The Wall Street Journal decided to dedicate a front-page story in the print edition in late October 2025 to a candid story about life in Johannesburg, South Africa. What was a 40 percent White city in 1940 is now an 80 percent black city and roughly 9 percent White city in 2025. Thirty one years after the fall of Apartheid and the institution of black Democratic control of the nation, highways entering Johannesburg have billboards for Armoured Mobility’s bulletproof cars with the marketing tagline of “S ay ‘Tsek to Hijack. Bulletproof Your Car.” Tsek in Afrikaans means check…

Well, how is life fairing under black rule in a nation that under White rule during Apartheid had nuclear weapons, a world-class Air Force and powerful Navy, and even a secretive space program? Thirty-one years of uninterrupted black rule, where black economic empowerment (think affirmative action and DEI on Wakandian-steroids) must have birthed something worth celebrating, right?

Well…[Welcome to Johannesburg. This Is What It Looks Like When a City Gives Up. – Tourists are dumbfounded by the many signs of apathy in the South African city; the ‘Jozi Jacuzzi’ pothole, Wall Street Journal, October 28, 2025]:

JOHANNESBURG—What does it look like when a city stops trying? Visit Johannesburg, where instead of providing basic public services, the government just warns residents not to expect them.

Signs tell you what crime you’re most likely to fall victim to at highway exits and intersections; beware “Hi-Jacking Hot Spot� or “Smash and Grab Hot Spot.� Homeless people routinely direct traffic when the stoplights don’t work. Minibus taxis that ferry workers around the city often drive on the wrong side of the road to avoid rush hour traffic.

Johannesburg, South Africa’s biggest metropolis, markets itself as a “world class African city.� It’s home to some of the continent’s biggest companies and its largest stock exchange. But private firms have gradually taken over public services, from security to healthcare to mail delivery. Insurance companies fix potholes and sponsor fire brigades to reduce claims.

It’s all become a bit embarrassing for the South African government, which is set to host the G20 Summit meeting of heads of state here in November. In March, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa chided Johannesburg officials for what he called “not a pleasing environment� and told them to address a slew of issues ahead of the meeting.

“City of Joburg is as ready as it will ever be for G20 Summit,� said a spokeswoman for Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero.

Morero, the city’s ninth mayor in 10 years, in May launched a task force dubbed the “Bomb Squad� to address service-delivery issues in various neighborhoods.

Some of the team’s achievements, according to Morero’s spokeswoman: The resolution of a 15-day water outage, the restoration of power to 1,000 households within one day of a substation failure, and the rectification of a seven-yearlong water blockage in 24 hours.

Decades of decline have pockmarked the city, including some now-famous failings.

In August, a popular investigative journalism show ran a segment on the “Jozi Jacuzzi� pothole, in the Randburg area of Johannesburg. The six-foot deep pothole had been filling with water for years, even causing low water pressure in nearby houses.

“The producer’s idea was to have a tongue-in-cheek kind of approach to it,� said Macfarlane Moleli, a journalist with the TV show Carte Blanche. “I mean, what can you do? You’ve marched, you’ve protested, you’ve written letters. The only other thing to do is take the piss.�
Moleli donned a wetsuit, swim cap and goggles and went for a swim in the pothole in a watermelon-adorned inner tube

Another nearby pothole, dubbed Kenny’s Canyon after a local politician, was dug by Johannesburg Water as it searched for a leak.

Drainage pipes, fiber cables and piles of sand were left blocking a lane of traffic for more than a year, while the 26-foot deep hole filled with water. In July, South Africa’s biggest opposition party held a birthday party with cake for its one-year anniversary.

Dana Rodrigues, who grew up in Johannesburg, said she’s flabbergasted by the state of affairs every time she comes back for a visit from her new home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where she works as a crewmember on yachts.

“So now we’re listening to beggars at traffic lights,� Rodrigues, 37, observed during a recent trip. “Everyone is so desensitized.�

At a busy intersection in the suburb of Magaliessig that is home to a “Crime Hot Spot� sign, the traffic lights sometimes don’t work for months. Jobless men direct traffic in exchange for tips or food from motorists.

“At least I eat sometimes,� said Cedric Mnisi, 39, who lives in a squatter camp nearby. He came to Johannesburg two years ago to search for work as a driver. “[The city] should employ us. We are always volunteering, and sometimes, we get nothing,� he said, holding out the 17 cents he had earned by lunchtime.

Residents who can afford it often install boreholes and solar power with battery backup, to avoid water and electricity outages caused by failing infrastructure.

In February, a borehole that was being drilled on private property in the Killarney suburb went straight into a tunnel used by the Gautrain, a 50-mile commuter rail system that operates partly above ground and partly underground. The tunnel flooded with water and soil, interrupting service for more than a week.

“Think of it as a scenic surface route, a chance to see Johannesburg for a change!� Gautrain said in a statement after the mishap. “You may discover a new favorite coffee shop. Or a massive pothole. It’s Johannesburg, after all.�

The Gautrain did also say additional buses would be deployed to ferry commuters between the affected stations.

Sometimes, citizens clap back.

In 2013, the provincial government that encompasses Johannesburg implemented an electronic toll system on major highways to recoup costs associated with expanding roads for the 2010 soccer World Cup.

Since then, most of the city’s residents refused to pay, ignoring invoices and threats of legal action.

Alasdair Condie, 66, works in construction and says he has never paid an e-toll. He estimates he owes around $3,000, but stopped getting bills years ago “because the postal system doesn’t work.�

“If they prosecuted me, they would have to prosecute tens of thousands of others and the courts couldn’t handle it,� he said.

Last year, the government shut off the tolls permanently. The South African National Roads Agency reported there was $1.67 billion in unpaid e-toll debt that it has written off.

Look, the most outrageous predictions of what black rule in South Africa would inevitably create and lead to were wildly off in terms of just how quickly the civilization White individuals collectively created under Apartheid – handed over as a turn-key city upon democracy ushering in ANC (black) rule of South Africa – collapsed into exactly what P.W. Botha (President of the Republic of South Africa) warned in 1988 would ultimately happen if Whites capitulated to black rule in his famous RUBICON speech:

I am not prepared to lead White South Africans and other minority groups on a road to abdication and suicide.

Destroy White South Africa and our influence, and this country will drift into faction strife, chaos and poverty.

In 2025, potholes go unfixed for years, Johannesburg crumbles and corporations peddle bulletproof cars so you can “arrive not dead.”

Turns out, the so-called White “racists” warnings about black rule in South Africa were too optimistic.

There’s a short list for worst city in America, and one common thread unites all those vying for this ignominious distinction: a majority or heavily black population.

Jackson, MS.

Birmingham, AL.

Detroit, Michigan.

St. Louis, Missouri (the only majority White city, be it a plurality).

Baltimore, Maryland.

New Orleans, Louisiana.

But all of these are overwhelmed by a place Elvis Presley called home, where a 64% black city is dominated by black elected leaders, a majority black bureaucracy, and black appointed officials.

Memphis, Tennessee.

A few years ago, a former black mayor just flatly stated, when asked about the shockingly high rates of violent crime, “I’m going to irritate some people when I make this statement: This is a black problem. This is a black problem that uniquely impacts the fabric of the black community.”

Unbiased and a moment of veracity regrettably fleeting in a nation where lies and obfuscation are the norm when discussing violent crime rates and their “root” causes, which are thinly veiled attempts to justify black crime on purported past transgressions by Whites and the residue of lingering, systemic bias inherent in a system otherwise designed to uplift blacks at the expense… well, every one else.

But it’s true. No matter how you try and present the data, it paints a picture only those who should be institutionalized by clinging to a dogma of indifference to racial violent crime statistics can ignore. Consider the horrifically low clearance rates in 64% black Memphis, where in 2023 a new city record of 397 homicides was despondently reached. As of June of 2025, the clearance rate was 15%, meaning only roughly 60 homicides had a suspect.

