Four Years Later Google’s Search Bias is as Blatant as Ever

Douglas Murray once pointed out that, no sooner was there more equality than ever between the sexes, that the war on men was launched. And no sooner was there more equality than ever between the races, that the war on whiteness was launched...

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In his 2019 book The Madness of the Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity, Douglas Murray exposed the cultural insanity that has gripped so much of the modern world. 

He pointed out that, no sooner was there more equality than ever between the sexes that the war on men was launched. 

And no sooner was there more equality than ever between the races that the war on whiteness was launched. 

Murray brought a wide array of arguments to support his theses but none were more striking than the images that came up on Google searches for specific terms and phrases. 

It was hard to deny what you could see with your own eyes.

That was back in 2019, and one would think that with such damning revelations, Google would have made some changes. In fact, months before Murray’s book came out, a headline announced, “Google Explains Why Some Image Search Results Look Racist.” (Sorry, but I didn’t find the article convincing in the least, especially given the sophistication of these search engines.)

Murray had pointed out that when you searched Google for Gay Couples, you would see a host of images with gay couples, as expected. When you searched for Black Couples, you would see a host of images with Black couples, again, as expected.

But if you searched for Straight Couples or White Couples or Straight White couples, the results were anything but what you could expect. 

Now, Murray’s book was widely read, and one would think that the embarrassment caused by this information would have brought about some search integrity. 

For my part, it was only this year that I dove into The Madness of the Crowds, so I decided to check the results for myself.  Surely, I would not get the same results Murray got four years later, right? 

Let’s start with Black Couples, clicking on Images. My search yielded row after row of Black couples. What do you know!

Now we’ll switch to Gay Couples. What did the Google search engine produce? The same thing. Row after row of images of gay couples, some with their kids, but all male-male or female-female. The only exception was the occasional image of a throuple, but here too, all three participants were gay.

How about Black Gay Couples? Yet again, exactly what you asked for: every image is of a Black gay couple, with “gay” specifically meaning “male.”

Now let’s try White Couples. What comes up in the search?

The first couple features a White man and a Black woman. The same with the second image (I’m not making this up). The fourth image is that of a Black man and possibly a Hispanic man (the image links to the website, “Loving Interracial Couples”), and the fifth that of a White woman and a Black man.

I tried this on different days and the results were shockingly similar. 

When I searched for Straight Couples, there was at least one image of a same-sex couple on each of the first three rows, some of the images linked to an article on what straight couples could learn from gay couples. 

When I searched for Straight White Couples – to repeat, I am not making this up – the very first image that came up was that of a gay interracial couple – chew on that for a moment – a White man and a Black man. To repeat, this was searching for Straight White Couples.

To be sure, there was also a link to a YouTube video titled, “Searching straight white couples on google images. Douglas Murray was right!” That video is two years old, yet still, two years later, no change.

Even something as simple as searching for Black Men and then White Men yielded the same results. 
All Black men for the first search; lots of White men, plus Black men for the second search.

Talk about political correctness on steroids and beyond. Talk about mass manipulation, especially when you realize that the vast amount of manipulation is not so obvious and blatant. 

Put another way, the manipulation can be so powerful because you don’t know you’re being manipulated, since you’re actually searching for information in order to learn and be informed. 

Just out of curiosity, I repeated these searches on Microsoft’s Bing.

While the search for Black and Gay individuals and couples produced the expected results, the search for White Couples yielded the exact opposite. Out of the first 6 images, every single one featured a multi-racial couple. 

At the risk of being redundant, I kid you not!

Of the next 6 images, again, only one featured an all-White couple and one featured an all-Black couple. 

As for Straight Couples in Bing, it only took four images before you were introduced to your first same-sex couple, while in the second row of images, there was another same-sex couple followed by a straight couple waving gay pride flags. Naturally!

Finally, searching for Straight White Couples yielded the following: of the first 11 images, four featured interracial couples, three featured same-sex couples, one featured a Black couple, and three featured straight White couples – but again, one of the images featured that same straight couple with the rainbow flags.

How does one say in Latin, “Let the searcher beware?”

Denouncing the Dangerous (and Pseudo-Christian) Antisemitism of Nick Fuentes

Every person of conscience should call out this vile, very dangerous antisemitism. Do not underestimate what demented people might do in the name of their twisted cause. And do not underestimate how deeply entrenched this very sick mindset is in the hearts of countless Americans.

