Historic Selma Struggles With Blight
Alabama When I last visited Selma in 2011, I was struck by the obvious decline of the city: the blighted homes, the abandoned shopping centers, […]
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Congress Finally Reacts To Violence In Birmingham
Alabama Birmingham’s DWL community held a Memorial March last night in honor of the tragic and “senseless” shooting of Jarmaine Walton in Railroad Park: “BIRMINGHAM, […]
Trends With Benefits
Alabama NPR investigates Greensboro in Hale County (AL) where 1 in 4 working age adults are receiving a $1,000 disability check a month: “In rural […]
Negroes In Negroland (1868)
North Carolina Here’s the link to Hinton Rowan Helper’s less famous book, Negroes in Negroland (1868), which he wrote in the midst of Reconstruction in North Carolina. […]
Black Teens Murder Baby In Stroller In Brunswick, Georgia
Georgia H/T CofCC Even for the Black Undertow, this is a new low: “West earlier told reporters that the incident occurred at 9 a.m. Thursday […]
Montgomery Set To Surpass Murderham In Violent Crime
Alabama The City of Montgomery is on track to set a new record in 2013. For the first time in over a century, perhaps ever, […]
Montgomery Prays To Change (Black) Culture
Alabama “Now it is not an accident that one of the great marches of American history should terminate in Montgomery, Alabama. (Yes, sir) Just ten […]
Being White In Philly
Pennsylvania H/T SBPDL The black mayor of Philadelphia is trying to get the “Human Relations Commission” to shutdown the First Amendment over an article called “Being […]
Rand Paul Embraces Amnesty Again
District of Corruption I didn’t think much of Rand Paul’s grandstanding over Obama’s use of drones on American soil (a classic example of a political […]
Caught In The Black Undertow: Detroit—And America?
VDARE Check out William L. Houston’s excellent review of Charlie LeDuff’s Detroit: An American Autopsy at VDARE. Note: Naturally, Gov. Rick Snyder chose a black […]
Birmingham and Secession
Alabama Paul Kersey writes: “Black people will always follow white people wherever they may go, because the conditions found in a white community are preferable […]
Montgomery’s Crime Problem
Alabama Montgomery has a growing violent crime problem: “Due to the efforts of his church, shootings in the neighborhood have stopped, Nettles said, but violent […]
Louis Farrakhan To Visit Tuskegee
Alabama I learned this afternoon that Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam will be coming to Tuskegee for a three day visit next week. […]
Seceding From The Black Mecca
Georgia WND has published two stories in recent days on the fear that Atlanta in 2013 could be evolving into the “Detroit of the South”: “The […]
The Cahawba Solution
Alabama Cahawba, the first permanent state capital of Alabama, is a ghost town located about 12 miles southwest of Selma in Dallas County (AL). The […]
Joe Biden Visits Selma’s Magic Bridge
Alabama The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma has made the news again: “Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Director of the National Park Service […]
The Tragic City: Birmingham vs. Vestavia Hills
Alabama Paul Kersey has shared with us a revealing excerpt from Tanner Colby’s new book, Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story […]
Crime In Macon County (AL)
Alabama After returning home from a trip to Tuskegee in Macon County (AL), I found myself wondering whether there is any truth to the assumption […]
The Tragic City: Metro Birmingham Ranked 197 of 200 Metro Areas
Alabama After poking around some more on David Sher’s hilarious DWL website The Comeback Town, I noticed that Birmingham was recently ranked 197 out of 200 […]
The Tragic City: Crime In Jefferson County (AL)
Alabama David Sher of The Comeback Town has written a response to John Bennett’s article on post-1963 Birmingham which recently appeared in The American Thinker: “I can […]
Jeb Bush’s Immigration Makeover
Florida This is phonier than John McCain’s 2010 reelection promise to “build the dang fence”: “After years of building a reputation as the “good” Republican […]
Tales From Detroit: The Day Freedom Failed In Detroit
Michigan I was on the road yesterday when the word got back to me that the day Paul Kersey had predicted would happen in Escape […]
Amurrica Series: Obama Unveils Rosa Parks Statue
District of Corruption According to Charlie LeDuff, Rosa Parks herself – who Al Sharpton described on his show tonight as “the mother of civil rights” […]
Tales From Detroit: LeDuff’s Aunt’s Funeral
Michigan Here’s one of my favorite excerpts from Charlie LeDuff’s new book, Detroit: An American Autopsy: “My wife and I loaded up the baby in […]
Chicago Mall Riot
Illinois Chicago has provided us with the latest preview of America’s post-apocalyptic future:
American Thinker on The Tragic City
Alabama American Thinker has an unusually candid article on what Paul Kersey has labeled The Tragic City: “Birmingham, Alabama is considered by many to be […]
Rainbow Confederates Grovel Before NAACP
Tennessee The SCV has joined forces with the NAACP to denounce the Klan for holding a rally in Memphis: “Lee Millar of the Sons of […]
Amurrica Series: Equality For Criminals
District of Corruption I’ve spent the past week trying to take a break from the day to day insanity of Black Run America (BRA), but […]
Tales From Detroit: The D Collapses
Michigan I haven’t laughed so hard all year: “For it is in the ruins of Detroit, which black people have been custodians of since 1973, […]
Tales From Detroit: South Warren
Michigan Here’s an excerpt from Charlie LeDuff’s new book, Detroit: An American Autopsy, which describes how the immutable laws of the Visible Black Hand of […]
Great Moments In Black History: Black Elementary Teacher Dances Topless For Black History Month 2013
New York This example of Spontaneous Blackness happened in New York, not Nigeria:
Newark Man Stripped and Whipped Over $20
New Jersey Here’s a glimpse into the world of Mayor Corey Booker’s Newark, NJ who is already being floated as Obama’s successor: