W. Burlette Carter

Author of Sexism in the 'Bathroom Debates': How Bathrooms Really Became Separated By Sex. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

On this day in 1956, white men attacked Nat King Cole during a segregated performance in Birmingham, Alabama. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

Seems to me the strong interest US liberal groups now show in internationalizing the reparations argument (millions in funding) is not driven by interests in justice. Rather, it is one of several efforts to overturn any delineation of US Slave Descendants from other groups the organizations desire to broadly categorize as just “black” for political purposes. (It’s not that reparations based on unique international experiences is unthinkable, but rather that one could think of many other ways such countries might choose to support their own people using that money, if it were allowed.) The claim of US Slave Descendants poses the threat of self determination. By defeating any claim that US Slave Descendants, i.e. Freedmen, are uniquely situated within America and under its Constitution, these actions seek to deprive Slave Descendants of the very rights they earned under that Constitution (while presenting to the public as if they broadly support black rights.) From the approach, it would follow then, that Slave Descendants cannot claim that their being “American” or having been in America during slavery matters to any right to relief using US dollars. The racism in such strategies lies in the fact that these same liberals agree that American ties DO matter when considering the rights of “nonblack” US groups.

No, ICE’s use of spyware doesn’t “especially” raise privacy concerns for black and brown communities. It raises them for illegal immigrants and advocates supporting illegal immigration (in situations where such rights exist.)

'It’s Alabama, 1963. A black woman stands before a judge, but she refuses to acknowledge his questions until he addresses her by the same honorific given to white women: “Miss.” That woman's name is Mary Hamilton. Her case eventually reached the Supreme Court and changed the courts...' npr.org/2026/03/14/nx-…

🚨HOLY CRAP!!! The Houston TSA line has now stretched to a mind-blowing 150 minute-wait-time and has snaked around the airport, down an escalator and into BAGGAGE CLAIM!!! THIS IS INSANE!!!!

The disrespect for Black Americans is out of control. Immigrants flyin from Minnesota to march on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to protest immigration enforcement?‼️🤔

I don’t think people realize how Big of a deal Chuck Norris to American culture especially in the Black community in the late ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s. In 1996, he sued two karate studios bearing his name, alleging they engaged in racial discrimination against Black folks. RIP to the Legendary Chuck Norris 🙏🏾🕊️

On this day in 1924, Virginia passed the Eugenical Sterilization Act authorizing forced sterilization and enacted a prohibition on interracial marriage in an effort to "purify the white race." calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

Trans special constable who raped victims as young as 12 and now identifies as a woman WILL be sent to a male prison trib.al/AonHNnO

We need to remember a key legal reason why a correct history matters . In interpreting the Constitution and Equal Protection, US courts have been led by how people thought around the time the Constitution was written. It has become common today for people to lie under the guise of history and facts. They might offer you half truths that on a quick glance, validate your experience or political preferences, but then upon further examination, if true, could be used to deny you key rights. Be careful.

