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OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH BEDFORD-STUYVESANT: Spike Lee Cancels Himself: 24 Hours after Defending Woody Allen From Being Cancelled, Spike Lee Cancels His Previous Remarks.

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FLASHBACK: America has a nobility problem, and it means our leaders don’t pay for their failures.

RAYSHARD BROOKS AND DEADLY FORCE: “Let us stipulate here that drunk-driving Rayshard Brooks would be alive today if he had complied with the lawful orders of police, who treated him with courtesy. Let us stipulate that Rayshard Brooks would be alive today if he had not stolen a police taser and fired it at cops. Let us also stipulate that burning down a Wendy’s, as the Atlanta mob did, is not a reasonable response to a police-involved shooting that takes place in its parking lot. Now, watch that video and put yourself in Officer Rolfe’s shoes. Could you make the call not to shoot, in a split second, under taser fire from a violent fleeing suspect?”

Related: “Look at this white girl burning down the Wendy’s. This wasn’t us!” – video from Atlanta.

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VIOLENT PROTESTS — THE BACKLASH IS COMING:

There are probably quite a few Americans outraged by the sights of statues of Christopher Columbus or other figures from history being beheaded or pulled down, or the defacing of statutes of abolitionists in the name of racial equality. Whatever you think of Christopher Columbus or any other historical figure, we have a legal and democratic process to remove statues from public squares when a sufficient portion of the public deems them no longer acceptable. These communities have zoning boards and local elected officials who can make those choices and be held accountable to the public through elections. Nobody elected those angry mobs to a damn thing. This is rule by force, the strongest forcing their will upon those who are weaker than them. This will not end well for anyone.

There will be a backlash to these actions, but not in the form of the “white people’s riot” that In Living Color imagined. That backlash may come at the ballot box, or it may come in some other indirect form. Some people aren’t interested in direct confrontation in the streets. They may simply prefer to express their opposition in a way that these protesters expect it least — businesses moving out, reluctance to hire, reluctance to visit a neighborhood, effectively abandoning a community. Not every wall that is built is physical and visible. But one way or another, the reaction is coming.

Read the whole thing.

Oh, and speaking of businesses moving out:

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IT’S OK EVERYONE, ACTORS ARE ‘TAKING RESPONSIBILITY:’

We must all be grateful to these very rich, very famous people for making this bold and controversial statement against racism. Who else, after all, will stand up to the very powerful and well-funded shopping-in a-store-absolutely-should-be-a-death-sentence lobby?

It’s also good to see that the acting community has recovered from Ricky Gervais’s cruel attack on their noble efforts to heal humanity at the Golden Globes earlier this year. Nothing and nobody can stop luvvies from using their position to  educate others. Because if actors don’t save the world, who will?

We can’t stop them from making these leftist celebrity drone-a-thons. But could they at least experiment with the structure a bit?

Time for a flashback! We thought the latest viral, celebrity PSA sounded familiar. This video created by Townhall Media in 2017, starring Townhall’s Katie Pavlich and Guy Benson, The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway, and former members of the Townhall Media family Mary Katherine Ham and S. E. Cupp, mocks the boring and predictable political videos from elitist Hollywood liberals.

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THOSE WHO CANNOT REMEMBER THE PAST ARE CONDEMNED TO QUOTE SANTAYANA: CHAZ Is Like the Paris Commune, But With Less Voting and More Privilege.

LEBANON AND SYRIA LURCH TOWARD IMPLOSION.

Nonsense – just send in Antifa to open up a few autonomous zones in the cities, and it will immediately be the “Summer of Love” in the Middle East.

CRITIQUING THE RACE HUSTLERS: A History Professor’s Anonymous Letter to His Woke Colleagues at Berkeley.  He identifies himself as African-American but says that he must remain anonymous because his career would otherwise be doomed by his heretical thoughts on racism, George Floyd, and Black Lives Matter. Read the whole thing.

JUST A SUBSIDY FOR DIVERSITY CONSULTANTS: Kentucky proposes ‘implicit bias’ training for all teachers, staff.

Also, “implicit bias” is mostly junk science.

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THE ADVANTAGE OF STRONG COMMUNITY TIES: Residents in the Bronx’s Little Italy rally for looted pizza owner.

Like many other small businesses during COVID-19, Joe’s Little Italy on East 187th St. has been working hard to stay afloat. However, after recently being looted last week, the Bronx community is rallying together to help the eatery “pick up the pizzas” with the hopes to help keep the business alive.

On June 1, everything changed when criminals smashed the glass and stole money from the pizzeria. Owner Chris Castelan, 50, lives above the store with his family and told the Bronx Times he heard the alarm at 1 a.m. and feared the worst.

“They destroyed everything,” he said. “I just can’t believe it. What’s most important is we are okay.” . . .

Castelan first migrated from Mexico 40 years ago and started working for Joe’s Pizza in Belmont when he first came to America.

After learning the craft of the business, he invested his entire life savings and purchased the pizzeria from the original owners. The new opening was tough however, since construction was delayed over nine months, forcing him to take on odd jobs until the reopening.

He had to sell his home and eventually rented an apartment above the shop to stay close by. When the shop finally reopened in November 2019, Castelan opted not to install metal gates on the storefront, since he wanted his customers to feel welcome to an open and neighborhood store that he was proud to have created.

He has a GoFundMe page. I donated.