My latest at PJ Media:
Former CIA top dog John Brennan tuned in to CPAC over the last few days, and was disgusted by what he saw – not just because he voted Communist in 1976 and is still very far to the left, but because white people were behaving there in a way that made him sorry to be among their number: “I’m increasingly embarrassed to be a white male these days,” Brennan claimed, “with what I see other white males say.”
Brennan, scrambling for the moral high ground, charged that the only acceptable Republicans were the ones who were indistinguishable from Democrats: “With very few exceptions, like [Sen.] Mitt Romney, [Rep.] Liz Cheney, [Rep.] Adam Kinzinger, there are so few Republicans in Congress who value truth, honesty, and integrity.”
Sure, whatever, John, but try to stay on point: aren’t Romney, Cheney, and Kinzinger, um, white? Were the speakers you hated at CPAC saying things you disliked because they were white, or because they believe in principles you likely detest, such as the freedom of speech, the right to bear arms, and the need for free and fair elections?
Brennan was, of course, just reflecting the zeitgeist: those who tell us that racism is virtually everywhere and must be eradicated at all costs have no problem demonizing one race and ascribing to it all the ills of society. It is now acceptable on the Left to despise white people as a group, and Brennan’s ridiculous statements reflect that. Search through the Twitter feeds of the Washington Post’s Karen Attiah or activist Shaun King and you’ll see statements about “white people” in the aggregate that would result in firing and ostracism if they were said about any other race. All this has given rise to the recrudescence of one of the most shameful phenomena in American history – claiming to be of a different race in order to escape social opprobrium.
Back in the old South during the Jim Crow days of institutionalized racial discrimination, some light-skinned blacks tried to pass for white in an attempt to avoid the discrimination and harassment that blacks faced all too often in those days. The old folk song “Delia” mentions “men in Atlanta, tryin’ to pass for white.” Jazz pioneer Jelly Roll Morton has been criticized for allegedly denying that he was black.
This phenomenon is not dead. There are still people trying to pass as members of another race….
There is more. Read the rest here.
11B40 says
Greetings:
And I’m embarrassd for him to be a white American.
Spiro says
You got that right me to
DiploNerd says
Linda Sarsour donned a hijab and announced that it had turned her into a person of color. Brennan might look cute in one.
Mike says
so the woman who wear what look like hefty trash bag does that make them trash
Brennen is just plan nuts and will say what ever to appease the left
Tomorrow he’ll claim he’s a suppository if it fits
revereridesagain says
Isn’t he already a Muslim in addition to being a Commie and now a “White Fragility” practitioner.
John Brennan? There is no “there” there.
Infidel says
If he embraces islam, wouldn’t that automatically make him an honorary ‘person of color’?
gravenimage says
That’s pretty much what Linda Sarsour said…
notnolib says
From The Urban Dictionary…..
Sarsour
The female version of a cuck; a woman who calls herself a feminist but also supports Sharia law.
That sarsour gets so worked up about patriarchy, but she doesn’t have anything bad to say about forced marriages of children in Muslim countries.
gravenimage says
I hadn’t realized the Urban Dictionary could be so spot on.
gravenimage says
Spot on, 11B40!
sweetolbob says
Do I understand correctly that Brennan has converted to islam ? If so, that ruins his qualifications as an American, let alone a White Male. If that is true, then everything he says is nothing more than his brand of jihad.
Grace says
I thought he was a communist? Can you be a communist and a Muslim also? Whatever he is he is no longer an American who supports the Republic
eduardo odraude says
He was apparently stationed in the Middle East for years, and some supposed witness or witnesses claim he converted while there. But no one really seems to know for sure.
gravenimage says
+1
mortimer says
A self-hating white man! But what good does that do? Who is helped? It is merely Brennan’s excuse to demonize, then criminalize and then arrest ANYONE AT ALL WHO STEPS OUT OF LINE.
The ‘racism’ accusation is akin to the ‘WITCH’ accusation of old. No evaluation of guilt is required before a sentence is passed and punishment applied.
Witches have it coming to them! Nothing is worse than a ‘WITCH’ .. is it? Oh, I meant to say, ‘…a racist’.’
