There was some talk recently about upcoming vacancies on the Supreme Court because some retirements were expected. However, the High Court's decision on affirmative action suggests that there are already vacancies, even though no one has resigned. We can only hope...
Racism
Al Sharpton: The Democrat’s David Duke
If Sharpton were a white skinhead, he would be a political leper, spurned everywhere but the fringe. But far from being spurned, he is shown much deference.
The Racism of “Diversity”
President Bush faces an ideal opportunity to take a principled position on the issue of racial "diversity." As his administration ponders whether to support the legal challenge, now before the Supreme Court, to the University of Michigan's affirmative action policies,...
Standing Up to Racism
The Bush administration is currently debating whether to file briefs in a pair of affirmative action cases now before the Supreme Court. The cases, arising from admissions policies at the University of Michigan, involve that school's explicit use of race in assessing...
Pulling Racism Out of a Helmet in the National Football League
When the regular season of the National Football League concludes and coaches are fired and replaced, an annual tribalist ritual accompanies these activities. It involves advocates of "diversity" crying that there are too few black head coaches, and that more of them...
Racism in Congress: The Black Caucus
In expressing "outrage" over Senator Trent Lott's praise of Strom Thurmond and his segregationist vision, the Congressional Black Caucus was calling the kettle black. Every member of the "Black Caucus" should follow Lott's lead and resign from Congress for helping to...
The New Segregation: Racism in America, Then and Now
Trent Lott has changed from a nostalgist for segregation to an open advocate of neo-segregation. Lott's old doctrine was called "separate but equal," and kept black people out of white establishments by law, maintaining two separate sets of institutions for white and...
Lott and Thurmond: When Saying ‘I’m Sorry’ is Not Enough
The meaning of a bumper sticker “Don’t blame me–I voted Dixiecrat” is clear and unmistakable, it means regret for the end of segregation.
“Friends” of Blacks
If the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall.
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.
Black on White Crime Doesn’t Matter
Where violent crime takes place between blacks and whites, the cases overwhelmingly involve a black perpetrator and a white victim.
“Racism” In Word and Deed: California Democrat Policies Hurt Blacks (and Whites) Where It Really Matters
It has become all too common for some innocuous remark by a public figure to be seized upon and twisted to make it seem "racist," setting off loud denunciations by those who are in the business of loud denunciations. Meanwhile, actions and policies that do very real...
Politically Correct Racism vs. Justice Thomas
Ebony, a monthly black magazine, puts out an annual list of the "100+ Most Influential Black Americans." First, the magazine's criteria. Influential means, "1. Does the individual transcend his or her position and command widespread national influence? 2. Does the...
The Racism of Reparations
Reparations advocates are not concerned with individual justice. They subscribe to the collectivist belief that individuals are merely interchangeable members of a group.
The Destruction of Martin Luther King’s Dream of a Colorblind Society
As we commemorate King’s birth it is depressing to note how far America has deviated from the “dream.:
Slavery Compensation Itself Rests on Racism
The suit filed against the U.S. government and big corporations demanding "compensation" for the descendents of slaves is grotesque and should be dismissed without a hearing, said an Ayn Rand Institute Fellow. "Slavery was evil, but America atoned for it during the...
NAACP Promotes Racism on TV
because they can do the work but because they ‘represent’ their racial group,” said Tracinski.
Tracinski noted that the consequence of the NAACP’s demands will be the unjust branding of every black writer, director, or actor subsequently hired as a quota-filler, and not as an individual who earned his job.
Why Racism Persists
"Any Day Now," a weekly sitcom on cable TV's "Lifetime" channel, chronicles the lives of two woman-one black; the other white - who have renewed their childhood friendship that began in Birmingham, Alabama, during the early 1960s. The show featured a special two-hour...
Diversity and Multiculturalism: The New Racism
“Racial identity” erects an unbridgeable gulf between people, as though they were different species, with nothing fundamental in common.
Racism and The Jewish Day-Care Center Shooting
Many people have tried to explain the confessed killer's actions after last week's shooting in Los Angeles. Most of these explanations are glaringly inadequate, but even the best of them fail to identify the deeper philosophy behind this vicious crime, largely because...
Feeding fuel to a fire: Clinton’s attempt to fight racism by enshrining it
On June 14, 1997, after the Rodney King trial, the Los Angeles riots, the O.J. Simpson trial, and the abolishment of affirmative action policies at certain universities in California, Bill Clinton announced "One America in the 21st Century: The President's Initiative...
Clarence Thomas: Victim of Racism…by Blacks?
For its July Luncheon in Memphis, Tenn., the black National Bar Association invites Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to speak. But wait! The judicial branch of the association later votes 12-3 to rescind the invitation. A member tells the Richmond, Va.,...
The Clinton Commission: One Does Not Stop Racism By Practicing It
March 15, 1998To Ms. Winston,As an individualist, I am disturbed by racism; therefore I oppose One America in the 21st Century, President Clinton's initiative on race. I have followed the events of this commission closely and contend that it must ultimately fail in...
Racism is Only a Conservative Problem, Right?
Last year, Representative. Bob Barr, Republican of Georgia, gave the keynote speech before the Council of Conservative Citizens. What is the Council of Conservative Citizens? It is a southern organization that considers whites superior to blacks and equates...
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