P. A. Seay

Redeemed by Christ. Virginian. Southerner. Archbibliophile.

[P. A. Seay @PASeay13]

@Chase_Steely I visited a family catfish farm in Eutaw once. A great experience!

[P. A. Seay @PASeay13]

Rosewell, the product of a civilization so great that even her ruins are beautiful.

[Tom Woods @ThomasEWoods]

After 7 decades of "civil rights" activism, we have a huge black population that believes murder ought to be legal if against a white person.

Black students ought to pretend to be white on college applications, since we are said to live in a "white supremacist" society. Strangely, they do not.

That's because the truth is this: white people, in the 7 decades since the civil rights movement, crippled their own children with preferential policies that favored much less qualified black applicants in schooling and employment.

Any qualification that blacks couldn't meet at the same rate as whites had to be thrown out (or you bankrupt yourself in court by trying to show, with a team of vulture lawyers after you, that the requirement was absolutely necessary).

Countless jurisdictions have had to throw out entry exams entirely after no amount of dumbing them down could get enough black students to pass them.

The campaign against "gifted and talented" programs, meanwhile, has been driven partly by the "disparate impact" doctrine.

You've heard some of the news items. Seattle phased out its "highly capable cohort" (separate accelerated classes/schools) starting around 2021-2022, and aimed for full phase-out by 2027-2028 (with some delays). The rationale? Addressing "historical inequity" and overrepresentation of white and Asian students.

Your student can't have those programs because we've decided there are too many people in them who look like him.

Rockville Centre, New York, has long moved away from gifted tracking toward mixed-ability classes. San Francisco Unified delayed Algebra I and eliminated honors/gifted math tracks for "equity" purposes. We could go on and on.

Even though some of America's most politically "progressive" people are in education, and despite repeated and aggressive (and expensive) efforts across the country, no school district anywhere in America, no matter how progressive, has ever managed to eliminate the black-white educational achievement gap, which by 12th grade is estimated as a four-year difference.

And vastly fewer black students percentage-wise choose to take advanced-placement classes even in school systems in which such classes are open to anyone.

Given that nobody anywhere has been able to solve this problem, why, apart from hatred and spite, should bright students be singled out to be deprived of a program that benefits them?

The disparities are evident even at the very beginning of the educational process. The National Center for Educational Statistics found that blacks entering kindergarten we're already disproportionately testing in the bottom, quarter of students in reading, math, and general knowledge.

Behavioral differences are also evident that early, and they persist to the future. On average, black students are much less likely than whites to be described by kindergarten teachers as a tentative, eager to learn, and persistent in carrying out assigned tasks, and they are more likely to be described as argumentative, quick tempered, and violent.

These discipline disparities persist over time. Later in life blacks are 2 1/2 times as likely to be suspended or expelled from school as whites.

Faced with statistics, like these, so-called civil rights groups, typically accuse white teachers of arbitrarily, singling out blacks for punishment. To the contrary, black teachers have been found to be even more critical of black students than white teachers are.

Moreover, Asian students are less than half as likely as whites to be suspended or expelled, and it is unreasonable to ask us to believe that an anti-white, pro-Asian bias permeates the American educational system.

And educational disparities between the races persist even when social class is taken into account, so that comfortable explanation doesn't work.

The crime statistics tell us everything: if you based your opinions on TV or the movies, you would think the big problem in America is white-on-black violence. In fact, the reality is so overwhelmingly the opposite that most people would be shocked to learn the real numbers.

Per 10,000 whites, 3.4 violent crimes are committed against blacks. Per 10,000 blacks, 153 violent crimes are committed against whites.

As time has gone on, special accommodations for blacks, and disabilities placed on whites, have only grown more intense.

In 2023 the percentage of white men in tenure-track faculty positions at Harvard declined from 39 percent in 2014 to 18 percent. That doesn't happen by accident.

Oh, who cares about Harvard faculty, some will say.

But it reflects a society-wide problem. Here are some other numbers we now know, that also incorporate the anti-male bias in hiring:

TV/Hollywood Writers: White men comprised roughly 48% of lower-level TV writers in 2011, dropping to 11.9% by 2024.

Medical school matriculants: White men accounted for 31% in 2014, declining to 20.5% in 2025.

The Atlantic staff: In 2013: 53% male / 89% white; by 2024: 36% male / 66% white.

University faculty hiring (tenure-track): At UC Berkeley, white men comprised 52.7% of new tenure-track faculty hires in 2015, dropping to 21.5% in 2023.

