Other Race Relations Issues

Some of these topics are rather touchy, but the material below is presented as a public service for the benefit of people who who get all their information from television news, labor unions, and the "talking points" spread at the office by left-wing activists.

Note:  All the material about the Duke Lacrosse case has been moved here.

Commentary about Senator Obama's controversial pastor can be found here.

Commentary about Senator Obama himself can be found here.


White guilt? Done; over; history.  There's a massive silver lining in the magical clouds that lofted Barack Obama to the presidency.  For today, without a shred of intellectually legitimate opposition, I can loudly proclaim to America:  The Era of White Guilt is over.  This seemingly impossible event occurred because the vast majority of white Americans didn't give a fluff about skin color and enthusiastically pulled the voting lever for a black man.  Not just any black man.  A very liberal black man who spent his early career race-hustling banks, praying in a racist church for 20 years, and actively working with America-hating domestic terrorists.  Yet white Americans made Barack Obama their leader.  Therefore, as of Nov. 4, 2008, white guilt is dead.

Should Obama's replacement be black?  Although Barack Obama's historic election will place an African-American in the White House, it will reduce the number of African-Americans in the Senate to zero.  That's an even lonelier number than one, and it is not a number that this nation should be proud of.  So the question is:  Does Obama's replacement in the Senate have to be black?

The Editor says...
 Evidently the author believes that skin color is a candidate's primary qualification.  The last thing this country needs is a racial quota in the Senate.  Nor should there be an assumption that only blacks can represent certain parts of the country.

The End Of Racism?  Sure, there are racists.  There are also rust and mosquitoes, and there always will be.  Life goes on.  I know — what about "societal" racism?  Well, if we can now relax about the backward folk "out there," then maybe Obama in the White House can help open up an honest discussion about the role racism does not play in black communities' problems.

Getting Beyond Race (And White Guilt):  The fact that the nation elected a black president hopefully might turn our attention away from the false notion that discrimination explains the problems of a large segment of the black community, to the real problems that have absolutely nothing to do with discrimination.  The illegitimacy rate among blacks stands at about 70%.  Less than 40% of black children are raised in two-parent households.  Those are major problems, but they have nothing to do with racial discrimination.

New Panthers' war on whites:  Minister King Samir Shabazz is chairman of the New Black Panther Party's Philadelphia chapter.  In black beret atop dreadlocks and a black military uniform, he spends most weekdays near City Hall condemning "crackers" and exhorting black passers-by to rise up against their "slavemasters" — and to give him $2 for the party's semi-annual newspaper.

How Can a "Fellow Black Republican" Oppose Obama?  Do you know that Democrats opposed the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution — abolishing slavery, granting citizenship rights to newly freed slaves, and guaranteeing the right to vote (at least on paper) to blacks, respectively?  Do you know that most of the politicians who stood for segregation were Southern Democrats?  Do you know that the Ku Klux Klan was founded by Democrats, one of whose goals was to stop the spread of the Republican Party?  Do you know that, as a percentage of the party, more Republicans than Democrats voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

Fidel Castro Endorses Obama — Again.  For the record:  Fidel Castro, forcibly overthrew a black Cuban head of state (Fulgencio Batista) and replaced his government with one where only nine percent of the ruling Stalinist party is black and where the prison population is 80 to 90 percent black.  He jailed the longest suffering black political prisoner of modern history (Eusebio Penalver who suffered longer in Castro's dungeon's than Nelson Mandela suffered in South Africa's.)  He sentenced other blacks (Dr Elias Biscet, Jorge Antunez) to 20 year sentences essentially for quoting Martin Luther King Jr. in a public square.

Readiness crucible.  [Barack] Obama's success is truly a remarkable commentary on the goodness of Americans and how far we've come in resolving matters of race.  I'm 72 years old.  For almost all of my life, a black having a real chance at becoming the president of the United States was at best a pipe dream.  Mr. Obama has convincingly won primaries in states with insignificant black populations.  As such, it further confirms what I've often said:  The civil rights struggle in America is over and it's won.

Obama's Racial Catch-22:  The rapturous coverage of the Obama campaign during the primary was less about Obama himself than it was America congratulating itself for being willing to consider a black man for president, with the subtext being that the United States had finally liberated itself from its racist past.

Conservative Blacks Choose Pigment Over Principle.  What is it about this man that has thoughtful, conservative blacks like Armstrong Williams and JC Watts saying they might vote for him?  It can't be his left of left politics that makes even Ted Kennedy look conservative.  What thinking conservative could actually support a man who is going to raise taxes, increase the size of government, redistribute wealth, burden small businesses and the working class, and play nice with people who want to destroy us?

Saving us from the race card.  The temptation for black conservatives who disagree with Mr. Obama on everything to vote for him anyway as a gesture of racial solidarity is understandable.  A lot of Southern whites, thrilled that one of their own could make it to the White House for the first time since the Civil War, voted for Jimmy Carter.  We've been trying to live down the shame of it since.

Black Republicans are unfairly marginalized, demonized and vilified.  What is it about black Republicans that makes black Democrats cuss them, ignore them, or call them names?  When I was a Democrat, I never paid much attention to the negativity hurled at black Republicans.  That's probably because I never bought into the habit of gossiping about people or calling them names.  My main focus had always been about people's deeds — whether positive or negative.

The Impact Of Violence On Public Education:  In large and mid-sized cities there remain a disproportionate number of minority students as compared with suburban and rural schools.  In New York, 80 percent of the students in the state's large and mid-sized cities are minority, compared with 6 percent in suburban and rural areas.  In Pennsylvania the ratio is 65 percent to 4 percent, and in Washington D.C., 96 percent of the total school population is minority.

The Editor says...
 If 94 percent are in the minority, one of us doesn't know what "minority" means.

Racial Organizations:  There are hundreds of organizations in the state and the country that are restricted to only black members.  Are they not racists? … Although Huntsville, Alabama has a city Chamber of Commerce, at one time headed by a black person, blacks created their own Chamber — no whites allowed.  Also, in Huntsville, blacks have their own telephone book — no white businesses allowed.  And, there are a host of other all-black organizations, including their own Masonic Lodge.  Isn't this racist?

Michael Moore, Frank Rich, Jeremiah Wright and John Hagee:  Whether out of guilt or because of its own racist views (i.e., the unspoken but regularly implied belief in the inferiority of African-Americans), the left-of-center's general attitude toward black Americans has been that they cannot be judged by the same standards as others.  From lowering standards of admission to universities to blaming the high number of black men in prison for violent crimes on white racism to decades of cultivating black victimhood and the subsequent Wright-like rage against America, liberals and their party, the Democrats, have immeasurably hurt African-Americans and America.

A betrayal of the civil rights struggle.  During the 2003-04 school year, only 52 of the nation's 92,000 public schools were labeled "persistently dangerous," a designation under the No Child Left Behind Act entitling students to move to an alternate "safe" school.  Philadelphia had 14 schools labeled as "persistently dangerous" and Baltimore had six. … School violence, including assaults on teachers and staff, is not restricted to inner city schools but occurs also in suburban and rural schools.  However, the bulk of the violence is at schools with large black populations.

The Race Minefield:  It was a moving speech [at the 2004 Democratic National Convention], filled with hopeful sentiments.  But two years later, Senator Barack Obama, with two years' experience in the Senate and his eye on a presidential run, taped a radio ad attacking the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (MCRI), going out of his way to defend racial preference policies that by their very definition divide Americans into blacks, whites, Latinos, and Asians.

Why Shakir Can't Read:  Shakir's family situation is a significant part of his problem.  He is one of four children to a twenty-something mother who has three other children by three different men, and she might well be pregnant again by her current boyfriend.  Shakir's mother is unemployed and on welfare.

Too White to Win?  Democratic Rep. Stephen Cohen … has worked tirelessly on behalf of his constituents and even went so far as to sponsor an official Congressional apology for slavery that passed the House last week in an apparent effort by Democratic leaders to bolster his chances.  But Mr. Cohen hasn't been welcomed by many black leaders.  He made a clumsy attempt to join the Congressional Black Caucus this year, and was rebuffed.



Rene Marie's 15 Minutes of Fame

Hijacked anthem brings a chorus of complaints.  Rene Marie … was supposed to sing the Star-Spangled Banner at Tuesday's State of the City address [7/1/2008] in Denver, but she substituted the lyrics with a song of her own choosing.  Marie sang "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," a song informally referred to as the "black national anthem."

Singer subs 'black anthem' for 'Star Spangled Banner'.  A singer who was to perform the "Star Spangled Banner" at the presentation of Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper's State of the City address yesterday substituted the "Black National Anthem" without notifying anyone, because she says as a black, she just doesn't feel American.

