Race
November 16, 2024 — Scott Johnson
It’s been a while since we wrote about Jussie Smollett or delved into a hate crime hoax, but NR’s Ryan Mills now reports on a classic: Local news outlets in Colorado Springs received a shocking email in late April of last year: A photo and video of a burning cross and a campaign sign of mayoral candidate Yemi Mobolade, a native of Nigeria, defaced with the N-word in red spray
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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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October 9, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Below Steve takes up the incredible story of the roiling of CBS News by a morning host’s treatment of Ta-Nehisi Coates as an adult writer rather than the author of holy writ. Coates was peddling his new book attacking the existence of Israel. Having read his old book — Between the World and Me, published in 2015 and celebrated as a masterpiece wherever the left holds sway — I was
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September 14, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Robin DiAngelo is a grifter who has made millions off a hateful book titled White Fragility. She is one of the left-wing “anti-racists” who were interviewed by Matt Walsh in the Daily Wire film Am I Racist?, which opened yesterday and which I reviewed at the link. Walsh’s interview of DiAngelo is one of the film’s highlights. She has no idea who Walsh is, and he introduces himself as “Matt.”
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August 30, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Last night, American Experiment held a pre-release screening of the Daily Wire’s new movie, Am I Racist? for an invited audience of 230. Justin Folk, who produced and directed the film, attended the showing and answered questions from the audience afterward. Am I Racist? stars Matt Walsh, who appears in nearly every frame. It was produced by the same team, Matt Walsh and Justin Folk, that created What Is a
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August 16, 2024 — John Hinderaker
This is an official Kamala Harris campaign video. It is hard to say what the point is. Kamala ridicules white people for eating food that isn’t spicy. The commercial is a dialogue between Harris and Tim Walz. Walz plays the white guy who eats “white guy tacos.” Walz is the bottom end of this relationship: he humiliates himself by being subservient to Harris, on behalf of (obviously inferior) white people:
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August 3, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Personally, I couldn’t possibly care less. She certainly has some African ancestry, and by the Democrats’ “one drop rule,” dating to the 19th century, she is entitled to claim black identity. For what that is worth. But some others, including Donald Trump, take the question more seriously. And so do some blacks who gather at the neighborhood barber shop: Among the many hilarious parts of this CNN video is that,
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August 1, 2024 — Scott Johnson
I think it was Erich Segal who added the line spoken by one of the Blue Meanies to Ringo in the film Yellow Submarine: “Funny, you don’t look bluish.” President Trump took up a variation of the theme while discoursing on Vice President Harris’s ethnicity before the National Association of Black Journalists yesterday in Chicago. I have posted full video of his appearance at the bottom. Trump said he knew
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July 31, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Today Donald Trump appeared before the convention of the National Association of Black Journalists. I give him credit for courage; Daniel faced a less hostile audience. So, how did he do? The New York Times thinks it was an unmitigated disaster. The Times did real-time coverage in which its employees denounced Trump and countered his statements. The link likely won’t work for you, but here are just a few excerpts
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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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June 12, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Boston Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla has shepherded his team to the NBA Finals. This past Saturday a reporter sought unsuccessfully to extract Mazzulla’s reflections on the color of his skin along with that of his Dallas Mavericks counterpart. I hadn’t heard of Mazzulla before the finals. I saw enough of Mavs head coach Jason Kidd during his team’s beatdown of the Minnesota Timberwolves in the semi-final round to last
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June 11, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Quoting President Biden, I always look here for the official White House transcript of his remarks, both for accuracy and context. The transcript is also frequently useful to penetrate remarks that require translation, as did those at yesterday’s White House Juneteenth celebration. The Daily Mail has a brutal story on Biden’s performance here (the New York Post story is here). The Daily Mail gives up on the translation of one
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May 26, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The Wing Luke Museum is an art and history museum in Seattle that focuses on the culture, art and history of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. It recently staged an exhibit on “hate,” which was too much for its staff, half of whom walked off the job in protest: Nearly 30 Seattle museum staffers have shut down the art center in protest of its new “Confronting Hate Together”
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April 8, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The eclipse was a bust here in Minnesota. We were supposed to get around a 70% eclipse, but it was cloudy and the Sun never came out, all day. So, a moot point. One of my daughters lives in Texas and reports that the eclipse turned out to be rather cool there. But what can you really say, on a politics-oriented web site, about a purely scientific phenomenon? You can
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March 30, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Coleman Hughes was a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor of MI’s City Journal. MI has compiled his City Journal publications online here. He is the author of the book The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America, published last month by Penguin Random House. Hughes was invited to talk about the subject of his book on The View this week. I have posted the video
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March 16, 2024 — John Hinderaker
This is by David Leonhardt of the New York Times, in that paper’s daily email of yesterday. It is a good example of a liberal confronted by facts that refute his ideology, who can see truth off in the distance but can’t quite get there: Two economists — Ran Abramitzky of Stanford and Leah Boustan of Princeton — embarked on an ambitious project more than a decade ago. They wanted
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March 12, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Black college athletes do, according to the NAACP. The NAACP is urging black athletes not to go to college in Florida: The NAACP asked Black student-athletes to reconsider their decisions to attend public colleges and universities in the state of Florida, in response to the University of Florida and other state schools recently eliminating their diversity, equity and inclusion programs. In a letter sent to NCAA president Charlie Baker and
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