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Lethal"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EFebruary 1st is the Department of Health and Human Services \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/about\/news\/2021\/12\/01\/hhs-seeks-public-comments-advance-equity-reduce-disparities-organ-transplantation-improve-life-saving-donations-dialysis-facility-quality-care.html\"\u003Edeadline\u003C\/a\u003E for public comments on bringing \"equity\" to organ donations. Equity invariably means racial quotas and artificially moving minorities to the head of the line and there’s no reason to expect anything else.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEimaj8Erra5W2U25P5y2iCZPZkwd6HjqGm90tYrpvlVQUqoMt-HEdvk9Q_Awe7anLHmTyD3R8SjFZwFekax7lB9W6xoi43uf2WZ72S5GLC3kdbXPaMVH4545KZy0pqUbv07ziD41uo7v88C7KM-dmbFr2XWKUX3tqU5fCUM-CZPUowNhzcMNoU=s651\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"490\" data-original-width=\"651\" height=\"241\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEimaj8Erra5W2U25P5y2iCZPZkwd6HjqGm90tYrpvlVQUqoMt-HEdvk9Q_Awe7anLHmTyD3R8SjFZwFekax7lB9W6xoi43uf2WZ72S5GLC3kdbXPaMVH4545KZy0pqUbv07ziD41uo7v88C7KM-dmbFr2XWKUX3tqU5fCUM-CZPUowNhzcMNoU=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EThe Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO), which had already been blamed for “organ transplant disparities”, has been constantly touting its own AOPO Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.aopo.org\/donation-perspectives\/aopo-highlights-plan-for-organ-transplant-equity-during-black-history-month\/\"\u003Epromising to\u003C\/a\u003E implement its recommendations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELost in all the noise is the reality that lower rates of organ donations and transplants from minorities are not, as equity advocates insist, evidence of systemic racism, but medical and behavioral differences. For \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1831604\/\"\u003Eexample\u003C\/a\u003E, “African Americans are half as likely as whites to agree to donate a loved one's organs” and there’s generally a “lower donation rate among racial\/ethnic minorities, specifically including Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOrgan donations require a certain degree of altruism and trust toward a larger group whether it’s the family or the country as a whole. Indoctrinating racial minorities with critical race theory myths about systemic racism makes them much less likely to donate organs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe ultimate victims of lower organ donation rates by black people are… black people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstead of addressing this familiar Black Lives Matter cycle in which belief in one’s own victimhood ends up killing the members of the group by deepening social mistrust, equity in organ transplants takes the victimhood as a given. Much as in education, employment, and every other area, equity in organ transplants seeks to rig the game by fiddling with the metrics.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe familiar argument from equity in medicine is that minorities, especially black people, are disadvantaged, and that moving them to the head of the line will remedy the “inequity”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe pandemic became a testbed for deploying racist equity measures like determining\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/12\/cdcs-affirmative-action-eugenics-coronavirus-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E vaccine \u003C\/a\u003Eand medication distribution by race.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnder the CDC and NIH, the National Academies had produced a framework which claimed that \"COVID-19 illnesses and deaths are strongly associated with race\" due to \"systemic racism\" and that it was the job of the medical system to reduce these \"health inequities\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe FDA's emergency use authorization for sotrovimab, supposedly the most effective monoclonal antibody treatment for the Omicron variant, listed \"race\" as a risk factor for deciding who gets the drug. Multiple states incorporated race as a treatment factor. After lawsuit threats from Stephen Miller’s America First Legal, Utah and Minnesota have backed down.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENew York, whose guidance was the most blatant example of racial discrimination, insists that it will go on discriminating against white patients while retaining its unconstitutional approach.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s no way to know whether Gov. Hochul’s, \"non-white race or Hispanic\/Latino ethnicity should be considered a risk factor, as longstanding systemic health and social inequities have contributed to an increased risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19” guidance will kill as many people as her predecessor’s insistence on putting COVID patients in nursing homes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETurning risk factors into privilege was always the affirmative action playbook, but unlike employment and educational discrimination, in medicine, it’s bound to get people killed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Black Lives Matter riots drove institutions, both private and public, into dramatic policy shifts. In medicine, the shift away from equality and toward equity took place at both the levels of the medical establishment, with the American Medical Association rolling out a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ama-assn.org\/about\/leadership\/ama-s-strategic-plan-embed-racial-justice-and-advance-health-equity\"\u003Emassive strategic equity plan\u003C\/a\u003E, and the regulatory level with government bureaucracies mandating equity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEquity in medicine means accepting and promoting unqualified doctors and medical personnel on account of their race, but it also means implementing a racial triage that prioritizes minorities for medical treatment. Equity knocks down professional merit at the top and patient need at the bottom, replacing the Hippocratic Oath and basic humanity with the tribalism of racial quotas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDoctors are being taught that their responsibility is not to the patient as an individual, but to the society, and to some races more than others. And patients are being taught that, like students seeking admission to college or employees looking for a promotion, their race is all that counts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis horrid fusion of the perpetual rationing of socialized medicine based on the social good and identity politics is little more than state-mandated genocide in which politicians tell doctors who must be allowed to die so that the people whose lives matter more get better survival odds.