At the end of November of 2024, more than 400 black women joined a virtual conference titled “The Power of Black Women.” Despite 92 percent of black women voting for Kamala Harris earlier in the month, she lost her bid to be the President of the United States. A “central theme of the night was how much Black women take care of everyone and everything but themselves and wind up burnt out,” so one can only ponder how deeply exhausting the news of Trump’s tariffs must be when they impact an industry almost exclusive to black women. [The Black hair industry imports products from China. Here’s what tariffs mean for braids and wigs: President Donald Trump’s tariffs are driving up prices for products many Black women consider essential, Boston.com, May 31, 2025]:

ATLANTA (AP) — Before the oppressive summer heat descends on Atlanta, therapist Brittanee Sims usually gets her thick, curly hair braided at a salon to preserve her healthy mane.

But it’s more expensive this year. So she’ll only pay for her teenage daughter and son to get their summer hairdos. Not having braided hair “creates more of a hassle for everything,” said Sims, who counts herself among the tens of millions of women who regularly spend on the Black hair care industry.

Now, she said, she has to “go home and figure out what I’m gonna do to my hair in the morning, after I went to the gym and it’s messed up with sweating and frizz.”

President Donald Trump’s tariffs are driving up prices for products many Black women consider essential, squeezing shoppers and stylists even more as they grapple with inflation and higher rents. Much of the synthetic braiding hair, human hair for extensions, wigs and weaves, styling tools, braiding gel and other products are imported from or have packaging from China, which was subject to a combined 145% tariff in April. India is also a major global source of human hair.

Many Black women have hair types and workplace-favored styles that require careful attention, and they can spend hundreds of dollars at salons each month on extensions, weaves, wigs and braids. The Associated Press spoke with several Black hair industry experts, beauty supply store owners, and wholesale companies, as well as nearly two dozen Black stylists and braiders, some of whom may have to raise prices even as business has slowed.

On Thursday, a federal appeals court reinstated most of Trump’s tariffs on imported goods after they were blocked the day before by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of International Trade.

Earlier this month, the United States agreed to drop the 145% tax on goods imported from China to 30% while the two economic superpowers negotiate new trade agreements. Imports from most other countries face baseline tariff rates at 10%.

Regardless, the next few months “are already shot” for many items, said Marty Parker, a University of Georgia business professor and supply chain expert who worked in the hair care industry. The costs companies have been facing at ports are making their way down to consumers, supply shortages are getting worse, and it’s unclear what will happen if negotiations break down.

“Prices go up very fast and come down very slow,” Parker said.

Some stylists said they’re seeing fewer clients because prices are going up for virtually everything.

Atlanta stylists are paying more for hair from China. Atlanta stylist Yana Ellis, who also sells products like wigs, paid an extra $245 in shipping for 52 bundles of hair in March compared to 40 bundles in December. AaNiyah Butler said her shipping costs for human hair more than doubled from February to May. And Dajiah Blackshear found in early May that a beauty supply store raised the cost of the kind of hair she’s used for years by $100.

The store owner said he may have to stop selling that brand of hair because it went up so much. Similarly, some wholesale hair stores have seen higher costs or are expecting them in the coming weeks. Even the typical $6 to $10 cost of a pack of synthetic hair has crept up.

Blackshear doesn’t want clients to bring hair because she likes to vet the quality. But if expenses continue to mount, she may have to raise her prices.

“It’s going to be extremely difficult,” she said, especially for clients who are “having to make those hard decisions, between ‘do I get my hair done or do I pay my bills?’”

Janice Lowe, who runs 5 Starr Salon in a lower-income neighborhood southeast of Atlanta, has started asking clients to bring hair and is unable to purchase certain products.

“I’m falling behind on my obligations,” she said.

Consultants vary on how much prices will rise, when they’ll go up and for how long — and the full harm to stylists and consumers could be months away.

The global Black hair care industry was worth about $3.2 billion in 2023, according to market.us, and Black women spend six times more on hair care than other ethnicities.

Stylists often purchase some harder-to-get professional products from door-to-door distributors that buy from wholesale companies or larger distributors that purchase directly from other countries.

Lowe has seen some of her distributors vanish altogether, making it harder to get professional lines such as Black-owned leading professional hair care brand Design Essentials, manufactured in Atlanta at McBride Research Laboratories.

Design Essentials is trying to delay big price increases until 2026 or 2027, and may turn to layoffs or pause promotions to save money, said president Cornell McBride Jr. Most packaging plastics come from China, but ingredients can come from many places.

“Nobody wants to put it to the consumer but the person who pays is the consumer in the end,” McBride Jr. said.

Hawa Keita and her mother usually charge customers between $160 and $250 for braiding at their shop, Eve’s African Hair Braiding in College Park, southwest of Atlanta. Keita is determined to take losses because their customers “can’t afford the Atlanta prices,” Keita said.

How burned out do you think black women, who cast 92 percent of their ballots in the 2024 Presidential Election for Kamala Harris, are now that Trump’s tariffs have done to the cost of wigs and braids from China? We already know racism and White privilege cause Sleep Inequality among black women (the Superwoman Schema), and now compounded with higher prices at the beauty salon for a weave or the beauty shop for a wig, one can’t be sure black women are getting any sleep in June of 2025.

After all, the natural hair look is out in the black community; hair cut from Asian and Indian women and sewn in or worn as a wig is an essential look for all are would-be queens in America.

Oh, the goal is nothing more than the complete repudiation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the restoration of Freedom of Association in America. Until then, it’s important to remember the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was designed specifically to punish individual White males collectively and enshrine into law disparate impact. But, until the act that usurped the US Constitution is repealed, it’s at least gratifying to know the Trump Administration believes civil rights protections codified into law should also protect White males. [Analysis: For Trump, Civil Rights Protections Should Help White Men, NY Times, May 25, 2025]:

In his drive to purge diversity efforts in the federal government and beyond, President Donald Trump has expressed outright hostility to civil rights protections.

He ordered federal agencies to abandon some of the core tenets of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, on the basis that they represented a “pernicious” attempt to make decisions based on diversity rather than merit.

But in recent weeks, Trump has turned to those same measures — not to help groups that have historically been discriminated against, but to remedy what he sees as the disenfranchisement of white men.

The pattern fits into a broader trend in the administration, as Trump officials pick and choose which civil rights protections they want to enforce, and for whom. Across the government, agencies that have historically worked to fight discrimination against Black people, women and other groups have pivoted to investigating institutions accused of favoring them.

“The plain message that they are conveying is: If you even think about, talk about or claim to be in favor of diversity, of equity, of inclusion, of accessibility, you will be targeted,” said Maya Wiley, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.

“They’re conveying that white men are the most discriminated against people in American society,” she added, “and therefore entitled to affirmative action.”

The White House has defended its actions as part of an effort to put merit ahead of diversity.

“The Trump administration is dedicated to advancing equality, combating discrimination and promoting merit-based decisions, upholding the rule of law as outlined in the U.S. Constitution,” said Harrison Fields, a White House spokesperson.

During his campaign for president, Trump expressed concern about what he called “a definite anti-white feeling in this country.” Now in his second term, he has made quick work of addressing it. He has made a major push to root out programs that promote diversity, which he has suggested lead to the hiring of incompetent people.

In recent weeks, agencies have launched investigations that signal the administration’s shift in civil rights enforcement.

Last Monday, the administration said it had opened a civil rights investigation into the city of Chicago to see if its mayor or others had engaged in a pattern of discrimination by hiring a number of Black people to senior positions.

Just before the terrorist John Brown, one of the original DEI advocates, was hanged in 1859, he wrote down some final words. They read, “I am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land can never be purged away but with blood.”

