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Category Archives: Blacks
White Woman Julia Ioffe Outraged When Blacks Criticize Themselves
Julia Ioffe writes for The New Republic: Last Thursday, the rapper Nelly went on the air of his hometown hip-hop radio station, St. Louis’s Hot 104.1, to announce a college scholarship fund for local teens in honor of Michael Brown, … Continue reading
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Exotic Gay Black Lives Matter
New York Times: When I asked Garza about the most common misperception of Black Lives Matter, she pointed to a frequent social-media dig that it is “a gay movement masquerading as a black one.” Comments: * As a friend suggested, … Continue reading
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Why Are Rock Stars Fey?
Steve Sailer writes: Stars, of course, tend to be attention-seeking, which is not an extremely masculine trait. There’s a modest negative correlation between how much a star needs applause and his masculinity level. Broadway stars are the surest of getting … Continue reading
WP: This study found race matters in police shootings, but the results may surprise you
Nobody wants to make their life harder, so police understandably hesitate longer before shooting a black suspect. Washington Post: The conventional thinking about police-involved shootings, and some scientific research, has been that black suspects are more likely to be shot … Continue reading
Amazon Doesn’t Consider the Race of Its Customers. Should It?
Comments: * The same-day delivery gap. In this case, I doubt there’s any racist motive, but this is an another example of how more and better data, can actually lead to more and “better” levels of discrimination, i.e. profit-relevant profiling … Continue reading
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Israel’s Pro-Black Migrant Protest
From 2015: Israel’s Ethiopian Jews clash with police at race rally Dozens injured during anti-racism rally in Tel Aviv sparked by brutality against a black soldier. Israeli riot police have fired stun grenades and water cannon on thousands of ethnic … Continue reading
Prince, RIP
Comments to Steve Sailer: * I have to admit it was embarrassingly recently that I found out Prince was black (and I think I only found that out from one of those lists commemorating prominent African Americans that casts as … Continue reading
The Whitening Of San Francisco
Steve Sailer writes: The city of San Francisco has become a notoriously unaffordable place to live. Two-bedroom apartments in San Francisco currently average $4,126 per month, up from $1,840 in 2009. To buy a three-bedroom home would run you $1,612,500. … Continue reading
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Heather Mac Donald: Violent crime has shot up due to the nonstop war on cops waged by Shaun King, Black Lives Matter, and the ACLU
Heather Mac Donald writes: Will the anti-cop Left please figure out what it wants? For more than a decade, activists have demanded the end of proactive policing, claiming that it was racist. Pedestrian stops—otherwise known as stop, question, and frisk—were … Continue reading
When Black Children Were Denied IQ Tests in California
From 2004: SAN JOSE, Calif. – The United States may have come a long way in the fight against institutionalized racism but in California, black children are still being denied access to an important educational tool. Pamela Lewis wanted to … Continue reading