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It’s the same old story repeated yet again, although this time the call for violence is open and overt. 

The evil, Christ-rejecting Jews control America, and they must be ousted from power. After all, this is a Christian nation, and we don’t want those Christ haters ruling over us. To the contrary, we will crush them in a holy war, and it is they who will die, not us.

So says Nick Fuentes (born 1988), founder of the America First movement, which describes itself as “the synthesis of traditional values, Trumpian populism, and American Nationalism.” 

It also cloaks itself in Christian rhetoric, making it all the more insidious.

Few Americans were familiar with Fuentes before November 2022, when he dined with former President Trump at Mar-a-Lago as a guest of Kanye West, stirring a national controversy. 

How could Trump welcome and dine with a White Supremacist Neo-Nazi?

Trump, for his part, claimed to have no idea who Fuentes was, stating that the dinner was quick and uneventful. In contrast, West claimed that Trump was deeply impressed with the young man. Either way, the visit brought Fuentes into the national spotlight.

Last month, video footage surfaced of Fuentes speaking to his constituents with completely unhinged rhetoric, coupled with a bizarre light show in the background. The whole thing is so extreme that you would not be faulted for thinking it was satire. 

As the July 18, 2023 headline in the Jerusalem Post announced, “White supremacist Nick Fuentes: ‘We will make Jews die in the holy war’.” 

Fuentes said, “Do you think it might be a problem that the people that are running your banks, that are making the movies your children watch... Do you think it’s a problem that they believe that all Christians must die? It’s a big problem. It’s a huge problem.”

Yes, he said (to rousing applause), “We need to eradicate [the] Jewish stranglehold over the United States of America.”

And, while he said that “we love everybody,” he stated that “ideas matter, religion matters, and we need Christians running America, not Jews.”

He continued (to even more rousing applause and shouts of affirmation), “Word is getting out that we got to rid of Jewish power in America,” and despite “them” doing everything in their power to stop it – censoring and canceling and killing – “we are here to say that America is not a Jewish nation. America is a Christian nation.” 

You’ve got to see the video for yourself, but, to paint the picture here in words, at this point in the speech, on the screen behind him, giant angel wings flap on his right and left, as if he was some kind of angelic messenger. 

It really does seem like a sick attempt at satire. But I repeat, it is not.

In fact, in response to his proclamation that America is a Christian nation not a Jewish nation, the crowd begins to chant, “Christ is King! Christ is King!”

Fuentes then says that, yes, of course, this must be the case, since Christ is King of the world and therefore must be King of America too.

And so, Fuentes knows that “we will win, because unlike our opposition, we are willing to die for what we believe in. . . . We’re in a holy war and I will tell you this. Because we’re willing to die in the holy war, we will make them die in the holy war. And they will go down.”

Yet because God is on our side, we will win.

Indeed, he proclaimed, “We have God on our side. They will go down with their Satanic master. They have no future in America. The enemies of Christ have no future in this world.”

This is the very worst form of Christian nationalism that exists. It is not in the least bit American. And it is no more Christian than is Satan himself. To call this despicable is to be too soft.

I posted a short video on YouTube, playing these clips from Fuentes and then denouncing him and his rhetoric in the strongest possible terms, rebuking him plainly and openly. Yet within the first 5,000 views on YouTube, we had to remove scores of comments cheering him on. (Note also that, while most of my videos receive between 96 and 99 percent likes to dislikes, this one, at present, is at 81.9 percent.)

The comments ranged from people having no problem with what he said to alleged quotes from rabbinic writings, proving how evil the Jews really are, and from people claiming, “Nick Fuentes is the most pro-Christ leader in America” to others who claimed support for his vile antisemitism in the teaching of the Church Fathers and official statements from the Catholic Church. (One even cited the Catholic antisemite Dr. E. Michael Jones in support. For a Catholic rebuke to Jones, see here.)

Other, comments, all of which, we must remember, were posted in response to Fuentes calling for the death of Jewish people in a “Christian” holy war, included: 

“America is a Christian nation! I agree with Nick.” 

“Nick’s show brought me back to Christ and to His Church. Without Nick, I would’ve been lost in the fog of agnosticism. God bless Nick and America first!” 

“I love everyone, but some beliefs are not to be tolerated [with specific reference to Jewish beliefs]. Tolerance is not a Christian virtue.” 

