A headline from the Chicago CBS affiliate puts it bluntly, but leaves out the punchline: Chicago faces DOJ probe over alleged racial bias in hiring practices

Who/whom is being impacted by racial bias in the black mayor’s administration in Chicago? White people, which is specifically what the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was designed to create. Look no further than Atlanta under the control of the city’s first black mayor, Maynard Jackson. He bragged about creating a black millionaire class via Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) programs, which basically mandated the city work exclusively with black contractors.

It was all illegal. It was all racial discrimination, and the Hartsfield International Airport is basically a Petri dish for massive lawsuits against majority black contractors/black-owned businesses who have unfairly benefited from this practice, with a much needed airport on the Northside of the city on permanent hiatus because of what it would do to this racially bias pipeline (cut it off entirely and see most flyers chose that airport over the one nestled in the blackest part of Fulton/Clayton County).

Pretty much every city with a black mayor has since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 operated without legal oversight as Atlanta has, creating an artificial black middle class filled almost entirely of a black bureaucracy/black city employees/connect majority-owned black business unfairly benefiting from minority set-aside contracts.

Foolishly, Chicago’s black mayor bragged about it in 2025, a year Noticing is going not only going viral, but public. And the pushback is in its infancy. [DOJ investigating Chicago hiring practices amid backlash over Mayor Johnson’s viral comments, ABC7Chicago, May 20, 2025]:

WASHINGTON (TNND) — The Justice Department has launched an investigation into the City of Chicago to determine whether Mayor Brandon Johnson or others have engaged in “a pattern or practice of racial discrimination” in their hiring practices.

This action follows Mayor Johnson’s remarks at a church service, where he highlighted the number of Black individuals hired by the city.

“The deputy Mayor is a Black woman. Department of Planning Development is a black woman. Infrastructure Deputy Mayor is a Black woman. Chief Operations Officer is a Black man,” Johnson said.

“Two administrations ago, 70 to 75% of the administration was primarily made up of white men. In my administration, 45% of my administration is black, 25% is Latin, 30% is white, and 8% is Asian. It is the most diverse administration in the history of Chicago,” Johnson said.

“What I’m saying is, when you hire our people, we always look out for everybody else. We are the most generous people on the planet. I don’t know too many cultures that have play cousins. T hat’s how generous we are. We just make somebody a family member right? That’s just how we are,” Johnson said.

Addressing the investigation, Mayor Johnson stated, “My administration reflects the country, it reflects the city. His administration reflects the country club,” referring to President Trump.

“There are some detractors that will try and push back on me and say, ‘The only thing the mayor talks about is the hiring of Black people.’ No. What I’m saying is, when you hire our people, we always look out for everybody else. We are the most generous people on the planet,” Johnson said.

In a letter to the mayor’s office, the DOJ says Johnson’s comments highlighting the number of “Black officials” in his administration prompted this investigation.

“Business and economic neighborhood development, the deputy mayor is a Black woman… Department of Planning and Development is a Black woman… Infrastructure, deputy mayor is a Black woman… Chief operations officer is a Black man… Budget director is a Black woman… Senior advisor is a Black man,” Johnson said.

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon stated in the letter, in part, “If these kind of hiring decisions are being made for top-level positions in your administration, then it begs the question whether such decisions are also being made for lower-level positions.”

Johnson’s office released a statement on Monday afternoon, saying, “Mayor Johnson is proud to have the most diverse administration in the history of our city. Our administration reflects the diversity and values of Chicago. Unfortunately, the current federal administration does not reflect either. We are aware of the letter issued by the Department of Justice, but are awaiting the official receipt of the letter. Our Corporation Counsel will review it at that time.”

The mayor’s office released a demographics breakdown of the office. It’s 34.3% Black, 30.5% White, 23.8% Hispanic and 6.7% Asian.

City Hall leaders are already reacting to the investigation.

“Hearing what he said and seeing this investigation, taking part, unfolding today, I think validates the concerns that many people have that this isn’t a mayor for everyone,” said 15th Ward Ald. Raymond Lopez. “I think many people throughout the city of Chicago have felt as if they have been excluded under this administration.”

Chicago’s Business and Economic Neighborhood Development Deputy Mayor, the head of the Department of Planning Development, Infrastructure Deputy Mayor, Chief Operations Officer, Budget Director, and Senior Advisor are all black. Johnson claimed they are focused on pursuing the interests of black people because it “hasn’t happened.”

Meanwhile, Chicago Public Schools is under investigation by the United States Education Department over its Black Students Success Plan for prioritizing black students’ academic success over the rest of its struggling students. Other schools across the country are similarly continuing their DEI initiatives in open defiance of the Trump administration.

Most generous, you say Mayor Johnson. A study by Cornell would differ [Race Differences in Restaurant Tipping: A Literature Review and Discussion of Practical Implications, Cornell University, January 1, 2006]:

“Research on race differences in tipping suggests that (a) Blacks leave smaller average restaurant tips than do Whites, (b) Black-White differences in tipping persist after controlling for socio-economic status, (c) Blacks tip less than Whites even when provided comparable levels of service, (d) Blacks tip less than Whites even when the server is black…”

The Department of Justice should immediately hire Amy Wax, Heather Mac Donald, Jared Taylor and Ann Coulter to begin thorough investigation into Chicago and virtually every major city to file massive lawsuits against both the hiring practices for public positions in city hall and government jobs in places like Atlanta, Chicago, DC, Memphis, NOLA, St. Louis, NYC, Boston, Philadelphia, Indianapolis, Baltimore, Birmingham, Cleveland, Detroit, and thousands of other cities, as well as to go over the awarding of lucrative contracts for public work projects that taxpayer dollars fund, be they transit systems, highway improvements, infrastructure upgrades or airport expansion. Those cities should be immediately hit with consent decrees as the Obama DOJ did on police departments who dared arrest to many black individuals, but this time for unfairly and discriminatorily hiring blacks or black-owned companies as part of a hellacious crusade to implement Diversity, Equity and Inclusion starting in the early 1970s in Atlanta under Mayor Jackson, and then copied nationwide.

I sometimes believe most Americans don’t want to know how deep the rot truly is in America, but it’s time. The odious mayor of Chicago may have just unleashed a new wave in the course-correction that is occurring in 2025 America, all because he erroneously bragged about how “generous” blacks are, and instead revealed how government jobs have created an artificial black middle class in Chicago the private sector can’t replicate.

This era is going to end. A lot of hard truths are so obvious, but to speak what’s on the tip of so many tongues puts one in the crosshairs of a fanatical religion, a theology without a God offering no chance of salvation or forgiveness. Ideologically, this religion seeks to create a hell on earth and to deviate even slightly in the state-mandated devotion to these insidiously inspired teachings is a heretical act.

So many great individuals have been consumed by the tumultuous onslaught wrought upon them for daring to notice the inconsistencies persistent with this religion, but nonetheless, to borrow a phrase from Jurassic Park, “nature finds a way.”

The proper sobriquet for this epoch has yet to be conceived, but it’s going to end. When a report can be published brandishing so many hilarious observations confirming the exact opposite point the published paper is trying to make, you realize vastly more individuals than you can comprehend have the same truths on the tips of their tongues.

Here’s a quick breakdown of pertinent facts surrounding Atlanta’s demographic situation over the past century:

In 1910, Atlanta was 66% white.

In 1950, Atlanta was 63% white.

In 1970, Atlanta was 49% white.

In 1990, Atlanta was 30% white.

In 2025, Atlanta is 38% white.