Why a Black Artist Replaced the National Anthem:  Last week in Denver, almost all the values of the post-1960s left were exhibited in one act.  It happened on the Denver mayor's most important day — the one in which he was to deliver his annual State of the City Address.  The day was to begin with the singing of the National Anthem by the black jazz singer Rene Marie.  But Ms. Marie had, by her own admission, long had other plans.

Why a Black Artist Replaced the National Anthem:  [Scroll down]  The left's second contribution to Marie's value system has been its elevation of feelings above other values.  For example, one determines right and wrong on the basis of how one feels (as opposed to, let us say, asking what one's religion, or God, or any moral law that transcends one's own feelings would say on a given matter).  Now, the elevation of one's feelings above other considerations is generally viewed as a form of narcissism.  And while narcissism is as old as humanity, until the 1960s it was generally regarded as a character flaw.  Since the 1960s, however, it was more often heralded as a virtue.

One nation, one anthem.  As an individual with free will [Rene Marie] certainly had the choice and opportunity to do what she did.  But she's not protected from public rebuke for an inappropriate, unethical and deceitful. … Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing is not the black national anthem for the simple reason that there is no black nation on the North American continent.  African-Americans are Americans, not Liberians.


Five Racial Absolutes Become Myths:  White churches no longer have an invisible "no blacks wanted" sign hung over their doors.  The integration of congregations is not just being led by white pastors.  In 1981, I was one of the first black preachers in America to lead a predominately white congregation.  What was novel in those years, is becoming more and more common place today.

The Real Agenda of Black Liberation Theology.  In an article in the Washington Post, unnamed ministers commented that black liberation theology "encourages a preacher to speak forcefully against the institutions of oppression…"  And what might these institutions be?  They are not specified.  But it is safe to say that they are not the welfare state or the Democratic Party.  Given that black liberation theology is a product of the dreary leftist politics of the twentieth century, the very vehicles employed by the left to advance statism certainly can't be the culprits.  For the left, black liberation theology makes for close to a perfect faith.  It is a political creed larded with religion.  It serves not to reconcile and unite blacks with the larger cultural, but to keep them separate.

Afrocentrism Is the Problem.  At its heart, Afrocentrism is based on a profoundly anti-white and paranoid ideology.  First, it asserts that the entire foundation of Western Civilization was stolen by the Greeks from Egypt, which, Afrocentrics claim, was ruled by ancient blacks.  Second, it claims that whites are deeply inferior.  Afrocentric texts often describe whites as "ice people," whose defective melanin, or skin pigmentation, makes them susceptible to a host of mental and physical deficiencies, including sexual deviancy.  And, finally, Afrocentrism encourages blacks to fear whites.

FBI Alarmed At Murder Rate Among Black Men.  Both violent and property crimes in the United States declined in 2007 from the previous year, the FBI reported Monday [6/9/2008].  But one expert warned the figures could mask a growing murder problem among young black men. ... "We shouldn't be fooled into thinking our problems are over," said [James Alan] Fox, a criminal justice professor at Northeastern University.  Fox said that from 2002 to 2006, the rate of murder committed by black male teens rose 52 percent.

A Black Conservative Lament:  [A cable TV news channel] ran a long segment with a black comedian/actor, talking about how he tells his son each and every day about how to talk to the police and how black men must be wary of cops. … The truth is that his son has more to fear from other young black men than he does from the police.  I then quoted a homicide statistic:  94 percent of black homicide victims are killed by other black people.  It was dismissed by the moderator so we could focus instead on how racist the cops are.  Unbelievable.

Media's Double Standard on Race-based Voting:  It is not really relevant, frankly, to point out that most black voters are going to vote in droves for Barack Obama.  Regardless of his race, black voters would vote for the Democrat.  But when you read about Congressman Steve Cohen's race in Tennessee's Ninth Congressional District, you really are confronted by both racism and anti-Semitism in a way we rarely think about in this country.  And the media is silent.  Barack Obama is silent.

Ebony and Irony.  Put simply, there is no evidence to suggest that blacks aren't committing the majority of homicides in general and first degree murders in particular.  Nor is there any evidence to suggest that proponents of affirmative action will demand that we begin to execute more blacks to make up for their present under-representation in American death chambers.

Inconspicuous Consumption:  About seven years ago, University of Chicago economists Kerwin Kofi Charles and Erik Hurst were researching the "wealth gap" between black and white Americans when they noticed something striking.  African Americans not only had less wealth than whites with similar incomes, they also had significantly more of their assets tied up in cars.  The statistic fit a stereotype reinforced by countless bling-filled hip-hop videos:  that African Americans spend a lot on cars, clothes, and jewelry — highly visible goods that tell the world the owner has money.  But do they really?

Judge Orders Whites Out Of Atlanta Court.  Judge Marvin Arrington insists he's not a racist; despite ordering white lawyers out of his courtroom on Thursday.  The Fulton County Superior Court judge said he was just fed up seeing a parade of young black defendants in his courtroom. … The judge said the majority of people who appear before him accused of crimes such as murder, rape and robbery are black and he wanted to do something about it, one on one.

Georgia Judge:  Blacks-Only Talk Was Bad Idea.  A black judge says he was wrong to evict whites from his courtroom so he could deliver a stern lecture to black defendants, but says he meant no harm.  "I wanted to have a fireside chat," Fulton Superior Court Judge Marvin Arrington said Thursday.  "And my grandmother said years ago that if you're going to fuss at black people, you don't need to do it in front of white people."

The Editor says...
 I have no objection to the judge's actions, if they are effective in reducing crime and convincing the defendants of the overall fairness of the judicial process.  On the other hand, the judge seems to have imposed his own flavor of racial segregation -- something that has been opposed by black "leaders" for decades, unless it works to their advantage.

The Democratic Party's Stealth War On Black Americans:  Democrats cooked up the great society, welfare, food stamps, and all other manner of government goodies because they said they wanted to "help" people.  What was the result of that "help?"  The Democrats did something that they hadn't managed to do when they enslaved black Americans, persecuted them with Jim Crow laws, or terrorized them with the Ku Klux Klan:  they managed to nearly destroy the black family.

Liberal Views, Black Victims.  [Philadelphia and] other cities such as Baltimore, Detroit and Washington, D.C., with large black populations, experience the nation's highest rates of murder and violent crime.  This high murder rate is, and has been, predominantly a black problem.  According to Bureau of Justice statistics, between 1976 and 2005, blacks, while 13 percent of the population, committed over 52 percent of the nation's homicides and were 46 percent of the homicide victims.  Ninety-four percent of black homicide victims had a black person as their murderer.

Disputed study:  Detroit is the most dangerous city in the nation.  In another blow to the Motor City's tarnished image, Detroit pushed past St. Louis to become the nation's most dangerous city, according to a private research group's controversial analysis, released Sunday, of annual FBI crime statistics.

What is Black Conservatism?  Respected and well-informed nonwhite spokespersons are increasingly taking up the challenge of bringing conservative and libertarian ideas to nonwhite audiences and bringing their own multicultural perspective to what has been a largely white social and political movement.  These spokespersons include Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas, Herman Cain, and others.

Racism is not the biggest problem that black Americans face any more.  Of course, racism does still exist and will always exist in one form or another.  That being said, we've come a long way in this country from the time when black Americans couldn't use the same water fountain as white people, had to sit at the back of the bus, and weren't allowed to go to the same schools as whites. … On the other hand, the illegitimacy rate in the black community is roughly 70% and black on black crime is more dangerous to black Americans than the KKK ever was.

Misstep in a Liberal Minefield:  America has passed another milestone on its march to equal opportunity thanks to Robert Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television, who this week proved that a black billionaire can be just as witless as are certain white billionaires who think their wisdom is commensurate with their net worth.  Introducing Clinton at a rally, Johnson called Obama a "guy who says, 'I want to be a reasonable, likable Sidney Poitier in 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.'"  For the uninitiated, that is how you call someone an Uncle Tom in an age that has not read "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

White guilt doesn't help blacks.  Among some black intellectuals a new perspective has emerged, one that puts racism and "white privilege" low on the list of problems plaguing black Americans.  Shelby Steele's latest book, "White Guilt" argues that whites do blacks no favors wringing their hands about white privilege.

Is Oprah a Racist?  Why carry water for Obama, but not Hillary Clinton or John Edwards?  From my vantage point, I can't see a scintilla of difference in their politics.  They're all left-wingers, after all, who believe that raising taxes is the solution to all problems.  The only difference I could see was the only difference that I could literally see — namely, that Barack Obama was darker complexioned than the other two.

Frivolous politics:  Part III.  Racial issues are just one of a growing number of issues where rational discussion has become virtually impossible.  Rational discussion would not serve the interests of the Democratic Party, and the Republicans think that the way to increase their small share of the black vote is to imitate the Democrats.

