This is old news, but it’s an opportunity to introduce my dear readers to YouTuber Sydney Watson. She’s actually buddies with Avi Yemini, who I’ve written about before, and she’s a delight to listen to. In this video, she tells the sad tale of a white man who hates his own race so much that he went to extremes to make himself look black – and not very successfully. We can add his name to the growing list of extreme self-haters.
Enjoy!
The decision to cast Israeli actress Gal Gadot as Cleopatra, in an upcoming movie, has ruffled the usual feathers. You see, the real Cleopatra was “African,” and Gal Gadot is not African, so this decision is “racist.”
The BBC moans:
Plans for a new movie about Cleopatra have sparked a controversy before filming has even started.
The role of the famed ancient Egyptian ruler is to be played by Israeli actress Gal Gadot, best known for her Hollywood depictions of Wonder Woman.
The announcement has led to a row on social media with some alleging “cultural whitewashing”, where white actors portray people of colour.
Some have said the role should instead go to an Arab or African actress.
The Guardian shrieks:
But even with a female director, and female screenwriter in Laeta Kalogridis on board, the casting of an Israeli actor with Ashkenazi Jewish heritage as the legendary Queen of Egypt has led to a not unfounded debate about Hollywood whitewashing.
AlJazeera laments:
Fans’ reactions were mostly sceptical, with many accusing Hollywood of whitewashing and wondering whether Cleopatra should be played by an actress of colour…
Lexi Alexander, a Palestinian-German director, said the role should go to a Black actress.
“I believe we should cast someone like the 3D image they created based on the the coin they found with Cleopatra on it … which means the part should go to a Black actress,” she said on Twitter.
It’s true that Hollywood was guilty of shameless whitewashing in the past. I remember, as a kid, watching The Ten Commandments and wondering why everyone was so white, considering that the story took place in Egypt. Couldn’t they have found Mexicans to play some of the parts? Doing so would have resulted in a more accurate depiction of those ancient people, and it might have saved them money. All they had to do was show up at a spot with a lot of illegal immigrants, load a few dozen of them into vans, give them ancient Egyptian-looking cloths and teach them how to walk like Egyptians. At the end of the day, pay them each $5 and send them on their way.
But no. Instead, they insisted on portraying ancient Egyptians as if they were Europeans…
… and Cleopatra was, in fact, European. If her mother was Egyptian, she would probably still have looked Mediterranean. She was certainly not a Negress.
Here’s an answer from Quora (What do you think about Gal Gadot being tapped to play Cleopatra, and why is everyone so divided?):
It’s 100% appropriate and the people flipping out over it are wrong.
Okay. So. First things first, Gal Gadot means controversy because she’s Israeli. Some people were flipping out over the Wonder Woman casting because of that. Wonder Woman was banned in some countries for having an Israeli star. I’m serious.[1]
Now, putting anti-Semitism aside for five seconds… here are a couple of modern attempts to realistically reconstruct Cleopatra’s appearance.
Honestly, in that reconstruction, Cleopatra… looks more stereotypically Jewish than Gal Gadot.
Cleopatra ruled Egypt. Egypt is on the African continent. There are a certain segment of people who think, on an ideological basis, that choosing a white actor to play a non-white character is gänzlich verboten. This is “white-washing” or “blackface,” depending on the details of the portrayal.
Hollywood has done this a lot in the past, so it’s not a crazy complaint in and of itself. One recent notable example was turning the Tibetan Ancient in Dr. Strange into a white woman. (This was probably mostly done to appease Chinese political sensibilities.)
Now, there are also a certain segment of people who believe that Egyptians were “black.” As in ethnically and racially similar to sub-Saharan Africans.[2] This is fairly clearly wrong, as can be seen by study of genetics,[3] linguistics,[4]or just by looking at the historical record showing lots of interaction between Egyptians and their Mediterranean neighbors.
They do have a more distant relationship with eastern Africans in the Horn, but culturally, linguistically, and genetically, west and central Africa aren’t any measurably closer than, say, India. Which is to say not very close.
Linguistics and genetics both show the ancient Egyptians to be most closely tied to Semitic people, i.e., Jews and Arabs. Gal Gadot, being Israeli, has Semitic cultural heritage and ancestry.[5] although there are some people among both of the above segments who think Ashkenazi Jews are “fake” Semites.
