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Category Archives: Blacks
What Do Liberia And Ferguson Have In Common?
The situation in Liberia sounds similar to the riots in Ferguson, but how do you blame the unrest in Libera on white racism? The New York Times reports: Liberia’s halting efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak spreading across parts of … Continue reading
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Blacks Rethink Integration
The black author of the following essay says blacks live in their own culture and need their own education system. Daisy M. Jenkins writes: Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, and with many schools being resegregated, we may … Continue reading
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Malik Zulu Shabazz – Good For The Jews?
I can’t imagine anyone in polite society asking if a person or thing or idea is good for whites. Growing up as a WASP, I never heard anyone ask if something was good for Protestants. Victor Davis Hanson writes: “It … Continue reading
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Are Americans Afraid Of Blacks?
Black journalist Erin Aubry Kaplan writes for the Los Angeles Times: For much of our history it’s been impractical, virtually impossible and often illegal to regard blacks as people, black men especially. How to think first of Michael Brown’s welfare, … Continue reading
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Masters Of Sex TV Show
In tonight’s edition, season two, episode six, the Dr. William Masters character tries to stop a damaging profile of himself by a black newspaper by telling the editor a falsehood, that the initial results of his survey of negro sexuality … Continue reading
Are Police Anti-Male?
On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: “Are black males disproportionately involved [in crime]? “All we’re told is how many black men are in prison. Are they in prison because they are black or because they committed a crime?” … Continue reading
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WP: ‘Ferguson’s Riots Can Happen Anywhere’
Uh no, they would be unlikely to happen in white and oriental areas. Washington Post: “SWAT teams and angry protesters clashed in a small St. Louis suburb for a third day Tuesday, following the death of unarmed black teenager Michael … Continue reading
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Is White Racism The Biggest Problem Blacks Face?
From Human Events: In New York from January to June 2008, 83 percent of all gun assailants were black, according to witnesses and victims, though blacks were only 24 percent of the population. Blacks and Hispanics together accounted for 98 … Continue reading
NYT: After Shooting, a Twitter Hashtag Questions Portrayal of Blacks
What if the stereotype that blacks are more criminally violent than other races is true? What if it is true around the world? Nowhere in this story does it mention that every country in the world in which they have … Continue reading
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WP: ‘Why the riots in St. Louis, had little to do with St. Louis’
Washington Post: “St. Louis doesn’t riot. That has long been part of the city’s lore.” OK, but Sunday night it did. I wonder why. Hmm, might it have something to do with the characteristics of a population? The riots occurred … Continue reading
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