3 times America was great in the past



Greatness was achieved last night in the form of Donald Trump’s historical comeback to regain the Oval Office after being persecuted relentlessly by the left.

Trump’s re-election echoes other times in American history when our nation could be characterized as truly great.

Jason Whitlock reflects fondly on the past as he celebrates a Trump victory.

“When Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant — tell me America wasn't great on that day,” says Whitlock, referencing the agreement that would end slavery that took place on April 9, 1865, at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.

“We needed to end slavery. It was an abomination that needed to be ended, and it was. Great day,” he adds.

Another great time in American history is dedicated to the Wright brothers, who invented the airplane.

“America used to be the birthplace of all this innovation. You tell me America wasn’t great when men were out creating and doing things that have benefited the rest of society?” he asks rhetorically.

And while he knows he’ll catch some flak for this one, Whitlock knows that America was also great when “black people were not obsessed with living in proximity to white people.”

“There was a time when black people weren't sitting around going, ‘Oh my God, I'm gonna make it to heaven as soon as I move into a white neighborhood; oh, all of my prayers will be answered as soon as I get to go to an all-white school.’ There was a time when that was not the priority of black people. That was a great time,” says Whitlock, adding, “That's not me calling for segregation; that's me calling for a return to sanity.”

“You know what the priority was then in the 1920s, '30s, '40s, and '50s for black people and for Americans?” he asks.

“Family. That was a great time. Your survival, your success in life was predicated on building a great family, sustaining a family, developing and nurturing your children. That was the priority, and that was a great time.”

To hear more of Whitlock’s commentary, watch the clip above.

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Squires: Our ancestors didn't fight for freedom so that black leaders could attack the family and promote abortion



“This is not what our ancestors wanted for you.”

I saw this message in response to something I said last week about the relative silence of corporate media outlets when the deaths of black men don’t advance the left’s political interests.

I am used to people not actually engaging the arguments I make in my writing. This response, however, prompted me to consider a very important question: What would the generations of black men and women who contributed so richly to this country’s history and culture think about the social condition of black people in America today?

My initial thought is that they would be grateful for the progress we have made as a nation since our founding. Despite the horrors of slavery and legal segregation, black people in America today are more prosperous and enjoy a higher standard of living than any other people of African descent at any point in history.

I also think the black people who built families, churches, homes, businesses, institutions, and communities in the face of overt racism would be extremely disappointed with the path their descendants are on today.

One of the main reasons is that the politicians, pundits, performers, professors, and preachers who compose the “Afristocracy” (i.e. the black leadership class) today have become the single greatest impediment to large-scale progress in the black community.

The explanation is quite simple: They abandoned the values that were passed down to them and they have no vision to pass on to subsequent generations.

Black leadership in previous generations was powered by the church and the belief that the Bible is a model for earthly liberation, a source of eternal hope, and the basis for moral instruction. The civil rights movement was powered by people, most notably Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who made their appeals using biblical language.

The post-Christian black leadership embodied in the founders of Black Lives Matter has been a failure. Its practitioners use the same language of liberation as the previous generations, but they believe freedom will be achieved through the equitable redistribution of resources. Gone are the days in which black leaders spoke the language of transcendent moral truths. That framework has been replaced by an obsession with power and transactional politics.

The leaders of the BLM movement identify as radical feminists, lesbians, and Marxists. Their ideological foundation rests on the belief that men and marriage oppress women. It should come as no surprise that they listed the destruction of the nuclear family as one of their guiding principles. Dead black men helped Alicia Garza and Patrisse Cullors strike book deals and purchase expensive homes. Men who advocate biblical sexual ethics and believe the natural family (i.e. husband, wife, and children) is the foundation of civilization are not nearly as valuable to them.

Many black churches preach a false gospel of “social justice” that is indistinguishable from that of the BLM atheists. They too are consumed with acquiring political power. Men like Rev. William Barber stand in churches and promote abortion as a human right. These churches are ready for Souls to the Polls but don’t preach repentance from sin. They have their ballots ready and their Bibles closed.

The abandonment of the biblical worldview has had a downstream effect on the pursuit of knowledge as well. At one point in American history, it was a crime to teach slaves how to read and write. The landmark Brown v. Board of Education case was the most prominent example of black leaders fighting for full citizenship through education. Now college is where black students go to unlearn eternal truths and forsake timeless wisdom.

Marc Lamont Hill, professor at Temple University, is the first academic I heard argue that men can get pregnant.

Michael Eric Dyson, professor at Georgetown University, is the man who diminished the importance of fathers on MSNBC, then went on Fox to encourage white people to create individual reparations accounts to atone for their privilege and address racial inequality.

Brittney Cooper, professor at Rutgers University, is the person who said the black community does not need nuclear families to thrive.

Carl Hart, professor at Columbia University, is the man who writes approvingly of his own heroin use and said he would rather his children interact with drugs than with the police.

Greg Carr, professor at Howard University, is the person who said that women leaving Texas to seek abortions were channeling the spirit of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad.

I have a difficult time believing that the black students attending historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the late 1800s or integrating into predominantly white schools in the 1900s ever thought this would be the fate of their intellectual progeny.

The corruption of these black intellectuals reflects the inevitable result of disconnecting knowledge from morality. The Afristocracy has also become a barrier to progress because it has no affirmative vision for the people its members claim to represent.

When you love someone, you do everything you can to help them. Sometimes that looks like a word of encouragement as they struggle with a difficult situation. At other times, love is expressed through hard truths spoken with care and compassion. The Bible says a father disciplines a son he loves but ignores an illegitimate child. This is why families have interventions for relatives struggling with substance abuse.

A desire to help people live healthy and productive lives is also why people go into the field of medicine. If one thinks about America today like a hospital, it is clear that the most educated black cultural physicians today focus exclusively on the patients with the most resources and privilege, while leaving the disenfranchised and destitute waiting in the hospital waiting room.