Tancredo:  Abolish Black, Hispanic Caucuses.  White House hopeful Tom Tancredo said Thursday [1/25/2007] the existence of the Congressional Black Caucus and other race-based groups of lawmakers amounts to segregation and should be abolished. … "If we are serious about achieving the goal of a colorblind society, Congress should lead by example and end these divisive, race-based caucuses," said Tancredo, who is scheduled to pitch his longshot presidential bid this weekend in New Hampshire.

Census report sees minorities becoming majority by 2042.  In a new report out Thursday [8/14/2008], the U.S. Census Bureau projects the nation will become much more diverse by midcentury, with minorities forecast to become the majority population by 2042, experts said.  The growing national diversity is also a trend seen locally, particularly among Hispanics, experts said.

The Editor comments...
 More diverse?  The demographics are diverse whether the minority population is 4% or 40% — unless "diverse" is a just a politically correct code word meaning non-white, which is exactly the case.

The Truth In Black and White:  The term "black conservative" sounds like a strange twist of words to the average American.  There are certainly quite a few of them in America; they are not an endangered species!  In fact, I am one of them.  Yet I am convinced that the simplistic moniker of liberal vs. conservative is becoming outdated and meaningless.

Democrats and Apologies.  If Democrats are going to demand apologies for historic crimes, they need to inform themselves better about their own party's history.  The following racial crimes were perpetrated throughout American history by The Democratic Party, its leaders and supporters … In particular:
Sen. Robert Byrd has admitted having been a member of the Ku Klux Klan and he filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights act supported by Republicans in greater proportions than by Democrats;

 Al Gore's father, Sen. Albert Gore Sr. also joined Sen. Byrd in the filibuster of the 1964 Civil Rights Act;

 Sen. Ted Kennedy's father, Democrat Joseph Kennedy, the US Ambassador to Britain, was rabidly anti-Semitic and considered by the Nazi Ambassador to be "Germany's best friend" in London.

What is discrimination?  Discrimination is simply the act of choice.  When we choose Bordeaux wine, we discriminate against Burgundy wine.  When I married Mrs. Williams, I discriminated against other women.  Even though I occasionally think about equal opportunity, Mrs. Williams demands continued discrimination.

FBI called to deal with 'race' gang violence.  Police in Los Angeles have been forced to call in the FBI to deal with a surge in gang-related violence between Latino and black youths.  The initiative has been prompted by incidents such as the shooting of a 14-year-old black girl last month by Latino gang members, who are thought to have targeted her because of her race.

[No mention of "hate crime" prosecution.]

Should blacks air dirty laundry to a mainstream audience?  Late last year, essayist John Ridley wrote an article for Esquire magazine, using an in-your-face style to rip the black underclass.  He went on to describe famous blacks who've excelled in recent years — Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell — and argued that the whole group benefited from their work.  It's up to us, he wrote, to emulate their success.

Cultural Whiplash:  The contemporary question of "race" is a question dealing with the derailment of philosophy (and the corresponding decline of morality and ethics) in the postmodern era. ... It is "alienation" not between black and white, but rather between God and man.  The urban black community has, in far too many instances, replaced God with the state and correctly sees the neo-Marxist Democrats as the state party, their ultimate benefactors.  (One might also argue that suburban whites have replaced God with materialism, but that's another essay.)

Man who cried prejudice is arrested.  A black man who claimed discrimination in a lawsuit against one of the Las Vegas Valley's toniest golf clubs has surrendered to federal authorities in Los Angeles after being indicted in an alleged $5 million investment scam.  On Tuesday [1/9/2007] the U.S. attorney's office called Steven M. Ferguson "an economic predator with no legitimate employment," charging him with 24 counts of fraud and money laundering after he allegedly fleeced investors of millions in investment schemes across the country over the last decade.  If convicted, Ferguson could be sentenced to as much as 225 years in federal prison.

Black Power:  The New Conservative Stronghold.  Black conservatives come in many sizes, shapes, and party affiliations.  The next two years are a perfect time for wise conservatives to build bridges with the leaders of the "new black church".  These church leaders are classical social conservatives.  They believe that government programs alone cannot stop crime, poverty, or poor schools.  The new black church is not waiting for a handout.  They are promoting immediate change through wiser, biblically-informed choices and personal accountability.

Race-card player dishonors true victims.  Your crass, manipulative use of the race-card-for-money insults countless men and women who endured indignities, marched and died, in order to provide you the right to work as a firefighter — an opportunity historically denied to qualified black men and women.  You, sir, are a disgrace.

Virginia Tech's Professor of Hate:  Many have asked:  "How could the English Department not recognize the horrific implications of these works?"  No one who wonders that, however, is familiar with the poetic oeuvre of one of Cho's own teachers, Virginia Tech's Distinguished Professor of English and Black Studies, Nikki Giovanni.  Among the most celebrated figures of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and recipient of 21 honorary degrees, Giovanni has published poems strikingly similar to Cho's plays in both vileness and incompetence.

Is immigration bad for blacks?  Perhaps the most tragic American paradox of the last half century is that as the legal and social restrictions hindering black economic advancement diminished and a sizable black middle class emerged, a large fraction of black men dropped out of the workforce and/or went to prison. … About one quarter of black male high school dropouts are locked up at any point in time.  Was immigration's depressing effect on wages responsible for this by dissuading less skilled blacks from honest labor?

Rap is the culprit in killing of black men.  Of Baltimore's nearly 300 homicide victims each year, the overwhelming majority of victims and killers are young black men.

An Open Letter to the Black Community.  Both personal and institutional racism will ultimately have to be overcome by black achievement.  We have got to personally pay the price to be in positions of authority that set the direction of the nation.  We will have to save ourselves by fighting for personal success that affects our community.  In other words, if I am a businessman, I must understand that I have both an economic mission and a cultural assignment to create good jobs, wealth, and influence.

Whites need not apply.  It is "critical" that the Congressional Black Caucus remain an all-black organization, one of the CBC's founders has said in a strategy memo.

The Editor says...
 If you changed "Black" to "White", there would be no question that we were talking about a racist organization.  It is an organization which restrict membership to people of a specific race.  This is exactly the kind of thing that the CBC's hero, Martin Luther King, opposed.

How the Voting Rights Act promotes racial polarization:  With Congress poised to extend, for another quarter-century, certain "temporary" provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, it's worth pondering some of the political mischief taking place these days in the name of "voting rights."

By Any Means Necessary.  A decision Tuesday [8/29/2006] by a federal judge in Detroit could set the stage for a sweeping expansion of the Voting Rights Act, which would turn the federal courts into a national campaign police.

Pandering to blacks:  Aside from [Senator John] Kerry being factually wrong about more blacks being in prison than in college, his vision differs little from one that holds blacks as a rudderless, victimized people who cannot control their destiny and whose best hope depends upon the benevolence of white people.

Martin Luther King's Conservative Legacy:  Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was no stalwart conservative, yet his core beliefs, such as the power and necessity of faith-based association and self-government based on absolute truth and moral law, are profoundly conservative.  Modern liberalism rejects these ideas, while conservatives place them at the center of their philosophy.  Despite decades of its appropriation by liberals, King's message was fundamentally conservative.

'Marriage Is for White People'.  I grew up in a time when two-parent families were still the norm, in both black and white America.  Then, as an adult, I saw divorce become more commonplace, then almost a rite of passage.  Today it would appear that many — particularly in the black community — have dispensed with marriage altogether.

My new contribution to educational racism.  The UNC system has a different view of the relationship between guilty and innocent blacks.  We are reminded of that every time a black student commits a crime on campus.  The practice of publishing a photo of a guilty black student — or merely attaching the word "black" to a suspect's description in student newspapers — is met with scorn within the educational community.  This is because we bend over backwards to avoid punishing innocent blacks for the sins of guilty blacks.

"I pledge allegience to my black people".  One of the nation's fastest-rising poetry prodigies is a 7-year-old New York girl whose poisonous demagogic advocacy of black separatism makes Al Sharpton look like Mister Rogers. … Autum Ashante' is the natural offspring of militant multiculturalism and government-sanctioned identity politics.  We reap what we sow.

The Myth Behind the Crisis in Black America.  Two things caused the downward spiral of poor blacks in Indianapolis and nationwide to the modern-day black underclass with which we are so familiar today:  (1) Adoption of a defiant anti-Establishment mentality as part of the countercultural revolution of the 1960s, cloaked in what John McWhorter calls "therapeutic alienation," in which righteous indignation against "the Man" for its own sake became praised by blacks and liberal whites alike as a badge of black authenticity; and (2) the expansion of welfare from a temporary assistance program for widows with children to a federal bureaucracy that basically subsidized out-of-wedlock childbearing, personal irresponsibility and an aversion to work.

Black racism:  When we finally stop patronizing loafers, louts and criminals, stop encouraging people who were born 120 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, 20 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, to pretend that their sloth and ignorance are the fault of whites, only then will blacks come one step closer to having that colorblind society they claim they want.