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrats loudly mocked Sarah Palin and denied the existence of death panels, but not even Palin would have predicted death panels that measure the value of life based on race. And yet a decade later, a scenario that would have been ridiculed as a wild conspiracy theory is upon us.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEquity advocates insist that they’re just compensating for inequity with equity, and for systemic discrimination with systemic discrimination. By discriminating against white doctors and patients, they’re artificially working to restore an ideal balance that even they admit will never be reached.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s become routine for medical professionals and institutions to declare that “equity” is at the center of everything that they do. And yet what they do is provide worse care for everyone because equity, not medicine or health care, is their aim. Much as equity in education destroyed the educational system and woke corporations are going broke, medicine is being transformed into a politicized practice that is no longer interested in healing patients, only social ills.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEquity leaves doctors unable to treat and help patients as individual people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe AMA's \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ama-assn.org\/system\/files\/ama-aamc-equity-guide.pdf\"\u003Enew\u003C\/a\u003E Health Equity Guide is not only full of Marxist indoctrination with a paragraph on \"class consciousness\" as \"the recognition by workers of their unity as a social class in opposition to capitalists and to capitalism itself\", but denounces the idea that people have a \"personal responsibility\" to make healthy choices. The Equity Guide urges doctors to \"avoid… blaming individuals for their condition\" and instead blame capitalism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis radicalizing and recruiting strategy, the underlying motive for much of the “equity” scam, does nothing to help patients. Instead it makes things worse for them at every level.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVictimhood politicization is just another form of learned helplessness.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETelling groups that already suffer from obesity, diabetes, and other problems that they’re not responsible for their condition, that capitalism and racism are, is just a more elaborate way of killing them. Equity advocates not only don’t care, they profit politically from a worsening situation for minorities so that they have a statistical basis for making things worse for everyone else. The more minorities die, the more they can justify the medical murder of white people.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/6026599534348126241\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/equity-in-medicine-is-racist-and-lethal.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6026599534348126241"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6026599534348126241"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/equity-in-medicine-is-racist-and-lethal.html","title":"Equity in Medicine is Racist and Lethal"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEimaj8Erra5W2U25P5y2iCZPZkwd6HjqGm90tYrpvlVQUqoMt-HEdvk9Q_Awe7anLHmTyD3R8SjFZwFekax7lB9W6xoi43uf2WZ72S5GLC3kdbXPaMVH4545KZy0pqUbv07ziD41uo7v88C7KM-dmbFr2XWKUX3tqU5fCUM-CZPUowNhzcMNoU=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6126442865074947771"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-19T15:10:00.002-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-19T15:10:47.499-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Black Lives Matter"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"riots"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Wearing a Chanel Face Mask, He Yelled, “Black Lives Matter”, and Threw the Burning Box"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EAfter billions in damages, hundreds wounded, and some killed, including an 8-year-old girl, the Black Lives Matter riots led to virtually no consequences. The co-founders of the racist hate group got Hollywood deals and bought mansions, and BLM groups were flooded with cash. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEi5c5aC2pV7GJvlVDC2PJTy87Gf0ZmvTKpDqXmgSdR1m5bw48nT3CKQ-p5FCSnSnqrpVo4MPoQvThs5K4vJLuQlH1_i33xGhk96s6TDeNK61vFJcwebU9wVCiYfuqSaV8K2ZHqXn8Bv63vgrOpYyizo18J4FMQ2QPLc0HRKbaU7R7jHSoHAMmc=s693\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"693\" data-original-width=\"454\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEi5c5aC2pV7GJvlVDC2PJTy87Gf0ZmvTKpDqXmgSdR1m5bw48nT3CKQ-p5FCSnSnqrpVo4MPoQvThs5K4vJLuQlH1_i33xGhk96s6TDeNK61vFJcwebU9wVCiYfuqSaV8K2ZHqXn8Bv63vgrOpYyizo18J4FMQ2QPLc0HRKbaU7R7jHSoHAMmc=s320\" width=\"210\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EWhile cities and states rushed to give the rioters a free pass, a few federal prosecutors worked to bring at least a few of the worst rioters to justice. With no support from the Department of Justice, which under Attorney General Merrick Garland is fully invested in supporting black nationalism, and little local support, they have won serious prison time for two rioters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt may not be much, but like the Kyle Rittenhouse case every little bit of pushback counts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the Buffalo BLM riots, virtually every rioter got a pass from local authorities in upstate New York with 35 out of 57 cases dismissed, 12 adjournments, and only three guilty verdicts. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Federal prosecutors have scored a win with one rioter getting a five year prison sentence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECourtland M. Renford became a minor celebrity when he was photographed shirtless and wearing a Chanel luxury brand face mask while doing a black nationalist salute.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECourt documents\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/casetext.com\/case\/united-states-v-renford\"\u003E describe \u003C\/a\u003Ehim yelling, “with an arm thrust overhead in excitement, ‘Black Lives Matter!,’ just a few feet from the camera. Less than a minute later, he picks up a green laundry basket with flames in it, steps up on a waist-high two-level abutment and on to the frame of the already broken window, and tosses the flaming basket into City Hall.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe fire was quickly put out, but caused $10,000 in damage. While the media has typically refused to show pictures and videos of BLM rioters, let alone ask the public for help in locating them, an attitude that has made it difficult for law enforcement to track down and arrest rioters, his image appeared on the news. The perp’s friends and neighbors stayed loyal and refused to turn him in, but a local cop who knew him called in and provided his name and address.