For many years the Vallejo Times Herald was a reliable source of information for the city of Vallejo.  It provided unbiased news, and a reliable viewpoint.  However, since the worst President in America history, Obama, was elected in 2008, the Times Herald has degenerated into a Democrat rag, unfit to be called serious news.  The readers have caught on, and its subscriptions have dropped dramatically.  Some will make the argument that the internet has made the Times Herald irrelevant, which may be true, but it’s content is overwhelmingly one sided, and it’s readers were largely conservative, and so it alienated it’s key base.  A very foolish business decision.  It no longer delivers on Monday, and it’s subscriptions will probably never recover again.

It is the only newspaper in town tasked with covering public events and happenings, and it has been doing a miserable job.  As a result, most people have tuned out.  This is part of the reason why there is so much voter apathy.  The voters know they are being deceived, and so they step away.  The Times Herald makes no bones about it’s wildly partisan opposition to Trump.  Every last negative item about him gets headlines, and every positive development gets buried on the inside, or isn’t reported on at all.   The Times Herald is very undiscriminating on whose letters it publishes.  While they did a good job a few years back of publishing my letters, and for that I’m thankful, they often censored my letters and removed whole sentences.  They only published a fraction of the letters I submitted, and when my letters came under fierce criticism from resident atheist troublemaker Thom McCombs, the Times Herald would fail to publish my response to his constant revilings.  So, to the gullible reader, it appeared this moral midget always had the last word and was right.  He definitely wasn’t.  200 years ago, newspapers wouldn’t give any space to the morally bankrupt citizens who write to the Times Herald supporting marijuana, opposing Orcem, opposing business, and parroting the latest progressive nonsense they’ve learned in the media and schools.

John Glidden, an alleged reporter, publishes the usual cultural nonsense about homophobia, Islamophobia, sexism, racism, and the rest of the garbage.  Meanwhile, he quietly ignores and hides opinions he doesn’t like from the readers and the readers are never the wiser.  From now on, I will attempt to shine a light on local news, and the reader can get state, national, and world news from these seven conservative sources.

American Thinker

The Federalist

WND

PJ Media

TownHall

Daily Wire

Breitbart

Also, voters are voting without a comprehension of America’s history, and are easily swayed by Hollyweird, Hellivision, and the liberal media and schools.  Further, they are often corrupted by porn and drugs, and can’t think straight.  These are the people who are mindless drones and keep on voting for incompetent candidates.

Since the Times Herald refuses to start being unbiased, it’s best to not read it.  I read it 5 minutes a day, for the obituaries, letters, and town announcements.  Other than that, it’s only good to line a bird cage with.

Today is the 40th anniversary of Jim Jones.  This lunatic killed 900 people by trying to mix Christianity with communism and Marxism.  As a white liberal, he was good at race baiting, and white liberals today do the same things.  He would tell blacks that America was so racist and hated blacks, and then he goes off and kills hundreds of blacks with the Kool-Aid.  Same thing happens in Vallejo today.  Matter of fact, Tony Ubalde served on a commission with Jim Jones, and now is a pastor and on the school board, playing the same game about race baiting.

It’s not isolated there though.  This cultural Marxism is in Vallejo’s churches.  They teach their gullible and naive parishioners that social justice is good, and on and on.  The parishioners little dream what horrors await them under communism.  In this fascinating article on Jonestown, Stella Morabito of the Federalist has both the the NBC video just prior to the slaughter and the audio tape of the massacre.  Pretty sickening.  If the reader is sickened by it, just recognize that today’s Democrat party has a pretty similar message.

In Vallejo, you are constantly hearing adults going on about how systemic racism is such a problem.  Anyone who knows the data knows that is a bunch of malarkey.  The people who talk about color the most have the least character.  But they are very brutal in their tactics and will ruthlessly suppress any who disagree with their systemic racism myth.  What we have is a problem with race baiters who love to make power and money off of portraying themselves as victims.

The Democrat party is a menace to society today, and the only reason why they have one elected official in America is because of the naivete, corruption, and gullibility of their voters.  They love uninformed students in schools, because they are easy to manipulate, and their media does a very good job, feeding the masses all kinds of disinformation.   If American voters all knew the Bible, our our real history (not the stupid nonsense you find in Howard Zinn’s revisionist textbooks), and all read just five biographies of the Founders of America, there WOULD NOT BE ONE DEMOCRAT IN OFFICE TODAY!  Their unions, and special interest groups are what sow mayhem and disruption in society.  The unions have long outlived their purpose, and are now responsible for kids doing horrible in schools.  The unions don’t understand what the issues are in society, and are in no rush to correct them.  Societal dysfunction means more money and power for them, and they have no objections to that.

It’s amazing, because Democrats have been running Vallejo for decades, yet they claim the schools are racist, the police are racist, and discrimination is all over the place.  Well, if that’s the case, they are the ones to blame, because they’ve had power for quite a long time.  Truth be told, crime and poverty among blacks and latinos is always highest in Democrat run cities and states.  Yet, these Democrat leaders always blame Trump and Republicans.  Any logical person understands its the Democrats that are to blame for the plight of minorities.  But, many voters are not logical at all, and vote on their feelings.  The hellivision, popular culture, schools, and other Democrat entities feed them disinformation, until they can’t tell what is reality and what is not.  Some of the biggest churches in Vallejo teach cultural marxism and deify figures like Colin Kaepernick.  Just look at who ol’ Colin’s mentor is, a radical communist type, who has been influencing young athletes in communist subversion for decades.