Workers claim racial discrimination:  Bias or shakedown?  Twenty-two current and former employees have sued Ford Motor Co., claiming the automaker allowed discrimination against black employees to fester unchecked in recent years. … Tracing the lawsuits to their roots leads back, ironically perhaps, to a major push by Ford to hire and promote minorities.

Black Activists Outraged Over Liberal Merger of Abortion and Civil Rights.  Inclusion of Planned Parenthood in a self-described civil rights coalition has outraged members of the black leadership network Project 21, as Planned Parenthood advocates and provides abortions -- particularly in the black community.

Abortions — Number, Rate, and Ratio by Race, 1980 to 2003.  Read the numbers for yourself.  It is the blacks who are suffering the most from abortion, yet most blacks continue to support the pro-abortion Democratic Party.

Sen. Kennedy Bashed for Illegal Aliens-Civil Rights Comparison.  A black conservative minister and staunch immigration reform advocate Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Tuesday [4/11/2006] denounced Sen. Ted Kennedy for comparing pro-illegal immigration rallies to civil rights marches for blacks half a century ago.

Black voters may slip Democrats' grasp in 2006.  This year, Democrats may lose their iron grip on the black vote.  About 90 percent of black Americans vote Democrat, rain or shine.  But a growing sense that Democrats take them for granted — plus several attractive, high-level black Republican candidates who will fight for these votes — could make November 2006 and 2008 fascinating.  For starters, President Bush's black support grew from 9 percent in 2000 to 11 percent in 2004.

Black History Month — and the Black Heroes it Ignores.  Malcolm X didn't mince words.  "I'm not an American!" he sputtered, "America is a nightmare!  America practices slavery!  The white man is the common enemy!"  Naturally, Time Magazine heralded him during Black History Month.

Belafonte, Farrakhan speak at Gary gathering.  Entertainer Harry Belafonte has renewed his criticism of President Bush during the second day of the 2006 National Black Peoples Unity Convention in Gary.

Black Flight:  Something momentous is happening here in [Minneapolis] the home of prairie populism:  black flight.  African-American families from the poorest neighborhoods are rapidly abandoning the district public schools, going to charter schools, and taking advantage of open enrollment at suburban public schools.

Gay Unions Fracture Maryland's Black Caucus.  Maryland's African American lawmakers are deeply divided in the emerging debate over same-sex marriage, which forces them to balance their communities' bedrock religious convictions against a traditional commitment to civil rights.

 Editor's Note:   Same-sex marriage is not a civil rights issue.  Homosexual activists call it a civil rights issue to generate support for the idea, but that is a sham and a fraud.

Civil rights today:  Like the March of Dimes' victory against polio in the U.S., civil rights organizations can claim victory as well.  At one time, black Americans did not enjoy the same constitutional guarantees as other Americans.  Now we do.  Because the civil rights struggle is over and won doesn't mean that all problems have vanished within the black community.  A 70 percent illegitimacy rate, 65 percent of black children raised in female-headed households, high crime rates and fraudulent education are devastating problems, but they're not civil rights problems.  Furthermore, their solutions do not lie in civil rights strategies.

The paradox that divides black America.  Perhaps nothing else so encapsulates the endless paradoxes of being black in America.  Never have blacks had so much legal freedom, yet there are record numbers in jail.  Traditional black neighborhoods have collapsed into drug-ridden crime strongholds, even as the black middle class is the biggest in history.

The "D" stands for demagogue.  The freaks come out at night.  The demagogues came out on Martin Luther King Day.  Democrat N.Y. Sen. Hillary Clinton, perhaps looking to distract attention from those pesky Code Pink protesters who've been dogging her over the Iraq war, commemorated the holiday by pulling a reverse Sister Souljah at race hustler Al Sharpton's pulpit in Harlem. … When a Democrat politician stumps at a church, you see, it's "minority outreach."  When a Republican politician stumps at a church, it's a theocratic outrage.

Our most destructive kind of racism.  Paula Zahn devoted two of her hour-long CNN shows this week to the topic "Skin Deep: Racism in America."  After taking the time to watch, the question I walked away with was:  "What was the point?"  In my view, the shows told us little that most of us don't already know — strong racist sentiments exist in the country — and really never asked the deeper and more important questions about what this means and why we should care.

Morgan Freeman criticizes black history month.  Black History Month has roots in historian Carter G. Woodson's Negro History Week, which he designated in 1926 as the second week in February to mark the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.  Woodson said he hoped the week could one day be eliminated — when black history would become fundamental to American history.

Black support for Bush drops to two percent.  If only blacks knew of the true history of the Democratic Party.  "Black History Month" has been observed for 29 years, yet many blacks know little to nothing about the parties' respective roles in advancing or hindering the civil rights of blacks.  How many blacks know that following the Civil War, 23 blacks — 13 of them ex-slaves — were elected to Congress, all as Republicans?  The first black Democrat was not elected to Congress until 1935, from the state of Illinois.  The first black congressional Democrat from a Southern state was not elected until 1973.

Republicans and blacks:  Blacks have voted so overwhelmingly for Democrats for so long that Republicans have few incentives to try to gain black votes — and little success when they do.

When Civil Rights Leaders Were Civilized.  An America where blacks run Merrill Lynch, American Express and the State Department no longer needs civil-rights activism of the Rosa Parks and James Weldon Johnson variety, and hasn't for decades.  Thanks in large part to their diligence and sacrifices, the battle for legal equality has been fought and won.  Blacks still face social and economic challenges, but these result mainly from self-inflicted cultural wounds, not a manifestly unjust society.

Black Teachers for Black Studies?  A Philosophical Critique of Multiculturalist Pedagogy.  Multiculturalists maintain that there is no such thing as truth, only diverse opinions, each "true" in the opinion of the person or group that holds it, none true absolutely.  The increasingly popular notion that instead of simple, universal truth, there is only "white truth" and "black truth," "female truth" and "male truth," "gay truth" and "straight truth," threatens the integrity of American universities, which had been distinguished by their commitment to discovering and disseminating truth without trimming it to suit special-interest groups.

Term 'Minority' Criticized As Outdated.  The majority of residents in Texas, California, New Mexico, Hawaii and Washington, D.C., are some ethnicity other than non-Hispanic whites, according to Census Bureau population estimates released last week.  Five other states, including New York and Georgia, could make that shift by 2010.

U.S. Blacks, if a Nation, Would Rank High on AIDS.  Nearly 600,000 African-Americans are living with H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS, and up to 30,000 are becoming infected each year.  When adjusted for age, their death rate is two and a half times that of infected whites, the report said.

HIV epidemic in U.S. worse than previously thought, CDC says.  While the epidemic has remained stable for most of this decade, the new figures confirm that the brunt of the epidemic is being borne by gay men and young African Americans and Latinos.  There have been small declines among heterosexuals and injectable-drug users.  Gay men accounted for 53% of new infections in 2006, the most recent year for which data are available.  The infection rate among blacks was seven times that among whites, and the rate among Latinos was nearly three times as high.

Are racial designations real, or just political?  "Texas Becomes Newest 'Majority-Minority' State, Census Bureau Announces."  This was the headline of a recent U.S. Census Bureau press release noting that Texas has now joined Hawaii, New Mexico and California as a state whose "minority" population exceeds 50 percent of the state's population.

White children are now in the minority.  The youngest Anglo children in Hillsborough County and across Florida are now a minority, foreshadowing the day when Florida — like four states now — becomes a majority-minority state.  Non-Hispanic whites in Florida accounted for fewer than half of all children younger than 5 last year, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released today [8/15/2006].

Records said to dispute Tuskegee Airmen lore.  It has been part of the lore of America's first black fighter pilots since the end of World War II:  The Tuskegee Airmen never lost a bomber to enemy fire.  But now, more than 60 years later, a leader of the group says he has uncovered records proving the claim is not accurate.

Burned, Baby, Burned:  Watts and the Tragedy of Black America.  The author argues that the riots in Watts launched a new — and misguided — tactic of menacing protest and rebellion for its own sake in the struggle for civil rights.

You Can't Talk About That.  All of us were still haunted by what we'd been watching on our TV screens through Katrina Week:  the spectacle of several thousand black Americans openly, nakedly displaying their helpless, hopeless, clueless, angry dependency.  It was there, it was real, though we're stuffing it down the memory hole now as fast as we can work our fingers.

Is the Concept of Race Illegitimate?  Several noted social scientists have argued that race is an illegitimate concept and can only foster racism and related evils.  The everyday concept of race is too crude to serve molecular biologists and government policymakers well, but does it follow that race is a completely arbitrary and meaningless concept that necessarily impedes justice and social harmony?

Michael Jackson dodged a bullet.  Black Harvard sociologist Orlando Patterson said, "The sociological truths are that America, while still flawed in its race relations … is now the least racist white-majority society in the world; has a better record of legal protection of minorities than any other society, white or black; offers more opportunities to a greater number of black persons than any other society, including all those of Africa…."