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENew York's \"bail reform\" would have set him loose, as it has so many other criminals, but then federal authorities stepped in and refused to buy his excuses and give him a slap on the wrist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA court ruling noted that Renford was a career offender who though, \"only 20 years of age\" had built up quite a criminal record and had been the \"subject of multiple bench warrants while under court supervision\" and \"committed additional crimes while under court supervision.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERenford claimed that unknown individuals had given him the burning basket and told him to throw it through the window. There's no way to know whether that's true, but it does raise questions about how the BLM riots were organized and who was really behind them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe City Hall BLM arson attack was his \"eighth arrest in a two-year time frame\" that included holding up a woman for her cell phone, and he \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/casetext.com\/case\/united-states-v-renford\"\u003Ehas\u003C\/a\u003E six orders of protection against him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHis lawyer claimed, as usual, that he had mental problems, and proposed that he be enrolled in anti-violence programs. Renford underwent three psychological evaluations and the process dragged on even though he had already confessed and there was a trail of text messages linking him to the attack. But finally the justice system delivered justice. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOver in Minneapolis, Victor Devon Edwards has been sentenced to eight years in prison. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEdwards had joined a BLM riot based on the false claim that police officers had shot and killed a black man, and then engaged in a long string of of attacks over three hours during which he broke into numerous businesses, including large chain establishments like Target and Saks, as well as smaller businesses, a bar and a coffee shop.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFederal prosecutors noted\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/news-primer.com\/how-emotional-can-you-get\/\"\u003E that\u003C\/a\u003E, \"Edwards bragged about his participation in the rioting and looting.\" Much of the evidence against Edwards came from Facebook live streaming video and surveillance cameras which captured him, among other things, starting a fire in the Target headquarters that caused almost a million dollars in damage. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEdwards' public defender \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/coffeeordie.com\/minneapolis-riot-sentencing\/\"\u003Einsisted that\u003C\/a\u003E \"he is not a violent person\", but \"a sensitive, impressionable young man whose life has been repeatedly derailed by tragedy and trauma.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstead of psychological problems, as had been the case for Renford, his lawyer blamed “learning disabilities”, an equally cliched excuse for criminals. The defense attorney did not specify which learning disability prevented Edwards from understanding right and wrong.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut according to her, he was not ”in a positive, healthy place.” Now he will be.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECoffee or Die\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/coffeeordie.com\/minneapolis-riot-sentencing\/\"\u003E reported\u003C\/a\u003E that prosecutors warned that his criminal behavior had escalated, “leading to convictions for criminal sexual conduct, felony theft, driving while intoxicated, and child endangerment.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlpha News \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/alphanews.org\/federal-charges-for-three-twin-cities-men-in-connection-to-arson-at-target-hq-during-august-riot\/\"\u003Ereported\u003C\/a\u003E that Edwards had \"prior felony convictions in Hennepin County for third-degree criminal sexual conduct and theft, as well as other convictions for child endangerment” but that in “both felony convictions, Edwards was granted a stay of execution or imposition and was placed on probation.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBeing sentenced to 8 years in prison should at least temporarily impose some consequences.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe verdict sends a clear message in Minneapolis, where over 90% of cases against Black Lives Matter rioters were dropped by the Democrat establishment. As the New York Times put it, \"prosecutors declined to pursue many of the cases because they concluded that the protesters were exercising their basic civil rights.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBurning, looting, rioting, maiming, and terrorizing entire cities is not a “civil right”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBlack Lives Matter have often been accused of being racial arsonists. Renford and Edwards have been accused of literal arson. The vast majority of BLM arsonists have never been caught or received a slap on the wrist, but these convictions are a sign of hope for our justice system.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis won’t be in the next email about diversity and inclusion that a major corporation dispatches, it won’t show up in Attorney General Merrick Garland’s next speech or on CNN, but it happened. America isn’t dead yet and justice is not impossible: it takes hard work, dedication, and a willingness to take on an unpopular cause and see it through by rigorously following the law.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is a reminder that there are still good people working to bring the race rioters to justice.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/6126442865074947771\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/wearing-chanel-face-mask-he-yelled.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6126442865074947771"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6126442865074947771"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/wearing-chanel-face-mask-he-yelled.html","title":"Wearing a Chanel Face Mask, He Yelled, “Black Lives Matter”, and Threw the Burning Box"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEi5c5aC2pV7GJvlVDC2PJTy87Gf0ZmvTKpDqXmgSdR1m5bw48nT3CKQ-p5FCSnSnqrpVo4MPoQvThs5K4vJLuQlH1_i33xGhk96s6TDeNK61vFJcwebU9wVCiYfuqSaV8K2ZHqXn8Bv63vgrOpYyizo18J4FMQ2QPLc0HRKbaU7R7jHSoHAMmc=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-8933668060236247797"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-15T23:49:00.003-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-15T23:49:25.828-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"black nationalism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Democrats"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Black Panther Defense Minister Leaves Congress to Spend More Time With His Hate Group"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EAfter the last of the old Senate Democrat Klansmen rode off into the sunset, it’s the turn of the longest serving former official of a racist hate group to throw his own retirement party.