So what happened to cause such extreme White Flight from Atlanta? It’s quite easy to explain, but one becomes a heretic for voicing such incontestable realities because such direct line of communication is verboten in The Current Year:

• Black Crime
• Black Dysfunction
• Black Anti-Social Behavior
• Drop in property value as Black people moved into previously predominately White communities
• Decline in quality of schools, fear of safety for your children as racial demographics changed
• Cost of doing business increased (need for more security due to crime and theft at stores)
• Decrease in quality of public services and amenities (parks unsafe for families/public transportation experiences increasingly negative)
• Loss of social capital as previously White communities replaced with black neighbors
• Community tensions of inequality arises between racial groups and discernible income disparities become obvious

In 1990, Atlanta looked lost, destined to become another Detroit or Birmingham, Alabama, with an abandoned downtown of skyscrapers; a mausoleum of buildings built decades prior and standing as silent citadels above the ruins. Something funny happened in the subsequent 35 years, especially after the 1996 Olympics: White people started moving back and with their arrival came economic revitalization, reduced crime rates, a demand for improved public services and amenities (government/public jobs with the city of Atlanta was a bureaucracy of black public employees), a marked increase in property values and a quick diversification of neighborhoods once exclusively populated by blacks.

But that’s a bad thing. [Report: Atlanta among cities hardest hit by gentrification, Black displacement, Fox5Atlanta, May 15, 2025]:

The Brief

• • A new report from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition shows Atlanta has the second-highest number of neighborhoods that flipped from majority-Black to majority-white between 1980 and 2020.
  • Gentrification led to the displacement of an estimated 22,000 Black residents in Atlanta, with neighborhoods like Old Fourth Ward, East Atlanta, and Kirkwood among the most affected.
  • Atlanta experienced the most intense gentrification in the U.S. from 2000 to 2012, driven by rising incomes, home values, and educational attainment in urban neighborhoods.

ATLANTA – The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) has released a new report titled Displaced By Design: Fifty Years of Gentrification and Black Cultural Displacement in U.S. Cities .

What they’re saying:

Over the last 50 years, 15% of urban neighborhoods have shown signs of gentrification. While still relatively uncommon, gentrification is on the rise. The number of gentrifying neighborhoods grew from 246 in the 1970s to 1,807 in the 2010s.

By the numbers:

Between 1980 and 2020, 523 majority-Black neighborhoods experienced gentrification. Of those, 155 went through full racial turnover—changing from majority-Black to majority-white. Another 121 became more racially diverse. In total, there are now about 261,000 fewer Black residents in formerly majority-Black, gentrifying neighborhoods. When all gentrifying areas are considered, that number could be closer to 500,000.

Click here for interactive map.

Cities most affected by racial turnover and Black displacement include Washington, D.C., New York City, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Atlanta, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Atlanta’s Gentrification Impact

Local perspective:

New data from the NCRC shows Atlanta has the second-highest number of census tract flips—neighborhoods that changed from majority-Black to majority-white between 1980 and 2020.

Some of the Atlanta neighborhoods affected include:

• Old Fourth Ward
• East Atlanta
• Reynoldstown
• Kirkwood
• Edgewood
• Grant Park

Although the Old Fourth Ward did not lose as many Black residents as other neighborhoods, the racial shift there was more dramatic. The area saw a sharp rise in its white population after the Eastside Trail of the Beltline opened in 2012, attracting large new apartment complexes built on formerly vacant industrial land.

From 1980 to 2020, Atlanta lost about 22,000 Black residents—the fifth-highest loss among U.S. metro areas.

According to the report, Atlanta had the most intense gentrification in the country from 2000 to 2012. The NCRC measures gentrification by tracking increases in income levels, property values, and college-educated residents.

Washington, D.C., experienced the highest racial turnover overall. While cities like Los Angeles and Newark lost more majority-Black neighborhoods than Atlanta, many of those areas became majority-Hispanic or racially mixed rather than majority-white.

Pros and Cons of Gentrification

Dig deeper:

Here’s a look at the potential benefits and drawbacks of gentrification, a process that continues to reshape urban communities across the U.S.

Pros of Gentrification

1. Economic Revitalization

• Gentrification often brings new investment to neighborhoods, leading to improved infrastructure, increased business activity, and rising property values.

2. Reduced Crime Rates

• As investment increases and community resources improve, many areas see a decline in crime.

3. Improved Public Services and Amenities

• Revitalized neighborhoods may benefit from better schools, parks, transit, and healthcare services due to a higher tax base.

4. Increased Property Values

• Homeowners may benefit from increased equity and resale value.

5. Diversification of Neighborhoods

Some view gentrification as a way to promote racial and economic integration in historically segregated communities.

Cons of Gentrification

1. Displacement of Longtime Residents

• Rising rents and property taxes often force out lower-income residents and communities of color, leading to cultural displacement.

2. Loss of Cultural Identity

• Gentrification can erode the historical and cultural fabric of a neighborhood as new, wealthier residents reshape the community.

3. Widening Inequality

• Benefits often accrue to wealthier newcomers, while longtime residents may not see the same gains—or may suffer setbacks.

4. Increased Cost of Living

• As neighborhoods gentrify, the overall cost of living (groceries, services, retail) can rise, straining long-term residents.

5. Community Tensions

• Social friction can increase between new and existing residents due to differing expectations, norms, and priorities.

Hardest hit by Gentrification? That’s a headline? Did an asteroid strike or tornado touch down and cause extensive damage? Hardest hit denotes a negative action, but all that occurred was White individuals moving into an area of Atlanta populated primarily by black individuals…

The same areas being gentrified by White individuals were once replete with social capital, commerce and civic pride, and the restoration of this is attacked as some progenitor of black displacement? What about the White people who were displaced decades ago by the crime and dysfunction that arrived as the percentage of the black population increased in the communities/neighborhoods? Again, White Flight from this is deemed bad, and Gentrification (the returns of Whites) to same real estate is grounds for calling these areas “hardest hit” as if it were a natural disaster affecting the indigenous population and causing a distressing quality of life.

It’s not just Atlanta. This article about the negative consequences of White people moving back into major cities where black crime decades ago forced the creation and further perpetuation of suburban communities far from the city center could easily be about Charlotte, Memphis, New Orleans, St. Louis, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Chicago, Rochester (NY), Birmingham (AL), Jackson (MS), Cleveland, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washington DC, Baltimore, or Richmond (VA).

The restoration of Freedom of Association is all that matters, but to re-establish such a concept goes against our state-religion.

White people returning to Atlanta has produced lower crime in areas where criminality once flourished and prevented civilization from flowering; property values have risen in areas where acquiring property was a far cheaper proposition in the absence of a White population; restaurants, shops, and commerce has returned, where once a food desert was found; and a demand for greater public services and civic improvement where before government jobs were nothing more than a form of racial socialism for the majority population.

A rising tide lifting all boats is a concept anathema in a multiracial Atlanta, which is but a microcosm for the entire nation post the enactment of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The people who see an immediate rise in their property value upon the arrival of Whites never stop to ask why their property valuations were so low when the communities had a paucity of the former.

Checking in on how life is like for those White people still keeping the lights on in South Africa. It’s been 31 years since Apartheid ended and the turn-key country the White minority handed over to black majority rule has become a criminal dystopia beyond even the predictions of the most savagely pessimistic about the possible outcomes democracy would inevitably yield.

Though it’s Africa’s most developed country, the nation boasts one of the highest violent crime rates in the world – each day there is an average of 75 homicides and 400 robberies – which is the primary reason 2.7 million individuals are employed in private security:

Violent crime in South Africa has spiked over the past decade after a period when it decreased substantially. There were 27,494 killings in South Africa in the year to February 2023, compared with 16,213 in 2012-2013. South Africa’s homicide rate in 2022-2023 was 45 per 100,000 people, compared with a rate of 6.3 in the United States and around 1 in most European countries.

President Donald Trump’s Administration has offered Afrikaners, a besieged White portion of the dwindling White population of South Africa, the opportunity to seek refuge in the United States. A few score arrived on May 12, 2025, while more than 70,000 Afrikaners have expressed interest in asylum in the USA.

This number will only increase. Why?

