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Category Archives: Blacks
America’s Diminishing Social Capital
David Brooks gets it: Sitting out the anthem takes place in the context of looming post-nationalism. When we sing the national anthem, we’re not commenting on the state of America. We’re fortifying our foundational creed. We’re expressing gratitude for our … Continue reading
Does religion make blacks and Hispanics better citizens?
F.C. Stoughton writes: W. Bradford Wilcox and Nicholas H. Wolfinger, Soul Mates: Religion, Sex, Love, and Marriage among African Americans and Latinos, Oxford University Press, 2016, 248 pp., $27.95. Soul Mates, by academic sociologists W. Bradford Wilcox and Nicholas H. … Continue reading
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Uncovering White Racism
Robert Weissberg writes: Hillary Clinton’s “deplorable” speech has yet again raised the issue of whether countless white Americans are “racists.” Of course, given the term’s inherently fuzzy quality, who can authoritatively say for sure? But, imprecision acknowledged, it is important … Continue reading
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Kaepernick isn’t divisive. Really?
Lowell Cohn writes: The media has been writing and saying with great certainly that Kaepernick is not creating a division on the team. How exactly does the media know? After the Monday night win, Kaepernick held forth to reporters on … Continue reading
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The Guardian: ‘A welcome rebuke to dead white men’: The Smithsonian’s African American museum finally arrives
Comments at Steve Sailer: * “A century in the making” …. and that’s all they could come up with? * I guarantee that in a couple of years, there will be various articles wondering why blacks aren’t interested in going … Continue reading
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61-YEAR-OLD WOMAN YANKED FROM WHEELCHAIR, BEATEN TO DEATH IN COMPTON
I blame white racism. COMPTON, Calif. (KABC) — Investigators are asking for witnesses to come forward to help solve the murder of a 61-year-old woman, who authorities say was beaten to death in a Compton park. Detectives say Patricia Davis … Continue reading
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NYT: ‘The National Museum of African American History and Culture is a powerful declaration: The black story is as central to the country’s narrative as any other.’
This looks fabulous! I can’t wait to visit. How exciting! By The New York Times: I, Too, Sing America The museum confronts head-on America’s history of slavery and racial oppression. Yet, while memorializing suffering, the museum wants even the bleakest … Continue reading
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Black Women Helped Land A Man On The Moon
Comment: You may think that America got to the moon thanks to Wernher von Braun and his fellow Nazi war criminals but it fact it was black women who did it. I learned this in the Washington Post today so … Continue reading
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ESPN: “Baseball — It’s a White Man’s Game by Design”
Steve Sailer writes: …the Moneyball revolution has led to the hiring for front office jobs of a lot more guys who look like Jonah Hill than guys who look like Howard Bryant. But Mr. Bryant’s anger at all the Jonah … Continue reading
When Alexander Hamilton High School (90035) Was Nice
In 1965, Hamilton High School was 60% white but the non-whites didn’t act disruptively. Then you had the Watts Riots in August of 1965 and the non-white kids at Hamilton took their cues from their elders and became increasingly violent … Continue reading