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverthenetworks.org\/individuals\/bobby-rush\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverthenetworks.org\/individuals\/bobby-rush\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiuToHffhWJs-5XsTCZLiiFnc-_7DFJvFQubWf53yELNWvR0rx32McZx83kV4DE0alaF40kkBONoQRQCdk00lWVx4nsBp5ZIGgljhUSEKdgTpWScsBolA3wL3k-aTsPFHu7QRAt3dGJUZO3oN8OSugV3niymuuhXnC7XQ6EL2-qOiTTNixbBcg=s646\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"403\" data-original-width=\"646\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiuToHffhWJs-5XsTCZLiiFnc-_7DFJvFQubWf53yELNWvR0rx32McZx83kV4DE0alaF40kkBONoQRQCdk00lWVx4nsBp5ZIGgljhUSEKdgTpWScsBolA3wL3k-aTsPFHu7QRAt3dGJUZO3oN8OSugV3niymuuhXnC7XQ6EL2-qOiTTNixbBcg=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003ERep. Bobby Rush, the former Deputy Minister of Defense for the Black Panthers, announced that he’s joining his fellow Democrats fleeing the sinking ship ahead of the midterms, not for political reasons mind you, but in order to spend more time with his grandchildren.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I don’t want to be a historical figure to my grandchildren,\" Rush said. That stands to reason considering his history.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERush was recruited by Stokely Carmichael, a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/senator-booker-quotes-violent-racist-who-urged-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ederanged bigot\u003C\/a\u003E who would later describe Adolf Hitler as “the greatest white man”, to form a Black Panther chapter in Chicago.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We plan to arm the total black community so when the pigs come down on us, we will be equal,\" Rush once bragged. \"We advocate offensive violence against the power structure... we are at war and the Minister of Defense must be in charge.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs a House Democrat, Rush, suffering from criminal hypocrisy and a broken mirror, falsely claimed during the BLM riots that President Trump “wants to instigate a race war”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA month after two police officers were murdered, the cops finally raided a Black Panther apartment where Fred Hampton, the chairman of the Chicago chapter, was holed up. This time around, the Panthers got the worst of the exchange. Rush, who had been there hours earlier, emerged at Jesse Jackson’s service, claiming that he had been marked for death by the cops.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“If I was out on the street, they would have shot me down,\" he claimed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(Unlike Hampton, who was the subject of a recent Hollywood hagiography, Judas and the Black Messiah, the two murdered officers, Patrolman Frank Gershon Rappaport and Patrolman John Gilhooly, one Jewish and one Irish, have not been lionized by Warner Bros and the Oscars.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERush went into politics, but never left behind his affinity for his racist hate group.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2019, Rush \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/repbobbyrush\/status\/1202321336904892417?lang=en\"\u003Ehosted\u003C\/a\u003E a special on the \"legacy of Fred Hampton\" featuring a propaganda poster of Malcolm X next to Mao, and claims that the Black Panther was “murdered”. In 2021, he appeared at a black nationalist conspiracist forum that included a Black Panther who had admitted to pouring \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/dems-hosted-ex-black-panther-implicated-in-torture-for-event-where-panelists-praised-cop-killers\/\"\u003Eboiling water\u003C\/a\u003E on a teenager who was being tortured and then murdered.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I have a lot of fun ribbing other elected officials now and other members of the Central Committee because they all came up through the Young Democrats,\" Rush told an interviewer. \"My training was in the, was in the, was in the Black Panther party. And we've been regular democrats for a while now. So I figure my training was probably a little bit better than theirs.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESay what you will about the Young Democrats, but they don’t train members to pour boiling water on people whom they suspect of being insufficiently loyal to the socialist cause. Yet.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Mao portrait is no accident.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Rush visited Cuba, he called his meeting with Castro, “like listening to an old friend.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“In my household I told Castro he is known as the ultimate survivor,” he said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERetiring from the House after three decades of blight and misery in the black community he claimed to represent even as he managed to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/rep-bobby-rush-paid-wife-550k-campaign-funds-kicked-190k-church-founded\/\"\u003Epay his wife $550K\u003C\/a\u003E for, among other things, consulting services, not to mention his brother, sister, and son, Rush is a mini-Castro.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike his old Communist friend, Rush is the ultimate survivor and a revolutionary hypocrite.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“The Chicago Fraternal Order of Police is the most rabid, racist body of criminal lawlessness by police in the land. It stands shoulder to shoulder with the Ku Klux Klan then, and the Ku Klux Klan now,\" Rush ranted during the BLM riots.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat same month, the former Black Panther official, complained that Chicago cops, the men he called the modern KKK, sat eating popcorn in his office instead of stopping Black Lives Matter rioters from looting his office.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“One was asleep on my couch in my campaign office,” Rush whined at a press conference.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWorse still, “they even had the unmitigated gall to go and make coffee for themselves and to pop popcorn, my popcorn, in my microwave while looters were tearing apart businesses within sight and within their reach.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd most horrifying of all, the popcorn they were eating was almost certainly white.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s tragic when the KKK won't lift a finger to stop racist thugs who view his Black Panthers as role models from looting their former Deputy Defense Minister's office. Where’s the respect?