Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr. strongly supports the study and implementation of reparations for Black Americans. He advocates for both federal and state-level efforts to close the racial wealth gap and address the historic, systemic harms of slavery.
Key details of his position include:
NYC Commission on Racial Equity (CORE): Richards has publicly backed the efforts of NYC CORE and the state reparations panels working to study the legacy of discrimination.
Systemic Equity: He views reparations as a vital tool to fix long-standing housing, healthcare, and economic disparities in communities of color.
Local Initiatives: As Borough President, he focuses on directing resources to underinvested communities and funding local capital project
Minus: You don't try and white shame MAGA here every day? Who knew?
I've never "white shamed" anyone and never will. Why would I do something that stupid? Nobody should be "ashamed" for being born White. Nobody has any say in what race they are born. You checked a form requesting you should be born White when you were in line waiting to be born? In your delusions, I mean.
By "white shaming" you mean shaming people for being White Supremacists. That's different. And that's something people should be shamed for. And THAT is why you object.
I've never seen you try and shame a black supremacist, Derv. Why is that? That's why I object. Your not universally anti-racist. You're anti-white racist. In other words, just a hypocrite.
You've never identified any "Black Supremacist" I should be shaming. I asked you previously, and you were unable to give me even one name of a genuine "Black Supremacist". So you can stuff your BS "hypocritical correlation". I read that sentence a couple of times and it doesn't even make sense.
Michelle Obama (Black Separatist before Barack won). The ENTIRE Congressional Black Caucus (who wouldn't let Black Republicans like Byron Donald's join because he wasn't Black supremacists enough). How about the inventor and expansion of Affirmative Action to all the Post-Colonialist Kenyan tribe under the DEI rubric, Barack Hussein Obama?
So what say you, Darvo Dervy? Will you call out their neo-racism? Nope. You're a good "ally". A putz who thinks he'll be spared.
Putz is a colorful Yiddish slang word that literally translates to "penis" or "foreskin". Colloquially, it is used to describe a foolish, inept, or bumbling person.
While closely related to schmuck, a putz is generally viewed as more harmlessly incompetent or lazy rather than intentionally malicious.
Minus: So what say you, Darvo Dervy? Will you call out their neo-racism? Nope. You're a good "ally". A putz who thinks he'll be spared.
I don't want to be spared. I want to partake in a society that embraces equality.
And you still haven't named any Black Supremacists. You just gave zero examples. There might be some valid examples, but you won't provide any. And no, I won't falsely label Black people you don't like as "Black Supremacists".
btw, you're the putz. Your vote and support for donald trump has enabled fascism and oligarchy. You have admitted you support fascism, but I think you've said you're against oligarchy. Though I might be wrong. Given that you argue for policies that will empower the oligarchs even more. So you might reply to this comment by saying that fascism and oligarchy are both great.
Minus: Being for smaller government is fascist? On what planet? You're the more government (fascism) guy, not me.
Except you aren't.
g00gle AI: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) received an unprecedented budget increase of more than 300% to 700%, effectively tripling or quadrupling its annual operating funds. This historic funding surge comes through major reconciliation legislation—such as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act—which allocated an extra $75 billion supplemental package for ICE to spend through fiscal year 2029.
In what world is this massive increase "small government"?
But fascism is not defined by how big government is. It is defined by whose interests it serves. Under republicans, government serves the interests of the wealthy instead of the interests of The People.
Minus: Her college thesis wasn't anti-white integrationist and pro black separation?
No, it wasn't.
Me: Was michelle obama's college thesis anti-white integrationist and pro black separation?
g00gle AI: No, Michelle Obama's 1985 Princeton senior thesis, "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community", was not an anti-white or pro-separation manifesto. It was an academic sociological study examining how a predominantly white university affected the racial identity and community commitment of Black alumni.
Overview of the Thesis.
Research Focus: Michelle Robinson (Obama) surveyed Black graduates using an 18-question mail-in format to analyze whether attending an elite, predominantly white institution distanced them from the broader Black community.
Key Findings: Her data suggested that higher education in such settings often increased assimilation and decreased active identification with lower-income Black communities.
Personal Reflection: In the introduction, she questioned whether her own path would lead to assimilation on the social periphery of a white-dominant structure rather than full, integrated participation.
Addressing Misconceptions.
Fabricated Quotes: Viral chain emails during the 2008 political cycle falsely claimed the text stated America was founded on "crime and hatred" and that white people are "ineradicably racist"—phrases that do not exist in the document.
Separation vs. Engagement: Rather than arguing for separatism, the research explored the personal and professional tensions Black professionals face when navigating elite spaces while trying to maintain commitment to their communities.🛑
$75b versus... Estimates for the annual net financial cost of illegal immigration to the United States vary widely based on the source's methodology, ranging from $84 billion to over $150 billion.
Spend $75b to save $150b in gov spending isn't smaller government? Who knew?
The Nazi government was all about serving the People/ Volk. But I don't think it was a "smaller" government. The one previous to it only served the "rich". It took the expansion to the entire Volk to produce Nazi, Mussolini, or Xi-style fascism/ totalitarianism.
As for the Mooch, you are obviously an illiterate if you don't ultimately answer the question as to why she selected the thesis topic. Was she afraid of the poor Black community becoming too integrated into American culture? She thought it would somehow "ruin" the black community? A fear of racial miscegenation? A neo-racist fear of a dilution of Black Southern Cracker Culture?
Did she really believe that if assimilated into white-culture that white culture wouldn't assimilate any black culture and blend into an "American" culture? Could she have been that naive? Are you?
