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Category Archives: Blacks
Muhammad Ali’s IQ
From VDARE: A few thoughts apropos of Steve Sailer’s post, which included Muhammad Ali’s IQ, 75 and linked to Phillippe Rushton’s piece, which explained how mystified college professors are when seemingly engaged, prepared, intelligent, garrulous and entertaining black students fail … Continue reading
Muhammad Ali’s complicated relationship with the Jews
How can any gentile proud of his racial, national or religious identity not have ambivalence and negative feelings about Jews? How can any Jew proud of his Jewish identity not have ambivalence about goyim? The Nation of Islam is a … Continue reading
Black Is Beautiful
From the Wikipedia entry on social identity theory: The “black is beautiful” movement and the associated African American embrace of African hairdos (like afros), culture, traditions, and music was provided by Tajfel and colleagues as an example of the cognitive … Continue reading
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Many reluctantly choose private schools
Link: Other parents told The Chronicle they don’t want their children to be around students who wear “saggy pants” or who “curse on Muni” or who may be “rotten apples.” A few said they can see big differences between public … Continue reading
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WP: The surprisingly petty things that people shot each over last month
According to the Washington Post: “Average Americans routinely shoot each other over minor annoyances, data show.” Yeah, it’s those gun-crazy East Asians who are always shooting people over trivial annoyances. Just your average Americans. Washington Post: 5,484. That’s the number … Continue reading
Parents-of-four whose son fell into zoo enclosure sparking killing of Harambe the gorilla as it emerges father has a lengthy criminal history – including kidnap and drug trafficking
Daily Mail: Deonne Dickerson and Michelle Gregg have been heavily criticized Harambe was fatally shot after their four-year-old boy crawled past a railing and fell 15ft into the gorilla exhibit moat Harambe was shot dead after dragging the boy violently … Continue reading
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The New York Times uses Cincinnati shooting to highlight black-on-black violence in U.S.
Report. Comment: Through great good luck, the evil cop who shot the Noble Son of Obama was also black. The totally innnocent yoot, who was only doing the bank robbery ti buy more physics books, did pull the trigger on … Continue reading
Gorilla Lives Matter
A black mother doesn’t watch her kid and as a result, a gorilla is dead. NYT: Zoo’s Killing of Gorilla Holding a Boy Prompts Outrage It seemed like quick thinking when the Cincinnati Zoo shot to death a gorilla that … Continue reading
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Black Americans and Israel
Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein writes: In an atmosphere of growing racial tension and facing up to pockets of racism within our own community, it is great to see some people doing something about both problems. No strangers to creating kiddush Hashem, … Continue reading
Blacks & Gentrification
Gentrification means a neighborhood is becoming more white. Steve Sailer writes: … blacks acquired a number of close-in neighborhoods — Harlem, most of Washington DC, the south lakefront of Chicago, a huge swathe of Los Angeles between the beach and … Continue reading