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERep. Rush had schizophrenically pivoted from claiming that police efforts to stop the BLM riot in D.C., “reminded me of 1968, when the police were as responsible for the rioting,” to complaining that the police were eating popcorn instead of cracking BLM heads outside his offices.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the former Black Panther leader has never let consistency get him down.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs a Deputy Minister of Defense, he was busted on gun charges. He named his son Huey, after the Black Panther leader, Huey P. Newton, only to see his son follow in Newton’s footsteps by getting shot and killed during an argument over drugs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd then Rep. Rush began campaigning for gun control. He might have done better to give his son a different role model. Or perhaps dissuade him from going down the path that led him to becoming the target of a druglord named “Ball” who wanted $110,000 in cocaine from Huey.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHuey P. Newton, the original Huey and Minister of Defense for the Panthers, was shot and killed by a member of the Black Guerrilla Family during an argument over a cocaine deal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe former Deputy Minister of Defense who had advocated, “we need to arm ourselves”, and had served time on gun charges, blamed not his son or his decision to use the Black Panther thug as a role model for him, or even drugs, but the firearms that were used in the argument.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Ultimately, I would like to see the manufacture and possession of handguns banned,” Rush \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverthenetworks.org\/individuals\/bobby-rush\"\u003Edeclared\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs a radical revolutionary, Rush wanted guns to fight the power structure, but as a member of the political power structure, his interests lie with disarming the public.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Rush can’t manage to dynastically hand over his seat to his son Flynn Rush, a failed candidate who was paid by his father’s campaign, he’ll at least be able to spend more time doing interviews about the glory days in a violent hate group. Back then reporters would line up at Bobby Lee’s press conferences as the bespectacled nerd held forth surrounded by thugs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Black Panther minister may be leaving, but his rise is a measure of just how much the Democrat party that made him its elder statesman has become an extremist hate group.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/8933668060236247797\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/black-panther-defense-minister-leaves.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8933668060236247797"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8933668060236247797"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/black-panther-defense-minister-leaves.html","title":"Black Panther Defense Minister Leaves Congress to Spend More Time With His Hate Group"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiuToHffhWJs-5XsTCZLiiFnc-_7DFJvFQubWf53yELNWvR0rx32McZx83kV4DE0alaF40kkBONoQRQCdk00lWVx4nsBp5ZIGgljhUSEKdgTpWScsBolA3wL3k-aTsPFHu7QRAt3dGJUZO3oN8OSugV3niymuuhXnC7XQ6EL2-qOiTTNixbBcg=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-608954801018199116"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-04T19:32:00.002-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-04T19:32:50.394-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Indian"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"America’s Millions of Fake Indians Outnumber Real Indians"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"It’s not just Elizabeth Warren.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica has a huge “Fake Indian” problem. It’s hard to know exactly how many people, often white leftists, falsely claim to be descended from the nation’s early Indian population, but census numbers show either a massive population boom or a sharp growth in fake Indians.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording to the 2010 census, there were 2.9 million American Indians and Alaskans, and another 2.3 million who claimed to be a combination of Indians and another race or races.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe 2020 census however shows that 3.7 million claimed to be American Indians or Alaskans, and another 5.9 million described themselves as part Indian.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEhjIV7PW2ClOgFvwHzJKreNsoZkTOV_wcKp46S6LXZAN828TXRemCkX2zuB10nXnyILqf4zNXRE2kE9jTKpro55Utuf-UXgxyBMbZ976B5FiS-mVwD5sYuTxo39bUsGgIlGfhUOtzByutNcZx0VSy-fOYEF-DE6BDnxuv_WFs8Vc-g5v8FTv9U=s598\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"392\" data-original-width=\"598\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEhjIV7PW2ClOgFvwHzJKreNsoZkTOV_wcKp46S6LXZAN828TXRemCkX2zuB10nXnyILqf4zNXRE2kE9jTKpro55Utuf-UXgxyBMbZ976B5FiS-mVwD5sYuTxo39bUsGgIlGfhUOtzByutNcZx0VSy-fOYEF-DE6BDnxuv_WFs8Vc-g5v8FTv9U=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E5.2 million to 9.7 million is \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/indiancountrytoday.com\/news\/2020-census-native-population-increased-by-86-5-percent\"\u003Ean 86.5% rise\u003C\/a\u003E. And going from 4.1 million in 2000 to 5.2 million in 2010 and then almost 10 million suggests that what we’re seeing here is not a natural increase that happened through a baby boom.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Why the jump in the Native American population may be one of the hardest to explain,” CNN shrugged.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the Census Bureau provides a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/library\/stories\/2021\/08\/improved-race-ethnicity-measures-reveal-united-states-population-much-more-multiracial.html\"\u003Esimple\u003C\/a\u003E explanation, “The American Indian and Alaska Native alone population grew by 27.1%, and the American Indian and Alaska Native in combination population grew by 160% since 2010.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe biggest growth happened when the 2.3 million people who claimed to be part Indian in 2010 jumped to 5.9 million in 2020. That 3.6 million increase is responsible for the staggering growth.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile identity politics activists have claimed that the Census Bureau was undercounting the American Indian population on reservations, that’s not where the real growth is coming from.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe question of who is an Indian when it comes to the tribes is a fraught issue. Some tribes have attempted to preserve their population integrity with blood quantum requirements and documented evidence of ancestry, while others have thrown open the door to everyone. There have also been legal battles over the dubious move to count the descendants of former black slaves who belonged to members of Indian tribes as being enrolled in those tribes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome tribes are legitimate peoples while others are little more than legal fictions with white leaders who act as fronts for international gaming interests and shadowy corporations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe membership rolls of even most legitimate tribes can grow a lot when money is on the table.