On November 9th, nestled amongst the outrage and analysis surrounding Trump’s election, a two-minute-seven-second clip on CNN captured the frustrations of 50.1% of a nation.
Yep. The Trump trans ads swung the test audience by 2.7%.
And two days after the election, a group was arguing with me on social media that I must call myself a Cis woman. Apparently, gender identity is self-defined, but only by trans activists. The rest of us only get the choice between being Cis or being a Bigot. (Even when we are lesbians.)
I would never vote for Trump, but I sure get how he used this to get votes. It is shocking how little Progressives are in touch with reality, or strategy.
I think the whole "cis" thing is really just a way to test their power. I refuse to call myself cisgender. But I do demand that people use my preferred pronouns: eeuyr/qtyff.
One of the many reasons to not vote for Harris was her and the Democratic Party’s insane pandering to the fringe trans cult.
My wife and (at the time) 5 year old daughter used to like to go to the steam baths from time to time for some mother daughter time on the women-only days. The last time they were there, my daughter was shocked to find herself face-to-face with a guy in a skimpy bikini bottom with his junk, pushing out at her eye level.
When my wife went to complain to the attendant, the attendant rightly responded that she was not paid enough to deal with that stuff. Keep in mind that there were slots for men and co-Ed days as well.
They never returned.
While you’re writing about the aftershocks of the last election , keep in mind that we have a sitting Supreme Court Justice who cannot spit out the definition of what a woman is.
The pendulum is about to swing back and sweep away the remnants of the radical trans ideology that is poisoning our discourse in every facet of life. Zero people in my life have ever mentioned anything derogatory about trans people or however, they want to live their life. What 100% of them have a problem with is their (trans fanatics) forcing their way into women’s and children’s spaces and rubbing it in our faces each and every day.
And yes, my wife, proud black woman and mother, (reluctantly) voted for Trump.
Both brilliant and correct. While I could never get myself to vote for Trump, sadly I was unable to vote for Harris either because of this very issue. I was completely paralyzed. I wrote to the Biden administration about this and particularly about Title IX over and over again. The most I got back was a form response stating the Biden administration's commitment to trans rights.
I applaud this enterprise of trying to understand. It’s necessary, and it’s time well-spent.
I think what you will find is that aside from inflation and immigration, the election hinged to a large extent, on cultural/social issues (immigration is ALSO partly a cultural/social issue).
Daniel was five when I met him. He was in my daughter's kindergarten class, and they were fast friends. After school, Daniel and his cousin, George, often came home with my girls. They all did their homework together, then ran outside to play. As the years passed, Daniel and George spent more and more time at our home.
While the boy's fathers were long gone, I never met their mothers. I never let my kids go to anyone's home without meeting parents first, but even when the boys stayed the whole weekend, I never heard from their mothers. As you might have guessed, Daniel and George were really good children, polite, intelligent, helpful, respectful and very, very kind. By high school, we'd often wake up to find Daniel and George sound asleep in our living room. I'd make breakfast, the kids would get dressed and off they went to school.
Daniel had been a cute boy, but he grew into the most handsome teenager I'd ever seen. Daniel stood six foot three inches tall, had broad shoulders, black hair, olive skin, and black eyes. His cousin George was a few inches taller and 30 pounds of solid muscle bigger than Daniel.
George was the one who finally told me what was going on at home. Daniel's mom's boyfriend was a prison guard and he had moved in when Daniel started Junior High. Daniel's mom thought Daniel wanted a father and could not figure out why her fiancé disliked her son as much as he disliked him. "George" I asked, "why does Daniel dislike his mother's boyfriend?" George came right out and said it plain and simple "he's trying to turn Daniel into a man." I said, "oh shit" and George nodded in agreement.
As I said, the boys were in high school now and testing rebellion for the first time. In turn, Daniel's step-father was shoving back, harder and harder. One afternoon, the kids come into my office and Daniel was dressed as a woman. Oh my G-d, I exclaimed, Daniel you look just like Diana Ross (and believe you me, he did). Daniel broke out singing, and if he'd been the size of Diana Ross, I swear you could not have told them apart. After that, Daniel came and went from our house in whatever gender felt right to him that day. He went out to dinner with us, to movies, civic events, art shows, etc. as well. In our small mountain town, of 8,000 people, we got a few stares from tourists, but locals didn't blink an eye. The only person who cared was Daniel's step-father, the prison guard.