Well, while highways across America are littered with billboards advertising restaurants, personal injury lawyers, and Buc-ees, the billboards in South Africa have a far more macabre intent when it comes to a marketing message. [Armoured Mobility Declares War on Hijackers with Bold New Billboard: “Say ‘Tsek to Hijack” UNAPOLOGETIC. UNSTOPPABLE. UNCOMPROMISING., ABRBuzz.co.za, December 12, 2024]:

Armoured Mobility, South Africa’s leading innovator in bulletproof vehicle solutions, has once again raised the bar with its fearless new billboard campaign. Located in Johannesburg on the N3 highway northbound, near the Van Buuren Road exit, the latest message boldly states:

“Say ‘Tsek to Hijack. Bulletproof Your Car.”

This audacious slogan is more than a tagline—it’s a rallying cry for every South African who refuses to live in fear. With hijackings and violent crimes continuing to threaten motorists across the country, Armoured Mobility is taking a stand, reminding the nation that safety isn’t optional—it’s essential.

Disrupting the Status Quo with Fearless Advocacy

The “Say ‘Tsek to Hijack” billboard follows a string of iconic campaigns from Armoured Mobility, including the unforgettable “Fear Fokol” in Johannesburg and “Don’t Baiza for Bullets” in Durban. Each campaign has shocked, inspired, and empowered South Africans to take control of their safety in the face of increasing threats.

“Fear has no place on our roads,” said Dawood Olgar, CEO of Armoured Mobility. “We’re here to remind South Africans that they don’t have to be victims. Our bulletproof vehicles give them the power to say ‘tsek to hijackers and violent crime.”

This latest billboard, placed on one of the country’s busiest and most dangerous highways, reaches thousands of commuters daily. It’s a stark, unapologetic reminder that Armoured Mobility is leading the fight for safer roads.

South Africa’s Reality Demands a Bold Solution

Statistics paint a grim picture of South Africa’s roads, where hijackings and violent crimes have become an everyday risk. Armoured Mobility’s latest campaign highlights the urgent need for bulletproof protection—not as a luxury, but as a necessity.

• Why now? Hijacking rates continue to soar, and violent encounters leave no room for error.
• Why Armoured Mobility? The company is at the forefront of advanced bulletproofing technology, giving South Africans the tools to reclaim their sense of security.

“This campaign isn’t about selling cars,” said Nabeel Khan, General Manager. “It’s about saving lives. We’re giving people a fighting chance in an environment where danger feels inevitable.”

The Technology Behind the Shield

Armoured Mobility’s vehicles aren’t just bulletproof—they’re built to perform. The company blends world-class engineering with cutting-edge materials to ensure that every vehicle stands as an impenetrable fortress on wheels.

Features of Armoured Mobility Vehicles:

• Ballistic Protection: Shielding against handguns, assault rifles, and high-powered weapons.
• Invisible Armour: Retaining the vehicle’s original look and feel while concealing state-of-the-art protection.
• Endurance and Reliability: Proven in real-world scenarios to withstand the harshest conditions.

Every Armoured Mobility vehicle is designed to safeguard what matters most: your life and the lives of those you love.

A History of Bold, Relatable Campaigns

The “Say ‘Tsek to Hijack” campaign builds on Armoured Mobility’s legacy of fearless marketing:

• “Fear Fokol” (Johannesburg): A daring call to action for city dwellers who refuse to bow to crime.
• “Don’t Baiza for Bullets” (Durban): A no-nonsense message for coastal drivers ready to take charge of their safety.

Both campaigns struck a chord with South Africans, balancing hard-hitting realism with a promise of unshakable protection. “Say ‘Tsek to Hijack” is the next chapter in this tradition—a message designed to shock, inspire, and empower.

The Call to Action

Armoured Mobility’s message is clear: South Africans deserve to feel safe, no matter where they’re driving.

• For parents driving their children to school.
• For business professionals commuting in high-risk zones.
• For adventurers heading out on long road trips.

Armoured Mobility provides the solutions South Africans need to navigate their world with confidence.

Leading the Charge for Safer Roads

With its innovative vehicles, bold campaigns, and unwavering commitment to safety, Armoured Mobility is more than a company—it’s a movement. The “Say ‘Tsek to Hijack” billboard is a declaration of war against hijackers, reminding South Africans that they have the tools to fight back.

“We’re not just building bulletproof cars,” said Nabeel Khan. “We’re building a safer future. One car, one family, one driver at a time.”

Where to See It

Catch the “Say ‘Tsek to Hijack” billboard along the N3 highway, northbound near the Van Buuren Road exit.

Another billboard terrifying relays the message: Arrive Not Dead | Bulletproof Your Car.

Another reads: Go Out in JoBurg. Don’t Get Taken Out | Bulletproof Your Car.

Another reads: It’s Like a Bulletproof Vest for Your Whole Family | Bulletproof Your Car.

As an American, you can always seek a new community for “good schools” to raise your family in, and enjoy the brand new amenities uniquely found in these suburban locales. Each few decades, they stretch further and further away from major cities they are located within a 30 or 45 minute car ride, but safely removed from any public transportation routes allowing the denizens of these metropolitan areas to have access to the shiny new community.

But in South Africa, such liberties are increasingly rare. Not all families can afford their own private security to keep them safe from random car jackings, thus the need for bulletproof cars.

Thirty-one years after Apartheid was replaced with black democratic rule, this is the reality of the South Africa democracy birthed and watch manifest before our eyes. For too many stuck perpetually in the glory year of 1994 when Nelson Mandela ascended to the role of President of South Africa, that awe-inspiring moment of overcoming a White Supremacist regime was the poetic The End to tale of South Africa.

But life goes on for those who live after, even it requires a bulletproof car to go from Point A to Point B just to avoid becoming another grim addition to the unrelenting high crime statistics found there.

If you are an Afrikaner reading this and haven’t applied for asylum to America yet, do so immediately. You’ll enjoy seeing billboards for Buc-ees instead of for bulletproofing your car in unexplainable ways, because a store like Buc-ees couldn’t stay open in South Africa without massive security measures and a private army employed to keep the business in the black.

Previously on SBPDL: Sixteen years. Roughly 16 years ago in a beautiful living room probably 20 miles from Greenbriar Mall, this site was born. There was no grandiose plan for a goofy site lampooning Stuff White People Like. But for some reason, the site grew in popularity and gained a following on the old blog spot platform of Google. Then something horrific happened. Call it kismet, but a friend I grew up was murdered probably 18 miles from Greenbriar Mall in Midtown Atlanta. She was White | her murderer was black. He shot her and two other White girls because he had learned about White privilege in college and decided racial vengeance was the only way for true accountability over perceived historical iniquities. He was told the collective privilege of another racial group was something he should covet. He was rapacious in exacting equity upon White individuals who benefited from something he had not, or so he had been taught.

You rarely hear the 10th Commandment invoked anymore – Thou Shall Not Covet – but in a multiracial society, certain inequalities emerge. Thus the whole concept of disparate impact and the enforcement of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion administered in public and private companies. Even a vocation/avocation such as earning the title of master sommelier which produces an insufficient amount of diversity among its elitist ranks of 0enophiles has its legitimacy questioned for the paucity of a particular racial group.

Covetousness is truly what the entire situation in South Africa comes down to, right? One racial group has democratic control of a nation courtesy of democracy being nothing more than a racial headcount, and are handed a turn-key nation built, established and maintained by the White minority. 31 years later, the nation is on the verge of collapse, the great multiracial experiment a failure with every White farmer murdered and a land expropriation bill passed allowing the black government to confiscate White owned land and redistribute to blacks without compensation.

The only refugees now allowed in America were 59 White South Africans this past Monday, May 12. The Episcopalian Church dropped out of the refugee resettlement racket with the Federal government – which produced hundreds of millions for them – over a moral obligation to helping out White Afrikaners facing genocide because of its “steadfast commitment to racial justice.”

Sixteen years. And then to see a few score of Afrikaner families, told by the ruling black government they don’t face discrimination (farcical: extreme affirmative action via Black Economic Empowerment is the law of the land there) and the ruling party puts out the chilling press release attacking the refugees with this not-so-crpytic message: “what the instigators of this falsehood seek is not safety, but impunity from transformation. They flee not from persecution, but from justice, equality and accountability for historic privilege.”

