#jemele hill

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[theartofsupafly]

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The thirst for liberation and equality can never come at the expense of dehumanizing other marginalized groups.

Jemele Hill

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Black-girl magic sadly doesn’t extend to being believed or treated humanely. That’s why Black women have to fight vehemently—and often alone—for their own dignity.

  —  Megan Thee Stallion Deserves Respect, Not Judgment

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The Real Lakeith Stanfield: Beyond the Labels

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“Woke” is the new “political correctness” and the new “pc culture” … in other words, it’s this generation’s new catchphrase for conservative racists.

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DRAG HIM, QUEEN 🔥🔥🔥🔥

From a 2019 interview with Jemele Hill | Instagram

[alwaysbewoke]

and this is why don lost his show on x. he embarrassed elon with a real interview. not some ass kissing, softball questions with no follow up. an actual strong, fact based, confident interview by a real journalist. i've always said that elon could never hold up to a real interview. this was light work to be honest. you think elon would survive an interview by michael harriot, jemele hill, or mehdi hasan? he would melt like a snowball in hell under that kind of pressure and questioning lmsoo

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Now 30 years after "Schindler's List" came out, I give you the worst article ever written about it.

Join me for a wallow in the depths of Extremely Online lefty pseudointellectualism and Awareness Raising.

"For all its pathos and earnestness, the movie is too glib in its handling of the Nazis. The concentration camp commandant, Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes), is a sadistic monster who performs cinematic and dramatic acts of brutality to signal to the viewer that he is pure evil."

Yes, the movie sure was unfair to Amon Goeth. It's not like there was historical evidence of him doing exactly what they showed.

"In real life, when Nazis and their ilk are trying to gain power, they often lie about their motives or their goals, and use dog whistles to rally support. They talk incessantly about black crime rates, or, in the Nazis’ case, about Jewish crime rates, in order to create a consensus for strong-arm law-and-order policies."

The Nazis were just a warm-up act for the REAL threat: Republicans!

And, just like with Goeth, I guess this movie doesn't actually show what Nazis were like in real life. I guess when Adolf Hitler promised in 1922 that he would exterminate all the Jews, that wasn't real life, that was a wandering variant from "Across the Hitlerverse." And speaking of superhero movies:

"But you don’t need to deconstruct Nazi ideology or understand racist dog whistles to condemn the Nazis in “Schindler’s List.” You just need to watch as Goeth takes up a sniper position and shoots anyone in the camp who happens to pause for a rest. It’s no harder than rooting against Lex Luthor or the Joker."

This drivel was published 5 years ago, so the author had to have been like 17 at the time and is just barely out of college now, right? Right??? (*checks*) NO WAY, HE'S 52, ARE YOU FOR REAL??!

"The Jewish people in the film don’t try to resist or kill their German oppressors. They don’t even express much in the way of hatred or resentment... Jewish people are always object lessons, never conscious teachers. No Jewish character criticizes or explains the evils of Nazi propaganda. These Jews never talk about how they experience prejudice, or what they would need to fight it.... the Jews around Schindler only beg him to save their relatives, or praise him for his bravery. They never insist on their rights."

Well, there was that Jewish architect in the camps who talked back to Goeth for a second about how the barracks would collapse and he immediately had her killed. The movie is about people having been ALREADY ghettoized by a for-real genocidal regime once the genocide program is under way. Where was there supposed to be a dramatic lecture? And what Jew would have given one, to which Nazi, in which fucking ACTUAL GHETTO?

Again and again, this screen-addled, zero-life-experience baby WHO IS SOMEHOW 52 YEARS OLD WTF fails to confront the horrors of true Jewish history because his only frame of reference has been Twitter arguments about how sleeping with a mattress is secretly white supremacy.

"The targets of fascism are the people best able to express what is happening to them, and what they need to fight it. But “Schindler’s List” presents victims as supplicants. It doesn’t model any way to show support for journalist Jemele Hill, who fell out with her network for saying that Trump is a white supremacist. It doesn’t push you to show solidarity when anti-racist activists demand that Confederate monuments be taken down. It doesn’t tell you that anti-fascist actions are important — even when they disrupt someone’s meal. The virtuous victims in “Schindler’s List” never protest. Because of this kind of representation, it’s easy for people to claim that protesters aren’t virtuous."

.........Or! OR! Hear me out here. Or maybe, just maybe, there could be another reason why the Holocaust doesn't look like a good match for someone being fired from ESPN, or for well-fed comfortable people protected by the rule of law yelling at a White House press secretary. Without checking - without doing even a five-second Google search - I am willing to declare as an absolute immutable fact of the universe that Noah Berlatsky considers Sarah Huckabee Sanders to be more dangerous, more fascist, and more Nazi-like than he does Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The overall mentality is that real life must be a screenplay - according to Berlatsky's written cues. Real life must be cinematic - according to Berlatsky's direction. And anything that differs from Berlatsky's internal script - "AOC uses the Infinity Gauntlet to stop voter ID laws which are the new Nazism" - is simply not credible as real life, as real history, and must be discarded and replaced by more of what he saw on Twitter.

After a long lecture, of course.

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Houdini Visited Cincinnati To Investigate A Local Spirit Medium. He Left Unimpressed.

Harry Houdini came to Cincinnati in 1925 carrying a check for $5,000. He was searching for an authentic spirit medium, someone who could uncontrovertibly demonstrate true communication with the spirit of a person who had died.