Daniel was a sophomore when I spoke to his mother for the first time. She called me on the phone to ask me for a favour. First, she told me what had happened. Her husband and Daniel had been arguing, again, but this time they'd gotten physical, so she called the police. When the police arrived, she had them take Daniel to the psychiatric hospital in the city 50 miles away. She was supposed to go down and sign paperwork to place him on a 72-hour psychiatric hold but she called me instead, and asked me to go down the mountain, pick up her son and bring him to my house. Could Daniel stay at my house until things calmed down she asked? Yes, he can stay as long as he likes I said, but first, I want to know, how are you?
The poor woman burst into tears and told me how she was. She was not fine, at all. Her marriage had ripped her life to shreds. She couldn't throw her son out of his home, but she couldn't throw her husband out either, because... they'd refinanced her home together to withdraw her equity. The money was gone, and now she couldn't make the mortgage payment without her husband. I told her I’d call her back, as soon as I got Daniel home and headed down the mountain. Daniel stayed with us quite a while and when he was ready, he went home.
After that, Daniel talked to me about his feelings a lot. All I could do was listen, cause I knew nothing about this stuff. I had a great uncle, who was a cross-dresser, but that was no big deal, cause he dressed up at home and his wife loved him too much to care. I will always wonder if my aunt and uncle’s story was what got Daniel to start looking for in a partner.
The kids headed off to college and Daniel went to nursing school. A few years later, my mother had a heart attack and was rushed to the city hospital. She was terrified and I stayed with her, night and day. When I told Mama I was going home to shower and change clothes, her vital signs flew up and up and up and I decided to stay. Suddenly, a new night nurse walked into her room – and it was our Daniel. I was plumb out of emotional strength and my face was drowning in tears. Daniel threw his arms around me, whispered “not here” and asked Mama if he could take me for a walk. Of course, said my Mama. Daniel guided me down the hall, and into a room where I lost my composure in one big bout of weeping. And then we caught up.
So that’s your maiden name, said Daniel, if I’d known your mom was here, I’d have been here too. If I’d known you were here, I would have asked for you I replied. How long have you been here, Daniel asked? Three days I replied. Well, you’re going home tonight. I explained what happened when I told Mom I was leaving earlier. Daniel said “don’t worry, I will handle that” and he did. When we went back into Mama’s room Daniel started singing Motown songs and his Diana Ross routine stole my mother’s heart. He’d remembered that my love of Jazz and Motown came from my mother. Mama insisted I go home, Daniel would stay with her. Her vital signs were good.
Daniel married a girl like my aunt, who loved him too much to care about his cross dressing at home or out in public. They would have children and lead happy lives. Today, Daniel is more handsome than ever, every bit as kind and gentle and still belting out songs in Diana Ross style. I miss our Supreme’s nights, when all four of us sang together and George would be our audience, and we were all happy just to be happy – for a while.
This shines a light on the idea that there are effeminate men and masculine women who are neither transexual nor homosexual. Just as there are hypermasculine men and hyperfeminine women who are homosexual. Our society makes no space for them.
Dave, I take your point. However, Daniel was extremely masculine when dressed as a man, and equally feminine when dressed as a woman, - so much so, he is convincing in either role. Daniel experimented sexually, but chose a woman, children and a family of his own.
I've known Daniel for thirty years now, and he is one of the most honest people I know. He still lives in the small mountain community where he was born and raised, and is well-respected, trusted, and deeply loved. As I said, Daniel is a nurse and has a reputation as the best phlebotomist in the county. Doctors and patients ask for Daniel and everyone knows the reason. No one can ease an old patient's fears, or make people smile like Daniel can.
I often think that Daniel changes his gender roles to help people by speaking with them, in a way that lets them know, they are being heard. I say that, because most of us are so genderized, we assume men can't do this and women can't do that. Daniel offers people the gender they need most and that is a rare and precious gift.
As you know, I think that the election was not Trump vs Harris, but rather Trump vs her party in its collective entirety. I look forward to the continuation of this series where you will break out the other individual parts. Your readers and I may or may not agree with some of the positions that poisoned the well, but they really must be examined and discussed because like it or not, they did.
I don't know if you will get around to the military, active and veterans. We are as deeply divided as the rest of the nation, but we are traditionally conservative dominant. I don't hear actual discussion, just bone spur Trump vs not an America hating commie. Another about him vs about a group.
