KKK vs BLM

The Klu Klux Klan has an estimated 5,000 members.  That's a lot less than the 20,000-50,000 estimate given for the Nation of Islam in 2007.  People talk about the KKK, as if they are this powerful organization.  It's like they use the past of the Klan to make their point of how bad white racism is.  The current KKK, which is split into different independent branches, is a relic of what the group used to be.  They aren't respected.  The simple implication that a white person is a Klan member is a hugely derogatory thing to insinuate.  They have trouble having marches without getting beaten up.  Compare this to the racist Nation of Islam, which regularly has big events.  Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March drew an estimated crowd of 837,000 in 1995.  Just last year he led a "Justice or Else" event that drew a significant crowd, though I couldn't find an estimate on how many people were there.  Imagine a known member of the KKK trying to throw some shit like that, in Washington D.C. just like Farrakhan's marches.  They wouldn't get away with some shit like that.  What political power does the Klan have?

Tomi Lahren got into an argument with Trevor Noah on The Daily Show.  Her most controversial point was saying that Black Lives Matter was the new KKK.  I can see why people think the comparison is stupid.  BLM is portrayed in the mainstream as if it is some freedom fighting movement.  Like that shit is just like the civil rights movement of the 60s.  To take this group, and then compare them to a group with a reputatuion as bad as the Klan, could seem like a ridiculous comparison., but it isn't.  BLM is a racist movement.  The Black Lives Matter group is racist, just like the Klan.  The difference is their race, and who they are racist against.  Blacks being racist against whites is more acceptable than whites being racist against blacks.  One problem this causes is that black racism isn't checked.  Black people can say some racist shit about white people, without facing criticism.  Not only that, but they can gain a reputation as being a conscious person.  While the KKK has caused much harm over the past 150 or so years, recently BLM has been more of a problem.  That's the reason so many people arguing against Lahren's comparison, go back to the distant past to tell us why it doesn't make sense.  What about dealing with the recent years?  What group presently is more of a danger.  In terms of body count BLM has done more in this one calendar year, than the Klan has in years.  They have real political power like the Klan used to have.  They are more powerful, and more respected than the Klan, and guess what they are also more dangerous, and I'm not talking about the early 1900s.  Fuck it, you can say the same thing about the Nation of Islam compared to the KKK.  The Klan has fallen that hard.  Look the KKK is a stupid, and racist group.  It's a good thing to see their numbers dwindle, but Black Lives Matter is also racist, divisive, and are dangerous.  They have a strong anti-police/anti-white theology that often goes unchecked.  They shouldn't be respected the way they are.




References
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KUyc16Kow8&t=1658s
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/257808/profound-racism-black-lives-matter-john-perazzo
http://archive.adl.org/learn/ext_us/kkk/default.html

Barry Sanders

It's hard to say that someone is the consensus greatest running back of all time.  Many old sports analyst think that Jim Brown is the best ever.  He averaged 5.22 yards per carry, and an NFL record 104.34 yards per game.  He did play in a weak era.  At 230 lbs he was bigger than most of the linebackers, and many of the defensive linemen he played against.  He also played in the weaker of 2 NFL divisions.  That being the NFL east.  If you were to have a poll on ESPN on who the greatest running back of all time is, I think that Barry Sanders would win, though it would be close between him and Walter Payton.  No doubt, Barry Sanders' highlight reel is amazing.  He juked, spinned, and embarrassed NFL defenders during his 10 year career.  I wanted to take another look at his career.

One misconception is that he did what he did without much help.  It is constantly done in comparisons between him and Emmitt Smith.  The quality of Sanders' teammates is diminished in order to help the argument for his own greatness.  The fact was that the lines he ran behind weren't terrible.  It wasn't like he constantly had guys in the backfield as soon as he got the ball.  I've looked at the highlights looking for full runs, and while it is not a good idea to measure the quality of an offensive line by a highlight reel,  Barry often had a hole to run through.  I noticed that he would hesitate when he got the ball, as if he were looking around for an opening.  This was part of his style.  He was a home run hitter, who was constantly looking to make the big play, and sometimes because of his incredible physical ability, he would make that play happen, and sometimes he would lose yards.  It wasn't that he had a poor offensive line, it was his style of running.  Detroit's offenses were a mixed bag during his career.   Sometimes they were good, with their best year being 1995,  sometimes they were bad, and sometimes they were around average.  While Detroit had trouble finding a number 1 quarterback, Herman Moore was a really good receiver.  I think Barry had an average group of players around him during his career.