So we need to be wise as serpents and harmless as doves about Cultural Marxism.   There was a great book written on the evil doctrine here.  Those who do not understand its wickedness, need to learn fast, because a showdown is coming.   Evil never relinquishes power voluntarily.  It must be steadfastly resisted.

Dear reader,

The results are in for the November election for school board, and they have good and bad news.  The good news is 3,200 voters in Vallejo voted for a platform of a Constitutional Christian conservative, which is what Vallejo and California need to get out of the wreckage they are in.  The bad news is that result was 8/8. The leading vote getter was John Fox, who did an excellent job hiding the fact that he is a homosexual and wants to indoctrinate kids into homosexuality away from voters.  The unions provided cover for him.  If you read his signs, and  his website, you’d never dream what he was up to.  So the Vallejo voters got suckered again.  This is what got us into this mess to begin with.  Tony Ubalde and Tony Gross were the other leading vote getters, and both of them are deeply into identity politics, and believe they represent everyone of their respective races, which is totally bogus.  No one who is their race needs their help to get anywhere.  They can do it on their own if the schools would just educate students and improve on the abysmal 70% of 12th grade students who graduate and are incompetent in math and English.   But, the Democrat party kind of likes voters who are uninformed and incapable of basic math and English.  It makes people easy to deceive, and if all voters in Vallejo did math and English at the 12th grade level, the Democrat’s wouldn’t have a prayer of winning one seat.  So they like the dysfunction in the schools, and will keep lying to the parents about how they care about their kids education, as they continue to pad their pockets and live in the lap of luxury.   These fat cats will stop at nothing for money and power.

So, the task remains to educate Vallejo’s voters.  Showing them this site is a start.  Getting every Vallejo voter to read just seven conservative news sites for 2 months before the November 2020 election would assure a smashing Democrat defeat, and the Democrats are terrified of that.  We should remember that the last off President school board election in 2014 saw the leader get 8,000 votes.  This election saw the leader get 15,000 votes, nearly double. Why?  Well, the unions and the other Democrat special interest groups were horrified at the thought of a conservative ending their corruption, and so they went to work mailing mailers, calling, and knocking on doors.

To all the conservatives reading this, please share this with at least ten people a month, and ask them to share it with ten people themselves.  Here are 7 conservative sites.

1. American Thinker
2. The Federalist
3. PJ Media
4. WND
5. Breitbart
6. Daily Wire
7. TownHall

Also, knocking on doors and having discussions with people is a good thing.  We can never start too early.  Next election, those 3,200 votes will increase.  We are starting a new movement, and the truth will never be overwhelmed.  For too long deceit and incompetence have ruled Vallejo.  It’s time for a new day to dawn.  The same players have manipulated the system.  They don’t have good ideas, and their rules have ended in our city being a wreck, but they know how to win elections.  They could care less if the voters are informed.  The less informed the voters are, the better, as far as they are concerned.  Makes ’em easier to sucker.  In reality, no voter ought to be voting unless they have thoroughly researched the topics, know the Constitution, and understand that the Founders vision for America was a small government with low taxes and low regulations.  Any voter voting who doesn’t realize this is a menace to society.  It’s better they actually don’t vote, than they cast their vote and cancel out the vote of an informed voter.  But, you’ll never hear the Democrats talk about informed voters.  If they could have babies vote, they’d do it.  It’s all about finding enough naïve and gullible people to vote for their crazy ideas and abysmal candidates.  They think if they tout enough recommendations, put up enough signs, mail enough mailers, and talk enough on Fakebook, that people will be deceived.  They’ve largely been correct.

So, the task remains before us.

Let us then be up and doing, with a heart for any fate,

still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor, and to wait.  Longfellow

I have met many delightful and wonderful people in my knocking on doors here in Vallejo, and it is a pleasure conversing with 98% of the people.  However, there are the 2% that make knocking on doors challenging.  There are others, not included in the 2% who have strongly held ideas but express them and are trying to test their ideas.  Those I take the time to reason with.  I came across one door yesterday and had an interesting experience.

The gentleman who opened the door was younger looking, and Asian.  We began talking and he was quite logical and reasonable.  However, when the concept of children being treated equally came up, he began to ask me about white privilege.  Now, I’m convinced white privilege is a malicious myth invented by Marxists who would love nothing better than to have latinos, Asians, and blacks unite to fight the white majority of 63%.  It’s cultural Marxism, where one’s identity no longer depends on character, but rather on color.  Ones identity is based on what color one rolled into the world as, and one is hopelessly tied to that destiny.  America is the only nation in world history that has offered freedom from the idea that our race is your destiny.  Though it took us awhile to live up to the idea that all men were created equal, we are more advanced in that idea than any other nation on earth.  It’s nice to hear Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran lecture us on racism, when their nation’s are nearly exclusively made up of one race.   Every race in America has the most power and wealth in America, than members of their race have in any other nation on earth.  You would think all of us would be grateful.  But no, we have to constantly hear about how racism is alive and well today.  We constantly have to be lectured by diversity police about systemic racism, and how we are all racists (only if we are white, that is), and that whether we see it in ourselves or not, we need to be guilty of it.  That’s a bunch of malarkey. The idea that any race is inherently evil is pure rubbish.  Every race can be racist, and every race has good and bad people in it.

