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Category Archives: Blacks
Rabbi’s White Privilege Rosh Hashanah Sermon
By Rabbi Jocee Hudson, Temple Israel of Hollywood: When I first saw the video of Sandra Bland’s arrest I started to cry. What if that were me? I was breathless, shaking, imagining the fear she must have felt, face slammed … Continue reading
Cheerios ad sparks racist comments
Published on Jun 3, 2013: “An adorable Cheerios commercial featuring an interracial couple and their daughter generated such a strong racist backlash on YouTube that the comments section had to be closed.”
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NPR: In Houston’s Gifted Program, Critics Say Blacks And Latinos Are Overlooked
NPR: Ford found that both Hispanic and black students are underrepresented in gifted programs and that black students are missing out the most. She also found that about half the seats in those programs go to higher-income students, even though … Continue reading
Latin America’s Flight From Black
Dennis Prager was thrilled the day his son David told him that he wanted to grow up to be black. Comment: Latin America has the reverse situation of North America and that is the flight from Blackness. Among Latin Americans … Continue reading
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SEE IT: High school cheerleader dance-off turns nasty as brawl erupts between rivals
NYDailyNews: A brawl erupted between two [black] high school cheerleading teams after a impromptu dance-off turned nasty. The fight between Wilmer Hutchins Blue Bells and James Madison Trojanettes drill teams in Dallas happened after the football game ended last Friday. … Continue reading
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Democrats Say Violence-Marred West Indian Day Celebration Is Still Very Safe
Comments to Steve Sailer: What an absence of leadership looks like. An annual event that attracts deadly violence every year should be canceled, period. Maintaining public safety is the number one responsibility of elected officials, especially the executive branch, to … Continue reading
NYT: Police Program Aims to Pinpoint Those Most Likely to Commit Crimes
Strange. The New York Times does not seem to allow comments on this story. New York Times: KANSAS CITY, Mo. — At the request of his probation officer, Tyrone C. Brown came to a community auditorium here in June and … Continue reading
Steve Sailer: A general rule: The whiter a black is culturally, the more ethnocentric he will be politically
Steve Sailer writes in 2007: A reader points out: “I have always been amused that Kanye West, the benign rapper with the art school background and the English professor mother, is the one into trendy political grandstanding and accusing Bush … Continue reading
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Ta-Nehisi Coates to Write Black Panther Comic for Marvel
Comments to Steve Sailer: * That actually explains a lot about him. Didn’t he grow up in a gang-infested area of Baltimore? That must have been a terribly stressful environment for a nerdy little kid who was into comic books … Continue reading
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WP: Jews in America struggled for decades to become white. Now we must give up whiteness to fight racism.
Gil Steinlauf is the senior rabbi at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, D.C. He writes: Adapted from a Rosh Hashanah sermon delivered at Adas Israel Congregation. This summer, I had a conversation with a young woman about her Jewish identity. … Continue reading