Category: African-Americans

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The Bookworm Room 7/17/16 — the “I’m all riled up” edition and open thread

Blacks and Muslims should be angry at their criminal cohorts, not at us. In the context of an article about political correctness, Andrew Klavan said something I’ve been struggling to say for some time. He acknowledges that blacks are on the receiving end of much more police activity, something frustrating

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The Bookworm Beat 5/18/16 — the “Supremes” edition and open thread

This is a good, long post. Mix a martini or make yourself some hot chocolate, find a quiet place, settle back, and read away! Trump woos conservatives. The big news today is Donald Trump’s list of proposed Supreme Court nominees, all of whom of are, in John Yoo’s words “outstanding

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The Bookworm Beat 4/8/16 — the “discomfort” edition and open thread

Am I the only one who finds this sentence incredibly disturbing? The sentence comes from an article about Gloria Vanderbilt’s life and, more specifically, her sex life, which is the subject of a new documentary. The person behind the documentary is Anderson Cooper, Vanderbilt’s son, and noted gay TV personality

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Marin County residents must pay for the sins of prior, allegedly racist, residents

Just yesterday, I wrote that suburban communities get addicted to federal funds and, once having done that, they are stuck with federal policies that require those same communities to commit slow suicide.  Today, with perfect timing, there’s a news article making my point. As readers of Cyra McFadden’s classic novel,

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Black Lives Don’t Matter . . . to the power-mad, punitive Black Lives Matter movement *UPDATED*

Children intuitively understand that the person who can cause pain is the person with the most basic, easily-accessible form of power around.  No matter how many times I told my two when they were little that making someone feel happy is every bit as much a show of power as making

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The Bookworm Beat 1/26/16 — the “race heating up” edition and open thread *UPDATED*

It wasn’t just women who were attacked on New Year’s Eve in Cologne.  When I first read about the hundreds of sexual attacks that Muslim immigrants perpetrated against women in Cologne, Germany, on New Year’s Eve, I only vaguely recorded the fact that the Muslims were also setting off fireworks.

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[VIDEO] Elbert Guillory on Obama’s mission to disarm Americans in a dangerous world

I am not exaggerating when I say that I have been in love (in a political way) with Elbert Guillory ever since I first saw him back in mid-2013, when he was still ostensibly a Democrat. That feeling has never changed and, indeed, my deep and abiding respect for his

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