreigners crossing the border or overstaying visas, if the effort is combined with cutting off welfare to non-citizens. (No welfare for legal residents, either.) With no means of support, perhaps they’ll go home and try to return the legal way.
Locals, like the rest of the world, love Harry Potter.
In fact, residents of Falls Church [Virginia] love “Harry Potter†so much, they pre-ordered more copies per capita of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows than any other city, topping Amazon.com’s list of top 100 “Harry-est Towns in America.†Amazon donated a $5,000 gift certificate to the Mary Riley Styles Public Library Foundation Trust of Falls Church.
Northern Virginia’s Fairfax and Vienna made the list at third and fourth, respectively, and the District [of Columbia] topped the 50 states as “Harry-est” jurisdiction.
Why are the books so successful? [J.K.] Rowling combined the British boarding school fiction genre with the classic “hero’s journey” tradition, mythology and orthodox Christian themes to create a compelling series that reminds many of the works of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. “Harry Potter” is thus a compelling series that will entertain and delight readers for generations.
After I became a Christian eight or so years ago, I developed a hunger for good, sound biblical teaching. I wanted more than the emotional style of preaching I was used to hearing at black churches.
My youngest sister, who’d been a Christian years before I had, recommended a denomination that was Bible-focused, conservative, and emphasized expository preaching from men who’d gone to seminary and studied Greek and Hebrew, early church fathers, systematic theology, etc. Their style of preaching was organized in such a way that one could listen, take notes as they analyzed the text, and leave the church filled with a burning curiosity about the faith and a hunger to read, study, and learn more.
Sadly, I’ve never felt that way after leaving a black church. Oh, I’ve left the building feeling good and humming the last hymn, but the sermons didn’t leave me with any desire to go home and delve into the text. And I didn’t take notes, because the sermons weren’t organized for note-taking. The rhythmic preaching styles seemed designed to stir up emotions and draw responses rather than feed the people intellectually.
And the “shouting,” I could do without. The black church I grew up in was conservative compared to others I’ve visited; the congregation remained relatively quiet during the sermon. There was no fainting and hardly anyone shouted, although there was an occasional “Amen!” And it was only the random visitor who actually stood up in reaction to something the preacher said. To this day, when someone invites me to visit a predominantly black church, I always ask the loaded question, “People don’t shout, do they?”
But that’s just one woman’s experience. This post isn’t the gospel and doesn’t reflect every black person’s experience.
There are exceptions to the rule of course. I know there are black churches out there that emphasize teaching over fervent praise or balance the two, but more often than not, they tend to be Reformed and/or headed by someone who attended a Reformed, conservative seminary. And there are white churches light on scholarship and heavy on emotion.
I currently attend a Reformed, mostly white church that has a sprinkling of blacks and Asians. (One of the elders is a black man with a big family.) The pastor is well-known in his denomination. His passion for the word of God and for helping Christians grow in faith and knowledge and learn how to defend the faith, is contagious.
The two church styles can co-exist. The ideal church for me would combine the singing and praise style (sans shouting and call-and-response) of a typical black church with the solid scholarly sermons I get at my current church. Alas, I haven’t found such a place close by.
That’s a long intro to an issue I wanted to bring to your attention. According to “Did prof’s views on Jews, blacks cross line?,” a white law professor made a true statement — that Jews pass the bar at a higher rate than blacks — and wondered if Jews’ religious training, which involves a “critical analysis of written Scripture,” plays a part in their studiousness in law school.
The professor’s faux pas was wondering, out loud, whether his black students’ performances and exam pass rate had anything to do with growing up in black churches that “emphasize an emotional and spiritual religious experience rather than discussion and debate about the meaning of scriptural language.”
The professor’s question likely would have generated an interesting discussion but for the “intelligence” taboo. The dude obviously missed PC-diversity-indoctrination classes. Never, ever state a truth or assume you have academic freedom in an academic setting to openly discuss ideas that question or appear to question the studiousness of black students and the part their subculture might play — if you want to keep your job, that is.
Black people are immune from discussing these “dangerous” ideas or being around people discussing these ideas. It is taboo to wonder aloud why blacks as a group have lower standardized test scores and grades or pass professional examinations at lower rates than other groups — unless you point the finger at white racism and lack of government funding.
In Georgia’s Darkies, I told you about the Georgia legislature’s attempt to curb fraud by requiring voters to show state-issued identification and how black politicians equated the requirement with poll taxes and literacy tests designed to keep blacks from voting back in the day.
Georgia’s black politicians walked out of the capitol building last year in “protest” over a simple law requiring ALL residents to show ID before voting.
I expressed embarrassment (again) over this predictable and imbecilic effort to retain the blacks-are-ignorant stereotype, disguised as some noble concern over “disenfranchisement.” It’s also predictable and imbecilic that I’m called the “self-hater” for believing blacks are capable of so much more, but they’re lauded for their “social justice” crusade, even as they reinforce negative stereotypes.
I made the obvious observation that Georgia’s “poor and elderly” can get to the polls to vote and to the store to buy food, but they can’t or won’t go to the DMV to get a FREE state-issued ID. Intriguing.
I wanted to give you an update on the drama. The most recent version of the law was upheld by the Georgia Supreme Court, so come September, voters will have to show ID. (Source). An excerpt:
Georgia voters will be required to show a photo ID at the polls for a special election in September, following several years of court and legislative battles, the secretary of state said Tuesday.
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A lawsuit contended the 2006 law was an undue burden on voters, and a Fulton County judge agreed, ruling the law unconstitutional. The Georgia Supreme Court threw out the case, though, finding the plaintiff lacked legal standing to challenge the law. On Friday, the high court denied a motion to reconsider.
Secretary of State Karen Handel said Tuesday that the refusal to reconsider cleared the way for Georgia to implement the law for its Sept. 18 special election. But first, she said, the state will launch an education effort to let voters know about the new requirement.
Sorry, Stepin Fetchit, but you’re gonna have to keep up with the rest of us.
Remember the hispanic thug who killed three people and injured one a couple of weeks ago? I told you last week that Jose Carranza was an illegal alien with a rap sheet.
*Scroll down for update*
Yeah, I was 30, but so what? I called a radio station and asked the DJ to play the teenybopper hit “
Friday, August 10: I’m sure most of you’ve read about the three black people murdered execution style last week (one wounded) in Newark, New Jersey. The police have 
Interesting developments…
“Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.” — 
Marrying White
I was surfing the web researching something yesterday afternoon, and I stumbled upon 
I dared not believe my eyes when I read this: 
After I became a Christian eight or so years ago, I developed a hunger for good, sound biblical teaching. I wanted more than the emotional style of preaching I was used to hearing at black churches. 
In 
