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Category Archives: Blacks
Without Bias
On June 19, 1986, the second pick of the NBA draft that year, Len Bias, died of a cocaine overdose. I remember hearing the news. I worked as a reporter at the time for KAHI/KHYL radio in Auburn & Sacramento. … Continue reading
It’s Still About The Country Clubs
From comments to Steve Sailer: * You don’t see many blacks being welcomed into synagogues, or many Gentiles welcomed into the Jews only country clubs that surround New York City. * The smart way, I assume, to keep non-Whites out: … Continue reading
Would You Want To Trust Your NFL Franchise To A Black Quarterback?
Quarterbacks tend to be the most highly paid position in the NFL because the play of your starting quarterback, more than anything else, will usually determine how well your team does. NFL contracts typically run for many years so a … Continue reading
The Insights Of Comic Bill Burr
From his 2012 show on Netflix, You People Are All The Same. Bill: Only white people get face lifts, because black people know about lotion. That’s why you’ve got to hang out with everybody. There’s too much information in the … Continue reading
WP: The paradox of oil- and gas-rich African nations: Plenty of natural resources, but still in need
The Washington Post reports: In her ongoing work about daily life in Angola, Ghana and Kenya, among other countries affected by the oil and gas activities, photographer Nicola Sacco has sought to understand the impact on youths and their local … Continue reading
LAT: ‘Ezell Ford had ‘muzzle imprint’ from close-range shot’
I applaud the Los Angeles Times for keeping its focus on the Narrative: The autopsy of Ezell Ford, a mentally ill black man killed by police in South Los Angeles in August, shows he was shot three times — once … Continue reading
Jews Mastering The World
From The Jew Accused: Three Anti-Semitic Affairs (Dreyfus, Beilis, Frank) 1894-1915 by academic Albert S. Lindemann: Observers as different as Winston Churchill and Theodore Herzl firmly believed that international Jewry exercised enormous power in international relations. Even figures who passed … Continue reading
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Snitches Get Stitches
According to the Urban Dictionary, this phrase is “an old piece of advice that still rings true today..indicating that somebody who snitches on somebody else shall reap the fit punishment.” From the Los Angeles Times Nov. 26, 2014: This witness … Continue reading
NYT: ‘For Recent Black College Graduates, a Tougher Road to Employment’
The New York Times reports: College graduates have survived both the recession and ho-hum recovery far better than those without a degree, but blacks who finished four years of college are suffering from unemployment rates that are painfully high compared … Continue reading
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German Nationalist Marches Grow
REPORT: “The German PEGIDA movement held its largest meeting yet last night to protest what they call the ‘Islamisation of the Western World’, despite stiff opposition from all sections of Germany’s elite including politicians, media, and the arts.” I read … Continue reading