Category Archives: Race

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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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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