And that’s where we find SBPDL on May 16, 2025. The name no longer fits, an antiquated concept devoid of true meaning in the current year. Like Icarus, I flew too close to the sun, nearly drowned, but found something bigger in return upon learning there is no swimming backwards. No matter far you get, you can’t go back. The only way is forward. To win.

I’m somewhat shocked by the immense impact a joke site has had, and the efforts I made through other manners and endeavors, in impacting what’s happening. Never seeking fame or glory, but simply starting a conversation most people are too polite (and cowardly) to have; that’s not me, and goes against principles long ago instilled by family members no longer with us. Save in spirit.

With the collapse of South Africa impending, illusions (no, delusions) kept alive by a pernicious faith and Godless religion will face a crucial test of belief, but ultimately it was never our job to save everyone.

There’s some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for. But it first starts with having a spirit that is not afraid.

– Paul Kersey

Shot. [Where do we go from here?: Greenbriar Mall’s Black business owners feel both ‘blindsided,’ optimistic about mall’s futur e, TheAtlantaVoice, March 26, 2021]:

The far northwest corner of Greenbriar Mall is occupied by a pair of Black businesses, Tutu Maniacs and The Perfect Dress. Both are owned by Black women, the former by DeAndrea Byrd and the later by Moona Naima Mohammed.

Both have a customer base that is geared towards Black mothers and girls, birthday parties and prom season. These are not the customers that Macy’s, which is located on the opposite end of the mall and is preparing to leave the mall after decades of being the building’s retail anchor, seems to covet with their ever-present television advertisements.

The Atlanta Voice took a trip to Greenbriar Mall, once one of the city’s most popular shopping destinations, and now not so much, this past Sunday afternoon to learn what Black business owners think about Macy’s leaving the premises.

The anchor

“Every mall needs an anchor store, Macy’s was this mall’s anchor,” said Mohammed, 25, an Atlanta native that could have easily doubled for one of the store’s dress models if not for the fatigue green crop-top hoodie and matching sweatpants she wore.

There was a customer in the store trying on prom dresses with the help of an assistant while Mohammed, a self-described “talker” answered questions.

“We have not called for the killing of white people — at least for now. I can’t guarantee the future.”Asked by the interviewer whether this was not an invocation towards genocide, Malema’s dismissive response was “crybabies, crybabies”. If things “continue the way they are”, nothing is off the table. – Julius Malema, June 14, 2018

No, you won’t see many White liberals sporting trendy Ukrainian flags or Refugees Welcome signs in their perfectly manicured lawns racing out to embrace Afrikaners brought to our nation so as to escape an ever-unfolding tragedy in post-Apartheid South Africa. You see, for most people, South African history starts and stops with the 1994 Democratic elections that saw Nelson Mandela and the ANC sweep into power, the promise of a multi-racial future glorified by Clint Eastwood in a seemingly forgotten movie about Afrikaners love for rugby called Invictus.

But there’s something remarkable happening in 2025 America. And in a mask off moment for those paying attention. [ANC rejects US decision to grant refugee status to 49 Afrikaners, SABCNews.com, May 13, 2025]:

The African National Congress (ANC) has rejected the US decision to grant refugee status to 49 Afrikaners moving to the United States.

The UN has not ruled that the group has refugee status.

This comes as the Trump administration decided to consider applications from Afrikaners after the US President claimed genocide against the group was taking place in South Africa.

The government in South Africa has strongly rejected the accusation.

ANC National Spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri agrees with the South African government’s position.

“Let it be categorically stated that there are no Afrikaner refugees in South Africa. No section of our society is hounded, persecuted, or subject to ethnic victimization. These claims are a fabrication and a cowardly political construct designed to delegitimize our democracy and insult the sacrifices made by generations who fought for freedom. The misuse of refugee protections to shield right-wing anti-transformation elements is a violation of the spirit and letter of international law.”

Meanwhile, a Senior Democrat who serves on the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee says it’s baffling why the Trump administration is admitting white Afrikaners for resettlement, while continuing an indefinite suspension for thousands of other legitimate asylum seekers who have fled persecution.

Senator Jeane Shaheen released a statement pointing to what she called a United Nations finding that found that no South Africans were eligible for refugee status.

This comes as the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church told the US government that it wouldn’t help resettle the Afrikaners. Bishop Sean Rowe writes that the Church would not help with the resettlement of the newly arrived white South Africa arguing that it was painful to watch one group of refugees, selected in a highly unusual manner, receive preferential treatment over many others who had been waiting in refugee camps or dangerous conditions for years.

The Church will now end its decades long refugee resettlement partnership with the federal government. While Senator Jeane Shaheen described the admission of Afrikaners in front of others in line as a clearly politically motivated decision and an effort to rewrite history. She called on the administration to clarify why the group qualified for resettlement and why they were prioritized over others including Afghans and Sudanese who have fled their homes due to conflict and persecution.

It gets worse, with the National Spokesperson for the African National Congress putting out a press release condemning Whites fleeing South Africa for America because in their words, they don’t face genocide or racial persecution, but the consequences for being descended from the architects of Apartheid – “what the instigators of this falsehood seek is not safety, but impunity from transformation. They flee not from persecution, but from justice, equality and accountability for historic privilege.” [The Left Says Quiet Part Out Loud: Whites Need Not Apply for Asylum, Daily Signal, May 13, 2025]:

I n case you think that the threats are idle, just read this ominous statement from the African National Congress, the ruling party in South Africa. It insists there are “no Afrikaner refugees in South Africa.”

If there is no problem, why not just let these people go?

“What the instigators of this falsehood seek is not safety, but impunity from transformation. They flee not from persecution, but from justice, equality, and accountability for historic privilege,” the message says. Media inquiries are directed to—I kid you not—someone named Mangaliso “Stalin” Khonza.

Accountability, eh?

Truth and Reconciliation was a myth, with the goal of tomorrow being another country a reminder historical grievances and resentment will always cast a far greater shadow on the future then we admit. By every metric measuring quality of life, South Africa since 1994 is a failed state. The Air Force, once the envy of the world when it was exclusively staffed by White pilots as late as 1989, now has six operational aircraft (.018 percent of its total fleet of 330 aircraft).

In our lifetime, South Africa will utterly collapse into the foot print of industry long ago built by Whites and inherited by blacks via the peaceful surrendering of the old nation in 1994. Just as Rhodesia surrendered and became Zimbabwe, we near the denouement of the racial transition with the forceful redistribution of White-owned land/farms to blacks. [White South Africans granted refugee status by Trump administration arrive in US, CNN, May 12, 2025]:

In January, South Africa enacted the Expropriation Act, seeking to undo the legacy of apartheid, which created huge disparities in land ownership among its majority Black and minority White population.

Under apartheid, non-White South Africans were forcibly dispossessed from their lands for the benefit of Whites. Today, some three decades after racial segregation officially ended in the country, Black South Africans, who comprise over 80% of the population of 63 million, own around 4% of private land.

The expropriation law empowers South Africa’s government to take land and redistribute it – with no obligation to pay compensation in some instances – if the seizure is found to be “just and equitable and in the public interest.”

In February, Trump suspended aid to South Africa, alleging discrimination against White farmers. In that same executive order, the president said the US would “promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination, including racially discriminatory property confiscation.”

Earlier this month, Trump said in a post on social media that “any Farmer (with family!) from South Africa, seeking to flee that country for reasons of safety, will be invited into the United States of America with a rapid pathway to Citizenship.”

Forty-nine Afrikaners, waving American flags and clutching all their earthly possessions arrived in America, and were viciously denounced by scions of the Corporate Media, with the Episcopalian Church completely suspending the highly lucrative refugee resettlement programs they had with the US government over moral obligations to Afrikaners being brought to the USA.

And as the official spokesperson for the ruling ANC stated menacingly (and with utter mendacity to reality): “what the instigators of this falsehood seek is not safety, but impunity from transformation. They flee not from persecution, but from justice, equality and accountability for historic privilege.”

