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Category Archives: Blacks
Do Blacks Want To Be Policed By Whites?
Different groups tend to have different norms, different evolutionary group strategies, and so when you have diversity, you have conflict. Comments to Steve Sailer: * Ultimately the black community does not want to be policed. We do hear about blacks … Continue reading
Steve Sailer: White House Denounces FBI for Doubting the Narratives
Steve Sailer writes: That’s what happened in the 1960s. Liberals like the Warren Court and the Lindsay Administration in NYC took control of the criminal justice Narrative, blacks acted out, and the police retreated to the donut shop. Here’s a … Continue reading
The Myth of Criminal-Justice Racism
Earlier this week, Heather Mac Donald testified on criminal justice and the deincarceration movement before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Her opening statement follows. Chairman Grassley, Ranking Member Leahy, and members of the Committee, my name is Heather Mac Donald. I … Continue reading
Steve Sailer: Professor of Ethics Convicted of Seducing Mentally Retarded Patient
Steve writes: “Forty years sounds pretty harsh for somebody being an overly true believer in today’s conventional wisdom. There is a lot of talk about “over-incarceration,” much of it soft-headed. But this would seem like an example where the kind … Continue reading
WP: Donald Trump: No apology for questioning Ben Carson’s Seventh-day Adventist faith
As an ex-Seventh-Day Adventist, I’m loving my former religion’s time in the spotlight. In my experience, ex-Seventh-Day Adventists tend to have a visceral hatred for the SDA church, much like ex-Catholics have for the Catholic church. I’d like to think … Continue reading
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Can California Be Saved?
Comment: “Victor Davis Hanson strikes me as someone who is stuck in a political no man’s land, somewhere between straight cuckservatism and soft nationalism. This is why his writings about his native and home state are such a maddening mix … Continue reading
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NYT: Baltimore Struggles To Heal
I lived in Baltimore during the summer of 1980. Almost every day, I spent hours in the local public library. A naive Seventh-Day Adventist, I asked to join in various black basketball games in the playground outside and was told … Continue reading
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Education Professor: ‘Forced busing’ didn’t fail. Desegregation is the best way to improve our schools.
Comments at Washington Post: * Can we start with your kids, professor? * Shorter Version: Society wasn’t failed by liberal policies, liberal policies were failed by an unworthy society! * No sane mayor or city council, no matter how liberal, … Continue reading
The Sorrowful Ballad Of Fat White Chicks
Richard B. Spencer: #Adele sings the sorrowful ballad of fat White women everywhere who’ve taken in Black men and been abandoned.
WP: What happened to the ‘hero mom’ of Baltimore’s riots?
Washington Post: BALTIMORE — The most famous mom in Baltimore is uneasy. It is noon on a Wednesday, and she is six hours into her shift driving addicts from a halfway house to a treatment center. She has only made … Continue reading
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