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Category Archives: Race
Why Can’t America Be As Non-Racist As Germany?
In a Beverly Hills park Wednesday morning, I chat with phenomenologist Julie Simone. Video Julie spent 1980-1984 in Germany (from kindergarten to fourth grade) before coming home to Washington D.C. "grudgingly." "I don’t really like this country. If I had … Continue reading
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Setting Back The Cause Of Black People 100 Years
Sister Fister writes: "Whoever put this video together, thank you for setting your race of people back 100 years." Tritone posts: It’s trying to promote self-improvement. Indeed for many of us, the "advice" in this vid is just common sense: … Continue reading
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Shouldering ‘The White Man’s Burden’
I’m absorbed in A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 by Andrew Roberts. From page 45: Of course, Australia was right to restrict immigration on some other grounds. A senior public health official was to argue for ‘the strict … Continue reading
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Double Standard
From The Jewish Press’s editorial: Several black city lawmakers last week accused their white colleagues of attempting to dictate to African Americans whom they can honor as the battle over naming a street for the late “activist” Sonny Carson hit … Continue reading
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Ron Paul and the Blacks
Jewcy.com points out this 1996 Houston Chronicle article: Under the headline of "Terrorist Update," for instance, Paul reported on gang crime in Los Angeles and commented, "If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how … Continue reading
The Invisible Minority
USC journalism professor Frank O. Sotomayor writes for TruthDig.com: The sense of being excluded from the mainstream of American life is not new for Mexican-Americans and other Latinos. Only a few decades ago, we were called the “invisible minority.” Now, … Continue reading
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Evil White Men – Is There Any Other Kind?
Allison Samuels writes in her new book: Both Denise and Diahn say they’ve stripped at parties for both black and white clients and maintain the attitudes are much more different than people might expect. "When it’s a group of all … Continue reading
Why Does The Paleface Dominate Festival Of Books?
El Maleducado writes: There were very few people of color. I wasn’t surprised, because anybody that is even a little in touch with reality knows that people of color are badly under-represented in every field, especially literature…but it just sucks … Continue reading
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ABC’s Terry Moran: Don’t Feel Sorry For Dukies
John Podhoretz writes on National Review: Terry Moran of ABC News has written a blog item entitled "Don’t Feel Too Sorry for the Dukies." As a compendium of fashionable attitudes toward the Duke case, it is incomparable. It’s instructive to … Continue reading
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Time for Jackson, Sharpton to Step Down
Jason Whitlock nails it: Rather than inspire us to seize hard-earned opportunities, Jesse and Al have specialized in blackmailing white folks for profit and attention. They were at it again last week, helping to turn radio shock jock Don Imus‚Äô … Continue reading
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