Good News, White People!

This will come as a shock to my viewers, but this is a good-news video. Some good things are happening, large and small. And I’m not even talking about all the people who refused to be bullied about Covid, or rose up in fury when men started using ladies restrooms and competing in women’s sports. And everyone has heard about the parents who stormed into school-board meetings to make it very clear that nine-year-old Johnny was never again going to be made to stand up and recite all his unearned privileges.

Here is some good news that got less publicity. Last year, UCF fired professor Charles Negy because of two tweets he let fly in the wake of the George Floyd celebrations.

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He went before arbitration and got his job back. Now, he is going to sue. Some students are unhappy he’s coming back, but Prof. Negy says, ““Why don’t they pretend that they’re real university students and try to learn and be open to other views that don’t conform to their view?”

It’s nice to see an academic with backbone.

The steadiest march of progress has been on a different front: firearms.

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Look at all the green states on this map. They have what is called “constitutional carry,” meaning that any law-abiding adult can carry a concealed firearm without a license of any kind. Do you know how many constitutional carry states there were in 1980? Just one. There are now 24! It’s only in the nine remaining primitive red states that a citizen has to persuade the authorities he has a special reason to carry a weapon.

This is earth-shaking change in just a few decades. It shows what determined people can accomplish, even in the teeth of powerful, hostile, ruthless elites. If we had made that kind of progress on race, by now the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would be repealed, we would have real free association, and there would be recognized regions in the country where permanent white majorities set their own immigration policies.