The national average for the year was 57%, but in 64% black Memphis, the clearance rate was an astonishing 15 percent, a number so low it should be grounds for immediately firing the entire to levels of the chain of command in the Memphis Police Department (which, not coincidentally, is heavily black).

We don’t have this way, and President Trump has instituted a federal intervention into Memphis as a means to restore some semblance of order from the chaos of a problem one former black mayor dubbed “a black problem” roughly a decade ago that’s only grown more problematic and pervasive.

And, as always, black people are to remain free from any blame or responsibility. [Free The 901 campaign forms to oppose recent federal intervention in Memphis: Group plans ‘know your rights’ events, text updates, community support as National Guard, other agencies arrive in Memphis, MLK50.com, September 30, 2025]:

Rallying around the cry of “opportunity, not occupation,� a growing coalition of more than 20 different organizations has formed to oppose the National Guard’s deployment in Memphis.

“When a city becomes a laboratory for authoritarian tactics, the rest of the country watches, learns and copies,� said Tikeila Rucker, executive director of Memphis For All, a partner organization. “This is why our response here must be fierce and visible.�

So far, that response has taken the form of numerous local and national organizations coming together to form Free The 901, a group “rooted in the belief that real safety comes from investing in people, not punishment,� according to a post on the campaign’s Instagram page.

Partner organizations include: the ACLU-TN, American Muslim Advisory Council, Black Voters Matter, Memphis Artists for Change, Memphis Interfaith Coalition for Action and Hope, and Tennessee Immigrants & Refugee Rights Coalition.

The group officially launched Saturday with a march from the Juvenile Court building to the plaza in front of City Hall.

Cardell Orrin, executive director of Tennessee Stand for Children, said the alliance is “one of the largest collectives coming together to work around a specific issue� that he’s seen in recent years, even though they individually have “a broad spectrum of beliefs, ideologies and understandings.�

The coalition seeks to “block and/or end the occupation of Memphis� by not just the National Guard and the federal task force, but also by Tennessee State Troopers, ICE and other agencies targeting immigrants, according to their Instagram page.

The group has also said how they believe a $100 million state investment into “public safety� touted by Lee should be spent: $29 million into affordable housing, $25 million into public transit, $8 million into youth programs, $6 million into mental health programming, $10 million into education, $2 million into pre-kindergarten, $10 million into violence intervention and $10 million into financial relief for fines and fees.

“(The campaign is) about protecting and uplifting,� Rucker said. “It’s about preparedness, safety and care for our community.�

While the alliance officially launched Saturday, its members have spent the last few weeks at work. Numerous members spoke at both the Memphis City Council and Shelby County Commission meetings leading to the march, urging the two government bodies to pass resolutions opposing the deployment of the National Guard to Memphis. Neither resolution had enoughvotes to pass.

While many questions remain about what the federal task force and National Guard deployment to Memphis will look like, Free the 901 is planning know-your-rights training sessions, on-the-ground support with food and housing for people in vulnerable communities and ongoing lobbying against the deployment. The group is also sharing text updates and plans to provide more information about the deployment to the community as information is revealed.

“The more they think they will shut us down, the more we will rise up, the more we will organize our communities to show them that we know our rights and we know that in our Constitution we have the right to speak and we have the right to protest,� said Amal Altareb, the West Tennessee program manager with the American Muslim Advisory Council.

Trinity Williams, community engagement organizer with The Equity Alliance, said she hopes the campaign will “send a message that we are Memphis, that we can control our own narrative of our city.�

It was uplifting to see so many organizations and individuals come together on Saturday, she said.

“We are continuing the legacy of those from the sanitation strike,� Williams said. “We are continuing the legacy of those that were youth activists of the past, like Young Lords and college students coming together and advocating for justice for Tyré Nichols, and so we are here as a representation of the power of community.�

Restoring order to Urban America means confronting the people who made once thriving metropolitan cities synonymous with crime, misery, decay, dysfunction, chaos, and random violence: blacks.

Retiring the fear of being called a “racist” for instituting crime prevention policies and arresting those with a propensity for committing the violent crime is being met with a fierce, united resistance from a variety of non-profits committed to maintaining the status quo of uninterrupted black crime in Memphis. Because if the 901 sees a reduction of violent crime, that means White people will return to Memphis, and with the arrival of those dwelling in suburbs for a shot of momentary peace and stability will be an immediate appreciation of property values and demand for better local governance and government services, the latter meaning an end to the black vise on the city.

But Memphis is just one of America’s worst metropolitan city’s, and were Trump’s task force combatting violence expanded, we’d be forced to confront the reality of crime in the USA we all know to be implicitly truth (helping shape all decisions we make in our daily life and where we reside) in an explicit manner, as copy-cats of the FREE THE 901 suddenly are formed across the nation.

All with the goal of maintaining high levels of black crime to keep out the White gentrification of the heavily black city targeted for federal crime prevention tactics.

And that’s where we find ourselves in the final stages of 2025, wondering if the failures of the 20th century in mortgaging our future on excusing away the reality of black crime (Time magazine discussed the overwhelmingly data on this paradigm back in 1958) will finally be foreclosed on for good.

Look at the groups uniting in Memphis to maintain “the black problem” of crime in the city:

the ACLU-TN, American Muslim Advisory Council, Black Voters Matter, Memphis Artists for Change, Memphis Interfaith Coalition for Action and Hope, and Tennessee Immigrants & Refugee Rights Coalition.

At some point, you have to accept the path we have been on ends in all of America looking like Jackson, Memphis, Birmingham, Baltimore, St. Louis, Detroit or New Orleans.

The experiment has ended up providing the same miserable results wherever you look, and only a fool would believe if we persist in the same folly will we reach more palatable conclusions.

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Back in 2011, the once universally beloved African in America actor, Will Smith, had a birthday present for his Afro-centric wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. It was her 40th birthday, so he told GQ in an otherwise insipid 2021 article (he passed on Django Unchained because he didn’t want to make a black man gets vengeance for slavery film), we learn Smith made a documentary about his wife’s family being descended from slaves and how he tracked down the White family who owned her ancestors:

Things reached a breaking point by Jada’s 40th birthday, in 2011. Will had spent three years planning a private family-and-friends dinner in Santa Fe, where he screened a documentary he’d commissioned that chronicled her life and traced her family’s lineage back to slavery (and in which he tracked down a descendant of the white family who once owned Jada’s ancestors.)

When they got back to the hotel suite that night, Jada was nearly silent. “That was the most disgusting display of ego I have ever seen in my life,� Smith recalls his wife telling him. The two began fighting so loudly that a 10-year-old Willow, with whom they were sharing the suite, emerged crying with her hands over her ears, begging them to stop.

Weird, to say the least. that Will Smith would think reminding his black wife of their ancestors past in bondage, when the only type of bondage Jada seems to enjoy is with her numerous extra-marital flings as part of her non-monogamous understanding with the star of Wild Wild West.

But this raises an interesting question: how many Africans in America have decided to look into their past and then see if the descendants of people who owned their ancestor can be found in the USA in present-day? Which brings us to black actor Roy Woods and an interview he just did with Shannon Sharpe

[Roy Wood Jr. says he used Zillow to stalk the white family who bought his ancestors as slaves in Charleston, NotTheBee.com, November 6, 2025]:

Roy Woods Jr., of Daily Show fame, and Shannon Sharpe seem a little insane in this clip.

[Warning: Language]

Wood: I found the white family that purchased the first black Wood of my bloodline off the slave ships in Charleston … if I wanted to today I could find the white Wood descendants in southern Georgia and pull up on they f—ing house.

One day I will.

They ain’t got no money, though.

[Shannon bursts out laughing]

I Zillowed they crib, they broke … how you broke and you had slaves?