“Wait, is being in a stranglehold to people who deny Jesus Christ's divinity a good thing for America?”

“Stop playing the victim Michael. He's talking about the fake Jews of Revelation [meaning, the book of Revelation 2:9; 3:9]. Snap out of the witchcraft. Peace.”

“Dr. Brown is a vicious anti-white Jewish supremacist! Jew deserve all they get for the war on whites they started!”

“We support Nick Fuentes against the synagogue of Satan.”

“This country should be governed by confessors of Christ, not by blasphemers!”

For years I (and others) have been warning about this fresh, rising tide of “Christian” antisemitism, often intertwined with an overt White supremacism. 

Not surprisingly, it is paralleled by the overt Jewish hatred of Black supremacist groups like the Black Hebrew Israelites. Both have in common their open hatred for American Jews, whom they call “the synagogue of Satan” and whose violent doom they predict – at their own hands, of course.

Every person of conscience should call out this vile, very dangerous antisemitism. Do not underestimate what demented people might do in the name of their twisted cause. 

And do not underestimate how deeply entrenched this very sick mindset is in the hearts of countless thousands, if not millions, of Americans.

We must not let this plague spread on our watch. 

Of course, Jesus came into this world as a Jew named Yeshua, and His mission began with a focus on His own people Israel. But His purpose in coming into the world as the Jewish Messiah was to die for Jew and Gentile alike and to gather believing Jews and Gentiles into one spiritual family without class or caste distinctions. What we must take hold of is that He transcends Blackness or Whiteness (or any ethnicity or color)...

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While attending college in 1973-1977, it was always a joy to meet other, on-fire Christians, since I was studying at a secular university rather than a Christian school. 

One of these fellow-believers was a Black Christian named James. He, too, was deeply devoted to the Lord, so we would fellowship with one another whenever we could.

He often spoke about his congregation in Brooklyn, so one day, together with some friends (all of us White Christians), we attended one of the services. 

It was a terrific meeting, with great singing and preaching and a real atmosphere of faith. As for the makeup of the congregation, it was virtually all Black (with the exception, in this case, of my friends and I). That’s what also made it special for me, since this was a fairly new cultural experience, and it was spiritually vibrant. 

What struck me as odd, though, was a large mural on one of the walls, depicting Jesus and His apostles as Black. Everyone knew they were White (or so, I assumed, without any real thought).

When I asked him about the mural, out of curiosity, not accusation, he said to me, 

“When you get your high school yearbook, what’s the first thing you do? You look for your own picture. It’s the same thing here. We’re not saying that Jesus and the apostles were Black. It’s simply a way for people to find a point of identification with Him.”

That was all I needed to hear, and I subsequently attended another service there, along with a major rally in Manhattan.

What I didn’t realize until later was that the depictions of Jesus I was used to, be it in movies or portraits, were equally anachronistic – perhaps even more so – presenting Jesus as a White European Christian rather than as a first-century Jewish rabbi. 

To be sure, some of these depictions contain an inherent antisemitism, most dramatically illustrated in the famous “Christ among the Doctors” by Albrecht Dürer, where Jesus, a beautiful man, is contrasted with the Jewish scholars, some of whom look demonic -- literally.

Prof. Bernard Starr has written about this antisemitic strain in Christian art, both in article form and full-length book form. See, for example, his 2015 article, “Five Stages of Anti-Semitism in Art -- From Medieval to Modern Times,” along with his 2016 book, Jesus, Jews, And Anti-Semitism In Art: How Renaissance Art Erased Jesus' Jewish Identity & How Today's Artists Are Restoring It.

But my focus here is not on these antisemitic depictions. It is on the way in which we create a Jesus in our image. This can be as negative as it is positive.

On the positive side, all of us can find that place of identification in Jesus, as with the church I visited in Brooklyn (with its Black Jesus) and as with classic movies about the Lord (with their White Jesus). We can relate to this Jesus because He is just like us – not just a human being, which is the great point of the Incarnation, but also someone we can relate to culturally.

That’s why it’s no surprise to see religious iconography in which Jesus looks like the people who worship Him, be they Black or White or Chinese or Native American. 

This trend continues in depictions of other biblical characters, as well, from Moses to Mary. (For the purpose of this article, I’m not discussing the larger question of religious iconography and whether it is right to portray Jesus at all.)

