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Category Archives: Blacks
The Long Crusade: Profiles in Education Reform, 1967-2014 by Raymond Wolters
I interview historian Raymond Wolters Tuesday evening. He is the author of The Burden of Brown: Thirty Years of School Desegregation (1984), Du Bois and His Rivals (2005), The New Negro on Campus: Black College Rebellions of the 1920s (1975), … Continue reading
Straight Outta Pico
Link. Miriam Lilian D Or I am looking forward to someday watching “Straight Outta Pico, the Luke Ford story”. I hope I’m played by Catherine Zeta Jones. Chaim Amalek So they have NWA, and whites have Wagner. Is there really … Continue reading
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The Civil Rights Revolution
Paul Johnson writes in his book Modern Times: But voting could not equalize black and white incomes. Nor could the huge and increasing sums of Federal money which John- son poured into the black ‘problem’. The more progress made, the … Continue reading
LAT: 50 YEARS AFTER WATTS: ‘THERE IS STILL A CRISIS IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY’
Los Angeles Times: Farajii Muhammad, 36, an activist and radio host in Baltimore, also draws connections between this moment of #BlackLivesMatter protest and the time when people shouted “Burn, baby, burn.” Yes, he acknowledges, black people have made tremendous strides, … Continue reading
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NYT: A Year After Ferguson, Housing Segregation Defies Tools to Erase It
New York Times: Can the barriers that keep blacks out of prosperous, mostly white communities be toppled? Data suggests that they often cannot. By several measures, the St. Louis region remains among the most segregated places in the country, where … Continue reading
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Youtube Bans Colin Flaherty
From WND: The site, which recently suspended WND’s YouTube channel for featuring Mike Huckabee’s comments on transsexuals, now has suspended the channel of an investigative reporter for showing videos that featured black on white crime. Colin Flaherty, author of “White … Continue reading
The value of Colin Flaherty
Ben Cohen writes: Reform is an ambiguous word, open to interpretation. Groups that support amnesty for illegal aliens and groups opposed to amnesty for illegal aliens both claim to support reform; one man’s reform is another man’s folly. This September, … Continue reading
Colin Flaherty vs. YouTube
By Colin Flaherty YouTube sent me an email the other day saying it was putting me on notice for violating its Terms of Service and that I would not be allowed to post new videos for two weeks. The reason: … Continue reading
Confessions Of A Public Defender II
Chateau Heartiste: …the buzzy AmRen article titled “Confessions of a Public Defender” is a harrowing read, and provokes some illicit thought about where we are heading demographically. The impression one gets from this titillating exposure to the minds and values … Continue reading
The Destructive Clergy Flowing From R. Avi Weiss’s Yeshivot
I notice that many of the Orthodox Jewish clergy joining the “Black Lives Matter” campaign come from the yeshivot of R. Avi Weiss, such as Chovevei Torah and Yeshivat Maharat. Why I Was Arrested in St. Louis August 13, 2015 … Continue reading
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