Race-Based Test Pep
Reader Nels Nelson points me to something to a remarkable post from Joanne Jacobs that I should have seen by now on my own (but hadn’t), a California high school that segregated its students for separate, color-coded pre-testing pep talks. Amazing.
Pretty Good … For A Girl
When daughter Jessie was 7 or 8 years old some friends of ours who owned a small diner arranged for one of their customers, a Russian chess master, to tutor their two older sons, and they invited Jessie, who was moderately interested in chess at the time, to join them. After several weeks with no [...]
Racism, Sexism Fade, But …
This morning’s Washington Post reports some interesting poll results. I found two items of particular interest. First, there is more resistance to old people and Mormons as president than to blacks and women. With Clinton and Obama as possible barrier-breakers in this presidential campaign, Americans were asked how a candidate’s race or sex would affect [...]
How Others See Us (How We Are?)
From the Telegraph (United Kingdom): US-style quotas needed to recruit black police Imposing US-style race recruitment quotas on police forces – which are currently illegal in British law – may be the only way to meet Government targets for the number of black and ethnic minority officers in the service, one of Britain’s most senior [...]
“Multiculturalism Is A Racism Of The Anti-Racists” …
Or so think a rising chorus of European intellectuals. Other European intellectuals, of course, disagree.
Why People Oppose “Affirmative Action”
Most people resent the unfairness of rewarding some people and thus burdening others because of their race. But there are also far too many disgusting examples like this from Houston. I started to say like this “fraud” from Houston, except that it’s not at clear this was fraud. Drive south on the bridge to Kemah [...]
A Civil Rights Lesson You Can Take To The Bank
In Austin, Texas, black and white churches have determined that, in their words, Wells Fargo is the only bank in town really trying to develop minority business. So they’re urging black congregations, white congregations, and all of the members of all churches in Austin to put their money in this bank. “I’m not asking for [...]
Clintonian Speech Code?
The Washington Post reported yesterday that the (Hillary) Clinton campaign is attempting to enforce a new political speech code (my characterization, stealing from Mickey Kaus, not WaPo’s): a new commandment for the 2008 presidential field: Thou shalt not mention anything related to the impeachment of her husband. According to the article, “senior Clinton adviser [translation: [...]
Another Beneficiary Of Prop. 2: Yale!
According to an article in today’s Yale Daily News, new state requirements for racial equality may be good for Yale. Yale’s efforts to increase racial and socioeconomic diversity in the student body may get a small boost from an unusual source: voters in California, Michigan and, in 2008, potentially a handful of other states. States [...]
A Hate Crime Occurred, But Who Was The Victim?
Four years ago today Daisy Lundy, then a second year student at the University of Virginia “of black and Korean background” and a candidate for president of the the student council, claimed that she was assaulted by a student-appearing white male who sneered that “no one wants a nigger to be president.” This incident, or [...]
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