On the negative side, when our image of Jesus drives others away, since He is not like them and they are not like Him, this can be very destructive. This is all the more true when the outsider Christians are not only presenting a foreign Jesus, but when they themselves are poor examples of the faith. 

In his thunderous 1970 book, How Black Is the Gospel? A Decisive and Truthful Message for Today’s Revolution, Evangelist Tom Skinner wrote, 

“Many black Americans bitterly denounce Christianity and the Bible because, in their view, those who practice religious piety are among the leading exponents of hate, bigotry and prejudice. They feel that these ‘Bible-toting Saints’ perpetuate the most segregated hour of the week-eleven o'clock Sunday morning.”

But that was just the start (and remember, he wrote this in 1970). 

“Today's young blacks, having learned more history than their forebears, are quick to resent acts of so-called Christianity and the use of those random Biblical verses that are so blatantly detrimental to the dignity of the black man in America.”

“There must have been thousands of slaves who vowed when they learned to read that they would never look at or allow their children to see those passages of St. Paul, which encourage servants to be obedient to their masters. In many instances, these were the only portions of the Bible that ‘ole massa’ would allow the preacher to read to illiterate black men, in the hope that obedience to the Scriptures would further secure the system of white supremacy. This spirit still lives.”

As for the White man’s depiction of Jesus, Skinner said, 

“Black America is not about to follow a white Christ. The image of a Christ patterned after [Warner] Sallman's portrait is more than suspect. It has become a contemptuous symbol to the black man of all the fakery and chicanery endorsed by so many white Christians. If Christ takes on the image of an Anglo-Saxon Protestant suburbanite, He's obviously not for black men. It is inconceivable that this kind of Christ would die for black people.”

This was true in 1970, and it remains true today. Perhaps Skinner’s words have opened some of our eyes?

“The question is, of course, whether this view of Jesus Christ is true. Has Christianity become the ‘worship of white’ used as a tool of oppression to increase the black man's burden? If this be true, it is understandable that the black man must find his salvation through worshiping black.”

This is exactly what has happened with radical race-based cults like the Hebrew Israelites. They have reacted against a White Jesus and a whitewashed Bible, which, in their view, are an essential part of the oppressive system of White Supremacy, and they have created a Jesus in their own image – not just Black, but militantly anti-White.

“One thing is certain: whatever contemporary man decides about the ‘color’ of religion, Christ stands outside that debate. Even a superficial reading of the gospel reveals that Christ showed only one, special interest—allegiance to His Father and the Kingdom of God. He was owned by no man, He belonged to no particular group, and He refused to sanction one party or system over another. He was God in the form of man –neither black nor white.” 

(Skinner also pointed out, quite rightly, that, “Racism as we know it today was not an issue in Biblical times.” The conflicts were over ethnicity, culture, and religion, not race.)

Of course, Jesus came into this world as a Jew named Yeshua, and His mission began with a focus on His own people Israel. But His purpose in coming into the world as the Jewish Messiah was to die for Jew and Gentile alike and to gather believing Jews and Gentiles into one spiritual family without class or caste distinctions.

And while we can speculate on what, exactly, Jesus looked like, that is really a secondary issue. (For an idea of what Jesus might have looked like, created by forensic anthropologist Richard Neave in 2001, see here),

What we must take hold of is that He transcends Blackness or Whiteness (or any ethnicity or color), which is why Skinner then wrote this: 

“All right, granted that Jesus Christ was neither black nor white, Protestant nor Catholic, and did not embrace Christianity as a system. But if Christ was essentially concerned with the spiritual condition of man, how can He relate to the issues of today? How can He respond to the political, economic and social needs of Black American?”

Those are the questions we need to ask (for Black and White Americans and for all people of all nations), and that’s where our focus needs to be. 

Jesus transcends our earthly barriers and norms and smashes our prejudices. 

Let us follow that Jesus and present Him to the world.

Antisemitism is Alive and (Un)well All Over the Internet Today

A scholar once pointed out that antisemitism was “the longest and deepest hatred of human history.” He asked, “What other hatred has endured some twenty-three centuries and survived a genocide of 6,000,000 of its victims in its twenty-third century of existence only to find itself still intact and rich in potential for many years of life?” Today, there’s a surge in antisemitism from extremist cults like the Black Hebrew Israelites (BHI) and largely White, “Christian” circles influenced by antisemites such as Dr. E. Michael Jones...