What do you bet he’d still accept reparations from them, even though he’s a rich Hollywood celebrity and they’re broke southerners in the Georgia swamps?

“…pull up on they f—ing house.”

And do what, pal?

It’s stories like this, and Will Smith’s exceedingly odd gift to his bisexual wife on her 40th birthday (most people might remember Will Smith more at this point for slapping Chris Rock for a hilarious joke about her alopecia) that help make clear the anti-White resentment the architects of the American Colonization Society long ago hoped to free their posterity from ever encountering.

It’s not too late to reexamine the goals and aims of the American Colonization Society at this late hour to free Whites of the cynicism, derision, and racial resentment of those Africans in America who owe their residency in the United States (and not an African nation) because one of their ancestors sold them into slavery centuries ago. Perhaps they’ll be able to track down the descendants of those who sold their ancestors into slavery! As David Greene wrote on X:

There is a consistent pattern that. As whites become weaker, the call to blame them for all societies problems actually becomes louder. As the distance from historic crimes grows, the desire for revenge becomes more ubiquitous. This isn’t justice. It’s opportunism.

The real opportunity is for Roy Wood to find the Africans who participated in the enslavement of his ancestors by selling them to slavers to begin with, right? That journey won’t come to a conclusion in the USA.

You pre-drink appetizer: Bowie, Maryland is 55% black. Washington DC is a short 35 minutes away, and is a 48% black city.

Remember this as we present you your shot and chaser. And, it’s vital you understand the state of Maryland is 33% black.

Okay, how about a shot or two? Ready?

Shot. [Six Flags America Closes Early After Large Fights: Six Flags said management opted to close the park early because of “the improper behavior of some guests”, NBC Washington, September 26, 2021]:

Six Flags America closed early on Saturday after visitors to the amusement park saw — and filmed — large fights.

News4 viewers said they were told to leave the park after they saw several clashes break out between large groups of people. Videos posted to social media appeared to show security guards trying to break up brawls between young people.

Six Flags said management opted to close the park early because of “the improper behavior of some guests.�

“The safety of our guests and team members is always our top priority. After observing the improper behavior of some guests, the park was closed approximately an hour early out of an abundance of caution,� a spokesman told News4.

No one was arrested and no one needed to be taken to a hospital, the Six Flags spokesman said.

It was the first night of Fright Fest Halloween festivities at the park.

Yes, large groups of blacks (must people dub them “youths” but for clarity’s sake, we’ll dub them by their racial classification) at the Prince George’s County amusement park engaged in massive fights all throughout the park, ultimately forcing officials to close the park early during the popular FrightFest celebration for the Halloween season in 2021. Again – blacks in one of the richest majority black counties in all of America forced a major amusement park to close early during a highly lucrative day for the owners of Six Flags America because they couldn’t guarantee the safety of the people trying to ride rollercoasters and avoid being the victim of black violence.

Four years later… your chaser. [Six Flags America officially closed after 50 years of operation, KTLA.com, November 3, 2025]:

After more than 50 years in operation, Six Flags America has officially closed its gates.

“Thank you, Six Flags America fans, for 50 years of family fun. We will always cherish the memories made together,� the Maryland theme park posted on social media.

Six Flags America and Hurricane Harbor featured more than 100 rides, shows, slides and roller coasters. In May, CEO Richard A. Zimmerman announced that the park would close since it wasn’t “a strategic fit with the company’s long-term growth plan.�

“This was a difficult decision, and we recognize the impact it will have on our Six Flags America and Hurricane Harbor park associates and guests,� Zimmerman added. “We are grateful to our park associates who work hard to create lifelong memories for our guests, and Six Flags is committed to supporting all impacted associates through the closure process at the end of this year.�

The park employed about 70 full-time associates. In May, the company said severance and other benefits would be provided to eligible associates.

Located in one of the purported wealthiest majority black counties in all of America (Prince George’s County is 59% black and 11% White), Six Flags America is no longer “a strategic fit with the company’s long-term growth plan.â€� When Six Flags America was built more than 50 years ago, Prince George’s County was 92% White and 8% black. Recall, the county is 59% black and 11% White today…

The quality of life found in Prince George’s County with a black majority no longer provides the type of sustainability necessary for Six Flags America to stay open.

A wonder metaphor for America, as we run out of White people. It’s just not sustainability without the actual descendants of the founding stock.

And this is why we can’t have nice things. Even in one of the Whitest states in America, 94 percent White New Hampshire, the New York Times noted how can the entire state diversify itself back in 2018 article. Well, by having a White Republican state legislator call for pulling down the oldest statue to a White woman in ALL of the United States might be a good start, because if Hannah Duston’s 1874 monument isn’t safe, the White majority of the state is probably soon-to-be greeted by the same colonization of Somalians the once 99% White state of Minnesota (in 1970) received since the events depicted in Black Hawk Down.

For the Duston monument celebrates a courageous White woman kidnapped by an Amerindian tribe in the late 17th Century, how her infant son was murdered by this band of tribal savages, and how she escaped, killing 10 tribesman in the process and taking scalps. Her story of heroism spread throughout the nascent British colonies and inspired White settlers to fight back with the courage of Duston and ultimately helped fuel the fire of Manifest Destiny.

Not joking there. She was a legend in the Old America supplanted by the advancement of Civil Rights in the 20th century, which uplifted the blacks to near God-like status, the Numinous Negro worthy of praise and adulation, supplanting all prior American heroes in the process.

And now, a cowardly, feckless, callow White man in New Hampshire has put forth a bill to remove the oldest statue erected to honor a woman in ALL of America, the Hannah Duston Monument. [B ill calls for removal of Hannah Duston Memorial, the first publicly funded statue in NH, NHPR, October 14, 2024]:

New Hampshire Public Radio

Published October 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM EDT

The Hannah Duston Memorial Historic Site, located in Boscawen, New Hampshire, was erected in 1874 near the confluence of the Contoocook and Merrimack rivers.

This story was originally produced by the Concord Monitor. NHPR is republishing it in partnership with the Granite State News Collaborative.

David Nagel has always passed the looming statue of Hannah Duston at the junction of the Contoocook and Merrimack Rivers whenever he went cycling in Boscawen. One day, he decided to read the sign in front of it — and couldn’t believe what he learned.

“I kind of went into shock when I saw it,� he said, adding that he did background research and spoke to historians after his discovery. “The more I learned, the worse it got.�

Nagel, a Republican state representative from Gilmanton, recently filed a legislative request to remove the statue.

Attempts to change the park’s name — the Hannah Duston Memorial Historic Site — or install new signage to reflect a more accurate accounting of what happened at the spot were championed a few years ago, but nothing came of it, Nagel said.

“If we’re not going to go in that direction and make a monument or memorial that’s more healing, healthy and acknowledging the sins of the past, perhaps on both sides of this equation, then I really think that it needs to go,� Nagel said.

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Based on historic accounts, Duston, from Haverhill, Mass., was kidnapped in 1697 by indigenous Abenaki people during King William’s War, one battle in a series of conflicts between English colonists, the French in Canada and Native Americans. Duston was captured with her neighbor, Mary Neff, and Duston’s newborn, who was killed shortly afterward.

The group traveled north for two weeks before being handed off to a Native American family that consisted of two men, three women and seven children. With that family was another captive, 14-year-old Samuel Leonardson from Worcester, Mass., kidnapped a year and a half earlier.

When the family went to bed one night, Duston, Neff and Leonardson slayed most of the family with tomahawks, cutting off the scalps of 10 members, including six children.

Her story was memorialized by puritan minister Cotton Mather between 1697 and 1702, praising Duston for her heroism and demonizing the Native American people. He championed the official narrative, including that her baby died at the hands of the Abenaki people. Over the decades, historians have questioned the accuracy of the account, partly because of Mather’s eagerness to justify violence against Native Americans.

