- My Taki’s piece about the horrible new statue on the Mall
- MLK Day sales: this year and times gone by
- Fighting (ha ha) over who gets to run the MLK Parade
- Musings on “the ruins of Detroit” and other things you used to only read about at “white supremacist” websites
- MLK and Obama
- “Overall, he was a conventional Sixties Socialist.”
- Poll: “Most people are just sick of national holidays in the first place”
- Thanks to the loyal 5FF reader who sent in: “10 Things You Probably Don’t Need to Know about Black Porn”(Alas, still no answer to my question about why the guys leave their running shoes on. Most expensive thing they own? Might need to run from the cops?)…
“The prevailing stereotype about black porn actresses—that most of them look like they used every branch of the ugly tree to help them escape from Alcatraz—is false.
“ - Jim Goad: “I’m so bored with MLK”…Yes, I realize that there used to be segregated drinking fountains and that in some places, poor little black kids couldn’t even buy ice-cream cones from white vendors. But I think it’s time we all conceded that many places in Africa don’t even have drinking water, much less a single flavor of ice cream. (…)He reputedly hosted multiple orgies while on the road. In private hotel rooms after the speeches, “We shall overcome” apparently switched to “We shall cum over and over.” King even allegedly squandered SCLC funds to pay for booze and whores. Most notable is the allegation that he spent the night before he was murdered inside a Memphis motel room with three separate prostitutes and that it got a little rough with the third one.(…)
Have you seen Birmingham or Memphis lately? Do these latter-day urban creatures seem somehow nobler than the black men in porkpie hats and Buddy Holly glasses who marched for their amorphous “rights” in the 1960s? To my blue eyes, the new jacks seem a few rungs down from their forebears on the evolutionary ladder. (…)
I’ve never wanted to sit next to someone of any color at a lunch counter, so that’s a moot point. I know that American restaurants are now integrated, which means that all waiters and waitresses, regardless of their skin color, now realize that black people don’t like to tip.
