More Woke palaver at Madison Common Council!
Tuesday night’s high winds knocked out the power at Stately Blaska Manor in the midst of on-line public testimony on next year’s City of Madison budget. Either that or the stupidity on display overloaded our knob-and-tube electrical system.
We caught up with the rest of the public hearing this morning 11-11-20 via the city website — 5 ½ hours of it. Or, at least, until it was Segway Jeremy’s turn to bash police. (We could stands no more, as Popeye the Sailorman would say.) Up to that point, 20 good and true Madisonians urged the City to restore the police budget — a darned good showing! We counted 30 of the usual suspects who blame the police for crime.
At issue: 4 more police (amendment #10) and making the police pay for city staff who don’t volunteer to take unpaid furloughs (amendment #11). (A recap of the police budget here.) Cop-haters dominant argument was that, yeah, crime is up. That only proves policing doesn’t work. That’s like abolishing the fire department because of Mrs. O’Leary’s cow.
⇒ Public testimony concluded, the Common Council meets again today 11-11-20 at 5:30 p.m. to debate the 2021 budget. Tell the mayor@cityofmadison.com and allalders@cityofmadison.com. Or just your own alder at district (insert #) @cityofmadison.com.
The Werkes selected three testimonies as representative samples of Tuesday’s hearing. First is retired UW-Madison academic Barbara Meyer. She powerfully recounted her and her husband’s horrific mid-day attack in their home. You may recall it: it was the one where three golfers at Odana Hills came to their rescue nine years ago. An excerpt from her larger statement. It is 3:19 minutes.
Police defunders are ‘absolute lunatics’
My husband had been brutalized, I was told I was going to be raped … I was terrified.
That culprit is caged; I hope he stays that way … he was [wearing] an ankle bracelet. He was supposed to be looking for a job, he came to my home instead. He never asked for anything; it was violence he wanted to perpetrate. It was terrifying but Madison’s PD department saw me through it.
It is absolutely ridiculous at a time when crime is increasing in Madison that we are talking about decreasing the police department. The people who take about defunding the police department are absolute lunatics.
Next we showcase Alex Ledezma, who says that city hall has been flooded with 2,000 missives demanding defunding police. He is 3:42 minutes.
Cutting funding for the police department will lead to devastating consequences in our communities, such as the one I grew up in as a person of color in one of Madison’s most under-privileged neighborhoods.
Guess who was there in the front lines to help. No, it was most certainly not the young people in the streets … it was the brave men and women of the police who risked their lives to help the victims of battery, home burglaries and help those who overdosed on a filthy street corner. …
Defunding the police means … less community problem-solving services … If you compromise public safety to telegraph a symbolic message to your voting base. … all the while crime sky rockets in the city … You embolden criminals.
Can we feel our legs?
And finally, we peek at the world of pink unicorns and police as the bad guys, courtesy of one Lizzie Bruno, who admitted to White. We marvel at the young lady’s graduate-level grievance studies jargon! She is 2:04 minutes.
The dominate culture has created this mythology of safety for white bodies … through a strategy of racism and hierarchy. This internalization of racialized hierarchy … lives in our bodies.
How is your body responding as you hear this testimony?… Can you feel your legs? …
This inheritance of white body supremacy has to be faced and processed … mostly we need white persons in power to listen to commit to reparations … to stop believing they have all the answers … Defund the police! Reparations for black and indigenous communities!
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Go Packers!
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The talented Ms. Meyer (a career Lefty, mind you!) is a neighbor & pal of The Gotch.
We once collaborated to get rid of a drug dealer that was plying our quadrant of Midvale Heights.
The Gotch
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This whole trend on the left of referring to non-white people as ‘Black and Brown bodies’ is weird.
These people are weird.
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“This whole trend on the left of referring to non-white people as ‘Black and Brown bodies’ is weird.”
You noticed that too?
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I think it’s from neo-Marxists. Yeah, they are weirdoes but they are many in these parts. This garbage gets propagated mainly in academia. Lots of white zombies use those phrases, especially females with severe vocal fry. They have been trained by Black and Brown neo-Marxists (some of whom are swarthy or salon-tanned whites pretending to be “of colour” — see recent news stories, which are tip of the iceberg). The trained white zombies with severe vocal fry are working overtime to carry water and virtue-signal.
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Who were the ORIGINAL Marxist in the USA ? Fr’ cryin’ out loud …..were they black and brown ? Gimme a BREAK ! Who is STILL driving this “Revolutionary Spirit” , STILL ?
