Radio talker Larry Elder: Accused Birmingham serial killer would get more attention if he were white
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Nationally syndicated radio host Larry Elder weighed in on the case of a man accused of murdering at least 18 people in Birmingham between 2023 and 2024.
Damien McDaniel, a black man, is the suspect in multiple shootings, including the shooting death of a Birmingham firefighter and two high-profile mass shootings, one at the Trendsetters Lounge in July 2024 and the other at Hush Lounge in September of the same year.
Elder took to social media to ask a rhetorical question about the suspect’s race.
“Suppose a Birmingham, Alabama white man is CURRENTLY awaiting on trial for, over a period of less than two years—allegedly murdering 18 people, almost all of whom appear to be black,” Elder wrote. “If convicted, he becomes the most prolific serial killer in the history of Alabama. RHETORICAL QUESTION: Would such a news story generate massive local, national AND international coverage—whether or not evidence suggests race played a role?”
“[Well], this story IS true,” he added. “EXCEPT the suspected killer, Damien McDaniel, is BLACK. Ever heard of him? The media are FASCINATED by white serial killers. Black one serial killers? Not so much.”
Zero pushed the limits on the “race card” through the roof. To the point where no one pays any attention to it any more. The word racist has lost its meaning and everyone knows it.
I haven’t heard about this McDaniel guy, and I live in Alabama
A massive, Chinese-backed port.....will revolutionize global trade.....
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The elevator doors leading to the fifth-floor control center open like stage curtains onto a theater-sized screen.
This “Operations Productivity Dashboard” instantaneously displays a battery of data: vehicle locations, shipping times, entry times, loading data, unloading data, efficiency statistics.
Most striking, though, are the bold lines arcing over the dashboard’s deep-blue Pacific—digital streaks illustrating the routes that lead thousands of miles across the ocean, from this unassuming city, to Asia’s biggest ports.
Chancay sits at a curve along the ocean, about 50 miles north of Lima. Until recently, it was best known for its medieval-themed amusement park, a crescent of beach, and a row of seaside restaurants. Now it’s home to South America’s newest, most technologically advanced deepwater megaport and the epicenter of China’s bid to control the flow of goods to and from this commodity-rich continent.
For Peru, the recent opening of the port here was the realization, nearly two decades in the making, of a dream to position itself as South America’s global transportation hub, the continent’s primary launching point for a straight shot across the Pacific to Asia’s biggest economies.
For China, the port delivers a strategically direct route for the critical minerals and agricultural commodities coming off the continent, and in the other direction, a more expedient channel for its cars, machinery, and electronics to stream into South American markets.
The port represents Peru’s first project under the banner of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, Beijing’s $1.3 trillion bid to remake how the world travels and trades, and collectively speaking, the most ambitious infrastructure project in history. It is China’s flagship infrastructure investment in South America—and a crucial node in Beijing’s global strategy for securing access to critical commodities.
It also brings China logistically closer to one of its chief goals: direct access to neighboring Brazil and the massive amounts of timber, soy, and beef produced in the Amazon rainforest. Now, in theory, these commodities no longer have to travel through the politically fraught Panama Canal or around the continent’s southern tip. The new megaport, the only one in South America that can manage the largest class of fully loaded container ships, cuts the transport time by 10 days or more.
First, though, these commodities have to make their way to the port—and to do that, they have to somehow cross the Andes, the vertiginous mountain system that traces the western edge of the continent, from Venezuela to Chile.
There is no good, easy way to haul goods over the Andes now. That is changing.
The port has reawakened old ambitions of roads, railways, and water routes that could connect the riches of the Amazon to the continent’s west coast and the world’s largest ocean. The prospect of a fast track across the Pacific has sparked new momentum—a willingness to reconsider the engineering challenge posed by the world’s longest mountain chain.
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Most of article is whiney climate change b.s. The important part is China’s building of the port in Chancay, Peru, i.e. China’s Belt and Road Program in Peru.