The tale gained prominence in the 1820s when colonists expanded to the west in pursuit of their perceived Manifest Destiny. Biographies, magazines, and children’s books were written and even a mountain was dedicated to her. In 1874, a 25-foot-tall monument of Hannah Duston was erected in Boscawen, one of the first and oldest statues of a woman in the United States. Another statue in her hometown Haverhill was put up in 1902.

Nagel visited the statue on Thursday afternoon, looking up to see a woman in a flowy gown reminiscent of the Statue of Liberty or Lady Columbia. In her right hand, she clutches the scalps of the Native Americans she killed. Weathered with time, Duston’s nose has broken off and he features have become worn.

The representative, originally from New York and moved to New Hampshire 38 years ago, said he has worked closely with Native American people and historians around the state. His wife is a board member at the Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum in Warner.

As a professional doctor, he worked with the Indian Health Service for years and tried to create better access to health care for Native Americans in the state.

“I’m not native myself, obviously, but if I didn’t have that background of working with groups, exploring their sensitivities, things like that, I don’t know that I would have it would have hit me as hard,� he said. “I just found the monument incredibly insulting.�

A national movement has been brewing for years to remove or rename statues and monuments that memorialize controversial figures from the past. But Nagel isn’t in the camp to do away with every mention of Christopher Columbus or remove every head from Mount Rushmore. He said he believes they played a more significant role in the country’s history.

Duston doesn’t serve the same historical purpose, he said. Her story was revived over 100 years after her capture during a time when English colonists were taking over Native American land.

“I think we need to take people in their whole historical context,� Nagel said. “And I think her only historical context was this one action.�

Nagel’s legislative request will soon turn into a bill, which will then be scheduled for a hearing in January.

The monument depicts Duston with a hatchet in her right hand and a pelt of Amerindian scalps in the other, symbolizing her escape from tribal captivity and a spirit of profound Whiteness that would help forge American Identity as the colonies grew, battles with various tribes become bloodier and more fierce, and the United States of America became a White nation, albeit implicitly.

That was, of course, the paramount mistake.

This can be ameliorated though, with one of the panaceas to this predicament being a stalwart defense of the Hannah Duston Monument as a reminder of what it took to create the United States of America from the vast wilderness of this continent.

We owe no apologies, for Duston’s infant never got to see another day after being captured by the tribe of Indians she’d have to battle for freedom, a reminder of the “merciless Indian savages,” Thomas Jefferson documented in his Declaration of Independence.

I understand that’s a famed document to this day, renowned as some egalitarian mythos of perceived rights and equality.

Ask the people who captured Duston and killed her infant back in the late 17th century if they had a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. With a hatchet in one hand, and 10 Indian scalps in her pelt, she is a reminder duty is all that matters in this life.

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One of my favorite movies is the 1989 Batman. Starring Michael Keaton and directed by the eccentric Tim Burton, it’s my earliest memory of seeing a film at the movie theater. I was four. My parents took me to see it, and I remember after asking my mom to purchase anything Bat-related, be it a shirt, toys, or the collectible trading cards.

There’s something incredible about this movie, beyond just the actors busy trying to chew up every precious bit of screen time they get (from Jack Palance to Jack Nicholson, to Keaton pulling off a powerful portrayal as Bruce Wayne/Batman, balancing the absurdity of a guy donning armor to fight crime as way to deal with the grief of his parents murder), with the Gotham City coming alive in all its gothic horror at a time so many major US cities had become a hellish reminder the Civil Rights Act of 1964 had failed and outlandish levels of black crime had made Detroit, Atlanta, New York City and Washington D.C. nightmarish reminders the most absurd predictions of segregationists had, in fact, underestimated the consequences of our devotion to equality as the highest moral good.

Thus the necessity for a member of the elite, brimming with noblesse oblige, to do something besides fund more programs and police, promote enterprise zones, free school lunches and Midnight Basketball as an answer to promiscuous crime and dysfunction so many are still paralyzed with fear to admit comes almost entirely from the black community. In the world of comic books, the 1950s never stopped, with the Gotham City depicted in Burton’s 89 Batman still seemingly a 90% White city (like it’s real world counterpart was in 1950), complete with your coterie of White criminals and White ethnic mobsters controlling low level street crime and manipulating the city’s administrators behind the scenes.

Enter Keaton’s Batman, who shocked fans at the time by having no problem killing his enemies (breaking one of the cardinal rules Batman writers had long respected). The Batmobile and Batwing are both equipped with machine guns, and Keaton’s Dark Knight isn’t exactly trying to pull punches so the criminals he faces as Gotham’s vigilante will enjoy mental evaluations and physical rehabilitation in Arkham.

Were there ever to be a vigilante in our world, they’d no doubt face an endless string of black or Hispanic gangbangers, and the media in whichever this individual appeared would quickly brand his actions as a combination of racist and fascistic. A Federal Task Force would be launched to deal with this individual, all to ensure the streets are safe for the proliferation of black and Hispanic gangbangers.

Well, prior to Trump’s Second Term that is. We live in a Brand New World, where the full power of the F ederal Government is now unleashed on 64% black Memphis, TN, where violent crime is monopolized by blacks and Stephen Miller powerfully declared, “We don’t have to live this way,” in a speech we will look back on as the moment the nation embraced law and order in a way liberal sociologists and do-gooders have yet to invent a word to describe. The implementation of crime scarcity maneuvers being disproportionately impactful on the black and brown community, or something to that effect…

Why bring any of this up? Because Batman has been reinvented for our time by left-leaning writers pining for the racial mustiness of a bygone era where “punching a Nazi” was everyone’s civic duty, a just and moral action when an individual had been deemed sufficiently Nazi-adjacent and thus, in need of a good right-cross to the face.

The we get Bat-Fa, an “else world” version of Bruce Wayne/Batman where our anti-hero wasn’t born with a silver spoon in his mouth, but to humble school teachers. They were still murdered anyways – presumably by a White suburbanite merely visiting Gotham to see his old neighborhood before White flight took place – and this iteration of Batman lacks the money, technology, or prestige Wayne has to make his extra-legal crime-fighting activities an act of sacrifice by the higher class to benefit all of the citizens of Gotham.

But, as you can imagine, he still has White people to beat up, including a gratuitous scene where he breaks the arm of a White guy in mid “Sieg Heil!”[Absolute Batman Breaking the Arm of ‘White Power’ Racist Will Forever be One of the Greatest Comic Book Moments in History: With the release of Absolute Batman Annual #1, the Caped Crusader has managed to make the fans dub him as the GOAT., Fandom Wire, October 30, 2025]:

This week: Daniel Warren Johnson’s Absolute Batman Annual 2025 #1 sees an alternate universe version of Batman brutalizing a horde of white supremacists as part of a larger contemplation of violence, hatred, anger, and more.

This week’s Absolute Batman Annual 2025 #1 might be the angriest comic you read all year. Its lead story is about Absolute Batman encountering a mob of white supremacists who are brutalizing an encampment of immigrants — men, women, and children — and doing so violently, joined by masked members of a small town’s police force.

As Absolute Batman is wont to do, he responds by brutalizing the white supremacists, ten-fold. Destroying them and their organization, literally burning it to the ground. This untitled story is written and illustrated by superstar creator Daniel Warren Johnson, and you can almost feel his own anger (and eventually sadness) radiating from his work. There is, in particular, a two-page spread of Absolute Batman snapping a white supremacist’s arm that’s rendered in a visceral way and made to look dark.

A lesser story would stop, however, without adding that darkness. It would have Batman beat down the white supremacists in a way that played the whole thing as plainly heroic, as a superhero doing what needed to be done, probably without the detailed and extreme physicality. In this way, it might even come off as a sort of wish fulfilment, as Johnson and his collaborators (colorist Mike Spicer and letterer Clayton Cowles) having Batman do on page a thing that feels impossible and complicated in real life: physically stopping the punishment of the weak that we see in the news, being dealt daily on American streets. But this story pushes its narrative to a more conflicted place, and it is all the richer and more powerful for it, for layering in the nuance.

