The Michael Brown case has become a cause célé¨bre, much like the Zimmerman case in the scope of its fame and even worse in the extent of civil unrest it has caused. The Brown case has many other things in … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: Geoffrey Britain] Fox News is now reporting that Darren Wilson was severely beaten by Michael Brown during their confrontation: Darren Wilson, the Ferguson, Mo., police officer whose fatal shooting of Michael Brown touched off more than a week … Continue reading →
Sometimes I think the answer is “never, unless the victim of the shooting is white.” The idea is that white police should err on the side of their own martyrdom if the victim is black. There is no question that … Continue reading →
The officer who stopped Michael Brown did not do so because he was a suspect in the convenience story robbery, but became suspicious during the course of the exchange with Brown: [Ferguson Police Chief] Jackson said the officer was aware … Continue reading →
Take a look at this excerpt from a piece by Beutler in TNR about the racial situation in Ferguson, Missouri [emphasis mine]: You’ve probably seen the statistics by now. Ferguson is about two-thirds black. It’s police force is nearly 100 … Continue reading →
The Ferguson police have released this video of a convenience store robbery in which Michael Brown was suspected to have been the perpetrator. It occurred shortly before the fatal shooting. Dorian Johnson, the young man who was with Brown when … Continue reading →
…about the Michael Brown shooting, except that a young and unarmed black man is dead, shot by a policeman, and riots have been going on in response. Was it a case of unjustified police violence, complicated by racism? Or of … Continue reading →
Dana Milbank wants all you old white men to know that he understands your concerns, although he doesn’t share them. Big of him, isn’t it? Actually, he doesn’t even understand them, as his essay proves. He thinks the concerns of … Continue reading →
Try sending this article on the history of Jim Crow to every liberal Democrat you know who claims that Republicans are the racist party: Here is the heart of the issue, where the left has hijacked the true history of … Continue reading →
This article is filled with eye-popping statistics on the elite public high schools of New York and their demography over the years. The uneducated immigrant Chinese and other Asians of New York today do what poor immigrant Jews of New … Continue reading →
This is one of the saddest articles I’ve ever read. It describes the genesis of the cheating behavior that was exposed in 2010 in a scandal in the Atlanta public school system, where administrators and teachers in predominantly black schools … Continue reading →
Why not? It’s the only one he’s got. Eric Holder, victim. Right. I don’t think even Holder believes it any more, if in fact he ever did. Years ago there was a lot of talk about whether Obama would let … Continue reading →