He was wrong. Those purported crimes in this guilty land were attempted to be purged away by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which birthed affirmative action and equity/equality mandates that denied legal protections to White males for decades. A “definite anti-white feeling in this country,” as President Trump noted has been present for a long, long time.

Fitting that as we draw nearer to the moment it is overturned, Civil Rights laws are actually being interpreted as they should have been all along: to protect all Americans from discrimination, even those White males the terrorist John Brown thought needed to be purged with blood.

“I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.”

-Bob Seger, Against the Wind

“Maybe this is just a dream
And maybe we’re still asleep
But I, I will miss you when I’m gone.”

– The Midnight, Los Angeles

Shot. [Corporate America Pledged $50B To Racial Equity After George Floyd’s Death, Now They’ll Profit From Their Promises, Washington Post, August 24, 2021]

Chaser. [Corporate America Promised to Hire a Lot More People of Color. It Actually Did.: The year after Black Lives Matter protests, the S&P 100 added more than 300,000 jobs — 94% went to people of color., Bloomberg, September 26, 2023]

Sobriety. [Houston building with George Floyd mural demolished days before fifth anniversary of his murder: It’s unclear why the building, at the intersection of Elgin and Ennis streets in the Third Ward, was torn down., Houston Public Media, May 25, 2025]:

A man who calls himself Bobby said the abandoned laundromat on the corner of Elgin and Ennis streets in Houston’s Third Ward had been his home for years. He remembers when the mural of George Floyd was first painted on the building’s southeast wall nearly five years ago, shortly after Floyd’s murder.

“They did such a fantastic job [painting the mural],” Bobby said while sitting on the foundation of the now-demolished building. “I’m homeless and there was a laundromat there, so I was living inside. And now I’m more homeless. But I have relatives and things that I will go see and I have friends. I’m an old Boy Scout, so I like the outside.”

Bobby, who declined to share his last name due to his unhoused status and history of squatting at the property, said he had once worked in the building before it closed more than a decade ago.

“I had all my things in there,” he said. “They gave me like a week’s warning, and I didn’t [leave] because I didn’t think they were actually coming back. So when they came, it was surprising. I just bundled up and packed away.”

The dilapidated brick structure was covered in artwork. Its most prominent feature was a memorial to Floyd, who grew up in the Third Ward and was murdered by a police officer in Minnesota on May 25, 2020 — sparking nationwide protests and renewed discussions about race relations and police brutality in the United States.

The mural of Floyd took up the entire side of the building along Elgin Street. The painting also included the names of two Black women — Breonna Taylor, who died by police gunfire in Kentucky in 2020, and Sandra Bland, who died in a Waller County Jail cell in 2015.

Floyd grew up a few blocks away in Houston’s Cuney Homes, the city’s oldest public housing complex, and attended Yates High School.

The demolition of the building, along with its associated artwork, came just days before the fifth anniversary of his death.

The owner of the property could not be reached for comment. Online deed records indicate the property was last sold in January 2020.

Raúl Ramos, an associate professor of history at the University of Houston, discussed the mural on Houston Matters and said it was tragic to see it demolished along with the building.

“I think that it’s about an organic expression of grief and an expression of community in particular,” Ramos said. “We’re looking for ways of representing our community, our neighbors, at a time when that feels unstable, it feels like it’s changing, and the mural had provided that kind of anchor.”

The community should have been given a chance to try and preserve the mural, Ramos said.

“You don’t have to preserve a whole building, you can preserve a wall. It happens all the time,” he said. “I do think this is an opportunity, though, to think about making these kinds of permanent projections onto our community. I think murals are incredibly important.”

‘Better than the streets’

Stevie Santiago twisted in a barstool as he pushed the buttons of a slot machine in a corner store down the street from the property. He, along with others facing homelessness, occupy another dilapidated structure in Third Ward — and the demolition of the building depicting Floyd raises concerns that he also could soon be without shelter, he said.

“I kind of always knew it was going to happen,” Santiago said. “You know, buildings condemn. Obviously, I didn’t plan to be on the streets this long. … Living there is better than the streets.”

Santiago said he was surprised to see the building at Elgin and Ennis go, because of its artwork.

“There are a lot more dilapidated buildings, but it’s funny that they picked the pretty, artistic [one],” Santiago said.

The demolition is part of the ongoing evolution of the Third Ward, a historically Black neighborhood.

New structures have in recent years been built along Elgin Street. Other buildings, like the historic Riverside General Hospital, are being redeveloped.

Preservation organizations and elected representatives have for years grappled over how to invest in the Third Ward without making sweeping changes to the historic neighborhood.

Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis, who represents the area, declined to comment about the demolition of the building with the Floyd mural or the area’s development. Houston City Council member Carolyn Evans-Shabazz, who also serves the area, did not respond to requests for comment.

Since the demolition, Bobby has relocated his belongings to a shady corner of the property surrounded by bushes and low-hanging trees. He said it wasn’t hard going from a protected structure to living outside.

“Nothing stays the same forever,” he said. “I adjust to things expected and unexpected.”

No. Nothing stays the same forever. Five years ago, a darkness swept across the nation, a curtain falling across a play few understood the plot or the direction it was headed. Behind the scenes, Corporate America pledged fealty to a new God, though no amount of tithes would ever be sufficient in the theology behind its ascendance.

But a funny thing happened along the way – people stopped and started pointing out George Floyd wasn’t exactly the martyr he was made out to be, and, in fact, seemed to have died of a fentanyl overdose. All the political capital built up over decades in academia, carefully manufactured in television programs, movies, literary works of fiction, as well decades of laws passed to reimagine the United States of America (as well as dictates from the Supreme Court making Freedom of Association illegal, basically outlawing the US Constitution) had been shoved all-in on George Floyd.

Sometimes, even the House loses. Even the player, counting cards, thinks he has inside knowledge to finally win a rigged game.

It’s not about wishing you could go back to some innocent time before bad things happened, because what you survived made you who you are now. Seger was wrong. And with apologies to The Midnight, it’s not just a dream. We aren’t asleep.

The George Floyd Card was one played with immense capital and a sense of permanent morality, built upon an impregnable theology only social lepers would dare question the legitimacy of, and yet in this game of Blackjack, the cards on the table total more than 21.

Didn’t make the rules. But that’s where we find ourselves on May 25, 2025.

Fittingly, a building with a mural of George Floyd – painted in early June of 2020 – just blocks from where he grew up in Houston, was torn down. It never had a chance to join the National Registry of Historical Places, but was a powerful metaphor for the past five years.

Our nation went mad, and then, enough people looked around and realized, we don’t have to live this way.

And so ends the Racial Reckoning in America; so begins an era of Racial Sobriety.

You’re not dreaming. You’re not asleep. Welcome to the New World.

Back in 1996, the then World Wrestling Federation was doing a tour of South Africa. A few months after Wrestlemania XII, the former Heavyweight Champion Bret Hart was taking a step back from the ring to pursue acting (and mull a contract offer from rival World Championship Wrestling owned by Ted Turner) but was coaxed to join the tour as a favor to WWF Chairman, Vince McMahon. He immortalized this trip in his bestselling 2008 autobiography, and inadvertently let slip a truth about life in post-Apartheid South Africa (and the history of the nation):

“Cape Town has to be the most beautiful city I’ve ever seen. everywhere I looked, whichever way I turned, there was another stunning view.; black mountains, endless shoreline, spectacular foliage. The houses had a uaint charm, a legacy of the Dutch who’d settled there some three hiundred years ago. Every afternoon in summer a cloudy mist, like thin white cotton, bubbles over Table Mountain, pours over the edge and hangs over the city until it vanishes again. It’s some quirky manifestation of the weather and the lay of the land, but I was far more intereste din its ethereal beauty than where it came from. And I was struck, of course, by the contrasts of the poor black townships that cirlced the city like rings in Dante’s hell, where ntothing had changed despite the end of apartheid.