To accomplish this, there are two other key characters who appear in this story as well, both of whom side with Batman in wanting to help and to stop societal ills like white supremacy, but they take other approaches to do so.

The first is Thomas Wayne, Bruce Wayne’s father, who in DC’s Absolute Universe was a school teacher who was killed in a mass shooting, protecting his pupils. In a framing device for this tale, Thomas talks to Bruce of the innate desire to make the world a better place, describing his own choices to do so in a way that played to his skills and abilities as an individual — changing the lives of young people through education. More on his role later.

The other character who appears in this story is a man of faith, and a man who also wants to protect the migrant encampment, but he pushes back against Batman’s use of extreme violence, saying he does not know how to fix this problem but he does know what makes it worse. And I think this is where the complexity of the story’s emotional core really comes into focus for me as a reader. This is a story that is angry about more than one thing. It is, of course, angry about racism, human rights violations carried out either by or with the state, and aggression toward the vulnerable. But it also seems to be a story that is angry about what seeing such things does to all of us, and how it can inspire violence in those who want to help.

And I think that’s a really powerful narrative for our time. It’s a narrative with more questions than answers, questions around what justifies violent punishment, what is the cost of violent punishment, and what can we do to stop ourselves from being swept into violent cycles that erode our core values and make us lose ourselves. All without shying away from the extent of villainy being carried out.

That’s where the Thomas Wayne of it all comes back around. Although Batman is somewhat easily able to vanquish the white supremacists in this comic, he is left in a devastated place. He recalls his father telling him as a boy that he has “a strong and compassionate heart,� and that no matter what he does, he’ll always be proud of him. That last bit is juxtaposed over Batman cradling himself, in front of the giant machinery he just used to run over the mob’s headquarters, and it hurts. It hurts to see it, and that’s what makes this story great.

Boring. The cultural zeitgeist of “punching a Nazi” seems so, dare I say, January 2017? Brutally and viciously depicting a veritable caricature of a evil-nasty-horrible-pernicious-White-supremacist having his right-arm garishly snapped in two plays to a morbidly obese crowd of misanthropes yearning it was still June of 2020 and there were buildings to burn, Confederate statues to pull down, along with social and racial justice mobs to join all under the banner of the 1619 Project and the advancement of this triumphant revolution to joyously celebrate.

All while practicing the CDC mandated social distancing and wearing a mask, mind you.

These people can still smell the fire of the 3rd Precinct in Minneapolis as they march with not only John Brown’s Body, but look for the right-arm of a White supremacist to break for the righteous cause of avenging George Floyd (the black guy who died of a fentanyl overdose while resisting arrest).

It’s beyond boring at this point, but your average OnlyFans patron has to find sexual stimulation somewhere, and what better place than the page of a Batman comic metamorphosing into racial vengeance porn.

But that’s pop culture for you, where a Forever War to subvert must be waged and the greatest moral crisis of roving gangs of White Supremacist must be confronted because someone has deemed them both racist and fascist, thus requiring the immediate action (and justification) of harming these individuals with imaginative and ingenious manners of well-deserved violence.

And that’s why Bat-Fa, ahem, Batman, is now breaking the arms and battling the never-ending crisis of omnipresent White Supremacists.

Court of Owls? No Man’s Land? The Dark Knight Returns? Hush? Long Halloween? Knightfall? Year One?

These were all previous Batman stories told in the pages of comics providing not just entertainment, but highly interesting philosophical questions presented by writers without progressive handcuffs slapped firmly on their wrists, where Bruce Wayne is perpetually fighting 1933 Germany from rising in Gotham.

Now all the Left has become in pop culture is the tired, insipid, uninspired script of: make this story about how “it’s okay to punch a Nazi.” Or in Batman’s case, nefariously break the right-arm of a White dude about to yell out, “White Power!”

Yeah, that will show the racists what we think of them, some Leftist writer high on his own product thinks as he storyboards out the scene. So original and compelling!

That’s all they have, friends. Create the moral conditions where it’s okay to punch or kill a Nazi. And what’s a Nazi? What’s a White supremacist? What’s a fascist, you might ask…

Whoever they classify as such, with such a designation making you worthy of having Bat-Fa (Batman) break you arm.

Back in 2009, The New York Times put out an incredible, interactive graph, showing the county-by-county usage of SNAP/EBT broken out by the percentage of both the White and black population in the individual county utilizing food stamps. They’ve never updated the chart, because with an increase of more than 12 million users since 2009, you can imagine how high the percentage of blacks in many counties throughout America would have climbed.

In cities like Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Memphis, Rochester (New York), Cleveland, and Jackson, it was already approaching 50% of the black population in the counties they are located in. Take for instance Douglas County, Nebraska, where Omaha is located. Back in 2009, the NYT tells us 10% of the counties residents were using SNAP/EBT. Broken down by race, five percent of the White population was using SNAP/EBT versus 37% of the black population.

Why mention this? Well, all across Nebraska, African refugees and immigrants have been flooding into small towns – South Sioux City is home to just 13,000 residents and now 1 in 15 is an African refugee – and with this build up in Somalians, Ethiopians and Eritreans comes a shocking strain on finite resources with these small communities.

Why Somalis, Ethiopians and Eritreans are beyond in Middle America is a question so few ask, but with significant cuts to SNAP/EBT, including new guidelines and requirements to qualifying for these misnamed “benefits,” the shocking reliance on programs originally designed to uplift Americans momentarily hurt by a job loss have become an enshrined entitlement for vast swaths of the nation, including 90% of African refugees placed in Omaha.

The African Immigrant Family Services, a nonprofit dedicated solely to helping turn Omaha into a Nebraska version of the Somali colony that has inundated Minneapolis over the past 15 years, is now shifting to helping these refugees do what most Americans must when they have a family: provide food for their children without aid from the government. [‘They have kids’: African Immigrant Family Services helps local refugees navigate SNAP cuts, KETV.com, October 21, 2025]:

OMAHA, Neb. — Changes to SNAP eligibility leave thousands without food assistance.

Those new requirements, enforced Monday, remove refugees and people granted asylum from the federal program. African Immigrant Family Services says more than 90% of the families they help rely on food assistance.

The nonprofit connects kids with music, supports growing families, and provides guidance to the community. It’s what Adamma Sawadogo says African Immigrant Family Services is all about.

But with SNAP benefits being taken away from refugees, their main priority shifts to making sure the people they serve are able to put food on the table.

“They have kids. They have families they need to feed,� Sawadogo said.

Sawadogo said families are scared. The nonprofit’s goal is to explain what is going on to those families.

“Working with people who have English as a second language is sometimes difficult for them to understand, so we are providing them the right information,� Sawadogo said.

They put together a video explaining the changes to SNAP in French — a language many African refugees speak.

“We just direct them to other food banks, churches, and anywhere they can get food,� Sawadogo said.

Even with these resources, Sawadogo is concerned the growing demand for food will outweigh what’s available.

“There is an increase in people going to the same food pantries,� Sawadogo said.

According to Nebraska Appleseed, this impacts as many as 7,000 refugees and people granted asylum in Nebraska.

Now, African Immigrant Family Services is turning to more fortunate community members to assist those in need.

“Solidarity is part of the African culture — helping others,� Sawadogo said.

If you or someone you know needs help getting food, or you lost those SNAP benefits, make sure to check 211 for local resources that can help.

SNAP/EBT must be audited immediately. The amount of SNAP/EBT abuse by the Somali community in Minnesota alone must be in the hundreds of millions yearly (the Feeding Our Future scandal in 2021 exposed $250 million in fraud the Somalian community there extorted out of Covid relief funds), and now with refugees no longer qualifying for food stamps, the question must be asked why should entitlements have ever been extended to refugees or those granted asylum to the USA if they were to become dependents, when we already have a large population in Douglas County, Nebraska (blacks) who have been enjoying the fruits of our entitlement culture for decades?

