Race And The 2008 Election
The Next Right notes the “most underreported fact of the 2008 election,” from this CNN exit poll (HatTip to InstaPundit): Those who said race was an important factor voted 55 percent to 44 percent in favor of Obama. Insofar as race is a continuing problem in the United States, whose problem is it?
Not Enough Race Boxes On UCLA Application (Where It Is Illegal To Take Race Into Account)
[NOTE: This post has been UPDATED] Roger Clegg discusses what he aptly calls “an odd article” in the Los Angeles Times today “about the tragic shortage of racial boxes on the UCLA admissions form, and in particular the lack of any ‘Middle Eastern’ boxes.” This concern is odd, of course, since “UCLA is not supposed […]
O’smobile?
[NOTE: This post has been UPDATED … twice] Since Oldsmobile died an untimely death in 2004, perhaps the name can be revived and applied (in slightly modified form), O’smobile, to the new General Motors. Or perhaps it will be sufficient simply to refer to GM from now on as BM (Barack Motors). UPDATE In his […]
Blue-Eyed, Brown-Eyed Bunkum
Corina Knoll is a young Korean-American journalist at the Los Angeles Times who recently interviewed and wrote a revealing appreciation of Jane Elliott, an Iowa teacher who made, first, headlines and then, fame and at least some fortune, with a controversial method she developed of teaching whites how racist they are. Elliott … created a […]
Another “Diversity” Loyalty Oath In Virginia
[NOTE: This post has been UPDATED[] Last month I discussed (here) the Student Bar Association at the University of Virginia encouraging students to sign a pledge of allegiance to “diversity.” Now comes news, from the Chronicle of Higher Education today, of a new set of guidelines at Virginia Tech that, critics say, “appear to require […]
Post-Partisanship? I Finally Figured It Out!
One of the most prominent planks in Obama’s campaign platform was his promise to move beyond (or above) partisanship.Many observers have thus been confused or disappointed by the currently unfolding reality of President Obama’s economic agenda for the nation, consisting as it does of the conversion of one liberal wish list after another into government […]
“Massey Resistance”: Wrong In Theory And Practice, Part II
The first part of my discussion of Princeton Prof. Douglas Massey’s most recent defense of affirmative action appears immediately below, or, if you somehow stumbled on this continuation first, here. Part I dealt with the first of what are claimed to be only “three basic charges” we critics level against affirmative action, that it “constitutes […]
“Massey Resistance”: Wrong In Theory And Practice, Part I
[NOTE! This post has been UPDATED UPDATED TWICE] Virginia under the Byrd Machine engaged in “massive resistance” to attacks on state-supported racial discrimination. For a while now Prof. Douglas Massey, a sociologist at Princeton, has been engaged in scholarly resistance to attacks on the racial discrimination at the core of affirmative action in higher education. […]
Racial Bean-Counting Gets Harder…
… in part because there are too many multicolored beans. Thus, the Washington Post reports today, Public schools in the Washington region and elsewhere are abandoning their check-one-box approach to gathering information about race and ethnicity in an effort to develop a more accurate portrait of classrooms transformed by immigration and interracial marriage. Next year, […]
We Have Here Is A Failure To Communicate…
Politico: “Obama struggles as communicator” Of all the pitfalls Barack Obama might face in the presidency, here is one not many people predicted: He is struggling as a public communicator…. New York Times: “Weekend Opinionator: Obama’s Communication Breakdown” From giving contradictory statements on the economy to making gaffes about the Special Olympics, team Obama has […]
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