Scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson Nails Race In America

And a great rejoinder to the question, "He did it, why can't you?"

 

Richard Williams' Book About White's "Ancient History"

Wary - the look of a truly informed citizen

Black And White: The Way I See It is a new book by the father of Venus and Serena Williams, telling the truth too many whites deny, about what American life was (and is) like, as they went (and go) about their own:

"Shreveport was controlled by the local branch of the Ku Klux Klan, says Williams. ‘The Klan rampaged through the South, confident it could violate us with impunity,’ he writes.

A friend, called Lil Man, was caught by the Klan for stealing and his body was found days later hanging from a tree with his hands cut off.

The murder was never investigated by the local police.

Williams also had a run-in with Klan members and recalls a crowd - including his own father - looking on and watching while three white men beat him in the street."

Not everyone can be Superman

Blacks, living lives littered with "unsolved" murders, and somehow, whites think that should pass for normal progress:

It's fitting, that Richard Williams - this great American - is, still, hated by whites for his attitude,...

In 50 Years All Old White Guys Will Look Like This Playa

The GOP's figuring out a strategy on how to get him, right now,...

Bill O'Reilly Discovers Black Culture Isn't "Bad Culture"

People who spend time with blacks don't have to ask these questions,...

White World/Black World (Not Even Close - In America)

WHITE WORLD:

  "Women obsessed with age, weight and appearance need to get a life, claims actress Helen McCrory"

BLACK WORLD:

  "A black girl’s constant fear: Why I thought I’d never live to see 33"

WHITE WORLD:

  "Iraq veteran sentenced to 6 years for trying to hire KKK member to castrate and lynch his black neighbor"

BLACK WORLD:

  "‘This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed:’ Guns and the Civil Rights Movement"

WHITE WORLD:

  "Former Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes admitted he believed man cleared of murder after nearly 16 years in prison was innocent."

BLACK WORLD:

  "Juan Williams: GOP blinders on civil rights"

Think Of TMR As An Unintentional Oversight Committee

Did I ever mention The most thorough and independent assessment of homeopathy ever conducted? If not, I should have. Sorry. Here's the results, as phrased by Prof. Edzard Ernst (because I liked his phrasing better) and as if you needed to hear it:

"Not for a single health condition was there reliable evidence that homeopathy was effective."

One of these days, when homeopathy's dead bodies are lined up end-to-end, some of you are going to be just as conflicted - about being Whole Foods shoppers - as I am about having been married.

 

It won't be quite that bad, though, I hope,...

 

Pressed-Oh-Change-Oh (You Can Still Say It But Don't)

Hot Air's Allahpundit did a bit of,…well, let's call it "creative political visualization," and TMR's most likely scenario was played out:

"Imagine that Jeb falls flat for dynastic reasons, Christie flames out because of Bridgegate, and Rubio can’t get traction as a last-ditch back-up establishment choice. Ted Cruz stuns the world in Iowa and New Hampshire and wins the nomination — and then he loses to Hillary. Where does the party go from there? The base’s longstanding thesis, that the GOP would surely recapture the White House if it put forth a loud-and-proud 'true conservative' as nominee, would be shattered,...I don’t know what happens to at that point,...The idea that the GOP would change fundamentally somehow in order to prevent it isn’t entirely out of left field." 

And - BOOM! - They're gone:

I love that "somehow" at the end, too, because only the most dense are missing these many "colorblind" euphemisms - for the racial obvious - while the rest of us are catching them in a bucket,…

 

President Obama Spoke @ The National Action Network

He got a good laugh from the Birther nonsense,...

I Didn't Write The Script (I Read It For My Enjoyment)

Candy Crowley: "Do you think your Republican colleagues are racist?"

Steve Israel: "Not all of them, no. Of course not. But to a significant extent, the Republican base does have elements that are animated by racism."

Incognegro

Can anyone else tell I'm getting tired of blogging?

I'm getting tired of blogging.

The daily grind, anyway.

I've explained TMR's interests and outlook a billion times, and it does no good, so - since you're all so happy with Glenn Reynolds' precognitions and I don't feel like doing it again - I'm happy to know I'm right and just let the cards fall where they may:

"There are not enough Tea Party people, not enough libertarian people, not enough socially conservative people to win a Republican nomination, by definition. Anyone who comes from one of those traditions must expand beyond that tradition to win."

And to "expand beyond that tradition" must mean some of that "rethinking in other areas” Mickey Kaus was talking about.

Or not.

You never know with the Get-off-The-Democrat-Plantation crew.

I don't anyway.

Even our hero, Hammering Hank Aaron, tells them they're racists and they didn't get a clue, so what does that tell you?

Jenny McCarthy says "I am not 'anti-vaccine'” after years of being anti-vaccine - is that any different from the "colorblind" Republicans who can't stop doing and saying racist things?

I can't see it.

It's all cultism to me now - herd mentality - call it what you want.

A woman told me acupuncture is an ancient practice yesterday.

I let her talk.

This morning another woman attacked me over recycling.

I apologized for upsetting her.

Most major hospitals have mainstreamed my wife's beliefs - what am I going to do, blog about the idiocy I see - some more?

It's so widespread I'll never do anything else.

 

 But now I am doing something else.

 

Tomorrow is another edition of Uncle Ray's Psychedelic Soul, where he and I will be counting down his Top 100 Psychedelic Soul Albums and discussing whatever he may decide to throw at me.

(He's indicated Hank Aaron WILL be a topic,…)

Feel free to tune in, call in, catch up, make trouble:

In case you haven't noticed, I've honestly stopped giving a damn,…

 

MLK On America's Love & What It Takes 2 Bring Evil Out

Resistance to black's every effort - and harming whoever's behind them - is still the norm for conservative whites,...

Denzel Washington On "The Nigga They Couldn't Kill"

A fine example of what we're in for, how the past influences the present, and how blacks are standing on each other's shoulders, making sure doors stay open for others,...

"I Don't See Race" Is The Sign Of A Bad Mental Problem

Commenting on white supremacy. When Paul Ryan's "bad culture" needs comparisons, this mash-up's as natural as it gets - since the instigator's voice has been ringing out since, at least, the 1700s but the disasters are all contemporary - and it's America's crying shame. 

The Aspergers I mean. I'm noticing the Aspergers, BIG TIME, now. I can't look away:

Very few are feeling a thing,...

They Do Not See Race They Do Not See Race They,...

By way of Hot Air, Ol' Mickey Kaus let the veil slip, but  - to bring it home - caught The Euphemism Train To Blacksville: 

"The GOP establishment is desperate to suppress Tea Party conservatives and also obtain the immigration amnesty they believe will win Latinos and relieve them of the need to do too much rethinking in other areas.”

Tea Party suppression? And Latinos, specifically, are seen as an escape hatch - from who or what? What "other areas" might Right-Wing relief from "too much rethinking" be required?

How about reaffirmations of the importance of responsibilities - I mean, citizens - until they recognize,…