Charles Barkley on race
Interesting.
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The Tulsa shooting and the mind of Officer Shelby
Now, that’s a pretty presumptuous title, isn’t it? How can I presume to talk about what was in the mind of Officer Betty Shelby when she shot Terence Crutcher in Tulsa a week ago? The answer is: of course I … Continue reading →
Protests/riots in Charlotte
One person killed during riots. Powerline offers this bio of the black police officer who shot Lamont, the act that has sparked the protests.
Continue reading →My post at Legal Insurrection on the Crutcher case
I have a post up at Legal Insurrection that is a comprehensive look at what we know about the Terence Crutcher case so far (or at least, what we knew last night, when I did the bulk of the research … Continue reading →
UPDATES on the Crutcher shooting
[Scroll down for more updates.] More information on the Crutcher case is coming out, and the situation may be even worse than what I had discussed earlier today. The claim now is that Crutcher wasn’t even reaching into his car … Continue reading →
Tulsa killing of unarmed black man by police
This incident looks like the real thing: a trigger-happy cop panicking and killing an innocent black man, Terence Crutcher. We don’t know enough about it to make a final judgment, but so far the fact situation looks bad. The exchange … Continue reading →
Hillary and the Trump-voter “basket of deplorables”
Seems the big news today is Hillary’s comment about the “ists” and “ics” of Trump’s supporters: “To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables,” Clinton said. “Right? Racist, … Continue reading →
Georgetown University tries to expiate its guilt over slavery
Georgetown is a Jesuit school trying to atone for an episode in its past: In an effort to acknowledge its ties to slavery, Georgetown University will offer the descendants of nearly 300 slaves preferential treatment in its admissions process. In … Continue reading →
Polls, Florida, Trump, and the black vote
Polls in Florida can be used to illustrate the idea that Trump is staging a huge comeback, or that he’s hopelessly behind. There’s one that says he’s doing pretty well there (2 points ahead of Hillary) and two others that … Continue reading →
Trump and the black vote—fun with statistics
Several commenters have pointed out that Trump made a speech recently that appealed to black voters. Here’s how commenter Richard Saunders describes it, for example: Trump makes the best speech of the campaign, and is the one of the first, … Continue reading →
Milwaukee is the latest in the Black Lives Matter destructiveness
In a pattern that’s become all too familiar around the nation, the death of a black man at the hands of a police officer has sparked riots. This time it’s in Milwaukee. Here’s a lengthy article on the subject in … Continue reading →
Shelby Steele writes about American’s Shame
In Shelby Steele’s Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country, he writes: …[A]ll these victim-focused identities are premised on a belief in the characterological evil of American and the entire Western world. This broad assumption is the idea … Continue reading →