Author: Thomas Fleming

The FBI’s arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell has been applauded nearly everywhere.  It is one thing on which the phony left and the phony right can agree.  Jeffrey Epstein was the devil, and Ms Maxwell was his madame.  

Here in America, white and black children often are taught to call a family friend aunty or uncle, while in the South some form of Maum/Mom was often used by polite white children to show respect for an elderly black woman.  Kindness and good manners are not racist

I too get as disgusted with my Irish-American relatives for their whining as I am tired of every other race and ethnicity whining about its problems. I once met a Hungarian pastor who piously told me–this was in Zagreb–that although everyone else in the Balkans had beaten up on some other group, the Hungarians were entirely free of imperialism. He was counting on my ignorance of Balkan history.

If Leftists really cared about Black lives, thye’d be out protesting the thugs who are far more likely than the cops to kill members of their own race.

Lincoln’s admirers have said that he was motivated by a commitment to equality and a respect for African American slaves.  The unpalatable truth is that  Lincoln’s racial attitudes are closer to those of the KKK than to those of the NAACP.  As early as 1837 Lincoln argued that “The Congress of the United States has no power under the Constitution, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the different states.”  His Emancipation Proclamation was a strictly political act designed to appeal to European liberals.  In fact, it only applied to slaves outside Lincoln’s jurisdiction, not to slaves held in...