(sarc/off)
Secret Muslim Brennan wants to destroy European Christians by criminalizing their race.
william carr says
Will he be using the women’s toilets in future?
tim gallagher says
This imbecilic statement by Brennan was actually mentioned on Peta Credlin’s Tv show on Sky News yesterday here in Australia and Rowan Dean, one of the panellists, making the same point as you made, 11B40, said that he was embarrassed, I suppose as a fellow white man, that someone like Brennan was a white man. How pathetic it is for this halfwit Brennan to say something like that. Talk about having a self loathing attitude.
Peter WF says
Black, red, yellow or other face is a solution for him. Will it be a complement to whatever race he decides to join?
Good riddance, he embarrasses me.
Walter Sieruk says
This means John Brennan is a politically correct timeserver and fool .
That old man would make a effective useful idiot, tool and stooge for Marxist leaders of Antifa and BLM. They wouldn’t respect him but they would ,for sure, use him.
gregbeetham says
He’s upholding the adage that only white’s can be racist…hmm he took careful aim and shot himself, what a goose, and he worked for the CIA, gawd help us.
Peter Carroll says
No problem. He can always “self identify” as a black man if he wishes. That should fix his dilemma.
Infidel says
I know that one can do that w/ gender, but the Left hasn’t yet signed off on one being able to do that w/ race. Even if logically, it’s easier to change one’s skin color than one’s gender
somehistory says
A few years ago, there was a young woman who decided that she was Black, even though she is White and her parents are White. The ‘left’ didn’t have much to say about it as I recall, but they didn’t say she couldn’t be.
When the whole “my truth” thingy began, it had to lead to things like that. Whatever one wants to be True is true because they say it is.
James Lincoln says
I’m not so sure, Infidel.
After all, “Pocahontas” Warren erroneously claimed significant American Indian heritage…
JanD says
Surprised he left out the part about most white men named Brennan also have some Catholics lurking in the family – oh, the horror! His pagan ancestors would have drown him in his youth.
Joeyn says
The truth is no skin color group will be happy to have a character like John Brennan in its group. Having said that based on the way he behaves he shoud make a very good Muslim.
Infidel says
I think muslim races like Turks, Pakis, would be happy to have him. He should convert to islam and declare himself a Turk
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
It’s possible that John Brennan had *already* converted to Islam while he was stationed in Saudi Arabia during the 1990s…
Joeyn says
Well if that is the case, all I can say is that there are some who are born into the Islamic religion and the Islamic ideology molds their character into being a horrible one while there are others like John Brennan who come, already with a horrible character and see that their character fits perfectly with the Islamic ideology and thus embrace Islam. Somehow I tend to feel more sympathetic towards the former than the latter but the fact is both are screwed.
Chrissie01 says
Usually, people like him have one religion: It’s called money
somehistory says
“what I see other white males say.” But the *lies* he ****hears**** don’t bother him one little bit.
And, he isn’t “White.” His face is very red….as he lies, with anger, his BP rises and his face turns red.
There is an old saying, “Better dead than red. Perhaps he feels like “better dead than White.”
Or, he could go full on with the racism thing and admit to the full public audience that he’s a mo slum…That could mean he isn’t White after all, as mo slums and their henchmen keep crying about the ‘rest of us’ being against their ‘race.’ Since they have all made it very clear that the only people who can be “racist” are White people, no mo slum can truly be White.
All of these ant-White people need to have Hep A, which will turn the whites of their eyes, and their skin, yellow; never again brush their teeth, and every day, drink several cups of …. and soak their nails in…strong, dark coffee.
somehistory says
After a couple of months with the Hep A, if they survive it, they’ll be glad to get some White back into their lives.
This whole thing is from satan the devil….he is gleeful to cause such trouble, to see his “children” lie their way into the “lake of fire.”
Infidel says
‘Better dead than red’ used to be a cliche when ‘red’ meant ‘communist’. Had red still meant Communist (actually it does if one considers China as the leader of all communist countries, like North Korea, Cambodia, Laos, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua…), then Brennan would be red in 2 ways rather than 1
somehistory says
Yes, I know about the ‘reason’ behind the saying. And communist control and mo slum control are just about the same. He is said to have converted to islam some years ago…and that’s very believable…he seems like the type that would like to control any woman in his life and to beat her if he feels like it.
So, yes, it’s red in two ways.
There might just come a way for Whites to oust people like him from being White…since he hates it so much. Decent White men aren’t gonna’ change so he can quit being “embarrassed,” and White women don’t care for his sort. So, he’s out…voted right out of the White men’s club.
