Archive for the 'African-Americans' Category
Bookworm on Dec 31 2012 | Filed under: African-Americans, Second Amendment
Tweet One of my high school friends is black, pro-union, devoutly Christian and (to my surprise, given her San Francisco upbringing) apparently pro-Second Amendment. She passed this along from one of her Facebook friends (who is a big numbers conservative Christian Facebooker): San Antonio Theater Shooting On Sunday December 17, 2012, 2 days after the [...]
Bookworm on Dec 24 2012 | Filed under: African-Americans, Crime and punishment, Second Amendment
Tweet Thomas Hobbs, who was born into the waning years of the 16th Century and lived three-quarters of the way through the 17th Century, in his great work, Leviathan, characterized man’s life as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” He was not an optimist. Hobbs may have been a pessimist, but he was also quite [...]
Bookworm on Dec 19 2012 | Filed under: African-Americans, Second Amendment
Tweet In America today, especially in America’s media, the worst thing you can call someone is “racist.” In our Obama-era people who oppose Obama are racist; people who support the Constitution are racist; people who use the word “Chicago” are racist; people who comment about the president’s lean physique (unless they’re drooling female reporters) are [...]
Bookworm on Nov 09 2012 | Filed under: African-Americans
Tweet I don’t even know where to begin addressing this one: Would any of you care to have it? A good start would probably be the fact that blacks are returning to the South because economic conditions are better there and they are better integrated, rather than being consigned to vast, dangerous urban ghettos in [...]
Bookworm on Oct 29 2012 | Filed under: African-Americans
Tweet I suspect this is a bump, not a groundswell, but it’s amazing nevertheless: inner city blacks say that overwhelming government interference in the economy stifles the kind of economic growth their communities need: (I removed the video, because the embed code is one of those annoying ones that makes the video play automatically. Please [...]
Bookworm on Aug 19 2012 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Presidential elections, Race
Tweet There used to be an old joke that the Jewish vote pivoted on each Jew asking himself this question “Is it good for the Jews?” Not a very nice stereotype, but probably a true one — and true for any group in America, whether white, WASP, Jewish, Catholic, Asian, Baptist, Hindu, etc. What’s sad, [...]
Bookworm on Apr 03 2012 | Filed under: African-Americans, Hollywood, Race
Tweet Subject to a very few exceptions, I don’t see movies during their first runs in movie theaters. Instead, I see them when they’re released on DVD. That’s why I’m only watching The Help now. (The Help is a movie about black maids in the early 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi.) Before I go any further [...]
Bookworm on Mar 25 2012 | Filed under: African-Americans, Race
Tweet The usual crowd of race hustlers, including Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the New Black Panthers and Barack Obama, have been making as much hay as possible out of Trayvon Martin’s death. Clearly, they think that this episode has ballot potential in November. I can see only one way in which it does have that [...]
Bookworm on Mar 13 2012 | Filed under: African-Americans, California, Race
Tweet Jerry Brown has nominated Teveia Barnes to be the new commissioner for California’s Department of Financial Institutions. This means that she is the ultimate regulatory authority for more than 300 California-chartered banks and other financial institutions. Barnes has an impressive resume, including a lengthy stint as associate general counsel and senior vice president at [...]
Bookworm on Feb 19 2012 | Filed under: African-Americans, Race
Tweet When I was growing up, February boasted Lincoln’s birthday (February 16 12) and Washington’s birthday (February 22). When I was no longer a child, those two distinct birthdays — one celebrating America’s first commander in chief and first president, and the other one celebrating the architect of our modern union and the leader of [...]
Bookworm on Feb 12 2012 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Christians, Race, Religion, Socialism
Tweet It’s a family stuff day, so blogging has been light, and will continue to be so. Fortunately, I’ve got friends who send me interesting things which I am so happy to pass on to you. In no particular order: Wolf Howling has written a fascinating, scholarly dissertation examining the adversarial history of faith and [...]
Bookworm on Jan 28 2012 | Filed under: African-Americans, Race
Tweet Despite the fact that Republicans are currently busy working the circular firing squad, making outside efforts to destroy them somewhat redundant, the Progressives/Democrats/Media/Usual Suspects aren’t taking any chances about the November 2012 election and have already brought out the big gun: They’re crying racism. The racism claim that got the biggest headline this week [...]
