Category Archives: Race

Time for Jackson, Sharpton to Step Down

Posted on April 12, 2007 by Luke Ford

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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What Exactly Is Racist About Calling The Rutgers Girls Basketball Team ‘Nappy-Headed Hos’?

Posted on April 11, 2007 by Luke Ford

“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

Posted on April 6, 2007 by Luke Ford

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

Posted on March 15, 2007 by Luke Ford

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

Posted on February 26, 2007 by Luke Ford

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 →

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