Then there is the fact that he was a boom or bust running back.  To look into that, I'll look to Football Outsiders, and their metrics.  Two important statistics they have are DYAR (Defense Adjusted Yards Above Replacement), and DVOA (Defense Adjusted Volume of Attempt).  I don't t know their full formula for getting DYAR, but they are seen as a dependable source.  Their advanced metric statistics value consistency.  Sure you get more credit for big runs, but it is not linear.  The value for each yard is less past a certain point.  In football when you get a first down, you start a whole new sets of downs, where you usually have to gain another 10 (unless it's goal to go).  So it's important to be able to consistently move the ball.  That is something that you can depend on to score points, more than depending on a big play.  Let's look at a hypothetical situation.  A team gets the ball at their own 20 yard line.  Let's say the running back gains 20 yards on the first play, but then he loses 4 on the next play.  His team throws the ball on the next two downs. They then punt.  The back was successful in getting his team in better position to punt the ball, but that's about it.  He had 2 carries for 16 yards, which is good for an 8 yard average, but his 4 yard loss helped kill the drive.  While Sanders gained 15,269 yards in his career, he lost yards on a lot of carries. Now let's look at Barry's career in terms of DYAR.  Despite winning 4 rushing titles in his career, he led the league in DYAR only one season.  That was in 1990.  That was the year he had the second lowest total for rushing yards in his career (1304).  Though he did average over 5 yards per carry that season, and led the league in rushing.  That season he had a 55% success rate.  It is hard to explain success rate, but it is based on down and distance to go.  Obviously a 3 yard gain on 3rd, and 10, isn't the same as one on a 3rd and 1.  55% is uncharacteristically high for Sanders.  During his two biggest seasons, he finished 2nd in DYAR.  In 1997 when he gained 2053 yards, he was behind Terrell Davis in DYAR, while Davis gained 1750.  Even more surprising is that Emmitt Smith gained 1484 yards in 1994, and finished over 100 yards ahead of Barry Sanders who gained 1883 yards.   I'm am going to look at Sanders DYAR, and DVOA, and Success Rate for each season, as well as where he ranked among running backs with at least 100 rush attempts.

Season    DYAR   Rank   DVOA   Rank   Suc Rate   Rank
1989       239       3         12.1%     5        50%         15
1990       330       1         21.7%     3        55%          6
1991       254       5         8.7%       15      55%          8
1992       93         19       0.3%       23      43%         35
1993       70         22       0.7%       20      44%         34
1994       348       2         18.5%     2        46%         19
1995       200       7         6.8%       12      44%         32
1996       380       2         22.7%     2        51%         10
1997       447       2         25.3%     2        46%         16
1998       15         29      -6.4%      28      39%          35

In 1998 Sanders had a negative DVOA, but a positive DYAR.  Football Outsiders does give some extra credit to a back that carry the ball a lot.  Now I want to compare him to Emmitt Smith in terms of basic running stats, and in DYAR.  To make it an apples, apples comparison I want to compare Smith's first 10 seasons to Sanders' career
       
                              Attempts  Yards     Avg   Rush TD   DYAR
Barry Sanders        3062        15269   4.98   99             2376
Emmitt Smith          3243        13963   4.31   139           2900

Smith led the league in DYAR 4 seasons, which is the same number of seasons he led the league in rushing.  He led in both for the 1992, 1993, and 1995 seasons.  Smith led the league in rushing yards during 1991, and was 2nd in DYAR in 1991.  He was second in the league in rushing yards, and 1st in DYAR for the 1994 season.  Barry Sanders had the advantage in basic run stats.  He ran for more yards over 10 seasons, and averaged almost 0.7 yards more per carry than Smith.  Smith did score 40 more rushing touchdowns, and was the better short yardage runner.  It's hard to factor in teammates and offense.  The Cowboys offense was usually good during Smith's first 10 seasons, but that wasn't always the case.  They peaked as an offense from 1992-95, but had mixed results in the other 6 seasons.  It's hard to know how much his teammates contributed to Smith's success, or how much he contributed to the greatness of their offense when he was at this best.  My feeling is that he contributed greatly to the team's offensive success during those years.  He may have been the most important player on the team.

Those Donald Trump Rape Rumors

Donald Trump is now President elect, and will take office in January.  I was already researching this one before he won the election, and I, like many, was expecting him to lose.