Emmie says
Mohammed was white.
Infidel says
He considered himself White, just like Hitler considered himself Aryan. In reality, he was an Arab from Mecca – a Semite
somehistory says
I’ve heard that before, but he was just “passing” due to the feelings he had…embarrassed to be arab. Probably was really, really hideous and that’s why he forbid anyone to draw him…wanted to pretend he was a beauty among the ugly.
After all, he was a mass-murdering, raper of children, filthy sack of slug slime, sex-mad slave trader, thief, and lying son of satan the devil; so pretending things was par…pretending to be perfect, pretending to be a prophet, all lies…lies and more lies.
gravenimage says
This just means that he got very little sun–a mark of status in Arabia, since working people were often out in the sun all day. It doesn’t mean he was Nordic.
gravenimage says
This Just in: John Brennan Is ‘Embarrassed’ to Be White
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I am *so* sick of this racism–especially its self-hating variant.
James Lincoln says
Manufactured racism, gravenimage.
So much “crying wolf” that when rare *actual* racism does occur – it will get lost in the mix…
gravenimage says
Grimly true, James.
I abhor actual racism–and racism in the guise of anti-racism is just as disgusting.
Wellington says
John Brennan—a bad man, and to the core.
This is my read on him and for years now I have found no reason to reverse this assessment.
Brennan is wicked. And just look at his face for confirmation of this. A la George Orwell, everyone by fifty (N.B., John Brennan was born in 1955) has the face they deserve.
Brennan sure does. Does he ever. Horrible human being, actually voted for the Communist candidate for American President, Gus Hall, in the 1976 Presidential election.
Was Obama’s choice for CIA Director. Conclude accordingly.
Screw the bastard.
gravenimage says
Agreed.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
100% agree.
So John Brennan was around 21 years old when he voted for a commie – Gus Hall – in 1976.
No excuse, he was old enough to know better…
john smith says
Spot on Wellington.
Fatts says
Speaking as a White man, I am also embarrassed that John Brennan is White.
Relic says
Possession, illegal six shooter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7rlUe-Thvk
CogitoErgoSum says
I think he should move to South Africa.
gravenimage says
Good to see you posting again, CogitoErgoSum!
CogitoErgoSum says
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Eleanor says
Trump should have told him “if you don’t vote for me, you ain’t white”. There you go Brennan, you “ain’t white”. Your little identity dilemma is solved.
Raja says
He is an embarrassment to mankind as God has not given the choice to embrace looks, parentage and so on. May be he should consider a makeover like Michael Jackson. A monkey lookalike might be more tolerable. Better still he can dig up his head in the Hawaiian sands.
The signboard should mention “A gentleman who died a nincompoop”
somehistory says
“It is God Who has made us, and not we ourselves.” For that reason alone, I am glad to be as I was created to be. God made me White. He makes some people Black, some Brown, some Olive, etc. and some White. “God is not partial.”
gravenimage says
Hear, hear!
jirtu says
Career advice to braindead Brennan: Shoe polish is cheap. Dab some on your mug and sing “Mr. Bo Jangles.” And if you knee, you’d make more money.
Infidel says
He could go to our governor Ralph Northam for advice. Or maybe Joy Behar, if he doesn’t feel like travelling
Chrissie01 says
Isn’t that deeply racist? A human being should be considered as an individual – regardless of race? Wasn’t that the principle? Is this an anti-white movement?
BTW: I am VERY proud to be white, I am VERY proud of my heritage. And speaking of heritage months, when will we have a white heritage month? There is much to celebrate. First ones to abolish slavery, first ones to establish social solidarity systems…If I went on, I would be sitting here still by tomorrow morning.
Seriously, because it IS serious, the background is:
It is a variant of the communist world view, where, originally, the proletariat was to liberate itself, erecting the so-called “Dictatorship of the Proletariat”, where everything belonged to everybody and private propery (above all in production means was banned). Paradise on earth, so to speak. Obviously, under Stalin, the working class was not as thrilled about its liberation as expected and, counterrevolutionary balkers, had to be forced into its luck by gulags and other fun devices. Ultimately, Stalin change the doctrine and pronounced the “Socialist World Republic” through war, which was WWII. But that somehow also flapped around on the ground and never got rolling. All the satelites – Romania, Hungary, Bulgary etc. – were more than eager and glad to leave the Warsaw Pact. Finally, Neo-Marxism – as last modification – came around the corner and up with yet another concept of the populace that urgently needed liberation: MINORITIES.
