Category: Race and Culture

The Dozen Most Overrated Black People

"The Dozen Most Overrated Black People": Can you imagine if I (or any other columnist) actually wrote an article with this title and subject? Not only would I not write such a thing because it's professional suicide, but more importantly I don't view t… more »

The Color of Your Character

Liberals really are a single-minded lot: In their view, the only possible explanation for a person hoping that Barack Obama loses his next election is racism. All things political are analyzed through a filter of skin color, putting today's left directl… more »

New Black Panthers call for race war and bloodshed

H/T Rusty S. Where is Barack Obama's "soul searching" now? (R-rated for language) http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/04/08/New-Black-Panthers-Call-For-Race-War-Blood-Shed-Kill-Crackers-For-Trayvon-April-9th-Day-of-Action more »

Affirmative Action on Life Support

Monday was a banner day in jurisprudence: On that morning, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals – the most overturned Court of Appeals in the nation – actually got one right. In a ruling that relied more on precedent than on new analysis, the court's thr… more »

I never promised easy

In his remarks at a Congressional Black Caucus gala on Saturday night, President Obama tried to reconnect with his black supporters; after all, he can't lose the black vote and the Jewish vote and have any chance at winning re-election in 2012. I encou… more »

A liberal meets the real (black) world

Yesterday I hosted the Mike Rosen show and had the chance to talk a little bit of race and politics with the one and only Kevin Jackson, proprietor of theblacksphere.net. My brief conversation with Kevin engendered another hour and a half of tremendous… more »

Can speech be a hate crime?

The answer is apparently yes, at least in the People's Republic of Boulder (Colorado) where 23-year old moron Zachrey Harris has been sentenced to 20 days in jail and two years of probation for...wait for it..."using racial slurs" against a Nigerian stu… more »

What can a white guy talk about?

While sitting in for Dan Caplis on 630 KHOW's Caplis & Silverman show on Friday, we got on to the issue of drug legalization. (Podcast here.) I made an argument that went more or less like this: There have been two government policies which I thin… more »

Punish our enemies, says the accidental president

I don't like writing about things a few days after most people do, and I particularly don't usually write about something after hearing it spoken about on television. But I'm going to make an exception today after being reminded by a discussion I heard… more »

The Cult of the True Racists

Just as a scientist who insists that the sun revolves around the earth must make erroneous and unsustainable claims to support his flawed premise, so it is that insisting that America is a racist nation requires NY Times columnist Bob Herbert to write th… more »