I flew to Johannesburg for two huge outdoor shows. Of the whole lineup I got the best reactions from the crowd every night, and in a big TV special being filmed in Sun City, I’d headline against Steve Austin, who was now going by the name Stone Cold. Johannesburg was a sparwaling place where black-on-white crime was rampant. Most whites I knew there carried pistols. I learned this while following them through the necessary metal detectors at local nightclubs.” p. 397, Hitman: My Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling

Thanks Bret for this pertinent anecdote from your hagiography detailing how you brought “tears to the eyes” of your fellow wrestlers and routinely attacked your ex-wife Julie (“that bitch, Julie”) while you banged every ring-rat across the globe. But for one brief page of your autobiography, you were honest about black-on-white crime in South Africa and the racial group responsible for creating South Africa, Dutch farmers. We call them Afrikaners now.

Now, hit Mr. Trump’s music. [Trump confronts South African leader with false claims of genocide in Oval Office ambush, USA Today, May 21, 2025]:

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa brought two championship golfers from his country and a 14-kilogram book showcasing South Africa’s greatest golf courses.

But even his best attempts to appeal to President Donald Trump’s golf fandom couldn’t shield him from becoming the latest target of an Oval Office ambush.

In a wild one-hour May 21 meeting between Trump and Ramaphosa ‒ rivaled only by Trump’s memorable clash with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in February ‒ Trump accused the South African leader of overseeing “genocide” against White people, played a video to try to prove the false claim and lashed out at a reporter who asked about his administration accepting a $400 million jet from Qatar.

“I’m sorry I don’t have a plane to give you,” Ramaphosa quipped after things got heated, about 20 minutes into the meeting.

“I wish you did. I’d take it,” Trump said. “If your country offered the U.S. Air Force a plane, I would take it.”

The backdrop to the hostility was the Trump administration’s recent decision to welcome White South Africans, known as Afrikaners, as refugees to the United States, at a time when Trump has halted the resettlement of other refugees, who are typically people of color.

Trump has sympathized with White South Africans ‒ a minority in their country ‒ who say they’re unfairly targeted by a new law that allows the South African government to seize property for the “public interest,” in some cases without compensation. Trump last week escalated the fight by claiming the Afrikaners are the targets of “genocide” against White people ‒ an accusation rejected by the South African government and human rights experts, and not supported by evidence.

Violence is a longstanding problem in South Africa. That includes violent attacks on White farmers. However, while murder rates are high in the country, the overwhelming majority of victims are Black.

‘Have they told you where that is, Mr. President?’

Trump pounced on an opening to set up a pre-arranged video presentation when a reporter asked what it would take to convince him that genocide is not taking place in South Africa.

In the silence that ensued, Ramaphosa took the question instead. “It will take President Trump listening to the voices of South Africans, some of whom are his good friends,” the South African leader said.

Trump then weighed in, citing “thousands of stories talking about it” and asking one of his White House aides to turn down the lights. “I could show you a couple of things,” Trump said.

A video started playing on a screen that was moved into the Oval Office before the meeting. It featured footage of Black South Africans calling for followers to occupy farmland, declaring that “the killing is part of the revolution” and condemning the “White man” and “whiteness” in their country. (A member of Ramaphosa’s delegation later informed the room that Trump’s video featured two opposition leaders to the South African government whose positions the current regime rejects.)

The video ended with footage of white crosses along a street that Trump said were burial sites for White South Africans killed because of their race. In reality, the crosses weren’t actual graves, but rather symbols used in protests by White South African farmers.

“These are burial sites right here. Over 1,000 White farmers,” Trump said as the video played. “It’s a terrible sight. I’ve never seen anything like it.”

Ramaphosa, who negotiated at Nelson Mandela’s side in the 90s, remained cool and calm throughout the meeting. He responded: “Have they told you where that is, Mr. President? No? I’d like to know where that is because this, I’ve never seen.”

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, a top Trump adviser and a South African native, watched the back-and-forth silently, standing behind an Oval Office couch alongside reporters.

He was invited as an observer, but Trump brought him into the conversation.

“Elon is from South Africa. I don’t want to get Elon involved. That’s all I have to do ‒ get him into another thing,” Trump said. “He actually came here on a different subject: sending rockets to Mars. OK? He likes that better.”

For decades, South Africa was controlled under apartheid rule by the country’s White minority, many of them descendants of Dutch colonists. Apartheid, a system of legalized segregation, deprived the majority of citizens of basic rights and forced many Black South Africans to live in ethnic Bantustans. It ended in 1994.

Ramaphosa and other defenders of the land seizure law argue the policies are needed to reverse the nation’s apartheid-era legacy of disparities in land ownership.

Although apartheid rule ended long ago, the typical Black South African household has just 5% of the wealth of the typical White household, according to a 2024 study by researchers at The Africa Institute and the University of Zambia.

“What you saw ‒ the speeches that were being made ‒ that is not government policy,” Ramaphosa said, still responding to the video clips highlighted by Trump. “We have a multi-party democracy in South Africa that allows people to express themselves. Political parties adhere to various policies. And in many cases, those policies do not go along with government policies.”

The conversation shifted back to the racial dynamics and violence in South Africa.

Ramaphosa asked for U.S. assistance to help equip South Africa with technology that can identify where shootings are taking place.

“There is support that we can get from you and the United States to help us to deal with all this active criminality,” he said to Trump. “And that is what I believe partnership is all about. And we are here as a partner so that we can help each other whenever there are challenges.”

About 45 minutes into the meeting, Trump asked famous South African golfer Ernie Els ‒ one of Ramaphosa’s guests ‒ to say some words.

“This is tougher than sinking a three-footer,” Trump said, inviting Els, winner of four major golf championships, to speak.

Els took a South African passport from his jacket pocket to illustrate his pride in his country. But he said that 35 years since the transition away from the policy of racial division under apartheid to a Black-led government, supporters want to see the country flourish.

“We want to see things get better in our country,” said Els, who is White. “I know there’s a lot of anger through the transition.”

Els said Black leader Nelson Mandela unified the nation by not promoting hatred. He said business is getting involved in government, demonstrating greater coexistence between the races.

“I feel we need the U.S. to push this thing through,” Els said. “It’s very important for us to have your support and get the change we need.”

Trump commended his presentation.

“Boy, did you do that well,” Trump said after Els finished. “He might have done that even better than he plays golf, which is almost impossible.”

Els, along with fellow South African golfer Retief Goosen, who also spoke, helped cool the temperature before the press was escorted out.

Goosen, who is also White, said his father was a land developer and farmer, and that his brothers continue to farm. “It’s a constant battle. They’re trying to burn the farms down to chase you away,” he said. “It is a concern to make a living as a farmer. Without farmers, there’s no food on the plate.”

Goosen said other farmers have been killed. His family lives behind electric fences, but he said that hadn’t prevented his brothers and mother from being attacked in their homes.

“It is difficult,” he said.

Trump expressed sympathy.

“It’s no way to live,” Trump said.

No, it’s no way to live at all. The two White PGA golfers from South Africa, especially Goosen, are to be commended for telling the American people the truth about post-Apartheid South Africa. Living behind electrical fences that look like homages to the 1993 movie Jurassic Park just to keep your family safe from predators is no way to live at all.

In one visit to the White House, the perpetual world of 1994, when Nelson Mandela became President of South Africa and Apartheid was swept into the dustbin of history, came crashing 31 years into the future of 2025.