These two segments overlap.
Now, here’s a twist. Cleopatra was from a Greek dynasty of Egyptian rulers. She may have had some Egyptian ancestors, but everything I said about ancient Egyptians being more closely tied to other Mediterraneans than sub-Saharan Africa goes double for Cleopatra, because she was a Greek Egyptian. Greeks ruled Egypt at that time!
That also means that Gal Gadot is possibly not as European as Cleopatra was.
The consensus is that Gal Gadot is more beautiful than the real Cleopatra would have been. Personally, I disagree; based on the reconstruction in the above Quora answer, Cleopatra was more beautiful. This is a fact, because I am an authority.
Gal Gadot is pretty, but not stunning. Nevertheless, her life matters.
Due to the violent nature of so many Africans, and the artificially fomented controversy surrounding Gadot’s upcoming role, she is in danger. I do hope she has adequate security.
According to Mediagov, “Institutional Racism” is pervasive in America, where white-supremacy reigns supreme, and the good-ol’-boys continue to conspire to keep the Negro down.
Of course, the opposite is true – as has already been documented numerous times on this blog. The only “institutional racism” in America is against whites, in the form of Affirmative Action, “goals” and threats of lawsuits for failure to comply.
So what’s an angry mob to do? It seems that the answer is to indiscriminately destroy whatever happens to be at hand. This makes sense, if we bear in mind that angry BLMers truly believe that practically all American institutions are white-supremacist in nature – at least if they are run by white people.
Museums (presumably including “historical societies”) are run by white people, and patronized by white people, so why not vandalize them?
From KATU2:
PORTLAND, ORE. — Leaders and members of the Indigenous community spoke out Monday against the violence and destruction that occurred in downtown Portland on the eve of Indigenous Peoples Day.
Online, the planned event was promoted as “Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage.” Portland is one of several US cities that recognizes Indigenous Peoples Day, however, the day is recognized federally as Columbus Day.
“The fact that someone would hijack Indigenous People’s Day and cause more violence is not appropriate. It’s not appropriate for any of these situations,” said Rep. Tawna Sanchez, of Shoshone-Bannock, Ute, and Carrizo descent, who represents North and Northeast Portland…
Rep. Sanchez said the Oregon Historical Society has been working with Oregon tribes to ensure their history is told through their own perspective.
“The destruction of the Oregon Historical Society in any way shape or form is unconscionable because that place, amazingly, is part of the actual truth,” Sanchez said.
The article goes on to say that the Indigenous community also denounced the violence downtown in general terms, stating that “this is not how we do things.”
Good for the Indigenous people for speaking up about this… but I’d like to know if they’d taken a stand against the mayhem from the beginning, or if it only matters to them when it affects an institution that’s friendly to their interests. Native Americans who participated in the protests were shocked that these “protests” included breaking windows, burning things and otherwise destroying businesses and property.
I find it hard to believe that they didn’t know this was going on before. As they say, “Silence is Violence.”
The rioters attacked the Historical Society (presumably) because they simply assumed that it was just another white-supremacist institution. Had they done their research beforehand, they would have realized that there are no brick-and-morter white-supremacists institutions in America. The Elk wasn’t racist, the street signs aren’t racist, the police aren’t racist, the statues aren’t racist – and the Historical Society isn’t racist. But they feel the urge to vent their anger on something.
In another KATU2 article, we read about an “African-American commemorative quilt” that was damaged in the riots:
PORTLAND, Ore. — Along with multiple downtown businesses, the Oregon Historical Society was damaged during an overnight riot.
The society said Monday a commemorative quilt was taken from the building.
“There was one item that was on display in the pavilion. It was a beautiful African American heritage bicentennial quilt that was made by 15 African American women in this community,” said OHS Executive Director Kerry Tymchuk…
Tymchuk said the quilt has traveled around the country and each of its squares represents a Black individual or moment in history. He said the quilt was found by police a few blocks away soaking wet.
“It’s a priceless piece of history here,” Tymchuk said.