It is my great hope all Afrikaners understand they have an obligation to their families to leave South Africa and find peace, hope, salvation, community and a new start in the United States of America. The land of their ancestors is gone for now, and what matters most is not becoming another statistic in farm invasions where the only memory of your death will be a white cross in a field strewn with thousands of other crosses.

The wishful thinking of the 20th Century is coming to an end, where the theoretical saw practical application mandated by the State (both in the USA as well as Rhodesia and South Africa). The grand social experiment has provided ample evidence as a failure for those capable of accepting this truth, and for those unwilling, you can always stick around to find out what “justice, equality and accountability for historic privilege” means in the end.

Tyger Tyger burning bright,
In the forests of the night:
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
– William Blake, The Tyger
Forty prior charges, all before the age of 30. Alexander Dickey, a black male, had led quite the life of crime. One wonders when the collective power of white privilege will be used as justification for the criminal choices Dickey made and the sorrowful life of perpetual immiseration he suffered? Would a lawyer framing his defense around this case of the collective power of systemic inequality and implicit bias behind Dickey’s decision to commit crime after crime after crime after crime, culminating in the execution of 22-year-old Logan Federico (a White female) as she slept, find sympathetic ears among a group of 12 individuals ready to engage in a jury nullification?

Inevitably, we slouch toward this scenario in a nation committed to restorative justice and large swaths of the population convinced the criminal justice system is racist and exists to carry on the legacy of Jim Crow.

But for now, a family must bury their daughter. Their sister. Their cousin. Friends must say goodbye, because our society is enamored with the possibility an asset is present, and not a liability. [Swiftie college coed was executed as she slept by ‘career criminal’ who broke in then went on shopping spree with her credit cards: cops, NY POST, May 11, 2025]:

An aspiring teacher and devoted Swiftie was executed as she slept by a “career criminal” who stole her credit cards and went on a shopping spree, cops said.

And her heart-broken father says he’s still waiting for her to reply to his last text message to her, “goodnight, I love you.”

College coed Logan Federico, 22, of Waxhaw, NC, was visiting friends in Columbia, SC on May 3 when a prowler broke into a rental house, swiped her credit cards, and gunned her down, the Columbia Police Department said in a press conference.

A student at South Piedmont Community College, Logan worked two jobs and was planning to transfer to the College of Charleston to become a teacher, her father, Stephen Federico, told WIS News 10.

She was strong-willed from the start,” the heartbroken father said through tears.

“She loved animals, she was a people person, she drew people in. It was the right people, too, people who needed to be uplifted,” he said.

Alexander Dickey, 30, a career criminal with 40 prior charges, allegedly broke into the rental home where Federico was staying with a stolen gun and opened fire after stealing from the house.

“She was asleep,” Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook said, calling her a “true victim.”

Dickey went on a shopping spree the next day with Logan’s credit cards, and was caught shortly after he was spotted emerging from the woods, stealing a car, and driving to a residence in Gaston, cops said.

“We texted the night she got there to make sure she was safe,” her dad recalled.

“Wednesday night, which became a tradition with all of us, I always sent a text that said ‘goodnight, I love you, I’m going to bed,” and they [his family] always responded… I’m still waiting for hers,” he said.

Logan’s last text message was to her boss at a Charlotte bar, Jeff Reed, who helped kickstart her career as a bartender, Federico said.

“One of the last things she said to me was ‘I love you,’” Reed told the outlet about her last shift.

His bar is now naming a cocktail after her called “The Queen,” as a tribute to Logan’s favorite nickname for her managers. Proceeds from the drink will go to her family, Reed said.

Logan is survived by her father, mother, and brother.

Federico gave a defiant speech to his daughter’s alleged killer during a press conference.

“The message I wanted to send to Dickey, who took my daughter’s life — this is from her: ‘You can’t kill my spirit. You might be able to kill my body … but you cannot kill my love that my family and friends shared with me.”

Dickey faces a slew of charges, including murder, burglary, weapons possession, and credit card theft. Cops say he had convictions for robbery, grand larceny, and resisting arrest.

He is scheduled to appear at the Columbia Municipal Court on Tuesday.

There’s a story Frank Miller , famed comic book author and writer of the genre-defining Dark Knight Returns, tells: He was mugged twice in the early 1980s (he’s never divulged the race of the assailants, but being New York City, it’s with 100 percent certainty we can say they were black), which spawned his decision to pen a right-wing story of Batman as a fascist caped crusader unconcerned with the rights of criminals and at war with a state seemingly tolerant of crime, misery and corruption besetting the citizens of Gotham.

It’s a Batman devoid of any respect for the rights of citizens – which he counts at night to keep himself up, he tells a criminal he’s subjecting to extreme torture in one of the graphic novels best moments – who dare threaten the stability and peace of his city, because he’s finally accepted law enforcement is inadequate in dealing with the epidemic of violence.

Logan Federico, a young White female college student, was executed by a black career criminal as she was asleep, lost in dreams of tomorrow forever unrealized because our society lacks the courage to safeguard individuals like her and instead prioritizes the imaginary suffering and plight of a community brimming with dysfunction and sociopathic behavior, but one also collectively devoid of moral agency because of the terrible legacy of slavery, oppression and persecution.

Our society and the architects of social policy enacted long ago failed Logan Federico, a young White female executed in her sleep by a career black criminal, who then used her credit cards to go on a shopping spree. We don’t have to live this way, but to cast aside the desires of a color-blind society when confronted with unavoidable criminal realities dating back more than a hundred years (and once guiding public policy) means a realigning of societal values, goals and a reevaluation of civic duty and responsibility.

These are conversations few wish to have, because the implications are catastrophic for how American society has been run since The Civil Rights Act of 1064 (when Freedom of Association was abrogated) and the conclusions of the Kerner Commission dictated sole-White culpability for the black riots of the 1960s that left so many of our major cities in ruins.

But it’s time.

You won’t see this data breakdown in the New York Times or the New York Post.

It should be noted in 2024 New York City, blacks represent 24.3 percent of population, Hispanics 29.1 percent, and Asians 14.1 percent. Whites are 32.1 percent of the city’s population.

For those homicide suspects arrested, 94.5 percent were black, Hispanic, or Asian in New York City for 2023. These statistics come courtesy of the 2024 Crime and Enforcement Activity in New York City:

Murder and Non-Negligent Manslaughter

Murder and Non-Negligent Manslaughter victims are most frequently Black (52.5%) or Hispanic (34.7%). White victims account for (7.0%) of all Murder and Non-Negligent Manslaughter victims while Asian/Pacific Islander (5.8%) victims account for the remaining portions of Murder and Non- Negligent Manslaughter victims.

The race/ethnicity of known Murder and Non-Negligent Manslaughter suspects mirrors the victim population with Black (53.3%) and Hispanic (35.8%) suspects accounting for the majority of suspects. White suspects account for (7.0%) of all Murder and Non-Negligent Manslaughter suspects while Asian/Pacific Islander account for (3.9%) Murder and Non-Negligent Manslaughter suspects.

The Murder and Non-Negligent Manslaughter arrest population is similarly distributed. Black arrestees (55.8%) and Hispanic arrestees (36.0%) account for the majority of Murder and Non-Negligent Manslaughter arrestees while Asian/Pacific Islander arrestees (2.2%) and White (5.5%) arrestees account for the remaining portions of the Murder and Non-Negligent Manslaughter arrest population.

Note there were more white victims of homicide in 2024 New York City than suspects, meaning interracial murder were primarily non-white on white.

Also;

• 96 percent of robbery suspects arrested in 2024 New York City were non-white (56.5 percent black).
• 93.5 percent of rape suspects arrested in 2024 New York City were non-white (42.5 percent black).
• 99 percent of shooting suspects arrested in 2024 New York City were non-white (64.4 percent black).

One percent of those arrested for non-fatal shootings were White. The city, mind you, is 32.1 percent White.

