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Getting Back to Normal…

ArchPundit November 17, 2003 No Comments

After the most recent wingnut eruption sidetracked the normal content of the blog again, today should be back to the typical Illinois politics and national affairs obsession I have. But later, I have a day job and such.

In a show of good taste, the Trib wouldn’t allow Eric Zorn to link directly to the letter. I don’t blame them. I would probably have suppressed the letter but for two reasons. One, Holt was a school board member in Saint Louis. He and his allies came close to taking a Board Majority about a decade ago. I’m going to create a list of those articles on the new blog (it’s coming) for easy access.

Second, I have blogged regularly on the Council of Conservative Citizens. Most recently was on October 15 (the day my hiatus started) with Haley Barbour’s visit to the Mississippi Black Hawk Barbecue.

I think the letter accurately represents their views and as they have some influence, that is more influence than they should have. Holt claims he was drunk. I say he was honest. Despicable, but honest.

While racist wingnuts are a common topic here, a far superior blog for that sort of info is at The Temple of Democracy which is the go to place for all white supremacist related info. I have reservations about his Dean comments, but that is a minor quibble given the high quality of research he provides on neo-confederates.

I also have some audio clips, but I need to host them somewhere that can handle the bandwidth.

I Believe We Have A Recording

ArchPundit November 14, 2003 1 Comment

Fair use portions will be posted over the next couple days. The comparison to Tarzan was amazing as was the General’s fine discussion of his member. I, on the other hand, couldn’t stop laughing after they didn’t even miss a beat when Gary complained about miscegenation. Perhaps I should leave such efforts to The General and Scoobie.

BTW, “Don From Saint Louis” Got Confirmation on the Letter

ArchPundit November 14, 2003 1 Comment

For a variety of reasons I thought it was him, Don got Holt to confirm he sent it–just to clarify.

I can’t do what I’m suggesting for a variety of reasons, but Earl is a landlord and there is an EHOC testing program for Fair Housing Laws. It might be worthwhile for someone to contact EHOC and Channel 2 here in Saint Louis and suggest that Earl is perhaps a prime candidate for some testing. Wil Jordan, head of EHOC here, would enjoy that very much.

Who is Doug from East Saint Louis

ArchPundit November 14, 2003 No Comments

Just curious, drop me a note.

Hate Mail—Parental Advisory

ArchPundit November 14, 2003 31 Comments

The following e-mail I received is one of the most offensive bits of excrement to ever show up in my inbox. I debated even posting it, but given Earl was a school board member in St. Louis just a decade ago and there is a collective amnesia about how far over the top these guys were, here it goes. It contains multiple obscenities and the most offensive racial slur.

Hey Commie:

Imagine my chagrin when I used a search engine to find commentary about myself, and there was your shallow, dilettante, asshole self, labeling me a "white supremacist."

Being the shallow, nigger-loving dilettante that you are, you probably DO consider niggers to be your equal (who am I to question this?): Yet, unlike you and your allies, I have an I.Q. in excess of 130, which grants me the ability to objectively evaluate the Great American Nigro (Africanus Criminalis.)

The nigro is 11.5 % of the U.S. population, yet he commits in excess of 55% of all felonies (although felonies are UNDER-represented in the nigro community, where observing the law is considered "acting White!") Moreover, he (or should I say she?)accounts for 48% of all ADC recipients in the U.S. We have spent over $7 TRILLION on "Urban Welfare Spending" since the mid-1960s, (black economists Thomas Sowell & Walter Williams) and the nigro is still as criminal, surly, lazy , violent and stupid as he/she ever was, while his illegitimacy rate is 80% nationwide, and over 90% in the "large urban areas."

By the way, those of us who tried to end forced busing in St. Louis did so because it is a colossal waste and nothing more than a symbolic gesture that has seriously deprived every school district in Missouri that doesn’t benefit from a deseg program : It has cost the state of Missouri $3.5 BILLION since 1983, (another $3.5 Billion in Kansas City,) yet, the nigro "scholars" bussed to county schools under deseg "improve less academically than every other category of student in the St. Louis Public Schools," according to the Federal Court- ordered Lissitz Study.

Also, you lying asshole, in the 2003-2004 school year, St. Louis spent $11,711 per nigger -idiot in the public schools, yet, half of all students test at the 20th percentile (or lower) on nationally-standardized tests. (If I were Emperor, I would forcibly hand over you and all your commie apologists for nigro under-achievement to White, working-class parents of public school students, and let them have their way with you…)

Some day, You sanctimonious nigger-lovers will either have to live amongst them ("nothing cures an enthusiasm for integration like a good dose of niggers") or else defend yourselves against them. My guess is that you are such a cowardly and pusillanimous lot of girly-boys, they will kill fuck, kill and eat you just as they do young White males in every prison system in the U.S. That’s right: When defending this savage and brutish lot, you must also consider their natural ( or should I say UN-natural) enthusiasm for buggery!

I honestly pray to God that some nigger fucks, kills and eats you and everyone you claim to love!

Earl P. Holt III
4029 Shaw Blvd.
St. Louis, MO
63110-3621

P.S. I dare you to print this e-mail verbatim: You know as well as I do that most people know I speak the truth, and you are a liar and whore who takes to heart Lenin’s dictum that "The first duty of the propagandist is to subvert the meaning of words."

