Tea at Trianon: Black Apocalypse

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Sunday, August 21, 2022

Black Apocalypse

From Dr. Alveda King at The New York Post:

Racial prejudice is nothing new to the abortion movement. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was one of the most vocal advocates for eugenics in America. In fact, she wrote in 1921 that eugenics was “the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.”

Although they make up just 13 percent of the female population, black women account for over one-third of all abortions performed in this country each year. In some places, like New York City, there are actually more black abortions in some years than black live births.

There’s a number of reasons for these numbers — including fatherlessness, poverty, a lack of decent educational options and low marriage rates. Which is why a crucial part of ending this abortion epidemic begins with fixing the black family. At a time when most black children are being raised by single mothers, we need to encourage marriage and prioritize fatherhood. School choice can help too, so that black children stuck in failing inner-city schools can see a way out of failure and into a more successful future. (Read more.)

From Dr. John Zmirak at The Stream:

I realized the parallel between these two great, widely-hated men while watching the FBI and the DoJ pick up one steaming heap after another from the floor of their cages, and hurl it at the wall to see if it sticks. First, they said that Donald Trump had withheld some crucial … National Archives records. That required an armed raid on his home. They had to go through Melania’s underwear drawer to see if Donald had left any memos there.

When that clod of scat slid ignominiously to the floor, the spider monkeys dug up another. Nuclear secrets! Donald Trump took those with him, and posed a national security threat because … the rest is classified. We can’t explain it, just trust us, we’re doing this to protect you.

What’s next? Will Merrick Garland declare that Trump is on “Double-Secret Probation”? Will Russell Moore, David French, and Rod Dreher convene a press conference at the National Cathedral and announce that Trump has “Cooties”?

Ah, there’s the rub, and the heart of the whole Trump-hating enterprise. And another place where his story parallels Martin Luther King’s. King’s enemies (including the editors of National Review while he lived) weren’t reacting so much to the man and his qualities. Yes, they were happy to ransack his personal life for blackmail dirt or mud to throw. As they’re glad to smear Trump today.

But the haters don’t really care about any of it, any more than they worried over the sordid details of John McCain’s divorce. (He abandoned the handicapped wife who waited for him to get home from Vietnam, to marry an heiress.) Trump-haters, like King-haters, were just looking for filth so they could try to tarnish an icon. They did that because they held in disgust and contempt the people who rallied around those icons: in the one case, blacks suffering from segregation, in the other, dispossessed blue-collar workers and Christians watching their country turn viciously against them. (Read more.)