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Category Archives: Blacks
Steve Sailer: College Football Team Fires University President
Chaim Amalek: “I love everything about this story. Also, that this university president proved to be so weak willed that he let himself be driven out under these circumstances tells us that his departure is no great loss for anyone … Continue reading
Steve Sailer: The Disappearing Federal Homicide Offenders Racial Ratio
Steve Sailer writes: Back in the previous decade, you could look up on the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics website a convenient graph in HTML form of “homicide offending” trends over time. But the Obama Administration stopped maintaining that website … Continue reading
WEHT To The Black-Jewish Alliance?
American Jewish historian Peter Novick writes in his book The Holocaust in American Life: …there was never much of a black-Jewish alliance on the communal or organizational level. There were a great many individual Jews who over the years had … Continue reading
Blacks Sleep Less Than Whites
Peter Frost writes: African Americans sleep on average almost an hour less than do Euro Americans. The two groups have mean sleep times of 6.05 hours and 6.85 hours. This finding has recently been discussed by Brian Resnick in National … Continue reading
Media reaction: Sickening, disgusting and vile; Greg Hardy should never play another down
I’ve seen the pictures. I don’t find them the least shocking. Men do this to each other every football game. They consent to participate in a physical struggle. This woman similarly consented to get into a dangerous struggle. Sportswriters are … Continue reading
Google Pumps $2.35 Million Into Racial Justice Projects, Including #BlackLivesMatter Video App
Comments: * The $2.35 will evaporate without a trace, having done nothing nor moved the needle one iota. The professional ‘helpers’ working on behalf of the benighted will have some paydays ahead of them, that’s about it. I suppose the … Continue reading
LAT: Why some LAUSD teachers are balking at a new approach to discipline problems
As we all know, black kids suffer from too much discipline in their lives. Los Angeles Times: The district moved to ban suspensions amid national concern that they imperil academic achievement and disproportionately affect minorities, particularly African Americans. But many … Continue reading
Yale’s Halloween Costume Crisis
Comments to Steve Sailer: * I suggest that these students would benefit from experiencing a Chinese practice from the time of the Cultural Revolution. Several years of hard labour in a rural setting. * Young kids just love censorship. It’s … Continue reading
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Steve Sailer: The NYT’s Negro Removal Project of 2015 Grinds on
Steve Sailer writes: The New York Times continues its campaign to grease the skids under urban blacks so that there is nothing to dissuade inner city blacks from moving out to various nowheresvilles, such as Inkster, MI… Black cops with … Continue reading
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The Costly War on Painful Education
Robert Weisberg writes: Pain is inescapably part of life and a pre-requisite to accomplishment (“no pain, no gain”). But, that said, fortunes await those who can promise all the benefits sans any pain—think miracle weight loss pills. Most of these … Continue reading