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Category Archives: Blacks
100% Black = Diverse
Comments at Steve Sailer: * Growing up I was told the wasps in the NY financial world wouldn’t hire Jews. A Jew couldn’t get a job a JP Morgan etc. So the Jews just got up and started their own … Continue reading
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Three Time National Champion Football Coach Darrell Royal Was No Leader On Racial Integration
Over the weekend, I watched a couple of movies (My All-American and The Story of Darrell Royal) about University of Texas football coach Darrell Royal and was struck that all of his national championship teams were all-white. The Austin Chronicle … Continue reading
Never Mind the Bodies, SPLC Says: “Black Lives Matter Is Not a Hate Group”
Steve Sailer writes: As we’ve seen from recent murder statistics, BLM activism closely correlates with subsequent increases in the number of homicides. Never mind the dead bodies, however, because the Southern Poverty Law Center is here to define from first … Continue reading
Lessons Of Ferguson
Comment: If you steal some cigarillos from a store, then don’t walk around holding them openly in your hand. If you do walk around holding them openly in your hand, then don’t walk in the middle of the street. If … Continue reading
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‘J’ouvert, the annual all-night musical street party that precedes the Caribbean Day Parade, is going to be heavily policed’
Comment: —–Violence “has hijacked the celebration of the Caribbean culture,” Adams said. “We want to free the community and that culture from that violence.”—– Take out the violence and what is left in Caribbean culture? It’s funny. Blacks hate cops. … Continue reading
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The Rise of Racial Alchemy
Robert Weissberg writes: Since the 1960s Washington has launched countless programs in what might be characterized as “racial alchemy” whose purpose is to make blacks nearly identical to whites in income, educational achievement, vocational status, being law abiding, eschewing welfare … Continue reading
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ESPN: Carmelo Anthony Bringing social discourse back into the conversation
Thank God for Carmelo Anthony bringing social discourse back into the conversation, whatever that means but I am sure it is good. More diversity right? J.A. Adande writes: For Anthony, there is no trace the steps of his journey, no … Continue reading
NYT: Bratton, Who Shaped an Era in Policing, Tries to Navigate a Racial Divide
New York Times: As he signals the end of his tenure as New York City police commissioner, William J. Bratton is attempting perhaps his most difficult task: tackling mistrust between officers and minority communities. Good luck with that. There’s no … Continue reading
Congressman who once feared Guam could capsize compares Jewish settlers to ‘termites’
FoxNews: A Democratic member of the House Armed Services Committee compared Jewish Israeli settlers to termites on Monday while speaking at an event sponsored by an anti-Israel organization that supports boycotts of the Jewish state. Rep. Hank Johnson, D- Ga., … Continue reading
Blacks & Crime
People with high IQs commit fewer crimes than people with low IQs. They have more empathy (which depends on the ability for abstract thought to put yourself in the place of others) and they see the future more clearly. Joe … Continue reading