Race and racial bias
January 27, 2025 — Steven Hayward
The Wall Street Journal Monday carried a blockbuster op-ed from John Sailer of the Manhattan Institute and Louis Galarowicz of the National Association of Scholars on rampant (and illegal) race-based hiring at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where as many readers know I was an inmate for a year back in 2013-14. (And I’ll be visiting in April for their annual Conference on World Affairs as a speaker.) Their findings
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October 11, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Ta-Nehisi Coates is reportedly an admirer of author and critic Stanley Crouch but readers have cause to wonder. Crouch, who passed away in 2020, would not have approved Coates’ equation of Israel with the Jim Crow south in his new book The Message. Crouch would also deploy his considerable powers against the current surge of anti-Semitism. Should that be doubted, consider “Nationalism of Fools,” Crouch’s 1985 essay in the Village
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September 19, 2024 — Steven Hayward
After Brown vs Board of Education was decided in 1954, the Democrat-run segregationist South engaged in “massive resistance,” requiring years of follow-up court cases and Department of Justice action to enforce desegregation. It was understood that after the Supreme Court ruled against race-based affirmative action admissions last year in the Harvard and UNC cases that Democrat-run institutions would engage in massive resistance once again. And already we have the circumstantial
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July 13, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Careful readers know to make a distinction between the Wall Street Journal‘s superb editorial pages and its regular news pages, which are conventionally liberal, even if not quite as bad as the New York Times or Washington Post, at least when it comes to business news, which is supposed to be its main focus anyway. This morning the Journal‘s news pages provide a preview of what is sure to be
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April 13, 2024 — Scott Johnson
President Biden paid his respects to Al Sharpton and his National Action Network yesterday. In prepared remarks read from his teleprompter (transcript here), Biden spoke virtually at NAN’s annual convention. At the top of his remarks, video below) Biden celebrated Sharpton: “Look, we’ve known each other for a long time. I’m grateful not only for your leadership and partnership but, quite frankly, more importantly for your friendship.” In his remarks
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February 5, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
It’s Black History Month. Back in 2005 on CBS “60 Minutes,” Mike Wallace told actor Morgan Freeman: “Black History Month, you find. . . . “ “Ridiculous.” “Why?” “You’re going to relegate my history to a month?” “Come on.” “What do you do with yours? Which month is ‘White History Month’? Come on, tell me.” “I’m Jewish.” “Okay. Which month is ‘Jewish History Month’? “There isn’t one.” “Why not? Do
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January 15, 2024 — Scott Johnson
When Martin Luther King, Jr., brought his nonviolent campaign against segregation to Bull Connor’s Birmingham, he laid siege to the bastion of Jim Crow. In Birmingham between 1957 and 1962, black homes and churches had been subjected to a series of horrific bombings intended to terrorize the community. In April 1963 King answered the call to bring his campaign to Birmingham. When King landed in jail on Good Friday for
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December 17, 2023 — John Hinderaker
I was on Sky News Australia’s terrific Outsiders show last night. We talked about the plagiarism allegations against Claudine Gay and Harvard’s future as an institution. We also discussed the “coloreds only” Christmas party to which Boston Mayor Michelle Wu invited only those city council members who are “of color.” I think it is an interesting segment–at a little over seven minutes, very much worth your time:
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November 1, 2023 — Lloyd Billingsley
With lines such as “the dumber I behave the richer I get,” Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction does sound like cinematic dynamite. What this film does for the literary world, Robert Townsend’s Hollywood Shuffle, from 1987, has already performed for the movie industry. Townsend plays aspiring actor Bobby Taylor, who finds that Hollywood prefers to cast blacks in gang movies. Script in hand, the eloquent Bobby must rehearse lines such as,
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October 31, 2023 — Steven Hayward
Even before the horror of October 7 blew the lid off the anti-Semitic rot on our college campuses, it was starting to look like the “social justice revolution” was starting to come apart. Think of how Ibram X. Kendi’s famous center for anti-racist research at Boston University hit the wall, as was easy to predict when it launched, along with the obvious corruption and self-dealing of Black Lives Matter that
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October 7, 2023 — Steven Hayward
Last week on the 3WHH podcast I included Glenn Loury’s rant about Ibram X. Kendi from several months ago, but it is worth noting that 25 years before Kendi bamboozled Boston University’s moronic leadership into funneling millions into Kendi’s bogus Center for Anti-Racist Research, Boston University had a premier research institute on race issues headed by . . . Glenn Loury. He recounts some of this, and doubles down on
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October 6, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Disney Corporation is in freefall, with one film flop after another. Its share price has suffered accordingly: Disney pretty much defines corporate wokism, and most people think the company’s far-left orientation largely accounts for its decline. CEO Bob Iger, brought out of retirement in a desperate move, seemed to agree: The culture wars are bad for business, said Disney/ESPN top dog Bob Iger recently, and he vowed to “quiet the
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September 22, 2023 — Steven Hayward
In the hectic days before departing for my current overseas assignment (more on that shortly—I’ve got a lot in the can already), I didn’t have time to relate hosting Heather Mac Donald, the most fearless journalist in America, for the Federalist Society at Berkeley Law. A substantial contingent of Black Lives Matter protestors turned up to register their displeasure at Heather’s presence and message. Let’s just say it was a
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September 20, 2023 — Steven Hayward
Ibram X. Kendi, ne Ibram Henry Rogers, is this generation’s Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton on steroids: race hustling shakedowns perfected. His target has been universities, which have been content to shower him with money, the most recent being Boston University, which lured him and his Center for Antiracist Research away from American University several years ago. Twitter founder Jack Dorsey gave Kendi a $10 million unrestricted grant, among other
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August 31, 2023 — John Hinderaker
In recent years, we have heard a lot about racism in law enforcement. Sometimes, those claims have turned out to be false. This one, however, is true: Heather Mac Donald shows that law enforcement in Oakland engages in vicious race discrimination under the leadership of District Attorney Pamela Price. Mac Donald obtained a copy of a Power Point used to train social workers in Oakland’s Victim Services Division. They are
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July 31, 2023 — John Hinderaker
In May 2020, the world was turned upside down when a massively-overdosed George Floyd died on a Minneapolis street while waiting for an ambulance that could have saved his life. The narrative that Minnesota’s criminal justice system was biased against blacks immediately took hold, encouraged by Minnesota’s own state and local officials. In response to that narrative, states and local jurisdictions across America, and even around the world, enacted “reforms”
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July 16, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Those were the topics for my appearance last night on Sky News Australia’s excellent Outsiders program, as I continued my effort to explain the inexplicable to Aussies. Note the frequent Power Line plugs:
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