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Category Archives: Blacks
Who’s better at kvetching? Blacks or Jews or women? The black orthodox Jewess of course!
I wonder who will be the lucky man to catch this prize? Is it egregious cultural appropriation when blacks play classical music composed by whites, perform in plays written by whites, play games invented by whites? Elisheva Ester Rishon writes: … Continue reading
A Jew In Inglewood
Amy Dresner writes: My first night in Inglewood, I hugged a crackhead. Let me explain. I headed to 7-11 for a late-night snack snoop because I have no curfew now and can do whatever the fuck I want whenever I … Continue reading
9% of San Bernardino County Public School Students Are Homeless
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Too many Mexicans and Blacks, they are the source of it. Import enough of them and they’ll degrade any community and drive out productive whites. Why do you think Hesperia and Victorville grew like crazy? … Continue reading
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Steve Sailer: Black Failure = Black Power
Steve Sailer writes: If African Americans were to get their acts together and make some progress, would this please the zeitgeist? Or would it just irritate it? Dennis Dale points out that elite black political action: … has become largely … Continue reading
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Baltimore’s Murder Spree
Comments to Steve Sailer: * A couple of years prior to the Rodney King riots, police in Los Angeles, and a few other nearby cities, were being browbeaten by local city leaders regarding two or three suicide deaths of black … Continue reading
Does Black Failure Lead To Black Dominance?
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Politics: there is absolutely no “black dominance.” Aside from Hawaii/Indonesia raised, half white Obama, blacks have been pretty unsuccessful in politics outside of special majority-black districts. Blacks are about 13% of the population and about … Continue reading
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‘Coates is a pitiable affirmative-action/token hire’
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Ta-Nehisi Coates is the unwitting butt of an extended joke which makes his employers and colleagues snort coffee out their noses every day as they stifle their guffaws when he walks by. Coates thinks he … Continue reading
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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Glad someone has the stones to call out TNC’s overly celebrated one-note writing…although I did watch Glen Loury and John McWhorter discuss him on Blogginghead (and McWhorter basically put his thoughts down in print in … Continue reading
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Between the Racist World and Ta Coates
From Amazon.com: * Ta Coates is one of the great thinkers of the 21st century. Don’t agree? Then you’re on the wrong side of history. Ta has written a book for the ages, chronicling such fascinating episodes as dating, doing … Continue reading
The Wit & Wisdom Of Ta-Nehisi Coates
Comments to Steve Sailer: * I think I’ve figured out why Ta constantly repeats the phrase “black bodies”. The phrase doesn’t have any real meaning because it doesn’t add any information. Replacing “black bodies” with simpler phrases such as “blacks” … Continue reading
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