Truth or Consequences
"I always thought well of Vanderbilt. My grandfather went there. But this guy is ignoring
and then boosting the very policies that are damaging the country."
- American Identity's David Fanelli, April 27, 2019
"(Metzl) doesn't even have experience with people at Vanderbilt . . . This is the same professor that's saying somehow white people
are imagining that black people are not really into us, and sometimes they can have some bad intentions when it comes to us."
- Crime Writer Colin Flaherty, December 2, 2019
While Vanderbilt University professor and author Jonathan Metzl wraps up a ten-month publicity tour for his book Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland, he's met the ire of race realist Colin Flaherty.
"A Vanderbilt professor wants us to know that white people are imagining black violence.
"So we don't need guns after all. Recent large-scale episodes of black mob violence in Brooklyn, Indianapolis, and other places are all we need to take care of (Metzl's) fairy tale," Flaherty wrote last night.
It's been a heady year for the instructor of psychology and sociology at Vanderbilt, based in Nashville, Tennessee and one of the country's most selective schools.
After a spring tour in the United States, Metzl visited summer book fairs across Europe before returning stateside. His final engagement is at The Fearless Artist Gallery in Miami, Thursday.
Dying of Whiteness has met with fawning praise from the mainstream media, including HBO's Bill Maher and MSNBC-TV's Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Chris Hayes, and Joy Reid.
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On April 30, Truth or Consequences remarked, "But neither Metzl's book nor his television promoters ask, 'Why are whites' relative numbers on the decline, and more importantly, what forces prescribed it?'
"It's a question Metzl studiously ignores in Dying of Whiteness, but one that may be easily answered.
"Immigration to the USA was changed irrevocably by New York Congressman Emanuel Celler's sponsorship of the 1965 Immigration Act. Immigrants to America until then were almost entirely European, but then altered to draw from the Third World.
"Minutiae within the act was misrepresented and largely unstudied by Congress. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it in to law, October 3, 1965.
"Metzl's book discusses some of what followed: Ill-advised offshoring of manufacturing to the very countries from where the new immigrants originated.
"Well-paying middle-class jobs in the Midwest disappeared, and a new moniker was put in place: The Rust Belt.
"Affected communities in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York deteriorated, and residents moved away. Now those same states are plagued by the widespread use of legal and illegal opioids.
"Another new vernacular describes the result: Deaths of despair.
"That chain of events is not delineated by Metzl - nor by his supporters in the media.
"Yet away from the comfortable television studios, Metzl has experienced demonstrations at book signings where detractors have taken umbrage at his suggestions to ease the demographic changes.
"Metzl's central proposals include support for socialized medicine, and whites' acceptance of government support where previously unneeded, and often rejected by a can-do ethos.
"In St. Louis, April 24, where Metzl's signing event included remarks about gun ownership, and in Washington, DC, April 27, at the #AntiRacistBookfest, detractors gave the author unrelenting criticism.
"A group calling itself American Identity disrupted Metzl's talk at the District of Columbia's Politics and Prose bookstore, albeit only briefly.
"After Metzl's appearance in the capitol, organizer Catherine Winnington's social media pages reflected the reaction of those supporting the author: "They're afraid of having to compete on an even playing field with people of color" was one such condemnation.
"Metzl's book signings conclude in Manhattan, May 6. Then the author heads to London to test Europeans' gullibility."
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Two members of Coach Patrick Ewing's Georgetown Hoyas basketball team have been expelled, and two others are facing serious allegations, multiple sources confirm.
Sophomore forward Josh LeBlanc and reigning Big East Freshman of the Year guard James Akinjo have been dismissed from the Washington, DC university on suspicion of burglary and sexual harassment.
Junior forward Galen Alexander and freshman forward Myron Gardner are alleged to have committed similar offenses though details remain unclear and the pair remain enrolled.
In 2001, the Jamaican-born Ewing was entangled in allegations of sexual improprieties at Atlanta, Georgia's Gold Club while a member of the Orlando Magic.
After testifying against club owner Thomas Cicignano in the subsequent federal fraud trial, Ewing avoided being charged with any crime. He is currently in his third year as coach at Georgetown.
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Kamala has left the presidential race.
No, not the fearsome Ugandan headhunter made famous by the World Wrestling Federation.
He's still in - as far as we know.
But California Senator Kamala Harris, she's out having announced an end to her campaign for the White House today.
Seems recurring squabbles with staff, including her campaign manager and sister Maya Harris, were on the rise and threatened to color her political future.
Speaking of professors,did you see the ones at the impeachment hearing this morning?Quite a group--only Turley making sense.
ReplyDeleteAlso,half of the group on the Dem side of the committee were BLACKIES--all voting against Trump on various resolutions.
Quite a picture.Racist?Nahhhh.
--GRA
I don't know about this guy Metzl from Vanderbilt but the three professors testifying before Jerry Nadler's Judiciary Committee - Noah Feldman from Harvard, Michael Gerhardt from UNC, and Pamela Karlan from Stanford are all, like the committee chairman, Jewish.
ReplyDeleteThis guy the Truth writer always has good stuff.
"No, not the fearsome Ugandan headhunter made famous by the World Wrestling Federation."
ReplyDeleteKamala. The Five Hundred Pound Ugandan Giant. Favorite move was the "Splash".
Kamala in real life his name is HARRIS.