Charleston White, a prominent figure in the hip-hop world with many followers, expressed his unwavering backing for Donald Trump in an interview around October 12, 2023. The surprise of White’s endorsement stems from his well-documented controversial and offensive behavior, which has raised eyebrows and sparked debates over the years.

Despite this, he has managed to maintain his influence and relevance in the hip-hop community, which makes his support for Trump all the more intriguing. What sets White’s endorsement apart is its alignment with a broader trend – a growing wave of Republicans rallying behind Trump as he contemplates a potential return to the White House. This phenomenon has rekindled discussions about the motivations behind White’s alliance with the former President and its significance in the larger political landscape, leaving observers and fans alike curious.

Charleston White’s recent declaration, “I’m a diehard Trump supporter. In my household, we have Martin Luther King, Jesus, and Donald Trump,” in the YouTube video titled “DEVASTATING! | Charleston White SHOCKS Black Liberal PROVING Trump Case Won’t Land Him in Jail,” uploaded on October 12, 2023, reveals the underpinnings of his support for former President Donald Trump.

This statement and its accompanying rationale, “I paid attention in school,” have provoked considerable curiosity and discussion, comparing the values and beliefs typically associated with figures such as Martin Luther King and Jesus with those of Trump.

However, the enigma surrounding Charleston White’s staunch support for Trump unravels with his explanation, “I paid attention in school.” This seemingly simple statement points to a deeper, more complex motivation that underscores the significance of education and critical thinking in shaping political beliefs and opinions. White’s endorsement, then, serves as a striking reminder that various factors can influence the dynamics of political allegiance and that a thorough and discerning education can lead individuals to support political figures who may outwardly appear contradictory to their beliefs.

The video has doubtless attracted attention, with viewers and commentators discussing White’s arguments and their implications for the broader political landscape. White’s endorsement has caused a stir within the hip-hop community, which traditionally leans more toward liberal politics. His endorsement might have been surprising to many, leading to discussions about political affiliations, personal beliefs, and the influence of rap music on politics. The endorsement could also potentially influence the views of his fans or followers, leading to further debate and discussion within that particular culture and community.

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From the taking the fun out of everything file, some feminist expert has taken umbrage over the phrase “bun in the oven.” Not an actual bun in an oven but a baby (the bun) in a woman’s womb (the oven). She claims the term “reduces the role of the mother to a mere incubator.”

It’s a kind of cutesy little way of saying that someone is pregnant to say they have “a bun in the oven.” That metaphor is really old – it first appears in texts by Hippocrates about 2,000 years ago to describe the process of gestation.

But if you think about that, if you’ve baked bread, the real work of baking bread goes on before you put it in the oven – the proofing the yeast and kneading the dough. That work takes time, it takes skill, it takes effort. Once you put the dough in the oven, all you’re doing is waiting.

So why do we use that metaphor to describe pregnancy? That suggests that the active work has been done, presumably by the man, and then the uterus is just like this incubator that’s growing this thing that was already made. I don’t think most people who use that metaphor are being misogynistic. But I think it actually does come from a deeply misogynistic tradition of thinking about women’s bodies as passive.

Kathleen Crowther is – or at least claims to be – a historian of reproductive medicine with an eye toward making sure we all know who is doing the baby-making work. I’m sure it’s a fascinating area of study, working out how the ancients perceived the roles of conception and gestation, so much so that Crowther wrote a blog about it. But I’m not sure for whom she wrote the book. If you read the NPR interview, there’s a sense that a majority of humanity clings to ancient ideas about life that are male-centric, but I doubt I could find anyone who agrees.

Men have been reduced to the status of sperm donors. The wars on parenting and marriage have escalated the number of single moms and one-parent households with devastating effects on children, learning, and culture. Girl power won, so how the ancient perception of pregnancy – while fascinating – relates to a modern culture of baby mamas, many of whom won’t be able to read what Crowther wrote – seems like a pander to guilty white liberal women.

A coffee table book from which you could quote meaningless but interesting tidbits about the idiom “a Bun in the Oven.”

Perhaps her next book will be on how, historically, while men play very little part, society continues to insist they pay for everything for close to twenty years while refusing to let them have any part in the child’s life.

HT | The National Pulse

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In September 2021, the voters in the district for Windham Elementary School narrowly voted to close the school, which only has a little more than a dozen students, allowing those students to instead participate in Vermont’s “tuitoining” school choice system.