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi speaks the language of equity, but his surgical center says “Whites Only.” He spends his days treating NPR listeners for their metastatic racism. He thinks he can help black people by healing white people.

He and his colleagues tell their privileged patients what books to buy and offer to help reshape every aspect of society in their image – for a modest fee. Like Ta-Nehisi Coates, the Afristocracy believes the main problem black people have is white supremacy.

What he and his peers will never do is say anything to black people that requires us to change anything that we do. The most common messages from black leaders today to the black masses are reminders to vote and encouragement to protest.

It would be a pleasant surprise to hear a black politician, social commentator, or intellectual on MSNBC say anything close to, “Black lives won’t matter until we stop killing each other in the streets.” Any attempts to honestly discuss violent crime in big cities are typically met with deflections about “white-on-white violence” or claims that redlining and gentrification are the real culprits forcing black men to murder one another.

This is the Afristocracy’s dirty little secret: Black leaders put all their time, talent, and treasure into fixing white people. It is easier to get the NAACP to do a campaign with B-list white actors to “take responsibility” for racism than it is to get famous black men to promote the beauty and benefits of marriage and fatherhood.

One of the biggest steps the people in the black leadership class could take to correct their ways is to simply preach what they practice. These people brunch on Sundays, vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, put their children in private schools, attend exclusive wine tastings, hire nannies, have monthly appointments with cleaning ladies, collect art, and invest in real estate.

Their lives are a testament to hard work, focus, and dedication, but they are so committed to painting themselves as oppressed that they don’t say anything about what they did to get where they are. For them, it’s always about what other people must do to rescue black people. These are people with bulging waistlines who refuse to tell beggars where they found bread.

I have a hard time believing this is what our ancestors would have wanted. Black men and women didn’t marry in secret during slavery or put their families back together after emancipation so that over 70% of their descendants would be born to unwed couples.

Black men didn’t resist the hangman’s noose to have their great-grandsons gunning down fellow image-bearers in the streets.

Ruby Bridges didn’t withstand racist taunts and threats to desegregate an elementary school in New Orleans so that black students today could be taught that math is racist or some kids have no gender.

None of these things are what the ancestors wanted for us. And they are definitely not what we should pass on to our descendants.

Squires: If 'silence is violence,' corporate media should stand trial every time black men like Mike Hickmon are killed



During the summer of 2020, it was common to hear from liberals seeking to guilt white people into supporting Black Lives Matter that “silence is violence” and “silence is complicity.”

Their belief was simple: The deaths of black men should matter to white people who have the privilege and resources to change America for the better. Corporate media and big business got the memo. So did the NBA, MLB, NHL, and NFL. All made some reference to BLM on their courts, fields, or uniforms.

The Washington Nationals postponed a game with the Philadelphia Phillies on August 27, 2020, to “call attention to racial and social injustice” in the wake of the Jacob Blake shooting. The team made no mention of the mass shooting a few weeks prior, when more than 20 black people were shot at a black party 12 minutes from the stadium.

This perverse dynamic is why the fatal shooting of coach Michael Hickmon in Lancaster, Texas, is not getting the type of attention you would expect from ESPN, Fox Sports, or the rest of corporate sports media.

According to reports, coach Hickmon was shot at a youth football game by Yaqub Talib, brother of retired NFL cornerback Aqib Talib, after a fight at the end of the game. Yaqub Talib turned himself in to police on August 15 after they issued a warrant for his arrest on murder charges. Witnesses allege Aqib Talib participated in the fight that precipitated the shooting.

Murder is the ultimate act of evil, regardless of the ethnic makeup of the victim or perpetrator. But if silence is violence, then the only group more violent toward black men than their peers are the black elites whose righteous indignation flares up like seasonal allergies when the loss of black life is a sign of ongoing racial strife.

It is unfair to demand that every black celebrity respond publicly to every homicide with a black victim. That doesn’t mean people shouldn’t ask why sports networks that covered the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict would completely ignore a fatal shooting at a youth football game that involved a former NFL player. I have not heard from Stephen A. Smith, Shannon Sharpe, or Snoop Dogg — who has been a very public supporter of youth football. The highest-profile ESPN personality who has addressed this incident is Kendrick Perkins, an NBA analyst.

The reason for this violent silence is simple. Black death is profitable to corporate media only if the person holding the gun is white. This incident would likely generate a lot more attention if a white player with a bad reputation had been involved.

When white men engage in acts of violence, their actions are attributed to their privilege, rage, and racism. When black men do the same, society is blamed for putting them in an environment that forced them into criminal behavior. Perhaps the people who have become so accustomed to blaming poverty for crime have a hard time understanding how the brother of a millionaire could end up shooting someone at a football game for kids.



Coach Hickmon’s son was on the field at the time of the shooting. Not only is this a traumatic incident for him personally, but it is also a terrible lesson for all of the boys in the game. Black boys are exposed to death way too often in this country, from the suburbs of Dallas to public housing units in Washington, D.C. They hear the gunshots at night, and many have lost friends to senseless acts of violence. They hear it in their music and see it in the videos they watch. They are saturated in death, and many turn to sports as a way to escape the harsh realities in their neighborhoods.

Activists want all the public attention on black victims when they are shot by white police officers, but not when the triggerman looks like his target. These same “racial justice” advocates turn into White Lives Matter spokesmen whenever people try to bring attention to the shootings that happen on a daily basis in black neighborhoods across the country.

The racial disparity in homicide victimization is so large that the rates for whites and blacks can’t be shown on the same graph. This is why homicide is both the leading cause of death for young black men and the second leading cause of black male incarceration. Too many young black men have been taught to sow in seconds and reap in years. Prison is what awaits a man who has low impulse control, a dangerous weapon, and a lack of respect for human life.

