Tag Archives: racism
Ricci and the Skills Gap
The main function of the race industry today is to repackage problems of black underachievement as instances of white racis Continue reading
The Naval Academy’s Double Standard
If true, this is a national disgrace. It would represent a U.S. Naval Academy policy of systematic race discrimination, every year, against hundreds of white kids who worked and studied their entire lives for the honor of being appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy and becoming career officers in the Navy or Marine Corps. Continue reading
Equality or Pay-back?
Back when I was on the receiving end of racial discrimination, it was to me not simply a personal misfortune, or even the misfortune of a race, it was a moral outrage. But not everyone who went through such an experience sees it that way. Continue reading
Sotomayor and the Politics of Race
From America’s first black president, and a man promising the “new,” we get a Supreme Court nomination that is both unoriginal and hackneyed. Continue reading
Answering Peggy Noonan: Why Sotomayor Should Withdraw
I enjoyed your latest on the proper response by Republicans to Judge Sotomayor’s nomination. As always, thought provoking. You raised a serious point in citing Newt Gingrich’s remark that the Judge is a racist, asking, “Does anyone believe that?” Between us, I have to say the answer is “yes” — I do believe it. Continue reading
Motion to Sotomayor: Race shouldn't matter
What would happen if I began a column about the corrosive effects of government-sanctioned racism with the following idiotic idea?
“I would hope that a wise white man with the richness of his experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than an African-American or Latino who hasn’t lived that life.” Continue reading
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Tagged affirmative action, quotas, racism, sonia sotomayor, supreme court
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