Chauvin Did Not Murder George Floyd—And prosecutors knew it.
Thanks to the release of depositions in a sexual harassment law suit, we now know just how thoroughly corrupt was the prosecution of former Minneapolis police offer Derek Chauvin and his three colleagues in the May 2020 death of George Floyd.
The depositions were taken this summer in response to a lawsuit filed by Amy Sweasy, a former Hennepin County prosecutor, against her then boss, former County Attorney Mike Freeman. Sweasy alleges that Freeman engaged in sex discrimination and professional retaliation. Whatever Freeman did or did not do to Sweasy, however, pales in comparison to what both of them and their colleagues did to the cops they prosecuted and the justice system they undermined. (READ MORE from Jack Cashill: What Isaacson Doesn’t Get About Elon Musk)
KC cop found guilty of policing while white
Those who think justice should be colorblind do not work in America’s newsrooms. Consider the headlines that followed a ruling this week by a Missouri appeals court. “Missouri appeals court upholds conviction of white KC cop in killing of Black man,” Kansas City Star.
“Former Kansas City Police officer arrested after court upholds conviction for killing Black man,” KCUR, the Kansas City NPR station. Former Missouri officer who fatally shot a Black man turns himself in after losing appeal,” Associated Press.
Not Everything That Looks Like a Conspiracy Is a Conspiracy
The first sentence of my Wikipedia page reads as follows: “ Jack Cashill …is an American author, blogger and conspiracy
theorist.” If I try to amend that description, some left-wing troll will flip it right back.
As it happens, the Left takes Wikipedia seriously. Some of those who conspired to “disinvite” me from a scheduled library appearance in Fredonia, New York, this summer cited my Wikipedia page as the reason.
Wrote one of the conspirators to the local paper, “This guy is a hack-fraud, couldn’t make a living off of TWA 800 conspiracy theories so he became a shill for every right wing dog whistle. The right loves their con men and to be grifted.”
Well traveled as I am in the world of conspiracies, I write this column as a caution to my fellow citizen journalists: before you put words on a page, before you invest too much emotional equity in a given conspiracy, think your theory all the way through.
What Isaacson Doesn’t Get About Elon Musk
To give credit where due, I cannot imagine another journalist writing a biography of Elon Musk as smart, thorough, and forthright as Walter Isaacson’s recently released Elon Musk. To document Musk’s career so competently took an effort worthy of a Robert Caro and an intellect nearly comparable to Musk’s own.
Given his talent, it is all the more unfortunate that Isaacson cannot follow Musk to the end of his journey. As Isaacson acknowledges, Musk took a “red pill” along the way, and Isaacson, a creature of the liberal establishment, is addicted to the blue. (READ MORE from Jack Cashill: Banned Books Week in the Age of Biden)
As Isaacson explains to those many readers unaware of the concept, the red pill is a plot device in the 1999 movie The Matrix. A hacker, Neo, learns from his mentor Morpheus that he has been living in a virtual, computer-generated world designed, says Morpheus, “to blind you from the truth.”
It’s time for a Jewish History Month – or is it?
Any statement that begins, “We, the undersigned student organizations hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all
unfolding violence,” can go nowhere good.
From this unpromising start, the “Joint Statement by Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups on the Situation in in Palestine” swirls quickly down a vortex of disinformation. The statement concludes by calling on the “Harvard community” to take some unspecified action “to stop the ongoing annihilation of Palestinians.” Only the brevity of the statement limits its impressive display of historical ignorance.
The War Against Italian Americans
How beheading Christopher Columbus statues became a thing.
For the last sixty or so years the media-education complex has established a rule that only ethnic groups of color are permitted to have grievances. Indeed, since the emergence of Barack Obama, these groups have formed something of a grievance-industrial complex.
Italian-Americans apparently don’t pass the color test. Although they come from roughly the same Mediterranean stock as people from Spain, Americans of Spanish descent get a bump up the swag wagon. Italians get niente.
People of Spanish descent even get a designated month, National Hispanic Heritage Month. In that month begins on September 15, it overlaps and overshadows the one day historically allotted to Italians, the second Monday of October, as well as the real Columbus Day, October 12.
“UNTENABLE: THE TRUE STORY OF WHITE ETHNIC FLIGHT FROM AMERICA’S CITIES”
A REVIEW
Great civilizations are known for their cities. Babylon, Alexandria, Rome, Constantinople, Baghdad, Paris, London, and New York, all evoke stronger associations than their countries. Cities are both pearls and pillars. Although all great cities, like all great civilizations, have their cycles, only modern Western civilization has watched some of its finest cities simultaneously, as if on cue, degenerate from healthy multicultural metropoles to crime-ridden monocultural hellscapes in one generation.
Untenable: The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America’s Cities by 75-year-old American author, blogger, and urban native Jack Cashill tells the story of one of them: his hometown of Newark, New Jersey. The story of Newark is the story of families of generations of working-class immigrants who put aside their Old World animosities to forge the new American Dream, before experiencing its violent post-Sixties implosion. Cashill weaves together dozens of moving individual stories: the stories of people whose memories read like eulogies to what they lost and the city they abandoned to its fate.
Time to rethink the martyrdom of George Floyd
With the fall of the House of Kendi – the $40 million Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University – it may finally be
allowable to discuss the death of the man who turned on the spigots, George Floyd.
In the way of background, Kendi was born Ibram Henry Rogers in 1982 to middle class parents. Along the way he rebranded himself “Ibram X. Kendi” to better exploit the ascendant “antiracism” movement.
Given the mania following Floyd’s death in May 2020, Kendi had little trouble raising money to fund this “collaborative research and education effort across multiple disciplines,” the immodest goal of which was “to build a world where racial equity and social justice prevail.”