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I’ll stand by my comment that Earl is a white supremacist.

UP DATE:
As suggested in a note, here is what I originally wrote about Earl. Comments were a bit erratic early, but should be working now.

UPDATE II: Remember, Fridays from 10-12 on WGNU Earl and Gordon Baum of the Council of Conservative Citizens host the Right at Night–a veritable hate fest. Streaming audio is available as is toll free call in for those outside the area:
314-454-0400 or
1-877-920-WGNU!

The Fun Stuff

ArchPundit November 14, 2003 No Comments

Via John Combest

Iraq won?t be helped by premature pullout

ahem, I swear, Saddam, this NEVER happens, you just REALLY turn me on…

Zorn’s Flooding hte Zone

ArchPundit November 13, 2003 1 Comment

which is good because I have a busy day—

The motion to consider the Chief’s future has been withdrawn and will be reintroduced next summer

"Frances G. Carroll, the trustee who introduced the motion earlier this week, said she was withdrawing it because other trustees were upset at the short notice," said an Associated Press story.

Short notice?

This controversy has been around for well over a decade and discussed and studied to a fare-thee-well. There are no new arguments and there’s no need for still more input. The only thing these cowardly trustees need time for is to find political cover.

Eric seems to think, as I said in my comments, that the impact of removing the chief won’t be that great–I think he is correct.

Because I have so much respect for the University, I’d be surprised if its alumni base turned out to be this shallow and petty.

I will deprive this institution of financial support I would otherwise provide because its trustees differ with me on how best to respect the American Indian!!!

Well, there will be some people that shallow and petty, it won’t be that big of a deal. As an institution of higher learning it could well be a wonderful way to teach about respect and diversity.

The Chief’s days are numbered. It may not be next year, but eventually a white guy running around as a caricature of an American Indian won’t be acceptable.

Eric also provides an interesting take on whether it should be native American or American Indian. I find all of the general terms difficult because they don’t differentiate between those American Indians south of the United States that face very different issue. That said, I see the point about American Indian.

Best Editorial of the Day

ArchPundit November 12, 2003 No Comments

From the Trib AKA Back when we walked uphills both ways to the Hill…

The U.S. Senate has scheduled a filibuster for Wednesday night so senators can talk themselves blue in the face about who’s to blame because Democrats won’t allow some of President Bush’s judicial nominations to come to a vote. We’re not going to debate the merits of the issue today–of course every nominee should get a vote. This time, we’d rather complain about the wussy nature of this filibuster.

Time was when a Senate filibuster meant something. Senators were forced to stay up all night and had to keep talking until they were close to collapse. Remember that scene in the movie, "Mr. Smith goes to Washington"? Jimmy Stewart does collapse on the Senate floor.

But the senators of the 108th Congress aren’t about to collapse from this effort. This filibuster has been carefully choreographed. It’ll last 30 hours, from Wednesday evening through midnight Thursday. No senator will have to blabber on for 30 hours. The time is being split equally between Republicans and Democrats. A Republican will blabber for 30 minutes, then a Democratic senator will blabber for 30 minutes . . . you get the picture. The point of this exercise? Beats us. Even hot air ain’t what it used to be.

More on the Chief

ArchPundit November 12, 2003 1 Comment

Eric Zorn points out the obvious if the Chief represented another ethnic group

Chief Illiniwek must go.

The University of Illinois should not "honor" American Indian culture in a way that would be unthinkable to "honor" African American culture, Jewish culture, Latino culture, Asian culture or just about any other culture.

No institution with an ounce of sensitivity would paint a white man in blackface and have him perform ceremonial tribal dances at sporting events in honor of The Fighting Africans, dress a gentile like an Orthodox rabbi and have him dance the hora at midcourt in honor of The Fighting Hebrews or otherwise attempt to pay such clumsy tribute to other peoples.

The problem is that the Chief isn’t a clumsy tribute, it isn’t a tribute to the Illini Tribe. It is college custom divorced of any meaning from the Illini tribe or any native American group.

As humorist Jim Mullen once wrote on the subject, "some people sure are touchy about being cheated out of their land, their culture and their dignity."

The land is gone, the culture is in shambles mostly–for those that have visited reservations–life isn’t pretty. Can’t we at least defend their dignity?

Admittedly, this isn’t the worst case, the Washington Redskins run away with that, but it is not acceptable.

To bring up George Will’s favorite example of how such issues are not just political correctness, around thirty years ago Pekin in Central Illinois still called its high school team the Chinks. Can you imagine a white student running around with eyes taped to appear narrow and reenacting some sort of Chinese warrior? Societies evolve, the premier public educational institution in the State of Illinois should be leader in that evolution. Let’s find a way to celebrate the Illini Tribe, not make them caricatures.

Retire the Chief

ArchPundit November 10, 2003 No Comments

In the absurdities of the modern world, the continued use of a caricature to represent the Illini tribe with a foolish moron at U of I athletic events bothers few. Fighting Illini itself isn’t offensive, but some idiot running around the field acting like a chicken with his head cut off is not an appropriate representative of Native American culture.

Why is there such attachment to such an obnoxious symbol? An obvious solution would be to involve the descendants of the Illini tribe in a discussion of how a mascot could honorably represent the tribe and the school.