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It was the Catholic scholar Edward Flannery who pointed out that antisemitism was “the longest and deepest hatred of human history.” He asked, 

“What other hatred has endured some twenty-three centuries and survived a genocide of 6,000,000 of its victims in its twenty-third century of existence only to find itself still intact and rich in potential for many years of life?”

Flannery wrote these words in his 1985 book The Anguish of the Jews. Today, almost 40 years later, that long and deep hatred shows no signs of abating. 

This is especially true online, where the worst aspects of humanity get free expression, where conspiracy theories of the ugliest kind abound, and where the most uncredentialed, unqualified person can gain a following. 

I was reminded of this when looking at comments to one of our videos on YouTube. It’s just three minutes long and was posted about three years ago, titled, “Why Have Jews Been Kicked Out of So Many Countries?” As is the norm, this video refuting common antisemitic libels drew out the antisemites just as a light draws out bugs.

Still, it was jarring to read one vicious, ridiculous, patently false comment after another. 

(As much as I would love to read every comment posted to our YouTube channel, it’s obviously not feasible, especially with more than 3,000 videos on the channel. That’s why it was enlightening to read all the comments to this one video.)

The clear majority of the comments that were posted violated our guidelines, which include rules against personal attacks, libeling others, posting on totally unrelated topics, and using profanity. Accordingly, once I read those comments, they were deleted.

But, just as my team and I have taken screenshots of such comments before deleting them, we have mountains of similar comments already in our archives.

Why, then, were the Jewish people (in particular, non-baptized Jews) expelled from  different countries throughout history, including England in 1290 and Spain in 1492? (The internet meme, claiming that Jews have been expelled from 109 countries, is greatly exaggerated.)

The answer is quite simple, as I explained in the video: for the most part, it was simply because they were Jews. They refused to convert to the dominant religion (specifically, Christianity; under Islam they were primarily subjugated), and they were different and distinct because of their religious practices and customs. 

This, in turn, led to them being demonized, becoming scapegoats for the latest calamity or tragedy. Blame it on the Jews!

Last century, Jews had to flee Muslim countries with the establishment of the nation of Israel in 1948. They were no longer welcome and risked their livelihoods and their very lives if they stayed.

But this is not what the antisemites believe. 

Instead, the reason for these expulsions is because the Jewish people are the most evil of people. Because they are parasites (or, more recently, as expressed by Louis Farrakhan, termites), guilty of the most atrocious sins imaginable, driven out because of the high morals of the Christian countries which had so graciously hosted them. Those terrible, evil Jews!

The comments I read, one after another, repeated the standard libels. 

The Jews were expelled because they were pedophiles, as sanctioned by their religious literature. 

The Jews were expelled because they were greedy and corrupt. 

The Jews were expelled because they controlled the banks and were getting rich off high interest rates, hurting their innocent, hardworking neighbors. 

The Jews were expelled because they cursed Christians in prayer three times per day.

And then, of course, this juicy, self-contradicting lie: the Jews were expelled because they were not really Jews and were exposed as being impostors.

So, they were hated as Jews because they were not really Jews. How logical! Had they been genuine Jews, they would have been loved. But of course! (So, in one country, the Jews were hated because they were Jews; in another country, they were hated because they weren’t really Jews. All clear!)

As for Israel today, according to the antisemites, it is not just an apartheid country but a country that is built on and that continues to practice genocide. The Israelis are the contemporary equivalent of the Nazis. (Someone just posted this to another, related video as I was finishing this article.)

In the video, I freely acknowledge that, as a people (and I am Jewish myself), we have fallen under divine judgment at different times in our history, having rejected Moses, the prophets, and Jesus the Messiah.

In that regard, we are like everyone else: a mixed bunch with lots of good qualities and lots of bad qualities, ultimately falling short of God’s mark and needing redemption.

But, as I also point out in the video, the Lord sternly rebuked those nations that treated the Jewish people harshly, saying that they overdid the punishment.

That means that much of our suffering has been due to the hatred of our enemies and not simply due to our sins. And that hatred is manifest in vicious words that pave the way for vicious actions.

That’s why we must confront the lies of antisemitism aggressively, clearly, and tirelessly, no matter how often they raise their head.

