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This week on America's Most Trustworthy Podcast®, we talk about the meaning of the word "spying" and try to determine exactly what the definition is. Then, a bracing and brilliant discussion on reparations with the great Shelby Steele, who unlike most candidates for President, actually knows something about it. Then, our long time amigo Arthur Brooks calls in to talk about his new book, Love Your Enemies; How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt. Actually, come to think of it, we really don't like Arthur. Finally, some thoughts on the newly photographed Black Hole, and tomorrow is Record Store Day and to celebrate, we asked the hosts what the first record they ever bought was. What was yours? Tell us in the comments.
Music from this week's show: Supermassive Black Hole by Muse
James Lileks
Peter Robinson
Rob Long
Arthur Brooks
Shelby Steele
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The monocle seems to be the one fashion accessory hipsters haven't yet resurrected.
I wonder why . . .
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It's amazing to think some Democrats are so stupid they think slavery reparations is going to help them defeat Donald Trump.
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The Clinton Campaign paid money for the outline to a rotten spy novel, the FBI represented it as the basis for spying on a political campaign in court under oath, and those responsible need to be made an example of to dissuade those who come after from countenancing or even contemplating doing so in the future.
I don't care who might be president. If you can't color within the lines, we're going to take away the crayons.
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Gentlemen! Here is my question for ya: my children are descended from at least one black American woman. My first husband's great-great-great(?) grandmother, she was the daughter of a slave and possibly a slave in childhood herself. She grew up and married a poor Scots-Irish sharecropper or small-farmer sometime before the Civil War.
Since her African genes were injected into the line of a white family, this clearly is not a case of southern droit du seigneur. That's a bit of a narrative-buster in itself, but in any case, what was once a matter of fascinating family lore has more recently been confirmed by genetic testing.
I might think my first husband's family was unusual, except that my second husband, too---tho' lily white and supposedly Dutch--- has a large dollop of African ancestry. In his case it is spiced up with a bit of Surinamsk native; there were black slaves in Surinam/Dutch Guiana, dragged over the seas by the Dutch West India company to work in the sugar fields. Surely my husband's great...great...great granny wasn't the only one who married a Dutchman and settled down to have kids with him?
Given human nature and the amply-proven (thanks, 23&Me!) tendency of persons to merrily mix and match race-wise, I should think that there are plenty of white Americans who could, in theory, be standing in line with their hands out when the reparations get distributed. If it is all about the bad stuff that happened to your ancestors and not about anything bad that has happened to you...what would prevent my kids and stepkids from getting in on that action?
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If there is a Grand Final Settlement, whatever will the current cadre of race hustlers do? Gotta have a gig.
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