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Navajos boasted that they had reached 400,000 members, but an Associated Press story noted \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/best-states\/oklahoma\/articles\/2021-09-29\/cherokee-nation-announces-it-now-has-400-000-tribal-citizens\"\u003Ethat\u003C\/a\u003E, \"Navajos also saw an enrollment increase as the tribe offered hardship assistance payments from last year’s federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, boosting the tribe’s rolls from about 306,000 to nearly 400,000 citizens.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Cherokee Nation shot up from 360,589 in 2018 to an alleged 400,000 now. Even media accounts \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/changing-america\/enrichment\/arts-culture\/574649-cherokee-nation-membership-surges-to-400000-strong\"\u003Econceded that\u003C\/a\u003E \"there was a significant increase in applications after Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. announced $2,000 COVID-19 assistance payments to enrolled Cherokee citizens as well as people approved for citizenship in the tribal nation by June 2022.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut most of the growth in the American Indian population is not coming from the tribes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWho are the \"new\" Indians?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe 2010 Census Bureau numbers showed that 63% of the mixed race population \"identified as American Indian and Alaska Native and White.\" In other words, more Elizabeth Warrens.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA percentage of Americans, especially in states like Oklahoma, have rightly or wrongly claimed Indian ancestry, but the striking growth in recent years is not the natural result of old family legends, but wokeness and career development based around affirmative action.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhite people face growing discrimination in applying for college or looking for work. And for the new generation there is much less shame and fewer taboos around lying about race. Anecdotally, the number of millennials and zoomers who falsely claim to be black, Latino, Jewish, or members of any other minority group, has exploded according to employers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EElizabeth Warren may have been a pioneer, but the number of fake Indians is growing sharply.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne author, Circe Sturm, an anthropology professor at the University of Texas at Austin, theorizes in her book,  “Becoming Indian\", \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-the-native-american-population-in-the-us-increased-87-says-more-about-whiteness-than-about-demographics-170920\"\u003Ethat the\u003C\/a\u003E explosive population growth among the American Indian population is actually driven by white people who are \"fleeing whiteness\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the fake Indians, like Senator Elizabeth Warren, aren't fleeing whiteness so much as they're exploiting a racist attack on white people that they've stirred up to profit from a minority identity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd even setting up fake tribes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStrum writes, \"The number of these new self-identified tribes is startling. Over the course of my research, I discovered 253 groups scattered across the U.S. that identify as some sort of Cherokee tribe. This is a huge number considering that there are only 573 federally recognized tribes, three of which are Cherokee.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerican Indian tribes have been fighting a rearguard campaign against fake Indians, but it’s one that they are likely to lose as the Left embraces fake Indian activists who are happy to put their fake identities at the service of their political causes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe fake Indian problem is not unique to America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEga_1aF41SY6Z8WjkEob5aAMMe7kKypLT-VLjh7YLQMgN8FcV1VBJYQebfPgq7iqDN2jQqM15QvcxWJwvvo3NJ9L5d62Czbqb5EiXKQSslxM6rapKWrJCWREr7oN05yGehOUiPcm2lqdMLCoGq6O0_ROy8JaYrKlNrnBalxhkuJToVr16AGi3s=s774\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"435\" data-original-width=\"774\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEga_1aF41SY6Z8WjkEob5aAMMe7kKypLT-VLjh7YLQMgN8FcV1VBJYQebfPgq7iqDN2jQqM15QvcxWJwvvo3NJ9L5d62Czbqb5EiXKQSslxM6rapKWrJCWREr7oN05yGehOUiPcm2lqdMLCoGq6O0_ROy8JaYrKlNrnBalxhkuJToVr16AGi3s=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe exposure of Carrie Bourassa in Canada, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/10\/canadas-biggest-fake-indian-makes-elizabeth-warren-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eafter she appeared\u003C\/a\u003E in Indian garb and blamed systemic racism, was a major scandal in that country. Even more absurdly, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/curse-white-aborigine-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003EAustralia’s “white aborigines”\u003C\/a\u003E, leftist academics, often blonde and blue-eyed, who claim special status and privileges because of their alleged aboriginal status, are a longstanding problem.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the rapid growth of America’s fake Indian problem suggests we’re heading for a crisis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndian tribes enjoy a unique legal status that has conferred significant economic and political benefits. The replacement and displacement of the tribal populations by a new activist base entirely dedicated to radical leftist politics would be a new Trail of Tears, but also quite dangerous. And yet it’s a crisis that’s been coming since the American Indian Movement.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBetween 2010 and 2020, the number of part Indians went from a minority to a majority of the American Indian population. If this trend continues, the vast number of people who build careers and public identities around being American Indians will be fake Indians.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica’s fake Indians already outnumber real Indians. And it’s only getting worse.