At Amazon, Jean Stefancic and Richard Delgado, Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge.
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Speaker Nancy Pelosi Tests Positive for Covid
Man, and she's been vaccinated too.
BREAKING NEWS: Vaccinated Pelosi aide tests positive for COVID after contact with Texas Demshttps://t.co/YGocobVEf1
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 20, 2021
Jeff Bezos Blasts Into Space Aboard Blue Origin (VIDEO)
Absolutely spectacular:
PREVIOUSLY: "Richard Branson and Crew Go Weightless on Historic Virgin Galactic Space Flight (VIDEO)."
What Arizona's 2010 Ban on Ethnic Studies Could Mean for the Fight Over Critical Race Theory
As states across the country impose new rules on the teaching of history and race in schools, a messy, drawn-out battle over a Mexican American studies program in Tucson could offer a preview of what’s to come.https://t.co/5QBI9CjGit
— Coalition for Academic Justice at UArizona (@CAJUArizona) July 17, 2021
Carol Roth, The War on Small Business
Carol Roth, The War on Small Business: How the Government Used the Pandemic to Crush the Backbone of America.
Follow "Big Hair" Carol on Twitter.
'Isn't She Lovely?"
Carol Roth asked yesterday what was the best Stevie Wonder song of all time?
I'm not the biggest fan, but I'd say his best song is "Isn't She Lovely?," or at least that's the one I most enjoy hearing.
Man, the dude can jam on the harmonica!
Watch and listen:
Monday, July 19, 2021
Alice Goffman's TED Talk (VIDEO)
Last night I was rummaging through my stacks and stacks of books --- the overflow of books I own, of which I have no shelf space --- looking for Herbert Gutman's, The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925. I actually did find the book, which somehow had found a spot on my bookcases downstairs (the stacks of books upstairs in my bedroom are piled high in the corners next to the bookshelves I have up there).
While this was happening, I confused Herbert Gutman for Irving Goffman, the father of Alice Goffman, who is the author of the bombshell book, On the Run:On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City. The book's controversial, actually. The New York Times had a huge write-up on her in the Sunday magazine: "The Trials of Alice Goffman: Her first book, ‘On the Run' — about the lives of young black men in West Philadelphia — has fueled a fight within sociology over who gets to speak for whom."
Anyway, that's how I ran across Ms. Alice's TED Talk, which is mentioned at her Wikipedia page. The video of her talk posted at the TED website has been viewed over 2 million times, and the YouTube video below almost 280,000 times.
She's gets very emotional, with her voice cracking and her nearly coming to tears as she gets further and further along in her talk --- it's quite compelling.
In any case, now you know the story of how I came across this video.
Watch:
She was denied tenure at the University of Wisconsin (obviously mostly as a result of the book controversy), and she's now a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pomona College, where "unnamed activists calling for her offer to be rescinded due to unsupported and unsubstantiated claims of racism in her work and research methods."
Naturally. *Sigh.*
In any case, enjoy the show!
'Jumpin' Jack Flash'
The Rolling Stones, featuring Ronnie Wood, in 2015:
And the Stones, with the original lineup, featuring the late Brian Jones on rhythm guitar, in 1968:
When asked if he felt guilty about Jones's death, Mick Jagger told Rolling Stone in 1995: "No, I don't really. I do feel that I behaved in a very childish way, but we were very young, and in some ways we picked on him. But, unfortunately, he made himself a target for it; he was very, very jealous, very difficult, very manipulative, and if you do that in this kind of a group of people you get back as good as you give, to be honest. I wasn't understanding enough about his drug addiction. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like LSD were all new. No one knew the harm. People thought cocaine was good for you." Long-time Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman said of Jones, "He formed the band. He chose the members. He named the band. He chose the music we played. He got us gigs. ... he was very influential, very important, and then slowly lost it – highly intelligent – and just kind of wasted it and blew it all away."
