This is the final installment of the three-part series on racial justice. Certainly, there are many things that are worthy to be talked about. There is the “Opportunity Zones” program, which (as a part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act) put in $1.6 billion into distressed communities. And there are fiscally conservative policies which...
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Quentin Tarantino’s Anti-Police Rhetoric Brings Out the Worst of Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino’s recent comments calling police officers “murderers” at a New York City protest in late October reveals nothing new about Hollywood to the American public except for a reminder of its rampant hypocrisy and shallow-mindedness. The Academy Award-winning filmmaker said at the anti-police brutality rally, “I’m a human being with conscience. And if you...
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Big Government to Blame for Black UVA Student’s Bloody Arrest
Last week a black University of Virginia (UVA) student was grabbed and thrown to the ground outside a bar in Charlottesville, Virginia, incurring an injury that later required ten stitches. Images of Martese Johnson held to the ground with his bloodied face and gaping mouth went viral on the Internet, instigating claims of police brutality and racism...
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Leave the Rest to Al Sharpton: Why My Starbucks Barista Should Go Back to Writing ‘Stop Fracking Now’ on My Venti Dirty Chai Tea Soy No-Whip
It’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. meets corporate social responsibility meets fair trade claims, and it’s literally just around the corner. Earlier this week, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced a brilliant little community organizing scheme: to unify the many races of his apparently segregated clientele. The everyday Starbucks goer may have already had the pleasure...
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Former Cornell “Professor” Cynthia McKinney Supports (Another) African Dictator
MetaEzra’s Matthew Nagowski is somehow surprised that Cynthia McKinney is a crazy person. Apparently what has given him this epiphany is her latest publicity stunt, an appearance on Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi’s state television station. I think I can safely speak for the entire Review staff when I say that we join Nagowski’s call for the University to “retroactively revoke”...
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Implicit Racism: The Worst Kind
“I don’t know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican,” said Harry Reid, as he lifted his foot clumsily and stuffed it in his mouth. It seems that Harry’s become accustomed to this pungent flavor, as his most recent racial guffaw came sans apology. But this lack of remorse on his part isn’t...
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Limbaugh’s Last Words
For those that have been following the Rush Limbaugh v. Football saga, it came to an end last week as Rush was told to back out of the potential investment group that was looking at buying into the St. Louis Rams franchise. Essentially the radio talk show giant wanted to be the largest stock-holder of...
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A new breed of affirmative action
Every year, thousands of college applicants are accepted, not solely because of, but with the additional help of affirmative action policies in American colleges and universities. The subject is a hotly debated one: on one hand, the intended purpose is to increase racial equality and provide opportunities for supposedly underrepresented minorities and genders in different...
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Racism: The Left’s New Ammunition
Victor David Hanson has an illuminating article in the NRO about the Left’s new strategy of blaming the rising opposition to Obama’s health insurance plan- and concomitantly sinking poll numbers- on racism. He argues through the absurdity of these allegations and also asks why, during the Bush years, did the Left not label the opposition...
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Sotomayor revisited by the (Kraut)Hammer
It’s been two days since Dennis’s post on SCOTUS Judge nominee Sotomayor, and today’s Washington Post featured its weekly editorial by Charles Krauthammer, who unveiled his advice for the conservative reaction to the nominee. Krauthammer says: (I will include lots of quotes because an account is required to read the article at the website) What...