Remigration is a word that will has been porously utilized in the discourse and rhetoric of our time, but this will be changing in the not too distant future. Denaturalizing those who pushed to turn Minnesota, Nebraska and Iowa into colonies for Somalis, Ethiopians or Eritreans is also forthcoming. I call it RaD (Remigration and Denaturalization).

They all have to go back, and those American citizens employed by the Federal Government or with an NGO who targeted Omaha, South Sioux City, Sioux City, Minneapolis and other, majority White cities for African enrichment must be denaturalized and lose the franchise for good, never burdening America with their ideology of forever altruism again.

The age of entitlements is coming to an end.

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Oh, it’s something I’ve thought was coming for some time now: The Day The EBT Cards Runs Out.

Forty-one million plus Americans currently on the rolls of SNAP/EBT, the gracious Food Stamp program recharging a government-issued debit card monthly so your fellow citizens can stroll into Walmart, Kroger, shop on Amazon, bypass the members-only line at Costco, or venture into a Sam’s Club to purchase items of their choice all on the taxpayer expense.

Come November 1, 2o25, the Federal Government shut down could (oh please let it happen!) see the ever-expanding SNAP/EBT program come to halt with a pause in funds.

But let’s cut to the heart of the problem of SNAP/EBT: the rising tide of color in America that Stoddard warned about a century ago is here, and they are hungry. And you, dearest taxpayer, are fitting the bill.

And just what does that mean in clearest racial terms? Let’s go, as the kids say. [Supplemental Nutrition AssistanceProgram (SNAP): 2021 Survey of Income and Program Participation Snapshots, Census.gov, November 2023]:

1 in 5 children aged 0 to 17 received SNAP benefits.

Of non-Hispanic Black children, 45 percent received SNAP compared to 28 percent of Hispanic children (of any race), 12 percent of non-Hispanic White children, 6 percent of non-Hispanic Asian children, and 21 percent of non-Hispanic Some Other Race children.

Interesting. More data, please. [Cuts to SNAP benefits will disproportionately harm families of color and children, Economic Policy Institute, April 25, 2025]

Cuts to SNAP will disproportionately harm families of color

More than 22 million households participated in SNAP by the end of last year. In between 2019 and 2023, more than one in 10 (11.8%) households participated in the program. While many of these families (43.1%) are non-Hispanic white,1 families of color are more likely to rely on SNAP benefits to supplement their food budget (see Figure A). More than one in five Black, American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN), and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander (NHPI) households relied on SNAP to meet their nutritional needs in the 2019–2023 period. These families, along with Hispanic households, are more than twice as likely to participate in SNAP than their non-Hispanic white peers, leaving them particularly vulnerable to SNAP benefits cuts or unhelpful work requirements that make it harder to receive or keep this important source of support.

Maybe a little deeper, perhaps. Sure, we have those numbers, too. [What the data says about food stamps in the U.S., Pew Research, July 19, 2023]:

The most comprehensive data source we have is the Census Bureau’s Survey of Income and Program Participation, although its most recent data is from 2020. That year, 23.6 million SNAP recipients (63%) were adults, and 13.8 million (36%) were children.

Non-Hispanic White people accounted for 44.6% of adult SNAP recipients and 31.5% of child recipients in 2020. About 27% of both adult and child recipients were Black. Hispanic people, who can be of any race, accounted for 21.9% of adult recipients and 35.8% of child recipients.

Though 16 years have passed since a ground breaking story was published in the NYT, complete with an interactive showing County by County usage by percentage of blacks and Whites utilizing SNAP/EBT for purchasing food, the contents of the story spell out the reality of the racial angle EBT plays in providing food for the table of primarily non-Whites in America. [Food Stamp Use Soars, and Stigma Fades, by Jason DeParle and Robert Gebeloff, New York Times, September 28, 2009]:

In more than 750 counties, the program helps feed one in three blacks. In more than 800 counties, it helps feed one in three children. In the Mississippi River cities of St. Louis, Memphis and New Orleans, half of the children or more receive food stamps. Even in Peoria, Ill. — Everytown, U.S.A. — nly 40 percent of children receive aid.

Now nearly 12 percent of Americans receive aid — 28 percent of blacks, 15 percent of Latinos and 8 percent of whites. Benefits average about $130 a month for each person in the household, but vary with shelter and child care costs.
Across the 10 core counties of the Mississippi Delta, 45 percent of black residents receive aid. In a city as big as St. Louis, the share is 60 percent.

Use among children is especially high. A third of the children in Louisiana, Missouri and Tennessee receive food aid. In the Bronx, the rate is 46 percent. In East Carroll Parish, La., three-quarters of the children receive food stamps.

A recent study by Mark R. Rank, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, startled some policy makers in finding that half of Americans receive food stamps, at least briefly, by the time they turn 20. Among black children, the figure was 90 percent.

How bad are these numbers in 2025? Doubt the NYT would dare publish such a study or comprehensive, interactive map today.

Regardless, here we are at the potential glimpse into The Day The EBT Card Goes Away. Entitlement spending grew after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed to the tune of $20 billion we learn in Chris Caldwell’s book The Age of Entitlement.

Why?

To pay for peace.

We could have been on Mars by now, but then, with the growth of SNAP/EBT in America, where would 8% of retail grocery store spending come from? When Walmart bakes into their sales forecasting a revenue management strategy seeing 24% of SNAP/EBT card holders swiping their debit card at one of their stores (utilizing just-in-time inventory methods for demanding forecasting at the first of every month when the balance is reset), what happens The Day The EBT Cards Runs Out?

Well, I’m here for it.

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Lurking in the shadows of the fleeting greatness of Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia on September 8, 2021, I happened to be among of crowd of onlookers watching the Robert E. Lee Monument removed.

Blending in among the sea of people celebrating the fall of the iconic statue, erected in 1890 for a far different and better citizenry than the ones occupying the city currently, I quietly watched without emotion as a crane slowly removed the massive, 12-ton sculpture from its magnificent pedestal.

While everyone around me cheered, hugged, some even weeping tears of joy at the removal of a more than century old landmark, I stood silent, letting the moment overwhelm momentarily and then ultimately passing into nothingness.

One person noticed me just staring up at the empty pedestal where Lee’s statue had only moments ago sat resolutely for more than century and cautiously asked something I’ll never forget: “You aren’t here to celebrate this, are you? I’ve been looking around at people and how they are reacting. You don’t belong here, do you?”

For the first time all day, I smiled. “No, I’m not here to celebrate. No, I don’t belong here. And that’s why this moment is one you should cherish. Because always remember, guys like me are still here.”

Walking away from the raucous crowd and the sound of large machinery busy resettling the fallen Lee for transport, I wondered then as I do now if the person who broached the question to me knew what my reply meant.

More than four years later, the world has changed. Preceding the removal of Lee’s statue from Monument Avenue was the toppling of Jefferson Davis, Matthew Maury, Stonewall Jackson and Jeb Stuart’s monuments coming down in the summer of 2020, the joyous months proceeding the fentanyl overdose of George Floyd in May and the momentary surrender of the USA to Black Lives Matter agitators, Antifa and Left-wing adherents to Gay Race Communism.

In Los Angeles, faithful and devoted zealots to this religion gather at the MOCA and The Brick art museums to stare upon a civilization they sought to supplant, but one with perilously deeper roots than they could imagine.

You see, it was never just about removing statues to Confederate Generals or Admirals like Maury, renaming buildings, military bases, digging up Lee’s horse, toppling monuments to Reconciliation, or relocating monuments to Dead White Males like Frank Rizzo in Philadelphia, or tearing down monuments to Jefferson, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, or Chris Columbus.

