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Category Archives: Blacks
You Can’t Close The IQ Gap Between Races
Casey: “I don’t understand the obsession with “the achievement gap.” Wouldn’t it serve everyone best to make sure our smartest students are in accelerated classes with other smart kids so they can eventually build great things? If we insist on … Continue reading
LAT: New L.A. police commissioner – the board’s only black man – has a to-do list
He looks so black! From the Los Angeles Times: Matt Johnson remembers sitting on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike on a cold December day, his hands cuffed behind his back, watching a group of white police officers search … Continue reading
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Turning The First World Into The Third World
Comments to Steve Sailer: * I knew a guy from India who considers himself sort of a white nationalist. He said white people are the only people who created a decent country to live in. He said the wrong people … Continue reading
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STUDY: 482 EXTRA MURDER VICTIMS AMID OBAMA’S ANTI-COP CAMPAIGN
From Breitbart: Only 482 extra Americans have been shot, stabbed, clubbed or kicked to death in 59 large cities since President Barack Obama launched his media-pumped campaign to delegitimize and federalize state and local police forces, according to an new … Continue reading
NYT: Body Blow on Texas Referee Shakes School and Sport
The New York Times article does not mention that the players who hit the referee were latino, and their assistant coach who encouraged them to do it, was black, and the referee was white. Among the students, parents and faculty … Continue reading
Swedish handball team women flash gang signs with Usain Bolt
Source: Now I know some (most) of you looking at this pic felt a blood pressure rise or, at the least, a stirring of disgust. That’s perfectly natural. Seeing women of your race (or tribe, or family) bang an outsider … Continue reading
The Myth Of Black Criminality?
Comments to Steve Sailer: * West Virginia is the 2nd poorest state in the nation by median income. It ranks 32nd in homicide rate (i.e. only 18 states are safer). It’s homicide rate of 3.0 per 100,000 is only barely … Continue reading
KAY S. HYMOWITZ: Did Mass Incarceration Destroy the Black Family?
From City Journal: However, if the War on Drugs played any role in shaping the contemporary black family, it’s almost impossible to decipher from the data. Despite Nixon’s early 1970s call to arms, the War on Drugs didn’t lead to … Continue reading
Who Are The Leading Black Intellectuals?
Economists Tom Sowell and Walter Williams come to my mind. Comments to Steve Sailer: * Who, among black intellectuals, would still qualify as an intellectual if he were white? McWhorter is the only one I can think of, although I’m … Continue reading
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For People Who Want To Be Intellectuals But Can’t Quite Cut It
Comments to Steve Sailer: * I have an old friend who once chatted with me about whether there could be institutions set up for people who want to be intellectuals but just aren’t up to it. Somewhere they could shelter … Continue reading
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