Today, there’s a surge in antisemitism from extremist cults like the Black Hebrew Israelites (BHI) and largely White, “Christian” circles influenced by antisemites such as Dr. E. Michael Jones (for my interview with Dr. Jones, see here). In other words, as per the norm, the lies continue to come from all sides and from every angle.

To give a sampling of the hateful rhetoric, note the joyful, affirming expression on the face of the Black Hebrew Israelite leader I was debating when I quoted his own words to him (at the Second Coming, Jesus “wants to step on you people’s heads until your brains come out”; the video is queued to start at 1:52:54; he reacted in a similar way moments later when I read a comment from another BHI member who claimed that the Holocaust never happened and that Hitler was a “white Idumean [= Edomite] heathen devil” like me).

As for Dr. Jones, Memri TV recently posted video highlights of an interview he did for Iranian TV: 

"American writer E. Michael Jones said in an interview that was aired on Channel 4 (Iran) on January 21-22, 2023 that the narrative that the Jews were gassed in the Holocaust is a "conflation" of facts. He explained that in reality, the typhus-infested Jews who emigrated from "unhygienic" shtetls in Eastern Europe to America through Germany "had no idea what a shower was" and were made to take a shower and had their clothes deloused with Zyklon-B. He elaborated that as a consequence, Zyklon-B has been conflated with showers by the Jews. He said that Auschwitz had amenities such as a swimming pool, and that Hollywood is the "regime that rules America" and sustains the Holocaust "narrative". He also said that saying the word "Jew" is taboo in America, but that this taboo is now being broken, and that the overturning of Roe vs. Wade is the beginning of the end of Jewish "hegemony" over American culture. He also said that the "fundamental problem" with American politics is that the Jews control both political parties."

Thankfully, in the end, truth will overcome lies and light will overcome darkness. 

But we do well in the here and now not to underestimate the power of those dark lies. They have led to shedding of an ocean of Jewish blood over the centuries.

A Major Takeaway from Tim Scott’s Appearance on 'The View'

Scott said, “The fact of the matter is that progress in America is palpable. It can be measured in generations... I look back at the fact that my grandfather, born in 1921...  believed then what some doubt now: in the goodness of America. Because he believed that having faith in God, faith in himself, and faith in what the future could hold for his kids, would unleash opportunities in ways that you cannot imagine.”

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Tim Scott, the Republican senator from South Carolina and now a Republican presidential candidate, recently appeared on The View and had a lively and candid conversation with the hosts about a number of hot-button issues, in particular the question of systemic racism in America today.

In the midst of extended and respectful interaction with host Sonny Hostin (herself an African American), Scott differed with Hostin’s assessment that his own story was an exception to the rule.

He stated, “That is a dangerous, offensive, disgusting message to send to our young people today, that the only way to succeed is by being the exception.”

Then, when challenged by Hostin about whether systemic racism currently existed in America, Scott pointed to the great progress we had made, including having national leaders like Barack Obama and Kamala Harris as well as local leaders in South Carolina who were African American.

He also noted that, “In 1975, there was about 15% unemployment in the African American community and for the first time in the history of the country it is under 5%.”

When Hostin responded, “40% homelessness of African-Americans as [compared to] 13% of the population,” Scott answered, 

“Here’s what I’m gonna suggest... The fact of the matter is that progress in America is palpable. It can be measured in generations. I look back at the fact that my grandfather, born in 1921 in Sally, South Carolina, when he was on a sidewalk, a White person was coming, he had to step off and not make eye contact. That man believed then what some doubt now: in the goodness of America. Because he believed that having faith in God, faith in himself, and faith in what the future could hold for his kids, would unleash opportunities in ways that you cannot imagine.”

“Every kid today can look - just change the stations and see how much progress has been made in this country. ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, ESPN, CNN, and FOX News, all have African-American and Hispanic hosts. So what I’m suggesting is that yesterday’s exception is today’s rule.”

Hostin then asked, “So America has met its promise?”

Scott responded, “No, of course, the concept of America is that we are going to become a more perfect union. But in fact, the challenges that we faced 50 years ago and 60 years ago should not be the same challenges that we face today.”

“And here’s the way that you measure that. When my mother was born, about 10% of African Americans got a high school degree, diploma, today it is over 90%. When we look at the income success” – Hoskin’s interjected here, “That’s an HBCU [Historically Black Colleges and Universities] stat” – and Scott continued, “The HBCU stat is a good one. One of the reasons why I took the funding for HBCUs to the highest level in the history of the country, and then I helped make it permanent, is because I believe that education is the closest thing to magic in America. So I’m about making sure that our kids have as many opportunities to succeed as possible.”

