America's Half-Blood Prince: Barack Obama's Story of Race and Inheritance
I am here once again to ask the libs to read another book.
I went and looked up state and rev on Goodreads. Most of the reviews are somewhat positive. There's at least one breathless lib one-star. There's also a review that's just a picture of a baby pig licking an ice cream cone.
After Goodreads announced they're shutting down their API, OpenLibrary by the Internet Archive advertised itself as a GoodReads alternative. It's better and worse. Better in that you can loan books for free from it, worse in that you can't store metadata about books you've read like you can on goodreads. You can find more info here https://blog.openlibrary.org/2020/12/13/importing-your-goodreads-accessing-them-with-open-librarys-apis/
Ah yes, the fat cats getting rich at the SPLC off of Big Anti-Racism.
“We just run our business like a business,” he said. “Whether you’re selling cakes or causes, it’s all the same.”
Dees was as successful at selling causes as he had been at selling cakes. Fueled by Dees’ direct mail campaigns, the Southern Poverty Law Center brought in million after million. Last year it took in $136 million, and it now sits upon an endowment of nearly half a billion dollars. Yet even after some within the organization thought it should stop raising money, and despite promises by Dees that it would do so, its fundraising pitches in the mail became ever more desperate and frantic.
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Sometimes all of this became downright grotesque. In the 1980s the SPLC sued the Klan over the lynching of Michael Donald, and won a $7 million verdict for Donald’s mother. The Klan, however, had by this time diminished to almost nonexistence. Its sole asset was a warehouse that was sold for $55,000, which was all Donald’s mother got. She apparently used a large portion of this to pay back an interest-free loan that the SPLC itself had extended her. Afterward, the SPLC began using photos of Michael Donald’s corpse in its fundraising letters, raising $9 million off the case. Donald’s mother evidently saw none of this money, though when she died barely a year later Morris Dees was quoted in her obituary praising her bravery.
None of this is talked about in that book though, he just called them commies for trying to censor conservative free speech:
The SPLC started monitoring “hate groups” back in the 1980s. They began with the Ku Klux Klan and similar white supremacist terror groups, suing them into bankruptcy. Yet after easily defeating these real hate groups, the SPLC went on to target ever more mainstream organizations, mostly on the conservative side of the political spectrum.
He says that like it's a bad thing...
Dang, I even did a quick search to see if there were any legit criticisms of the SPLC's finances but I didn't see this. Gotta work on my searchfu.
They spend all their money on image, of course you can't find sources on them being shitty with a quick search lol
The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
Yall do keep seducing me, it's true
Executives liked a little bit of rape now and again as well as not being big fans of employing poc to positions above janitor and secretary. Basically they were RBG style libs, but with mostly white men.
NJR did a surprisingly good write up on them.
“We don’t have black slots and white slots… Probably the most discriminated people in America today are white men when it comes to jobs… It is not easy to find black lawyers. Any organization can tell you that.”
:capitalist-woke:
Where is White Fragility on this list? Seems like an obvious cherry to top this liberature cake