"And the palpable exasperation on Singleton's face was shared by every sane human being on Earth."
This is what leftists don't see. It's really jumped the shark on trans/gender issues. And I work in mental health. I've worked with kids all across the gender spectrum, I want them to live, I want them to be safe. But Jesus...
After the election the Democratic Party (my party) must rethink many of its policies as it ponders its future.
To be entrusted with power again Democrats must start listening to the concerns of the working class for a change. As a lifelong moderate Democrat I share their disdain for many of the insane positions advocated by my party.
Democrat politicians defy biology by believing that men can actually become women and belong in women’s sports, rest rooms, locker rooms and prisons and that children should be mutilated in pursuit of the impossible.
They believe borders should be open to millions of illegals which undermines workers’ wages and the affordability of housing when we can’t house our own citizens.
They discriminate against whites, Asians and men in a vain effort to counter past discrimination against others and undermine our economy by abandoning merit selection of students and employees.
Democratic mayors allow homelessness to destroy our beautiful cities because they won't say no to destructive behavior. No you can’t camp in this city. No you can’t shit in our streets. No you can’t shoot up and leave your used needles everywhere. Many of our prosecutors will not take action against shoplifting unless a $1000 of goods are stolen leading to gangs destroying retail stores. They release criminals without bond to rob and murder again.
The average voter knows this is happening and outright reject our party. Enough.
I don't think that abortion is as big a partisan political issue as some people think. An issue, yes, but here in Arizona the universal abortion rights proposition passed by a wide morgen while Trump got the nod.
While I agree with much of what you say about the problems with some of the trans activism, I still don't understand why most women don't consider that as small potatoes compared to the enormous pile of risks of another Orange shit show. How many women have died as a result of trans activism gone too far vs how many have already died as a result of lack of access to reproductive care? Are they not worried about their ability to adequately care for their families when tariffs kick off out of control inflation again? Do they really want someone who spouts constant lies, who thinks that windmills cause cancer and COVID would just go away in a few weeks, who is clearly in mental decline, in charge of our nuclear codes? Do they want to end up living in an authoritarian controlled country and lose many of the rights they have always taken for granted? I could go on and on about the threat to both women in particular and all citizens in general. So no, I don't think that the trans thing is an excuse for how a high percentage of woman voted. If that one issue could cause so cause so many people to vote to throw away this country, then we are effed and the hope of ever getting back to sanity is gone.
Definitely mothers. If you haven't been exposed to a high school or college student in the last 4 years, you may not understand how infiltrated our schools have become with this ideological trans movement. You would be floored how very many young people are completely entrenched in this contagion.
Right. My daughter is 26–just a tad older than the girls who are rushing out to get their breasts chopped off and going on “T” at 18. There are at least 3 in my neighborhood. Their mothers are furious. Tariffs are reversible. A double mastectomy is not.
Women more especially women in prisons have been raped by men claiming to be women. Putting on a cheap wig and dress does not turn a rapist into a harmless eunuch who should be allowed access to women's spaces.
Trying to rationalize INSANITY is like pissing in the ocean and expecting sea level to rise. Anyone believing that emotional fantasy overrides reality is INSANE, being incapable of handing freedom of thought responsibly.
"Trying to rationalize INSANITY is like pissing in the ocean and expecting sea level to rise"
Dismissing decisions you don't like as "INSANITY," especially decisions that have a potentially profound effect on your life and the world, instead of trying to understand them and make the necessary adjustments, is like watching sea levels rise and and hoping they stop on their own.
Im a subscriber, but under a different email address, and was looking ked.out of replying to your “why would I lie about being black” column, but really wanted to add my 2 cents. Looks like you made a small mistake that I often try to avoid: making a lock solid point, then adding a comment for someone else to latch onto, when they find they cannot refute the lock solid point. I.e., the “add up all the crimes, and you still only get to ~2%” followed by the 13/50 meme comment. Oh, how I wish you'd left the meme comment off, just to see how theyd have responded to the 2% part!
Yep. The Trump trans ads swung the test audience by 2.7%.
And two days after the election, a group was arguing with me on social media that I must call myself a Cis woman. Apparently, gender identity is self-defined, but only by trans activists. The rest of us only get the choice between being Cis or being a Bigot. (Even when we are lesbians.)
I would never vote for Trump, but I sure get how he used this to get votes. It is shocking how little Progressives are in touch with reality, or strategy.