The kids on that field learned a series of bad lessons that day. They witnessed the death of their coach at the hands of a man with access to millions. They saw adults who couldn’t control their emotions turn a football field into a crime scene. They saw a former NFL player use his name and resources to escalate conflict instead of trying to calm things down on the field. This isn’t the type of example they need on their journey toward manhood. In the aftermath, they will also receive a sober reminder: Black lives do matter – but only when white people take them.

Whitlock: Beyoncé is a poor replacement for Aretha Franklin



The first words spoken on Beyoncé's new album are “please, motherf***ers.” She repeats the phrase over and over again, adding “ain’t stopping me.”

Please, motherf***ers ain’t stopping me.

"Renaissance," her seventh studio album, is explicitly crude and profane. A New York Times reviewer described the 40-year-old singer’s 16-song collection as “steeped in black queer bravado.” Wesley Morris, the Pulitzer-winning reviewer, never defined black queer bravado. The reader is left to assume that queer bravado is as endemic to black people as full lips, wide noses, nappy hair, and obscene music.

Beyoncé, the so-called heir to Aretha Franklin’s title as the “Queen of Soul,” has more in common with Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion than the icon who demanded "Respect."

Beyoncé symbolizes the catastrophic descent of black culture and America’s indifference to its fall.

"Renaissance" is controversial for its use of the word “spaz,” not the filth spewed by a middle-aged married mother of three. Expectations have fallen so low for American black people that no one expects Beyoncé to mature or make music that uplifts black folks.

No. Our only expectation is that she contains her penchant for degeneracy and denigration to black people only.

That explains why Beyoncé will eliminate the word spaz from her latest album. Disability rights advocates complained that the singer’s use of the word "spaz" in the song "Heated" is a slur against people with cerebral palsy. Spastic diplegia causes motor impairment in the arms and legs. The phrase “spazzing out” is mocking what happens to people with spastic diplegia.

I learned all that this morning when I heard the pop singer was editing the song. I did not know the etymology of "spaz." Now I do. I’m not sure I care.

What I find fascinating about all of this is that people with cerebral palsy care more about policing the way they’re portrayed in the entertainment and media world than black people do.

We’re the only group with absolutely no standards. The entire rap music industry is built on the N-word. It is used repeatedly in nearly every successful commercial rap song. Rappers brag about killing n*****, raping n*****, robbing n*****, dissing n*****. No one cares. Beyoncé uses the N-word in "Heated." No one cares.

Every minority group aggressively polices how they’re characterized in music, television, and movies except black people.

In 1995, Michael Jackson, the greatest force in the history of music, released the song "They Don’t Care About Us" on the album "HIStory." It was a protest song. It decried racism. It argued that the government and the powerful elite only pretend to care about the great mass of humanity.

The song included the lyrics “Jew me, sue me, everybody do me/ Kick me, kike me, don’t you black or white me.”

On June 15, 1995, Bernard Weinraub wrote a piece in the New York Times suggesting that Jackson’s use of the words "Jew me" and "kike me" were anti-Semitic. Eight days later, after issuing two apologies, Jackson agreed to rewrite the song, eliminating the offending words.

On the same song, the rapper Notorious B.I.G. used the N-word twice. Bernard Weinraub did not care about that. Neither did anyone else. We don’t care about us. No one does. I don’t blame non-blacks. If we don’t care, why should they?

Jewish people care how they’re represented. Would they canonize a rap group "Kikes With Attitude"? Would the LGBTQ+ Alphabet Mafia canonize a rap group "Dykes With Attitude"? Does the Alphabet Mafia let anyone drop f****t in casual conversation?



Jewish people have self-respect. The LGBTQ crowd has more respect for itself than black people do for themselves.

We have allowed popular music to define black men as criminals and black women as hoes. Our men sell drugs and our women twerk to the sound of music the way dogs howl when they hear a siren.

Maybe that’s what black queer bravado is? Or maybe it’s not caring how you’re represented in popular culture. Maybe it’s not having a standard of conduct and behavior.

Beyoncé has black queer bravado. She instantly bowed to disability rights advocates while promoting degeneracy for black people.

She doesn’t really care about us.

Whitlock: Showtime bamboozled Desus and Mero and black America



Twenty years ago, back when Spike Lee attempted to disrupt Hollywood’s bigoted culture rather than profit from it, the famous director produced the movie "Bamboozled."

The comedic satire depicted a struggling television network’s rise thanks to the surprising success of a black minstrel show that featured two lead black characters – Mantan and Sleep ’n Eat – wearing blackface, dancing, and talkin' jive.

"Mantan: The New Millennium Minstrel Show" was the brainchild of a frustrated Ivy League-educated black executive who created the show to embarrass his white boss. Instead, the show made Pierre Delacroix rich and famous and saved CNS, the fictional Continental Network System.

"Bamboozled," released in 2000, foreshadowed real-life network television in the aftermath of "The Cosby Show" and "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air." Hollywood pivoted from showcasing black, traditional families living the American dream to leaning into black debauchery, ignorance, and anti-American sentiment. Hollywood followed hip-hop’s depiction of black America.

And that explains why Showtime invested four years and millions of dollars into Desus Nice and the Kid Mero, the Mantan and Sleep ‘n Eat of talk television.

Yesterday, Showtime announced it was not renewing "Desus & Mero" for a fifth season. Their late-night show flopped four years ago. It was stillborn, dead on arrival. With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as its first guest, it debuted in February of 2019 to 150,000 viewers and quickly descended into utter irrelevance, drawing as few as 30,000 viewers some weeks.

Given its access to guests – Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Denzel Washington, Chris Rock, Lil Nas X, John Legend, Samuel L. Jackson, Matt Damon, Idris Elba, Stacey Abrams, and Megan Rapinoe, among many others appeared on the show – the collapse and failure of "Desus & Mero" is rather stunning. Showtime tried everything. New time slots. More marketing. Additional programming. Fawning news stories. Appearances at celebrity events.

