CRC Hearing On Racial School Assignment
Last Friday the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights held a hearing on racial school assignments, which the Supreme Court will be considering in two cases this term. (See here, here, here, and here.) Arthur Coleman, an attorney who wrote a brief supporting racial preferences at the University of Michigan, not surprisingly said racial assignment policies […]
The Nutmeg State In A Nutshell
The dean of Washington Columnists, David Broder, has just filed his dispatch from the war-torn state of Connecticut. The most revealing quote: One woman, Karen Schuessler of Ridgefield, told me she had bought an expensive ticket to a Lieberman fundraiser last December so she could tell him directly how much she opposed the war. “He […]
“Diversity” Dean Gone
I recently reported that M. Rick Turner, the “dean of all things black” at the University of Virginia whom I have criticized on too many occasions to cite, was recently put on administrative leave pending an investigation by The University for lying about a drug dealer in a federal case. Turner has now retired. Apparently […]
More “Coming Together” Rhetoric…
Reader and blogger Hube sends another good example of “coming together” rhetoric. The Rev. James Meeks, a Chicago-area minister who had considered running for governor, blasts Gov. Blagojevich and Mayor Daley as “slave masters” and black politicians who support them as “house n—–s.” “These kids who started in kindergarten, they wasn’t messed up when they […]
Hispanic Irony
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who is testing the waters for a presidential campaign, spoke recently in Florida. In watching Richardson, the audience was hearing a man who is positioning himself to be the first major Hispanic American presidential candidate, and the Latinos who are an important part of this state’s political life were beaming. […]
We Are Not Alone…
Reader Fred Ray sends a link to this article, which reports a number of problems with “diversity” preferences in Britain that will seem all to familiar. Some excerpts: Members of ethnic minorities have not performed as well as white staff in Civil Service examinations. Civil servants who hope for promotion attend “assessment centres”, where they […]
Black Literature
Is black literature literature by blacks? Or only literature by blacks about blacks? (Or, conceivably, literature by non-blacks about blacks?) These are questions raised by Gene Andrew Jarrett, an assistant professor of English at the University of Maryland, in his interesting article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, “Judging a Book by Its Writer’s Color.” […]
The Observers And The Observed
Hube sends word Scoop Jackson, a black sports writer who thinks there’s something unfair about there being 300 black professional basketball players but not 300 black sports writers. As he describes himself speaking to high school students: I ask everyone to tell me how many black professional basketball players they know. Depending on the size […]
Discrimination At A Historically Black University
Rory Lewis has sued Delaware State University, a historically black institution, claiming that he was denied a deserved promotion because of his race. Mr. Lewis is black. According to the complaint, Mr. Dougherty [who received the promotion] and Mr. Lewis both were mechanics and carpenters in the shop at the time of the promotion, in […]
Some Good News
Some good news: Charlie Savage reports in the Boston Globe that The Bush administration is quietly remaking the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, filling the permanent ranks with lawyers who have strong conservative credentials but little experience in civil rights…. Savage, of course, clearly does not regard this as good news, but I do. Consider: […]
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