Category Archives: Race, racism and related issues

Births For Unmarried Black Women Have Been Dropping For Decades

[Published on Alas, TADA, and on Family Scholars Blog.] The Heritage Foundation thinks that births to unmarried Black women is a problem that just keeps getting worse: [The out-of-wedlock birth rate] remained relatively low until the onset of Lyndon Johnson’s … Continue reading

Posted in crossposted on TADA, Families structures, divorce, etc, Race, racism and related issues | 18 Comments

Fragments of Evolving Manhood: When Witches Stole Penises 2

Part 1 ended with the following paragraph: And so on and so on, until the fundamental difference between the Jew and the woman. Neither believe in themselves; but the woman believes in others, in her husband, her lover, or her … Continue reading

Posted in Anti-Semitism, Feminism, sexism, etc, Gender and the Body, Men and masculinity, Race, racism and related issues, Sex | Comments Off on Fragments of Evolving Manhood: When Witches Stole Penises 2

Still Not Satisfied

It was 47 years ago today… There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?” We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of … Continue reading

Posted in Race, racism and related issues | 6 Comments

Killing Rage

I should be planning my classes. School starts in a couple of weeks and I am in the middle of setting up a long and complex assignment for the technical writing class I will teach starting in September. On top … Continue reading

Posted in crossposted on TADA, Race, racism and related issues | 11 Comments

The Anti-Defamation League Should Be Ashamed of Itself

I first read about the ADL’s statement supporting those who would stop the building of Cordoba House, a Muslim community center modeled on the YM/YWHA’s and CA’s you can find all over New York City over at The Debate Link. … Continue reading

Posted in Islamaphobia, Jews and Judaism, Race, racism and related issues | 62 Comments

But There's No Racism in the Tea Party

Lost in the whole Shirley Sherrod debacle was the impetus for Breitbart’s smear — the NAACP’s decision to call out the teabaggers for their unwillingness to disavow racism. The Sharrod smear was a desperate attempt to prove members of the NAACP were … Continue reading

Posted in Race, racism and related issues | 3 Comments

A Strange and Bitter Fruit

Jeffrey Lord has good news, America. You may have thought that Emmett Till and those like him who were killed by extrajudicial mobs were lynched. Killed in an effort not just to exact some sort of perverted justice, but to terrorize … Continue reading

Posted in crossposted on TADA, Race, racism and related issues | 7 Comments

Q: What is a Black Man's Life Worth?

A: A black mans’ life is worth 2-4 years of a white man’s life. I heard about the verdict just after my wife and I left Mandolin’s place, where we’d met her for lunch. As we drove north on 101, … Continue reading

Posted in crossposted on TADA, Prisons and Justice and Police, Race, racism and related issues, Whatever | 37 Comments

On Johannes Mehserle

I’ve been trying to figure out what to say about this all night, but I think my feelings all boil down to this: Prosecutors in Los Angeles have not won a murder conviction in a police shooting case since 1983. … Continue reading

Posted in Race, racism and related issues | 8 Comments

I Wish I Could Call This Muslim-Hating Video antisemitic…

…without getting into the whole question of whether the term antisemitism should apply only to Jews and without the complicating factor that not all Muslims are Semitic. Why? Because if you replace the word Muslim with the word Jew in … Continue reading

Posted in Race, racism and related issues | 78 Comments