I think the whole "cis" thing is really just a way to test their power. I refuse to call myself cisgender. But I do demand that people use my preferred pronouns: eeuyr/qtyff.
One of the many reasons to not vote for Harris was her and the Democratic Party’s insane pandering to the fringe trans cult.
My wife and (at the time) 5 year old daughter used to like to go to the steam baths from time to time for some mother daughter time on the women-only days. The last time they were there, my daughter was shocked to find herself face-to-face with a guy in a skimpy bikini bottom with his junk, pushing out at her eye level.
When my wife went to complain to the attendant, the attendant rightly responded that she was not paid enough to deal with that stuff. Keep in mind that there were slots for men and co-Ed days as well.
They never returned.
While you’re writing about the aftershocks of the last election , keep in mind that we have a sitting Supreme Court Justice who cannot spit out the definition of what a woman is.
The pendulum is about to swing back and sweep away the remnants of the radical trans ideology that is poisoning our discourse in every facet of life. Zero people in my life have ever mentioned anything derogatory about trans people or however, they want to live their life. What 100% of them have a problem with is their (trans fanatics) forcing their way into women’s and children’s spaces and rubbing it in our faces each and every day.
And yes, my wife, proud black woman and mother, (reluctantly) voted for Trump.
Parents jailed for resisting their sons’ castration. These are End Times.
Both brilliant and correct. While I could never get myself to vote for Trump, sadly I was unable to vote for Harris either because of this very issue. I was completely paralyzed. I wrote to the Biden administration about this and particularly about Title IX over and over again. The most I got back was a form response stating the Biden administration's commitment to trans rights.
Did you write in Peanut the Squirl in protest of the shitty choice? I know for a fact that I was not alone.
I applaud this enterprise of trying to understand. It’s necessary, and it’s time well-spent.
I think what you will find is that aside from inflation and immigration, the election hinged to a large extent, on cultural/social issues (immigration is ALSO partly a cultural/social issue).
Daniel was five when I met him. He was in my daughter's kindergarten class, and they were fast friends. After school, Daniel and his cousin, George, often came home with my girls. They all did their homework together, then ran outside to play. As the years passed, Daniel and George spent more and more time at our home.
While the boy's fathers were long gone, I never met their mothers. I never let my kids go to anyone's home without meeting parents first, but even when the boys stayed the whole weekend, I never heard from their mothers. As you might have guessed, Daniel and George were really good children, polite, intelligent, helpful, respectful and very, very kind. By high school, we'd often wake up to find Daniel and George sound asleep in our living room. I'd make breakfast, the kids would get dressed and off they went to school.
Daniel had been a cute boy, but he grew into the most handsome teenager I'd ever seen. Daniel stood six foot three inches tall, had broad shoulders, black hair, olive skin, and black eyes. His cousin George was a few inches taller and 30 pounds of solid muscle bigger than Daniel.
George was the one who finally told me what was going on at home. Daniel's mom's boyfriend was a prison guard and he had moved in when Daniel started Junior High. Daniel's mom thought Daniel wanted a father and could not figure out why her fiancé disliked her son as much as he disliked him. "George" I asked, "why does Daniel dislike his mother's boyfriend?" George came right out and said it plain and simple "he's trying to turn Daniel into a man." I said, "oh shit" and George nodded in agreement.
As I said, the boys were in high school now and testing rebellion for the first time. In turn, Daniel's step-father was shoving back, harder and harder. One afternoon, the kids come into my office and Daniel was dressed as a woman. Oh my G-d, I exclaimed, Daniel you look just like Diana Ross (and believe you me, he did). Daniel broke out singing, and if he'd been the size of Diana Ross, I swear you could not have told them apart. After that, Daniel came and went from our house in whatever gender felt right to him that day. He went out to dinner with us, to movies, civic events, art shows, etc. as well. In our small mountain town, of 8,000 people, we got a few stares from tourists, but locals didn't blink an eye. The only person who cared was Daniel's step-father, the prison guard.
Daniel was a sophomore when I spoke to his mother for the first time. She called me on the phone to ask me for a favour. First, she told me what had happened. Her husband and Daniel had been arguing, again, but this time they'd gotten physical, so she called the police. When the police arrived, she had them take Daniel to the psychiatric hospital in the city 50 miles away. She was supposed to go down and sign paperwork to place him on a 72-hour psychiatric hold but she called me instead, and asked me to go down the mountain, pick up her son and bring him to my house. Could Daniel stay at my house until things calmed down she asked? Yes, he can stay as long as he likes I said, but first, I want to know, how are you?
