Tag Archive 'African-Americans'
Bookworm on Jan 28 2012 | Filed under: African-Americans, Race
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 is [...]
Bookworm on Jan 16 2012 | Filed under: Occupy Wall Street, Race
It’s not only conservatives who have noticed that the waning OWS movement was pretty much whiter than white. Black activist preachers have noticed the same thing and are trying to mobilize their congregants to get out there to camp on sidewalks like homeless people along with the white drug-addicted, violent OWSers: The Rev. Harold Mayberry [...]
Bookworm on Dec 03 2011 | Filed under: Newt Gingrich
One of the reasons a lot of people, myself included, like Newt is because he says politically incorrect things that ordinary people think. In other words, his politically correct utterances aren’t out of the KKK playbook, they’re out of “the reasonable common-sense before 1960s Leftist education took over” playbook. A week ago, he said that [...]
Bookworm on Nov 24 2011 | Filed under: African-Americans
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 May 18 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Capitalism, Gun control, Palestinians
“Logic! Why don’t they teach logic at these schools?” — C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Neither Data nor Mr. Spock, two relentlessly logical creations, could ever be liberals or Democrats or Progressives, or whatever the Hell else they’re calling themselves nowadays. (For convenience, I’ll just lump them all together under the [...]
Bookworm on Apr 25 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Race, Tea Parties
“I sent the club a wire stating, ‘PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON’T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER.’” — Groucho Marx, quoting a telegram he sent to the Friar’s Club of Beverly Hills, as recounted in Groucho and Me (1959), p. 321. The Democratic Establishment [...]
Bookworm on Apr 03 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Democrats, Media matters
One of the things I love about Andrew Breitbart is that he’s willing to challenge the bluffs and cons emanating from the Left. While the Republican establishment was apologizing for the alleged claim that Tea Partiers hurled the “n-word,” Breitbart figured out that the absence of footage was significant — especially since the Black Caucus [...]
Bookworm on Apr 01 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Race
Horrified by the fact that the American people are not dancing in the streets now that Obama Care is the law of the land, the Left is doing what it does best: tarring and feathering anyone who stands in its way. The current libel is that people who oppose Obama Care are racist. These foaming-at-the-mouth [...]
Bookworm on Mar 31 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Media matters
Okay, folks, I’m going to admit to racism here, by which I mean that I’m advancing a position based on racial considerations. I just learned through The Corner that there is an online conservative journal on the scene called Freedom’s Journal Magazine. Aside from the fact that it has one of the coolest online interfaces [...]
Bookworm on Jan 12 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans
I can think of a billion reasons to dislike Harry Reid. The fact that he called Obama a “negro” is not one of them. It simply shows his age. (Although I do agree with Lloyd Marcus that it’s fine to be offended by Reid’s assumptions about white Americans.) The problem, of course, is what we’re [...]
Bookworm on Dec 26 2009 | Filed under: African-Americans
I just returned from seeing Disney’s latest release, The Princess and the Frog. Looked at purely from an entertainment standpoint, the movie is a delight. The hand drawn animation is imaginative and, at times, exquisitely beautiful. When the Bayou lights up at sunset with fireflies, every little girl in the audience emits a rapturous “oooooh.” [...]
Bookworm on Dec 03 2009 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Education, Race
When I was a very little girl, back in the hard drinking 1960s, an expression I frequently heard was that someone or something needed a bit of “the hair of the dog that bit you.” I used to think that actually meant people would consume dog hair to cure their ills. It was only later [...]
Bookworm on Oct 31 2009 | Filed under: African-Americans
Jack Cashill tells a story I never knew (no doubt because I grew up on the MSM). Roots was a fraud, from beginning to end — but what an important fraud, because it managed to remove Muslims from the slave trade.
Bookworm on Jul 16 2009 | Filed under: Uncategorized
I have no idea who he is, I have no idea what this is about, but I sure do love seeing someone exposing in Barbara Boxer the condescending racism that is a global characteristic of liberal whites:
Bookworm on Feb 10 2009 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama
I have been trying my darndest to ignore Judith Warner’s sleazy New York Times piece detailing the sexual fantasies liberal women are having about Obama. On the list of things I really don’t want to know, this ranks right up there with the nature of Bill Clinton’s underwear. These are presidents, for goodness sakes — [...]
Bookworm on Nov 07 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
One of the things that this election most vividly illustrated is that the lockstep political beliefs Democrats envision don’t really exist within their own party: Blacks and Hispanics turned out in droves to help power Obama into the White House, but they were the same demographic that, in California, helped Proposition 8 (the anti-gay marriage [...]
Bookworm on Oct 26 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Economics, Europe
I’m still developing the same theme I’ve been hammering at for a week, because I think it’s important. The ideas in this post should be familiar to you, but I’m trying to express them with more factual data and lucidity: My mother, bless her heart, said something very important the other day. She said that [...]
Bookworm on Sep 22 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Media matters
The current “scandal” is that a poll shows that one third of white Democrats harbor racist views towards blacks. I have two problems with this poll’s approach and two questions about whether its conclusions have any real meaning. My first problem is the poll’s underlying assumption, one that reveals entirely the pollsters’ bias: Why the [...]
Bookworm on Sep 15 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
For many years, I’ve thought that people confuse fairly neutral conduct with bad motives, resulting in false syllogisms. I first came to this conclusion after reading John McWhorter’s wonderful Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America. Although my memories are a bit hazy about the details of the book, I seem to recall reading him [...]
Bookworm on Jul 30 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama
Obama was caught during his speech to minority journalists making noises that sounded remarkably like reparations talk: “I personally would want to see our tragic history, or the tragic elements of our history, acknowledged,” the Democratic presidential hopeful said. “I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it’s Native Americans or African-American issues or [...]
Bookworm on Jun 04 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Britain, England, Europe, Gay marriage, Uncategorized
(This is the first in what I hope will be a series of very civil essays examining marriage. Suek got me started with this idea based on a comment she wrote saying that, well, we need to figure out what marriage is all about. Planned future essays will involve separating the religious aspect of marriage [...]
Bookworm on Apr 29 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Democrats, Hillary Clinton
The most un-rev Jeremiah Wright elaborated today on his various statements during an appearance at the National Press Club. What he had to say was most enlightening since, when he wasn’t prevaricating or deflecting a point with self-deprecating humor, he sounded pretty ugly. Here are a few things that caught my attention: MODERATOR: What is [...]
Bookworm on Apr 15 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Britain, England, Welfare
Some months ago, the British papers were filled with the story of Shannon Matthews, a little girl who vanished from her home in West Yorkshire, sparking a huge manhunt. She was eventually found, 24 days later, at the home of her stepfather’s uncle. The big shocker, though, was the fact that both her stepfather and [...]
Bookworm on Apr 15 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Identity politics, Immigration
It turns out that Barack Obama might have been on to something with his bitterness speech. In case you’ve forgotten, he said: You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, a lot of them — like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years [...]
Bookworm on Apr 03 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Crime and punishment, Judges
Here’s the headline: “Judge admits mistake in kicking whites out of court.” Upon reading that headline, I assumed that this was going to be the familiar story about some crackpot anti-white judge who issued a ruling, a la the Jeremiah White mode of thinking, that blacks can’t get a fair trial with whites around. Instead, [...]