The gentleman kept pressing the point about white privilege, repeating the question often.  Again, I was on his doorstep, and wanted to be polite, and since he was emotionally involved with the topic, I wanted to avoid offending him, while still stating my beliefs. That was a tough task, as every word hinting at the idea that I didn’t believe in the white privilege myth got him more involved.  I began to understand that unless I said that I believed in white privilege, there was no satisfying this gentleman.  It was quite sad, because it’s not fair to ask a question of someone on a topic that you refuse to discuss, and to become angry when they respond in a way opposite from how one feels.

He was gracious, and thanked me for coming by, and said he had an engagement to attend.  We talked for 45 minutes, and ended peacefully.  However, it was sobering because the white privilege myth is being spread by the media and schools among the gullible and naïve.  The media and schools design is to spread racial discord in America, and the best way to do that is to keep dredging up the crimes of the majority race, which happens to be white, and to continuously advertise these crimes to minority races, while ignoring the crimes that the ancestors of minority races were guilty of.  It’s clever manipulation and it’s deceiving far too many Americans.  The truth is, none of us is guilty of our ancestors crimes, nor are we responsible for our ancestors successes.  We are all responsible for our own behaviors.  While it is true, that there were periods in American history where everyone was not treated equally, we went through tumultuous times, including a Civil War, to ensure that all men were given equal rights and opportunities.  It is wicked to try to subvert our existing equality, to try and resurrect past wrongs, to try and gain power and money by inciting resentment in people today for wrongs long since righted, and for crimes which only a tiny fraction of Americans today are even blood related to.

There are too many in America today who talk constantly about racism being an issue, and these same people are silent on the issue of character.  My experience is that those who shout the loudest about racism and color, have some of the worst characters.  I haven’t come across any one, of any race in America, who contains sex in marriage between a man and a woman, who avoids psychotropic drugs, who reads widely and deeply, who avoids the corrupting influence of hellivision and porn, and who is not successful.  So, our choices matter, not our color.

United we stand, divided we fall.

We must all hang together, or we will surely hang separately.

Yesterday, I was knocking on doors, when I came to one where a man answered the door and we began talking.  He was hospitable, but began querying me on my teaching credentials or lack of them.  He kept insinuating that if I didn’t know all the minute details of what tests were, and the minutiae of the terms used in teaching, that I was unfit to be involved in education.

Yet, this is the exact strategy that keeps the parents out of the schools, when studies have shown that parents who are heavily involved in their children’s education have children who perform the best, both academically and behavior wise.  When educators insist on using arcane language that no one but their coterie understands, it becomes difficult for the community or parents to be actively engaged in children’s education.  One begins to wonder, is that what educators want?  Do the teachers unions think the children belong to them, to educate as they see fit, parents be damned?  I believe they do.  What do you parents think?

The gentleman was an educator, and was quite flustered.  His face was twitching,  his body was continuously shifting and his discomfort was quite evident.  I simply calmly listened to his continuous queries and deflected, trying to be polite, as I was at his door, and wanted to avoid antagonizing him, though the ideas I stood for, simply being stated were plenty antagonizing to him.

I tried to explain to him that experience was overrated, and that wise people learn from other’s experience, but foolish people have to learn from their own.  It appeared likely that he would shoot through the roof when I said that.  His face became animated, like the Fourth of July come early, and he passionately pursued the idea that only personal experience can be a teacher.  Of course, the appeal to anecdote ( or one’s personal experience) is a logical fallacy, but he was completely not interested in discussing this.

When I said that Abraham Lincoln had a single year of 2nd grade formal education, and that was the extent of his formal education, he grew apoplectic, and said, “We aren’t talking about Abraham Lincoln, we are talking about you”.  “Well,” says I, “what one man can do, anyone of us can do, would you agree”?  He did not.  I then said that students today were the least informed of any generation in American history.  This brought fresh animation to his face, and I began to earnestly fear he may be in danger of heart palpitations.  He was utterly outraged that today’s students should be thought of as mindless and uninformed, when the test scores, showing 70% of Vallejo’s 12th grade graduates can’t do math and English at the 12th grade level, show that the students are quite often, mindless and uninformed.  There is an entire book on the topic.

His wife came to the door, and I began to feel guilty, as if I was the cause of a family disturbance, when all I had done was come to introduce myself and ask for his vote.  She had a bland countenance, but like the headmistress from Roald Dahl’s Matilda, she got to business quickly.  “Did you vote for Donald Trump”? says she, in a matter of fact way.  Well, I knew the jig was up then, because if you say yes, the conversation comes to a screeching halt as disinformation contorts those infected with it to hate anyone who believes anything they don’t.  So, I began to explain the principles that would lead one to consider voting for Donald Trump, and she hastily ended the conversation, commandeered her still gesturing husband into the home, and brought a swift termination to the conversation.  I bid them a good day, thanked them for their time, and thought Vallejo would like to learn about who their neighbors are.