No one watched. "Desus & Mero" couldn’t build an audience because the alleged comedians weren’t funny, smart, profound or bold. They were a stereotype. They cursed, said the N-word, giggled like they were high, and spewed the left-wing and Alphabet Mafia talking points Showtime handed them.

“House negroes handcuffed by Hollywood handouts.”

That’s what should appear on the tombstone of "Desus & Mero."

It won’t. The Hollywood trade publications and social media apps portrayed the end of Desus and Mero as a duo like it was the breakup of Sonny and Cher, Ike and Tina, the Allman Brothers, or EPMD.

Variety Magazine claimed “Desus and Mero split up, ending Showtime series after four seasons.” People Magazine said the pair ended the show to pursue individual creative endeavors. The New York Times followed the agreed-upon narrative, reporting that the show “upended the traditional model for late-night talk shows.”

No outlet that I could find mentioned that the show was a complete ratings failure, unfunny, and never made news. "Desus & Mero" made Bill Simmons’ failed HBO show, "Any Given Wednesday," seem like the second coming of "The Sopranos." HBO canceled Simmons’ show 17 episodes into its first season. "Any Given Wednesday" averaged 203,000 viewers. "Desus & Mero" failed to reach that many viewers when Barack Obama granted them an interview.

Again, HBO dumped Simmons in season one. "Desus & Mero," despite dwindling bad ratings, got four seasons.

If we’re going to compare the end of Desus and Mero to a music breakup, let’s compare it to N.W.A.:

Negroes With (No) Aptitude.

That’s what Hollywood prefers. Negroes with no aptitude will say and think whatever they’re told. Handouts come with handcuffs.

Like Mantan and Sleep ‘n Eat in "Bamboozled," Desus and Mero did not earn their network TV shows. They had a very brief flirtation with relevance and success on Vice. Showtime plucked the pair because they would be easy to control during the election cycle. In 2019, all the corporate TV networks – from Fox News to CNN to Comedy Central all the way down to your local news station – doubled down on removing Donald Trump from the White House.

Showtime hired Desus and Mero to serve as black male operatives for the Democratic Party. Showtime and the DNC believe black people, particularly black men, are stupid. Showtime paid Desus and Mero to be stupid, to put on a weekly minstrel show that featured them engaging with AOC, Stacey Abrams, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Maxine Waters, Cory Booker, Bernie Sanders, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Anthony Fauci.

Desus and Mero, mediocre comedians and less than mediocre thinkers, stood as reminders that cool and righteous young black men support Democrats, the LGBTQ+ movement, and Black Lives Matter.

They’re paid influencers. The problem is the show lacked the reach to influence people. So after four years, Showtime moved on and will seek out a new pair of house negroes to handcuff.

More than likely, Showtime will try to expand the "All the Smoke" podcast featuring Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson into a late-night talk show. They’re tall, athletic, better-looking versions of Desus and Mero. They love drugs. They love money. They believe hip-hop is a religion and culture capable of saving black people. They know virtually nothing about politics.

They’ll happily do what they’re told and serve as black male stereotypes.

They can be easily bamboozled.

Whitlock: Minneapolis mom’s screams a consequence of Black Lives Matter and Ben Crump’s protection of criminals



It’s time for a name change: Black Violence Matters.

Reaction to the death of Tekle Sundberg lays bare the true mission of Black Lives Matter. The hashtag movement is dedicated to legitimizing and legalizing black violence, particularly violence that victimizes poor black people.

BLM does not care about the lives of black people. The hashtag is the modern-day KKK hood, a disguise to conceal the bigotry, depravity, and greed of its supporters.

Ben Crump is BLM’s Imperial Wizard, the mush-mouthed, imbecilic southerner profiting from the peculiar institution of anti-black discrimination. Crump fashions himself as a civil rights attorney, a descendant of Thurgood Marshall and Martin Luther King. Crump is the Frankenstein monster, the low-IQ creation of Johnnie Cochran and Al Sharpton.

Marshall and King fought for the rights of working-class black people interested in pursuing the American Dream. Cochran and Sharpton ballooned their bank accounts fighting for the rights of criminals interested in evading responsibility for their immoral deeds.

Crump’s latest clients are the adoptive parents of Andrew Tekle Sundberg, a 20-year-old man Minneapolis police snipers killed after a six-hour standoff. Sundberg shot up an apartment building. His bullets pierced a female neighbor’s home. The woman was inside cooking dinner for her two children, a 2-year-old and a 4-year-old. The woman is mixed race. Her kids have a black father.

Tekle Sundberg nearly murdered three black people: a woman and two kids. Police killed a domestic terrorist.

The Grand Wizard of Black Violence Matters had a different take on the actions of law enforcement, tweeting:

“This is Tekle Sundberg. Minneapolis Police Department killed this smart, loving & artistic 20-year-old after an hours-long standoff while he was experiencing a mental health crisis. We need ANSWERS from MPD as to why Tekle's mental health crisis became a death sentence!”

The answer is simple: Tekle nearly took the lives of a woman and two children, and his actions made it clear he cared far less for his life than do the lawyers who can profit from his death.

It’s really that simple.

But we live in an era of organized chaos, anarchy, and confusion. So, over the weekend, Sundberg’s adoptive parents and Black Violence Matters protesters staged a rally at the scene of Tekle’s suicide-by-cop.

The rally justifiably infuriated Arabella Yarbrough, the mom nearly killed by Tekle. She confronted protestors.

“Y’all should’ve came and helped him when he was alive,” she screamed while recounting the trauma she experienced during his mental health crisis.

There was no money to be made or attention to be gleaned when Tekle Sundberg was alive. When he was alive, he was just the black Ethiopian kid adopted by well-meaning white folks when he was 4 years old. Now that he’s dead, BLM Minnesota can raise money off his sanitized memory and Crump can negotiate a financial settlement with the city for his death.

