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Category Archives: Blacks
No More Excuses For Black Underachievement
Will all those leftists who call America a racist nation apologize now that Americans have elected Barack Obama president? I doubt it. From the WSJ: Barack Obama’s election as the first black U.S. president promises to usher in a new … Continue reading
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Tagged assembly line worker, head football coaches, mahoning county ohio, shelby steele, television screens, virginia union university
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Gays Vs. Blacks
According to this thread, some gay protesters against the passage of Proposition 8 have been using the epithet "nigger." Blacks voted overwhelmingly to define marriage as between a man and a woman. Here’s more: (UPDATE Truth Wins Out’s Wayne Besen … Continue reading
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Tagged dan savage, gay protesters, kathryn kolbert, marriage equality, truth wins out, wayne besen
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Should The Giants Tighten The Noose Around Plaxico’s Neck?
From the New York Daily News: An outraged Rev. Al Sharpton is calling for the New York Post to take immediate action to address a column in Monday’s editions that he called "blatant racism" and a "media lynching." Post columnist … Continue reading
Posted in Blacks, Football, Race
Tagged american football player, hanging noose, plaxico burress, rev al sharpton, tom coughlin, verbal reflection
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What Happened To Our Country?
Joe Queenan writes: This, after all, is a country where strapping young men take up two seats on the subway while pregnant women and the elderly cling to the overhead straps for dear life. This is a country where parents … Continue reading
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Tagged african american culture, country joe, dear life, golf swing, hispanic man, hispanic woman, joe queenan, stand ups, teacher night
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Blacks Score 20% Lower On SATs
From the WSJ: High-school students’ performance on SAT college-entrance exams stalled, and the gap widened between low-scoring minority groups and the overall population, raising questions about the quality of teaching in U.S. schools. Average scores for the class of 2008 … Continue reading
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Tagged african american students, college entrance exams, high school students, level math, math scores, reading score
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Life In Harlem
By Susan Crain Bakos .A thug named Mykul—all 6-foot-5-inches and 250 pounds of him—knocked me, a 5-foot-2, 120-pound “grammy” to three, down to the concrete. I was in front of St. Nick’s Pub, at 10:30 on a Monday night this … Continue reading
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Tagged 6 foot 5, little pot, nice boys, nypress, rodney dangerfield, rsquo, thug life
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I Don’t Feel Like I’ve Done Enough To Bolster The Self-Esteem Of Gay Black Men
Out for a drive this evening, I listened to a heart-breaking segment on NPR about the low self-esteem of young gay black men. They say that when they are out with their own people, they are often called negative names. … Continue reading
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Tagged gay black men, low self esteem, negative names, orthodox jews, transmission of hiv
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