The article doesn’t mention any outrage from Portland’s black community, nor am I aware of any black leaders proclaiming that “this is not how we do things.”
If I were to ask random black people, on the streets of Portland, I’m sure most would be unaware of the above incidents. Most would agree that such actions are not productive – but where is the outcry?
Yesterday was a chilly, overcast and rainy day, so I didn’t expect much of a turnout at our Back the Blue rally.
It soon became apparent that I was wrong; I would estimate that there were around 100 people there. What a pleasant surprise! It was explained to me that the City of Portland had just removed the primitive elk statue that had temporarily replaced the historic one.
Here you can see the original Elk on the right, and its replacement on the left:
This was after BLM rioters had burned the original one at least twice, and turned the site into a makeshift BLM shrine – since it stands directly across from the Justice Center, which BLM rioters had been attacking nightly.
In short, it had become just another BLM eyesore in the heart of Portland. Now that we had the numbers, the morale, and the ability to defend ourselves, some of our Sons of Liberty guests took it upon themselves to bring a pickup truck, and haul away all the BLM garbage:
Of course, I helped out. This is the result:
One of the ladies in our group also took it upon herself to fix some ACAB graffiti that had been bothering us:
Afterwards, some of us marched to the site where Aaron Danielson was murdered. The plan was to simply stand there, hold flags and place a new small flag on his memorial tree. Of course, Antifa showed up to start trouble. It was our original intent to remain there for only about an hour, so after a while, we made an ordered departure. One of the Antifa had sprayed some pepper spray in our direction at one point; none of us wanted a showdown such as we had last week.
I’ve been a moderate since the outbreak of the CCPVirus. But as time progresses, I find myself becoming more skeptical of the official narrative. It’s looking more and more like a government power-grab.
Taking corporate media reports at face value, we would get the impression that it’s white police officers who are guilty of police brutality. These “news” outlets give the distinct impression that the world would be a better place without white people.
And yet the steaming pile of bovine feces, otherwise known as CNN, reports that police brutality is a major problem in Nigeria, which is almost 100% black. From Microsoft News:
Nigeria’s leading celebrities and activists have organized mass protests across major cities in the country Friday demanding an end to police brutality in the country.
The nationwide protests were a culmination of weeks of anger and outcry online by the country’s young people over claims of kidnapping, harassment and extortion by a police unit known as the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS)…
‘Nothing will happen if I shoot you,’
The hashtag #EndSARS, #StopPolicebrutality has continued to trend on Twitter as young people shared their stories, photos and videos that they allege show men in Nigeria police uniforms searching their cars and harassing them.
Lagos-based entrepreneur Samuel Otigba told CNN he has had several encounters with members of the police that he believes to be from the SARS unit. He said the encounters usually begin with requests for bribes. Otigba alleges that in May, he got into trouble because he declined to give a bribe to one of the officers when he was stopped after an evening out with his wife.
He says his phone was searched and he was threatened by the officer who told him, “You know if I shoot you, nothing will happen. The highest anyone will do is cry justice on Twitter.”
Life is cheap in Africa, at least compared to the West, so this is not surprising. Nevertheless, I wish the Nigerians well, and hope they succeed in addressing this problem.
What truly shocked me is the fact that CNN didn’t try to pin the blame on white racism. Had the authors been white, they would probably be subject to corrective action, or firing, for failing to link the abuse to whites. But all three authors are black Nigerians – so they probably have nothing to fear.
Lately, I’ve been contemplating the future, what it holds for us and how we should adapt. Since I’ve got a pessimistic streak, let us assume that Joe Biden wins the presidential election, and that Portland’s mayoral election is won by Sarah Iannarone, who is self-described Antifa.
As y’all know, I’ve been active in the local “Back the Blue” movement. I’ll briefly reiterate my reasons for doing so:
My actual support for the police is luke-warm. Sure, most of them seem to be nice people, and my interactions with them have been mostly positive. But, by nature, they are tools of the government – and I don’t particularly like the government. The police are charged with enforcing the law, and many laws are unjust.
If Iannarone becomes mayor, it’s likely that councilwoman Jo Ann Hardesty will be Portland’s police commissioner. In that case, the police will end up as enforcers of “social justice,” In other words, they’ll be the governmental arm of Antifa.
