Time to get over the fear of being called "racist" -- here's why

"... human beings are to a greater or lesser degree racist, a trait that evolution has hardwired into the genes of our species for good reason — survival of the homogenous group to which each belongs and the retention of its resources and achievements..."

"...it has little to do with the melanin content of the either tribe’s skin, although that can often be an indicator of historic intent and practice… The propagation of the concept that racism is solely the product of different skin colours is a very red herring indeed."

"... at last we Whites appear to be looking to our disparate tribal origins and beginning to understand that to unilaterally forgo the survival benefits of racism is but a subtle form of suicide, and once we are no longer prepared to accept this fate we will have surmounted the deleterious effects of the decades-long campaign designed to neutralize our will to survive. Those who seek to destroy us know that first they must undermine our ancient social cohesion with lashings of historic guilt… and they have almost succeeded." (Emphasis added.)

From: Race Wars or Situation Normal? — That is the Question
by Seneca III at Gates of Vienna

https://gatesofvienna.net/2019/02/race-wars-or-situation-normal-that-is-the-question/

Late Term Baby-part Hustling

     The purpose of late term abortion is more lucrative baby-part harvesting. More politicians want their state to cash in.
      What state will have the "distinction" of becoming the first to legalize post-birth abortion for baby-part harvesting?
     And there are dopes who are still talking about "a woman's right to choose...."
      This country is evil. Hideous. Grotesque.

Me and Michael Jackson ... and Vitiligo

This post on the Other Forum has inspired this long, boring, meander through my life experience: "So he didn't pose in the yearbook photo, but admits to donning blackface to imitate Michael Jackson. (Ironic, since Jackson had his skin surgically whitened) Wearing blackface is either wrong or it isn't."

Michael Jackson had vitiligo. He said so in interviews and it was confirmed at his autopsy.  As far as I know, there is no surgical procedure for whitening skin.

I have had vitiligo since early adolescence, and I used to research it for developments in curing or minimizing it. I read that melanocytes, the skin cells that produce melanin, each make enough for themselves and 36 other cells that do not produce melanin. So when one melanocyte's melanin producting ability is stopped, 37 skin cells lose their pigment.

The cause of vitiligo is unknown but it is hereditary (my maternal grandfather also had it). It is thought to be an auto-immune disorder where the body's immune system considers melanocytes to be foreign bodies and attacks them (whether it destroys them, or just their ability to produce melanin, I don't know.)

I was one of those little "brown as a berry" girls -- dark skinned, dark haired, dark eyed -- who would get even darker playing in the summer sun. Then, when I was twelve or so, after summer camp, we noticed a small white patch with irregular edges under my chin. Then my inner wrists and outer elbows developed white patches, followed by knees and ankles. They distressed me, but they really distressed my mother.

Sunless tanning products were just coming on the market, and my mom bought some Coppertone "Quick Tan" and applied it to my white patches with a Q-tip. Next morning my white patches were a deep, dark rust color, with the Q-tip tracks showing. (It did not wash off ... it took days to wear off.) So much for that remedy.

The doc gave me some pills called psoralens. One pill followed by four hours exposure to the sun -- daily. It was hard, almost torment.* Hot, sweaty, blinding white sun...  This was in east central Alabama. I had only my new little periwinkle, black and silver transistor radio for a companion (nobody else was fool enough to stay outside for more than a few minutes.) After many, many days, the follicles in the white patches developed a brown freckle. As summer progressed, the freckles would enlarge and run together.

I kept this insane routine up for two or three summers. Several of my white patches almost completely filled with that routine. But in the fall, when school started and the daily four hours in the sun ended, the freckles disappeared and the white patches reappeared ... and grew. Forget this!

I eventually quit trying to get rid of them and settled for covering them. In high school, I minimized the ones on my face with makeup -- Panstick was my friend. Creamy Ivory in winter, Creamy Beige in summer. As the years passed, I grew more white than brown (Creamy Ivory all the time), and by the time I reached my forties, I had few pigmented areas left. We had moved to Florida by then, and I wore long pants and long sleeves when I went anywhere. I can tell you, even with light-weight, open-weave fabrics, summer is hot in Florida.

