The bias of the bullet-counters. Casting blame based on skin color should have ended with Jim Crow. Those of us who admit that we were not there and do not know what happened when Michael Brown was shot by a policeman in Ferguson, Mo., seem to be in the minority. We all know what has happened since then — and it has been a ... MORE
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Showing posts with label race. Show all posts
Wendy McElroy: Why the Lights of America are Dimming
You cannot create passion and talent. But you can destroy them. When people are punished for their virtues, such as the drive to excel and to work hard, then passion and talent become liabilities. Sometimes people persist for the sheer joy of creation, for the fulfillment of doing work they love. Because that's when the magic happens, ... MORE
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affirmative action,
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freedom,
individualism,
race,
social justice,
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Walter E Williams: Please Stop Helping Us
Misplaced loyalty. While reading the first chapter of Jason Riley’s new book, “Please Stop Helping Us,” I thought about Will Rogers’ Prohibition-era observation that “Oklahomans vote dry as long as they can stagger to the polls.” Demonstrative of similar dedication, one member of Congress told Vanderbilt University political scientist Carol Swain ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Bordering On Madness
Looking before we leap is not racism. In a recent confrontation between protesters against the illegal flood of unaccompanied children into the United States and counter-protests by some Hispanic group, one man from the latter group said angrily, "We are as good as you are!" One of the things that make the history of clashes over race or ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Do Blacks Need Favors?
Stopping educational fraud is all that is necessary. Earlier this month, the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act was
celebrated. During the act's legislative debate, then-Sen. Hubert
Humphrey, responding to predictions, promised, "I'll eat my hat if this
leads to racial quotas." I don't know whether Humphrey got around to
keeping ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: A Primer On Race
The state against blacks. Back in the heyday of the British Empire, a man from one of the colonies addressed a London audience. "Please do not do any more good in my country," he said. "We have suffered too much already from all the good that you have done." That is essentially the message of an outstanding new book by Jason ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Coming End To Racial Preferences
An idea whose time has gone. Last week's U.S. Supreme Court 6-2 ruling in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action et al. upheld Michigan's constitutional amendment that bans racial preferences in admission to its public universities. Justice Sonia Sotomayor lashed out at her colleagues in a bitter dissent, calling them "out of touch ... MORE
Andrew Napolitano: Race And Freedom
America should be a free speech zone. Cliven Bundy should be happy for the public revelation of the private comments of fellow racist Donald Sterling; the latter has replaced the former as the person Americans most love to hate. These two bigots recently spewed racial hatred: Bundy suggesting that African-Americans might do ... MORE
Sonia Quotamayor: Product Of Affirmative Action
by Willilam A. Levinson. Myths, legends, and anthropology all state that the power to name a thing is the power to control or destroy it. A simple and devastating public relations technique is, therefore, to attach a memorable and accurate name to somebody. The Allies, for example, named General Fedor Bock "Der Sterber" ("Let's go get ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Sex And Race Equality
Inside the values of sex and race equality. There are several race and sex issues that need addressing. Let's look at a few of them with an ear to these questions: Should we insist upon equal treatment of people by race and sex or tolerate differences in treatment? And just how equal are people by race and sex in the first place? According ... MORE
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diversity,
equality,
policy,
politics,
progressives,
race,
sex,
society
Christopher West: Lincoln Sucked At Ending Slavery
The exception to the 13th Amendment. Death row inmate Ray Jasper, who has never used the internet, wrote an article that went viral. Part of his appeal is that he made it sound like he was innocent. Not true, it turns out he slit a man’s throat. But what stuck out to me, was his description of the prison system. First off, he was the only black ... MORE
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drug war,
government,
incarceration,
penalties,
police,
prison,
prohibition,
race,
slavery
Angry Parents Crush Race-Quota Revival
by Steven Greenhut. When my family moved from northwest Ohio to pricey Southern California, we could afford an entry level house but couldn’t also spring for private-school tuition for the kids. So we scoured the test-score databases, looking for those neighborhoods where home values were reasonable and public schools were tops. ... MORE
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academic,
Asian-American,
discrimination,
diversity,
education,
policy,
politics,
quotas,
race
Walter E Williams: OK To Feel Sorry
The virtue of Dennis Rodman. At one time in our nation's history, blacks feeling sorry for whites was verboten. That was portrayed in Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird." This is a novel published in 1960 — and later made into a movie — about Depression-era racial relations in the Deep South. The novel's ... MORE
What We Should Remember on Martin Luther King Day
by Edwin A. Locke. What should we remember on Martin Luther King Day? In his “I Have a Dream” speech Dr. King said: “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” This statement means that in judging other men, ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Christmas Books - The Gift Of Clarity
Great winter reads. As Christmas approaches, the shopping mall can become a shopping maul. One of the ways of buying gifts for family and friends, without becoming part of a mob scene in the stores, is to shop on the Internet. However, for many kinds of gifts, you want to be able to see it directly, and perhaps handle it, before you part with your ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Blacks And Obama
The shadow cast by the president's failure. In a March 2008 column, I criticized pundits' concerns about whether America was ready for Barack Obama, suggesting that the more important issue was whether black people could afford Obama. I proposed that we look at it in the context of a historical tidbit. In 1947, Jackie Robinson, after ... MORE
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Blacks,
civil rights,
discrimination,
government,
history,
Obama,
performance,
presidency,
race
VIDEO: Income Disparities And Moral Injustice
Professor Williams suggests you check your premises.
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civil rights,
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disparity,
government,
income,
morality,
production,
race,
sex
Walter E Williams: Racial Trade-Offs
Everything has a cost. Trade-offs apply to our economic lives, as well as our political lives. That means getting more of one thing requires giving up something else. Let's look at some examples. Black congressmen and black public officials in general, including Barack Obama, always side with teachers unions in their opposition to educational vouchers ... MORE
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education,
government,
race,
race baiting,
school choice,
schools,
teachers,
unions,
vouchers
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