May Scott’s vision come to pass, and may it come to pass speedily. Well done and well said.

But here’s what struck me – and I write this from the perspective of a White Jewish American who was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island where I encountered very little antisemitism and was raised in a non-racist home. (As a young boy, my second organ teacher was a Black man married to a White woman, and they would sometimes dine with us. They had lost many friends because of their marriage, something that my father found utterly appalling in that day and age, meaning, in the mid-1960s; I was born in 1955.)

The bottom line is that I did not grow up in the South. I did not witness firsthand the outrage of segregation. I did not come from a major slave-owning state. And, although in retrospect I’m sure it was happening on Long Island, I was unaware that Blacks were subject to racial profiling by the police. This was not a conversation I remember having with any Black schoolmates or friends in high school or college, even in my days as a teen drug user, when fear of the police was a reality to me and my fellow-druggies. (Again, for context, I was born in 1955.)

What struck me, then, in Scott’s comments was not his emphasis on how much better things have gotten for Black Americans today, although I do believe he is right, and I believe we are continuing to head in the right direction, the efforts and attitudes of White Supremacists notwithstanding.

Instead, what struck me was how recent Scott’s examples were.

To be sure, none of this was new information to me in terms of the picture that he painted. I was just jarred to hear it stated again, especially lines like this: “When my mother was born, about 10% of African Americans got a high school degree, diploma . . . .” How devastating. Inequities that run that deep are not quickly reversed. And to think of what his own grandfather suffered. This is not ancient history.

That’s why I was not surprised to read that a 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances found that, 

“White families have the highest level of both median and mean family wealth: $188,200 and $983,400, respectively . . . . Black and Hispanic families have considerably less wealth than White families. Black families’ median and mean wealth is less than 15 percent that of White families, at $24,100 and $142,500, respectively. Hispanic families’ median and mean wealth is $36,100 and $165,500, respectively.”

So, what struck me the most in Scott’s comments was how far we still need to go to right the wrongs of the past – and I write these words as someone who is not trying to prove my wokeness, who feels zero “White guilt” (why on earth should I?), and who is not arguing for reparations.

I’m simply saying that: 1) our ugly past is more recent than some of us realize (or care to realize); and: 2) while I do not believe that systemic racism is by any means pervasive in America today, the legacy of systemic racism can still be felt in many tangible ways.

All that being said, I applaud Senator Scott’s attitude and I agree with him that we are heading in the right direction. 

Let it truly be that “yesterday’s exception is today’s rule”!

‘Lashawan Qwadash’: One of the Craziest Beliefs of the Black Hebrew Israelite Cult

Languages scholar Dr. Michael Brown explains how the Black Hebrew Israelites version of the Hebrew language is as concocted as Klingon. Among a host of crazy Black Hebrew Israelite beliefs, one of the most bizarre is the idea that they have preserved the real pronunciation of the Hebrew language, which they call Lashawan Qwadash. This is similar to claiming that Pig Latin is the true form of English or that William Shakespeare was famous for shaking a spear. It is that patently and blatantly absurd...

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Among a host of crazy Black Hebrew Israelite beliefs, one of the most bizarre is the idea that they have preserved the real pronunciation of the Hebrew language, which they call Lashawan Qwadash. 

This is similar to claiming that Pig Latin is the true form of English or that William Shakespeare was famous for shaking a spear. It is that patently and blatantly absurd.

In their completely made-up version of Hebrew (allegedly given by revelation to one of their early leaders), the Hebrew name for Jesus becomes Yahawashi (seriously), and “shalom” becomes “shalawam” (I kid you not).

The truth be told, Yahawashi is no more a Hebrew name than Toyota is a German car brand, and shalawam is no more a Hebrew word than is shazam. 

The reason this matters (and is even worthy of being mentioned) is that these BHI’s claim to be the original Israelites, the true Jews. Yet they absolutely butcher the Hebrew language and display a fundamental ignorance of Hebrew orthography and morphology. This alone undermines their claims to authenticity. (As I have said many times before, no one is disputing that there are Black Jews, along with and Hispanic Jews and White Jews and Asian Jews, etc. The issue is the unique, fictional claims of the BHI’s, claims fueled by intense racial hatred.)