President Trump and his Administration represent the ultimate New American Order (NAO) opposed to the dying Post-World War II Global World Order that perpetually wages a war of egalitarianism and mandates equality, damn the costs.

The Corporate Media is now running interference to suppress the truth of what’s happening in South Africa, but it’s over.

A headline from the Chicago CBS affiliate puts it bluntly, but leaves out the punchline: Chicago faces DOJ probe over alleged racial bias in hiring practices

Who/whom is being impacted by racial bias in the black mayor’s administration in Chicago? White people, which is specifically what the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was designed to create. Look no further than Atlanta under the control of the city’s first black mayor, Maynard Jackson. He bragged about creating a black millionaire class via Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) programs, which basically mandated the city work exclusively with black contractors.

It was all illegal. It was all racial discrimination, and the Hartsfield International Airport is basically a Petri dish for massive lawsuits against majority black contractors/black-owned businesses who have unfairly benefited from this practice, with a much needed airport on the Northside of the city on permanent hiatus because of what it would do to this racially bias pipeline (cut it off entirely and see most flyers chose that airport over the one nestled in the blackest part of Fulton/Clayton County).

Pretty much every city with a black mayor has since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 operated without legal oversight as Atlanta has, creating an artificial black middle class filled almost entirely of a black bureaucracy/black city employees/connect majority-owned black business unfairly benefiting from minority set-aside contracts.

Foolishly, Chicago’s black mayor bragged about it in 2025, a year Noticing is going not only going viral, but public. And the pushback is in its infancy. [DOJ investigating Chicago hiring practices amid backlash over Mayor Johnson’s viral comments, ABC7Chicago, May 20, 2025]:

WASHINGTON (TNND) — The Justice Department has launched an investigation into the City of Chicago to determine whether Mayor Brandon Johnson or others have engaged in “a pattern or practice of racial discrimination” in their hiring practices.

This action follows Mayor Johnson’s remarks at a church service, where he highlighted the number of Black individuals hired by the city.

“The deputy Mayor is a Black woman. Department of Planning Development is a black woman. Infrastructure Deputy Mayor is a Black woman. Chief Operations Officer is a Black man,” Johnson said.

“Two administrations ago, 70 to 75% of the administration was primarily made up of white men. In my administration, 45% of my administration is black, 25% is Latin, 30% is white, and 8% is Asian. It is the most diverse administration in the history of Chicago,” Johnson said.

“What I’m saying is, when you hire our people, we always look out for everybody else. We are the most generous people on the planet. I don’t know too many cultures that have play cousins. T hat’s how generous we are. We just make somebody a family member right? That’s just how we are,” Johnson said.

Addressing the investigation, Mayor Johnson stated, “My administration reflects the country, it reflects the city. His administration reflects the country club,” referring to President Trump.

“There are some detractors that will try and push back on me and say, ‘The only thing the mayor talks about is the hiring of Black people.’ No. What I’m saying is, when you hire our people, we always look out for everybody else. We are the most generous people on the planet,” Johnson said.

In a letter to the mayor’s office, the DOJ says Johnson’s comments highlighting the number of “Black officials” in his administration prompted this investigation.

“Business and economic neighborhood development, the deputy mayor is a Black woman… Department of Planning and Development is a Black woman… Infrastructure, deputy mayor is a Black woman… Chief operations officer is a Black man… Budget director is a Black woman… Senior advisor is a Black man,” Johnson said.

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon stated in the letter, in part, “If these kind of hiring decisions are being made for top-level positions in your administration, then it begs the question whether such decisions are also being made for lower-level positions.”

Johnson’s office released a statement on Monday afternoon, saying, “Mayor Johnson is proud to have the most diverse administration in the history of our city. Our administration reflects the diversity and values of Chicago. Unfortunately, the current federal administration does not reflect either. We are aware of the letter issued by the Department of Justice, but are awaiting the official receipt of the letter. Our Corporation Counsel will review it at that time.”

The mayor’s office released a demographics breakdown of the office. It’s 34.3% Black, 30.5% White, 23.8% Hispanic and 6.7% Asian.

City Hall leaders are already reacting to the investigation.

“Hearing what he said and seeing this investigation, taking part, unfolding today, I think validates the concerns that many people have that this isn’t a mayor for everyone,” said 15th Ward Ald. Raymond Lopez. “I think many people throughout the city of Chicago have felt as if they have been excluded under this administration.”

Chicago’s Business and Economic Neighborhood Development Deputy Mayor, the head of the Department of Planning Development, Infrastructure Deputy Mayor, Chief Operations Officer, Budget Director, and Senior Advisor are all black. Johnson claimed they are focused on pursuing the interests of black people because it “hasn’t happened.”

Meanwhile, Chicago Public Schools is under investigation by the United States Education Department over its Black Students Success Plan for prioritizing black students’ academic success over the rest of its struggling students. Other schools across the country are similarly continuing their DEI initiatives in open defiance of the Trump administration.

Most generous, you say Mayor Johnson. A study by Cornell would differ [Race Differences in Restaurant Tipping: A Literature Review and Discussion of Practical Implications, Cornell University, January 1, 2006]:

“Research on race differences in tipping suggests that (a) Blacks leave smaller average restaurant tips than do Whites, (b) Black-White differences in tipping persist after controlling for socio-economic status, (c) Blacks tip less than Whites even when provided comparable levels of service, (d) Blacks tip less than Whites even when the server is black…”

The Department of Justice should immediately hire Amy Wax, Heather Mac Donald, Jared Taylor and Ann Coulter to begin thorough investigation into Chicago and virtually every major city to file massive lawsuits against both the hiring practices for public positions in city hall and government jobs in places like Atlanta, Chicago, DC, Memphis, NOLA, St. Louis, NYC, Boston, Philadelphia, Indianapolis, Baltimore, Birmingham, Cleveland, Detroit, and thousands of other cities, as well as to go over the awarding of lucrative contracts for public work projects that taxpayer dollars fund, be they transit systems, highway improvements, infrastructure upgrades or airport expansion. Those cities should be immediately hit with consent decrees as the Obama DOJ did on police departments who dared arrest to many black individuals, but this time for unfairly and discriminatorily hiring blacks or black-owned companies as part of a hellacious crusade to implement Diversity, Equity and Inclusion starting in the early 1970s in Atlanta under Mayor Jackson, and then copied nationwide.

I sometimes believe most Americans don’t want to know how deep the rot truly is in America, but it’s time. The odious mayor of Chicago may have just unleashed a new wave in the course-correction that is occurring in 2025 America, all because he erroneously bragged about how “generous” blacks are, and instead revealed how government jobs have created an artificial black middle class in Chicago the private sector can’t replicate.

This era is going to end. A lot of hard truths are so obvious, but to speak what’s on the tip of so many tongues puts one in the crosshairs of a fanatical religion, a theology without a God offering no chance of salvation or forgiveness. Ideologically, this religion seeks to create a hell on earth and to deviate even slightly in the state-mandated devotion to these insidiously inspired teachings is a heretical act.

So many great individuals have been consumed by the tumultuous onslaught wrought upon them for daring to notice the inconsistencies persistent with this religion, but nonetheless, to borrow a phrase from Jurassic Park, “nature finds a way.”

The proper sobriquet for this epoch has yet to be conceived, but it’s going to end. When a report can be published brandishing so many hilarious observations confirming the exact opposite point the published paper is trying to make, you realize vastly more individuals than you can comprehend have the same truths on the tips of their tongues.

Here’s a quick breakdown of pertinent facts surrounding Atlanta’s demographic situation over the past century:

In 1910, Atlanta was 66% white.