Should we continue to “Back the Blue” then? Many Back the Blue activists are family members of police officers. They’ll probably continue their activism. As for the rest of us, probably not.
We will lack any support, or protection, from local government. With Biden as president, our “thin blue line” at the Federal level will also be gone. If we’re lucky, the Supreme Court might still recognize our rights – for a while.
Supporting the police, at least for me, is not an end in itself; it’s more of an expression of an overall philosophy: Support of law and order and the natural order of things. “Conservatism” if you will. When that cause becomes untenable, other outlets must be sought.
The group I associate with is largely Christian. If they were to become alienated from the police, many of them will protest abortion clinics. Some might gravitate to pro-Second-Amendment activism.
In the Portland area, it seems to me that we’ll be forced to go underground, spreading our message through graffiti in the wee hours of the night, or on the sly when nobody is looking.
On the “Back the Blue” Facebook page, some are expressing the sentiment that we’ve already lost the war in Portland, that we should accept defeat and take our rallies to more friendly, outlying, areas.
The problem with this attitude can be summed up by a piece of graffiti, which happens to be scrawled across the street from the site where Aaron Danielson was murdered. It quotes MLK:
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere
Our enemies perceive our very existence as “injustice.” As long as we exist anywhere, they will follow us. Fleeing to other areas is a losing proposition. It doesn’t work for whites, and it doesn’t work for rights. We should continue the battle in Portland in such a way that we’re not beaten or killed, and continue elsewhere publicly. When I feel I’m too old to fight anymore, at that point I’ll consider moving elsewhere.
I paid a visit to the website of Rose City Antifa to get a better idea of what they’re about. One item interested me in particular. It’s their definition of “fascism,” which can be found on the “about” page:
Fascism can be hard to define because every fascist movement is different, and the ideology itself contains many contradictory ideas. The term has also come to be used to label any idea that is authoritarian, right-wing, or even just disliked. This poses a problem for us because we think it is important to describe each movement accurately. To that end, we use a definition of fascism that is based on a cluster of traits. While each movement may not contain all these traits, we call it ‘fascist’ if it has a majority of these characteristics:
Clearly, this is one of those concepts that are hard to define scientifically, but can be characterized by a combination of factors. Another example of this is the concept of “race.”
When we speak of the “Negroid race,” for example, we might approach it in much the same way Antifa approaches fascism (and I’m not referring to any negativity here). A Negro will typically…
The fact that there is no single “race gene” or litmus test to determine race, is often used (by the Left) as “evidence” that race is not a valid scientific concept.
Let’s use this same argument against Rose City Antifa: “Fascist” is not a valid political/sociological concept – because there is no accurate litmus test to identify it.
Some of the criteria on their list caught my attention. First and foremost, the statement that a fascist engages in:
Anti-communist, anti-liberal, and anti-conservative rhetoric
The “Anti-Communist” part of that would qualify most Americans, even many leftists, as “fascists” – and for good reason; Communism has been responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people in living memory. Pointing this out is not “rhetoric.”
But what about the “anti-conservative” part? My initial impression is that this was added as an attempt to deflect criticism, and to soften the first part of the statement. I suspect that they’re not sincere about it.
However, I did contact Rose City Antifa, identifying only as “a conservative” and seeking dialog. Perhaps they’ll respond. So far, they haven’t.
I also wonder about the first item on the list, the part about “ultra-nationalism.” Does it apply to black-nationalists? What about Jewish-nationalists (Zionists)? I think they only have a problem with white-nationalists or American-nationalists.
Ditto the second item, “Belief in, and a desire to return to, a past utopian vision of society.” I think Wakanda fits this description. Call it “Kumbaya-land” if you prefer. The fairy tale version of Native American life prior to the arrival of Europeans might also qualify – and this is manifested in opposition to Columbus Day, and the toppling of Columbus statues, and of many other statues depicting white settlers.
I think the part about anti-Semitism is somewhat accurate, at least when it comes to white-nationalists. Many, if not most, white-nationalists who focus on The Jewish Question (JQ) describe themselves as “fascists.” But what about the largest group of anti-Semites in the US, black anti-Semites? Does Antifa actively seek black anti-Semites in order to silence them, and to beat them up? I doubt it. Has there ever been an instance of Antifa showing up at a Nation of Islam rally to harass them and scream “Hey hey, ho ho, Farakhan has got to go!”? I don’t think so.