Critics, including many libertarian economists (such as those at the Cato Institute) and left-leaning policy analysts, argue that this logic is fiscally and economically flawed.
Flawed Cost Metrics: Alternative economic studies argue that the $150 billion figure ignores significant economic contributions. Undocumented immigrants pay billions in sales, property, and payroll taxes (including into Social Security and Medicare, which they cannot claim). When factoring in their labor supply, consumer spending, and the business growth they stimulate, many economists argue they provide a net positive benefit to the overall economy.
The "Big Government" Reality: Libertarian conservatives often point out that expanding ICE is fundamentally an expansion of government power, bureaucracy, and spending. A multi-billion-dollar federal agency with thousands of employees, sweeping surveillance capabilities, and large-scale detention contracts is, by definition, "big government".
Diminishing Returns on Enforcement: Critics argue that spending $75 billion to completely stop unauthorized immigration is a mathematical impossibility. Because enforcement becomes exponentially more expensive as you try to catch every single individual, the government would likely spend far more on enforcement bureaucracy than it would ever "save" in public service costs. Via the g00gle AI🛑
Expanding ICE meets the definition of big government. Even if your "saving money" argument was true (though it isn't).
Minus: The Nazi government was all about serving the People/ Volk.
It wasn't.
🤖The blog comment is historically misleading because it takes Nazi propaganda at face value without acknowledging the violent, exclusionary reality of what the regime actually practiced.
While the concept of the Volk (the people) was a centerpiece of Nazi rhetoric, it was used to justify a brutal, totalitarian dictatorship rather than to serve a general population. [1, 2]
👉1. The Myth of the Volksgemeinschaft.
The Nazi government heavily promoted the concept of the [Volksgemeinschaft](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/volksgemeinschaft-peoples-or-national-community), which translates to the "People’s Community". [3]
The Propaganda: In speeches and posters, the regime claimed to break down class barriers and unite all Germans into a harmonious, classless society that looked out for ordinary workers. [3, 4]
The Reality: This was not a benevolent public service campaign. It was a tool to enforce absolute conformity, eliminate individualism, and mandate unquestioning obedience to Adolf Hitler. [5, 6]
👉2. A "Community" Built on Violent Exclusion.
The comment implies "the People" meant everyone, but the Nazi definition of the Volk was strictly defined by [biological racism and eugenics](https://www.yadvashem.org/education/educational-videos/video-toolbox/hevt-nazi-ideology.html). The government did not serve the public; it served a highly restricted, "racially pure" group. [2, 7, 8, 9, 10]
Anyone deemed a threat to the "healthy body" of the Volk was labeled Gemeinschaftsfremde (strangers to the community). The regime actively sought to destroy millions of people who lived in Germany, including: [11]
* Jewish citizens * Romani and Sinti people * The physically and mentally disabled * Political dissidents (socialists, communists, and democrats) * Homosexuals and social non-conformists [9, 11, 12, 13, 14]
👉3. Conditional Benefits and Exploitation.
Even for those who met the regime's strict racial and political criteria, state "service" was transactional. [2] Weaponized Welfare: Social assistance programs, run by the [National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_People%27s_Welfare), were entirely conditional. If a citizen showed political dissent or failed to prove their utility to the state, their aid was stripped away. [15]
Subordination of the Individual: Under the slogan “Du bist nichts, dein Volk ist alles” ("You are nothing, your Volk is everything"), individuals were expected to completely surrender their personal rights, privacy, and free will to the war machine and the desires of the Führer. [6, 12, 16]
## Summary for Your Blog Response.
If you choose to reply to the comment, you can point out that the Nazi government only "served" the Volk by redefining "the people" to exclude, persecute, and murder millions of its own citizens. Its ultimate goal was total state control, racial cleansing, and military expansion—not the welfare of a free populace. [17]
**sources** 👉Also...
While the Nazi party included "socialist" in its official name (National Socialist German Workers' Party), historians overwhelmingly agree they were not socialist. The term was used strategically to attract working-class voters, but the regime was defined by extreme nationalism, totalitarian control, and the systemic destruction of actual leftist movements.
In practice, the Nazi economy was highly capitalist. Private property and corporate profits were protected and encouraged, and big businesses cooperated closely with the state to support rearmament and war efforts.🛑
In a pretense that Michael Jackson didn't replace Elvis Presley as "The King" of Pop?
That never happened. There was no replacing. Elvis is the king of rock n roll and Michael Jackson is the king of pop. They are different (subjective and grandiose) titles.
Minus: Come to think of it, Michael did start bleaching his skin and plastic surgery-ing out his nose...
Michael Jackson had vitiligo. He decided to lighten his skin to even out his overall skin tone. Nowadays people are more accepting of vitiligo. He never would have done what he did if not for vitiligo.
🤖Management and Treatment.
Michael Jackson used dark makeup initially to cover the lighter patches.
He shifted to using prescription creams like Benoquin (monobenzone) to complete depigmentation and even out his skin tone as the spots spread.🛑
Minus: She thought it would somehow "ruin" the black community? A fear of racial miscegenation? A neo-racist fear of a dilution of Black Southern Cracker Culture?
NO. And I think this proves your "illiteracy". In addition to not understanding the meaning of the word "illiteracy", you don't understand Michelle Obama's conclusions.
🤖The Core Concern Was "Giving Back," Not Pulling Apart.
👉The thesis actually laments the loss of connection between upwardly mobile Black professionals and marginalized communities.
Her ultimate question was how highly educated Black Americans could use their elite status to benefit disadvantaged communities, a concept deeply rooted in public service and civic integration rather than separatism.
👉"Separationist" Was Used as a Scientific Scale, Not an Agenda.