In 1950, Atlanta was 63% white.

In 1970, Atlanta was 49% white.

In 1990, Atlanta was 30% white.

In 2025, Atlanta is 38% white.

So what happened to cause such extreme White Flight from Atlanta? It’s quite easy to explain, but one becomes a heretic for voicing such incontestable realities because such direct line of communication is verboten in The Current Year:

• Black Crime
• Black Dysfunction
• Black Anti-Social Behavior
• Drop in property value as Black people moved into previously predominately White communities
• Decline in quality of schools, fear of safety for your children as racial demographics changed
• Cost of doing business increased (need for more security due to crime and theft at stores)
• Decrease in quality of public services and amenities (parks unsafe for families/public transportation experiences increasingly negative)
• Loss of social capital as previously White communities replaced with black neighbors
• Community tensions of inequality arises between racial groups and discernible income disparities become obvious

In 1990, Atlanta looked lost, destined to become another Detroit or Birmingham, Alabama, with an abandoned downtown of skyscrapers; a mausoleum of buildings built decades prior and standing as silent citadels above the ruins. Something funny happened in the subsequent 35 years, especially after the 1996 Olympics: White people started moving back and with their arrival came economic revitalization, reduced crime rates, a demand for improved public services and amenities (government/public jobs with the city of Atlanta was a bureaucracy of black public employees), a marked increase in property values and a quick diversification of neighborhoods once exclusively populated by blacks.

But that’s a bad thing. [Report: Atlanta among cities hardest hit by gentrification, Black displacement, Fox5Atlanta, May 15, 2025]:

The Brief

• • A new report from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition shows Atlanta has the second-highest number of neighborhoods that flipped from majority-Black to majority-white between 1980 and 2020.
  • Gentrification led to the displacement of an estimated 22,000 Black residents in Atlanta, with neighborhoods like Old Fourth Ward, East Atlanta, and Kirkwood among the most affected.
  • Atlanta experienced the most intense gentrification in the U.S. from 2000 to 2012, driven by rising incomes, home values, and educational attainment in urban neighborhoods.

ATLANTA – The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) has released a new report titled Displaced By Design: Fifty Years of Gentrification and Black Cultural Displacement in U.S. Cities .

What they’re saying:

Over the last 50 years, 15% of urban neighborhoods have shown signs of gentrification. While still relatively uncommon, gentrification is on the rise. The number of gentrifying neighborhoods grew from 246 in the 1970s to 1,807 in the 2010s.

By the numbers:

Between 1980 and 2020, 523 majority-Black neighborhoods experienced gentrification. Of those, 155 went through full racial turnover—changing from majority-Black to majority-white. Another 121 became more racially diverse. In total, there are now about 261,000 fewer Black residents in formerly majority-Black, gentrifying neighborhoods. When all gentrifying areas are considered, that number could be closer to 500,000.

Click here for interactive map.

Cities most affected by racial turnover and Black displacement include Washington, D.C., New York City, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Atlanta, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Atlanta’s Gentrification Impact

Local perspective:

New data from the NCRC shows Atlanta has the second-highest number of census tract flips—neighborhoods that changed from majority-Black to majority-white between 1980 and 2020.

Some of the Atlanta neighborhoods affected include:

• Old Fourth Ward
• East Atlanta
• Reynoldstown
• Kirkwood
• Edgewood
• Grant Park

Although the Old Fourth Ward did not lose as many Black residents as other neighborhoods, the racial shift there was more dramatic. The area saw a sharp rise in its white population after the Eastside Trail of the Beltline opened in 2012, attracting large new apartment complexes built on formerly vacant industrial land.

From 1980 to 2020, Atlanta lost about 22,000 Black residents—the fifth-highest loss among U.S. metro areas.

According to the report, Atlanta had the most intense gentrification in the country from 2000 to 2012. The NCRC measures gentrification by tracking increases in income levels, property values, and college-educated residents.

Washington, D.C., experienced the highest racial turnover overall. While cities like Los Angeles and Newark lost more majority-Black neighborhoods than Atlanta, many of those areas became majority-Hispanic or racially mixed rather than majority-white.

Pros and Cons of Gentrification

Dig deeper:

Here’s a look at the potential benefits and drawbacks of gentrification, a process that continues to reshape urban communities across the U.S.

Pros of Gentrification

1. Economic Revitalization

• Gentrification often brings new investment to neighborhoods, leading to improved infrastructure, increased business activity, and rising property values.

2. Reduced Crime Rates

• As investment increases and community resources improve, many areas see a decline in crime.

3. Improved Public Services and Amenities

• Revitalized neighborhoods may benefit from better schools, parks, transit, and healthcare services due to a higher tax base.

4. Increased Property Values

• Homeowners may benefit from increased equity and resale value.

5. Diversification of Neighborhoods

Some view gentrification as a way to promote racial and economic integration in historically segregated communities.

Cons of Gentrification

1. Displacement of Longtime Residents

• Rising rents and property taxes often force out lower-income residents and communities of color, leading to cultural displacement.

2. Loss of Cultural Identity

• Gentrification can erode the historical and cultural fabric of a neighborhood as new, wealthier residents reshape the community.

3. Widening Inequality

• Benefits often accrue to wealthier newcomers, while longtime residents may not see the same gains—or may suffer setbacks.

4. Increased Cost of Living

• As neighborhoods gentrify, the overall cost of living (groceries, services, retail) can rise, straining long-term residents.

5. Community Tensions

• Social friction can increase between new and existing residents due to differing expectations, norms, and priorities.

Hardest hit by Gentrification? That’s a headline? Did an asteroid strike or tornado touch down and cause extensive damage? Hardest hit denotes a negative action, but all that occurred was White individuals moving into an area of Atlanta populated primarily by black individuals…

The same areas being gentrified by White individuals were once replete with social capital, commerce and civic pride, and the restoration of this is attacked as some progenitor of black displacement? What about the White people who were displaced decades ago by the crime and dysfunction that arrived as the percentage of the black population increased in the communities/neighborhoods? Again, White Flight from this is deemed bad, and Gentrification (the returns of Whites) to same real estate is grounds for calling these areas “hardest hit” as if it were a natural disaster affecting the indigenous population and causing a distressing quality of life.

It’s not just Atlanta. This article about the negative consequences of White people moving back into major cities where black crime decades ago forced the creation and further perpetuation of suburban communities far from the city center could easily be about Charlotte, Memphis, New Orleans, St. Louis, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Chicago, Rochester (NY), Birmingham (AL), Jackson (MS), Cleveland, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washington DC, Baltimore, or Richmond (VA).

The restoration of Freedom of Association is all that matters, but to re-establish such a concept goes against our state-religion.

White people returning to Atlanta has produced lower crime in areas where criminality once flourished and prevented civilization from flowering; property values have risen in areas where acquiring property was a far cheaper proposition in the absence of a White population; restaurants, shops, and commerce has returned, where once a food desert was found; and a demand for greater public services and civic improvement where before government jobs were nothing more than a form of racial socialism for the majority population.

A rising tide lifting all boats is a concept anathema in a multiracial Atlanta, which is but a microcosm for the entire nation post the enactment of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The people who see an immediate rise in their property value upon the arrival of Whites never stop to ask why their property valuations were so low when the communities had a paucity of the former.

Checking in on how life is like for those White people still keeping the lights on in South Africa. It’s been 31 years since Apartheid ended and the turn-key country the White minority handed over to black majority rule has become a criminal dystopia beyond even the predictions of the most savagely pessimistic about the possible outcomes democracy would inevitably yield.

