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Category Archives: Blacks
Do Blacks Find It Difficult To Get Driver’s Licenses?
Dennis Prager writes: While dining out last week, I periodically looked up at one of the television monitors to see the score of the first game of the NBA finals. As there was no sound on, the monitor was in … Continue reading
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Tagged closed captions, Dennis Prager, jim crow laws, poor grammar, republican attempts, state legislatures
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How Do You Graduate High School And Say ‘They Isn’t’?
On his radio show today, Dennis Prager talked about being in a restaurant Tuesday night while the Dallas-Miami game played silently with closed captioning across the bottom of the screen. After the game, a black Miami player was interviewed and … Continue reading
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Tagged closed captioning, Dennis Prager, miami game, miami player, radio show
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Psychology Today: Why Are Black Women Less Attractive?
This article has been pulled from the Psychology Today website. I don’t think most guys find fatties attractive, whatever their race. Jeff emails: I occasionally see some fine sisters, but they seem never to be from New York, but from … Continue reading
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Tagged body mass index, body mass index bmi, fox news, london school of economic, london school of economics, mass outrage, physical attractiveness, psychology today
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Conspiracy Theories Rife In African-American Community
In the Seventh-Day Adventist world I grew up in, conspiracy theories flourished. I find them rare in Jewish life. People who feel in charge of their lives are much less likely to believe in conspiracy theories. Happy people don’t. Here’s … Continue reading
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Tagged conspiracy theories, conspiracy theory, daniel pipes, government scientists, lone gunman, pittsburgh steelers, robert alan goldberg
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He Doesn’t Even Like Black Girls
A lot of successful Jews say they don’t like Jewish girls and a lot of successful blacks say they don’t like black girls. Both groups have about half of their members mating out. The following case reminds me of the … Continue reading
Posted in Blacks, Sex
Tagged adulation, black girls, bryant rape case, defensive lineman, jewish girls, kobe bryant rape, kobe bryant rape case, plea deal, police detectives, rape case, security person, sexual abuse case
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Affirmative Action Destroys Dignity
Here’s a report calling for more affirmative action for black doctors: “A frican Americans currently make up nearly 13% of the U.S. population but constitute only 4.4% of all U.S. physicians and surgeons, and are therefore considered an underrepresented minority … Continue reading
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Tagged affirmative action programs, african american physicians, american medical association, bell curve, classmates, fred reed column, gene expression, maintaining high standards, noblesse oblige, state politicians, university medical school, white racists
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Is America The Land Of Opportunity?
On my morning walk, I passed an angry black man rooting around in a trash can. “It’s a lie!” he yelled out at me as I tried to read the New York Times on my Blackberry. “It’s a lie that … Continue reading
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Tagged african man, african men, angry black man, land of opportunity, political economy, trash cans
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The First African American Spelling Bee
Report: Some are questioning plans to host an all African-American spelling bee in Houston this spring, saying it sends the wrong message to students. Kids from five local schools will compete in the first-of-its-kind spelling bee in May. Organizer Jacqueline … Continue reading
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Tagged american spelling, inner city schools, local schools, national spelling bee, scripps national spelling bee
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