Critics often misinterpret her use of the word "separationist".In the methodology, she asked alumni to choose where they fell on a spectrum between "separationist/pluralist" (meaning a desire to maintain a distinct cultural identity) and "integrationist/assimilationist" (meaning fully blending into mainstream white culture).
She used these as standard sociological definitions to measure identity shift, not as a call to action for racial segregation.🛑
1) DSA doesn't have a Socialist Volksgemeinschaft? Who knew? Then why has an 85% white majority party brown-faced 85% of its' candidates? LOL!
2) Their program isn't white-Euro colonizer exclusion? There won't be FEMA re-education camps or gulags for MAGA faithfuls?
3) Affirmative action/ DEI isn't a "conditional" benefit? Blacks who refuse to pledge allegiance to DEI will still get surplus-salaried PMC positions? Have you written up your DEI statement for job consideration yet? Now say it... "Vielfalt ist unsere Stärke".!
While the Nazi party included "socialist" in its official name (National Socialist German Workers' Party), historians overwhelmingly agree that like the DSA, they were not socialist. The term was used strategically to attract working-class voters, but the regime was defined by extreme ethnocentric partiality, totalitarian political correctness/ woke control, and the systemic destruction of actual Eurocentric Universalist movements like race non-essentialism
The Mooch was concerned with class differences within the black community widening/ spltting apart the cracker identity culture that unified them. She was afraid that the "black community" would experience what Charles Murray feared for the white community in "Coming Apart". The Cracker "Fishtown" and college educated "Belmont" communities would splinter..
Yet Murrays a racist and Michelle isn't. *tsk-tsk*
Minus: DSA doesn't have a Socialist Volksgemeinschaft? Who knew?
Everyone who isn't a White Supremacist.
Minus: Then why has an 85% white majority party brown-faced 85% of its' candidates? LOL! Their program isn't white-Euro colonizer exclusion? There won't be FEMA re-education camps or gulags for MAGA faithfuls? Affirmative action/ DEI isn't a "conditional" benefit? Blacks who refuse to pledge allegiance to DEI will still get surplus-salaried PMC positions? Have you written up your DEI statement for job consideration yet? Now say it... "Vielfalt ist unsere Stärke".!
While the Nazi party included "socialist" in its official name (National Socialist German Workers' Party), historians overwhelmingly agree that like the DSA, they were not socialist. The term was used strategically to attract working-class voters, but the regime was defined by extreme ethnocentric partiality, totalitarian political correctness/ woke control, and the systemic destruction of actual Eurocentric Universalist movements like race non-essentialism.
Why the "LOL" when you (as a White Supremacist) are very clearly incredibly butt-hurt over this? Maybe they want to increase participation in the minority community by fielding minority candidates? I don't know what their strategy and rationalizing is. I know your claims are BS, however. And White Supremacist whines. I really don't give a crap what the race of the candidates they field is. I care about positions and policies.
Yet they (and you) think that their 5-15% minority ethnicities should rule? Why? They'll be oppressed by whites, otherwise? Perhaps you should investigate their strategies and rationalizations instead of doing their white shaming and looksmaxxing for them.
Minus: Yet they (and you) think that their 5-15% minority ethnicities should rule? Why?
I don't. I judge people on the individual qualities. YOU judge people based on race/ethnicity and see a minority being elected to public office as that minority rep only representing people of the same race/ethnicity. As opposed to all their constituents.
Minus: DEI is a white-cancelling policy.
It isn't.
Minus: They're colonizing in the name of de-colonization. How noble!
This isn't happening. It is one of your delusions.
Minus: The Mooch was concerned with class differences within the black community widening/ spltting apart the cracker identity culture that unified them.
She wasn't and isn't. Because Black people having a "cracker culture" is a discredited theory of the conservative economist Thomas Sowell.
Yes. Charles Murray is a racist and Michelle Obama is not.
You should tell the residents of Chicago that they don't have a cracker culture....
During the most recent full weekend framework tracked by police (Friday, July 17 to Monday, July 20, 2026), gun violence in Chicago resulted in at least 3 deaths and 15 injuries.
Because the current weekend (July 24–26, 2026) is actively unfolding, official total counts are not yet finalized, but a series of major shootings since Thursday night have already caused at least 6 deaths and multiple critical injuries, including a young child.
The odds of in an 85% white party only 1 candidate being white and male is 1 in 9.3 or ~11%. The odds seem rather long in favour of there being an anti-white male bias within the NY DSA.
Minus: The odds of in an 85% white party only 1 candidate being white and male is 1 in 9.3 or ~11%.
Those are not the odds because that isn't how candidates are arrived at. The biggest factor is self selection. People who don't want to run for office aren't going to be selected. Someone can be a member of the DSA and not want a government position, so your percent analysis makes no sense at all. Because the candidate isn't chosen from everyone in the DSA, only from people who want to run. That's a pretty stupid claim of yours that someone who doesn't want to be a candidate could be selected anyway.
The next time I'm invited to be on a news program that broadcasts in Chicago I'll be sure to address the Chicago audience and say they don't have a "cracker culture". But I think most of them likely haven't heard of this discredited Thomas Sowell theory. And, among those who have, they will likely already agree with me.
🥸Me: According to thomas sowell, many black people have adopted the "cracker culture". Is this theory widely accepted as accurate?
🤖g00gle AI chatbot: No, Thomas Sowell’s "black redneck" or "cracker culture" theory is not widely accepted by mainstream historians, sociologists, or linguists. While his thesis is highly popular in conservative political circles and has been tested in a few niche criminological studies, mainstream academic consensus views it as an oversimplification that ignores the structural, economic, and historical realities of American race relations.🛑
🥸Me: [I asked a question about your provided stats for gun violence in Chicago and if that is evidence that "cracker culture" has been adopted by Black people in that city].