To begin, let me share my story.  In 2007, I became a huge supporter of Obama for president. The reason?  I was exposed to local newspapers, the Vallejo Times Herald, the Contra Costa Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Sacramento Bee.  I was also exposed to television.  CNN, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, ABC, PBS among others.  I heard NPR a lot on the radio and enjoyed it.  Also, I was a dupe and didn’t understand my Google searches had algorithms that promoted ideas favorable to Obama and the Democrats, and ensured Anti-Obama viewpoints were nearly hidden, as they were often over 20 search results deep.  At the time, I was convinced that police were bad, that they really had it out for black men.  There was a shooting by police officers in Vallejo, and, without knowing the circumstances, I watched the video.  I began to really believe the police were bad.  I remember a conversation I had with a fellow white business owner where I was telling him why were the police killing people so much?   I worked with a white police officer at my job, and my view of him began to deteriorate.  While I never revealed it to him, in the back of my mind, I began to think of him as the media portrayed all police officers, as cold and ruthless.  That was mostly completely false, as I later learned.

Time passed, and I began to learn Obama was a big charade.  He supported homosexual marriage all along.  I learned about abortion and how he supported that.  I learned about Islam’s bloody history, and how Obama was the most favorable president in American history towards Islam.  I was shocked to learn that many in the black church supported Obama just because he was black like them, and it didn’t matter at all that he stood for totally sinful practices as mentioned above.  That was a shocker.  There were many in the black church who weren’t suckered.  However, Obama managed to play on the deep roots of bitterness in the black community, and using Alinsky tactics.  You’ll recognize many of them in Obama’s tactics.  Alinsky was in the Mafia for a few years, so this is why our government under Obama, an Alinsky acolyte, began to resemble the mob.  They hid scandals.   Obama was the most biblically hostile President in American history.   Homosexual friends who he was rumored to be in relationships with at Trinity Church in Chicago turned up murdered right before Obama announced he was running for President.   He allegedly had a homosexual relationship with Larry Sinclair and used crack with him.   And a high school classmate of his alleged he was a homosexual and a crack user.  They were used by Obama and his administration to shut up the conservative press, to use our intelligence services against conservative politicians, and to infiltrate our police departments with Obama’s corrupt policing scheme.  WE STILL HAVE OBAMA’S RIDICULOUS AND DANGEROUS COMMUNITY POLICING WHICH HAS INCREASED CRIME AND ALLOWED CRIMINALS TO RUN WILD!

Below are Alinsky’s tactics:

1. “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.“ Power is derived from 2 main sources – money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood.

2. “Never go outside the expertise of your people.“ It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone.

3. “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.“ Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty.

4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.“ If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.

5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.“ There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.

6. “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.“ They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They’re doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones.

7. “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.“ Don’t become old news.

8. “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.“ Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new.

9. “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.“ Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist.

10.“The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.” It is this unceasing pressure that results in the reactions from the opposition that are essential for the success of the campaign.

11. “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.“ Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog.

12. “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.“ Never let the enemy score points because you’re caught without a solution to the problem.

13. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.“ Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.

At this point, my view began to shift.  I recognized Obama now as a very confused or very wicked man, and the worst President in American history.  That was quite a realization for a man who had ardently supported him through 2010.  Then, I began to realize this war on police was a fraud.  The idea that racism was all over American society and was designed to hold down blacks was a huge lie as well.   I then realized, with horror, that if I objected to Obama, and I happened to be a white, straight, Christian male, I was public enemy number one in America and would be immediately identified as a racist and a KKK member.   It is cultural Marxism.  Unfortunately, 90% of Vallejo doesn’t know about cultural Marxism, and so the brutal tactics of having people believe all whites are bad, and all blacks are victims is succeeding here and in other Democrat cities. This was shocking, but I wasn’t about to cower in terror before these Marxist tactics, and so I am writing this and speaking out, and will continue to do so no matter what happens to me.  It’s quite astounding when the justice Martin Luther King Jr. was calling for has come and we now have a sick backlash where injustice against whites is tolerated as payback for the sins of a minority of whites in America, most long since dead.   Under these tactics, it no longer matters what you say, how nice you’ve treated other races, or what your actions are.  If you oppose Obama and the black victimhood tribe, you are a RACIST, no matter what, and if you object, you will be terrorized and menaced with mob violence to get you to know your place on the Democrat plantation.

To add to this, we are told only individual races can understand their experience.  So, it doesn’t matter how much you’ve read or heard of oppression of blacks in America, you are told you can’t understand it because you aren’t black.  I totally disagree with this.  I can understand the horrors of the Holocaust because those who lived through it wrote about it.  I can understand the horrors of the Communist Gulags in Russia, because those who lived through it, wrote about it.  I can understand the horrors of slavery and segregation because those who survived it, wrote about it.  There is no new experience, and there is no experience unique to any race.  Every last race had slaves and every last race was a slave.  Just because the printing press was in Europe before Africa, and so the horrors of slavery among whites was written about first, does not mean the brutality wasn’t just as bad in African slavery, even if it wasn’t written about.

Then we had Ferguson, where Michael Brown died, after robbing a liquor store, and charging a police officer.  Michael Brown was not innocent, as even the Obama DOJ concluded, after intemperate remarks by Obama and AG Holder.    Witnesses in Ferguson admitted they were intimidated and bullied into testifying favorably to Michael Brown, or else.   So, we then had a Ferguson effect, where police were afraid to do their job, because if they happened to shoot a black man, there would be riots, no matter what the facts were.   Jesse Lee Peterson, a black minister, wrote about Brown and many of the other controversial police killings of black men, and showed what the true culprit is, and it is rarely the police.  It is true there is injustice at times in policing.  but when you consider the millions of interactions the police have with Americans every year, the amount of wrong conduct by the police is extraordinarily small.   Crime has exploded, since 1960, which anyone who knows math halfway decently can tell.   Keep in mind police have already been caught cooking the books too, so these crime rates are probably not representative of the real rates and are probably too low.