Tekle is an uncashed lottery ticket. Arabella Yarbrough is an inconvenient truth. She represents the intentional collateral damage of the 8-year-old Black Lives Matter movement. She’s displaced from her home. She and her children will live with the trauma caused by Tekle for the rest of their lives.



Black neighborhoods are less safe today than they were eight years ago when three lesbian activists started Black Lives Matter in reaction to the death of Trayvon Martin.

Black lives haven’t been protected. Black violence has.

BLM is an organization dedicated to protecting violent black criminals. It’s a gang funded by American corporations, marketed as a civil rights movement by corporate media, supported by celebrity elites, and used by middle-class blacks to climb the corporate ladder.

It is a hustle founded on lies.

Trayvon Martin nearly beat George Zimmerman to death.

Michael Brown bullied a store clerk, tried to take a police officer’s weapon, and then charged Darren Wilson.

Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend shot a police officer in the leg, sparking the deadly confrontation.

Rayshard Brooks fired a taser at police.

Jacob Blake resisted arrest and grabbed a knife.

George Floyd overdosed on drugs.

Police are not infallible. They make fatal mistakes, and sometimes they intentionally do harm. But let’s stop pretending the main mission of Black Lives Matter is to protect black lives. That’s a joke.

The mission is to destabilize communities, undermine law enforcement, and empower criminals. It’s working. Fewer men and women want the responsibility of policing single-parent black communities and major cities in general. It’s thankless, high-risk work.

Arabella Yarbrough’s frantic screams are the byproduct of a corrupt civil rights movement. The movement cares more about the safety of criminals than the safety of women and children.

Whitlock: Democrats sentence black children to ‘Lord of the Flies’ existence



Beelzebub killed James Lambert, a 73-year-old Philadelphia man.

Beelzebub is one of the seven princes of hell. In biblical times, Beelzebub was a god worshiped in Ekron. He could fly. Beelzebub means Satan. In popular culture, he’s known as Lord of the Flies.

The video of seven children stoning and beating James Lambert to death in the streets of Philly reminded me of the iconic 1954 William Golding novel "Lord of the Flies."

The book explores the barbaric and cannibalistic descent of a large group of young boys who survive an airplane crash on an uninhabited island. "Lord of the Flies" features seven main characters: Ralph, Jack, Simon, Piggy, Roger, Sam, and Eric. The initial alliance among the boys disintegrates into chaos as they’re overtaken by paranoia about an imaginary monster, “the beast.”

"Lord of the Flies" is one of the greatest novels ever written. It expertly depicts man’s battle with morality and immorality, groupthink and individualism, logic and emotion.

Children left unguided and unsupervised descend into wickedness. That’s what killed James Lambert.

Police in Philadelphia believe seven children are responsible for the death of Lambert. Last week, law enforcement released surveillance video showing four black boys and three black girls stalking Lambert at 3 a.m. A young black girl appears to club Lambert over the head with a pylon street cone. Other kids are accused of hitting him with rocks and kicking him.

The video looks like a scene from "Lord of the Flies 2.0." Or maybe it’s a mash-up of "Lord of the Flies" and "The Purge."

Unsupervised children on the uninhabited streets of Philadelphia at 3 in the morning terrorizing an old man. This is a crisis of the cultural rot black America has chosen to ignore and/or embrace at the behest of the Democratic Party and the Hollywood elite.

The imaginary “beast” is white supremacy. We spend nearly every waking moment paranoid that the Proud Boys or the Patriot Front or Trump supporters are terrorizing black people. We falsely claim that routine police stops could result in any of us being the next George Floyd.

I don’t use fentanyl and I don’t bicker with the police. There’s virtually no chance of me being the next George Floyd or Eric Garner or Jacob Blake. That’s a paranoid delusion the Democratic Party has asked black people to embrace. I reject it.

No woman in my house will ever be the next Breonna Taylor. I’m not a coward. I won’t allow a woman to walk to the front door with me if I believe intruders are trying to enter. I’ll leave her in safety and deal with the problem myself.

I choose to live in reality and disavow delusion.

The truth is too many black children are living in a "Lord of the Flies" reality. They live on uninhabited islands with little to no adult supervision. There are too many fatherless homes and way too many baby mamas. Black children are descending into depravity and insanity.

It’s not just in Philadelphia. The video out of Minneapolis showing toddlers barefoot and in diapers berating and attacking police is another scene from "Lord of the Flies 2.0."

Beezlebub has his hooks in our children. Yes, the same goes for too many white children as well. But that’s a deflection, a whatboutism. Seventy-five percent of black children are born to unwed mothers. That’s an uninhabited island, a recipe for violence and chaos.

White people are not in denial that something is going wrong with their kids. They go on national television and talk about it constantly. They complain about the decline in traditional family structure.

We, black people, act like improving white people will fix what’s wrong in Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore, Minneapolis, and every other city with a large black population. We act like there’s no benefit to improving us.

We’ve swallowed the ideology of the Democratic Party. It’s the ideology of Beezlebub.

Yesterday, I interviewed Jerone Davison, a former running back for the Oakland Raiders turned minister turned political hopeful. Davison made news last week when he released a provocative commercial that blasted Democrats as hooded Ku Klux Klansmen.

Monday, during our interview, Davison amplified his attack on Democrats.

“We’ve got to stand up and fight against these people, the Democrats, because I believe that the evil one, the wicked one, Satan has landed in their hearts and we’ve got to fight before they take away our freedoms.”

I’m sure, to some of you, that sounds hyperbolic and needlessly partisan. A Republican running for Congress argued that the political party of his opponents is possessed by demonic forces. It’s not crazy. Not to my ears. Not if you understand that black children are living in a "Lord of the Flies" reality.