🤖g00gle AI Chatbot response...
The commenter is making several critical logical and sociological errors. While the weekend statistics they provided are accurate for Chicago, using short-term crime data to claim that an entire racial group has absorbed a specific ancestral culture is a textbook example of confirmation bias and flawed reasoning. [1, 2]
The commenter is getting the following things wrong:
## 1. Extrapolating a Global Theory from Localized Data.
The commenter is looking at crime data from a few specific neighborhoods in a single city and applying a sweeping cultural label ("cracker culture") to all Black people. In reality, [Chicago Police Department data](https://www.chicagopolice.org/) shows that violent crime is heavily concentrated in a small fraction of the city’s communities. The vast majority of Black residents in Chicago—and across the United States—are neither involved in nor impacted by gun violence. [3, 4, 5]
## 2. Confusing "Culture" with Structural Conditions.
The foundational mistake of the commenter (and of Thomas Sowell's thesis) is assuming that crime in urban neighborhoods is driven purely by inherited cultural attitudes. Sociologists and criminologists overwhelmingly point to immediate, measurable structural variables that predict violence in any community, regardless of race:
* Hyper-segregation and redlining. * Decades of economic disinvestment and job loss. * High poverty rates and lack of generational wealth. * The presence of highly organized, localized street gangs competing over underground economies.
When White or Hispanic communities face these exact same concentrated socioeconomic pressures, they experience comparable rises in localized violence. Labeling it "cracker culture" ignores these tangible, material drivers.
## 3. Misapplying Thomas Sowell’s Core Premise.
Even within the framework of Sowell’s book Black Rednecks and White Liberals, the commenter is misconstruing the theory. Sowell argued that "cracker culture" was a historical, rural Southern folkway. [6]
The violence in modern Chicago is heavily tied to the dynamics of urban street gangs, drug territory disputes, and modern firearm availability. There is no historical or sociological link between modern, block-by-block urban street disputes in 21st-century Chicago and the 18th-century, livestock-herding, "honor culture" disputes of Celtic immigrants in the rural American South. [7, 8]
## 4. Overlooking Broader Crime Trends.
The commenter is engaging in "cherry-picking" by focusing on a specific spike over two summer weekends. Crime rates are dynamic and fluctuate due to weather, police deployment, and local interventions. [1, 2]
According to mid-2026 data from the Cook County Medical Examiner and [Chicago city databases](https://chicago.suntimes.com/graphics/crime/victim-list/), overall homicides in Chicago have remained relatively flat compared to the previous year, following a steep national decline in violent crime across 30 major American cities. Using an active, unfolding weekend as a data point to prove a macro-historical theory ignores the broader, stabilizing statistical reality. [9, 10, 11, 12]
## Summary.
The commenter is taking a real, tragic problem (urban gun violence) and retrofitting it into a preferred political narrative. By attributing crime to an inherited "culture" rather than localized economic, structural, and systemic realities, they are mistaking the symptoms of concentrated poverty for a racial trait.
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It isn't.
You don't try and white shame MAGA here every day? Who knew?
btw - Good luck white shaming the class-essentialist Marxists over at DSA.
They must not be as Black aligned as they're needed to be... too post-colonialist and not enough affirmative action reparationy
Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr. strongly supports the study and implementation of reparations for Black Americans. He advocates for both federal and state-level efforts to close the racial wealth gap and address the historic, systemic harms of slavery.
Key details of his position include:
NYC Commission on Racial Equity (CORE): Richards has publicly backed the efforts of NYC CORE and the state reparations panels working to study the legacy of discrimination.
Systemic Equity: He views reparations as a vital tool to fix long-standing housing, healthcare, and economic disparities in communities of color.
Local Initiatives: As Borough President, he focuses on directing resources to underinvested communities and funding local capital project
Minus: You don't try and white shame MAGA here every day? Who knew?
I've never "white shamed" anyone and never will. Why would I do something that stupid? Nobody should be "ashamed" for being born White. Nobody has any say in what race they are born. You checked a form requesting you should be born White when you were in line waiting to be born? In your delusions, I mean.
By "white shaming" you mean shaming people for being White Supremacists. That's different. And that's something people should be shamed for. And THAT is why you object.
I've never seen you try and shame a black supremacist, Derv. Why is that? That's why I object. Your not universally anti-racist. You're anti-white racist. In other words, just a hypocrite.
ps - and why do Democrats call black people that the disagree with white supremacists? Notice the hypocritical correlation?
You've never identified any "Black Supremacist" I should be shaming. I asked you previously, and you were unable to give me even one name of a genuine "Black Supremacist". So you can stuff your BS "hypocritical correlation". I read that sentence a couple of times and it doesn't even make sense.
Michelle Obama (Black Separatist before Barack won). The ENTIRE Congressional Black Caucus (who wouldn't let Black Republicans like Byron Donald's join because he wasn't Black supremacists enough). How about the inventor and expansion of Affirmative Action to all the Post-Colonialist Kenyan tribe under the DEI rubric, Barack Hussein Obama?
...his father had a "dream" after all. The American nightmare.
So what say you, Darvo Dervy? Will you call out their neo-racism? Nope. You're a good "ally". A putz who thinks he'll be spared.
Putz is a colorful Yiddish slang word that literally translates to "penis" or "foreskin". Colloquially, it is used to describe a foolish, inept, or bumbling person.