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“This garbage gets propagated mainly in academia.” True, and we’re paying for it. White zombies, thoroughly brainwashed by professors with cushy jobs and inflated salaries, can only see the world through the lens of Theory–which makes it easier to dismiss the real people who are affected by policies influenced by the harebrained notions being taught in this country’s universities–UW-Madison being one of the worst offenders.
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Wow…. signs of life? At least from the first 2. I have heard that Black people are fed up with their urban neighborhoods under constant assault, both from incessant gunfire (throughout daylight hours), skyrocketing murders, and white progressives LARPing on their streets including boarding up whatever hasn’t already been boarded up or burned down.
The signs of life are unfortunately tempered by a rampant, infectious form of idiocy represented in that third comment, which is prima facie evidence of white zombies possessed by full-on wokeness which may be too far along to be stopped. Fists raised, voice urgency and volume elevated to full panic mode, cheap bumper sticker slogans installed, and masks up!
As for me, not a white nickel of discretionary spending will ever happen in Dane County ever again and this lifetime Madison resident, law abiding, tax paying, non-troublemaking, will likely move elsewhere in the coming years.
Madison progressives: I hope State St and the Capitol Square remain boarded up forever. I hope you enjoy shopping for overpriced food in the Public Market-Fleet Garage-Men’s Shelter and have fun visiting your public library whenever they reopen (2022?) to drug addicts seeking a place to poop, piss, and pass out!
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David – Thanks for the good post, all your work and, last but not least, your bottom line comment on this one. I love how you can keep us smiling in the middle of all this craziness.
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David…great testimony last night. I took my 5 minutes as well and WISH I would not have been muted by the mod. People that did not agree with the BLM, Freedom Inc chatter were stamped as, “You white people”, “You old white people”, “You’re all racists”, “How dare you want more cops”. That narrative is getting SO old. Ef em.
*The party of tolerance is the most intolerant.
*COEXIST? Not in Madison.
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C’mon Ian, Lefty is Pro-Choice; meet them halfway by making the right ones….
Despicable Lefties!!!
The Gotch
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A wise Native American once said the right wing and the left wing are part of the same bird. Think about it.
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Was it this guy?
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“You old white people.” Interesting how these fervent anti-racists have no problem expressing their blatant ageism (remember when age used to confer a modicum of respect?) But then again they’re used to getting away with any form of hypocrisy thanks to their cowed enablers in city govrnment.
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A good point regarding the ageism, Gary. But “fervent anti-racists”? Say what? I thought that racism is the essence of both their personal mentality as well as their general view of the world.
This is not an issue of word play, but I think is a reality must be keep front and center by everyone who sees this whole thing for what it is. I’s just life back in Jim Crow all over again. Who would have guessed 50-60 years ago that a giant state-sponsored plantation and its slave mentality would be what defines Madison in 2020? Probably just about nobody.
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Lizzie Bruno needs intense therapy.
Self hate is not healthy.
“White privilege” is CHILD ABUSE ….. it is a deliberate, carefully designed, racist attack on the self esteem of White children.
“White privilege” is classic Racist Bullying …… tearing down others rather than lifting yourself up.
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Notice how many self-hating “whites” are also members of the most Suptemacist Cult of “vctimhood” of ALL TIMES ? “I know all about it. So , yes , Revenge, and reperations. We continue to receive $$ from most EVIL WHITE european countries to this day. We also jail, and fine for HATE-SPEECH quite regularly, in europe/aus/nz/canada. First amendment, schmurst amendment. “
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“’White privilege’” is CHILD ABUSE ….. it is a deliberate, carefully designed, racist attack on the self esteem of White children. ‘White privilege’ is classic Racist Bullying …… tearing down others rather than lifting yourself up.”
Alberticus, your comment reminded me of a phone call I got from a woman after reading my 1/30/19 Cap Times column explaining why I was running for MMSD school board in 2019. https://madison.com/ct/amos-roe-madisons-current-public-school-system-is-broken/article_498950ce-18d6-54b2-8b2c-f6c1eec88b13.html
Her husband had read my editorial and insisted she call me up and tell me their own experience, which she reluctantly did.
She proceeded to tell me about the experience of her daughter during middle school. Having been raised since a baby to not be race conscious, her daughter was an innocent, free-loving spirit who was friends with both black and white kids. I think, if I remember correctly, her best friend may have been a black girl. At MMSD’s school of racist indoctrination, however, this “privileged” white girl was taught her true role as an oppressor of black people. The class was predominately black, and she was singled out by the teacher as part of the white master class. The teacher actually had her read a passage in front of the class from Richard Wight’s “A Raisin in the Sun” in which a white person disparages a black person. The girl was then set upon by the teacher for reading the pejorative in the book and told that she was racist for using the term she instructed to read! I think this was also the same teacher who was holding a discussion about the kids’ favorite rappers. One of them had been murdered, and the girl, still in her innocence, asked if he had been a gangster. She was immediately reprimanded for this “racist” comment and I think this may have been when she was hauled up to face administration inquiry. Needless to say, this experience was shattering and turned her from an outgoing and carefree girl into an introverted and fearful girl.
