“All lives matter”
Over 2/3 of black respondents in a recent Rasmussen poll agreed with that sentiment over “Black lives matter.” Excellent. But the Black Lives Matter people scream the loudest, don’t they?
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Presidential candidates: minority and special interest groups
We all know that Hillary Clinton is the first female frontrunner candidate of a major party. At least, she’s long been the frontrunner, and remains the frontrunner, although who knows how long that will continue. Personally, I believe that the … Continue reading →
More on Ta-Nehisi Coates
[NOTE: If you don’t know who Ta-Nehisi Coates is and what I think of his work, please see this. I decided to add the following for further clarification.] When I read this quote from Coates, it seemed to me to … Continue reading →
John Hinderaker on the plight of the unarmed perpetrator
Excellent, excellent article. Here’s an excerpt: This is the point I really want to make: the constant emphasis on police shootings of *unarmed* men that we see in the press is, for the most part, crazy. If you are a … Continue reading →
Ta-Nehisi Coates and the reductionist theory of everything bad that ever happened to black people
First, a disclaimer: I have not read T-Nehisi Coates’ new book entitled Between the World and Me. I’ve only read summaries or reviews of it, although I’m familiar with his thought from reading many of his articles for The Atlantic … Continue reading →
Antiracism as the new religion
[Hat tip: Ace.] This piece by John McWhorter is well worth reading. A few excerpts: …Antiracism is now a religion. It is inherent to a religion that one is to accept certain suspensions of disbelief. Certain questions are not to … Continue reading →
True-blue Virginia. And then there’s Florida.
Right on schedule, Virginia is turning into a blue state as a result of immigration: Each year the federal government prints millions of visas and distributes these admission tickets to the poorest and least-developed nations in the world… A census … Continue reading →
The problem of the problem of whiteness
Here’s a really long (I confess I stopped reading it about halfway through) article called, “White people have a race ”” but everyone flips out when we talk about it.” The piece begins with a description of a course taught … Continue reading →
Mayor Rawlings-Blake of Baltimore reacts to rising murder rates there…
…by firing the police chief: Rawlings-Blake said her motivation for replacing Batts was a spike in murders during the past month and not a police union report criticizing her and Batts for the April riots after Freddie Gray was fatally … Continue reading →
George Takei is an expert on what makes a person a real black versus a fake one
Here’s the latest example of the tedious, ignorant, offensive and yet often-effective mindset of the left. Actor George Takei, a gay man who recently married his longtime partner, and who played Sulu on the original Star Trek, has said some … Continue reading →
Disparate impact victory: Texas Department of Housing
There has been so much SCOTUS news in the past two days that it’s easy to ignore cases that ordinarily would be of enormous importance but have been overshadowed by others. One is the disparate impact case, otherwise known by … Continue reading →
The Confederate flag ruckus
As a specific controversy, the Confederate flag ruckus doesn’t much interest me, so I haven’t written about it although it seems to be the story du jour. I’m not Southern, and I have absolutely no attachment to the Confederate flag. … Continue reading →