Violent crime has a color/race in New York City, but this data is inadmissible in the court of public opinion, because it completely obliterates every conceivable egalitarian notion forced upon us by our hostile governing elite.

What would crime (homicide, robbery, rape, and non-fatal shootings) look like in an all-white New York City?

About 18 years ago, I discovered Frasier. Too young when it aired to truly understand, and never getting into the weirdness of Cheers in syndication (the ultimate baby boomer show depicting a Boston seemingly all-white, untouched by The Great Migration, bussing riots or Immigration Act of 1965), the WASPy world of of Dr. Frasier Crane, and his brother, Dr. Niles Crane, was absolutely engrossing.

The actors, the erudite writing, the multiple season arcs, the hilarious ensemble cast with recurring cameos, and the all-too-pleasing Whiteness of Seattle represented the purest expression of the American sitcom. You wanted to be a resident of Elliot Bay Towers and share an elevator ride with Frasier just to catch a whiff of his latest fumble in the dating world.

Kelsey Grammer is Frasier, perfectly cast as an elitist, privileged WASP, navigating through a world through of rubes and proles he hopes to dispense wisdom upon to truly enjoy “good mental health.”

Before he died of cancer, my late friend Colin Flaherty and I were talking on the phone about the George Floyd riots, the chaos engulfing the entire nation due to black riots, and COVID. He had confided in me how bad the cancer outlook was for him, and he requested a change in subject. “Big man, you’ll handle it all in due time. Your singular focus on this issue is going to inspire the turn at some point. I won’t be around to see it, so tell me something I don’t know about you and your family.”

I paused, trying to fight back tears knowing he had just told me of the death sentence he had been given, and said, “Well, I’m watching a lot of Frasier at night.”

Colin was probably smoking one of his trademark cigars in this moment, because he took longer than usual to say, “You know…”

Another pause (another puff of cigar).

“You know, Kelsey Grammer’s dad and sister were both killed by blacks.”

What?

“Yeah… his dad was murdered by blacks in St. Thomas in retribution for Martin Luther King being assassinated back in 1967, and his sister was abducted, raped, and murdered in Colorado Springs in the mid-70s.”

Wait… What? (That’s all I can remember responding)

Being a huge fan of Grammer’s, I immediately started researching the story of what Colin had just shared with me. Yes, Frank Grammer was murdered by an anti-white black guy in St. Thomas who sought racial revenge for the assassination of MLK by killing whites:

On April 9, the date of King’s funeral, U.S. Virgin Islands resident Arthur Bevan Niles (b. 1939), a taxi driver and a “virulently anti-white islander,” painted his taxi with racist slogans. According to a newspaper report dated April 26, 1968, Niles’ “cab was ordered off the streets [by police] because it was covered with such statements as ‘Kill the white pigs.’”

Niles also tried to burn down a house and two rental cars at the Cyril E. King Airport (then named the Harry S. Truman Airport). In addition, Niles placed a bomb in the St. Thomas offices of the International Telephone and Telegraph, Co. The bomb did not explode.

Niles ended up at Frank Grammer’s house in the middle of the night, April 24, 1968. Niles set fire to Grammer’s car in order to lure him outside. When Grammer stepped outside to see why his car was on fire, Niles shot Grammer, killing him.

What about his sister, Karen Grammer? She was one of three White people a group of blacks murdered in a spree killing in 1975. She was abducted from her job at Red Lobster in Colorado Springs, raped, and stabbed 42-times (nearly decapitated) by three black males. [Kelsey Grammer Reveals His Sister Karen’s Chilling Final Moments After Being Stabbed 42 Times (Exclusive), People, May 2, 2025]:

On July 8, 1975, Kelsey Grammer’s life changed forever.

The actor, then 20, was at home that day with his family in Pompano Beach, Fla., when detectives knocked on the door. The detectives told him that they’d found the body of a Jane Doe in Colorado Springs, Colo. — whom they believed to be his 18-year-old sister Karen.

The next day, Grammer flew to Colorado and confirmed the detectives’ suspicions. He learned that Karen had been brutally raped and stabbed to death on July 1, two weeks before her 19th birthday, by a man who had been on a killing spree with accomplices in the area.

In his new book Karen: A Brother Remembers, out May 6, Grammer delves into the horrific details of his sister’s murder, as well as the deep and lasting toll it took on his life, which has been touched by multiple tragedies. In 1968, his father Allen was shot and killed at his home in St. Thomas by a taxi driver amid a wave of racial violence following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.; In 1980, his paternal half-brothers, twins Billy and Stephen, were killed in a suspected shark attack while scuba diving in the Virgin Islands.

For a long time, the grief was so dominant that I couldn’t access happiness,” Grammer, now 70, tells PEOPLE for a story in this week’s print issue. “The book helped me get to a new place with that.”

Karen had moved to Colorado Springs after a semester at college in Georgia to be with her boyfriend. Grammer last spoke to his sister on June 30, 1975, and she told him she planned to come home to Florida after the Fourth of July. When he didn’t hear from her after that, Grammer called the local police.

He later found out that just hours after he and Karen had chatted, she went to the Red Lobster where she worked at around 11 p.m. to wait for a friend to finish their shift. Freddie Glenn and two others had planned to rob the Red Lobster, but when they pulled up behind the restaurant, they spotted Karen.

With a gun drawn, they told her to come with them. “For what?” she asked, according to Grammer’s retelling of the police report. That characteristically sassy response was all Karen, Grammer notes.

She was taken to Glenn’s car and was left with him as the other men entered the restaurant and decided against the robbery. When they returned, they found Karen tied up next to Glenn.

They drove her to one of the men’s apartments, where they took turns raping her.

Afterwards, the men drove Karen to an alley, where Glenn stabbed her 42 times and nearly decapitated her. In her last desperate moments, Karen attempted to crawl for help, which Grammer writes about in an exclusive excerpt below.

Grammer grappled with whether to include the “graphic, impersonal review” of Karen’s last moments from the police report in the book. Though delving into the details was “not pleasant or comforting,” he ultimately decided “there is something beneficial in knowing [the truth]. It is ammunition to keep Freddie Glenn in jail.”

Glenn was convicted of Karen’s murder and several other murders in the area, and he’s currently serving a life sentence in prison. He has been denied parole four times, and his next hearing is in 2027.

“His protestations these days are like, ‘Well, I don’t remember raping her,'” Grammer says. “Bulls—.”

While Grammer has said in the past that he forgives Glenn for his actions, he still holds him accountable.

“You don’t want to eat yourself to pieces because you can’t forgive somebody,” he says. “But it’s hard to forgive a person who consciously decided they wanted to murder somebody you love. This wasn’t just some temperance issue with him. It was deliberate. I can give you forgiveness, but you’re not going to get out of paying for it.”

Beyond sharing the details of her murder, Grammer paints a picture of Karen in the book as a free-spirited and loving woman who made the most of every moment, whose life was so much more than the way it ended.

“I wanted to breathe life into her and welcome her into the world,” he says. “We were Kelsey and Karen, brother and sister.”

Below, Grammer learns about Karen’s final moments in an exclusive excerpt from Karen: A Brother Remembers.

In my imaginings, the man who found Karen at his doorstep was a “good Samaritan” of sorts. I stand corrected and disappointed that that man did not attempt to help her but simply called the police after leaving her body as it lay…eyes vacant, staring at the sky, her legs still on the steps, her head on the ground and a clenched fist above her head with a single finger pointing — somewhere or nowhere — just pointing.

She had fallen backward from the trailer door after knocking for help. It was her last hope and disappointment after crawling 400 feet from the place where she had been stabbed. Bloody fingerprints mark the trail of her final moments at exactly 3’6” along the office and walls of the trailer park. She had been on her knees, crawling her way. Seeking help with her last ounce of life. The coroner noted that through a gaping wound in her neck, he could see all the way into Karen’s lung. I had been right in saying he almost decapitated her. Freddie Glenn punched holes in my sister’s body with unimaginable brutality. There were defensive wounds on her hands.