So the question comes up, are police racist towards black men in America?  Anyone who takes the time to examine the actual data, not their media and academia influenced emotions or anecdotal evidence, recognizes the police are overwhelmingly not racist.  If they are racist, it’s towards white people.  Roland Fryer, a black Ivy League Professor, discovered police were not racist, because white police officers are more likely to shoot whites than they are to shoot blacks.  Police use of force towards blacks was higher, but that is to be expected because black instances of crime are much higher than other races.  Here are five stats on police killing blacks, which clearly show the police are not racist, if people take the time to consider the objective data.   Here are 7 statistics about black on black violence, showing that police violence towards blacks, or white violence for that matter, is hardly the problem.   In a 2016 Color of Crime study, it showed racial bias towards blacks by police or whites was negligible or nonexistent.

Further, look at the black on white crime rate, contrasted with the white on black crime rate!  If racism is a problem, judging on actions and behavior, who is racist in America?  It sure doesn’t look like whites and the police, as the Marxist media and schools constantly tell us.

Allen West, who is black, wrote an excellent article on problems which some in the black community are responsible for, but blame on whites.   Let me be clear, slavery and segregation were heinous wrongs, but those directly responsible are to be accountable, not whites who had nothing to do with it.  This  piece is not an indictment of blacks, it is rather a rebuttal to the charge that white America and police are largely racist towards blacks.  That is simply not true.  Blacks in America are the most powerful and wealthy group of blacks in any nation on earth.  Further, there are plenty of conservative blacks who disagree with the nonsense about America being racist and the police are out to get blacks, but the media and liberal blacks often brutally attack them or ignore them.  They are written off as Uncle Tom’s and other even worse remarks.

What the liberal media and academia hate to talk about is two issues that all communities face, but which are more pronounced in the black community, though it was not always this way.  They say resentment is like drinking poison, it kills you, not your enemy.  And by whipping up race resentment over slavery and segregation with terms like systemic and institutional racism, it ensures problems in the black community will only grow, and not be healed.  There are no problems in the black community that I haven’t seen in my own family, the only difference is that those in my family who act bad are held accountable, including myself.

No matter what race a person is, not having a married father at home, and being functionally illiterate will increase the chances of poverty and criminality.  Our jails are full of this.  In the black community, the out of wedlock birth rate is 75%.  It can’t be because of slavery and segregation, because in 1942, the rate was 14%, when segregation was really an issue.  Also, when Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, 2% of the black community could read, and 20 years later, 99% could.  Today, 75% of black boys in California are functionally illiterate. So the problem cannot be segregation and slavery.  It may be the soft bigotry of low expectations, which causes black children to be passed along without understanding math or english, and prevents them from being disciplined out of a fear that whites will be called racist for doing so, when it is deserved.

It would be astonishing if anyone of any race can say they have never been offended or wronged by someone of another race.  However, each of us knows more about our own wrongs than we do about all the combined wrongs done by others to us.  No one on earth knows our own personal wrongs as well as we do, which should give us pause before we begin aggressively highlighting others wrongs done to us.  The appeal to anecdote is a logical fallacy.   Personally, I was bullied by black students in Jr. High.  But my closest friend in elementary, in church, and in Jr. High and High School was black.  I attended a church that had all races.  I do not let my negative experiences with a few people of a race color my view of the entire race.  We would be a lot healthier city, state, and nation if we all had that attitude.  There are good and bad people of all races.  There is racism in all races, towards all races.  None of our races is exempt.  It is a natural tendency to want to think of one as superior or a victim due solely to race.  The wise reject this.  What if every race in America demanded to have people like them be their bosses or politicians?  We’d have chaos!  We would devolve into a  nation of color tribes, where reason and character no longer mattered.   I understand there are many in the black community who harbor grievances for treatment they received from whites.  However, a mark of greatness is to isolate that grievance with the person who perpetrated it.  It is exhausting and draining to try to attack entire races for the behaviors of those who are dead, or the behavior of a few members of that race.

It is necessary to go back to judging on character, not on color.

We can heal, if we will go back to learning morals, the Bible, and history, and to put aside our pride.  Our skin color has absolutely nothing to do with our character, and until our entire society recognizes this, we will continue to have those who do not cherish character, who will continually promote color, and continue to sow discord and chaos in our society.  None of us chose our color, and none of us should desire to be recognized because of it.  All of us choose our character, and all of us should desire to be recognized due to that.

‘He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.” – Thomas Fuller

‘The weak can never forgive.  Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong’

Gandhi

Mark 11:

[23] For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
[24] Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
[25] And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
[26] But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.

Jesus

Holding racial animosities against entire races will ensure that the holder never prospers or is happy, and will bring further adversity.

‘He is no fool who gives up that which cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose’

Jim Elliott

A DEFENCE OF THE USE OF THE BIBLE IN SCHOOLS

By Dr. Benjamin Rush (1745-1813), distinguished physician and signer of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Dr. Rush was an outspoken Christian, statesman, and pioneering medical doctor. He was a prolific author, publishing the first American chemistry textbook. In 1797, President John Adams appointed Rush as Treasurer of the U.S. Mint, a position he held until 1813. He also founded America’s first Bible society. At the time of his death in 1813, he was heralded as one of the three most notable figures of America, the other two being George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.