The poor woman burst into tears and told me how she was. She was not fine, at all. Her marriage had ripped her life to shreds. She couldn't throw her son out of his home, but she couldn't throw her husband out either, because... they'd refinanced her home together to withdraw her equity. The money was gone, and now she couldn't make the mortgage payment without her husband. I told her I’d call her back, as soon as I got Daniel home and headed down the mountain. Daniel stayed with us quite a while and when he was ready, he went home.
After that, Daniel talked to me about his feelings a lot. All I could do was listen, cause I knew nothing about this stuff. I had a great uncle, who was a cross-dresser, but that was no big deal, cause he dressed up at home and his wife loved him too much to care. I will always wonder if my aunt and uncle’s story was what got Daniel to start looking for in a partner.
The kids headed off to college and Daniel went to nursing school. A few years later, my mother had a heart attack and was rushed to the city hospital. She was terrified and I stayed with her, night and day. When I told Mama I was going home to shower and change clothes, her vital signs flew up and up and up and I decided to stay. Suddenly, a new night nurse walked into her room – and it was our Daniel. I was plumb out of emotional strength and my face was drowning in tears. Daniel threw his arms around me, whispered “not here” and asked Mama if he could take me for a walk. Of course, said my Mama. Daniel guided me down the hall, and into a room where I lost my composure in one big bout of weeping. And then we caught up.
So that’s your maiden name, said Daniel, if I’d known your mom was here, I’d have been here too. If I’d known you were here, I would have asked for you I replied. How long have you been here, Daniel asked? Three days I replied. Well, you’re going home tonight. I explained what happened when I told Mom I was leaving earlier. Daniel said “don’t worry, I will handle that” and he did. When we went back into Mama’s room Daniel started singing Motown songs and his Diana Ross routine stole my mother’s heart. He’d remembered that my love of Jazz and Motown came from my mother. Mama insisted I go home, Daniel would stay with her. Her vital signs were good.
Daniel married a girl like my aunt, who loved him too much to care about his cross dressing at home or out in public. They would have children and lead happy lives. Today, Daniel is more handsome than ever, every bit as kind and gentle and still belting out songs in Diana Ross style. I miss our Supreme’s nights, when all four of us sang together and George would be our audience, and we were all happy just to be happy – for a while.
This shines a light on the idea that there are effeminate men and masculine women who are neither transexual nor homosexual. Just as there are hypermasculine men and hyperfeminine women who are homosexual. Our society makes no space for them.
Dave, I take your point. However, Daniel was extremely masculine when dressed as a man, and equally feminine when dressed as a woman, - so much so, he is convincing in either role. Daniel experimented sexually, but chose a woman, children and a family of his own.
I've known Daniel for thirty years now, and he is one of the most honest people I know. He still lives in the small mountain community where he was born and raised, and is well-respected, trusted, and deeply loved. As I said, Daniel is a nurse and has a reputation as the best phlebotomist in the county. Doctors and patients ask for Daniel and everyone knows the reason. No one can ease an old patient's fears, or make people smile like Daniel can.
I often think that Daniel changes his gender roles to help people by speaking with them, in a way that lets them know, they are being heard. I say that, because most of us are so genderized, we assume men can't do this and women can't do that. Daniel offers people the gender they need most and that is a rare and precious gift.
You are off to a fine start.
As you know, I think that the election was not Trump vs Harris, but rather Trump vs her party in its collective entirety. I look forward to the continuation of this series where you will break out the other individual parts. Your readers and I may or may not agree with some of the positions that poisoned the well, but they really must be examined and discussed because like it or not, they did.
I don't know if you will get around to the military, active and veterans. We are as deeply divided as the rest of the nation, but we are traditionally conservative dominant. I don't hear actual discussion, just bone spur Trump vs not an America hating commie. Another about him vs about a group.
Wow, brilliantly written. I’m new to your site but I’m an instant fan!
"And the palpable exasperation on Singleton's face was shared by every sane human being on Earth."
This is what leftists don't see. It's really jumped the shark on trans/gender issues. And I work in mental health. I've worked with kids all across the gender spectrum, I want them to live, I want them to be safe. But Jesus...