Humanities/social sciences faculty hires: UC Irvine hired 64 tenure-track assistant professors in humanities and social sciences since 2020 — only 3 (4.7%) were white men.

At UC Santa Cruz, of 59 assistant professors in Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (2020–2024), only 2 (3%) were white men.

Law school matriculants: White men accounted for 31.2% of law school matriculants in 2016, falling to 25.7% in 2024.

Corporate/tech entry- and mid-level (specifically Amazon): Entry-level “professionals” (college graduates) were 42.3% white male in 2014. By 2024, mid-level managers had fallen from 55.8% white male in 2014 to 33.8% (nearly 40% decline).

Tech workforce (specifically Google): White men represented nearly 50% of the workforce in 2014, dropping to less than one-third by 2024 (a roughly 34% relative decline).

Four years ago a survey of a thousand hiring managers in the United States came out that showed 16 percent of such managers had been expressly told to stop hiring white men.

Further, 48 percent of hiring managers say they have been instructed to prioritize "diversity" over merit, and 53% believe they will lose their jobs if they don’t hire accordingly.

All across the country there are special programs, of every shape and size, for minority applicants. If you had any idea of the scale of it, you would be shocked -- no matter how much you think you know about the subject.

Instead of the kind of gratitude you might expect from people who have benefited from the most systematic effort in any society to assist a minority group -- I haven't even mentioned the literal trillions in wealth redistribution -- it is never enough, and the recipients will scream "RACIST" in your face even for pointing any of this out.

We can hope that the Karmelo Anthony case accelerates the coming of the day when whites say: we have done everything humanly possible for you, and received only hatred and ingratitude in return. You are on your own now.

[P. A. Seay @PASeay13]

But wait! I didn’t see this in the “Banned Books” section of the bookstore!

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Just left the barber shop. Without joining the conversation, I heard Socrates quoted, a discussion on the difference between a state and a commonwealth, the geographical center of Virginia, the ongoing Yankee invasion, and the distinction between dinner and supper. Ole Va lives!

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Robert Coles - R.I.P

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@roddreher An affront to Geometry and Theology!

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

A group of men photographed by Arthur Rothstein outside a post office and store in Nethers, Virginia, United States in October 1935.

[The Old World Show @theoldworldshow]

A historian of the Old Dominion, Philip Alexander Bruce, did a great history modeled after Parallel Lives called The Virginia Plutarch (2vols)

It’s a lot of fun, and a great way to learn about great men like John Smith, George Washington, and others

Highly recommend!

[P. A. Seay @PASeay13]

Saturday reading. It’s all there, in the old books.

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I have never left the U.S. and have never crossed the Mississippi, but, like Moses, have glimpsed the other side. This is no badge of honor as far as I’m concerned, but I feel that I have seen plenty.

[Virgil Caine @Virgil__Caine]

"LOOKING UP AND DOWN THE RIVER, I WONDERED WHY AMERICANS SPEND THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO TRAVEL TO OTHER COUNTRIES FOR A VACATION.
THE SCENERY ALONG THE TENNESSEE RIVER IS AT LEAST AS BEAUTIFUL AS THAT ALONG THE LI RIVER, THE LEGENDARY SCENIC SPOT IN SOUTHERN CHINA.....

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@Chase_Steely @cowinthevatican I know you know this, but, for those who don’t, Kibler lists additional volumes from W.F.’s library that were not catalogued in his FAULKNER THE SOUTHERNER.

[Chase Steely @Chase_Steely]

Solid mail day.

[P. A. Seay @PASeay13]

This is a book that was meant for me. WE CALLED HIM FLINTLOCK is a charming tribute to Archibald Rutledge that was compiled by his family after his death in 1973. This copy bears a gift inscription by one of my favorite authors, Sheldon Vanauken. Both men are truly worth reading!

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@Chase_Steely Killer

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Key states in my family’s history:

Virginia

[Bushwhacker @anglotradboy]

Key states in my family’s history:
Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Kentucky

[P. A. Seay @PASeay13]

"He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled, so I tactfully changed the subject."

-P. G. Wodehouse, THE CODE OF THE WOOSTERS

[P. A. Seay @PASeay13]

Just read THE LION, THE WITCH, and the WARDROBE for the first time. What a truly remarkable work!

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@loganclarkhall They’re the best! I got this one at a book sale my local library had recently.

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My niece (2) is well on her way to being a great Southern grandmother. Yesterday, she hugged my very ancient dog and said, “I love you, Old Boy Duke. You want some food?”