🚨#BREAKING: A South Carolina mother just shared one of the most disturbing school gender transition stories I've read in a long time. Her 14-year-old son attended Beech Springs Middle School in Spartanburg SC. For OVER A YEAR, he was changing into girls' clothing at school, and changing back before his mom picked him up. It was apparently a daily operation, coordinating with another student to bring the clothes, multiple bathroom trips, and deliberate concealment from his parents every single day. Multiple staff members at school had to have seen this. You don't pull off daily clothing changes in a middle school without teachers noticing. But NOBODY called home to tell his parents. Nobody except one teacher. One teacher the previous year did her job, she noticed, she called the mom, and she followed South Carolina law H.4624, which explicitly requires school staff to notify parents when a student expresses gender identity confusion. That call is the only reason the family found out at all. They got their son into gender-related counseling over the summer of 2025. They were engaged, they were involved, they were actively trying to help their kid navigate something difficult. Then the school went silent again. The pattern continued into the next school year and nobody said a word. Fast forward to February 2026. The mom gets her son's hair cut. He cries in class. His teacher sits with him for 10 minutes while he tells her everything, that he wants long hair like a girl, that his parents won't affirm his gender identity, all of it. Again, South Carolina law H.4624 exists for exactly this moment. When a student expresses gender identity distress to a school employee, the law says the school SHALL notify the parents. But the teacher didn't call the mom. She called DSS. That same day, February 13, 2026, she filed a child protective services report against this family for "medical neglect..." Medical neglect because A) the boy allegedly coughed up blood and wasn't receiving care. B) Mental injury because the parents won't affirm a gender transition. And... I'm not even kidding C) making him do "manly chores." The mom asked her son what that meant. He said "cutting the grass." DSS showed up at their home on Valentine's Day weekend. Two days later, the family took their son and got a chest x-ray. His lungs were completely clear. He never coughed up blood. The allegation was fabricated. On February 19th, five days after the report was filed, DSS closed the case. Unfounded. No evidence of medical neglect. No evidence of mental injury. Nothing. So just to recap... A teacher had a 10-minute conversation with a 14-year-old, decided his parents' refusal to affirm a gender transition constituted child abuse, invented or wildly exaggerated a medical claim to make the report actionable, violated state law by never calling the parents, and weaponized DSS on a family over Valentine's Day weekend. And the school's response? The principal wrote back defending the teacher. Called the DSS report "appropriate based on medical neglect suspicion." The report that was closed completely unfounded in five days. The report based on a medical claim that was disproven with a chest x-ray. That report. Appropriate The principal also mentioned that staff had received "gender identity training" and that the school followed "applicable South Carolina statutes." But the H.4624 violation, the actual law that was actually broken, was never addressed. Not once. The superintendent promised a full investigation by a Chief Administrative Officer. Instead, the principal, the direct supervisor of the teacher in question, provided the only written response, and used it to defend her own employee. This school watched a student secretly change genders during the school day for over a year and chose not to tell his mother. That's not an accident. You don't miss daily clothing changes in a middle school. They saw it. They allowed it. They made a decision, collectively and repeatedly, that the parents didn't need to know. Then when that same family's values came up in a conversation, the response wasn't to pick up the phone and call mom like the law requires. The response was to report them for child abuse. The silence for a year and the DSS report aren't two separate events. They're the same event. They both reflect the same institutional decision: we know better than these parents, and we will act accordingly, whether that means hiding things from them or weaponizing the state against them. This family did everything right. They got their son counseling. They stayed engaged. They were present. They got a chest x-ray to disprove a fabricated allegation. DSS came into their home, looked at how they parent, and walked out five days later with literally nothing. But the school is STILL calling it appropriate. The mom has filed complaints with both the school and the South Carolina Department of Education. The school defended the teacher. The state has been silent for over a month. Her son is now homeschooled, by the way and she says he's thriving. The school literally weaponized the state against a family for cutting their son's hair. Let that sink in.

Today's Black American (Freedmen) inventor or innovator is Melba Mouton. Melba Mouton was hired by NASA shortly after the agency formed. Mouton was a head mathematician who lead a team of "human computers," who tracked Echo 1 and Echo 2 satellites. Echo 1 satellite was used in the first satellite voice transmission in history, and it would lead to the development of satellite global networks. Melba Mouton then became a head programmer of a team who coded computer programs used to calculate spacecraft locations and trajectories, giving NASA the ability to track spacecraft while in orbit. Fun fact, NASA named a mountain on the moon after her "Mons Mouton."

🚨 Here is the full 40 minutes of my crew and I exposing California fraud, Minnesota was big but California is even bigger... We uncovered over $170,000,000 in fraud as these fraudsters live in luxury with no consequences. Like it and share it, the fraud must STOP. We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for this to be happening. These fraudsters have been able to defraud American taxpayers for years without any pushback from the public and politicians. It is time to EXPOSE IT ALL and end America's fraud crisis.