I have friends who are lifelong Democrats. Most members of my family – the people I love the most – are lifelong Democrats, Biden voters, Clinton lovers, and Obama worshippers.

None of them seem willing to deal with the unhealthy reality that is the situation of too many black children. You can’t raise stable kids in unstable, unsupervised communities. Pronouns won’t fix it. Critical race theory won’t fix it. Villages can’t raise kids. It takes two parents, a man and a woman. It takes a commitment to preaching and practicing morality. It takes biblical values.

"Lord of the Flies" is a novel about what happens to young kids when they’re separated from God’s natural order and family structure. Beezlebub and the seven princes of hell take control.

It’s foolish and unproductive to blame “the beast” (white supremacy) for our collective disobedience to God. That disobedience cost James Lambert his life.

Squires: The 'Great Separation' is being fuled by black elites who think abortion is better for black women than marriage



The video of Tiara Mack twerking on the beach has sparked spirited discussions online. Like many people who are desperate for attention, however, the Rhode Island state senator’s calculated attempts to go viral pale in comparison to her actual political agenda.

Mack introduced a bill earlier this year to require “pleasure-based” sex education – including instruction on masturbation, oral sex, and anal sex – for students in grades 6-12. Mack also responded to her recent critics with tweets claiming she twerks for abortion, trans rights, and housing, all positions that are on brand for someone who promotes herself as an “unapologetically Black queer woman.”

None of this surprises me.

Tiara Mack is part of a growing divide within black America that will reshape this nation over the next generation. I call this phenomenon the “Great Separation,” because it is a tectonic shift being driven by a combination of spiritual, social, cultural, political, and economic forces.

The horrors of chattel slavery and segregation formed and fortified the black community. At a time when skin color determined a person’s access to goods, property, and justice, emancipated black people created churches, businesses, schools, and organizations to serve their own needs and interests. To quote Ta-Nehisi Coates, “They made us into a race. We made ourselves into a people.”

Every tribe needs values, principles, and standards in order to thrive and survive. The success of the civil rights movement can be attributed in part to the high standards of public decorum that were embraced by both the leadership structure and the masses who put life and limb on the line. Black people in that era had strong families, faith, and cultural norms that sustained them through the darkest days of American history.

Much like the broader society, the misuse of freedom and liberty has destroyed that foundation.

The disintegration of the black nuclear family has been a topic of public debate since the 1960s. A nonmarital birth rate of 25% was treated as a cause for national concern at the time. That rate has increased for all ethnic groups but has been over 70% for African-Americans for over twenty years.

In previous generations, pregnancy outside marriage meant either a shotgun wedding or a relocation down south. The current detachment of marriage and children seen at both ends of the economic spectrum (33% of black college grads have children out of wedlock) points to a future of multiple-partner fertility and perpetual co-parenting.

Broadly speaking, religious faith is in decline as well. The percentage of black people who do not subscribe to any religion (22%) is rising. Even more troubling is the long line of black preachers and churches who function as political operatives and outreach centers for the left. Pastor Jamal Bryant of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church recently criticized the overturning of Roe v. Wade, then performed a baby dedication shortly thereafter.

The mainstreaming of hip-hop culture within black America has also undermined collective progress. What started as street journalism has morphed into cultural hypnotism. It is impossible to believe that 30 years of promoting violence, degrading women, and glamorizing drug use would have no effect on the people who identify most closely with the artists. People who believe hip-hop influences fans and cultures overseas but not in the communities artists came from are deluding themselves.

The most potent accelerant driving the Great Separation is the fusion of the LGBTQIA+ political agenda with race issues. Black people have become the face of the transgender movement, which President Biden calls the civil rights issue of our generation.

The public humiliation of Macy Gray is a preview of the future. The soul singer and actress recently told Piers Morgan that surgical procedures can’t transform a man into a woman. Less than one week later, she walked back her previous statements on the "Today Show," barely able to construct a complete sentence or look the host in the eyes.

The tides of the culture have shifted. Denying basic biology is now required to be in good standing on the left. Black pastors who promote biblical definitions of sex, marriage, and the sanctity of life need to understand that they are no longer in the 1960s.

The moral authority and cultural respect they commanded have evaporated. They must either submit to the new norms or be willing to endure accusations of transphobia and bigotry. The men who preached against the Klan will be treated as if they are burning rainbow crosses every time they affirm the gender binary.

Hierarchy is baked into nature, so the issue is not whether a family, community, or country will have leaders, but how those people lead.

One of the root causes of the Great Separation is the disastrous record of the Afristocracy composed of black politicians, activists, intellectuals, pundits, journalists, entertainers, athletes, and religious leaders.

Black Lives Matter listed dismantling the nuclear family as one of its 13 guiding principles. That should have disqualified the group from leading anything or anyone in the black community. Instead, it was championed by tech companies, major corporations, and elected officials.

The NAACP is supposed to be fighting for the advancement of black Americans, but instead it fights so that fewer black children will be born.

Mayor Eric Adams promoted himself as a tough-on-crime Democrat who would bring order back to New York City. What the working-class black voters who powered his campaign got instead is a commitment to keep drag queens in their schools and libraries.

Black Entertainment Television (BET) has been a welcoming environment to pimps, drug dealers, strippers, and violent felons for over 20 years.

The only thing that won’t be celebrated on the network is the public articulation of right-of-center political views. Even the gospel singers understand this. Kirk Franklin can give his boilerplate “God is love” speech, but he will not articulate anything resembling a biblical perspective on gender, sexuality, or the sanctity of life to a room full of artists and entertainers.

The vast majority of black voters support Democrats, so what happens in the party will have an outsized impact on our communities. The hallmark of leftist political thought in 2022 is the belief that improved social outcomes for black people are contingent on bigger government and better white people. This belief is captured most poignantly, again, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, who proclaimed that “there’s nothing wrong with black people that the complete and total elimination of white supremacy would not fix.”

