Who’s Suppressing Whose Vote?

One of the most common claims of liberals who view America as a “racist” state is that whites intentionally suppress the votes of non-whites. As the NAACP and the People for the American Way put it: “In every national American election since Reconstruction, every election since the Voting Rights Act passed in 1965, voters—particularly African American voters and other minorities—have faced calculated and determined efforts at intimidation and suppression.” However, the facts say otherwise. According to my research, only two allegations of voter suppression have stood up in court over the past three years, and both of them involved blacks suppressing the white vote. More • 1 comments

Was There an Indian Genocide?

When I was writing my response to Roger Cohen’s proposal for a museum dedicated to slavery and segregation, I read the comments on Cohen’s article at his blog. Not a single commenter pointed out the absurdity of Cohen’s belief that whites had not sufficiently recognized their historical mistreatment of blacks. However, a number of them did write that another monument to white guilt was needed: a museum memorializing the “genocide” of American Indians. This alleged genocide is a mainstay of leukophobic anti-Americanism. Fortunately, Guenter Lewy, the historian who also debunked false stories of Vietnam War atrocities, examined the question in a 2004 Commentary article, and found claims of genocide to be groundless. More • 13 comments

Britain’s “Tide of Talent”

An article in the British newspaper The Telegraph yesterday reveals the extent of white flight in England. More than 30 schools in England are made up solely of non-white pupils. Even more tellingly, in one London borough 17 schools had more than 90 percent Bangladeshi pupils, while nine others had fewer than 10 percent. Either whites or Bangladeshis, or both, are avoiding the other like the plague. More • 5 comments

The Truth about Race and Crime

Heather Mac Donald has just published a wonderful piece debunking liberal myths about race and crime in City Journal. Her article serves as a good compliment to The Color of Crime, which I wrote while I was working for New Century Foundation and which covers much of the same ground. The gist of Mac Donald’s article is that blacks experience higher rates of incarceration not because of police or judicial bias, but because they commit crimes at far higher rates than non-blacks do. More • 2 comments

James Taranto’s Wishful Thinking

Yesterday, Wall Street Journal Online pundit James Taranto declared that Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell’s egregious defense of Jeremiah Wright did not represent the views of American blacks. Citing a single article in the Los Angeles Times that claimed most black pastors in that city disagreed with Wright, Taranto concluded that Wright was wrong to pose as the spokesman of the black church. Taranto also criticized the media for failing to publicize the black church’s repudiation of Wright’s slanders of white America. Taranto’s remarks are consistent with the general mainstream conservative line on race: if “race hustlers” like Wright, Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson went away, racial resentment would die out and blacks would all become good Republicans, indignant over high taxes, affirmative action, and trade barriers. Taranto, like his fellow conservatives, has fallen prey to wishful thinking, however. The weight of the evidence shows that a large majority of black pastors side with Wright and resent criticism of him. More • 1 comments

Affirmative Action Tyranny

The Wall Street Journal published an excellent article recently on the way accreditation agencies force affirmative action on universities. The example is George Mason University’s Law School, whose minority admissions shot up from 6.5% to 19% between 2000 and 2004 due to pressure from the American Bar Association, which accredits law schools. The article points out the destructiveness and futility of affirmative action. The law school had to lower admissions standards, which is sure to degrade the quality of education the school offers. Moreover, the affirmative action admissions will probably never be able to pass the bar exam, so all they will get out of law school is debt from student loans. More • 3 comments

Gaping Before the Heart of Blackness Again

In a previous blog entry, I described the heart of blackness, as exemplified by Michelle Obama, as the tendency to conflate moral good and personal interest. Simply put: the typical black person views whatever benefits him as the moral good and whatever holds him back as the product of an evil plot designed by white people. This narcissism never fails to shock me, though I should have grown used to it by now. Today, reading the words of black columnist Mary Mitchell in the Chicago Sun-Times, I again found myself gaping before the heart of blackness. More • 3 comments

Action Alert on Jeremiah Wright and the NAACP

This week’s action alert asks readers to protest corporate funding of the NAACP. Despite his record of slander against whites, Jeremiah Wright was invited to speak at an NAACP dinner held in Detroit on Sunday night. The president of the Detroit NAACP chapter had nothing but kind words for Wright, who also received a standing ovation. I’ve written up a sample e-mail that you can send to the NAACP’s corporate sponsors and included contact information for them. Please do your part by sending my e-mail or one of your own composition. 1 comments

“Kill the Police!”

After a jury acquitted three New York policeman for killing black crime suspect Sean Bell in self-defense, Al Sharpton led an angry mob shouting “Kill the police!” through the city. More • 4 comments

I Need Activism Suggestions

I haven’t gotten any activism suggestions since last month, and this makes my job considerably harder. I’ve acted on two of the suggestions I’ve gotten: the e-mail campaign to defund the National Council of La Raza and the protest of the History Channel’s King documentary. Both of those proved quite popular. More • 7 comments

Feminism and Leukophobia

Nora Ephron, the feminist screen-writer and blogger for Huffington Post, wrote the following in an article called White Men published just before the Pennsylvania primary:

This is an election about whether the people of Pennsylvania hate blacks more than they hate women. And when I say people, I don’t mean people, I mean white men. How ironic is this? After all this time, after all these stupid articles about how powerless white men are and how they can’t even get into college because of overachieving women and affirmative action and mean lady teachers who expected them to sit still in the third grade even though they were all suffering from terminal attention deficit disorder—after all this, they turn out (surprise!) to have all the power. (As they always did, by the way; I hope you didn’t believe any of those articles.)

No, the Racial IQ Gap is Not Shrinking

In my post yesterday on “anti-racist” blogger Robert Lindsay, I omitted an analysis of his attempts to prove that there are no permanent racial gaps in IQ, or that, if there are, they are smaller than most race realists think they are. His main point is that IQ differences among black and white children are smaller than those among adults. This is a well-known phenomenon that has been addressed by race realists. It does not mean, as Lindsay believes it does, that the racial IQ gap is declining. More • 37 comments

Portrait of a Racial Neurotic

I’ve written about the phenomenon of race denial in the past in an effort to discover why so many people deny with such passion the existence of obvious racial differences in behavior. Some explanations I’ve come up with have been the desire for Utopia and class snobbery. However, an encounter with a blogger yesterday suggested another complementary explanation, which I will call racial neurosis. More • 38 comments