Though it’s Africa’s most developed country, the nation boasts one of the highest violent crime rates in the world – each day there is an average of 75 homicides and 400 robberies – which is the primary reason 2.7 million individuals are employed in private security:

Violent crime in South Africa has spiked over the past decade after a period when it decreased substantially. There were 27,494 killings in South Africa in the year to February 2023, compared with 16,213 in 2012-2013. South Africa’s homicide rate in 2022-2023 was 45 per 100,000 people, compared with a rate of 6.3 in the United States and around 1 in most European countries.

President Donald Trump’s Administration has offered Afrikaners, a besieged White portion of the dwindling White population of South Africa, the opportunity to seek refuge in the United States. A few score arrived on May 12, 2025, while more than 70,000 Afrikaners have expressed interest in asylum in the USA.

This number will only increase. Why?

Well, while highways across America are littered with billboards advertising restaurants, personal injury lawyers, and Buc-ees, the billboards in South Africa have a far more macabre intent when it comes to a marketing message. [Armoured Mobility Declares War on Hijackers with Bold New Billboard: “Say ‘Tsek to Hijack” UNAPOLOGETIC. UNSTOPPABLE. UNCOMPROMISING., ABRBuzz.co.za, December 12, 2024]:

Armoured Mobility, South Africa’s leading innovator in bulletproof vehicle solutions, has once again raised the bar with its fearless new billboard campaign. Located in Johannesburg on the N3 highway northbound, near the Van Buuren Road exit, the latest message boldly states:

“Say ‘Tsek to Hijack. Bulletproof Your Car.”

This audacious slogan is more than a tagline—it’s a rallying cry for every South African who refuses to live in fear. With hijackings and violent crimes continuing to threaten motorists across the country, Armoured Mobility is taking a stand, reminding the nation that safety isn’t optional—it’s essential.

Disrupting the Status Quo with Fearless Advocacy

The “Say ‘Tsek to Hijack” billboard follows a string of iconic campaigns from Armoured Mobility, including the unforgettable “Fear Fokol” in Johannesburg and “Don’t Baiza for Bullets” in Durban. Each campaign has shocked, inspired, and empowered South Africans to take control of their safety in the face of increasing threats.

“Fear has no place on our roads,” said Dawood Olgar, CEO of Armoured Mobility. “We’re here to remind South Africans that they don’t have to be victims. Our bulletproof vehicles give them the power to say ‘tsek to hijackers and violent crime.”

This latest billboard, placed on one of the country’s busiest and most dangerous highways, reaches thousands of commuters daily. It’s a stark, unapologetic reminder that Armoured Mobility is leading the fight for safer roads.

South Africa’s Reality Demands a Bold Solution

Statistics paint a grim picture of South Africa’s roads, where hijackings and violent crimes have become an everyday risk. Armoured Mobility’s latest campaign highlights the urgent need for bulletproof protection—not as a luxury, but as a necessity.

• Why now? Hijacking rates continue to soar, and violent encounters leave no room for error.
• Why Armoured Mobility? The company is at the forefront of advanced bulletproofing technology, giving South Africans the tools to reclaim their sense of security.

“This campaign isn’t about selling cars,” said Nabeel Khan, General Manager. “It’s about saving lives. We’re giving people a fighting chance in an environment where danger feels inevitable.”

The Technology Behind the Shield

Armoured Mobility’s vehicles aren’t just bulletproof—they’re built to perform. The company blends world-class engineering with cutting-edge materials to ensure that every vehicle stands as an impenetrable fortress on wheels.

Features of Armoured Mobility Vehicles:

• Ballistic Protection: Shielding against handguns, assault rifles, and high-powered weapons.
• Invisible Armour: Retaining the vehicle’s original look and feel while concealing state-of-the-art protection.
• Endurance and Reliability: Proven in real-world scenarios to withstand the harshest conditions.

Every Armoured Mobility vehicle is designed to safeguard what matters most: your life and the lives of those you love.

A History of Bold, Relatable Campaigns

The “Say ‘Tsek to Hijack” campaign builds on Armoured Mobility’s legacy of fearless marketing:

• “Fear Fokol” (Johannesburg): A daring call to action for city dwellers who refuse to bow to crime.
• “Don’t Baiza for Bullets” (Durban): A no-nonsense message for coastal drivers ready to take charge of their safety.

Both campaigns struck a chord with South Africans, balancing hard-hitting realism with a promise of unshakable protection. “Say ‘Tsek to Hijack” is the next chapter in this tradition—a message designed to shock, inspire, and empower.

The Call to Action

Armoured Mobility’s message is clear: South Africans deserve to feel safe, no matter where they’re driving.

• For parents driving their children to school.
• For business professionals commuting in high-risk zones.
• For adventurers heading out on long road trips.

Armoured Mobility provides the solutions South Africans need to navigate their world with confidence.

Leading the Charge for Safer Roads

With its innovative vehicles, bold campaigns, and unwavering commitment to safety, Armoured Mobility is more than a company—it’s a movement. The “Say ‘Tsek to Hijack” billboard is a declaration of war against hijackers, reminding South Africans that they have the tools to fight back.

“We’re not just building bulletproof cars,” said Nabeel Khan. “We’re building a safer future. One car, one family, one driver at a time.”

Where to See It

Catch the “Say ‘Tsek to Hijack” billboard along the N3 highway, northbound near the Van Buuren Road exit.

Another billboard terrifying relays the message: Arrive Not Dead | Bulletproof Your Car.

Another reads: Go Out in JoBurg. Don’t Get Taken Out | Bulletproof Your Car.

Another reads: It’s Like a Bulletproof Vest for Your Whole Family | Bulletproof Your Car.

As an American, you can always seek a new community for “good schools” to raise your family in, and enjoy the brand new amenities uniquely found in these suburban locales. Each few decades, they stretch further and further away from major cities they are located within a 30 or 45 minute car ride, but safely removed from any public transportation routes allowing the denizens of these metropolitan areas to have access to the shiny new community.

But in South Africa, such liberties are increasingly rare. Not all families can afford their own private security to keep them safe from random car jackings, thus the need for bulletproof cars.

Thirty-one years after Apartheid was replaced with black democratic rule, this is the reality of the South Africa democracy birthed and watch manifest before our eyes. For too many stuck perpetually in the glory year of 1994 when Nelson Mandela ascended to the role of President of South Africa, that awe-inspiring moment of overcoming a White Supremacist regime was the poetic The End to tale of South Africa.

But life goes on for those who live after, even it requires a bulletproof car to go from Point A to Point B just to avoid becoming another grim addition to the unrelenting high crime statistics found there.

If you are an Afrikaner reading this and haven’t applied for asylum to America yet, do so immediately. You’ll enjoy seeing billboards for Buc-ees instead of for bulletproofing your car in unexplainable ways, because a store like Buc-ees couldn’t stay open in South Africa without massive security measures and a private army employed to keep the business in the black.

Previously on SBPDL: Sixteen years. Roughly 16 years ago in a beautiful living room probably 20 miles from Greenbriar Mall, this site was born. There was no grandiose plan for a goofy site lampooning Stuff White People Like. But for some reason, the site grew in popularity and gained a following on the old blog spot platform of Google. Then something horrific happened. Call it kismet, but a friend I grew up was murdered probably 18 miles from Greenbriar Mall in Midtown Atlanta. She was White | her murderer was black. He shot her and two other White girls because he had learned about White privilege in college and decided racial vengeance was the only way for true accountability over perceived historical iniquities. He was told the collective privilege of another racial group was something he should covet. He was rapacious in exacting equity upon White individuals who benefited from something he had not, or so he had been taught.