You can’t build community with people who have an aversion to responsibility. The quickest way to turn a radical freedom fighter into a White Lives Matter activist is to bring up the homicide numbers in large cities like Baltimore, Philadelphia, and St. Louis. The victims in all of these locales are over 90% black, but somehow the conversation always leads to the same question: “Why don’t we talk about white-on-white crime?”

Oddly enough, this concern disappears when it comes to fatal police shootings, even though 45% of those victims are white. That’s because the purpose of this rhetorical tactic is deflection, not serious conversation.

This is the Great Separation in a nutshell. The foundations of family, faith, education, and culture have been replaced by subversion, perversion, diversion, and inversion.

Black elites have a narrow set of interests. Their primary goal is prosecuting a case against “white supremacy,” not the betterment of black communities. They think racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia are existential threats, but street violence, cultural degradation, and family breakdown are white supremacist tropes. They see an all-black school in 2022 as “segregated” and inferior, regardless of how well students are performing. They think black students need white classmates to succeed. They mask their self-loathing in the language of liberation.

If being black in the coming future means more abortions, fewer intact families, drag queens in every school, Marxist economics, atheism, and big-government dependency, I want to turn in my “black card” now.

Unity is a powerful virtue, but no one would argue that a body that “unifies” with gangrene or cancer is healthy. Sometimes excising part of the body to save the whole is the wisest course of action.

I am ready and willing to build with anyone who understands that our value comes from our Creator and that no community can thrive without families, morals, dignity, and self-respect. Human flourishing will result wherever the natural, moral, and social orders are respected. Human suffering will be present wherever they are not.

The Great Separation is already under way. Which side will you choose?

Squires: Vote, but remember government should serve our interests, not run our lives



Luther Campbell (aka “Uncle Luke”) recently started an important debate on the importance of voting when he asked the following question on Twitter:

“Give me five reasons why Black people should Vote in the next election. Give me five BLACK promises that has [sic] been fulfilled by politicians in the last election. MAYOR & PRESIDENT”

The former leader of the rap group 2 Live Crew received responses from several prominent public figures. Joy Reid listed access to abortion and voting rights among her reasons. Ana Navarro, a co-host on "The View," listed the names of the ten people shot and killed in the recent Buffalo mass shooting as her reasons. Jemele Hill responded to Luke’s tweet by asking how not voting would help black people.

Voting is one of the most important rights that comes with citizenship. The fight for equal citizenship for African-Americans was the result of over 300 years of political engagement and social agitation. Subsequent generations owe a debt of gratitude to those who risked life and limb to ensure black people could have legal access to every aspect of political and social life in this country.

They used the political process to achieve equal protection under the law. Black politicians, pundits, and intellectuals today talk about voting in life-and-death terms because they think social and economic progress can also be delivered through the ballot box.

Unlike them, I don’t believe the most intractable issues facing black people today can be fixed through electoral politics. At best, politicians can create policies and programs that provide access to opportunity and promote social mobility.

The growth of government in size and scope over the past 60 years has unfortunately been accompanied by a contraction in every other part of our culture. Americans of all backgrounds now look to the government to solve every problem, from drug addiction to obesity. That worldview takes responsibility away from families, religious institutions, nonprofit organizations, and the private sector.

An overemphasis on politics is often a convenient distraction from addressing important changes in culture. Regardless of race and ethnicity, family formation and the ordering of marriage before children has more to do with norms, values, and priorities than the size of child tax credits or the new interest rate. Every policy discussion today can ultimately be traced back to the state of the American family.

School choice is good public policy because it places education decisions in the hands of parents, but having more options is not the same as improving achievement. Successful students need good schools run by competent and caring teachers and administrators, parents who instill a love of learning and set high standards, and a sense of agency over their own education. Voting can have a direct impact on the schoolhouse, but it has little effect on whether I read to the children in my house.

The same goes for young men who turn city streets into shooting ranges. Children learn the boundaries of acceptable behavior in their homes, not the voting booth. Politicians can advocate for policies that punish criminals to protect law-abiding citizens, but they are not responsible for teaching children that carjacking strangers – or shooting innocent people in a grocery store – is wrong.

Politics matter, but so does culture.

The irony is that Luke is one of the most significant figures in turning rap music from a genre that reported on the gritty realities of urban life to one that celebrated the excesses of the high life. What started as a raw form of journalism was transformed into the neatly packaged promotion of hedonism.

The influence of media on culture is only questioned when it comes to hip-hop. The same black people who argue that "The Birth of a Nation," blackface, and minstrel shows from over 100 years ago still have significant effects on the self- and external perception of black people also argue that the images and lyrics Luke, Snoop Dogg, and their peers created have none.

No one would say the same if white artists in any genre constantly talked about killing black men and made videos with scantily clad black women twerking and simulating sex acts. Representation can’t matter only when it comes to children seeing black doctors, lawyers, and vice presidents. It is impossible to dismiss the impact of hip-hop culture on black boys and girls if we actually believe children emulate financially successful and culturally influential people with whom they identify.

I am not blaming hip-hop for the problems in black America. I am saying that rewarding the cultural norms promoted by hip-hop – particularly violence among men and the degradation of women – promotes those same norms to the people who most readily identify with artists. This is the difference between listening to music as art and consuming it as a lifestyle.

Why would a boy ever think of getting married and raising a family if he’s constantly being told women are for sexual conquest, not holy matrimony?

This is an important question that speaks to the current dynamic between Democrats and heterosexual black men. The left is clear about its intentions and priorities. Democrats, including the black elites who appear frequently on CNN and MSNBC, fight hard for abortion and gender ideology in classrooms because their two most important constituency groups are women and the LGBTQIA+ voters.