Vitiligo is not like albinism, although each condition increases risk of skin cancer from sunlight. Albinism results in no color at all, in irises and hair, not just skin. My hair remained very dark blackish brown until the age-related gray strands started coming in, although my dark brown eyes gradually turned to a dark olive green in my late teens. I don't know if that had anything to do with vitiligo. Irises have their own melanocytes, so in theory, whatever attacks and destroys skin melanocytes could attack the ones in the irises, I guess....

In any case, at one point during this life-saga, I noticed that tattoos were no longer monochrome dark blue. There were colored tattoos, and it occurred to me to wonder if I could get myself tattooed head to toe with flesh-colored ink, ha. It seemed unlikely, and the cost would probably be prohibitive, and since I'd heard that the procedure was painful, this idea never got beyond the "wondering" stage.

I did try a few other remedies -- the most successful was to "paint" a very thin coat of NoAd sunless tanning gel on the white patches, blot them with a tissues to even out the gel (no more rust-colored Q-Tip patches for me!), let it dry and then "paint" my entire arms, legs, face/neck, etc, with the NoAd. I used a big, wide brush like you use to paint walls. It evened out the applied gel better than anything, and kept it off my palms. The NoAd also resulted in light brown coloring, not orange like some sunless tanning products. Problem was, I had to do this every third day or so and  had to exfoliate my skin like crazy... and it was pretty time consuming. I would have continued it, though -- except NoAd quit making their sunless tanning gel...

Apparently Michael Jackson's remedy was to lighten the remaining dark skin he had using products made to lighten age spots. I had never thought of that but then, I didn't want to be paler, anyway. I wanted my "brown as a berry" skin back. But, alas, it was not to be. I am now truly "lily white." What slight coloring I have comes from blood in the capillaries in my skin. I still wear long pants and long sleeves outside, as I don't know if any sun-block products offer the same level of protection. I have never worried about getting skin cancer because of this routine.

In any case, I am always amused when I see these theories about Michael Jackson's skin. I am no fan of the late celebrity -- pedophilia utterly destroys any positive feelings I might have about anybody -- but I found the "surgically whitened" comment guffaw-worthy.

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* It was nothing compared to the horrific medical conditions some kids, and adults, experience. I have no cause for complaining about it and I have never often done it.

Now they're discussing Northam on the OF

I'm still kicked off the Other Forum, despite my repeated petitions to the owner and/or moderator, stating my case that the people still allowed on the forum post things far worse than anything I ever posted.  That means I can't respond when I see things (I can still read, if not post, on the forum) that really, really need a reply. I can't even respond to posts about me. Yes, they're still commenting about me. I guess I'm something of a legend over there now.)

Those people lie. They lied a lot about my posts, but they just lie routinely about most anything -- especially Trump. I've been enjoying the thread, now up to two pages of it, about Ralph "Coonman" Northam, he of the Virginia governor's office, post-birth abortion proponent and current blackface/KKK hood brouhaha.

One guy says he believes Northam's apology...I wonder what he thinks now that Northam has changed his story and says it wasn't him in the photo.

Another poster mentioned Northam's "appalling comments on abortion," which generated this response, "..his appalling comments about abortion...You mean the comments like old men should not govern how women manage their bodies? Or any woman who wants an abortion should have one? Those apalling comments?"

Ah, no, GL...the one where he said the baby would be delivered at term and made "comfortable" while the "mother" and her "doctor" discussed the situation -- presumably to decide whether the comfortable, living baby would be allowed to continue living or to be murdered. Or maybe they'd be deciding on prices for the baby's body parts?

When are these nutzoids going to realize that abortion is NOT about a woman's body? Her body is not shredded, her head not crushed, in an abortion -- it is the baby's body that is shredded....  The baby is INSIDE her body but it is NOT her body. I guess some of the wombless cannot understand that.

SVA, who has a track record of posting untruths and bizarre comments, adds, "However, the GOP is screaming for his resignation as are many democrats. Where was the screams from the Republicans when they helped confirm Kavenaugh. They seem to have had no problem with his behavior and it continued into his college years. Said BEFORE you start defending him because he was in high school SB."

