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 Jul 13 2012 | Filed under: Race
Tweet Morgan Freeman, a man who lets his periodic acting roles as God and other authority figures go to his head, has now announced that it’s okay to castigate Barack Obama, because Obama isn’t really black. Instead, he’s half white. It seems cavalier at this junction to point out that Morgan Freeman’s pale coffee skin [...]
Bookworm on Jun 15 2012 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Constitution, Immigration, Open Threads
Tweet I assume that you all know by know that President Obama has issued an executive order granting amnesty to young illegal immigrants. It’s a clever move. Marco Rubio had already proposed something similar, so Obama can say that at least some smart Republicans are already on board with the idea. The move will presumably [...]
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 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 Apr 01 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Race
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Mar 31 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Media matters
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Dec 26 2009 | Filed under: African-Americans
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Dec 03 2009 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Education, Race
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Nov 07 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Apr 15 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Identity politics, Immigration
Tweet 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 [...]
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