You rarely hear the 10th Commandment invoked anymore – Thou Shall Not Covet – but in a multiracial society, certain inequalities emerge. Thus the whole concept of disparate impact and the enforcement of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion administered in public and private companies. Even a vocation/avocation such as earning the title of master sommelier which produces an insufficient amount of diversity among its elitist ranks of 0enophiles has its legitimacy questioned for the paucity of a particular racial group.

Covetousness is truly what the entire situation in South Africa comes down to, right? One racial group has democratic control of a nation courtesy of democracy being nothing more than a racial headcount, and are handed a turn-key nation built, established and maintained by the White minority. 31 years later, the nation is on the verge of collapse, the great multiracial experiment a failure with every White farmer murdered and a land expropriation bill passed allowing the black government to confiscate White owned land and redistribute to blacks without compensation.

The only refugees now allowed in America were 59 White South Africans this past Monday, May 12. The Episcopalian Church dropped out of the refugee resettlement racket with the Federal government – which produced hundreds of millions for them – over a moral obligation to helping out White Afrikaners facing genocide because of its “steadfast commitment to racial justice.”

Sixteen years. And then to see a few score of Afrikaner families, told by the ruling black government they don’t face discrimination (farcical: extreme affirmative action via Black Economic Empowerment is the law of the land there) and the ruling party puts out the chilling press release attacking the refugees with this not-so-crpytic message: “what the instigators of this falsehood seek is not safety, but impunity from transformation. They flee not from persecution, but from justice, equality and accountability for historic privilege.”

And that’s where we find SBPDL on May 16, 2025. The name no longer fits, an antiquated concept devoid of true meaning in the current year. Like Icarus, I flew too close to the sun, nearly drowned, but found something bigger in return upon learning there is no swimming backwards. No matter far you get, you can’t go back. The only way is forward. To win.

I’m somewhat shocked by the immense impact a joke site has had, and the efforts I made through other manners and endeavors, in impacting what’s happening. Never seeking fame or glory, but simply starting a conversation most people are too polite (and cowardly) to have; that’s not me, and goes against principles long ago instilled by family members no longer with us. Save in spirit.

With the collapse of South Africa impending, illusions (no, delusions) kept alive by a pernicious faith and Godless religion will face a crucial test of belief, but ultimately it was never our job to save everyone.

There’s some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for. But it first starts with having a spirit that is not afraid.

– Paul Kersey

Shot. [Where do we go from here?: Greenbriar Mall’s Black business owners feel both ‘blindsided,’ optimistic about mall’s futur e, TheAtlantaVoice, March 26, 2021]:

The far northwest corner of Greenbriar Mall is occupied by a pair of Black businesses, Tutu Maniacs and The Perfect Dress. Both are owned by Black women, the former by DeAndrea Byrd and the later by Moona Naima Mohammed.

Both have a customer base that is geared towards Black mothers and girls, birthday parties and prom season. These are not the customers that Macy’s, which is located on the opposite end of the mall and is preparing to leave the mall after decades of being the building’s retail anchor, seems to covet with their ever-present television advertisements.

The Atlanta Voice took a trip to Greenbriar Mall, once one of the city’s most popular shopping destinations, and now not so much, this past Sunday afternoon to learn what Black business owners think about Macy’s leaving the premises.

The anchor

“Every mall needs an anchor store, Macy’s was this mall’s anchor,” said Mohammed, 25, an Atlanta native that could have easily doubled for one of the store’s dress models if not for the fatigue green crop-top hoodie and matching sweatpants she wore.

There was a customer in the store trying on prom dresses with the help of an assistant while Mohammed, a self-described “talker” answered questions.

“We have not called for the killing of white people — at least for now. I can’t guarantee the future.”Asked by the interviewer whether this was not an invocation towards genocide, Malema’s dismissive response was “crybabies, crybabies”. If things “continue the way they are”, nothing is off the table. – Julius Malema, June 14, 2018

No, you won’t see many White liberals sporting trendy Ukrainian flags or Refugees Welcome signs in their perfectly manicured lawns racing out to embrace Afrikaners brought to our nation so as to escape an ever-unfolding tragedy in post-Apartheid South Africa. You see, for most people, South African history starts and stops with the 1994 Democratic elections that saw Nelson Mandela and the ANC sweep into power, the promise of a multi-racial future glorified by Clint Eastwood in a seemingly forgotten movie about Afrikaners love for rugby called Invictus.

But there’s something remarkable happening in 2025 America. And in a mask off moment for those paying attention. [ANC rejects US decision to grant refugee status to 49 Afrikaners, SABCNews.com, May 13, 2025]:

The African National Congress (ANC) has rejected the US decision to grant refugee status to 49 Afrikaners moving to the United States.

The UN has not ruled that the group has refugee status.

This comes as the Trump administration decided to consider applications from Afrikaners after the US President claimed genocide against the group was taking place in South Africa.

The government in South Africa has strongly rejected the accusation.

ANC National Spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri agrees with the South African government’s position.

“Let it be categorically stated that there are no Afrikaner refugees in South Africa. No section of our society is hounded, persecuted, or subject to ethnic victimization. These claims are a fabrication and a cowardly political construct designed to delegitimize our democracy and insult the sacrifices made by generations who fought for freedom. The misuse of refugee protections to shield right-wing anti-transformation elements is a violation of the spirit and letter of international law.”

Meanwhile, a Senior Democrat who serves on the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee says it’s baffling why the Trump administration is admitting white Afrikaners for resettlement, while continuing an indefinite suspension for thousands of other legitimate asylum seekers who have fled persecution.

Senator Jeane Shaheen released a statement pointing to what she called a United Nations finding that found that no South Africans were eligible for refugee status.

This comes as the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church told the US government that it wouldn’t help resettle the Afrikaners. Bishop Sean Rowe writes that the Church would not help with the resettlement of the newly arrived white South Africa arguing that it was painful to watch one group of refugees, selected in a highly unusual manner, receive preferential treatment over many others who had been waiting in refugee camps or dangerous conditions for years.

The Church will now end its decades long refugee resettlement partnership with the federal government. While Senator Jeane Shaheen described the admission of Afrikaners in front of others in line as a clearly politically motivated decision and an effort to rewrite history. She called on the administration to clarify why the group qualified for resettlement and why they were prioritized over others including Afghans and Sudanese who have fled their homes due to conflict and persecution.

It gets worse, with the National Spokesperson for the African National Congress putting out a press release condemning Whites fleeing South Africa for America because in their words, they don’t face genocide or racial persecution, but the consequences for being descended from the architects of Apartheid – “what the instigators of this falsehood seek is not safety, but impunity from transformation. They flee not from persecution, but from justice, equality and accountability for historic privilege.” [The Left Says Quiet Part Out Loud: Whites Need Not Apply for Asylum, Daily Signal, May 13, 2025]:

I n case you think that the threats are idle, just read this ominous statement from the African National Congress, the ruling party in South Africa. It insists there are “no Afrikaner refugees in South Africa.”

If there is no problem, why not just let these people go?

“What the instigators of this falsehood seek is not safety, but impunity from transformation. They flee not from persecution, but from justice, equality, and accountability for historic privilege,” the message says. Media inquiries are directed to—I kid you not—someone named Mangaliso “Stalin” Khonza.

Accountability, eh?

Truth and Reconciliation was a myth, with the goal of tomorrow being another country a reminder historical grievances and resentment will always cast a far greater shadow on the future then we admit. By every metric measuring quality of life, South Africa since 1994 is a failed state. The Air Force, once the envy of the world when it was exclusively staffed by White pilots as late as 1989, now has six operational aircraft (.018 percent of its total fleet of 330 aircraft).