What I had hoped were a final, few moments of kindness from some stranger, were nothing of the sort.

Not once in this profile in People magazine do we learn it was a black spree killing of Whites that Karen Grammer was grisly victim of in 1975 Colorado Springs. That the three men who raped his sister were black, who stabbed her 42 times were black, and that a gaping wound in her neck allowing the coroner to see her lung was created by the blade from a knife held by a black male.

Colin Flaherty, who shared with me this distributing anecdote about the black murderers of Grammer’s father and sister, separated by thousands of miles and years, is a fact left out of the People profile, save to note in passing “a wave of racial violence” costing his father his life. Grammer’s father was murdered in a violent act of black racial revenge.

His father was white. His sister was a beautiful white teenager. Both died at the hands of blacks.

Just say it.

In one of the best episodes of Frasier, Grammer’s eponymous character gets a temporary producer, a black female named Mary (she even proceeds to call herself “Dr. Mary,” though, unlike Frasier, she never attended a medical school). She’s annoying, vociferous, and quickly interjects with callers on his program’s show, offering unsolicited advice only infuriating Grammer’s character further. We then get this immortal exchange between Frasier, his brother Niles, and his father, Martin:

Frasier: Well, I started to say something and then I thought, well, it might be a bit condescending.

Martin: [ sits ] I know why you didn’t say anything; cause she’s black!

Frasier: Oh, that’s ridiculous, Dad, race has nothing to do with it.

Niles: Oh, come now, Frasier. You can’t deny a certain measure of guilt, living as you do in your exclusive lily-white world.

Frasier: Niles, owning the CD of “Ella sings Gershwin” does not qualify you as a soul brother!

Martin: You know, Frasier, there’s such a thing as being too sensitive about this stuff. Now if it was Roz blabbing on instead of this Mary, you’d tell her to put a sock in it, right?

Frasier: Well, I suppose so, but, you know, this is different, Dad. She’s just starting out, I didn’t want to squelch her enthusiasm.

Martin: Because she’s black.

Frasier: Dad, please, will you just stop saying that? Anyway, I will just have to deal with it for a week until Roz gets back.

Martin: Black!

Frasier: Stop it!

Niles: [ suddenly after a pensive time ] My first roommate at Yale was black!

Frasier: Huntington Treadwell III! It’s hardly representative of the African-American experience, Niles.

Niles: His father was a pioneer in Selma and Montgomery.

Frasier: Yes, I believe he built golf courses all over the South!

Because she’s black…

Was it because her three murderers were black that this fact was omitted from People’s profile of Grammer’s new book? Was it because Grammer’s father was murdered by anti-White black male that this fact was omitted as well?

Just say it. One of the best episodes of Frasier detailed White people’s inability to make even the most minor of a black person, because they are black. Your sister was murdered by three black males (who also murdered two other Whites) and your dad was murdered by an anti-White black male seeking racial revenge.

In 2025 Detroit, the city boasts a population is 78% black and 10% White. It should be noted that the 2010 Census showed the city at 82% black and 7% White, when in 1910, the city was 99% White. What war did America lose to see Detroit go from 99% White in 1910 to 7% White in 2010?

This is the conversation American’s have avoided having for more than half a century, for the answers basically force a serious reflection on the conclusion of The Kerner Commission (convened after the black riots of the 1960s rampaged through scores of US cities) and the usurping of the US Constitution with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Long held as sacrosanct and a victory for morality and justice, one can’t help see the ruins of a once prosperous civilization in Detroit, St. Louis, Birmingham (Alabama), Jackson (MS), Rochester (NY), Baltimore, or Memphis and conclude some cataclysm happened.

But that’s conversation is coming and it will no longer be a monologue dictating from the playbook of the 1619 Project. Enter an 11-foot statue celebrating a 1987 movie into the narrative. [Rubin: Some Detroiters view ‘Robocop’ film, statue as raw bigotry, Detroit Free-Press,

Not long after RoboCop saved Trunetta Roach’s hometown, which was in 1987, the Detroiter found herself on vacation in Florida.

Chatting with a stranger there, she told me in an email, she mentioned where she was from — and the woman recoiled, took a step back, and told Roach that she “seemed very nice to live in such a dangerous place.”

It hurt, Roach said, and decades later, it infuriates. After I offered an update Thursday on the status of the crowd-funded statue of the star of “RoboCop” — it’s still bound for Eastern Market, ideally by the end of the year — she responded with a concise review of the movie and the project.

“The RoboCop story,” she said, “represents a mainstream, racist narrative about Detroit that has damaged our reputation worldwide. It should be consigned to the trash heap of lies and misinformation.”

I’ve always thought it was on the amusing side of peculiar to erect, in Detroit, an 11-foot-tall bronze likeness of the title character from a film whose founding premise was that the city is a festering hellscape.

Having spoken often to one of the Detroit-based ringleaders of the project, I’ve come to appreciate that the intent is to get people thinking and talking, not just about the sculpture but about the philosophies and attitudes that inspired the movie.

As a rule, I hold that more art is better than less art, that public art makes places better, and that my taste should not be the universal yardstick, even if I’m always right. That 17-foot-tall statue by Kaws outside One Campus Martius in downtown Detroit makes me roll my nearsighted eyes, but I see people posing with it all the time.

What hadn’t struck me, in my capacity as a white guy from the suburbs, is that some people view the film and its commemoration as raw bigotry.

“It’s a cult classic,” said Wayne State professor David Goldberg, “but only for certain groups of people” — and not the ones who have to defend the city as “actually having human beings in it.”

A mostly white cast

The movie had Dallas playing the role of a futuristic Detroit and Peter Weller playing RoboCop, a law enforcement cyborg constructed around what was left of a murdered police officer.

The leader of the drug gang that killed him is introduced as a suspect in the murders of 31 other officers, which suggests a wildly out of control city. He’s white, as are most of his gang, some looters shown late in the picture, and pretty much everyone else except for a likeably tough police sergeant, the briefly seen mayor and one executive of the venal Omni Consumer Products.

“The hoodlums are mostly middle-class white gangster types,” said Brandon Walley, a graphic designer and experimental filmmaker who has become the spokesman for the small band of artists behind the sculpture.

As for the movie’s Dutch director, Paul Verhoeven, Walley said, he’s politically well left of center, and his goal was to blend science fiction, action and a human touch into a social commentary that took potshots at Reaganomics and the smothering state of capitalism.

The ultimate bad guy is a treacherous corporate bigwig played by the shiny white Ronny Cox. No bigotry was intended, Walley said, by either the filmmaker or the fundraising amateurs who attracted $67,436 in a worldwide Kickstarter campaign inspired by a facetious tweet to Mayor Dave Bing.

But intent and perception don’t always march side-by-side.

The ’80s view of Detroit

Art, whether high, low or blood-spattered, is supposed to evoke reaction.

What Walley found, he said, especially in the early stages of the project around 2013, is that many of the most strenuous objections came from people who had heard about “RoboCop” but hadn’t actually spent whatever trivial amount it took to buy a ticket back then.

Others left the theater outraged, and it’s not his place or his philosophy to begrudge their ire.

“No one that’s from the city wants this statue,” said Brandon Keyes, another emailer last week. “We’ve always seen it for what it is: a racist joke that’s turned into some perverted project. It’s disgusting and offensive.”

Goldberg, 52, an associate professor of African-American Studies and director of the Crockett-Lumumba Scholars program, ignored “RoboCop” when he was a high schooler: “I was watching sports.”

He caught up with it as it spawned two unsuccessful sequels, a pair of animated series, video games, comic books and action figures, and “all I see is that there needs to be extra control of the Black population.”

Give credit, though, he said: “It put Detroit in the exact role Detroit played in the national media in the 1980s, as the American Beirut.”

Tragedy and possibility

Weller, the star, told the Free Press’ Julie Hinds last year that he sees the movie as a tragedy.

