John McWhorter has written an excellent book that you may or may not have seen. It was published in 2021 by Portfolio and was a New York Times best seller. It is called Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America. In it, McWhorter argues convincingly that the “anti-racism” represented by people like Ibram X Kendi and Robin D’Angelo has all the characteristics of a religion. He also traces the origins of woke racism to a fringe view present during the civil rights movement. I recommend the book most highly to interested readers.
I think the assassination of Charlie Kirk just brought to the front the radical left where everybody can see it. It's been around for a while it just didn't make the mainstream news like I did after this tragic event. I feel like there's going to be a lot of backpedaling going on after this.
Wonderful poetry! I dare to say it has definitely more soul than Amanda Gorman's. I don't want to badmouth her talent, because I know that poetry, like food, is many times a "fabrication" of one's own taste. But, let's be frank here: read this poem and read Gorman's "Chorus of the Captains" right after it. You will see what I mean.
"Though it’s become ever more important to me to vocalize what, for some, is an inconceivable and irreconcilable transgression: having a change of heart and mind." Ironic that the Greek word translated as repentance in the Gospels literally means "change of mind."
A truly captivating and artful writing style. I agree that the extremes of both Left and Right share a troubling similarity: each is so rigidly doctrinal that they can only see reality in stark black and white, with no room for nuance or shading.
However, I have always believed that rigid practices like cancel culture, and elements of CSJ do not truly belong under the Left heading, for they stand in blunt contrast to the essence of genuine Leftist ideology—free thought, and freedom of dogma.
Incredibly succinct: it would have taken me 4 times as long to say half as much.
And I loved the poem was great as well. "Bowed and browbeaten heads" reminded me of Baudelaire, for whatever reason. I've preordered a copy of Pray You Break.
Leftist policies have done incalculable damage to black people by destroying the Black Family, infantilizing Blacks as state parasites, and denying poor black kids an education. In many ways black people were better off before 1965.
John McWhorter has written an excellent book that you may or may not have seen. It was published in 2021 by Portfolio and was a New York Times best seller. It is called Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America. In it, McWhorter argues convincingly that the “anti-racism” represented by people like Ibram X Kendi and Robin D’Angelo has all the characteristics of a religion. He also traces the origins of woke racism to a fringe view present during the civil rights movement. I recommend the book most highly to interested readers.
I think the assassination of Charlie Kirk just brought to the front the radical left where everybody can see it. It's been around for a while it just didn't make the mainstream news like I did after this tragic event. I feel like there's going to be a lot of backpedaling going on after this.
Welcome to the club of ex-Leftists. We really need to get t-shirts.
Wonderful poetry! I dare to say it has definitely more soul than Amanda Gorman's. I don't want to badmouth her talent, because I know that poetry, like food, is many times a "fabrication" of one's own taste. But, let's be frank here: read this poem and read Gorman's "Chorus of the Captains" right after it. You will see what I mean.
Excellent!
"Though it’s become ever more important to me to vocalize what, for some, is an inconceivable and irreconcilable transgression: having a change of heart and mind." Ironic that the Greek word translated as repentance in the Gospels literally means "change of mind."
A truly captivating and artful writing style. I agree that the extremes of both Left and Right share a troubling similarity: each is so rigidly doctrinal that they can only see reality in stark black and white, with no room for nuance or shading.
However, I have always believed that rigid practices like cancel culture, and elements of CSJ do not truly belong under the Left heading, for they stand in blunt contrast to the essence of genuine Leftist ideology—free thought, and freedom of dogma.
Incredibly succinct: it would have taken me 4 times as long to say half as much.
And I loved the poem was great as well. "Bowed and browbeaten heads" reminded me of Baudelaire, for whatever reason. I've preordered a copy of Pray You Break.
Leftist policies have done incalculable damage to black people by destroying the Black Family, infantilizing Blacks as state parasites, and denying poor black kids an education. In many ways black people were better off before 1965.
Amen, Brother.