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Category Archives: Blacks
Nation Magazine Essay Shows America Has Tired Of School Desegregation
The Nation is a left-wing magazine and yet it has produced an even-handed look at the new racial segregation in schools, eliciting comments like this: I attended Malcolm X Elementary School in Berkeley, CA in the early ’70s. I’m white, … Continue reading
Blacks Most Afflicted By HIV, Orientals Least
America’s race problems reflect similar problems around the world. According to AIDS.gov: “By race, blacks/African Americans face the most severe burden of HIV.” According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services: HIV/AIDS has had a devastating impact on … Continue reading
Jews, Blacks & Race
The things that Donald Sterling said about blacks are common. They go on all the time everywhere there are blacks. Generally speaking, blacks and Jews are at the opposite ends of the social spectrum as Jews tend to have high … Continue reading
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Jew, Black, Latino, Muslim
I’m reading the LATimes.com. The top story is about a latino, Mynor Enrique Varela, arrested for the murder of an LAPD officer. Next story is about a black guy, Everett Arnold Walker, who got “four years in state prison for … Continue reading
Black NBA Owner Held Blacks-Only Party
So what should be the repercussions? Are there different rules for blacks and whites? Is it OK for blacks to be racist and to hold blacks-only parties? Debbie Schlussel writes: In the wake of this week’s NBA proposed lifetime ban … Continue reading
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Free Markets Make Irrational Racism Expensive
Steve Sailer wrote about Jackie Robinson and company: That competitive markets make irrational bigotry expensive — not impossible, but costly — was first formally demonstrated in 1957 by University of Chicago economist Gary Becker (the 1992 Nobel Laureate), and in … Continue reading
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Blacks In The US Military
I love movies about underdogs. I’ve never seen a sports movie about an underdog that I have not loved. I’ve enjoyed many movies about blacks as underdogs in the U.S. military, including: * Glory * The Tuskagee Airmen * Platoon … Continue reading
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Neo-Confederates Have No Interest In Harming Jews
During the real confederacy, Jews were loyal citizens and played an important role in that society. Steve Sailer writes: One group of whites, however, has been immune from the blame game. Everybody knows there were no Jews in the South … Continue reading
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Former NBA Star Larry Johnson Calls For An All-Black League
Can you imagine the furor if a white called for an all-white league but when a black calls for black separatism, that is treated respectfully. Why is it OK for Jews, Asians, Latinos and Blacks to segregate themselves but not … Continue reading
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When Will Whites And Blacks Discover Their Common Humanity?
In late 1991, Dennis Prager launched the Micah Center for Ethical Monotheism. He wrote then: The purpose of the activist educational center is to have “a place of activity” devoted to his life’s mission of spreading ethical monotheism through every … Continue reading
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