Lena Van Haren is a racist! Van Haren, the principal of Everett Middle School in San Francisco, with held the results of the student council election because they were not diverse enough. Everett Middle School is 80% minority or...
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IS GUN CONTROL RACIST?
Among the many things that have troubled me about the current debate about gun regulation is how black Leftists seem ignorant of the connection between racism and gun control laws. It is troubling to me to see so many...
I AM READY FOR THAT COMMON SENSE DISCUSSION ABOUT GUN RIGHTS
President Obama and the Progressive Left want to have a “common sense” discussion regarding gun rights and the Second amendment. That sounds great. Let’s do it! First, however, I think it might be a good idea for the Left...
RACE IN OUR SCHOOLS
A few years ago, I wrote an article about a school district in Mississippi that was under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department’s division of civil rights for having unacceptable race ratios. Walthall County is a rural community of...
AHMED GOES TO COLLEGE
Narrative is a powerful social tool. Because facts are mostly irrelevant to narrative, narrative is both malleable and transposable: What doesn’t fit one way can be easily twisted to fit another way, and what doesn’t apply to one situation,...
HOLLYWOOD OKEY-DOKE
In the iconic film, “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” Mickey Rooney was cast as Audrey Hepburn’s Japanese neighbor, Mr. Yunioshi. For his over the top performance, Rooney dons a prosthetic mouthpiece giving him buck teeth, thick round glasses, and lost of...
ISN’T IT IRONIC?
If this isn’t the definition of irony, I don’t know what is. I would like to briefly share with you an exchange I had over twitter last night. I was admittedly in a rather crabby mood. It was late...
CAN BABIES BE RACIST?
I believe it is crucial to point out idiocy of this sort whenever we hear it. Can babies be racists? According to Indiana state representative Vanessa Summers, the answer is: “Yes! Most definitely.” During debates about passage of Indiana’s...
EUGENICS AND MINIMUM WAGE
I hope two groups of people read this with some care and an open mind: 1. Those who think a government-managed economy is always the most beneficent kind of economy. 2. Those who think marriage laws, or the “proper”...
COMEDY AND RACISM IN BERKELEY
Stand-up comic W. Kamau Bell has been all over the internet, accusing The Elmwood Eatery, a local Bay Area restaurant, of racism. The Berkeley restaurant (yes, all of this drama occurred in that hot – bed of tolerance, Berkeley)...