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Kerry: There He Goes Again

A good deal of attention has been devoted to Kerry’s characteristically off key comments on Meet The Press yesterday — his warning not to “overhype” the election or “to say that something is legitimate when a whole portion of the country can’t vote and doesn’t vote.” But those weren’t his only, well, odd observations. For […]

Parody?

The trouble with much of the writing about higher education is that so much of it sounds like a parody that it’s hard to know what, if anything, should be taken seriously, and this is even more likely to be true of items written by people associated with schools of education. A case in point […]

Racial Hypocrisy Is Bi-Partisan

Jonah Goldberg has a very good column on bi-partisan racial hypocrisy. He’s absolutely right, though he could have made the point even stronger by including a mention of racial gerrymandering. The Republicans created majority-minority (which is to say, majority black) districts in a successful ploy to herd Democrats into fewer districts. That was, and is, […]

Bush’s “Bigotry” And “Black Lies”?

A few days ago I discussed a suggestion by House Ways and Means Chairman Bill Thomas that blacks, because of their higher mortality rates, were short-changed by social security (and an inane response from Meet The Press host Tim Russert). Now comes New York Times calumnist Paul Krugman with an especially vicious, even for him, […]

Racial Discrimination, Then And Now

The New York Times today published an obituary of retired federal district court judge, William Bootle, who died Tuesday at 102. (Hat Tip to Howard Bashman) Although many of you will not recognize his name, Judge Bootle was one of the courageous Southern judges who upheld the principle of equality when it was, er, considerably […]

The Declining Relevance Of Race/Ethnicity/Gender (And Their Groups)

Drudge reports this morning that the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has refused to endorse Alberto Gonzales for Attorney General. There is, of course, nothing surprising about this. The Black Caucus did not support Clarence Thomas or, more recently, the nomination of California Supreme Court justice Janice Rogers Brown to a position on U.S. Court of Appeals […]

Graduation Rates

This morning the Chronicle of Higher Education reports on a new study from the National Center for Education Statistics that contains, among other things, graduation rates of students who enrolled in four year colleges in 1996. The Chronicle reports that “women were more likely than men to complete their degrees.” In terms of race or […]

Julian Bond Sees “Right Wing Conspiracy” But No Stigma

Julian Bond, speaking at Franklin & Marshall College: The quest for political and economic equality is still unfulfilled, Bond said. Citing a recent movement to end affirmative action, Bond warned of the “right-wing conspiracy” that “controls the administration, both houses of Congress, a majority of the judiciary and much of the media.” Those trying to […]

Texas A&M Rejects Preferences, Raises Minority Enrollment

Adding insult to injury to the nearly uniform addiction to racial preferences in higher education, Texas A&M is standing firm with its refusal to re-instate preferences and, unlike many preference-giving institutions (Michigan, Ohio State, among others) that have seen their minority enrollments decline, has substantially increased the number of minorities in its entering class. [Texas […]

Washington Post Columnist Admits Racial Bias

Courtland Milloy, the Metro editor of the Washington Post, admits that he’s racially biased. So now it can be told: “Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for Black relative to White,” the summary of my test results said. For some readers, no doubt, this is confirmation — if any was needed — that I […]