Compare and contrast
One of the more interesting things about this video is that it shows that, with more information, opinions could change. Of course, we don’t know how representative these students are of the whole.
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Obama, Martin Luther King, and warnings
This Wednesday Obama plans a twofer, donning the mantle of two previous American giants: President Barack Obama will make remarks on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28 as part of a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of … Continue reading →
“The Butler” and other Hollywood propaganda
The “Republicans are racist” propaganda program continues apace, along with other revisions of history. The Soviets would be so proud! Mona Charen writes: The latest entry appears to be “The Butler,” which misrepresents President Reagan…as, at best, insensitive to blacks, … Continue reading →
More on the Christopher Lane murder
Today the WSJ publishes an editorial pretty much along the same lines as my piece on the subject from yesterday. From the WSJ: The death of Christopher Lane, while as troubling as that of Trayvon Martin, will not become a … Continue reading →
Twenty-first century crime and punishment: the murder of Christopher Lane
Through no fault of his own, aspiring baseball player Christopher Lane of Australia was in the wrong place at the wrong time. “The wrong place” was jogging on a street in Duncan, Oklahoma. The wrong time was when a trio … Continue reading →
Let’s see…
…if I’ve got this straight: Americans voted for Obama but are angry that a black man is president. White men are killing black men willy nilly and getting away with it. And that’s why America has become more racist now … Continue reading →
Oprah plays the race card
Who do you believe? And do you care?: Winfrey was in Switzerland in July when she walked into the Trois Pommes boutique in Zurich looking for a handbag… She claims the sales assistant refused to show her the black crocodile … Continue reading →
New York’s stop-and-frisk
There’s been a new ruling curtailing New York’s controversial police practice of stop-and-frisk: In a blistering decision issued on Monday, the judge, Shira A. Scheindlin, found that on hundreds of thousands of occasions since 2004, the police have systematically stopped … Continue reading →
Tawana Brawley: the wheels of justice grind slow
…but they grind exceedingly fine. Just recently, post-Zimmerman, I wrote a post about former NY Duchess County DA Pagones and Tawana Brawley’s accusations against him. And although I’m glad to see that Brawley is finally paying, money really doesn’t quite … Continue reading →
Obama: those who think I’m exceeding my authority as president and becoming a tyrant…
…are racists calling me uppity. No, Obama didn’t say those words, not exactly. But that’s what he said anyway. For years I’ve marveled at Obama’s subtly clever use of the racism charge, performed while he simultaneously pretends to take the … Continue reading →
The hoodie: et tu, Smithsonian?
So now we have word that the Smithsonian is “eyeing” Trayvon Martin’s hoodie for its new branch, the National Museum of African American History and Culture. According to the branch’s director Lonnie Bunch: It became the symbolic way to talk … Continue reading →
Bill Cosby, the Zimmerman case, and guns
Look, I want to give Bill Cosby his props. He’s been speaking up courageously for years on the problems within the black community, and he’s gotten a lot of flak for it. It can’t have been easy for him. Here … Continue reading →