Women, homosexuals, PoC etc. etc
Minorities were discovered as THE victims of the ruling system and the ruling class.
Never mind that these minorities themselves wouldn’t even be able to exist without the systems and concepts and support of it.
So if you wanted to be hip and progressive, you took a stance for “minorities”. That hasn’t changed to this date.
Solidarity with “minorities” was the conclusive approach to stir social strife and effectively remove performers from their positions. Forcing equality where it doesn’t exist will bring about the most destructive consequences. Forcefully planting ideologies that match neither truth nor reality will bring about a gap between thought and truth that has the explosive corruptive power of water freezing inside a stone.
(Note: One example is Kinsey and it Report on Male Sexuality.
Kinsey was a notorious liar. He used sexual perpetrators in prison as probants and pretended his result to be applicable to the normal population. It is still a scandal – his experiments included infants and (sorry to have to bring this up) sexual stimulation of infants. He was a pervert but still counts as the great explorer of sexuality. Founding father of todays “sexual liberty” and LGBT movement.)
(Second and last note: Strictly speaking, whites are already a minority. This is the fun fact. They make for about 8% of the world’s population, with percentage rapidly falling.)
James Lincoln says
Chrissie01 says,
“Strictly speaking, whites are already a minority. This is the fun fact. They make for about 8% of the world’s population, with percentage rapidly falling.)”
Thanks for putting this into perspective…
gravenimage says
Good post, Chrissie.
Rooster says
I am embarrassed he’s “white” too. What a pathetic man he is! His security clearances should be terminated immediately. I never cease to be amazed at the ignorance that exist in high levels of leadership, hence the reason why America (New Babylon) is doomed for destruction.
Rick Spencer says
“I’M PROUD TO BE A BLACK MAN”, said the black man…
“I’M PROUD TO BE AN ASIAN MAN”, said the Asian man…
“I’M PROUD TO BE A WHITE MAN”, said the RACIST!
gravenimage says
Yes, this is how things are seen. Grotesque.
eduardo odraude says
Spencer here takes note brilliantly of a relatively little noticed phenomenon — how “white” people are trying now to pass as “people of color” (though strictly speaking, everyone is a person of color) and what this means about the demonization of white people. I hate racism, but personally I am also just disgusted by the continual genuflecting of white virtue signalers kissing the race-fanatics’ rings and submitting to totalitarianesque re-education. At my workplace, there is a fanatic of this ilk who has started to push what I’d call an almost Soviet-style re-education program on race and racism, and I’m sure this will push a bunch of unquestioned and not-to-be-questioned woke tropes that take no account of honest sincere criticisms, and the white people participating will mostly just cower and abase themselves or remain silent, lest they be tarred as racists. So far, fortunately, her proposals don’t seem to have been taken up by others. In any case, I won’t have to participate in programs pushed by a fanatic who insisted dogmatically and angrily that “America is fascist.” Politics in this country, and not just among the left, is really sick, very sick — though not as bad as in dictatorships, of course. The problem is that the left generally confuses moving backward with moving forward, while the right generally does not want to move forward but only to resist the left’s misunderstanding of what it is to move forward. This means that no one sees how to move forward, and, as we have seen for the last 50 years, the left’s social agenda, while it won’t advance all at once, will creep more and more into governance, because the right does not offer an alternative mode of progress, but only the same old thing plus resistance to the left’s efforts to go backward. What we have in the US, to speak for a moment in Hegelian terms, is thesis and antithesis, but no widely recognized synthesis, because both sides think they are on the correct side of history and that the other side is in the wrong. But in fact both sides have a blind spot and thus we continue in the slow creeping direction (a sort of alternation between a growing corporatism and a growing socialism) that we’ve been moving in for many decades.
eduardo odraude says
The way forward, put in the broadest strokes, I would characterize as follows – it is a way that will annoy both left and right.
Here’s the part that will annoy many on the left: Expand educational freedom — make it so that every family, regardless of financial resources, is enabled to freely pick a non-government school for their children’s education. (This expansion has been growing, albeit slowly, for the last few decades. In the US, it is perhaps most developed in Florida.)