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/608954801018199116\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/americas-millions-of-fake-indians.html#comment-form","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/608954801018199116"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/608954801018199116"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/americas-millions-of-fake-indians.html","title":"America’s Millions of Fake Indians Outnumber Real Indians"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEhjIV7PW2ClOgFvwHzJKreNsoZkTOV_wcKp46S6LXZAN828TXRemCkX2zuB10nXnyILqf4zNXRE2kE9jTKpro55Utuf-UXgxyBMbZ976B5FiS-mVwD5sYuTxo39bUsGgIlGfhUOtzByutNcZx0VSy-fOYEF-DE6BDnxuv_WFs8Vc-g5v8FTv9U=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-3850516436802117915"},"published":{"$t":"2021-12-27T16:07:00.002-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-12-27T16:07:16.681-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Racism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Tennessee"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"white privilege"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Wealthy Leftists Demand Poor White Kids in Appalachia be Taught About Their White Privilege"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The son of a bank vice president decided to teach about “white privilege” to his students in Sullivan County, Tennessee where the per capita income is $28,429.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter he was fired, the media decided to turn him into a victim.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“He Taught About White Privilege and Got Fired. Now He’s Fighting to Get His Job Back,” the headlines blared. A GoFundMe for Matthew Hawn by his sister, a principal in the Tennessee public school system, has already raised over $55,000 of its projected $85,000 goal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s more money than a lot of the locals in Appalachia would be likely to earn in a year’s time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgVuV0lY92mDLqGNAIwK-hJ7CiXbRoy03C2FH4nbebujn4y0sHVSS-vlTqMD8pxmx_pbTo3wiEf-ADexMJhQBSbUzF4x6_0I3JMSOYI2wG8WeTsMToKMTc6XOgAZV9NusIRJbUBIp0MvlO0OveXq4p-mPt6KJ-AtpUQwa6hfR-AVUkn7QJ4gLU=s621\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"458\" data-original-width=\"621\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgVuV0lY92mDLqGNAIwK-hJ7CiXbRoy03C2FH4nbebujn4y0sHVSS-vlTqMD8pxmx_pbTo3wiEf-ADexMJhQBSbUzF4x6_0I3JMSOYI2wG8WeTsMToKMTc6XOgAZV9NusIRJbUBIp0MvlO0OveXq4p-mPt6KJ-AtpUQwa6hfR-AVUkn7QJ4gLU=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ESullivan County is 95% white and 2% black. The rate of hungry children in the region is double the national rate and a third of those children live in Sullivan County.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt Sullivan Central High School, where Hawn decided to teach about white privilege, 96% of the students are white, 1% are Hispanic, another 1% are Asian, and the number of black students is too small to count.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E41% of the students are eligible for the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.publicschoolreview.com\/sullivan-central-high-school-profile\"\u003Efree lunch program\u003C\/a\u003E. That means their parents meet federal poverty guidelines. Another 9% qualify for the reduced lunch program which indicates that their parents don’t earn very much.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven though half the student body at Sullivan Central is low income, the graduation rate is 90% and the students rank in the\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.publicschoolreview.com\/sullivan-central-high-school-profile\"\u003E top 20%\u003C\/a\u003E for reading proficiency.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou can understand why Hawn, who had taught for 16 years, decided to introduce them to the concept of white privilege.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.edweek.org\/teaching-learning\/he-taught-about-white-privilege-and-got-fired-now-hes-fighting-to-get-his-job-back\/2021\/09\"\u003Earticle\u003C\/a\u003E that helped debut Hawn's sob story to the wealthy progressives of the nation who showered his GoFundMe with cash began by describing the  \"social studies teacher in rural Tennessee\" who \"was driving to work listening to NPR\" which was going on about racism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s hard to envision a better summary of the culture clash between lefty elites and America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“White privilege is a fact,” Hawn reportedly ranted at his students. “What we are going to do is we are going to discuss how we can help solve the issue of racism in America. What can we do here in Northeast Tennessee?”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESullivan County and, for that matter, the Tri-Cities area, have fairly few black people. With a \u003Ca at=\"\" black=\"\" highest=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wjhl.com\/news\/local\/10-year-population-growth-anemic-in-northeast-tennessee-census-shows\/#:~:text=The%20region\" overall=\"\" percentage=\"\" population=\"\" s=\"\"\u003E2.4% black population\u003C\/a\u003E, there’s not many black people to save in Northeast Tennessee.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Hawn set out to solve racism by teaching his low-income students that America was systemically racist beginning with an essay by black nationalist bigot Ta-Nehisi Coates.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn his\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/ta-nehisi-coates-americas-next-top-victim-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E infamous book\u003C\/a\u003E, “Between the World and Me”, Coates had declared that the firefighters and police officers who were killed on September 11 “were not human to me.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn “The First White President”, the essay Hawn inflicted on his students, Coates raved that \"whiteness\" was a \"bloody heirloom\" and that \"land theft and human plunder cleared the grounds for Trump’s forefathers\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETrump's grandfather, a barber, moved to the Lower East Side of New York City in the 1880s, but Coates and his ilk are as indifferent to facts as the 1619 Project or the rest of the critical race theory establishment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“There's a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez had argued.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd being morally right is another way of saying being morally superior to the kids at a rural Tennessee high school, their low income parents, and everyone who doesn’t believe that they, along with America and all white people, are horrible racists who need to be “called out”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Coates’ essay, the country’s racist scribe to the racist elite, dismisses the idea of a cultural  “backlash against contempt for white working-class people” by elites. And yet what’s happening in Sullivan County as a result of his essay perfectly encapsulates that backlash to the elites who embraced Hawn and have nothing but contempt for the locals standing up to him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHawn followed that up with “White Privilege” by Kyla Jenée Lacey, a deranged hate filled rant that has the same relationship to a poem that the 1619 Project does to history. In it, Lacey claims that Hurricane Katrina was \"answering the government's prayers of eugenics\" and that white privilege is \"the acceptance of bombs over Baghdad, but not over Boston.