Race issues weren’t an issue during my childhood. You might think that disqualifies me as being able to comment on them, but on the contrary, sometimes it takes someone who is on the outside looking in to see things clearly.
I agree with this CNN.com commentary that slavery needs more than just an apology. I think reparations are in order. Here’s my idea:
1. Free all slaves.
2. Take the people responsible for slavery and kill 483,026 of them. We’ll show mercy on another 194,026 and merely maim them, including a lot of limbs amputated.
3. Virtually destroy the…
Minimum wage laws were first enacted as a form of institutionalized racism, and have been perpetuated in order to protect unions from competition. But you thought the purpose of the minimum wage was to help the poor…in fact, minimum wage laws hurt the poor more than anyone else.
Many decades ago, people wouldn’t pay a black man as much as…
One word–education. There is no other objective that is going to free those blacks who are still oppressed from the shackles of poverty, drugs, violence, and misery. Without education, you are easily enslaved. With education, you are the master of your destiny. Unfortunately, black pop culture as portrayed in hip-hop and rap music videos glamorizes sex, violence, and drugs and…
The KKK is nothing like what it once was. At its height of power in the 1920’s the Klan boasted over six million members and literally got away with murder. Today, there are something on the order of six thousand members. Nobody can make the claim that racism is as predominant a force as it once was. Even accounting for…
I’m a white guy. I’ve known relatively few black people in my life, and I can’t claim to have any close friends who are black. I’m also not a mathematician, but does that disqualify me from telling someone 2+2=4? I think ending poverty in the black community, as well as any other community, is about that easy, and the only…
Juan Williams’ original intent may have been to merely create the longest book title of all time when he wrote Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America–and What We Can Do About It, but the result is a phenomenal take on what has gone wrong with the civil rights movement…
If you’re not already familiar with the story, the New York Post ran a cartoon in which two police offers stood with guns drawn after having shot a chimpanzee dead and one of the cops says “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.” The day before, a real-life chimpanzee had attacked someone and had been…
70% of Black Americans voted for Prop 8 in California, as did 53% of Latinos. Many are asking with incredulity “How could this happen? How could people who were discriminated against now be discriminating in the same way?” Some point to the religious dedication of many in the Black and Latino communities. Others say it’s just too soon and it…
If I’m a racist because I won’t vote for Obama does that mean Obama’s a racist because he wouldn’t have supported Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court?
Or maybe he just thinks that Clarence Thomas is dumb. Obama said “I would not have nominated Clarence Thomas…I don’t think that he…I don’t think that he was a strong enough…
If you’re a journalist writing an article and you quote somebody, you would use their full name the first time, but on subsequent quotes in the same article would you use their first name, last name, or middle name? I’m no journalist, but it seems that most of the time, a person’s last name is use subsequent to the first…
Frankly, I don’t know a lot about the history of racism in the Republican party. I’m sure there’s some stuff in there, and I’m not just talking about what the Democrats falsely accuse Republicans of on a daily basis for political gain while ignoring appointments of blacks like Condie Rice, Clarence Thomas, and Colin Powell to high positions of power.…
But what if I don’t like his policies? What if I think he has no experience? What if I think he’s all show? What if I think he’s just a tool of Move-on.org and the radical fringe of the Democrat party? Nope, doesn’t work. If I don’t vote for Obama I must be a racist. If I don’t like his…
I just read Civil Rights and the Conservative Movement and it seems to be a very well-balanced piece of journalism, even if the subtitle “How the right got it wrong.” makes you suspicious. The author, William Voegeli, primarily focuses on William Buckley, founder of National Review, and his involvement (or lack thereof) in the 1960 civil rights movement.…
The message we have been hearing from the Black community for decades is that they’re being discriminated against and held back. I totally agree, but I don’t think it’s rich, white Republicans who are holding them back. I think it’s Black leaders like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Reverend Wright who have convinced the Black community that they’re victims and…
Since 1916 the “Jewish vote” has done to a Republican only once, and that was in 1920. Since then, they have overwhelmingly voted Democrat. Why is this? No, I really want to know, because I have absolutely no clue. Ok, I don’t want to know why they voted for Truman in 1948, I want to know why Clinton got 80%…
Let’s just start this blog off with a bang, shall we? The KKK started off as a group of six young confederate ruffians who, after the Civil War, would ride horses through the countryside committing various acts of mischief while wearing white sheets and pillow cases on their heads. But soon it wasn’t just about having fun anymore and the…