Now here is the part that will annoy many on the right: Entrepreneurs start voluntarily doing more to foster and create what might be called a Christian form of capitalism, though one need not be religious at all to see the value of it, namely of a capitalism that, while it remains independent of the State, self-organizing, freely-contractual, and decentralized, yet also becomes a capitalism that is more cooperative in its ownership structure, sometimes called “steward ownership.” Another variant is called “stakeholder capitalism.” Most of the companies on the stock exchange in Denmark, I gather, are steward-owned companies. Steward-owned companies have a number of economic as well as social advantages over conventionally owned companies.
In broad strokes, the two proposals above, if both are carried forward, mean movement toward a new synthesis: increase freedom in the cultural realm (especially in education), and increased voluntary cooperation in an economic realm that remains independent of the State, or indeed becomes more independent of the State. The old kind of capitalism, shareholder-primacy capitalism, actually fuels the creep of socialism, and the socialist creep gradually turns the state into the only capitalist, the most totalitarian one of all. By contrast, steward-ownership capitalism and related forms actually tend to strengthen the distinction between State and economy.
gravenimage says
Eduardo–with all respect–I think the idea that Communists would be fine with steward-ownership Capitalism is mistaken. They hate free trade in general.
James Lincoln says
eduardo odraude says,
“…strictly speaking, everyone is a person of color…”
I’ve told Leftists that “white” is a color – and they didn’t believe me.
So…
I tell them to just go into Sherwin-Williams and asked for a gallon of white paint.
They’ll give you 38 colors of white paint chips to choose from…
somehistory says
Absolutely. I’ve pointed out the same things.
Who hasn’t heard of “ivory-white,” “off-white,” for example.
Besides, all they need to do is shine a “white” light on a prism to see every color of the rainbow.
But, some people just don’t want to see the Truth.
Infidel says
If one combines every color of the light spectrum, the result is white. If one combines every color of pigment, the result is black. So both are colors
And yeah, Eduardo is right – every human being is a person of color. Even Whites ain’t strictly white – their color would range as anything from creamish to light beige, both of which are variants of brown or yellow
eduardo odraude says
Thomas Sowell, the economist, has a book by the title Pink People and Brown People. As a kind of shorthand, we say that someone with orange hair has red hair, and we speak of white people and black people. But the shorthand often sharpens the boundary unhelpfully.
gravenimage says
Thomas Sowell is great.
tgusa says
The fact that he identifies as a white male is a cruel joke that the rest of us white males must endeavor to persevere. Mother nature is having a good laugh at our expense. Ha ha, look what I did!
Ronen says
If I were a white person I would also be embarrassed that he is white.
notnolib says
I don’t understand why it doesn’t identify with an Asian or black woman. That would solve “its” problems.
janwoG says
Do not worry John Brennan, your soul is deep black.
Chrissie01 says
best!
Chrissie01 says
Now, if gender is freely selectable, why not race? Or even species? Or life form? Or planetary origin in general? How about being Mr. Spock tonight, Brennan?
somehistory says
Mr. Spock was a nice guy. brennan not so much. More like a klingon. Or one of those sparkly things that wormed its way into the Enterprise and consumed the lives of others.
In any case, he is no man…whatever his skin tone.
BlackSabbath says
Did Brennan convert to islam or something?
tgusa says
“value truth, honesty, and integrity.”
This is coming from the head of an organization that lives by lies and dishonesty. Can you have integrity if you don’t have truth and honesty?
Andrew Blackadder says
How strange it seems that though 8% of the Worlds population is of the Caucasian Race, it appears that the other 92% wish to come into the countries populated by those Caucasians, when they must have heard just how evil and racist we all are by now as even white people, like members of the US Government are telling everybody just how evil we are, meanwhile more Negro Millionaires exist in the USA than anywhere in the entire World, however the Untied States of America being the FIRST Nation to end the evil practice of slavery, while friends of Brennan, like the Saudi Arabians, ended slavery also… in 1962….
A French woman I knew in Malaysia some years ago told me, with a straight face, that, “Race is a social construct”, and when I mentioned this to an old Indian friend he almost fell off his stool as we sat drinking Tea at a street stall… “You Europeans say some of the stupidest things” he told me… I agreed…
Though Im certainly not ashamed to be 100% Celtic, as we brought more inventions, discoveries, creations, etc into the World at large than any Arab muslim or Negro.
gravenimage says
It is true that race has no intrinsic characteristics save for things like melanin content or eye shape.