While closely related to schmuck, a putz is generally viewed as more harmlessly incompetent or lazy rather than intentionally malicious.
Minus: So what say you, Darvo Dervy? Will you call out their neo-racism? Nope. You're a good "ally". A putz who thinks he'll be spared.
I don't want to be spared. I want to partake in a society that embraces equality.
And you still haven't named any Black Supremacists. You just gave zero examples. There might be some valid examples, but you won't provide any. And no, I won't falsely label Black people you don't like as "Black Supremacists".
btw, you're the putz. Your vote and support for donald trump has enabled fascism and oligarchy. You have admitted you support fascism, but I think you've said you're against oligarchy. Though I might be wrong. Given that you argue for policies that will empower the oligarchs even more. So you might reply to this comment by saying that fascism and oligarchy are both great.
Being for smaller government is fascist? On what planet? You're the more government (fascism) guy, not me.
I didn't name the Mooch aka Big Mike? Her college thesis wasn't anti-white integrationist and pro black separation?
What was it then?
Minus: Being for smaller government is fascist? On what planet? You're the more government (fascism) guy, not me.
Except you aren't.
g00gle AI: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) received an unprecedented budget increase of more than 300% to 700%, effectively tripling or quadrupling its annual operating funds. This historic funding surge comes through major reconciliation legislation—such as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act—which allocated an extra $75 billion supplemental package for ICE to spend through fiscal year 2029.
In what world is this massive increase "small government"?
But fascism is not defined by how big government is. It is defined by whose interests it serves. Under republicans, government serves the interests of the wealthy instead of the interests of The People.
Minus: Her college thesis wasn't anti-white integrationist and pro black separation?
No, it wasn't.
Me: Was michelle obama's college thesis anti-white integrationist and pro black separation?
g00gle AI: No, Michelle Obama's 1985 Princeton senior thesis, "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community", was not an anti-white or pro-separation manifesto. It was an academic sociological study examining how a predominantly white university affected the racial identity and community commitment of Black alumni.
Overview of the Thesis.
Research Focus: Michelle Robinson (Obama) surveyed Black graduates using an 18-question mail-in format to analyze whether attending an elite, predominantly white institution distanced them from the broader Black community.
Key Findings: Her data suggested that higher education in such settings often increased assimilation and decreased active identification with lower-income Black communities.
Personal Reflection: In the introduction, she questioned whether her own path would lead to assimilation on the social periphery of a white-dominant structure rather than full, integrated participation.
Addressing Misconceptions.
Fabricated Quotes: Viral chain emails during the 2008 political cycle falsely claimed the text stated America was founded on "crime and hatred" and that white people are "ineradicably racist"—phrases that do not exist in the document.
Separation vs. Engagement: Rather than arguing for separatism, the research explored the personal and professional tensions Black professionals face when navigating elite spaces while trying to maintain commitment to their communities.🛑
This one
$75b versus... Estimates for the annual net financial cost of illegal immigration to the United States vary widely based on the source's methodology, ranging from $84 billion to over $150 billion.
Spend $75b to save $150b in gov spending isn't smaller government? Who knew?
The Nazi government was all about serving the People/ Volk. But I don't think it was a "smaller" government. The one previous to it only served the "rich". It took the expansion to the entire Volk to produce Nazi, Mussolini, or Xi-style fascism/ totalitarianism.
As for the Mooch, you are obviously an illiterate if you don't ultimately answer the question as to why she selected the thesis topic. Was she afraid of the poor Black community becoming too integrated into American culture? She thought it would somehow "ruin" the black community? A fear of racial miscegenation? A neo-racist fear of a dilution of Black Southern Cracker Culture?
Did she really believe that if assimilated into white-culture that white culture wouldn't assimilate any black culture and blend into an "American" culture? Could she have been that naive? Are you?
Is she entirely unfamiliar with the legacy of "music"? Or is she one of those "Bach is racist" musicologists?
...or a symptom of white supremacy and systemic discrimination in music education, like you?
In a pretense that Michael Jackson didn't replace Elvis Presley as "The King" of Pop?
Come to think of it, Michael did start bleaching his skin and plastic surgery-ing out his nose...
🤖Why a Larger Budget Does Not Save Money.
Critics, including many libertarian economists (such as those at the Cato Institute) and left-leaning policy analysts, argue that this logic is fiscally and economically flawed.
Flawed Cost Metrics: Alternative economic studies argue that the $150 billion figure ignores significant economic contributions. Undocumented immigrants pay billions in sales, property, and payroll taxes (including into Social Security and Medicare, which they cannot claim). When factoring in their labor supply, consumer spending, and the business growth they stimulate, many economists argue they provide a net positive benefit to the overall economy.
The "Big Government" Reality: Libertarian conservatives often point out that expanding ICE is fundamentally an expansion of government power, bureaucracy, and spending. A multi-billion-dollar federal agency with thousands of employees, sweeping surveillance capabilities, and large-scale detention contracts is, by definition, "big government".
Diminishing Returns on Enforcement: Critics argue that spending $75 billion to completely stop unauthorized immigration is a mathematical impossibility. Because enforcement becomes exponentially more expensive as you try to catch every single individual, the government would likely spend far more on enforcement bureaucracy than it would ever "save" in public service costs. Via the g00gle AI🛑
Expanding ICE meets the definition of big government. Even if your "saving money" argument was true (though it isn't).
Minus: The Nazi government was all about serving the People/ Volk.
It wasn't.
🤖The blog comment is historically misleading because it takes Nazi propaganda at face value without acknowledging the violent, exclusionary reality of what the regime actually practiced.
