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Category Archives: Blacks
America’s Melting Pot
I never ate pizza until the summer of 1980, when I was 14 and we were eating out. I loved it. It was regarded as a naughty dish by my parents because it was too rich. We never had pizza … Continue reading
R. Yitzhok Alderstein: ‘What I Learned at the Ulmer Institute Inaugural’
Rabbi Adlerstein writes: Decades ago, too long ago for most of us to remember, Jews and African-Americans enjoyed a close strategic alliance. The marriage broke up horribly. Blacks felt that they had been dealt with paternalistically, and also resented a … Continue reading
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Another Hate Hoax
Comments: * Another hate hoax, this time at DePaul University in Chicago. Here is how the school’s officials describe the noose that was found on campus, “The university sent out an e-mail alert to students, notifying them of the “horrific … Continue reading
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Black Girl: Why I had to escape my Ivy League life and disappear
New York Post: Nayla Kidd was an engineering student at Columbia University when reports that she had gone missing went viral. She was found perfectly healthy nearly two weeks later, only telling police she wanted to “start fresh.” But the … Continue reading
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Bryce Dejean-Jones, a former Taft High and USC basketball player, is fatally shot
People get shot when they do stupid things. I suspect that if he had been married to the mother of this child, he would not have been shot. Los Angeles Times: New Orleans Pelicans guard Bryce Dejean-Jones was fatally shot … Continue reading
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Who Needs Love When You’ve Got Willie Brown?
From San Francisco Magazine: Lauren Smiley | Photo: Aya Brackett and Drew Altizer | November 28, 2013 Ten years a trophy girlfriend—but still willing to work! Sonya Molodetskaya—Russian refugee, aspiring boutique owner, mostly absentee immigrant rights commissioner, and decade-long lady … Continue reading
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The end of Baylor’s Art Briles
ESPN: “Art Briles has talked about his “nonjudgmental” program that wanted “mavericks” and prided itself on giving second chances. That attitude, mixed with indifference toward victims, did him in.” How do you think he turned around Baylor’s football program? By … Continue reading
17 Blacks Guys Charged In Death Of One White Girl
NEWS: The FBI has rounded up 17 black gang members that were in connection with the murder of Jessica Chambers in Mississippi. She was a white 19 year old girl that had disappeared from a gas station while she was … Continue reading
The War Over Language
Comments at Steve Sailer: * In my lifetime, the politically correct term for black people has changed maybe four or five times, from colored people to Negroes to black to African-American to people of color (which is good but colored … Continue reading
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