I read hundreds of Substack posts from nominally Democratic parents who said they were voting Trump to protect their kids from the surgeons.
I don’t know any “trans” people but all impressions I get online say they are pampered brats.
… is that they’re powered brats.
Get the word out that their demands cost is the country. What happens happens.
After the election the Democratic Party (my party) must rethink many of its policies as it ponders its future.
To be entrusted with power again Democrats must start listening to the concerns of the working class for a change. As a lifelong moderate Democrat I share their disdain for many of the insane positions advocated by my party.
Democrat politicians defy biology by believing that men can actually become women and belong in women’s sports, rest rooms, locker rooms and prisons and that children should be mutilated in pursuit of the impossible.
They believe borders should be open to millions of illegals which undermines workers’ wages and the affordability of housing when we can’t house our own citizens.
They discriminate against whites, Asians and men in a vain effort to counter past discrimination against others and undermine our economy by abandoning merit selection of students and employees.
Democratic mayors allow homelessness to destroy our beautiful cities because they won't say no to destructive behavior. No you can’t camp in this city. No you can’t shit in our streets. No you can’t shoot up and leave your used needles everywhere. Many of our prosecutors will not take action against shoplifting unless a $1000 of goods are stolen leading to gangs destroying retail stores. They release criminals without bond to rob and murder again.
The average voter knows this is happening and outright reject our party. Enough.
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Harris' relentless pushing of abortion many voters would have felt to be morally wrong.
I don't think that abortion is as big a partisan political issue as some people think. An issue, yes, but here in Arizona the universal abortion rights proposition passed by a wide morgen while Trump got the nod.
She didn’t “push” abortion
"Push" here means giving the subject prominence.
No, it means “advocate,” as in “we need more abortion.”
While I agree with much of what you say about the problems with some of the trans activism, I still don't understand why most women don't consider that as small potatoes compared to the enormous pile of risks of another Orange shit show. How many women have died as a result of trans activism gone too far vs how many have already died as a result of lack of access to reproductive care? Are they not worried about their ability to adequately care for their families when tariffs kick off out of control inflation again? Do they really want someone who spouts constant lies, who thinks that windmills cause cancer and COVID would just go away in a few weeks, who is clearly in mental decline, in charge of our nuclear codes? Do they want to end up living in an authoritarian controlled country and lose many of the rights they have always taken for granted? I could go on and on about the threat to both women in particular and all citizens in general. So no, I don't think that the trans thing is an excuse for how a high percentage of woman voted. If that one issue could cause so cause so many people to vote to throw away this country, then we are effed and the hope of ever getting back to sanity is gone.
We are not talking about most women. We are talking about swing voters at the margins, particularly mothers.
Definitely mothers. If you haven't been exposed to a high school or college student in the last 4 years, you may not understand how infiltrated our schools have become with this ideological trans movement. You would be floored how very many young people are completely entrenched in this contagion.
Right. My daughter is 26–just a tad older than the girls who are rushing out to get their breasts chopped off and going on “T” at 18. There are at least 3 in my neighborhood. Their mothers are furious. Tariffs are reversible. A double mastectomy is not.
Women more especially women in prisons have been raped by men claiming to be women. Putting on a cheap wig and dress does not turn a rapist into a harmless eunuch who should be allowed access to women's spaces.
The last paragraph gets it exactly right. Not much of a choice was it ?
Trying to rationalize INSANITY is like pissing in the ocean and expecting sea level to rise. Anyone believing that emotional fantasy overrides reality is INSANE, being incapable of handing freedom of thought responsibly.
"Trying to rationalize INSANITY is like pissing in the ocean and expecting sea level to rise"
Dismissing decisions you don't like as "INSANITY," especially decisions that have a potentially profound effect on your life and the world, instead of trying to understand them and make the necessary adjustments, is like watching sea levels rise and and hoping they stop on their own.
Im a subscriber, but under a different email address, and was looking ked.out of replying to your “why would I lie about being black” column, but really wanted to add my 2 cents. Looks like you made a small mistake that I often try to avoid: making a lock solid point, then adding a comment for someone else to latch onto, when they find they cannot refute the lock solid point. I.e., the “add up all the crimes, and you still only get to ~2%” followed by the 13/50 meme comment. Oh, how I wish you'd left the meme comment off, just to see how theyd have responded to the 2% part!