Stealing Black History:  Deleting God from the black experience in America is cutting the heart out of a people's story.

The Downfall of Language:  navigating Ebonics.  Communication is based on mutual understanding and shared information, not broken sentences and questionable, slang-derived expressions, the default language of the uneducated, undereducated, the abandoned, the misrepresented and the disenfranchised.

Whites-only groups are rare, but blacks-only groups are proliferating.
 Getting better.  Get ready for the 10th anniversary of the 'Million Man March' in October, and get ready to endure a litany of complaints about the state of race relations in this country.

A Tale of Two Cities:  The welfare state detaches rewards from behavior. … People are encouraged not to better themselves, but to think in terms of rights and entitlements. … The results are catastrophic.  Robberies and street crime – not to mention the unheard of before shootings in broad daylight – have soared to an unprecedented level.  Black gangsters are modeling themselves on Jamaican Yardies battling other gangs for control of the lucrative cocaine trade.  No one has the guts to mention that the majority of violent criminals using guns and knives are black.

Homicide trends in the U.S.:  Charts provided by the Bureau of Justice Statistics show that blacks were seven times more likely than whites to commit homicide in 2002.

Mapping the Unmentionable:  Race And Crime.  The government makes much detailed information on crime rates by race available.  But almost nobody ever tries to learn anything from it.

Milwaukee's black leaders say the enemy is within.  Black leaders in Milwaukee say their community is being torn apart from the inside.  Civil rights leaders like 57-year-old Prentice McKinney, who fought to free Milwaukee's blacks from the ghetto, say gangs, drugs and violence have left those who still live in the nation's urban cores in fear of the next generation.

Not black enough:  Alternately, students at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, are lifting up and lashing back at a recent guest speaker invited by the school's College Republicans club.  The group invited Vernon Robinson, a University of North Carolina professor, to address students in honor of Black History Month.

Almost everything designated a "civil rights" problem isn't.  Does anyone really think America suffers from an insufficiency of talk about race?  What is in scarce supply is talk about the meaning of the phrase "civil rights."  Not every need is a right, and if the adjective is a modifier that modifies, not every right is a civil right — one central to participation in civic life.

Black rednecks and white liberals:  Teachers are not supposed to correct black youngsters who speak "black English" and no one is supposed to be judgmental about the whole lifestyle of black rednecks.  In that culture, belligerence is considered being manly and crudity is considered cool, while being civilized is regarded as "acting white."  These are devastating, self-imposed handicaps that prevent many young ghetto blacks from getting a decent education or an opportunity to rise to higher levels.

A must read:  Thomas Sowell's new volume, "Black Rednecks and White Liberals," offers a taste of some of his earlier work as well as a cornucopia of new insights. … The title refers to the first essay, which argues that many of the traits commonly considered "authentically black" are actually the inheritance of the white redneck culture amid which many blacks lived for centuries.  These include hair-trigger touchiness on the part of men, anti-intellectualism, pride, sexual license, backwardness and laziness.

Reaction to Sowell's new book:
 Who's a redneck?  Some whites in the South have reacted with resentment at the thought that they are being stereotyped as rednecks while some blacks resent anything that suggests anything negative about themselves.

Black Racism at Work:  For nearly half a century, predominately white America has been trying to atone for past wrongs done to black people.  However, nothing seems to be enough.  The more society adapts to their demands, the more the demands increase.  And, the demands have gone well beyond that which is justified.

Note:  This article is replete with quotations from vulgar, profane and obscene lyrics.
 How Hip-Hop Holds Blacks Back.  Not long ago, I was having lunch in a KFC in Harlem, sitting near eight African-American boys, aged about 14.  Since 1) it was 1:30 on a school day, 2) they were carrying book bags, and 3) they seemed to be in no hurry, I assumed they were skipping school.  They were extremely loud and unruly, tossing food at one another and leaving it on the floor.  Black people ran the restaurant and made up the bulk of the customers, but it was hard to see much healthy "black community" here.

Memo to young black men:  Please grow up.  Hip hop began as some sort of Afro protest doggerel and was very quickly taken over by the gangster rappers, who emphasized the crudest materialism in which the ultimate goal was money and it did not matter how one got it.  The street thug, the gang member, the drug dealer and the pimp became icons of sensibility and success.

Obama And The Hip-Hop Problem:  [Senator] Obama should take a look at a new report from the Parents Television Council about three popular rap-music programs that air in the afternoon or early evening — "Sucker Free" on MTV and "Rap City" and "106 & Park" on Black Entertainment Television for two weeks in December and a week in March.  In 41 and a half hours studied, analysts found 282 uses of the N-word. … In those same hours, there were 143 uses of the B-word to describe women. … The rap shows included 205 depictions or discussions of drug sale or use and other illegal activity during the study period, for an average of 7.5 instances per hour, or roughly one instance every eight minutes.

Hip-hop videos give the wrong lessons in social behavior.  The X-rated rap lyrics are troubling enough.  In addition to that, the videos portray raw anger over seemingly minor disputes, violent hyper-masculinity and shallow materialism.  But even more crass are the roles assigned to young attractive women:  They are inevitably cast as mercenary trollops, eager and available for any thug-style pleasure.

Hip-hop's contribution to society?  Words that aren't fit to print.  The other night, for example, clicking between the Twins and Cleveland and hockey's Vancouver and Dallas I stumbled onto one of the cable network's comedy shows.  By comedy show, I mean one in the seemingly endless showcases of primarily young black male comics performing before primarily a young black audience. … Without exaggeration, I would say that this guy used every offensive word possible, to his race in general and to women specifically, in the 25 seconds I watched.

UPN's wild hip-hop awards party.  The awards began with the rapper called "The Game" winning for "Hottest Hook" for a song called "Hate It Or Love It."  The song has all the typical lyrics about glorious gang-banging for big money and how he used to threaten to kill people over Nike sneakers.  When he won, he just had to declare from the stage that, "I want to thank God, from whom all blessings flow."  God must have been so pleased.

Say no to hip-hop's excesses.  If the civil rights establishment is looking for a new crusade, it needs to summon the guts to ignore the billions that flow through the hip-hop industry.  At the close of 2004 all top-10 rap singles ranked by Billboard used the "n" word in their uncensored versions. … Black rappers are wearing the chains of volunteer slavery.

And the cheat goes on.  I am astounded by the naïvité of young people — black and white — who actually buy the canned rebelliousness not just of rap music but of most pop music. … It's all such an obvious con game.  We hear so much about how kids today are cynical, skeptical, media-savvy and so forth.  But if they're buying this hooey, they're idiots.

The Democratic party:  Modern day slave master.  The Democratic Party, the liberal "mainstream" media and the rest of the cultural elites are having a very hard time handling Dr. Rice's rise to power.  They've waged a disgraceful, racist and cowardly back-door assault against her.  Why?  Little Ms. Condoleezza has wandered away from the plantation.  She refuses to slave in the cotton fields of "progressive" ideology.

The gig is up for Berry.  After nearly a quarter century of mischief-making at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Chairman Mary Frances Berry is on her way out the door.  Few government officials in the nation's history have managed to hold on to power for so long or wielded it as autocratically and in pursuit of such radical aims as has Dr. Berry.

Another dictator toppled (here at home).  Mary Frances Berry, chairman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, is resigning.  Those scratch marks on the floor may be from her fingernails as they dragged her from the building by her feet.  Berry has been a member of the commission for 24 of its 47 years. ... Berry departs with allegations of mismanagement swirling about her head.  The commission is small potatoes, Washington-wise, with a budget of only $9 million and a staff of only 70.  But no one knows how that money has been spent over the past 12 years, while Berry has presided with an iron hand.

Black Clergy Denounces "Racial Motivated Attacks" on Condoleezza Rice.  A coalition of black clergy Friday [11/19/2004] denounced recent "racial motivated attacks" by three editorial cartoonists, the Washington Post and the New York Times upon National Security Adviser Dr. Condoleezza Rice, who was recently nominated by President Bush to serve as the next secretary of state.

When liberals play the race card:  Look at the treatment of prominent black Republicans like National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of State Colin Powell.  Liberal critics pull no punches in using race to criticize them.  Political cartoonists Pat Oliphant and Jeff Danziger drew political cartoons accentuating Dr. Rice's black features and depict her speaking in rural Southern dialect.  Garry Trudeau referred to her as "Brown Sugar" in his comic strip, "Doonesbury."


Note:  All the material about the Duke Lacrosse case has been moved here.