Houdini’s intended target was Laura Pruden of Price Hill, who transcribed messages from beyond onto blank slates without appearing to personally intervene in any way. Mrs. Pruden had so entranced Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, that he financed her voyage to London, where she manifested her talents to the English spiritualist community. Alas, Mrs. Pruden declined Houdini’s invitation, claiming to be overwhelmed with spring cleaning, and so Houdini’s check went uncashed.

But then a saucy note to Houdini arrived at the offices of the Cincinnati Post, essentially daring the great magician to a showdown at an apartment house on McMicken Avenue. The note was sent by Lois and George McGehean, but it was composed and dictated by Lois McGehean’s departed mother. The brazen missive read, in part:

“I challenge you, Houdini, to come out to 445½ W. McMicken-av and interview the unseen spirit. It is not for the $5000 we challenge you to an interview, but to prove to the world that you or any mortal author cannot get what I, a spirit, can by dictating thru the alphabet to my son and daughter, George and Lois McGehean, namely, stories from 1000 to 1700 words a day. Our work is done in the light.”

The cheeky dare supposedly originated from a heavenly inhabitant named Jemell Williams (other documents give her name as Junelle or Zanelle Williams). Mrs. Williams, who called herself “Mother” had shuffled off this mortal coil some 25 years previously, but had been appearing to her daughter, Lois Williams Gourley McGehean, since very shortly after her demise. Mrs. McGehean had apparently made no public comment about her mother’s apparitions until after her marriage in 1919 to George McGehean, a cigar vendor.

The Cincinnati Post was quite familiar with the McGeheans and their otherworldly visitor because Alfred Segal, the Post’s longtime columnist, had visited the couple the year previous. Segal remained non-committal after he attended a brief séance at the McGehean’s, but he published [Post, 2 June 1924] some of “Mother’s” descriptions of heaven:

“ . . . a beautiful place, with magnificent homes, whose green lawns and gardens of lovely flowers, I would add, never fade, wither or die. The massive shade trees, with their foliage of leaves, which hold their color of spring-like tinting through the whole year long, can be seen everywhere. The sunrise in the land of eternity is beautiful, even far more glorious than anything we ever saw on this earth. The seas instead of being blue are of a silvery glow and the shores are of gold.”

Houdini rose to the challenge and stopped by the McGehean apartment in the company of columnist Segal, artist Manuel Rosenberg, and insurance agent John Soetje (to ensure proper conditions for awarding the check were met).

As “Mother” claimed, the table-tapping exercise was conducted in a sunlit room. There was no attempt to darken the space by pulling curtains or waiting until sunset. Houdini watched carefully as George McGehean rattled off the alphabet and the little table bounced beneath Lois McGehean’s hands.

After a few minutes of recitation and table-thumping, George McGehean handed Houdini a letter dictated by Mother expressing hope that Houdini would spread the good word about Spiritualism, even though he was too often guided by evil spirits.

The great magician then asked if he might give the little table or planchette a try, with Alfred Segal reciting the alphabet. The McGeheans offered no objection, so Houdini and Segal set to work and produced a short and diplomatic note:

“Lady is sincere but there is nothing evidential. (signed) Lincoln”

Houdini confessed that Abraham Lincoln had nothing to do with that note; it was all Houdini. To the dismay of the McGeheans, the $5,000 check walked out the door.

Alfred Segal had many virtues as a reporter, but he was too kind and generous to do any serious investigating. Had he poked around a bit, maybe sent a few telegrams, Segal might have discovered that George McGehean had a very interesting past.

For example, Lois was McGehean’s fourth wife. His third wife was a “prominent gown maker” of Anderson, Indiana. When she filed for divorce after less than a year of marriage, Elinor Brumbaugh told the court a most intriguing tale, according to the Marion, Indiana, Chronicle Tribune [1 November 1912]:

“McGehean had sold a restaurant and promised to buy another, but he told his wife he was too smart to work, and began practicing clairvoyancy. A woman afflicted with tuberculosis in the last stages, hired him to cure her in three weeks. After getting $32 of her money, Mrs. McGehean said her husband began burning incense in the room of the patient, and before she died, he asked her to pay another $32 to receive the permanent cure.”

Four years later, George McGehean was arrested and spent a week in jail on the complaint of another client, one May Smith of Indianapolis. Mrs. Smith engaged McGehean to cure her husband of his habitual drunkenness and was dismayed that the occult cure had no effect. The Indianapolis New [2 May 1916] reported that Mrs. Smith gave McGehean two dollars and wrote her wishes on a slip of paper that McGehean said he would burn, thereby wafting her wishes into the spirit realm.

“One of her wishes on the paper was a prayer that her husband would stop drinking. When Mrs. Smith returned home she found her husband drinking more than ever, and when this condition continued, she lost all belief in McGehean, who had promised to make conditions at home all right. She appealed to the police, and they arrested McGehean.”

Because he could not make bail, McGehean sat in jail for a week until his case was heard in court. Police Court Judge James E. Deery freed McGehean on grounds of human credulity.

“If people are foolish enough to go to fortune tellers they deserve to be swindled. I think that such people and all fortune tellers ought to be put into a bag and dumped into the ocean. I don’t know which is worse, the fortune tellers or the dupes.”

You can still find copies of the book “Mother” dictated to Lois McGehean. It’s called “True Spirit Return” and is digitized online. The clairvoyancy dodge didn’t make enough money, so the McGeheans relocated to Hamilton, Ohio, George’s hometown. George died in 1936 and is buried next to his first wife. Lois returned to Cincinnati, an indigent widow, and spent her remaining years a ward of the Little Sisters of the Poor. There is no evidence that Lois ever again tried to contact anyone from the realm beyond.

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