Well, (1) Kavanaugh was falsely accused by a cabal of leftist idologues so Republicans didn't believe them, (2) his yearbook showed nothing to confirm the sexual misconduct he was accused of, (3) college kids drinking (or adults drinking) was not, and is not, a political issue (see Nancy Pelosi's in-flight hard liquor  "adult beverage" bills before you say another syllable about Brett Kavanaugh's beers) and (4) Republicans don't hold themselves up to be examples of sobriety the way Democrats claim to be saintly examples of anti-racism, which they obviously are not. Does that explain it, SVA?

RJ adds, "Democrats are very quick to condemn their own," and gives one example, ONE EXAMPLE, of Al Franken being thrown under the bus for one photo. He completely forgets Bill Clinton's vile behavior IN OFFICE that Democrats winked at, and the leftist, Democrat-supporting sex harassers in Hollywood and the news media.

A couple of comments come close to the crux of the matter (but then veer off): "The Dems have claimed the moral high ground, so must defend it; the Rips embrace the low ground, and advance anarchy..." and "Repugs don’t actually believe this is a serious problem- tRump is exhibit A- but know how sensitive Dems are, and so use this as a cudgel. Totally amoral- any weapon in a brawl. Dems still seem to think it’s a gentlemans game."

What these come close to, but end up completely missing, is that the Democrats are TOTAL HYPOCRITES because they claim the "moral high ground" and have falsely accused people of racism for literally GENERATIONS when they are as guilty as sin of the same sins. They've just always been protected from disclosure by the press. The Internet is changing that. No wonder they want to regulate it.... Republicans don't "embrace the low ground." Nobody champions what Trump said. Try to find where they have, fellas.

The forum's Great Wise One responds to this, "Just because he was promoting 9th month and at birth abortions . . ." with this: "This is a blatant falsehood. You are either deceived or deliberately lying." You're wrong GWO -- he defended and promoted post-birth abortion as something a woman and her doctor should DISCUSS after the baby is born.

SB remarks, "Imagine the furor if instead of blackface or a Klan sheet he'd been photographed wearing a red cap. Or a smirk." Indeed. SB is one of maybe four of five conservatives I found in the forum. What Northam is experiencing, he brought on himself. The MAGA hat kids were innocent and the press crucified them for no reason except for the media's deep, visceral hatred of Trump.

SVA falls back on his oft-repeated fantasy that Kavanaugh is an alcoholic, despite the fact that he doesn't exhibit any of the symptoms or tale-tell signs of alcoholism. This is a huge fantasy of the left.

One member I never encountered when I was a member posted this, "So he didn't pose in the yearbook photo, but admits to donning blackface to imitate Michael Jackson. ( Ironic, since Jackson had his skin surgically whitened) Wearing blackface is either wrong or it isn't."

Agree. He admitted to appearing in black face, period. But this person's comment, "Ironic, since Jackson had his skin surgically whitened," is not true. (More on this in my next post.)

A Virginian who hates the Flaggers posts, "My other half is Roman Catholic and has been giddy over this affair. He is a single issue voter and Northam's abortion position has pushed K-- over the top. I suggested he may need to go to confession this afternoon due to his schadenfreude."

But not due to his defiance of Scripture's prohibition of the sin of homosexuality... (shaking my head).

Someone mentioned wearing his MAGA hat proudly, with a smirk, and SVA -- again -- posts, "Firstly, I'm surprised that you can find one small enough to fit on your head.  Secondly, you realize those hats are made in China. How does it represent making America Great if Trump has a Chinese Factory making them and not an American Company? Ever think about that? I doubt it granted."

This insult to a fellow forum member is a far worse transgression that mine, and it breaks a clearly stated rule of the forum. Second, this fellow just lies like so many of them do -- over and over and over. Trump hats you buy at Walmart are probably made in China, but Trump hats you order from Trump's official website are made in America. Even the left-protecting "fact checker" website, Snopes, acknowledges Trump's official hats are made in the USA.

Flagrant lies about Trump are par for the course at the OF.

CK sez, "Weird how republicans are shocked by racism only when it serves their purposes."  It's not the racism, CK, it's the leftist, Democrat hypocrisy.

That condition -- rank, flagrant hypocrisy -- is the defining characteristic of the left.