Anti-intellectualism among the academic elite.  Jon Entine, in his book "Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports And Why We're Afraid to Talk About It" (1999), says, "All of the 32 finalists in the last four Olympic men's 100-meter races are of West African descent."  The probability of such an outcome by chance is all but zero.  The genetic physiological and biomechanical characteristics that cause blacks to excel in some sports — basketball, football and track — spell disaster for those who have aspirations to be Olympic-class swimmers.  Entine says, "No African American has ever qualified for the U.S. Olympic swim or dive team.

Bigotry and Sports:  Although not too many years ago, sports-writing was considered the "toy department" of journalism, the boys and girls in the press box have been eager to catch up to their counterparts in the "real" world.  And so, they are also no longer content with merely reporting the scores, trades and what have you; they must now generate the news.  And, similar to the mainstream media, they need divisive issues in order to push the agenda of all J-school graduates:  to change the world.

Selling out black Americans:  "We, black Americans are being displaced in Los Angeles," [Terry] Anderson told an indifferent Congress.  "We are being systematically and economically replaced.  And the next time somebody tells you that the illegals only take jobs that blacks won't do, just remember that we were doing those jobs before the illegals got here."

Why more blacks support Bush this year.  According to two polls released over the week just passed, President Bush has picked up significant ground among black voters.  A New York Times poll showed black support for the president at 17 percent.

No Respect for Diversity in News Coverage of Rice 9/11 Testimony.  It's not unusual for folks to wonder if there is a double standard in the news media.  Usually, that question has to do with ideology, a liberal or conservative bias perhaps.  But the headlines about Dr. Rice's testimony are not about ideology, but about diversity in views.  The press just can't seem to understand that a well-educated black woman could hold the views Dr. Rice holds.

Any serious discussion of race must address out-of-wedlock births.  [Obama] did acknowledge that welfare policies "may" have hurt black families.  But he affirmed with certainty that "a lack of economic opportunity among black men, and the shame and frustration that came from not being able to provide for one's family, contributed to the erosion of black families."  That's true.  But it's also true that African-American families were much more intact in the decades before the Civil Rights Act than they were in the decades after it.

Same-sex marriage and the disposal of fatherhood:  Single motherhood is a predictor for children at higher risk for teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, academic underachievement, drug use and juvenile delinquency.  Nowhere is this correlation more strongly substantiated than in the African-American community — where 68 percent of black children are born to unwed mothers and half of black males between ages 18-35 are involved in America's criminal-justice system, according to a study of urban youths in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore.

Black men must reclaim our children.  As the mug shots of the alleged killers of NFL star Sean Taylor were shown on television, I kept wondering when we were going to see their parents step forward.  I saw a couple of mothers, but their dads were missing in action.  Dads matter, and it's ridiculous for us to act as if all it takes is a loving mom.

The Wisdom of Conservative Blacks:  Conservatism in America contends that by being self-reliant, getting an education, and holding dear the importance of family values, all Americans should have the opportunity to achieve at least a comfortable middle-class lifestyle.  If you think about it, the idea of conservatism is nothing short of the "American Dream."  There are several voices within the conservative black community.  They are not merely an "echo" of each other, but individuals with an identity and a message in the spirit of Booker T. Washington, Frederic Douglass, and Mary McLeod Bethune.

Why aren't black voters rallying to Bush?   At a time when one of the nation's primary concerns is foreign affairs and terrorism, we have a black secretary of state and a black national security adviser.  Never have blacks held such top jobs in an administration.  Why then does The Washington Post/ABC poll done in May [2004] show only 6 percent support among blacks for Bush?

HBO'S Anti-Whitewashed Fairy Tales:  In Jack and the Beanstalk, not only are all the players black but so even is a rabbit that jumps out of a magician's hat.  In Little Red Riding Hood (or "Happy Coat" in this China-based tale) even the squirrels have almond-shaped eyes.  That squirrels do not have the extra fold that characterizes Asian eyelids is irrelevant.  Even nature bows to the PC gods at HBO.  It seems only one major ethnic group has been left out.  Of over 90 voices used in this series, just one appears to belong to a token white of non-Hispanic descent.

Bob Kerrey clarifies the liberal view of blacks and women:  It is widely believed in universities and in the media that conservatives are more likely than liberals to be racist and sexist.  I have long believed that the opposite is true, that most Democratic politicians and most liberal activists, at the very least, do not regard black people as they do all others and, at worst, believe that blacks are inferior.

Liberal damage to black America is enormous.  One of the most dangerous myths in our lifetime has been that liberalism and the Democratic Party are black America's best friends.  For all of us who desperately want African-Americans to prosper, the destruction of this myth may be the single most important step to that end.

Real Racism:  The cultural Marxists are trying to get a fear of unfair criticism or name-calling to intimidate you and me into failing to point out, speak out, and fight back against Political Correctness and those who are carrying forward its destructive work.  If you and I let them intimidate us, then we are helping to continue the serious problems that all Americans, and especially black Americans, are suffering from today.

African-Americans and Election 2000:  In 1911, President Woodrow Wilson wisely observed:  "A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do.  We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about."  This is still true today, especially concerning African-American history.  (Also available in PDF format.

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson & Slavery in Virginia:  It is ironic that two prominent Founding Fathers who owned slaves (Thomas Jefferson and George Washington) were both early — albeit unsuccessful — pioneers in the movement to end slavery in their State and in the nation.

 Excellent!   Which political party supports your values?  Compare the basic principles and values of the two major political parties and decide for yourself.

Federal Museum Denies Slavery in Africa Was "Dehumanizing":  The Smithsonian's African American history museum states that although instances of slavery can be found throughout human history, the practice did not become "dehumanizing" until white Europeans came along and took slaves to the Americas.  In other words, the Smithsonian claims that black-on-black slavery, which continues to this day, isn't dehumanizing, but white-on-black slavery was.

The Earliest Civil Rights Efforts:  The passage of the 14th Amendment, much like the 13th Amendment, was also along partisan lines.  In the House, it passed 138 to 36.  Of the 134 Republicans in the House, 128 (96%) voted to provide civil rights to former slaves; of the 36 Democrats, none (0%) voted to give civil rights to African Americans; and of the 11 third-party representatives, 10 (91%) voted in favor of racial civil rights.

Black Pastor Compares Abortion to Slavery,  citing "racist" statements from the founder of Planned Parenthood.  An estimated 1,452 African-American children are killed each day by the act of abortion.  Between 1882 and 1968, 3,446 blacks were lynched in the United States — a number surpassed in less than three days by abortion.

Abortion is Causing "Black Genocide," Activists Say.  During America's commemoration of Black History Month, some pro-life activists are charging that legalized abortion has led to a "black genocide" of more than 14 million unborn African-American babies.  They condemn, in particular, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America…

Race, Law and Society:  The United States Supreme Court's decision to review Grutter v. Bollinger could have long-term consequences in how our society approaches issues of race, affirmative action, quotas and diversity as we enter this new millennium.

"White guilt" and affirmative action:  At the University of Michigan, black, Hispanic and Native American applicants to the college get 20 bonus points just for the accident of their birth.  A similar mechanism is in place for admission to the law school, too.

The Balkanization of College Campuses:  The New York Civil Rights Commission has put out a report which surveyed 50 prominent colleges and universities, [and] …shows these schools encouraging minority students to join ethnic organizations, to live in racially separated dormitories, and to participate in race-based cultural activities.  This is done in the name of "cultural awareness," which provide "support systems."

Blacks and Guns:  African-Americans have a serious problem with guns.  They don't have enough of them.  Despite being victimized by crime at several times the rate of whites, only 30 percent of black adults own guns, compared to 43 percent of whites.

Felons call voting ban unfair to minorities.  A lawsuit pending [in Seattle] and similar cases across the country have asked the courts to overturn state laws that keep felons from the ballot box, claiming the laws discriminate against minorities who make up a disproportionate number of the nation's prisoners.

The Silence of the Liberals:  The reason for the silence stares us in the face.  The gangsters themselves are largely black, and Minneapolis's political culture is absorbed in a crusade against the reality that blacks are arrested and incarcerated in numbers that substantially exceed their proportion in the general population.

Why are so many blacks in prison?  Between 1976 and 2005, blacks have been killing other people at a rate 6 to 9 times higher, every year, than the comparable homicide rates for whites.  Furthermore, these statistics are skewed in favor of blacks, because the "white" category includes also Hispanics who identify themselves as whites but whose crime rates are far higher than those of non-Hispanic whites.

The nobleness of black conservatives:  Have you ever considered what it would be like to be a black political conservative in modern America?  How many people are brave enough to endure the kind of vilification and scorn they routinely encounter?

The making of a black underclass:  In a few short weeks, many thousands of black children will enter first grade in public schools all over America where, inside of a year, many of them will become full-fledged reading failures and, thereby, future members of the black underclass.

Republicans' New Con Job:  The "Containment Theory" Of Affirmative Action.  Some Republicans have decided that affirmative action is here to stay, so the best we can do is to contain it.  That means limiting affirmative action to blacks and American Indians.  Containment is surrender.  This ain'tthe Cold War; this is the war for the Constitution.