A woman going by the name of Katie Johnson said that Donald Trump raped her when she was 13 years old.  She filed a suit against Trump asking for 100 million dollars.  She claimed that Trump and Jeffrey Epstein used her as a sex slave.  Epstein was convicted, in 2008, for soliciting an underage prostitute. As election day got close, these charges gained some steam, through leftist talking about it on social media.   It had a lot to do with the release of audio, in which Trump talked about grabbing women by the pussy.  After that various women accused Trump of acts of sexual misconduct. When it came to Katie Johnson some seem to take the charges seriously and wondered why the mainstream media seemed to be avoiding the issue.  One reason for them avoiding it might be that the charges were so obviously bogus from the beginning.  The address on the court documents was that of an abandoned home.  People in the neighborhood said that the home hadn't been occupied since a person living there had died  The phone number given was disconnected, and had previously belonged to a dentist.  That lawsuit was dismissed.  Johnson then filed a second lawsuit against Trump for the same charge.  The second time there were two eyewitnesses, but no one knew who either of them was.  Both kept their identity secret.  The first lawsuit contained accusations, and details that were not there in the second one.  More importantly, there was no evidence that the rape had occurred.


There was more mystery surrounding this Katie Johnson.  She would not show her face.   She claimed that she was afraid of threats on her life. There was also someone going by the name Al Taylor.  Taylor was helping Johnson out, and was shopping a tape of Johnson speaking about the charges.  According to an article from The Guardian, Al Taylor is actually Norm Lubow.  Lubow once worked on The Jerry Springer Show.  He was accused of asking people on the show to stage fights (of course that show is fake), and from what I've read about him, he is on the far far left.  As in the looney left.  His shady past included his participation in a controversial documentary called Kurt and Courtney.  In the documentary he appeared in a disguise.  It is a documentary in which ridiculous claims are made that you can read about for yourself. The video that Taylor was shopping around had a woman claiming to be Katie Johnson giving her side of the story.  Her face was blurred out.  There was word of a status hearing coming up on December 16th.    There was a press conference scheduled for Tuesday November 2nd, in which she supposedly would show up, but that press conference was cancelled.  Shortly after that the charges were dropped.

So maybe I'll read some more post like the one I read from Chrissy Teigen, in which she said that Trump was going to trial those rap charges.  If I do, I've got plenty info to use against someone saying something like that.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3914012/Troubled-woman-history-drug-use-claimed-assaulted-Donald-Trump-Jeffrey-Epstein-sex-party-age-13-FABRICATED-story.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailus

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3894806/Woman-alleged-raped-Donald-Trump-13-Jeffrey-Epstein-sex-party-DROPS-case-casting-doubt-truth-claims.html

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/3/13501364/trump-rape-13-year-old-lawsuit-katie-johnson-allegation

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/07/donald-trump-sexual-assault-lawsuits-norm-lubow

Those For And Against Black Lives Matter

One thing that bothers people in the black lives matter movement is the saying "all lives matter".  Seems like a nice little saying to combat the obvious racism of BLM, and Black Lives Matter is a racist movement.  A movement of people who seem determined to make white people, and especially white men feel guilty as fuck.  Yet they complain about people, not being racist, and saying all lives matter.  Some will argue that they are simply saying that black lives matter too.  They'll try to make the case like saying all lives matter is like saying all cancers matter to those who are concerned about breast cancer.  It is not that way.  One of the main reasons that it isn't that way is because of the racism of the Black Lives Matter movement.  Several of the arguments made against the BLM movement make sense largely because of just that.  For instance those who bring up black on black crime. Talking about black on black crime is more than a distraction, used by those who don't support BLM.  It is a way of trying to expose what BLM is all about.  What's the point in them causing a fuss over black people killing other black people, unless the black killer is a cop.  They've got to make the white man feel guilty, and talk shit about the system.

The pattern of Black Lives Matter is to assume a police officer is guilty of murder before due process.  How is that justice?  Evidence supports the story of Darren Wilson.  It was Michael Brown who instigated the altercation with him, and punched Wilson in his face. Brown tried to take Wilson's gun, and shoot him with it.  Brown wasn't done either.  The blood trail evidence backs up Wilson's account that Brown was moving towards him, right before he was killed.  Yet, many believe that Wilson got away with murder.  Many believe that other officers got away with murder, even when the evidence doesn't support it.  It means so much to them to believe this.  What about those who still believe Sandra Bland was murdered, when she committed suicide, and the evidence backs that up.  When black people were all over social media arguing that she was dead in the mug shot, the arguments went to another level of stupid.  These are the types of arguments made by people who really want to believe that those officers are guilty.  Yet it is people like this who are being treated as if they are right.  Like they somehow are fighting for justice, and against racism, when they are being racist themselves.