In our lifetime, South Africa will utterly collapse into the foot print of industry long ago built by Whites and inherited by blacks via the peaceful surrendering of the old nation in 1994. Just as Rhodesia surrendered and became Zimbabwe, we near the denouement of the racial transition with the forceful redistribution of White-owned land/farms to blacks. [White South Africans granted refugee status by Trump administration arrive in US, CNN, May 12, 2025]:

In January, South Africa enacted the Expropriation Act, seeking to undo the legacy of apartheid, which created huge disparities in land ownership among its majority Black and minority White population.

Under apartheid, non-White South Africans were forcibly dispossessed from their lands for the benefit of Whites. Today, some three decades after racial segregation officially ended in the country, Black South Africans, who comprise over 80% of the population of 63 million, own around 4% of private land.

The expropriation law empowers South Africa’s government to take land and redistribute it – with no obligation to pay compensation in some instances – if the seizure is found to be “just and equitable and in the public interest.”

In February, Trump suspended aid to South Africa, alleging discrimination against White farmers. In that same executive order, the president said the US would “promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination, including racially discriminatory property confiscation.”

Earlier this month, Trump said in a post on social media that “any Farmer (with family!) from South Africa, seeking to flee that country for reasons of safety, will be invited into the United States of America with a rapid pathway to Citizenship.”

Forty-nine Afrikaners, waving American flags and clutching all their earthly possessions arrived in America, and were viciously denounced by scions of the Corporate Media, with the Episcopalian Church completely suspending the highly lucrative refugee resettlement programs they had with the US government over moral obligations to Afrikaners being brought to the USA.

And as the official spokesperson for the ruling ANC stated menacingly (and with utter mendacity to reality): “what the instigators of this falsehood seek is not safety, but impunity from transformation. They flee not from persecution, but from justice, equality and accountability for historic privilege.”

It is my great hope all Afrikaners understand they have an obligation to their families to leave South Africa and find peace, hope, salvation, community and a new start in the United States of America. The land of their ancestors is gone for now, and what matters most is not becoming another statistic in farm invasions where the only memory of your death will be a white cross in a field strewn with thousands of other crosses.

The wishful thinking of the 20th Century is coming to an end, where the theoretical saw practical application mandated by the State (both in the USA as well as Rhodesia and South Africa). The grand social experiment has provided ample evidence as a failure for those capable of accepting this truth, and for those unwilling, you can always stick around to find out what “justice, equality and accountability for historic privilege” means in the end.

Tyger Tyger burning bright,
In the forests of the night:
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
– William Blake, The Tyger
Forty prior charges, all before the age of 30. Alexander Dickey, a black male, had led quite the life of crime. One wonders when the collective power of white privilege will be used as justification for the criminal choices Dickey made and the sorrowful life of perpetual immiseration he suffered? Would a lawyer framing his defense around this case of the collective power of systemic inequality and implicit bias behind Dickey’s decision to commit crime after crime after crime after crime, culminating in the execution of 22-year-old Logan Federico (a White female) as she slept, find sympathetic ears among a group of 12 individuals ready to engage in a jury nullification?

Inevitably, we slouch toward this scenario in a nation committed to restorative justice and large swaths of the population convinced the criminal justice system is racist and exists to carry on the legacy of Jim Crow.

But for now, a family must bury their daughter. Their sister. Their cousin. Friends must say goodbye, because our society is enamored with the possibility an asset is present, and not a liability. [Swiftie college coed was executed as she slept by ‘career criminal’ who broke in then went on shopping spree with her credit cards: cops, NY POST, May 11, 2025]:

An aspiring teacher and devoted Swiftie was executed as she slept by a “career criminal” who stole her credit cards and went on a shopping spree, cops said.

And her heart-broken father says he’s still waiting for her to reply to his last text message to her, “goodnight, I love you.”

College coed Logan Federico, 22, of Waxhaw, NC, was visiting friends in Columbia, SC on May 3 when a prowler broke into a rental house, swiped her credit cards, and gunned her down, the Columbia Police Department said in a press conference.

A student at South Piedmont Community College, Logan worked two jobs and was planning to transfer to the College of Charleston to become a teacher, her father, Stephen Federico, told WIS News 10.

She was strong-willed from the start,” the heartbroken father said through tears.

“She loved animals, she was a people person, she drew people in. It was the right people, too, people who needed to be uplifted,” he said.

Alexander Dickey, 30, a career criminal with 40 prior charges, allegedly broke into the rental home where Federico was staying with a stolen gun and opened fire after stealing from the house.

“She was asleep,” Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook said, calling her a “true victim.”

Dickey went on a shopping spree the next day with Logan’s credit cards, and was caught shortly after he was spotted emerging from the woods, stealing a car, and driving to a residence in Gaston, cops said.

“We texted the night she got there to make sure she was safe,” her dad recalled.

“Wednesday night, which became a tradition with all of us, I always sent a text that said ‘goodnight, I love you, I’m going to bed,” and they [his family] always responded… I’m still waiting for hers,” he said.

Logan’s last text message was to her boss at a Charlotte bar, Jeff Reed, who helped kickstart her career as a bartender, Federico said.

“One of the last things she said to me was ‘I love you,’” Reed told the outlet about her last shift.

His bar is now naming a cocktail after her called “The Queen,” as a tribute to Logan’s favorite nickname for her managers. Proceeds from the drink will go to her family, Reed said.

Logan is survived by her father, mother, and brother.

Federico gave a defiant speech to his daughter’s alleged killer during a press conference.

“The message I wanted to send to Dickey, who took my daughter’s life — this is from her: ‘You can’t kill my spirit. You might be able to kill my body … but you cannot kill my love that my family and friends shared with me.”

Dickey faces a slew of charges, including murder, burglary, weapons possession, and credit card theft. Cops say he had convictions for robbery, grand larceny, and resisting arrest.

He is scheduled to appear at the Columbia Municipal Court on Tuesday.

There’s a story Frank Miller , famed comic book author and writer of the genre-defining Dark Knight Returns, tells: He was mugged twice in the early 1980s (he’s never divulged the race of the assailants, but being New York City, it’s with 100 percent certainty we can say they were black), which spawned his decision to pen a right-wing story of Batman as a fascist caped crusader unconcerned with the rights of criminals and at war with a state seemingly tolerant of crime, misery and corruption besetting the citizens of Gotham.

It’s a Batman devoid of any respect for the rights of citizens – which he counts at night to keep himself up, he tells a criminal he’s subjecting to extreme torture in one of the graphic novels best moments – who dare threaten the stability and peace of his city, because he’s finally accepted law enforcement is inadequate in dealing with the epidemic of violence.

Logan Federico, a young White female college student, was executed by a black career criminal as she was asleep, lost in dreams of tomorrow forever unrealized because our society lacks the courage to safeguard individuals like her and instead prioritizes the imaginary suffering and plight of a community brimming with dysfunction and sociopathic behavior, but one also collectively devoid of moral agency because of the terrible legacy of slavery, oppression and persecution.

Our society and the architects of social policy enacted long ago failed Logan Federico, a young White female executed in her sleep by a career black criminal, who then used her credit cards to go on a shopping spree. We don’t have to live this way, but to cast aside the desires of a color-blind society when confronted with unavoidable criminal realities dating back more than a hundred years (and once guiding public policy) means a realigning of societal values, goals and a reevaluation of civic duty and responsibility.

These are conversations few wish to have, because the implications are catastrophic for how American society has been run since The Civil Rights Act of 1064 (when Freedom of Association was abrogated) and the conclusions of the Kerner Commission dictated sole-White culpability for the black riots of the 1960s that left so many of our major cities in ruins.

But it’s time.