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Category Archives: Blacks
Blacks Default On Their Debts, Whites To Blame
Summary: “Blacks defaulting on their debts is proof of white racism, in order to fix it we need more affirmative action and public housing in order to fix it.” Link: …a ProPublica investigation found massive racial disparities in debt collection … Continue reading
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The Strange Case of Anna Stubblefield
Why does it feel like there are a disproportionate number of Jews in every form of societal insanity (as well as brilliance)? Oy. Is this lady good for the Jews? From the New York Times: She told the family of … Continue reading
NYT: Fragile Baltimore Struggles to Heal After Deadly Police Encounters
Commenters at the NYTimes.com refuse to follow the narrative: * Residents, angry and frightened, accuse the police of standing down and ignoring crime. OMG make up your minds! Do you want the police to arrest people or do you want … Continue reading
WP: Three women robbed in Capitol Hill area by groups of teens, police say
From VDARE: The Washington Post proves again that the more things change, the more they stay the same. The capital’s paper of record gave readers a story about teens and robberies on Capitol Hill, but doesn’t say what the suspects … Continue reading
NYT: How can employers confront the bias those with African-American names face in the job market?
From the NYT comments: * African Americans, have, unwittingly created their own unique problem. Naming of black children with converged names such Deshong, Kenisha, et. al., is desirable by blacks for many reason but it is seen as unnecessary and … Continue reading
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Innocent Black Guy Gets Blamed, Shot, Killed For Israel Terror Attack
Los Angeles Times: “Among the more seriously injured was an Eritrean man who was apparently mistaken for a terrorist. Authorities said the man was shot by a guard and then beaten by an angry mob. Israeli news reports described him … Continue reading
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Racial Slur Gets White Cricketer Banned For Life
REPORT: Controversial batsman Mark Vermeulen has been banned from all cricket by Zimbabwe Cricket for engaging in a racist tirade on social media site Facebook in which he denigrated black Zimbabweans by referring them as “apes”. In a statement released … Continue reading
The Race Bowl
Comments to Steve Sailer: * The New England Patriots team roster is still majority black. The whitest teams in the NFL are mostly black, even though whites heavily outnumber blacks in America. I think it would be far more fascinating … Continue reading
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NYT: Police Killings of Blacks: What the Data Says
From the New York Times: As an economist who has studied racial discrimination, I’ve begun to look at these deaths from a different angle. There is ample statistical evidence of large and persistent racial bias in other areas — from … Continue reading
WP: Tough Being Black In DC
Comments at the WashingtonPost.com website: * So when blacks left DC for PG County, is it racist that the crime rates in PG went up? Or is just simply because – not ALL blacks – but certainly the thug blacks … Continue reading
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