Dear Sir:

It is now several months since I promised to give you my reasons for preferring the Bible as a schoolbook to all other compositions. Before I state my arguments, I shall assume the five following propositions:

I . That Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and that in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts they will be wise and happy.

2. That a better knowledge of this religion is to be acquired by reading the Bible than in any other way.

3. That the Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.

4. That knowledge is most durable, and religious instruction most useful, when imparted in early life.

5. That the Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life.

My arguments in favor of the use of the Bible as a schoolbook are founded.

I. In the constitution of the human mind.

1. The memory is the first faculty which opens in the minds of children. Of how much consequence, then, must it be to impress it with the great truths of Christianity, before it is preoccupied with less interesting subjects.

2. There is a peculiar aptitude in the minds of children for religious knowledge. I have constantly found them, in the first six or seven years of their lives, more inquisitive upon religious subjects than upon any others. And an ingenious instructor of youth has informed me that he has found young children more capable of receiving just ideas upon the most difficult tenets of religion than upon the most simple branches of human knowledge. It would be strange if it were otherwise, for God creates all His means to suit His ends. There must, of course, be a fitness between the human mind and the truths which are essential to its happiness.

3. The influence of early impressions is very great upon subsequent life; and in a world where false prejudices do so much mischief, it would discover great weakness not to oppose them by such as are true. I grant that many men have rejected the impressions derived from the Bible; but how much soever these impressions may have been despised, I believe no man was ever early instructed in the truths of the Bible without having been made wiser or better by the early operation of these impressions upon his mind. Every just principle that is to be found in the writings of Voltaire is borrowed from the Bible; and the morality of Deists, which has been so much admired and praised where it has existed, has been, I believe, in most cases, the effect of habits produced by early instruction in the principles of Christianity.

4. We are subject, by a general law of our natures, to what is called habit. Now, if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time of our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall probably be attached to them; for it is peculiar to all the acts of habit, to become easy, strong, and agreeable by repetition.

5. It is a law in our natures that we remember longest the knowledge we acquire by the greatest number of our senses. Now, a knowledge of the contents of the Bible is acquired in school by the aid of the eye and the ear, for children, after getting their lessons, read or repeat them to their instructors in an audible voice; of course, there is a presumption that this knowledge will be retained much longer than if it had been acquired in any other way.

6. The interesting events and characters recorded and described in the Old and New Testaments are calculated, above all others, to seize upon all the faculties of the mind of children. The understanding, the memory, the imagination, the passions, and the moral powers are all occasionally addressed by the various incidents which are contained in those divine books, insomuch that not to be delighted with them is to be devoid of every principle of pleasure that exists in a sound mind.

7. There is in man a native preference of truth to fiction. Lord Shaftesbury says that “truth is so congenial to our mind that we love even the shadow of it”; and Horace, in his rules for composing an epic poem, established the same law in our natures by advising that “fictions in poetry should resemble truth.” Now, the Bible contains more truth than any other book in the world; so true is the testimony that it bears of God in His works of creation, providence, and redemption that it is called truth itself, by way of preeminence above other things that are acknowledged to be true. How forcibly are we struck with the evidence of truth in the history of the Jews, above what we discover in the history of other nations. Where do we find a hero or an historian record his own faults or vices except in the Old Testament? Indeed, my friend, from some accounts which I have read of the American Revolution, I begin to grown skeptical to all history except that which is contained in the Bible. Now, if this book be known to contain nothing but what is materially true, the mind will naturally acquire a love for it from this circumstance; and from this affection for the truths of the Bible, it will acquire a discernment of truth in other books, and a preference of it in all the transactions of life.

8. There is wonderful property in the memory which enables it in old age to recover the knowledge acquired in early life after it had been apparently forgotten for forty or fifty years. Of how much consequence, then, must it be to fill the mind with that species of knowledge in childhood and youth which, when recalled in the decline of life, will support the soul under the infirmities of age and smooth the avenues of approaching death. The Bible is the only book which is capable of affording this support to old age; and it is for this reason that we find it resorted to with so much diligence and pleasure by such old people as have read it in early life. I can recollect many instances of this kind in persons who discovered no special attachment to the Bible in the meridian of their days, who have, notwithstanding, spent the evening of life in reading no other book. The late Sir John Pringle, physician to the queen of Great Britain, after passing a long life in camps and at court, closed it by studying the Scriptures. So anxious was he to increase his knowledge in them that he wrote to Dr. Michaelis, a learned professor of divinity in Germany, for an explanation of a difficult text of Scripture a short time before his death.

II. My second argument in favor of the use of the Bible in schools is founded upon an implied command of God and upon the practice of several of the wisest nations of the world.

In the sixth chapter of Deuteronomy, we find the following words, which are directly to my purpose: “And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.”

It appears, moreover, from the history of the Jews, that they flourished as a nation in proportion as they honored and read the books of Moses, which contained the only revelation that God had made to the world. The law was not only neglected, but lost, during the general profligacy of manner which accompanied the long and wicked reign of Manasseh. But the discovery of it amid the rubbish of the temple by Josiah and its subsequent general use were followed by a return of national virtue and prosperity. We read further of the wonderful effects which the reading of the law by Ezra, after his return from his captivity in Babylon, had upon the Jews. They showed the sincerity of their repentance by their general reformation.