Hmmm, I think it is not generally correct in the US and England that female criminals were generally housed with strange men. In England, debtors prisons often allowed husbands and wives to be together but that is not the same as allowing strangers in the same cells or areas. As early as 1735, before the nation was founded, Pennsylvania’s Counsel endorsed women and men to be separated (as well as petty offenders from higher criminals). I could find only a few instances of women being housed with stranger males in earlier times and I also found people complaining about it as inappropriate and unsafe, Some prisons separated them at night but allowed mixing in the day. I believe full blown mixing with strangers in private spaces was, if it occurred, usually a function of discrimination against the poor or minorities. So while there may not have been a dedicated women’s prison before 1835 that does not alone prove that stranger men and women were generally housed together in the prisons that did exist; it appears to me that they were in separate sections. Moreover, context is missing. The numbers of female prisoners was small except among debtors. In earlier centuries women’s husbands, guardians or fathers were legally responsible for women’s behavior. They had the right to punish them to keep them in line. For this reason, the number of women actually held responsible for crimes was small. Their husbands and father had to answer. Women were almost wholly dependent on men for economic gain. This is why the punishment of poor men and those suffering discrimination was so hard on families. Second, there were alternatives to prison often used against women. These included the ducking stool, pillory and collar. Serious crimes were often punishable by hanging and verdicts could be swift. I see nothing to challenge my earlier formed view that even prisons were usually separated by sex if women were involved.

@libsoftiktok Conservatives’ own disrespect for rights regularly causes them to fall right into the traps radical liberals set for them. Check out the curious timing of the paid leave in the case of the principal now convicted of possessing sexually explicit images involving small children. According to media reports, the child exploitation investigation began in August when he was still a high school principal. At some point before arrest he had to know it was imminent. Police had examined his devices and he had admitted the images were his (apparently before arrest.) Kirk was assassinated Sept 10. An OPB Sept 17 news report says he was arrested “Tuesday,” which was Sept 16. But an update on the same Sept 17 story reports miraculously that on the same day Sept 17 parents received an announcement that he had been placed on paid leave (allegedly) for his for Kirk comments. Is it possible his buddies at the district had been informed of the imminent arrest and used the Charlie Kirk comments as an excuse to protect themselves and help the accused by giving him PAID leave? School districts know that staff have free speech rights although they could be limited in some cases. Rather quick decision. But also understand that this is Oregon, a state strongly advocating for its version of “inclusion” in education under the banner of LGBTQ rights. So saying he was put on paid leave beforehand due to Charlie Kirk comments (when an arrest was imminent or after it) would be consistent with the views of some Oregon groups that people should be punished for “hateful” comments they make against LGBTQ communities. Use a conservative example to make a radical liberal point. Would a far left school district have made a decision to vindicate kindness in dealing with Kirk’s memory in 5-6 days? Perhaps, with the benefit that it set a precedent for punishing people for daring to say a trans identifying male is a male and the benefit of helping a friend facing arrest. Virtually every story parrots the timing of his leave as being beforehand citing law enforcement no less. How would law enforcement even know? I have seen this movie before, and maybe it miraculously happened as reported, but I have doubts.

‼️A win for free speech and biological reality. A Brazilian court has ruled in favor of Isadora Borges, a veterinary student who faced a potential 10-year prison sentence, simply for stating online that men cannot become women. 👇More from @ChristianToday

Tennessee lawmakers are pushing a bill that would let the state lock certain foster kids in secure juvenile facilities—even if they haven’t been charged with a crime—under a new label of “child in need of heightened supervision.” The bill basically guts due process, funnels vulnerable kids into dangerous detention centers with a history of abuse, and hands even more power (and profit) to the institutions holding them. I break down what’s in the bill, who’s behind it, and what advocates on both sides are saying here ⬇️ townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-…

@SeattlesBest @SeattlesBest Sigh. My favorite coffee brand has been ruined. You know the taste has changed.

More wasting of Americans’ time.

Trump spends so much time wasting time. A nothing order.