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Category Archives: Race
Stuff White People Like
A friend at last night’s Billy Joel concert at the Hollywood Bowl reports the sold-out crowd was 99% white, drunk, stoned, happy, no cursing, no fighting. A white attorney friend tells me about how his dinner was ruined at a … Continue reading
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The UCLA Psychiatrist & The Dalai Lama
During a dialogue with the Dalai Lama, UCLA psychiatrist Daniel Siegel said (as recounted in disc one of his The Wise Heart and the Mind series): “When we’re threatened, you accentuate the difference between who is similar to you and … Continue reading
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Carpooling & Hitchhiking As Measures Of Social Trust
Jared Taylor writes: “Prof. Putnam even cites a study that found carpooling is less common in mixed neighborhoods. Carpooling means counting on your neighbors to get you to work, and people tend not to trust neighbors who don’t look like … Continue reading
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Why Is There No Torah Book Against Racism?
After asking various rabbinic authorities, I’ve learned that none can name a Torah book on racism. Why have none of our great rabbis bothered to write a book on this pressing issue? Why is there no sin of racism in … Continue reading
The Myth Of American Bigotry
Gavin McInnes writes: One woman told me about the hell she goes through as a person of color because store employees follow her around like she’s a shoplifter. She is the only individual in her family who has an education. … Continue reading
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The Rebbe on Racism
Rabbi in this video: “Jews are not famous for espousing the equality of all peoples.” Comment: I heard a story about Rabbi Goldberg who studied many years ago in Chabad’s school in Paris. He had only one problem with Judiasm: … Continue reading
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Haaretz: Top rabbis move to forbid renting homes to Arabs, say ‘racism originated in the Torah’
I was Googling “Torah racism” to find out what the Torah has to say about racism — nothing in my knowledge — and I found this news article from 2010: A number of leading rabbis who signed on to a … Continue reading
Blacks Most Afflicted By HIV, Orientals Least
America’s race problems reflect similar problems around the world. According to AIDS.gov: “By race, blacks/African Americans face the most severe burden of HIV.” According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services: HIV/AIDS has had a devastating impact on … Continue reading
How Long Can People Deny The Importance Of Race?
Ricpic said: “Race is naturally fascinating because it is so obviously a factor if not the factor in the organization of the world. And yet we are living in an age in which the topic is taboo. This anomaly – … Continue reading
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The American Race Dilemma In World Perspective
In this 1996 talk, psychology professor Philippe Rushton says that the average black officer in the U.S. armed forces has a higher IQ and more cranial capacity than the average white recruit. Black men have larger brains than white women, … Continue reading
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