There’s a very useful saying among construction workers, carpenters and other craftsmen:
Measure twice and cut once
Antifa needs to think twice and attack once. For the time being, I would advise them to go home and hit the books. Then, after they’ve correcting their thinking, consider activism…
Oh, and they might also consider using spell-check.
It’s not only leftists who believe everything they’re told; right-wingers do it too. Apparently it’s a common human trait to automatically believe anything we hear that validates our worldview.
After watching this excellent video from The United Spot, I started reading through the comments and found this one:
I don’t recommend opening the link, as the site seems suspicious. This is why I have removed the hyperlink.
B4U CRASH5 days agoNavy Seals on Joe Biden [COPY AND SHARE] Lest We Forget: When he was the Vice President, he did the most unthinkable thing fora man in his position. He revealed the names and the unit that killed Bin Laden
“On May 3 2011, at a national event in Washington, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. did the unthinkable – He publicly revealed the identity of the special-operations unit responsible for bin Laden’s killing, just to show that he “was in the know”.
His reckless action put at risk the lives of every member of Seal Team 6. The Taliban and other jihadists eager to avenge bin Laden now knew which unit to target. Stunned and shocked, Seal Team Six members immediately realized they were going to be hunted by al Qaeda sympathizers.
Soon after Biden’s reckless idiotic speech, an American CH47 Chinook was shot down by a rocket propelled grenade in the Tangi Valley, Maidan Wardak Province, Afghanistan, all 38 aboard were killed including most of Seal Team Six, this incident became known as Extortion 17.
After Biden had let the identification out, and before the Chinook was shot down, members of Seal Team 6 had called their families and told them to wipe out all connection to them, including social media, and disassociate themselves as far away from them as possible because they too would be in grave danger as the Taliban would attempt to find them in retaliation…. And Biden, well he didn’t even work up a sweat over any of it, and was just too stupid to realize what he had done.
I added a couple links here for those who want proof. It’s easy enough to look up the information yourself. These are just a few of many.
https://youtube/lMA1T9QWEI4 https://special-ops.org/./the-betrayal-of-navy-seal-team-6/.
“Someone said….. Well that’s just Joe.!” Really? No, this traitor revealed the names and signed the death warrants of America’s finest warriors and never looked back. Sorry, if you disagree, but he is not worthy of consideration as our President and Commander-in-Chief!!! Wake up. America can’t afford to have this moron as our President! You can copy and share the above letter via a NAVY VET to any and all media platforms (or live under socialism with no food)
Again, don’t open the link in the comment.
My first red flag was the poor English. Coming from a site that appears to be focused on American military operations, I found this odd… but I kept reading, and it became apparent that the article presented no evidence to the stated claim.
Then, at the very end of the not-very-long article, we find an “update” in bold stating that the initial claim turned out to be false, and citing some media sources to that effect.
There were ten responses to that comment, and not one of the authors had bothered to actually read the article in the link, at least not until its conclusion. Not one of them noticed the poor English, or that the site seems suspicious.
Be careful out there folks. Don’t believe claims you hear, or read, just because those claims happen to align with your political beliefs. It’s possible that the authors wrote the source article with the specific goal of entrapping conservatives, to use their gullibility against them.
I want to clarify that I have no idea whether the claim itself is correct. My point is that the so-called “evidence” cited in the comment was bogus, and people fell for it without any skepticism.
Did y’all know that Australia has it’s own Tommy Robinson, and that he’s Jewish? It’s true. His actual name is Avi (Avraham) Yemini, and I’ve been watching his YouTube videos.
If you’re ever wondering how you can make some spare time more interesting, I suggest you patronize his channel. Most of his videos are short and very entertaining.
Here he is exposing pro-refugee activists as bigots:
I’ve also been watching The United Spot videos, because everybody needs a good laugh now and then. Here’s one that should lighten your day; check out their channel for many more:
Not a Zionist, but an Ashkenazi Nationalist