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe social studies teacher was not, despite the mass of media misinformation, fired over critical race theory or introducing obscenities and hatred of America into the classroom. (The Atlantic falsely dubbed Hawn, “The First Casualty in the War on Critical Race Theory”.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe was fired for refusing to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolicy.com\/articles\/2021\/09\/22\/the_making_of_a_teacher-martyr_795411.html\"\u003Eintroduce balance\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E “Your job is not to teach one perspective,” he was told. \"Your job is also not to ensure students simply adopt your own personal perspective. Your job—in teaching current events—is to ensure students learn to seek out and consider varying and credible perspectives.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt a school board meeting, Hawn was\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/sanzi.substack.com\/p\/teacher-gets-terminated-twitter-explodes\"\u003E asked\u003C\/a\u003E, \"what other reading materials have you assigned recently that would offer a different perspective\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReportedly, his response was, \"there is no credible source for a different point of view.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe line, familiar from a multitude of media fact checks, Big Tech censorship efforts, and condescending elite propaganda denies that there can be any legitimate point of view other than their own. And that their public service duty is to force their dogma on everyone else.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s the difference between education and indoctrination.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe son of a bank vice president wasn’t the victim of a “war on critical race theory”, as a magazine owned by Steve Jobs’ billionaire widow falsely claimed, but of Tennessee’s Teacher Code of Ethics which was, as Robert Pondiscio and Tracey Schirra of the American Enterprise Institute\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolicy.com\/articles\/2021\/09\/22\/the_making_of_a_teacher-martyr_795411.html\"\u003E pointed out\u003C\/a\u003E, a product of an older and more moderate incarnation of the NEA.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll of this has been hashed out at length by educational experts and Twitter pundits.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat has been much less discussed are the class issues in an assault by wealthy media elites on low-income students and parents who must be taught that they and their nation are racist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMuch of this assault is carried out under a cloud of ignorant disdain for the actual community.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt The Atlantic, Emma Green's first question to Hawn is whether there was a lot of \"racial diversity\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I don’t remember there being a nonwhite person at my high school the entire four years I was there,\" Hawn replies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat's not too surprising as Kingsport, where Hawn grew up, is 91% white and only 3.5% black.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe lack of diversity is treated as implicitly racist, but were black people really worse off for not living in Appalachia as opposed to Malibu where Laurene Powell Jobs, who controls The Atlantic, lives? The racial demographics are virtually identical in Malibu and Sullivan County, but the politics and incomes in pro-Trump Sullivan County are a world away.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELeftists justify their abuses, like critical race theory indoctrination, by insisting that they’re punching up, fighting the powerful, not punching down against the downtrodden. And yet it’s hard to see the assault on a local school district and its impoverished families as anything else.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAside from The Atlantic, the Washington Post, owned by Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, and the Boston Globe, owned by billionaire financier John W. Henry have published hit pieces on Hawn’s firing and on Sullivan County’s efforts to protect its students and its schools.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs Hawn’s latest appeal moves forward, media outlets owned by billionaires continue their disinformation campaign against local parents and school administrators, diverting money that ought to be going to teach students into preventing racism from being pushed in the classroom.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESullivan County is a long way from The Atlantic’s headquarters at The Watergate, the Washington Post’s own D.C. digs, or downtown Boston, but the new ruling class insists that its dictates, enforced by economic pressure, lawfare, and smear campaigns must apply everywhere, even in rural Tennessee. Having heard that a school system merely asked that a leftist activist present more than one perspective on whether America is racist and evil, they have marshalled their battalions and their fortunes and gone to war in Appalachia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhite privilege isn’t real, but the power wielded by the leftist elite is all too real. Behind the false claims of white privilege is the unearned privilege of a ruthless elite which wraps its totalitarianism in moral crusades that are as wickedly perverse as they are self-righteous.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica’s wealthiest leftist elites demand that poor white kids be taught they’re racist. Maybe they can drive by in their hybrid limos and teach the hungry kids of Sullivan County about their white privilege.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/3850516436802117915\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/12\/wealthy-leftists-demand-poor-white-kids.html#comment-form","title":"8 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3850516436802117915"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3850516436802117915"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/12\/wealthy-leftists-demand-poor-white-kids.html","title":"Wealthy Leftists Demand Poor White Kids in Appalachia be Taught About Their White Privilege"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgVuV0lY92mDLqGNAIwK-hJ7CiXbRoy03C2FH4nbebujn4y0sHVSS-vlTqMD8pxmx_pbTo3wiEf-ADexMJhQBSbUzF4x6_0I3JMSOYI2wG8WeTsMToKMTc6XOgAZV9NusIRJbUBIp0MvlO0OveXq4p-mPt6KJ-AtpUQwa6hfR-AVUkn7QJ4gLU=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"8"}}]}});