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Category Archives: Blacks
A West Coast Reader Has An Explanation For The Black-White “Sleep Gap”—Differential Noise Levels
VDARE: Re: Steve Sailer’s post Racism Never Sleeps: “The Black-White Sleep Gap: An Unexpected Challenge in the Quest for Racial Justice” From: A West Coast Reader [Email her] I slept eleven hours last night, at home, because I was up … Continue reading
The Brilliance Of Obama’s 2008 Race Speech
Charles Murray writes for NRO’s The Corner in 2008: “I read the various posts here on “The Corner,” mostly pretty ho-hum or critical about Obama’s speech. Then I figured I’d better read the text (I tried to find a video … Continue reading
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Towards An Honest Discussion About Race
Steve Sailer writes: I have found that, in the African-American oral tradition, if the words are enunciated eloquently enough, no one examines the meaning for definitive truth. —Biracial novelist Mat Johnson, Loving Day, 2015 America’s foremost public intellectual, Ta-Nehisi Coates, … Continue reading
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Black, Brown, and Beyond: Exploring Issues of Race and Color within our LA Community
Rav Yosef Kanefsky (the most left-wing Orthodox rabbi on the West Coast) emails his list: Dear friends, Race relations has been a particularly painful theme in our country’s narrative, and continues to be so right up to today. From Ferguson … Continue reading
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The Gap In Test Scores Is Bigger In Blue States
Steve Sailer writes: – Although it’s often assumed that The Gap is due to racism, it tends to be bigger in blue Democratic states. – Gentrifying Washington DC now has enough white children to get a white NAEP score. Sure … Continue reading
Racism Never Sleeps
Steve Sailer writes: My impression is that individual sleep patterns are pretty idiosyncratic, so I’m not aware of strong racial differences. In theory, however, it seems possible that people whose ancestors evolved in tropical climates where only mad dogs and … Continue reading
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Sources: Cowboys RB Joseph Randle bolts Valley Ranch after demotion, is expected to return Thursday
REPORT: “This is the second time in as many seasons that a Cowboys player has left Valley Ranch after a demotion. In September 2014, cornerback Morris Claiborne skipped a practice.” What type of thin-skinned people leave practice because they can’t … Continue reading
The Ferguson Effect
Mike McDaniel writes: The President’s spokesliar, Josh Earnest, following a rather convincing—and no doubt, embarrassing–pair of statements by FBI director James Comey about the chilling of the “Ferguson Effect” on our nation’s police, proclaimed that there is no evidence of … Continue reading
WP: Terri Upshaw says she had to choose between family and love
Washington Post: She talks about being raised in the upper-middle-class Buich family, who owned San Francisco’s famed Tadich Grill. She calls her upbringing strict, loving and marked by expressed disdain for people who weren’t white or Christian. A fellow might … Continue reading