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Category Archives: Blacks
Hortense Spillers: The Grammar Lesson
Memphis Hortense Jeanette Spillers (b. April 24, 1942) grows up in Memphis, Tennessee, with two brothers and a sister, in the Black Baptist world of the segregated South. The church trains its young people to memorize long poems and deliver … Continue reading
The Institutionalist: Dean Baquet and the Remaking of American Journalism
As executive editor of The New York Times from 2014 to 2022, Dean P. Baquet (b. 1956) becomes the first Black journalist to run the newsroom of the most influential paper in the United States, and he presides over its … Continue reading
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The Unwritten Canon: American Murder and the Books That Were Not Written
Black-on-Black crime gets almost no long-form prestige treatment outside one acceptable frame blaming white people. David Simon (b. 1960) wrote
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NYT: What Are ‘Teen Takeovers’ and Why Are Police Struggling to Stop Them?
The New York Times says: “Across the country, police and city officials are trying to crack down on sometimes violent youth gatherings, but the teens themselves say they need some way to socialize and blow off steam.” Steve Sailer writes: … Continue reading
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Sailer: Is the Black Caucus the “Conscience of Congress?”
Steve Sailer’s core argument is arithmetic, and the arithmetic is right. The 1990s political science literature on this packed/cracked trade-off has serious pedigree. David Lublin, The Paradox of Representation (1997). Charles Cameron, David Epstein, and Sharyn O’Halloran in the American … Continue reading
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The Cofnas Affair and the Logic of Coalition Enforcement
The controversy surrounding philosopher Nathan Cofnas (his Substack, X) has now followed him across two countries, five petitions, and nearly a decade of escalating institutional pressure. At Cambridge, students marched through campus chanting for his removal and posted flyers with … Continue reading
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LAT: Bass helped Raman win reelection. Now Raman wants to unseat her. Some call it ‘a betrayal’
The Los Angeles Times reports: Raman’s entry into the race, hours before the filing deadline, shocked the city’s political elite and infuriated the mayor’s supporters. Some observers called it a betrayal of Shakespearean proportions. Raman’s name had appeared on a … Continue reading
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Hatred Scales Fast
David Pinsof notes: “Hatred is designed to detect negative correlations between our biological fitness and someone else’s.” According to the The Neutralization Theory of Hatred: Hatred is triggered by cues that an individual’s existence causes fitness decrements for the hater. … Continue reading
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Why does Gemini capitalize Black and not White?
Gemini says: The distinction comes from a major shift in editorial standards that occurred largely in 2020 (following the George Floyd protests). Most major style guides—including the Associated Press (AP), The New York Times, and APA (American Psychological Association)—updated their … Continue reading
As Sports Leagues Become More Black, How Do These Cultures Change Whiles Whites Still Control Economics?
LF: “As the Premier League has become more black, it has become faster, more intense, more athletic, and I assume strategies have changed as a result. I assume the NBL and the NFl also had similar changes as they become … Continue reading