Colin Powell Jeered in Africa for Treating Africans as Equals:  Media reports on Secretary of State Colin Powell seem more determined to find — or worse — create an aura of controversy between the Bush Administration and Secretary of State Colin Powell than they are to actually REPORT what Powell is saying.

Black journalists jeer peer:  A conservative activist says that he was booed, jeered and called "the white man's boy" by a crowd of nearly 300 black reporters and media figures for speaking against reparations at last week's annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists.


Black History Month vs. Condoleezza Rice:
A friend of mine from Arkansas writes the following:  "Thought you'd appreciate this little anecdote.  A co-worker of mine has a daughter in public elementary school, here in Pine Bluff.  They're still doing Black History Month stuff, apparently, because the kids were told to come to class dressed as a famous (and presumably accomplished) African-American.  My co-worker's kid was told to come as Tina Turner.  My co-worker informed the teacher that her child would come as Condoleezza Rice instead.  The teacher refused to allow it, on grounds that Rice 'is for white people.'  Nice, huh?"

Don't Believe the Hype – You Can Embrace Conservatism:  "Black America has a challenge.  Despite steady improvement in our quality of life, much remains to be done.  To speed improvement, liberal domination of our politics must come to a screeching halt.  We must pull the brakes and return black America to our conservative roots."

Issues & Views:  The hard copy edition of this newsletter was founded in 1985 by black Americans who advocate self-help and business enterprise and the protection of constitutional rights.  It is a forum for dissidents, conservatives, and plain old mavericks — all those who are concerned about cultural decline and the erosion of our constitutional liberties.

Kill the white man?  Writing in the current edition of Harvard Magazine, Noel Ignatiev, a Harvard fellow and Marxist activist, argues that "abolishing the white race" (give or take a few murders, of course) "is desirable" because it would rectify the overt discrimination of the past.

Stereotypes About Stereotypes:  Statistical disparities among groups are routinely equated with discrimination, as if there could not possibly be any differences in behavior or performance among the groups themselves.

Debating The Unmentionable:  The Black-White IQ Gap:  The racial gap in average IQ is one of the most important factors in modern American life.  We can tell how important it is because we aren't allowed to talk about it.  The IQ gap is rather like the dog that didn't bark in the Sherlock Holmes story, palpable by its absence.  Raising black IQ was an explicit goal of Great Society programs such as Head Start … [But] When the 1960s-1970s burst of spending failed to deliver quick results, however, the topic was slowly driven out of polite society.

James D. Watson:  Broken by the PC Inquisition, Betrayed by the Righteous Right.  James D. Watson, perhaps the most distinguished living American scientist, has now been kicked to the curb by the Cold Spring Harbor genetics laboratory he rescued and rebuilt over the last 40 years for making politically (but not scientifically) incorrect statements about African IQs.

Race and IQ:  Only the repeated renorming of IQ tests upward created the illusion that blacks had made no progress, but were stuck at an IQ of 85.  But we would never have known this if some researchers had not defied the taboo on studying race and IQ imposed by black "leaders" and white "friends."

Race and IQ: part II:  According to Professor John McWhorter, a black faculty member at the University of California at Berkeley, anti-intellectualism in the black culture keeps many black youngsters from doing their best.

Race and IQ:  Part III:  I happened to run into Charles Murray in Dulles International Airport while he and Richard Herrnstein were writing "The Bell Curve."  When I asked him what he was working on and he summarized what he was writing, he could tell that I was concerned about him, so I told him why:  "Charles, no matter what you say, people will hear what they want to hear."

The Lie Is Winning:  Scapegoating Lino Graglia.  Even when all the groups have had the same access to education, not all have seized the opportunity to the same degree or put the same effort into it.  No one with the slightest regard for facts can deny that this is true in the United States today.  Even black and white liberals have expressed dismay that black children who try to do well in school are denounced by their peers for "acting white."

Black Education:  At Baltimore's predominantly black Frederick Douglass High School … students are four to five years below grade level.  Most of its ninth-graders read at the third-, fourth- or fifth-grade levels.  In 2006, only 24 percent of its students tested proficient in reading, in math just 11 percent, and that's an improvement over previous years.  Only one student managed to score above 1,000 on the SAT and another student scored 440 out of 1,600.  You get 400 points for just writing in your name.  Out of its 1,100 students, 200 to 300 are absent each day.

States Help Schools Hide Minority Scores.  States are helping public schools escape potential penalties by skirting the No Child Left Behind law's requirement that students of all races must show annual academic progress.  With the federal government's permission, schools aren't counting the test scores of nearly two million students when they report progress by racial groups, an Associated Press computer analysis found.

Prosperity's Critical Ingredients:  African leaders are quick to blame the legacy of colonialism for their troubles.  I'll never make an argument for colonialism, but the fact is the average African was better off under colonialism than he has ever been under independence.

Dr. King, Roe v. Wade and Margaret Sanger:  Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger formed the organization to implement the eugenic ideology that prevailed in the early 20th century.  The eugenicists with whom she aligned herself espoused belief, as Sanger put it, in the "supremacy" and "purity" of certain races of people, notably the Aryan race.  They believed the "fit" should be encouraged to reproduce, while the "unfit" should constrain their numbers.  The "unfit" were the poor, racial minorities and certain groups of immigrants, and the physically and mentally handicapped.  They sought to accomplish this through sterilization, birth control and, eventually, abortion.

The Negro Project:  Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Plan for Black Americans.  The disproportionately high number of abortions in the black community is no accident.  Many Americans — black and white — are unaware of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger's Negro Project.  Sanger created this program in 1939, after the organization changed its name from the American Birth Control League to the Birth Control Federation of America.  The aim of the program was to restrict — many believe exterminate — the black population.

Clinton Library Woos Blacks After Destruction of Slave Landmark:  Despite the demolition of an African-American landmark on the grounds of Bill Clinton's future presidential library, library officials are now openly wooing black tourists and businesses.

Inter-Racial Crime:  The Dirty Little Secret.

Making the case:  The lawlessness of today's racial quota and gun control liberals may be coming under serious challenge.

"I Hit This White Man" Giggler Charged With Murder:  A motorist who allegedly hit a homeless man and left him impaled in her windshield until he died — and who later laughed about her actions — was indicted for murder [4/25/2002].  There was no explanation why she was not charged with a "hate crime."

 Update:   Motorist Guilty in Windshield Murder:  A fact that many media are refusing to report about the case:  Mallard, who is black, giggled as she told friends several months later, "I hit this white man."  She has never, however, been charged with a "hate crime."


The Department of Kwanzaa:

"Kwanzaa" was invented by a black criminal in California:  Kwanzaa is increasingly seen as an appropriate multicultural alternative to Christmas, a holiday considered too religious and "Eurocentric" for public schools.  But there is one not-so-insignificant problem associated with Kwanzaa.  While many teachers believe it to be an ancient African harvest festival, it was actually born, not in pre-colonial West Africa, but in 1960s southern California.  It is, in fact, the brainchild of African-American radical activist, academic and convicted felon Ron Karenga.

Kwanzaa was born of separatism and radicalism

A lump of coal for Kwanzaa.  As some know, this High Holy Week saw its birth 482 moons in the distant past, which means about forty years ago.  It was founded by the Great Prophet, Maulana Karenga, who was born in the cradle of religion itself, Maryland.  Like many deeply spiritual men, Karenga came from humble origins, christened Ron N. Everett and raised on a poultry farm.

Fleecing the flock:  Kwanzaa not only has no roots in Africa, it is not celebrated anywhere in Africa.  It is a complete fabrication from the mind of [Ron N.] Everett.  Everett said, "I came up with Kwanzaa because black people in this country wouldn't celebrate it if they knew it was American.  Also, I put it around Christmas because I knew that's when a lot of bloods would be partying."

The Kwanzaa Hoax:  [Maulana] Karenga — known chiefly as the inventor of Kwanzaa, a fake "African" holiday that he contrived in 1966 — has enjoyed a truly colorful career.  He was a prominent black nationalist during the 1960s, when his organization was involved in various violent operations.  He was sent to prison in 1971, after he and some of his pals tortured two women with a soldering iron and a vise, among other things.  He emerged from prison in 1974, and a few years later — in a maneuver that even The Kingfish might have found difficult — he got himself installed as the chairman of the Department of Black Studies at California State University at Long Beach.

Happy Kwanzaa.  On December 24, 1971, the New York Times ran one of the first of many articles on a new holiday designed to foster unity among African Americans.  The holiday, called Kwanzaa, was applauded by a certain sixteen-year-old minister who explained that the feast would perform the valuable service of "de-whitizing" Christmas.  The minister was a nobody at the time but he would later go on to become perhaps the premier race-baiter of the twentieth century.  His name was Al Sharpton and he would later spawn the Tawana Brawley hoax and then incite anti-Jewish tensions in a 1995 incident that ended with the arson deaths of seven people.

