Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Race

  • Heather Mac

    Some Black Lives Don't Matter Heather Mac Donald is a profile in civil courage in stark contrast to the cowardice of the university administrators who, in abdication of authority, allow leftist thugs to prevent her and other sensible people from speaking.  As I have lately observed, the university is pretty much dead, not everywhere of…

  • White Liberal Guilt

  • The Southern Poverty Law Center Scam

    Washington Times editorial. Charles Murray corrects the record.  It took the Middlebury mishigas to motivate a response from the mild-mannered Murray.

  • Proof that I am a Native American

    A while back a front page story in the  local rag of record, The Arizona Republic, implied  that one is either a native American, a black, or an Anglo. Now with my kind of surname, I am certainly no Anglo. And even though I am a 'person of color,' my color inclining toward a sort of…

  • Sally Boynton Brown: Ethno-Masochist

    Thank you, Mr. Pollack, for saving me the work of excoriating this sorry specimen of leftist lunacy.  Malcolm writes, Behold Sally Boynton Brown, an industrial-strength ethno-masochist who wants both to “have a conversation” and “shut other white people down”. (If you’re a student of political language, by the way, and you’re looking for examples of…

  • Chess is Racist!

    Not only is chess racist, it is also sexist and patriarchal. The fact that the Queen is the most powerful piece on the board proves nothing to the contrary. The powers allowed to the Queen are in truth nothing more than so many sops thrown to the feminists to keep them quiet. The sexism and…

  • Race Libel

    The new blood libel

  • David French

    David French continues to write good columns for NRO. His latest is about one of Hillary's darlings, Black Lives Matter. But when it came time to act and actually do something in opposition to this movement he calls "poisonous," he refused to support Trump, thereby aiding and abetting Hillary and her destructive leftist race-baiting agenda.…

  • Do Voter ID Laws Suppress the Black Vote?

    This is a MUST-SEE video.  White liberal Berkeley students express an extremely condescending attitude toward black folks, and some blacks reply. (HT and Merry Christmas to J.I.O.)  The kids actually think that significant numbers of blacks don't possess ID, don't know how to secure it, and lack access to the Internet.

  • To the ‘Victims’ of Liberal Victimology

    Blacks need to learn from Jews, Italians, the Irish, and others who have faced abuse. Don't whine, don't complain, don't seek a government program. Don't try to cash in on your 'victim' status, when the truth is that you are a 'victim' of liberal victimology. Get the needle out of your arm, and that soul-killing…

  • On Transcending Tribalism

    Jonathan Haidt: Humans are tribal, but tribalism can be transcended. It exists in tension with our extraordinary ability to develop bonds with other human beings. Romeo and Juliet fell in love. French, British and German soldiers came out of their trenches in World War I to exchange food, cigarettes and Christmas greetings. The key, as…

  • Is Race a Social Construct?

    If there are no races, then no one is a racist.  But conservatives, by definition, are racists.  So if race is a social construct in a sense that implies that there are  no races, then there are no conservatives either. Related articles 'Religious Profiling' Cops, Muslims, and a Double Standard Report from London Is Reason…

  • Justice Thomas: “. . . so politically incorrect that he may not even be black.”

    Edward J. Erler, Last Chance to Defeat Political Correctness? Excerpt (exphasis added): . . . Progressive Liberals have viciously criticized Justice Clarence Thomas for refusing to represent his racial class on the Supreme Court. He sees his duty, instead, as following the rule of law and the Constitution. When the law classifies on the basis of…

  • Friday Cat Blogging! Black Cats Matter

  • On ‘Nativism’

    Publius Decius Mus: For the record, I cop to being a “nativist.” I prefer policies that explicitly favor the existing American citizenry, the people born here, i.e., the natives. I’m somewhat impressed that Pethokoukis and his ilk have managed to redefine this age-old, bedrock political principle as radical and “racist.” It’s like forcing people to…