They see straight white men as the epitome of power and privilege and straight black men are not far behind. They frequently remind the nation that black women "saved democracy” in 2020, even though over 80% of black men also voted for the current president. Black pundits, professors, and activists are the ones saying that the nuclear family is obsolete, fathers are overrated, and the government – not men – is responsible for protecting and providing for women and children.

Black men must decide whether we want to be big or small when it comes to our roles in our homes and communities. Like all Americans, we should remember that we vote because we want politicians to serve our interests, not because we need heroes to save our lives.

Squires: The president is right: I ain't 'Biden black'



Sunny Hostin had a Biden moment last week on "The View" when she said that she feels like the concept of a black Republican is an “oxymoron.” Her dismissal of black people who don’t vote Democrat is an even less sophisticated version of President Joe Biden’s infamous line: "If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black.”

Biden received immediate backlash for his comment during the 2020 campaign, but one tweet from Nikole Hannah-Jones brought his point into even clearer focus. According to the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist from the New York Times, “There is a difference between being politically black and being racially black. I am not defending anyone but we all know this and should stop pretending that we don't."

Jones was right: Political blackness is itself an identity, and based on the frequency with which black women have been cited as the main victims in the event Roe is overturned, the president is also correct: I ain't black.

I reject the racial worldview shared by Biden and Jones because political blackness – what I’ll call “Biden blackness” – is marked by subconscious self-loathing, the inability to assess barriers to progress, an unwillingness to speak difficult truths, and an unhealthy preoccupation with the thoughts, words, and actions of white people.

Practitioners of Biden blackness blame white people for all their problems, yet deride black people who preach a message of self-sufficiency. Biden blacks believe white allies are more important than black fathers. They can’t agree on a coherent definition of “white supremacy,” but they're sure destroying it is more important than rebuilding the black family.

Biden blackness in 2022 often has nothing to do with improving social outcomes for black citizens. It is more frequently used as a thin veneer to cover the left’s actual priorities. The gay rights movement of the past 60 years largely revolved around the priorities of middle-class, educated white men who wanted to openly enjoy the same spoils of bourgeoisie normalcy as their heterosexual counterparts.

Now every statement President Biden makes about transgender issues includes a reference to “violence against black trans women and girls of color,” and the most prominent LGBTQIA+ activist organization of the past ten years is Black Lives Matter.

The same dynamic is at play with abortion. What used to be seen as a third-wave feminist priority of middle-class white women has now been framed as a top political priority for black women. Democrats argue that any restrictions on abortion in a post-Roe world are tantamount to attacks on the “reproductive rights” of low-income black women.

White liberals and their politically black co-conspirators have joined forces to convince the country that black lives matter – unless the life in question is growing in his mother’s womb.

The fatal flaw of Biden blackness is the same thing that plagues our broader culture – the complete abandonment of a biblical worldview as the primary foundation for public policy, social customs, and cultural norms.

The most obvious examples of this can be found in the words of “pro-life pastors” like Senator Raphael Warnock or the Black Lives Matter campaign declaring that “black women are divine.” The more dangerous manifestation of the secular nature of political blackness is the refusal to engage any discussion of morality in comprehensive assessments of black communities across the country.

Politicians, pundits, academics, and entertainers who adhere to Biden blackness all subscribe to the same materialist worldview that blames a lack of resources and the unequal distribution of wealth for all negative social outcomes among black people in America.

They see white people as possessing moral agency and decision-making ability, including the power to use their “privilege” on behalf of “people of color.” These same elites treat black people like melanated vessels of disorder driven by historical oppression and contemporary marginalization – unable to manage our behaviors, relationships, or homes without targeted interventions from the state.

I have even noticed this type of thinking among a certain subset of black Christians who are typically vocal about “social justice” issues but were conspicuously silent after a Supreme Court draft overturning Roe was made public.

Their responses ranged from arguments that conservative anti-abortion activism is rooted in the racism of the Religious Right movement of the 1970s to lectures about why true pro-life Christians must fight for more government spending on health care and child care, not just the end of legalized abortion. The latter argument ignores the extensive work pro-life believers, churches, and Christian ministries already do to support mothers and their children through crisis pregnancy centers, supply drives, and adoption services.

The reason for hiding these contributions is simple: Nothing makes practitioners of Biden blackness more nervous than being associated with conservatism, especially in the Trump era. The stench of MAGA politics is powerful enough to make Christians who have been vocal opponents of abortion for decades go silent or adopt liberal talking points about the structural forces that make women seek abortions.

Biden blackness is a cancer in the body politic. It is a destructive race card pulled from the bottom of the deck that works against the interests of the black masses who embrace it. It requires placing the responsibility for improving the condition of black people onto external third parties – generally benevolent whites, black elites advancing their own agendas, and paternalistic government bureaucrats.

Biden blackness is a contrived identity steeped in weakness, insecurity, and confusion. This is why the NAACP sees more value in partnering with white B-list who “take responsibility” for racism than in working with black A-list entertainers to encourage responsibility in the formation of our families.

Its flaws are also evident by listening to the people who yell “protect black women” but see black men who attempt to do so as exhibiting “toxic masculinity.”

The same goes for public intellectuals who argue that the only hope for black students to succeed academically is proximity to white classmates.

Any group that uses the terms “personal responsibility” and “respectability” as pejoratives while celebrating violence, debauchery, and drug abuse is headed for cultural extinction. Biden blackness sees invented race hatred as a worse problem than actual self-hatred.

One of the benefits of forsaking Biden blackness has been the discovery of fellow Christians from different ethnic backgrounds united in the knowledge that mankind’s main problem is not the color of our skin, but the nature of our sin.

In that sense, I have much more in common with a white Christian woman and Asian man who share my views on the importance of marriage, family, and faith than with the co-founders of BLM. All three of us know that a party that gets more energized about losing the “right” to kill the unborn than encouraging marriage and intact families is morally deficient and politically unsustainable.

The president was right about one thing: I ain’t Biden black.