The Etute trial
Ever hear of it? I hadn’t heard of this case until today when commenter “j e” wrote a comment about the verdict in the second degree murder case, which was an acquittal. The facts of the case are both disturbing … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Race and racism
New York’s gifted and talented program is saved – for now
I’m a product of New York City’s gifted and talented program in the public schools, although I think it was called something slightly different back then (if memory serves, it was “intellectually gifted children” or “IGC”; forget the “talented”). Not … Continue reading →
Lying for rhetorical advocacy
On the judicial nominee front: Nusrat Choudhury, Biden’s pick for a New York City federal trial court, allegedly claimed during a 2015 panel that police shoot unarmed black people every day in the United States. Choudhury defended the statement in … Continue reading →
Hispanics disapprove of Biden, but so do a lot of other people
A recent poll and breakdown (it’s hard to get the spacing right on the blog, so these may be a bit hard to read – follow the link if you want to see the original charts): 1a. Do you approve … Continue reading →
Now a university in England has rejected the sonnet as too white and Western
First they came for the statues. Now they’ve come for the sonnets: The University of Salford, a public university in Greater Manchester, England, removed sonnets and other “pre-established literary forms” from a creative writing course assessment, The Telegraph reported. …A … Continue reading →
Horrific shooting in Buffalo
What is there to say anymore about a racist murder such as this most recent one, in a Buffalo supermarket – hasn’t it all been said before, so many times? I’ll say this: that each such murder is an outrage … Continue reading →
Annals of woke literature
A while back I saw a link at Powerline to an article in The Critic entitled, “On the chopping block.” I idly clicked on it, wondering what it was about, and saw that it concerned one of those all-too-common flaps … Continue reading →
How the left is further taking over public schools in Minnesota
This sort of educational project is being exposed more and more now, but for a long time such things have been happening outside of people’s awareness. And that was part of the left’s plan. It’s hard to say how many … Continue reading →
Subway shooting suspect Frank James arrested: an equal opportunity hater, but you would have trouble learning that if you only read the MSM
He was in the East Village when apprehended: Frank R. James was arrested in Manhattan on a federal warrant and will face a hearing in Brooklyn Federal Court, with a police source indicating the 61-year-old suspect was busted after East … Continue reading →
“Politics is downstream from culture”
Commenter “Frederick” asked an interesting question: [Breitbart said] “Politics is downstream from culture.” Was he right about this? Take CRT for example. How did people who hold CRT views accumulate so much political power when they are such a tiny … Continue reading →
Federal oversight of local police departments: consent decrees
Recently in this thread the topic of federal involvement in local police departments came up, and there are some points I want to add. The main way this is done at present is through federal oversight. And it didn’t just … Continue reading →
Smollett released pending appeal
Anyone surprised by this? Not me. Smollett was granted a release on bond from the Cook County Jail in Illinois pending the appeal of his conviction. A panel of three appellate judges came down with the ruling in a 2-1 … Continue reading →