Since everything in America has to come back to race, Democrats are accusing Senate Republicans of intentionally delaying the confirmation of Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch because she is black. In the allusive words of Senator Dick Durbin (D., IL), Republicans are putting Loretta Lynch “on the back of the bus”: “Loretta Lynch, the first […]
Continue reading →In a very powerful, eloquent rhetorical piece marking the fiftieth anniversary of Bloody Sunday, President Obama opined about how far we’ve come in this country and how far we have yet to go. In one section of the speech, he attempted to bring all Americans into one unified character through a prolonged description of the […]
Continue reading →Eric Holder has resigned his post as Attorney General. On his way out, he has one more rotten egg to lay—he wants to lower the standard of proof for pressing civil suits, probably in an effort to make it easier for the Feds to involve themselves in “racially motivated” shootings: Lawyers in the Justice Department […]
Continue reading →The nuclear family has been in the midst of a core meltdown for sixty years. And it doesn’t look like it’s getting better. Just 17% of black teens (15–17) live with their parents. The number is higher for white teens, but still dismal: — Just 17 percent of black teens live with their nuclear family, […]
Continue reading →Arizona State University is offering a course exploring the “problem” of whiteness. The controversial class, taught by a white professor (of course), explores race theory, post-colonialism, and a host of other pseudo-intellectual topics centered on white privilege: The public university is offering an English class to its students this semester called “Studies in American Literature/Culture: U.S. Race […]
Continue reading →Oh, man. Sometimes the GOP just can’t catch a break. Apparently, the House majority whip, Republican Steve Scalise from Louisiana, spoke at a white nationalist convention in 2002: Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), the newly elected House majority whip, acknowledged Monday that he spoke at a gathering hosted by white nationalist leaders while serving as a […]
Continue reading →I really don’t understand. Honestly. Michelle Obama recently talked about how even the First Lady suffers the ravages of racism, but her illustrative anecdote is quite puzzling: “I tell this story—I mean, even as the first lady—that wonderfully publicized trip I took to Target—during that visit, not highly disguised, the only person who actually came […]
Continue reading →Mary Landrieu just lost her Senate seat. Big time. She was the last of the white Democrats in the Deep South. And white Democrats are complaining that this is a racial issue. But that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Let’s just look at some demographics: Of all the people who reported as Black […]
Continue reading →That’s comforting. Chris Rock, the famous comedian, has given white America a small pat on the back. We’re apparently not as racist as we used to be, and this is not due to black progress he says, but white progress: So, to say Obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that […]
Continue reading →Another grand jury decided not to indict a police officer in the death of an unarmed black man. This time, there was actually video evidence of what went down, and it isn’t pretty. Eric Garner, an asthmatic black man harassed by too many police for selling single cigarettes, was put in a chokehold for “resisting […]
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