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Category Archives: Race
What Exactly Is Racist About Calling The Rutgers Girls Basketball Team ‘Nappy-Headed Hos’?
“Nappy-headed” is perfectly acceptable speech. Here’s a link to a movie called “Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy-Headed People.” “Hos” is a slang term for women (its specific meaning is prostitute but it has a general meaning for women and … Continue reading
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Inappropriate Racial Overtones
From the Times-Union in Albany, New York: It was an inexplicible error in judgment. A quote that had no business being in the story. A quote loaded with inappropriate racial overtones. And yet, there it was at the end of … Continue reading
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Two Wongs Don’t Make A White
Cathy Seipp calls me "horrible boy." Among the ways I’ve earned this name is my hilarity at some verbal expressions of racism. My home country, for instance, had a "White Australia" policy until I was born, 1966. "Its clarion call … Continue reading
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Seek Good School System, With Not Too Many Black Kids
John Derbyshire writes on Jewcy.com: House hunting in the New York suburbs in 1992, my (Chinese-born) wife and I were once sitting in the office of a realtor, an American lady, trying to spell out just what we were looking … Continue reading
Justice takes a beating in Long Beach racial hatred case
Pastor Joe R. Hicks writes in the Jewish Journal: After a lengthy process, that saw witness intimidation from gang members (one was forced to move; another had her car totaled), the expectation was — that if found guilty — a … Continue reading