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Category Archives: Blacks
Death By Lightning Is The Latest Example of Hollywood’s ‘Magic Negro’ Archetype
LF: “In the Netflix series Death by Lightning, they present a black doctor as the first doctor to treat President Garfield after he’s been shot, he then warns the later arriving incompetent white doctor about sepsis. Is this true?” ChatGPT: … Continue reading
Will Reparations Improve Black-White Relations?
From The FT: “In 2019, Evanston, Illinois — a university town of 78,000 outside Chicago — became the first US municipality to set up a $10mn reparations fund to compensate African Americans for residential racism. From 1919 to 1969, most … Continue reading
Where Is The Biggest Gap Between What People Say Publicly Vs Privately?
Jeffrey Hart wrote in his 2005 book: ‘The Making of the American Conservative Mind: National Review and Its Times’ (2005): Perhaps James Burnham was in an excessively pessimistic mood when he remarked to me once that the black problem “probably … Continue reading
Post: Car Salesmen, Different Races, Different Prices
James Joyner writes: Malcolm Gladwell highlights a long-running dispute (of which I had been previously unaware) between himself and Steve Sailer over what it means that car dealers quote higher prices to black (and women) customers than to comparable white … Continue reading
WP: In wake of Ralph Yarl shooting, Black teens face fear and resignation (4-23-23)
01:00 WP: In wake of Ralph Yarl shooting, Black teens face fear and resignation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/23/ralph-yarl-shooting-black-teens-fear/ 12:00 Jason Kessler steps away from political activism 22:00 The role of money in my life 26:00 Ethan Ralph update 30:00 Pittsburgh Jews Praised For … Continue reading
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WP: Robert Moses and the saga of the racist parkway bridges
I’ve been listening to the audio book The Power Broker (1974) by Robert Caro about Robert Moses. According to Wikipedia: In later years a more positive view of Moses’ career has emerged, in explicit reaction to his portrayal in The … Continue reading
New York Times Op/Ed Blesses Racial Segregation (11-11-22)
01:00 Tucker Carlson: Construction of Obama’s temple was halted 05:00 Why ‘Atlanta’ Is the Blackest Show Ever, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/opinion/atlanta-finale.html 07:00 Who is Toure? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour%C3%A9_(journalist) 18:40 Millenial Woes in the Casino, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRO_1mkqmoU 24:00 MOJO & TESTOSTERONE : Why Men MUST Keep Moving … Continue reading
Raven Rock: the story of the U.S. Government’s secret plan to save itself-while the rest of us die
Here are some highlights from this 2017 book by Garrett M. Graff: * Beyond the physical infrastructure, a major concern in the national evacuation plans was precisely how smoothly those “host areas” would absorb their new residents. Racial tensions were … Continue reading
Elite v Popular Discourse on Crime & Race & Subway shooter (4-13-22)
00:00 Brooklyn shooting suspect Frank James facing terror-related charges after calling Crime Stoppers on himself, https://nypost.com/2022/04/13/brooklyn-shooting-suspect-frank-james-in-police-custody/ 35:00 Elliott Blatt joins 37:30 Ethan Ralph’s upcoming corn harvest 41:00 With Mr Metokurs health problems, when he appears he’s like Elvis 49:00 Maybe … Continue reading
Explaining away crime: The race narrative in American sociology and ethical theory
Stephen Turner writes in 2020: Rates of crime for Blacks in the United States in the post-slavery era have always been high relative to Whites. But explaining, or minimizing, this fact faces a major problem: individual excuses for bad acts … Continue reading