Walley, the statue’s guide, sees Weller’s towering replica as an opportunity.

Not for profit, though it will likely draw visitors to its unspecified spot just outside the main retail area of the market. After commissions and unfulfilled pledges, the original campaign collected less than $60,000, which didn’t even pay for the bronze.

Not necessarily for praise, either. Critics have complained that a better subject would have been someone like Rosa Parks, to which Walley responds that if they could have spontaneously collected that much money from small donors around the world for a likeness of her, they would have.

Rather, he said, RoboCop will stand at Eastern Market as a magnet for discussing everything from class to design to race to geography — and no, he said, despite years of reports saying otherwise, there was never any intention of parking the statue in front of the pre-renovation Michigan Central Depot, where it would simply have called attention to blight.

That’s all presuming the sculpture stays upright, and that Keyes, who emailed his displeasure, is exaggerating for effect.

“This is Detroit,” he said. “RoboCop’s ass is getting scrapped” — a theft that would be, fittingly, a case for RoboCop.

This is Detroit… funny to mention Rosa Parks, who spent time in residing in Detroit and was robbed and beaten by a black man there in 1994. He recognized the Civil Rights Icon and still continued the assault and robbery.

In the movie, our eponymous human-cyborg crime fighter had three directives:

• Serve the Public Trust
• Protect the innocent
• Uphold the law

The problem: in 2013, we learned Detroit’s Ceasefire program aimed at deterring gang activity and cutting down on violent crime was targeting only black males (because these were the individuals collectively responsible for violent crime in Detroit).

Police departments across the nation are being pressured to get rid of their gang databases because they are filled with profiles of black and brown people, a de facto admission in the current climate of systemic inequality, implicit bias and outright racism by the police.

Or, they represent the key to unlocking civic improvement and answering the question of what happened to Detroit’s White population (and so many other US cities). As the increasing population of black residents increased crime, the intolerable decline in social capital and city service – both private and public – meant White individuals sought a new city with demographics reflecting the 1910 population of Detroit.

It’s time to see the Robocop Statue go up in now 78% black/10% White Detroit and have the unpleasant conversation we’ve deemed necessary to kick down the road until it goes away.

” [Christopher] Columbus does not scorn the rules, he bends them. Columbus did not set sail for an imaginary world. He accidentally discovered a new world. But such accidents are the legitimate fruits of audacity. Audacity is not restlessness, rather a product of an inner confidence. – Henry Miller, The Last Crusader: The Untold Story of Christopher Columbus, p. 136

During the nightmarish days of mid-2020, when our nation went mad in an orgy of Black Lives Matter/Antifa inspired violence (all in the name of a black career criminal who died of a fentanyl overdose while resisting arrest), what do you think was the most targeted statue for removal across America?

A member of the Confederacy? Robert E. Lee, maybe?

A Founding Father? George Washington, perhaps?

No. Christopher Columbus. [Dozens of Christopher Columbus statues have been removed since June, CBS News, September 25, 2020]:

At least 33 Christopher Columbus statues have been taken down or in the process of being removed since the renewed Black Lives Matter protests began in late spring, according to a count of local reports. Seeing them come down has been meaningful for Jorge Baracutei Estevez, the cacike, or chief, of the Higuayagua Taíno, a cultural group dedicated to the rescue of Taino culture and language.

“For [the statues] coming down, it’s almost like a weight off my chest because it’s like a validation,” he told CBS News.

Protests have targeted Columbus because he is accused of the genocide of indigenous people. A 2019 study published in the journal Quaternary Science Review estimated that between 1492 and 1600, about 55 million people in the Americas died. The Taíno people were virtually wiped out in the decades after Columbus first arrived on the island of Hispaniola, where Haiti and the Dominican Republic sit today.

Estevez, who is now a curator for the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, said the memorials to Columbus are a painful reminder of that.

“I had never seen a Columbus statue, but when I first did, all that understanding of the atrocities that was committed, it’s right there in front of you,” he said. “Like, ‘This is me, I’m the one who did it. And I get a statue.'”

Had white men from Europe not come to the New World, one wonders how large the tower of skulls would have grown in Tenochtitlán (the Spaniards who first saw this wall of skulls described it as “hell”). Some Spanish Conquistadors estimated more than 150,000 skulls composed the Huey Tzompantli, long thought to be the imagination of white men demeaning the Aztec civilization for barbarism and human sacrifice, but discovered in Mexico City in 2017.

Well, we saw the mad rush to remove monuments and statues to Columbus in 2020, at a time when it was open season on virtually any and all statues to Dead White Males across America, with the George Floyd incident but the spark necessary to the dry timber that was our history so many were ready to see removed from veneration and reverence.

If not erased.

But a funny thing happened in November of 2024, and it’s a reminder history has no side. The Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria found a passage for safe harbor and the Captain of this audacious voyage can be celebrated again.[T rump proclaims he’s bringing Columbus Day ‘back from the ashes’, AP

President Donald Trump made clear Sunday that he would not follow his predecessor’s practice of recognizing Indigenous Peoples Day alongside Columbus Day in October, accusing Democrats of denigrating the explorer’s legacy as he pressed his campaign to restore what he argues are traditional American icons.

Democrat Joe Biden was the first president to mark Indigenous Peoples Day, issuing a proclamation in 2021 that celebrated “the invaluable contributions and resilience of Indigenous peoples” and recognize “their inherent sovereignty.”

The proclamation noted that America “was conceived on a promise of equality and opportunity for all people” but that promise “we have never fully lived up to. That is especially true when it comes to upholding the rights and dignity of the Indigenous people who were here long before colonization of the Americas began.”

Trump on Sunday used a social media post to declare, “I’m bringing Columbus Day back from the ashes.” He said on his Truth Social site that “the Democrats did everything possible to destroy Christopher Columbus, his reputation, and all of the Italians that love him so much.”

The federal holiday, the second Monday in October, was still known as Columbus Day during Biden’s term, but also as Indigenous Peoples Day. That’s been a longtime goal of activists who wanted to shift the focus from commemorating Columbus’ navigation to the Americas to his and his successors’ exploitation of the indigenous people he encountered there.

Though Trump has long objected to telling the country’s history through a lens of diversity and oppression, the holiday he seeks to restore to its primacy was added to the calendar as a nod to the country’s growing diversity.

Columbus’ expeditions never touched the North American continent, let alone any land that is now part of the United States. But the native of Genoa became increasingly commemorated in the United States as Italian immigrants flocked to the country and politicians sought to win their support.

Trump has long complained about Democrats tearing down statues of Columbus, a complaint he made again in Sunday’s post. In 2017, he spoke out against a review of the 76-foot-tall statue of the explorer in New York’s Columbus Circle that then-Mayor Bill de Blasio had ordered. It remains in place today, but other statues have been defaced or torn down.

In 2020, Trump’s administration paid to restore a Columbus statue in Baltimore that was dumped in the harbor during protests against the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

In 2092, we will celebrate the 600th Anniversary of Columbus discovery of the New World. In 1893, the 400th Anniversary was celebrated with the notorious White City in Chicago at the Columbia Expo. This writer would be a few years over 100-years-old for this momentous occasion, but it’s my hope to contribute a small part in ensuring Christopher Columbus is celebrated by our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren from the aptly named city of New Columbus on the colonized planet of Mars.

That we never falter in teaching the history of barbarism overthrown by defeating the Aztecs and stopping constructing of their towers of skulls from human sacrifice, and negated the destruction of statues and monuments to our heroes, men who inspired people to believe in something greater than themselves and to persist with others told them “no.”

The audacious make history. Those who inherit the civilization birthed by these heroics have the opportunity to not just write what happened, but celebrate the achievements of the past so that their children can be inspired by a belief to press forward.

We honor Christopher Columbus today, so the memory of those who tried to erase so much of history yesterday know the world of tomorrow will be birthed by our vision of progress and not regression to the Aztec mean of sacrificing people to the Gods and then grotesquely stacking up their skulls in gigantic, macabre towers.