The learning of the Jews, for many years, consisted in a knowledge of the Scriptures. These were the textbooks of all the instruction that was given in the schools of their Prophets. It was by means of this general knowledge of their law that those Jews who wandered from Judea into other countries carried with them and propagated certain ideas of the true God among all the civilized nations upon the face of the earth. And it was from the attachment they retained to the Old Testament that they procured a translation of it into the Greek language, after they had lost the Hebrew tongue by their long absence from their native country. The utility of this translation, commonly called the Septuagint, in facilitating the progress of the Gospel is well known to all who are acquainted with the history of the first age of the Christian church.

But the benefits of an early and general acquaintance with the Bible were not confined to the Jewish nation; they have appeared in many countries in Europe since the Reformation. The industry and habits of order which distinguish many of the German nations are derived from their early instruction in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible. In Scotland and in parts of New England, where the Bible has been long used as a schoolbook, the inhabitants are among the most enlightened in religions and science, the most strict in morals, and the most intelligent in human affairs of any people whose history has come to my knowledge upon the surface of the globe.

I wish to be excused from repeating here that if the Bible did not convey a single direction for the attainment of future happiness, it should be read in our schools in preference to all other books from its containing the greatest portion of that kind of knowledge which is calculated to produce private and public temporal happiness.

We err, not only in human affairs but in religion likewise, only because we do not “know the Scriptures” and obey their instructions. Immense truths, I believe, are concealed in them. The time, I have no doubt, will come when posterity will view and pity our ignorance of these truths as much as we do the ignorance sometimes manifested by the disciples of our Saviour, who knew nothing of the meaning of those plain passages in the Old Testament which were daily fulfilling before their eyes.

But further, we err, not only in religion but in philosophy likewise, because we “do not know or believe the Scriptures.” The sciences have been compared to a circle, of which religion composes a part. To understand any one of them perfectly, it is necessary to have some knowledge of them all. Bacon, Boyle, and Newton included the Scriptures in the inquiries to which their universal geniuses disposed them, and their philosophy was aided by their knowledge in them. A striking agreement has been lately discovered between the history of certain events recorded in the Bible and some of the operations and productions of nature, particularly those which are related in Whitehurst’s observation on the deluge, in Smith’s account of the origin of the variety of color in the human species, and in Bruce’s travels. It remains yet to be shown how many other events related in the Bible accord with some late important discoveries in the principles of medicine. The events and the principles alluded to mutually establish the truth of each other.

I know it is said that the familiar use of the Bible in our schools has a tendency to lessen a due reverence for it. But this objection, by proving too much, proves nothing. If familiarity lessens respect for divine things, then all those precepts of our religion which enjoin the daily or weekly worship of the Deity are improper. The Bible was not intended to represent a Jewish ark; and it is an anti-Christian idea to suppose that it can be profaned by being carried into a schoolhouse, or by being handled by children.

It is also said that a great part of the Old Testament is no way interesting to mankind under the present dispensation of the Gospel. But I deny that any of the books of the Old Testament are not interesting to mankind under the Gospel dispensation. Most of the characters, events, and ceremonies mentioned in them are personal, providential, or instituted types of the Messiah, all of which have been, or remain yet, to be fulfilled by Him. It is from an ignorance or neglect of these types that we have so many Deists in Christendom, for so irreftagably do they prove the truth of Christianity that I am sure a young man who had been regularly instructed in their meaning could never doubt afterwards of the truth of any of its principles. If any obscurity appears in these principles, it is only, to use the words of the poet, because they are dark with excessive brightness.

I know there is an objection among many people to teaching children doctrines of any kind, because they are liable to be controverted. But let us not be wiser than our Maker. If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into our world would have been unnecessary. He came to promulgate a system of doctrines, as well as a system of morals. The perfect morality of the Gospel rests upon a doctrine which, though often controverted, has never been refuted; I mean the vicarious life and death of the Son of God. This sublime and ineffable doctrine delivers us from the absurd hypothesis of modern philosophers concerning the foundation of moral obligation, and fixes it upon the eternal and self-moving principle of LOVE. It concentrates a whole system of ethics in a single text of Scripture: “A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.” By withholding the knowledge of this doctrine from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds. We do more; we furnish an argument for withholding from them a knowledge of the morality of the Gospel likewise; for this, in many instances, is as supernatural, and therefore as liable to be controverted, as any of the doctrines or miracles which are mentioned in the New Testament. The miraculous conception of the Saviour of the world by a virgin is not more opposed to the ordinary course of natural events, nor is the doctrine of the atonement more above human reason, than those moral precepts which command us to love our enemies or to die for our friends.

I cannot but suspect that the present fashionable practice of rejecting the Bible from our schools has originated with Deists. And they discover great ingenuity in this new mode of attacking Christianity. If they proceed in it, they will do more in half a century in extirpating our religion than Bolingbroke or Voltaire could have effected in a thousand years.

But passing by all other considerations, and contemplating merely the political institutions of the United States, I lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them. We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible; for this divine book, above all others, favors that equality among mankind, that respect for just laws, and all those sober and frugal virtues which constitute the soul of republicanism.