In stark contrast, the real Jewish people have preserved the Hebrew Scriptures and Hebrew language through the centuries, with the primary divergences being matters of dialect and custom.

This is of special interest to me, since my Bachelor’s degree was earned in Hebrew language and both my Master’s and Ph.D. were in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures. 

All the more, then, does the ridiculous, impossible nature of Lashawan Qwadash (henceforth LQ) shout to me from the rooftops.

To summarize, if the pronunciation of LQ is true (which is it not), then every speaker of every Semitic language today, including the entire Arabic speaking world, along with every speaker of Tigre and Amharic in Africa, every speaker of Aramaic, every Israeli (including Arab Israelis), every Assyrian Christian, is mispronouncing their language as well, since similar grammatical and morphological and phonetic principles apply across these languages.

If the pronunciation of LQ is accurate (which it is not), then every ancient Semitic inscription, in particular every Babylonian and Assyrian inscription, which contain explicit vocalization, is in error. 

In short, LQ violates every grammatical and morphological and phonetic principle of every Semitic language recorded in any recognized grammatical text and lexicon because it is a complete myth created by a Hebrew Israelite who did not really know Hebrew. 

LQ makes biblical texts completely unintelligible (such as the explanation for the name Reuben in Gen 29:32, based on “see a son”) and is proven wrong by the Septuagint’s (and other ancient versions’) transcription of certain Hebrew names and by the New Testament’s transcription of Hebrew names in Greek (such as the names of the 12 Tribes in Revelation 7). 

In other words, we have ancient Greek transcriptions of Hebrew names and words in the Septuagint and the New Testament, confirming our understanding of the language and further exposing the linguistic bankruptcy of LQ.

In short, either the pronunciation of LQ is right (which is it not), in which case the whole world is wrong, all ancient history is wrong, all Semitic speakers in world history and to this day are wrong, every Semitic name on every map and every name of every Hebrew city and town (such as Bethlehem or Jerusalem) is wrong, all ancient versions of the Bible are wrong, the New Testament itself is wrong, all Semitic scholars throughout history and until today are wrong, or LQ is wrong (which it is). 

To repeat: this throws all claims of BHI authenticity out the window.

To give one specific example, LQ fails to understand that the Hebrew letter waw (also known as vav) commonly functions as a vowel letter (in Latin, a mater lectionis). This is similar to the English letter w, which can function as a normal consonant (as in the word “water”) or as a vowel letter (as in the word “town,” where it modifies the pronunciation of the o).

So, in the Hebrew word for “language, tongue,” which is lashon (spelled l-sh-w-n in Hebrew and pronounced with a long o, as in the word “phone”), LQ misunderstands the w, thinking it is a normal consonant, hence the made-up word lashawan. (This is identical to the LQ error of converting shalom into shalawam.)

Instead, we know for a fact (by comparison with other Semitic languages such as Arabic and Aramaic, and based on the morphological principle of what is known as the Canaanite shift) that the w is a vowel letter here, pronounced as o, and that the word is pronounced lashon. (The same principle applies to the word shalom.) So much for BHI authenticity!

Sadly, this made-up version of Hebrew only reinforces the internal solidarity of the cult members, since they speak the same language and regard those who speak real Hebrew as the impostors. 

Hopefully, though those in this destructive cult who are serious about pursuing truth will be led to repentance and freedom. May the Lord hasten their redemption!

Was Esau-Edom White? Demolishing Hebrew Israelite Lies (Part 1)

One of the most common (and pernicious) Hebrew Israelite lies is that Isaac and Rebekah’s son Esau (also known as Edom) was White and that Whites today are his descendants, vilified as “White Edomite Devils.” Not only is there absolutely no historical or genetic connection between Esau and contemporary White Americans and Europeans, but it is absolutely absurd to argue that Edom himself was White.

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One of the most common (and pernicious) 'Hebrew Israelite' lies is that Isaac and Rebekah’s son Esau (also known as Edom) was White and that Whites today are his descendants, vilified as “White Edomite Devils.”

Not only is there absolutely no historical or genetic connection between Esau and contemporary White Americans and Europeans, but it is absolutely absurd to argue that Edom himself was White. 

Where do Hebrew Israelites come up with such nonsense?

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