It was always about humiliation, which was ritualized in the gratuitous destruction of the Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee statues from Charlottesville, VA, both by purported black “artists,” the same humiliation we endure when we see the ruins of Detroit, Baltimore, Memphis, Jackson (MS), Birmingham (AL), or the no-go areas of Philadelphia, Washington DC, NYC, NOLA, Atlanta, or St. Louis.

Why celebrate any of our history if it all inevitably led to the collapse of our major cities to black misery, crime and dysfunction, coupled with waves of immigrants (both legal and illegal) united in scavenging for the remains of a once proud civilization?

Because through all the chaos of post-George Floyd America, the person on Monument Avenue who realized I didn’t belong in the celebratory crowd as Lee came down has just found out the answer to his question is far more pervasive than he ever imagined. [While Trump restores Confederate monuments, this bold L.A. art exhibition confronts them, Los Angeles Times, October 21, 2025]:

For the past decade, Confederate memorials have been a flashpoint in America’s heated culture wars. More than 150 statues and monuments were doused with paint, defaced and brought down by protesters, but in President Trump’s second term, they are being reinstalled. A statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike is returning to Judiciary Square in Washington, D.C., and another, known as the “Reconciliation Monument,� will be restored to Arlington Cemetery.

The tumultuous state of affairs is supercharging a provocative, highly anticipated new exhibition titled “Monuments,� featuring nearly a dozen removed statues, some towering up to 15 feet. The show, co-organized and co-presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Brick, opens Thursday and runs through May 3, 2026.

“Monuments� was originally supposed to debut two years ago, and if it had, it would have entered a radically different political landscape.

“Suddenly everyone thinks that we’re doing this in response to our president, which isn’t at all the case. This is more a case of the political moment coming around to capture us,� said MOCA senior curator Bennett Simpson, who organized the show alongside Brick director Hamza Walker, artist Kara Walker (no relation to Hamza), Brick curatorial associate Hannah Burstein and MOCA assistant curator Paula Kroll.

The urgent, raw and ongoing nature of the public debate around civil rights, made all the more incendiary by the Trump administration’s attempts to minimize the history of slavery by threatening to remove artworks related to it at the Smithsonian and national parks, contributes to the power of the exhibition, which juxtaposes the statues with art that elicits emotionally charged responses.

“This is an associative poetic art show,� Simpson says of the 18 contemporary participating artists.

At MOCA, a statue titled “Confederate Women of Maryland,� erected in Baltimore by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, features two women — one of whom is cradling a fallen male soldier in her lap in a tableau resembling Michelangelo’s “Pietà.� This monument resides directly across from a series of photographs by Jon Henry featuring Black mothers similarly holding their sons in urban environments.

Some, such as a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, were splattered in paint by protesters. Others, including the base of a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee, were covered in graffiti with phrases like “Protect Black Women.� They appear in the museum just as they looked when they were removed from parks and plazas in Richmond and Charlottesville, Va., respectively. Davis now rests on his side in a room with a group of chilling photographs taken by Andres Serrano of hooded Ku Klux Klan leaders in Georgia.

A statue of former Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney — who in 1857 wrote the majority opinion in the notorious Dred Scott case, which ruled that slaves could never be citizens and were thus property — sits beside a statue of prominent newspaper owner Josephus Daniels, who helped foment the 1898 Wilmington massacre in which a mob of more than 2,000 white supremacists killed as many as 300 people in the course of overthrowing the city’s duly elected biracial government.

Across from these frozen-in-time relics is a wall of studio portraits of Black North Carolinians taken in 1910 by photographer Hugh Mangum, whose contact sheets of both Black and white people show that he ran an integrated studio in the Jim Crow South. The people in the proud, haunting photos would have been alive during the Wilmington massacre, Simpson noted.

“It felt important for him to meet his public,� Simpson said, gesturing at Daniels.

Hamza Walker first conceived of “Monuments� when the statues began coming down in the wake of the 2015 shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. The hate crime, which targeted Black people, resulted in nine deaths and sparked a mass movement against the veneration of figures who fought to perpetuate slavery in America.

What to do with the country’s many Confederate statues and monuments had become a matter for debate. Some people thought they should remain untouched, with added plaques addressing the history of slavery. Others felt they should be destroyed.

Hamza Walker wanted to use them in an art exhibition and ask artists to respond.

For the most part, the removed statues were tucked away out of sight. The pieces featured in “Monuments� are on loan to MOCA, trucked in on tractor trailers from whatever obscure location they were stored — hidden under tarps in water treatment facilities and stashed in warehouses alongside bags of salt and snow plows.

Getting the monuments proved to be a time-consuming undertaking, made all the more so by their controversial nature. After the city of New Orleans took down four statues in May 2017, a fierce backlash erupted, culminating in the infamous Charlottesville rally in August. For two days during what is now called “the Summer of Hate,� white nationalists and neo-Nazis carrying tiki torches, swastikas and Confederate flags filled the streets. A man rammed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing a 32-year-old, and President Trump famously declared there were “very fine people on both sides.�

The “Monuments� curators spent countless hours writing detailed proposals about how they intended to use the statues, which, for the most part, have to be returned. They needed to give assurances that the pieces would be treated with care, insured and protected from harm.

A single artwork is housed across town at the Brick — it is set in relief because it stands in a category all its own, said Hamza Walker. The sculpture, Kara Walker’s “Unmanned Drone,� is the only monument that has been physically altered.

Walker used a plasma cutter to slice apart a statue of prominent Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson, which she welded back together in an entirely new form. Jackson no longer has a face, but his hair is speared by a portion of his horse’s upper thigh. The horse now appears to be standing upright with its head protruding from the back of its saddle. Jackson’s arm, which was amputated before his death, is now separated from his body and affixed to the edge of the statue’s base. His legs are sliced open, and his saber rests on the ground beside the dissected, reconfigured whole.

The effect is breathtaking and violent.

“Ideologically it’s an affront, aesthetically it’s an affront … on a piano, it’s not just a chord, this is a tone cluster,â€� said Hamza Walker, of the reimagined statue. “Kara went for it. She did what artists do in terms of marshaling an energy and force, and then concentrating it on this object and coming up with this piece.â€�

The statue was deeded to the Brick — which wrote a competitive proposal to get it — for the sole purpose of transformation. This is because the statue, by virtue of its recent, ugly history, had become radioactive, Hamza Walker said.

“… a radically different political landscape.”

I have no earthly idea how many other people stood in that crowd in September of 2021 to watch Lee come down as I did, not to celebrate, but to remember the feeling of the moment. To let it sink in, deep within.

It’s our history, just as the statue of General Custer in Monroe, Michiga n is our history. It’s hated because it was erected for White men and White women to celebrate and cherish, remembering the sacrifices necessary to ensure Manifest Destiny came to fruition, just as the first statue erected to a woman in America is hated. That celebrates the life of Hannah Duston, kidnapped by Amerindians in the 17th century, her child butchered by the same tribe. She escaped and took 10 Indian scalps. Her statue went up in 1876.

Demoralization is the a powerful weapon in a nameless war, one we are in whether we wish to be participants or not.

But we’re still here, much to the dismay of those who thought the MOCA and Brick MONUMENTS celebration would be a coronation of thousands of more toppled statues to Dead White Males, including the John Wayne statue at John Wayne International Airport in Orange County, CA, one day joining this veritable amusement exhibition for the effete Gay Race Communists to scoff at as they enjoy cocktails or a Spirt Cooking seminar.

Problem is, we’re still here. And those statues will be reclaimed, cleaned up, and hoisted high again for the sun to shine upon.

We can rebuild our cities, our communities, and christen new statues to go up remember our heroes of old, whose ideals and honor in the way they live inspire us to stand now, so our posterity never knows the horrors of Gay Race Communism and the depravations of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Era, save in books, pictures and video.