While the concept of the Volk (the people) was a centerpiece of Nazi rhetoric, it was used to justify a brutal, totalitarian dictatorship rather than to serve a general population. [1, 2]
👉1. The Myth of the Volksgemeinschaft.
The Nazi government heavily promoted the concept of the [Volksgemeinschaft](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/volksgemeinschaft-peoples-or-national-community), which translates to the "People’s Community". [3]
The Propaganda: In speeches and posters, the regime claimed to break down class barriers and unite all Germans into a harmonious, classless society that looked out for ordinary workers. [3, 4]
The Reality: This was not a benevolent public service campaign. It was a tool to enforce absolute conformity, eliminate individualism, and mandate unquestioning obedience to Adolf Hitler. [5, 6]
👉2. A "Community" Built on Violent Exclusion.
The comment implies "the People" meant everyone, but the Nazi definition of the Volk was strictly defined by [biological racism and eugenics](https://www.yadvashem.org/education/educational-videos/video-toolbox/hevt-nazi-ideology.html). The government did not serve the public; it served a highly restricted, "racially pure" group. [2, 7, 8, 9, 10]
Anyone deemed a threat to the "healthy body" of the Volk was labeled Gemeinschaftsfremde (strangers to the community). The regime actively sought to destroy millions of people who lived in Germany, including: [11]
* Jewish citizens
* Romani and Sinti people
* The physically and mentally disabled
* Political dissidents (socialists, communists, and democrats)
* Homosexuals and social non-conformists [9, 11, 12, 13, 14]
👉3. Conditional Benefits and Exploitation.
Even for those who met the regime's strict racial and political criteria, state "service" was transactional. [2]
Weaponized Welfare: Social assistance programs, run by the [National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_People%27s_Welfare), were entirely conditional. If a citizen showed political dissent or failed to prove their utility to the state, their aid was stripped away. [15]
Subordination of the Individual: Under the slogan “Du bist nichts, dein Volk ist alles” ("You are nothing, your Volk is everything"), individuals were expected to completely surrender their personal rights, privacy, and free will to the war machine and the desires of the Führer. [6, 12, 16]
## Summary for Your Blog Response.
If you choose to reply to the comment, you can point out that the Nazi government only "served" the Volk by redefining "the people" to exclude, persecute, and murder millions of its own citizens. Its ultimate goal was total state control, racial cleansing, and military expansion—not the welfare of a free populace. [17]
**sources**
👉Also...
While the Nazi party included "socialist" in its official name (National Socialist German Workers' Party), historians overwhelmingly agree they were not socialist. The term was used strategically to attract working-class voters, but the regime was defined by extreme nationalism, totalitarian control, and the systemic destruction of actual leftist movements.
In practice, the Nazi economy was highly capitalist. Private property and corporate profits were protected and encouraged, and big businesses cooperated closely with the state to support rearmament and war efforts.🛑
Sources...
[1] [https://www.reddit.com](https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1cyyaj4/cmv_nazism_is_more_popular_than_ever/)
[2] [https://www.studysmarter.co.uk](https://www.studysmarter.co.uk/explanations/history/democracy-and-dictatorship-in-germany/volksgemeinschaft/)
[3] [https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/volksgemeinschaft-peoples-or-national-community)
[4] [https://en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksgemeinschaft)
[5] [https://www.thoughtco.com](https://www.thoughtco.com/what-was-volksgemeinschaft-1221370)
[6] [https://grokipedia.com](https://grokipedia.com/page/Volksgemeinschaft)
[7] [https://www.yadvashem.org](https://www.yadvashem.org/education/educational-videos/video-toolbox/hevt-nazi-ideology.html)
[8] [https://www.nsdoku.de](https://www.nsdoku.de/en/groups/educational-program/the-nazi-society-of-exclusion)
[9] [https://www.bildung-ns-zwangsarbeit.de](https://www.bildung-ns-zwangsarbeit.de/en/education/glossary/glossary-detail/term/volksgemeinschaft-deutscher-volkskoerper/)
[10] [https://www.albert.io](https://www.albert.io/blog/the-holocaust-ap-european-history-review/)
[11] [https://www.buchenwald.de](https://www.buchenwald.de/dam/jcr:dc4c355b-4aba-4e71-ac14-b738b3ca0af2/PreparationMaterials_Volksgemeinschaft.pdf)
[12] [https://en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party)
[13] [https://www.theglobeandmail.com](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/german-historian-volker-ullrich-on-hitler-comparisons-in-the-time-of-trump/article36131946/)
[14] [https://www.washingtonpost.com](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/10/16/alan-steinweiss-bad-history/)
[15] [https://en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_People%27s_Welfare)
[16] [https://www.buchenwald.de](https://www.buchenwald.de/dam/jcr:dc4c355b-4aba-4e71-ac14-b738b3ca0af2/PreparationMaterials_Volksgemeinschaft.pdf)
[17] [https://www.britannica.com](https://www.britannica.com/topic/Volksgemeinschaft)
In a pretense that Michael Jackson didn't replace Elvis Presley as "The King" of Pop?
That never happened. There was no replacing. Elvis is the king of rock n roll and Michael Jackson is the king of pop. They are different (subjective and grandiose) titles.
Minus: Come to think of it, Michael did start bleaching his skin and plastic surgery-ing out his nose...
Michael Jackson had vitiligo. He decided to lighten his skin to even out his overall skin tone. Nowadays people are more accepting of vitiligo. He never would have done what he did if not for vitiligo.
🤖Management and Treatment.
Michael Jackson used dark makeup initially to cover the lighter patches.