No, I’m not making this up and I begged her mother to step forward with this story but she declined. She was a most gracious woman who attributed all this to an inexperienced teacher who had a lot to learn and whom she didn’t want to get in trouble. She said that she hoped the complaint which she had made to the teacher was sufficient to encourage that teacher to rethink what she was doing in the future. How that was going to be possible, given the racist mandates which the school was imposing upon this new teacher, was never clear to me.
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Correction – I meant Lorraine Hansberry nor Richard Wright.
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“Self hate is not healthy.”
Hate Is Too Great A Burden To Bear. It Injures The Hater More Than It Injures The Hated Coretta Scott King
The Gotch
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Progressives are the “New Flagellants” , spreading a dogma that requires “mortification of the mind”.
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I just listened to Lizzie Bruno, OMG. As Gotch would say –“Everyone has the right to be stupid, but some people just ABUSE that privilege”.
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How can I get back the two minutes and three seconds of my life that I lost while listening to that woman’s idiotic drivel?
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David, you could become competition for Charlie Berens, You could call it the Stately Manor Minute.
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Racism works both ways. My grandparents suffered plenty as immigrants, but had the gumption to make their ways. Sick of blacks whining.
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“Sick of blacks whining.”
Jodee, please consider that what is going on is actually not “blacks whining” in general. Rather, it involves the actions of a very small subset of race hustlers with a vested financial/psychological motivation, funded by deep pockets (Soros etc) – along with taxpayers! – and amplified/censored by the media to drive this false narrative.
Note, for example, that locally this movement of chaos, violence and intolerance actually involves mostly white people, who have first been duly indoctrinated by a local plantation mentality. This is made possible by their psychological need to virtue signal, regardless of the kind of deep damage this is actually doing to the vast majority of law-abiding black people who are paying for all this.
At its roots, this phenomenon is a manufactured attempt to sow dissension along race lines. This is why black neighborhoods are asking movements like BLM to stay out, and why there have been so many (albeit censored) black voices speaking out against BLM. And they have been doing this for years. I think that what is going on involves blacks as a race just as much as do white supremacists who claim to be speaking for those of us who are white. It’s just garbage on the face of it.
BTW, I’ll start taking a group like Freedom Inc seriously once they start demanding school vouchers. And if they did here in Madison, any bets on how long the local media would be still be giving them 24/7 coverage and support?
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You make great points.
Anyone can see for themselves how BLM street activists lean heavily towards white progressives. They are LARPing like crazy especially in summer and during school closures and layoffs.
Near West side of Madison homes with BLM signs are not occupied by Blacks, you can be sure of that.
This divisive extremist garbage is propagated by trained Marxists. The aim is to tear down what makes us America, and pit groups against each other. They want us at each other’s throats permanently.
There are Blacks who know better and understand exactly what’s going on. Some of them may come to regret throwing in with Biden only to have any chance of charter school expansion and vouchers flushed down the toilet for the foreseeable future.
Even Trump, under 4 years of 95% negative media coverage including that he is a white supremacist and “literally Hitler”, got the highest support from minority voters for a Republican presidential candidate in 60 years!
Local Black activists — YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE– can kiss GOODBYE to any of their innovative, impressive educational initiatives that don’t involve pouring all our money into a failed public school system.
On top of that, Biden’s proposed national lockdowns will only increase economic misery in the Black community, squashing small business entrepreneurs, and widen the disgraceful educational achievement gaps (see recent news from Texas, where Black students have fallen further behind, alarmingly so, in only a few months of this pathetic thing they call “online learning”).
Maybe some day Black voters will throw off the shackles of Democratic fearmongering, take a long hard look at how poorly they have fared under Dem presidencies, and explore other options.
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Thanks for the post Adam. I hope you will reconsider leaving Madison. Every voice counts.
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That graphic of Mayor SRC up top is the paradigm for glassy eyed Lefty cluelessness; always wrong but never in doubt!
The Gotch
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Some one is standing out of frame, holding a treat, and saying “Who’s a Good Girl?” —(but who?)
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🙂
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We all know the treat is a plate full of Little Debbies intended to soothe the Big Boss’ anxieties.
Godallmighty pFarts, definitely a contender for Comment of the Year.
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