Another View of Ron Karenga:  It seems the founder of Kwanzaa wasn't any more ethical than those who sung its praises.  In fact, at the same time Al Sharpton was glorifying the new holiday, its creator was sitting in a California prison for torturing two black women who were members of the United Slaves, a black nationalist cult he had founded.  The cult leader Ron N. Everett went by the name Karenga and in the 60's took upon himself the title "maulana," which means "master teacher" in Swahili.  He was born on a poultry farm in Maryland, the fourteenth child of a Baptist minister.

Kwanzaa is for Pagans.  For decades, the media have given credence to many a self-appointed black "leader", no matter how outrageous.  Now they're doing the same with a pagan ritual called Kwanzaa, a so-called African-American holiday.  A made-up, anti-Christian observance, Kwanzaa is celebrated by blacks who profess Christ.  In our politically correct climate, even President George Bush, a believer in Christ, feels obligated to praise this ritual.

Kwanzaa:  a Christmas Substitute?  In spite of it being declared a non-religious holiday, Kwanzaa is being accepted in our children's schools, stores and etc., alongside the religious celebrations of Christmas and Hanukkah, sometimes leaving Christmas out altogether.  And for many in the Black church, Jesus Christ and the principles found in the Bible are not enough.  People are being urged to practice daily the seven principles of Kwanzaa (the Nguzo Saba) to better one's self and to seek intercession on the behalf of dead ancestors (ancestor worship).

Kwanzaa and the Church:  Karenga's official Kwanzaa website ... [says] "you should not mix Kwanzaa holiday or its symbols, values, and practices with any other culture."  That's in part because Kwanzaa was established as an alternative to Christmas which was viewed as a western holiday.  Christian worship would seem to violate the intent of Kwanzaa's promoters.  But if public schools and civic ceremonies are any indication, Kwanzaa is gaining equal standing as a third holiday alongside Christmas and Hanukah.  And most folks have no idea it is not an ancient African ritual, but rather the invention of a sixties activist.

Another Viewpoint:  Kwanzaa is in reality a non-Christian religious ceremony.  It is expressly promoted as not being religious but its Seven Principles are taken from directly Everett's personal religious philosophy, which he calls Kawaida (based on Ma'at, an ancient Egyptian mystic religion that Everett, the son of a Baptist minister, left the church to adopt as a young man).  Also, its key rituals and artifacts are modeled after non-Christian religious practices and ceremonies.  Scripture does not allow the Christian to participate in such.

Kwanzaa  was invented in 1966 amidst the madness of the multicultural '60s by a black radical stooge of the FBI, Ron Karenga, a.k.a. Dr. Maulana Karenga.  Karenga was a founder of United Slaves, a violent nationalist rival to the Black Panthers and a dupe of the FBI.

The "Merry Christmas!" Not "Happy Kwanzaa!" Campaign.  is designed to educate the American public about the phony "African-American" holiday known as Kwanzaa and to encourage the celebration of Christmas.  We want the public to know that Kwanzaa was designed to further separate Blacks from identifying with America.

The Truth About Kwanzaa:  Should Christians Celebrate It – Should Anyone Celebrate It?

Kwanzaa:  A Holiday From the FBI.  I believe more African-Americans spent this season reflecting on the birth of Christ than some phony non-Christian holiday invented a few decades ago by an FBI stooge.  Kwanzaa is a holiday for white liberals, not blacks.

Kwanzaa U.  Almost nobody in Africa has ever heard of Kwanzaa.  It is not an African holiday, and at best is a highly obscure Afro-American holiday.  The only education or experience children receive in regard to this "holiday" is through the education system, not from centuries – or even decades – of family tradition.

Just Say "No" to Kwanzaa.  Blacks should be outraged by attempts to stamp out Christianity from Christmas celebrations while accepting Kwanzaa as mainstream, says a black minister.  Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, founder and president of BOND, Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny, notes that while public school administrators and city officials attempt to ban nativity scenes, Christmas carols, candy canes and even Christmas trees from public places, Kwanzaa has been accepted as mainstream.

Kwanzaa — Racist Holiday from Hell.  In an earlier time, blacks held a strong faith in God.  But over the past 40 years, the black community has largely let God slip away.  Sure the community has maintained the outer trappings of religion, but the solid morality at its core is nearly gone.  Enter a God-hating black racist named Ron Karenga.  Born Ron Everett on a poultry farm in Maryland, Everett invented Kwanzaa in 1966, based on an African harvest festival (though it takes place during the Winter Solstice!), and celebrating the first Kwanzaa with his family and friends.

Kwanzaa, The Fraudulent Holiday, Take 2.  Kwanzaa isn't traditional at all.  It was invented in the late 1960s by convicted felon Ron Everett, leader of a so-called black nationalist group called United Slaves.  I use the word "so-called" because United Slaves' veneer of black nationalism was very thin; most of its members had been members of a South Central Los Angeles street gang called the Gladiators.

The True Spirit of Kwanzaa:  Kwanzaa is a product of violent black separatism, and it was designed to foment insularity and a sense of racial grievance.

Did you have a happy Kwanzaa?  There are few holidays we can actually attribute to one man's vision.  Kwanzaa is such a holiday — coined by Ron Karenga in 1966.


 Humor:   The Louis Farrakhan African Name Generator:  Simply enter the white man's label from which you wish to unshackle yourself and a true name for our brothers and sisters shall be [automatically generated and] granted to you.

The Strange Phenomenon of Black Anti-Semitism:  Anti-Semitism in America, according to a survey commissioned by the Anti-Defamation League, stands at an all-time low.  But alarmingly, the survey found blacks three to four times more likely than non-blacks to be anti-Semitic.  Given the tremendous historical Jewish support for blacks, this insensitivity toward Jews and Israel suggests ignorance and lack of gratitude.

White Guilt = Black Power:  There should be many more imbroglios like the one currently playing out at Harvard University, enough for America to finally understand that white guilt is exactly the same thing as black power.  But it is testament to the daunting power of white guilt that confrontations like this one happen so rarely.

Of Human Bondage:  21st Century Slavery:  Every year, at least 700,000 human beings are traded for profit like so much property.  In his battle against this international human trafficking, Chris Smith — a Republican congressman from New Jersey — has undertaken retail rescue operations as well as wholesale policy reforms.

Do We Want Mexifornia?  Californians cannot even obtain accurate numbers of how many of the state's more than 10 million Hispanic residents have arrived here from Mexico unlawfully in the last two decades.  No one believes the government's old insistence on a mere 6 million illegal residents nationwide; the real figure may be twice that.

The Language of Race  is punctuated with descriptions that underscore ethnicity but describe nothing.  It is mired in euphemisms and the tortured, convoluted syntax that betray America's pathological avoidance of straight talk about race relations.  Put it all together and you get stereotypes, dangerous misinformation, half-truths, and daily proof that when it comes to race, journalists are chained to habits that defy the cornerstone principles of solid journalism.

The Origin of the Infamous N-Word

Clarence Thomas:  Many blacks like the idea, but dislike the reality.  While ethnic diversity is good, it is no substitute for commitment to fundamental rights, liberties and constitutional principles.

"Racism" In Word and Deed:  California Democrat policies hurt blacks (and whites) where it really matters.  Housing is just one of the areas where the black vote goes overwhelmingly to politicians whose policies are harmful to blacks.  Even more harmful in the long run are failing public schools in the ghettos, where much of the next generation has its hopes of advancement destroyed before they can even get off the ground.

More Overlooked History:  Black Violence.  [The Black Panthers] Minister of Information Eldridge Cleaver wrote about his history of raping women, claiming that rape was "an insurrectionary act."  Because his victims were white, he explained, rape was not only a way to get revenge but also to defile and trample upon "the white man's law and his values."


Note:  All the material about Zimbabwe has moved to this page.


Delegitimizing the West:  At the U.N. World Conference Against Racism, it appears that racism is a one-way street.  It is viewed as a crime which only whites can commit.

The United Nations Conference of Racists:  The UN World Conference Against Racism has met and taken up its primary agenda:  the praise and protection of racists.  The tone was set on the first day of the conference, when that paragon of progressive politics, Yasser Arafat, took the podium to condemn Israel as a "racist" state that "practices racism and racial discrimination, that adopts ethnic cleansing."  He called upon the meeting to issue a condemnation of Israel, a cause backed by many in attendance — not only the Arab states, but also Jesse Jackson and other Western leftists.

U.N. Race Conference Fizzles Out:  The U.N. World Conference Against Racism went past its scheduled closing deadline as delegates failed to reach agreement on either of the topics that monopolized discussions throughout the week:  the Middle East and demands for some by an apology and reparations for slavery and colonialism.

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