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The heroic Chris Rufo recently paid a visit to Minneapolis, Minnesota, near the five year anniversary of when George Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose during a confrontation with police. 38th Street and Chicago Avenue is hallowed ground for some, but for others its the epicenter of where America went momentarily mad, before a rising tide of righteous indignation from long beleaguered White citizens in this nation set in a motion a course-correction.

Rufo is one of those men. Hardly identifying with the more strict adherents of Real America, he has nevertheless been at the forefront of disconnected group of individuals restoring sanity across the land. The true wave has yet to capsize more than a century of blatant hostility against Real Americans, but it’s coming. For most people, the depth of the betrayal in selling out this nation is beyond comprehension, with even glimpses of what’s transpired enough to send highly intelligent down people down ever widening conspiratorial holes, brief apertures inducing a feeling of hopelessness at the scope and severity of the issues.

But it was never insurmountable, only about courage finally manifesting. And simply stating we tried this grand experiment of racial equality, sacrificing so much in the process, and yet men like Madison Grant, Lothrop Stoddard, David Starr Jordan, Theodore Bilbo, Wilmot Robertson, R. W. Shufeldt and so many others were right.

They were right. They knew what would happen. They knew what was going to happen. They laid it out, when America was a 90% White country. Long before the first Somalians started to arrive as refugees in Minnesota. Not too long ago, the year was 1970, Minnesota was 99% White and Minneapolis was 94% White.

The illusions so many Whites have and allegiance to the mythical “I Have a Dream” speech uttered by the repulsive Martin Luther King Jr. will die hard, but they will die. Vanish, as will the a system so many of us were born into, and that had been in place long before we were born.

That system, to put it bluntly, was anti-White, dedicated to making life worse for White individuals in the United States of America, a collective initiative to impede the “for our posterity” portion of the US Constitution. We aren’t at the moment when this system is usurped, but the myopic belief if we just tried diversity a little harder, or funded open borders and affirmative action with more gusto and devotion is on its last legs.

And the dreams of George Floyd Square in Minneapolis have been greeted with the harsh racial truth equality was always just a social construct and an outgrowth of resentment, spite and explicit hostility to the White individuals who collectively created the USA.

One day a real monument will be built at the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue to remember the horror of what advocating for social justice and equity wrought on the United States and how it nearly was victorious. The champagne was on ice, as evidenced by the plans two years ago for unveiling of the MONUMENTS exhibition at Los Angeles MOCA.

It was supposed to be a triumphant, joyous celebration, something out of the young adult novel The Hunger Games, with the citizens of the Capitol getting drunk, high and full off of their victory of the impetuous Districts, but amid the flotsam and jetsam of Real America remained a few who dared note, “We don’t have to live this way.”

And here we are. MacBeth was wrong: life is not a poor player, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. For some actions, it takes time to finally realize the quiet you heard in response to a constant and consistence demoralization campaign was just anger rising before good people realized tolerance to dispossession was not a virtue but an act of submission. [The Fury That Led to Nothing: George Floyd Square, City Journal, October 21, 2025]:

The run-down intersection at 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis exposes the empty promises of the revolution of 2022

When I arrived in Minneapolis, it has been more than five years since Floyd lost his life and became a patron saint of the Left, and I wanted to see what had happened here since then.

The square is situated in a run-down intersection that now features a statue of a clenched black fist in the central roundabout. On one corner stands a minimarket called Unity Foods—formerly Cup Foods—where George Floyd passed the counterfeit bill that set off the chain of events that culminated in his death. Across the street is an abandoned gas station that has been covered in graffiti and protest slogans since the initial unrest.

A group of vagrants had lit a bonfire in a metal drum beneath the gas station canopy. When I asked them about Floyd, they avoided the question; they weren’t interested in politics. They had chosen the spot to light fires, fence stolen goods, and smoke fentanyl, because it was peaceful and nobody bothered them.

In the frenzied year of 2020, politicians in Minneapolis and the Minnesota state government made grand promises about what George Floyd Square would become. They purchased property and pledged monuments. Then, as the years passed, their political will evaporated and everything ground to a halt. One city official told me the neighborhood wanted to reopen for business, while political leaders wanted to preserve the square as an ideological symbol. The result: nobody got what he wanted.

The scars of the revolution remain. The intersection at 38th Street and Chicago Avenue now has an eerie feeling, as if the George Floyd moment were frozen in time. A shattered window at Unity Foods has remained unrepaired for five years. The graffiti on the bus-stop shelters has started to chip and peel. The slogans scrawled on the gas station walls are fading reminders of the naive ebullience of that early moment.

As I walked around, I spotted two smartly dressed white women who appeared to be visiting the square as one might a religious shrine. Striking up a conversation, I learned that one was a Minneapolis resident; the other, her sister, was visiting from New York City. They wanted to pay their respects to Floyd. They seemed to be trying not to show fear at the visible homelessness and disorder.

When I asked the women about Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey, the local woman said, “No comment.� She instead shifted the conversation to President Trump, who, she said, was “clawing back all of the progress� that had been made toward social justice.

I was dumbfounded. George Floyd Square was a single street corner in Minneapolis, fully under the jurisdiction of local and state authorities, who had five years to fulfill their promises and turn the square into something more. But rather than address this obvious failure, both women blamed Trump for the fact that racial justice had not materialized.

One man was still trying to do something about it. He called himself Maestro. He presided over a community garden sprawled along the street outside Unity Foods. He spoke with the nervous, rapid cadence of an addict.

After pressing me for a donation, Maestro said that the white man continues to promise justice but only exploits the black man. Instead of waiting for the white city officials to transform the square, he had taken it upon himself to evict the homeless campers from the bus-stop shelter and to bring in dozens of potted flowers along the road.

Maestro had known Floyd from their time hustling together on the streets. He seemed to be the only one who remembered him in an idealistic way. Reggae music throbbed from a Bluetooth speaker as he dashed madly from plant to plant with a watering can.

I looked at his greenhouse and told him that, if he kept his plants tightly inside, some might survive the winter. Whenever a white person passed by, he hectored them with a QR code that links to his Venmo.

The scene saddened me. I never supported the George Floyd revolution and knew it would end in disappointment. But to witness that disappointment firsthand still stirred a sense of pity. The political leaders who turned that summer’s events into a multibillion-dollar activist apparatus never built anything that would last. The fury they unleashed remains visible in the abandoned storefronts and burned-out corners of cities like Minneapolis; their promises of social justice have vanished into memory.

There remain some true believers like Maestro. But in the centers of power, the activists have already moved on to the next revolution. Mayor Frey is struggling to salvage his reelection campaign with promises of “affordability,� while his opponent—left-wing Somali politician Omar Fateh—vows to deliver the racialist revolution promised in 2020.

I left Minneapolis that night for New York City, which has its own mayoral race featuring choices ranging from bad to worse. Many residents have seemingly forgotten the damage that bad leadership can do to a city. In a contest between Frey and Fateh, the most productive outcome would be for both to lose. But inevitably, one will win and, in doing so, make Minneapolis worse. And neither, I would wager, will build a monument at George Floyd Square.

The George Floyd Revolution was a moment we survived, though statues came down, streets and buildings were renamed, and one state changed its flag from honoring the Confederate heritage of the past because a black football player for Mississippi State said he wouldn’t play in 2020 until it was removed. Less than a week after his vow, the Confederate emblem was removed by pitiful Republicans in the state legislature of Mississippi.

But the statues can go back up. Streets and buildings can have names momentarily regarded with hatred can be restored, with a renewed sense of pride and honor for the individual celebrated posthumously for their contributions, accolades and achievements.

It just takes courage.

And in ruins of the hopes and aspirations for the revolutionary aims of social justice and perpetuation of the anti-White system, came the hope the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would be hoisted upon the same embers of funeral pyre George Floyd inadvertently lit when he tried to pass off a counterfeit $20 bill on May 25, 2020.