Category Archives: Race

How Come Southern California’s Evacuees Display Such A Different Attitude?

Governor Schwarzenegger told Geraldo Rivera of Fox News Thursday morning it was because of the lessons learned from Katrina. I don’t buy that though it’s clear that Southern Californians got a higher quality of government response. The Katrina crowd seemed … Continue reading

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Fury at DNA pioneer’s theory: Africans are less intelligent than Westerners

From The Independent: Celebrated scientist attacked for race comments: "All our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours – whereas all the testing says not really" One of the world’s most eminent … Continue reading

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Diversity Not Always So Great

Robert Putnam, who wrote the book Bowling Alone, recently published a paper that found: "New evidence from the US suggests that in ethnically diverse neighbourhoods residents of all races tend to ‘hunker down’. Trust (even of one’s own race) is … Continue reading

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Andy Rooney Blasted For Racist Comment

From the New York Times: “I know all about Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, but today’s baseball stars are all guys named Rodriguez to me,” Mr. Rooney wrote in the second paragraph of the column, which appeared in The Stamford … Continue reading

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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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