Racism is so hard to find these days that it must be embedded, hidden, covert, indirect—that is, “coded.” So of course Donald Trump—who is many things, including a self-serving, narcissistic, publicity-hound—is of course a coded racist for questioning Barack Obama’s … Continue reading →
Commenter “Daniel in Brookline” calls Trump a gadfly. It’s a word I’ve thought of often in connection with him and the Obama presidency, one that was originally used by Socrates to describe himself. Here’s an explanation of what Socrates meant … Continue reading →
Jack Cashill has recently published a book called Deconstructing Obama, in which he advances his theory that Bill Ayers ghost-wrote Obama’s well-known memoir Dreams From My Father. Cashill has been called a racist for his pains. This accusation was as … Continue reading →
The UK’s David Cameron has followed in Angela Merkel’s footstops and condemned the policy of multiculturalism which has led to the failure of many immigrants in Britain to adopt the culture and values of their new homeland. His words were … Continue reading →
When Republicans offered their controversial reading of the Constitution at the opening session of this Congress, they and the Democrats who participated decided (wisely or unwisely; you be the judge) to hold back from reading every single word, and instead … Continue reading →
It was only a matter of time, I guess. A new edition of Twain’s classic Huckleberry Finn will be coming out minus the offending n-word, which will be replaced by the term “slave.” In related news, the same edition will … Continue reading →
The opposition’s been trying to paint Haley Barbour with the racism brush for quite some time, and now he’s given them some good ammunition in a new Weekly Standard piece. What constitutes “good ammunition” is different than it used to … Continue reading →
For those of you who read and enjoyed last Saturday’s post on tap dancing, and especially the clips of the Nicholas Brothers, here are some additional nuggets of interest: (1) The brothers were the children of vaudevillians, and never had … Continue reading →
NPR, that public radio station that we all help fund, has fired longtime senior news analyst Juan Williams for making the following comments on Fox’s “The O’Reilly Factor:” “I mean, look, Bill, I’m not a bigot. You know the kind … Continue reading →
Charles Blow of the NY Times writes that Obama is now trying to rally the black vote to come out for him, based not on his record, but on racial solidarity: …[A]ds, on black radio and in black newspapers, simply … Continue reading →
Today former Department of Justice voting rights section chief Christopher Coates testified before the Civil Rights Commission about the Black Panther voter intimidation case. This is what Scott at Powerline had to say on the matter: Coates’s testimony is a … Continue reading →
This is a disturbing article on a confusing topic: racial diversity in education for the academically gifted. Hunter College High School is an elite public school in New York City, grades 7-12, that accepts students based on a test administered … Continue reading →