Danny Lemieux on Jan 09 2012 | Filed under: African-Americans, Conservative ideology, Elections
Tweet Yay, there’s another Sarah Palin in American politics. Mia B. Love – mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah. Those of you that have read my posts and comments (whether you agree or disagree) know that I am a huge Sarah Palin fan. Frankly, there is a certain breed of all-American women that I hugely admire [...]
Bookworm on Nov 24 2011 | Filed under: African-Americans
Tweet Mr. Bookworm works for a very large corporation. While we were in the car with the kids, the conversation turned to the exquisite sensitivity the corporation has to show when it’s faced with firing a minority employee. The process is arduous, requiring huge HR involvement, dozens of staff interviews and a lengthy paper trail. [...]
Bookworm on Sep 26 2011 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama
Tweet Here’s the joke, an oldie from the Soviet Union: On a bitterly cold day in Moscow, word has gone out that a store has received a shipment of food supplies. People start lining up early. Soon, the line doubles around the blog block. After a couple of hours, an official emerges from the store. [...]
Bookworm on Sep 21 2011 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Leftist morality, Race
Tweet From 2007 through August 2011, daring to question or criticize Obama meant you were a racist. Now, though, liberals are suggesting that Obama is so toxic he should just walk away from the job. Holding them to their own standards, aren’t they being racist? I mean, really, really racist? Please don’t scold me for [...]
Bookworm on May 23 2011 | Filed under: African-Americans, California, Crime and punishment
Tweet You guys are all connected to the news, so I know that you already know about the Supreme Court decision forcing California to release up to 46,000 prisoners because of the appalling conditions in California prisons. As a California resident, I’m less than thrilled about the fact that people who ought to be behind [...]
Bookworm on May 11 2011 | Filed under: African-Americans, Media matters
Tweet By now you’ve probably heard the uproar about Michelle’s decision to invite the rapper Lonnie Rashid Lynn, aka, “Common”, to the White House. The Daily Caller has an example of one of Common’s raps. I won’t sully my blog by quoting from it, although I can tell you that it calls for President George [...]
Bookworm on Feb 15 2011 | Filed under: African-Americans, Leftist morality, Race
Tweet This morning, I read and enjoyed Jeannie DeAngelis’ post about a potential Herman Cain candidacy. From everything I’ve heard, including musings from our own Danny Lemieux, Cain is a person one would like to have in the White House. He may not have a political track record, but he’s still got a lot more [...]
Bookworm on Sep 02 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans
Tweet Typical liberal/conservative dialog, with the kicker being that the players are black. The young woman arguing the conservative case has great moral courage, and beautifully handles the insults and misinformation hurled at her: H/t: Danny Lemieux
Bookworm on Aug 30 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Race, Tea Parties
Tweet Aside from the LaRouchites who appear at the Tea Party rallies, complete with their posters showing Obama with a Hitler mustache, I am unaware of any significant racist rhetoric or imagery from the Tea Party. Certainly the media’s minions, despite their ugly fulminations and accusations about racism, never point to actual evidence of wide-spread [...]
Bookworm on Aug 06 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Economics, Israel, Judges, Judicial activism, Media matters, Race
Tweet Just random stuff that’s so good you shouldn’t miss it: Shirley Sherrod’s been on a roller coaster. Thanks to a video snippet that Andrew Breitbart posted, she got pilloried as the face of Leftist/NAACP racial intolerance. When it turned out the snippet was out of context, she got sanctified as the face of true [...]
Bookworm on Jul 28 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans
Tweet For reasons best known to Comcast, my internet connection today has been either nonexistent or merely spotty. I’m in a spot right now, so I’m just trying to write up a quick addendum to my earlier short post about the the fact that Shirley Sherrod is no saint. The Gay Patriot agrees, adding all [...]
Bookworm on Jul 23 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Race
Tweet By now, we’re all familiar with the Sherrod story. Andrew Breitbart was sent an edited video that made it look as if Sherrod was boasting to an NAACP gathering about denying government aid to white farmers. The audience laughed complicitly when Sherrod made that confession. Breitbart held onto that video clip until the NAACP [...]
Bookworm on Jul 22 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Race
Tweet I know more than one liberal who voted for Obama, despite conceding his total unpreparedness for the job, solely because he was black. These liberals were utterly unconcerned that they were elevating to the Presidency of the most powerful nation on earth, during a time of economic chaos and heightened national security concerns (not [...]
