Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Race

  • Walter E. Williams: Blacks Must Face Reality

    Excerpt: The Census Bureau pegs the poverty rate among blacks at 28.1 percent. A statistic that one never hears about is that the poverty rate among intact married black families has been in the single digits for more than two decades, currently at 8.4 percent. Weak family structures not only spell poverty and dependency but…

  • And Why No Mention of Black-on-White Violence?

    Why no mention in the MSM of this?

  • Hanson on Ferguson

    Here: The backstory of Ferguson was that out of the millions of arrests each year only about 100 African-American suspects are shot fatally by white police. And yet we were falsely and ad nauseam told that Michael Brown was proof of an epidemic. There may well be an epidemic of blacks killing blacks, of African-Americans…

  • Ferguson

    I have been asked my opinion.  But before opining it would be better to wait until we know or at least have a clearer idea of what exactly transpired between Michael Brown, the 18-year-old black male, and the white police officer Darren Wilson. We know that Brown is dead and that the officer hit him…

  • Is Gardeners’ Question Time Racist?

    "An academic claims the Radio 4 programme’s regular discussions on soil purity and non-native species promote racial stereotypes."  More proof of the willful stupidity of liberals and the alacrity with which they play the race card.  (HT: London Karl) Gardening puts me in mind of spades, as in Wittgenstein's remark, "My spade is turned."  Did…

  • Dog Racism!

    Here: But these days, it seems, no one wants to be a dog racist—and this is where things start to get really weird. “The opposition to pit bulls might not be racist,” Junod writes in his Esquire piece. “It does, however, employ racial thinking.” Jeez, Louise. I suppose, then, it is time that I confess:…

  • Do You Really Want to Help Black Americans?

    Then stop trying to 'help' them.  Excellent advice for liberals from a  black man, Jason Riley.  The  Left will of course denounce him as an Uncle Tom, an 'oreo,' a traitor to his race, among other things.  But that is all the more reason to read him with close attention.  Leftists cannot abide anyone who…

  • The Word ‘Racism’ and Some of its Definitions

    'Racism' and 'racist' are words used by liberals as all-purpose semantic bludgeons.  Proof of this is that the terms are never defined, and so can be used in wider or narrower senses depending on the polemical and ideological purposes at hand.  In common parlance 'racism' and 'racist'  are pejoratives, indeed, terms of abuse.  This is why it is…

  • Adam Carolla on Black Reparations

    Blunt, crude, but effective.  Nuanced refutation of leftard lunacy has its place, but also this kind of  pushback. 

  • Derbyshire’s Defenestration Revisited

    The Left's race-baiting just won't stop.  Here Jay Rockefeller plays the race card against Ron Johnson in a manner so egregious that it would in the early 19th century get the Democrat scumbag challenged to a duel.  There are so many recent incidents of race-baiting that the thought of laying in the links is a…

  • Should Mark Cuban Get the Donald Sterling Treatment? Notes on Prejudice

    Bill Plaschke of the L. A. Times lays into Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, for statements like these: “I mean, we’re all prejudiced in one way or another,” he said. “If I see a black kid in a hoodie and it’s late at night, I’m walking to the other side of the street.…

  • Black Privilege

    In the Orwellian world of the leftist loon, black is white, so black privilege, which exists, becomes white privilege, which doesn't. But there is no point in serious discussion with delusional leftards, so the best course of action is mockery and derision either in the moderate style of Kurt Schlichter or the take-no-prisoners style of…

  • Are Rednecks People of Color?

    If not, why not?

  • Blue on Blue: California Asians Object to Affirmative Action

    A rift within Democrat ranks.  Excerpt: California’s Democrats have long chafed against Proposition 209, a 1996 voter-backed measure that said: “The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, colour, ethnicity, or national origin” in public employment or education. In January SCA 5,…

  • Why are the Writers at The Nation Such Race-Baiting Lunatics?

    Here is another clear example: George Zimmerman felt threatened by a boy almost half his age. When Trayvon Martin couldn’t produce papers proving that he wasn’t a “punk,” Zimmerman felt justified in killing him. The judicial system backed him up. The verdicts matter. Zimmerman’s acquittal lent legal imprimatur to the understanding that it is open…