Families in districts without a public school are allowed to send their children to any approved independent or public school of their choice. It’s a great system. Parents love it. Not only do kids get to find the right school that fits their educational and social needs, but it saves taxpayers, on average, over $5000 a year per kid.

Of course, the government-run public school special interests and their allies in state and local government hate it. Freedom… effective… efficient…. What’s not to hate?

So, following a petition drive and re-vote — one tainted by voter fraud efforts led by former Democrat Majority Leader (now retired) Hon. Carolyn Partridge in which the State Representative appears to have misled and induced ineligible non-residents to vote — Windham Elementary remained open, and the kids trapped in its zip code net were once again forced to attend the tiny school—at least those who could not afford to buy their way out by paying private tuition.

A lawsuit followed in which the parents of roughly half the student body (seven kids) sued for the right to tuition their children to someplace else that would provide a better education than what the assigned school was offering (not, apparently, a high bar as we shall see) because, according to the complaint, “their children are not receiving a substantially equal educational opportunity compared to students in towns which pay tuition for their residents.” Under Vermont law, all kids have a “right to equal educational opportunity.”

The lawsuit failed when Superior Court Judge Michael Kainen ruled that the “Plaintiffs were not likely to win on the merits because they could not demonstrate that their children did not receive substantially equal educational opportunity.” Back in the hole, kiddies!

But here’s what the “educational opportunity” that those kids are receiving consists of…

Jenna Cramer, the teacher/principal of Windham Elementary, was apparently putting the kids in front of a TV during the school day to watch age-inappropriate content, including PG-13 movies and a music video played for kindergarten through second graders in which a man drinks and drives and smokes while transporting a woman who is tied up in the back seat of his car. Later in the video, a person’s head is blown off by a shotgun.

Another video featured a llama saying the “F” word, which is admittedly kind of hilarious but of dubious educational value for students of elementary school age.

None of the three staff members at the school — the principal, the teacher, and the administrative assistant –are licensed/qualified to teach students at the levels they are doing so, and, according to allegations reported in the Brattleboro Reformer, “no curriculum has been implemented, because, according to the teachers, they have not been provided sufficient supplies.” On top of all that, as of November 1, the principal, Cramer, has been fired. While this seems right and just, it does leave the school with only one unqualified teacher and an admin – perhaps with no supplies or curriculum – “educating” this group of children.

It’s hard to say which conclusion is more concerning about Judge Kainen’s ruling: that he looked upon this situation and, with his infinite wisdom, did not see the “irreparable harm” being done to these boys and girls or that he looked at this situation and didn’t find it to be “substantially unequal” to the educational opportunities experienced by other children in other public schools.

Maybe he’s right. These kids were exposed to an F-bomb-dropping llama, which is a helluva lot more preferable to being isolated and restrained in a locked, padded closet covered in your own excrement for hours on end like the students in Fair Haven. (See: Why is the Vermont Media Ignoring the Curt Hier vs. Slate Valley School Board Story?) You can’t read, kid (See: Why Can’t Vermont Kids Read? Left Wing Ideology Trumped Evidence), but maybe you can count your blessings.

The question for Vermont voters is, are we really going to go along with the Vermont Teachers’ Union et al.’s plans to reward itself for manufacturing our dysfunctional public school system with hundreds of millions of dollars on top of the $2 billion-plus we already give them, and entrust them with more and younger children who will be in too many cases, with all due respect to the judge, irreparably harmed by this widespread incompetence and abuse?

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So I just read (11/4 – 10 am-ish) this post titled The True Cause of Failed Education in New Hampshire which argues that the “true cause” is the Chairman of the House Education Committee. Apparently, the Speaker has NO IDEA that Rick Ladd is a RINO … which I thought was COMMON KNOWLEDGE … and that Ladd routinely sides with the Democrats … which I also thought was COMMON KNOWLEDGE

GIVE ME A BREAK. Packard knows exactly what Ladd is and what Ladd is doing, AND Packard is NOT going to give a damn about how many readers of Granite Grok contact him to complain about Ladd. Packard, and his leadership team, are the problem. They are simply mini-me versions of Kevin McCarthy, John Boehner and Paul Ryan.

If the author wants to do something about it, then he needs to do what Matt Gaetz did. He needs to get rid of Packard and his ilk and replace them with real Republicans.

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