Headlines (Carlos Gives His Blessing)

ChatGPT has a ‘systematic political bias’ towards the left because guess who's programming it?

Jordan Peterson Has Been Ordered by A Canadian Court to Undergo Reeducation, Which, I'm Sure, He'll Begin As Soon As They're Done Programming The Canadian ChatGPT

The CDC knows what you're doing with these little guys and says you need to stop it.

Restaurant Workers can't stop saying 'The Blind Side' Tuohy Family Are 'Truly Terrible People'

And, for no reason at all, Santana wants the world to know "a woman is a woman and a man is a man. That’s it. Whatever you wanna do in the closet,...I’m OK with that.”

 

Two Sides Of The Same Racial Coin

"I had no interest in watching [The Blind Side] when the movie was released in 2009 because I had no interest in taking in another white savior story." 

   

"Dude, I don't like those movies when they make black and white people get along, Man. Even those ones seem ridiculous, y'know? Because there always has to be some sort of lesson, in those movies. It's like, "Y'know I never looked at it that way!" It's like, that never happens, y'know?"

 

Swing And A (Ole) Miss

In 2007, Michael Lewis, author of "The Blind Side," explained what the Touhy family and Michael Oher got themselves mixed-up in: 

"Google him now, he's on the Dean's list at Ole Miss, which, which says a lot about the Dean's list at Ole Miss. There are schools like Ole Miss, and Ole Miss isn't even the best example, they seem mainly to exist to sustain a football team and then they take these kids many of them are from the underclass - poor black kids from ghettos around America - and let them into the school. And then they make a track for them inside the school - and the track is not designed for them to get an education, or even to engage with the school outside the football team."

So Ole Miss - the school that barred James Meredith at the door a few months before I was born - is making another appearance on TMR, in less than a week, for mistreating blacks. And Michael Lewis said they do it like it was almost common knowledge.

Michael Oher trusted the Touhys (what choice did he have?) and the Touhys, probably innocently, fed Michael Oher into the racist Ole Miss system. And now, Michael Oher is, at the very least, under-educated, and becoming quite paranoid, having been through the sinister system, and situation that, upon recognition that this is your life in a 'America' that represents "freedom" to so many, you can't even start to fight back (that shit's practically not allowed) also, probably, turned his mother into a crackhead decades before. I mean, what-in-the-fucking FUCK?

Like I said, I'm 62 years old. Born right after James Meredith staged his protest at Ole Miss, for Michael Oher and I. That's too long for all these people, in all these powerful institutions, to be openly getting away with any form of racism (in a society supposedly enlightened to it) for many blacks to ever believe we'll win. Because the evidence, all too often, says it ain't necessarily so. 

No matter what happens from this, the Touhys will come out of it, maybe emotionally scarred, but essentially fine. But Michael Oher - no matter how much money he has - started his life in this situation, and he will end his life in this situation. And that's the reality of racism, that escapes Michael Lewis, the Touhys, all the folks at Ole Miss, and even America itself.

But not me, Michael Oher, his Momma, or probably most of the people we know.

Hell, I was once chased from an ATM by a mob in France.

And there's your reason for reparations, again: this is our lives, and it's just not been fair.