Perhaps an apology may be necessary for my having presumed to write upon a subject so much above my ordinary studies. My excuse for it is that I thought a single mite from a member of a profession which has been frequently charged with skepticism in religion might attract the notice of persons who had often overlooked the more ample contributions, upon this subject, of gentlemen in other professions.

With great respect, I am, etc.

BENJAMIN RUSH

On Wednesday, October 18th, 2018, we had a School Board Meeting, and in that meeting, once again, as she is in the habit of doing, Board President Marianne Kearney-Brown, decided to take a recess when she heard ideas she did not approve of.  She has an idea that if a speaker has something to say that she disagrees with, she will interrupt them and declare a recess.  What it is is a passive aggressive power play, to enforce her ideas on her fellow board members and the audience.  It is totalitarianism.  The video of it is here. 

This time she ended my right to speak, and totally decided to deprive me of my First Amendment Rights.  Included is an e-mail exchange with Ms. Brown.

Ryan Messano:

This is the only breakdown of the ballot that I know of in Solano County that is in accord with the Bible, history, and the Constitution.  The lens we view candidates by is  not on feelings, relationships, their college degrees, their career performance, but on how they line up with history, the Bible, and the Constitution.  Forcing candidates to live up to high standards will give us the wise and virtuous leaders we once had, and no longer do.

This list was formed with help from Craig Huey and Norman Reece, a big thank you to both for doing the critical work in sorting out the candidates and measures, a thankless task which few voters have the time for.  They also do this without expecting personal gain, unlike many of the Democrat’s who are constantly doing this for money and power.

The definition of apathy is: Lack of interest or concern, especially regarding matters of general importance or appeal; indifference.

This is a huge problem with Vallejoans.  They do not like to think.  This is a problem in California and America.  How does one know if they are apathetic?  The voter who votes based on a yard sign, on a sign on the side of the road, on a billboard, on an endorsement from a local dignitary, or an endorsement from one of the Vallejo interest groups is apathetic.  They do not think for themselves, they are simply puppets.

This is why Vallejo has so many people in leadership positions who are not fit to lead.  And, if we don’t change course, we will have more on November 6th.  The way the voting works is the various interest groups in Vallejo, all of whom are Democratic or left leaning, use their money and influence to pay candidates they like to spread their poisonous ideology in Vallejo.  These candidates prostitute themselves out to do the bidding of their wealthy donors.

These interest groups rarely show up to school board meetings or city council meetings, or if they do, they have a token representative attend for them.  They simply live their lives of pleasure and indolence, wining and dining themselves to their hearts content, attending sporting games, taking vacations, treating life like a gigantic party.  Then, when elections roll around, they get busy.  They interview the candidates, spend their money for signs, door knockers, and mailers.  They make sure they send mailers to every single voter who votes consistently.  It’s a numbers game, and these snakes are well organized.  Just like Boss Tweed of the corrupt Tammany Hall in New York of a century ago, these Vallejo Democrat bosses have a nice rig set up for themselves and their cronies.  They could give two hoots about Vallejo.   Vallejo is a mess because of them, but they don’t care.  As long as they have power and money, that’s all they care about!

If they cared so much about Vallejo, why don’t they show up at EVERY city council and school board meeting?  Because they don’t think they need to. They aren’t interested in ideas or changes that help Vallejo.  They honestly believe their money and connections are all they need to control Vallejo, and due to the naivete and gullibility of Vallejo voters, they have been right for decades.  It’s time for that to end, and I’m here to tell these special interest groups, that no matter what happens this election, you are in for a nightmare for the next four years.  Your games are over.  You will be called out continuously.  Vallejo will be informed about who you are and who your representatives are.  You will be turned into social pariahs, just as you have done to those who opposed you over these decades.  Your time is coming.

Watch them get up to speak.  They say the same silly nonsense nearly every time.  Rarely do they have a fresh idea.  They normally get up there, rattle off all their college degrees pretentiously, then name drop all the boards they are associated with, then go on to name drop famous Vallejoans, and end with a single sentence dealing with the topic at hand.  I once saw one community figure, who nearly took up two minutes rattling off their achievements, and nearly had no time to even say what he got up to say.  It was quite hilarious.

It was nauseating at the forums to hear the same exact spiels, nearly verbatim, from some of my colleagues?  Do they think?  They mindlessly repeat the same absurd leftist tropes, and the indoctrinated audiences hearts often well with ardent approval for the nonsense.  What hogwash!!

It wouldn’t be painful for me at all, if I got defeated and people who honestly have Vallejo’s interests at heart were elected.  But I get outraged when I see some of the candidates for school board are Johnny Come Lately’s, who never come to school board meetings or city council meetings, and think they are going to name their ‘credentials’, and have the acclaim of the mob!   Umm, running the schools requires more than simply having teaching experience!!!  You did the teaching experience because you were paid to do it.  What defines a person is what they do when they aren’t paid to do it.

Only when adults in Vallejo have wisdom and virtue will they be able to educate their children in it.  And the Founders of America, despite the nonsense the identity politics mob repeats about them, were well versed in wisdom and virtue.   We need to educate our kids in classical education.  Not one of the seven who oppose me have said one word about a classical education, and it’s doubtful if they appreciate it or understand it at all. Instead they are going on about ‘social justice’, and other media talking points.