Koreatown Protests: Cops Fire Rubber Bullets at Violent Demonstrators (VIDEO)
At the Los Angeles Times, "LAPD makes arrests after protesters clash over transgender rights at Koreatown spa":
Dueling protests outside a Koreatown spa over transgender rights Saturday prompted a large police response and resulted in more than a dozen arrests. LGBTQ activists gathered outside the Wi Spa on Saturday morning to counter a protest against transgender access to the spa’s facilities. The Los Angeles Police Department declared an unlawful assembly in front of the spa near Wilshire and Rampart boulevards around noon when the two groups of protesters began to clash, according to police and videos posted on Twitter. LAPD Det. Meghan Aguilar said authorities declared the unlawful assembly after protesters began throwing projectiles, including at officers. Videos posted to social media show police in riot gear shooting bean bag rounds and 40-millimeter hard-foam projectiles at protesters. It was not immediately clear how many protesters were in the area. Protesters demonstrating against the spa’s policy waved signs saying “Save our children” and “Stop defending pedos.” “Most people did leave the area, but currently there are a number of arrests made for failure to disperse,” Aguilar said. No injuries have been reported. A reporter from the Guardian US who was covering the protest wrote on Twitter that she was chased and “thrown to the ground by right-wing anti-pedophile protesters.” The demonstrations, similar to those that occurred at the spa earlier this month, were apparently spurred by a viral video taken by an irate customer at the spa in late June. The woman in the video, which was posted to Instagram, complains to staff at Wi Spa that a man had allegedly walked into the women’s section and showed his genitals to young girls. The customer the woman complained about reportedly identified as a woman. “He is a man,” the woman can be heard saying. “He is not a female. There are girls down there, other women who are highly offended by what they just saw and you did nothing. You sided with him.” Wi Spa defended its policy in a statement to Los Angeles Magazine. “Like many other metropolitan areas, Los Angeles contains a transgender population, some of whom enjoy visiting a spa,” the statement said. “Wi Spa strives to meet the needs of all its customers.”...
Keep reading.
And watch, at ABC News 7 Los Angeles, "Video shows LAPD officer shoot protester with rubber bullet at close range," and "Dozens arrested after LAPD sends alert warning of unlawful assembly during Koreatown spa protests."
Thousands Upon Thousands Protect Strict New Coronavirus Restrictions in France (VIDEO)
This should be happening here! Covid protests, hehe.
It's da bomb, lol.
At the New York Times, "In France, angry protests, rising infections and record vaccinations":
More than 100,000 people took to the streets across France over the weekend to protest against President Emmanuel Macron’s tough new vaccination strategy, which will restrict access to restaurants, cafes, movie theaters, long-distance trains and more for the unvaccinated. Demonstrators in Paris and elsewhere vented against what some called Mr. Macron’s “dictatorship” after he announced that a “health pass” — official proof of vaccination, a recent negative test, or recent Covid-19 recovery — would be required for many to attend or enter most public events and venues. At the same time, however, his policy seemed to have the desired effect: Record numbers of people flocked to vaccination centers in advance of the new rules coming into effect next month. It made for a striking split-screen image as millions lined up for vaccines — so desperately sought in much of the world suffering outbreaks but with little access to doses — as an increasingly strident group from both the far left and far right decried Mr. Macron’s policies as government overreach...Keep reading.
Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, Critical Race Theory
This is the key introductory text. It's pitched, really, at the undergraduate level.
At Amazon, Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, Critical Race Theory: An Introduction.
(For the advanced graduate-level, nearly impenetrable text, see Kimbery Crenshaw, Critical Race Theory.)
Ben Carson Slams Critical Race Theory
This is excellent, except for Carson's claim that critical race theory is "Marxist."
There's plenty of Marxism in the schools, especially in the humanities and social sciences, but this ain't it.
It's not so, according one of the leading founders of critical race theory, Kimberly Crenshaw, in her foundational anthology, Critical Race Theory.
And Carson's at Fox News, "Dr. Ben Carson: Fighting critical race theory – this is how we stop this blatantly racist ideology: We cannot allow CRT to rob American children of that same hope that was instilled in me."
'Stay With Me'
Following-up, "The Faces, Featuring Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood, Reportedly Recording New Music."
"Stay With Me."
Don't say you love me
'Cause I'll only kick you out of the door
I know your name is Rita'Cause your perfume smelling sweeter
Since when I saw you down on the floor, guitar
You won't need to much persuadingI don't mean to sound degrading
But with a face like that
You got nothing to laugh about
Red lips hair and fingernails
I hear your a mean old Jezebel
Let's go up stairs and read my tarot cards, c'mon
Stay with me
Stay with me
For tonight you better stay with me, oh yeah
Stay with meStay with me
For tonight you better stay with me, oh rock on
So in the morningPlease don't say you love me
'Cause you know I'll only kick you out the door
Yea I'll pay your cab fare homeYou can even use my best cologne
Just don't be here in the morning when I wake up, c'mon honey
Stay with meStay with me
'Cause tonight you gonna stay with me
Sit down, get up, get down
Stay with meStay with me
'Cause tonight your going stay with me
Hey, what's your name again
Oh no, get down, whoo, hey, oh no, woo, get yourself home, slow down bab
The Faces, Featuring Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood, Reportedly Recording New Music
Following-up from the other day, "'Reason to Believe'."
At New Musical Express, "Faces are recording their first new music in four decades."
Ronnie Wood says he, Rod Stewart and Kenney Jones have returned to the studiohttps://t.co/eiykbKEjGo
— NME (@NME) July 19, 2021
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