He shifted to using prescription creams like Benoquin (monobenzone) to complete depigmentation and even out his skin tone as the spots spread.🛑
Minus: She thought it would somehow "ruin" the black community? A fear of racial miscegenation? A neo-racist fear of a dilution of Black Southern Cracker Culture?
NO. And I think this proves your "illiteracy". In addition to not understanding the meaning of the word "illiteracy", you don't understand Michelle Obama's conclusions.
🤖The Core Concern Was "Giving Back," Not Pulling Apart.
👉The thesis actually laments the loss of connection between upwardly mobile Black professionals and marginalized communities.
Her ultimate question was how highly educated Black Americans could use their elite status to benefit disadvantaged communities, a concept deeply rooted in public service and civic integration rather than separatism.
👉"Separationist" Was Used as a Scientific Scale, Not an Agenda.
Critics often misinterpret her use of the word "separationist".In the methodology, she asked alumni to choose where they fell on a spectrum between "separationist/pluralist" (meaning a desire to maintain a distinct cultural identity) and "integrationist/assimilationist" (meaning fully blending into mainstream white culture).
She used these as standard sociological definitions to measure identity shift, not as a call to action for racial segregation.🛑
1) DSA doesn't have a Socialist Volksgemeinschaft? Who knew? Then why has an 85% white majority party brown-faced 85% of its' candidates? LOL!
2) Their program isn't white-Euro colonizer exclusion? There won't be FEMA re-education camps or gulags for MAGA faithfuls?
3) Affirmative action/ DEI isn't a "conditional" benefit? Blacks who refuse to pledge allegiance to DEI will still get surplus-salaried PMC positions? Have you written up your DEI statement for job consideration yet? Now say it... "Vielfalt ist unsere Stärke".!
While the Nazi party included "socialist" in its official name (National Socialist German Workers' Party), historians overwhelmingly agree that like the DSA, they were not socialist. The term was used strategically to attract working-class voters, but the regime was defined by extreme ethnocentric partiality, totalitarian political correctness/ woke control, and the systemic destruction of actual Eurocentric Universalist movements like race non-essentialism
The Mooch was concerned with class differences within the black community widening/ spltting apart the cracker identity culture that unified them. She was afraid that the "black community" would experience what Charles Murray feared for the white community in "Coming Apart". The Cracker "Fishtown" and college educated "Belmont" communities would splinter..
Yet Murrays a racist and Michelle isn't. *tsk-tsk*
Minus: DSA doesn't have a Socialist Volksgemeinschaft? Who knew?
Everyone who isn't a White Supremacist.
Minus: Then why has an 85% white majority party brown-faced 85% of its' candidates? LOL! Their program isn't white-Euro colonizer exclusion? There won't be FEMA re-education camps or gulags for MAGA faithfuls? Affirmative action/ DEI isn't a "conditional" benefit? Blacks who refuse to pledge allegiance to DEI will still get surplus-salaried PMC positions? Have you written up your DEI statement for job consideration yet? Now say it... "Vielfalt ist unsere Stärke".!
While the Nazi party included "socialist" in its official name (National Socialist German Workers' Party), historians overwhelmingly agree that like the DSA, they were not socialist. The term was used strategically to attract working-class voters, but the regime was defined by extreme ethnocentric partiality, totalitarian political correctness/ woke control, and the systemic destruction of actual Eurocentric Universalist movements like race non-essentialism.
Why the "LOL" when you (as a White Supremacist) are very clearly incredibly butt-hurt over this? Maybe they want to increase participation in the minority community by fielding minority candidates? I don't know what their strategy and rationalizing is. I know your claims are BS, however. And White Supremacist whines. I really don't give a crap what the race of the candidates they field is. I care about positions and policies.
Yet they (and you) think that their 5-15% minority ethnicities should rule? Why? They'll be oppressed by whites, otherwise? Perhaps you should investigate their strategies and rationalizations instead of doing their white shaming and looksmaxxing for them.
ps - DEI is a white-cancelling policy.
They're colonizing in the name of de-colonization. How noble!
Minus: Yet they (and you) think that their 5-15% minority ethnicities should rule? Why?
I don't. I judge people on the individual qualities. YOU judge people based on race/ethnicity and see a minority being elected to public office as that minority rep only representing people of the same race/ethnicity. As opposed to all their constituents.
Minus: DEI is a white-cancelling policy.
It isn't.
Minus: They're colonizing in the name of de-colonization. How noble!
This isn't happening. It is one of your delusions.
Minus: The Mooch was concerned with class differences within the black community widening/ spltting apart the cracker identity culture that unified them.
She wasn't and isn't. Because Black people having a "cracker culture" is a discredited theory of the conservative economist Thomas Sowell.
Yes. Charles Murray is a racist and Michelle Obama is not.
You should tell the residents of Chicago that they don't have a cracker culture....
During the most recent full weekend framework tracked by police (Friday, July 17 to Monday, July 20, 2026), gun violence in Chicago resulted in at least 3 deaths and 15 injuries.
Because the current weekend (July 24–26, 2026) is actively unfolding, official total counts are not yet finalized, but a series of major shootings since Thursday night have already caused at least 6 deaths and multiple critical injuries, including a young child.
Crackers gotta be crackers.
The odds of in an 85% white party only 1 candidate being white and male is 1 in 9.3 or ~11%. The odds seem rather long in favour of there being an anti-white male bias within the NY DSA.
...but then you "suspend judgement" when it comes to anti-white motivations, don't you?
Minus: The odds of in an 85% white party only 1 candidate being white and male is 1 in 9.3 or ~11%.
