A measure of accommodation is accorded children because they are not adults and thus not to be held to the same accountability standards. But should that same accommodation be accorded to a race of people? In the March 2001 edition of The American Enterprise magazine,...
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Election 2000’s Message: Don’t Subsidize Political Stupidity
Election 2000's racial message is that President-Elect George Bush and the Republican Party shouldn't subsidize political stupidity. You say, "What do you mean, Williams?" Given Bush's devastating loss among black voters, in some states 95 percent voted for Gore, some...
Al Gore’s Campaign: Desperate and Ugly
As election day approaches, look for Al Gore's campaign to get both desperate and ugly. Desperate not only because Gore's lead has vanished and Bush has edged ahead, but desperate also because this is the end of the line for Gore and everything he has worked for all...
Leftist Effort to Revise American History
Most of the effort to rewrite American history has its roots among the intellectual elite on our college campuses whose message has been sold to predominantly white college students who have little understanding of how they are being used.
The Democrats Who Cried ‘Impeach!’
Trump, post-impeachment, can credibly call himself a victim of a political vendetta and ride that narrative to victory in 2020.
Racist “Hate Crime” Hoaxes: A Major Part of the Leftist Agenda for Decades
Racial hoaxes have been a major part of the leftist agenda going back decades.
Jussie Smollett Supporters: Rooting for a ‘Modern Lynching’
Racism has so receded as an impediment to progress that stories have to be made up by Democrats.
The Trump ‘Resistance’: Silent on Left-Wing Racism and Bigotry
Larry Elder on how Trump-haters in the media are hypocritically silent on condemning left-wing racism.
Are Facts Obsolete?
Reasoned thoughts on Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Rodney King.
Who’s Responsible?
The race card is nothing to play with. It can ruin us all.
Bizarre Arguments and Behavior
Some statements and arguments are so asinine that you’d have to be an academic or a leftist to take them seriously.
Lessons Learned in a Harlem Barbershop
Without collectivism, no racism is possible.
Race-Hustling Results: Washington Redskins and “White Guilt”
The blind and dishonest political correctness of our media and educational institutions on racial issues today can eventually forfeit the confidence of Americans and give similar extremist groups their chance to ignite a race war in the United States. And once a race war starts, it can be virtually impossible to stop.
Race-Hustling Results
Some people try to explain why Asians, and Asian-Americans, succeed so well in education and in the economy by some special characteristics that they have. That may be true, but their success may also be due to what they do not have — namely “leaders” who tell them that the deck is so stacked against them that they cannot rise, or at least not without depending on “leaders.”
Trayvon Martin and Ambulance-Chasing Opportunism
Shelby Steele is a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution who is critical of the civil rights movement, and of leftism in general. In The Wall Street Journal, he recently wrote that there are two tragedies as a result of the Trayvon Martin slaying....
Dumbest Generation Getting Dumber
The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an international comparison of 15-year-olds conducted by The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that measures applied learning and problem-solving ability. In 2006, U.S. students...
Patterns of Black Excellence in Education
Most people know the tragic state of black education today. We know that billions of dollars are spent on federal government programs such as No Child Left Behind and the billions spent by state and local governments. If you were to ask an education "expert" to...
Election Bean Counting: “Billary” Versus Obama
Whatever one may think about Barack Obama as a candidate or as a potential President, his candidacy has brought something new to the American political scene. His stunning victory in the Iowa caucuses, in a state where more than 90 percent of the population is white,...
Insulting Blacks
What does it say about blacks who can be taken in by pandering, alarmist nonsense from both whites and blacks as a means to get their votes?
Why Does Hillary Clinton Fear Condoleezza Rice?
Presidential aspirant Hillary Clinton used Rev. Al Sharpton's Martin Luther King Jr. birthday celebration to, as Professor Shelby Steele explains, "whistle for the black vote by pandering to the black sense of grievance." In response to a question from the audience:...
How Not To Be Poor
Ministers Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Washington, D.C.'s Mayor Anthony Williams and others recently met to discuss plans to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the October 1995 Million Man March. Whilst reading about the plans, I thought of an excellent...
Rattling the Chains of Slavery
The president of Brown University has appointed a committee to look into the history of the connections of that institution to the slave trade. This is to be no academic exercise of scholarly research. There is obviously supposed to be a pot of gold at the end of this...
The McGruder Award for the Most Outrageous Statement by a Black Public Figure
Aaron McGruder draws the sometimes-funny daily comic strip "The Boondocks." The strip centers around a black family that moved into a predominantly white neighborhood. In a recent strip, two young black characters considered renaming what they call the "Most...
The Strange Disappearance of the “L” Word
When did Democrats stop calling themselves "liberal"? Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., when asked whether he considered himself a liberal, treated the questioner as if she belonged to the House Committee on Un-American Activities during the McCarthy years. Elizabeth Bumiller...