Those are not the odds because that isn't how candidates are arrived at. The biggest factor is self selection. People who don't want to run for office aren't going to be selected. Someone can be a member of the DSA and not want a government position, so your percent analysis makes no sense at all. Because the candidate isn't chosen from everyone in the DSA, only from people who want to run. That's a pretty stupid claim of yours that someone who doesn't want to be a candidate could be selected anyway.
The next time I'm invited to be on a news program that broadcasts in Chicago I'll be sure to address the Chicago audience and say they don't have a "cracker culture". But I think most of them likely haven't heard of this discredited Thomas Sowell theory. And, among those who have, they will likely already agree with me.
🥸Me: According to thomas sowell, many black people have adopted the "cracker culture". Is this theory widely accepted as accurate?
🤖g00gle AI chatbot: No, Thomas Sowell’s "black redneck" or "cracker culture" theory is not widely accepted by mainstream historians, sociologists, or linguists. While his thesis is highly popular in conservative political circles and has been tested in a few niche criminological studies, mainstream academic consensus views it as an oversimplification that ignores the structural, economic, and historical realities of American race relations.🛑
🥸Me: [I asked a question about your provided stats for gun violence in Chicago and if that is evidence that "cracker culture" has been adopted by Black people in that city].
🤖g00gle AI Chatbot response...
The commenter is making several critical logical and sociological errors. While the weekend statistics they provided are accurate for Chicago, using short-term crime data to claim that an entire racial group has absorbed a specific ancestral culture is a textbook example of confirmation bias and flawed reasoning. [1, 2]
The commenter is getting the following things wrong:
## 1. Extrapolating a Global Theory from Localized Data.
The commenter is looking at crime data from a few specific neighborhoods in a single city and applying a sweeping cultural label ("cracker culture") to all Black people. In reality, [Chicago Police Department data](https://www.chicagopolice.org/) shows that violent crime is heavily concentrated in a small fraction of the city’s communities. The vast majority of Black residents in Chicago—and across the United States—are neither involved in nor impacted by gun violence. [3, 4, 5]
## 2. Confusing "Culture" with Structural Conditions.
The foundational mistake of the commenter (and of Thomas Sowell's thesis) is assuming that crime in urban neighborhoods is driven purely by inherited cultural attitudes. Sociologists and criminologists overwhelmingly point to immediate, measurable structural variables that predict violence in any community, regardless of race:
* Hyper-segregation and redlining.
* Decades of economic disinvestment and job loss.
* High poverty rates and lack of generational wealth.
* The presence of highly organized, localized street gangs competing over underground economies.
When White or Hispanic communities face these exact same concentrated socioeconomic pressures, they experience comparable rises in localized violence. Labeling it "cracker culture" ignores these tangible, material drivers.
## 3. Misapplying Thomas Sowell’s Core Premise.
Even within the framework of Sowell’s book Black Rednecks and White Liberals, the commenter is misconstruing the theory. Sowell argued that "cracker culture" was a historical, rural Southern folkway. [6]
The violence in modern Chicago is heavily tied to the dynamics of urban street gangs, drug territory disputes, and modern firearm availability. There is no historical or sociological link between modern, block-by-block urban street disputes in 21st-century Chicago and the 18th-century, livestock-herding, "honor culture" disputes of Celtic immigrants in the rural American South. [7, 8]
## 4. Overlooking Broader Crime Trends.
The commenter is engaging in "cherry-picking" by focusing on a specific spike over two summer weekends. Crime rates are dynamic and fluctuate due to weather, police deployment, and local interventions. [1, 2]
According to mid-2026 data from the Cook County Medical Examiner and [Chicago city databases](https://chicago.suntimes.com/graphics/crime/victim-list/), overall homicides in Chicago have remained relatively flat compared to the previous year, following a steep national decline in violent crime across 30 major American cities. Using an active, unfolding weekend as a data point to prove a macro-historical theory ignores the broader, stabilizing statistical reality. [9, 10, 11, 12]
## Summary.
The commenter is taking a real, tragic problem (urban gun violence) and retrofitting it into a preferred political narrative. By attributing crime to an inherited "culture" rather than localized economic, structural, and systemic realities, they are mistaking the symptoms of concentrated poverty for a racial trait.
g00gle chatbot sources for my previous comment.
[1] [https://www.cbsnews.com](https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-weekend-shootings-july-17-to-20/)
[2] [https://www.cbsnews.com](https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-weekend-shootings-july-24-to-27/)
[3] [https://www.chicagotribune.com](https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/03/chicago-crime-statistics-guns/)
[4] [https://www.facebook.com](https://www.facebook.com/chicagotribune/posts/commentary-in-our-new-study-we-examine-fatal-and-nonfatal-shootings-across-77-ch/941771794872291/)
[5] [https://manhattan.institute](https://manhattan.institute/article/the-real-crime-problem-doesnt-make-much-news)
[6] [https://www.academia.edu](https://www.academia.edu/40076074/Neoreactionary_Canon)
[7] [https://www.justice.gov](https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/pr/mid-year-report-us-attorneys-office-chicago-dramatically-increases-federal-violent)
[8] [https://www.thetrace.org](https://www.thetrace.org/newsletter/the-data-on-unintentional-child-shootings/)
[9] [https://abcnews.com](https://abcnews.com/US/assailant-sought-chicago-shooting-left-6-wounded/story?id=135097274)
[10] [https://news.wttw.com](https://news.wttw.com/2026/07/22/poll-finds-more-chicagoans-believe-violent-crime-rising-even-shootings-homicide-numbers)
[11] [https://www.fox32chicago.com](https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-homicides-up-first-half-2026)
[12] [https://www.instagram.com](https://www.instagram.com/p/DbL8WYHoFJi/)
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