Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Race

  • The Liberal Quota Mentality Illustrated Once Again

    If blacks make up 12% of the student population, then blacks ought to make up 12% of school expulsions.  Fair is fair.  Discrimination on the basis of skin color is wrong.  But in Clark County, Nevada, in 2009-2010 black student expulsions were at 43% of the student population.  So Clark County is racist.  Blacks are being targeted…

  • Only a Pawn in Their Game

    One of Dylan's great 'finger-pointing' songs.  Live version. Today Medgar Evers was buried from the bullet he caughtThey lowered him down as a kingBut when the shadowy sun sets on the one that fired the gunHe'll see by his grave on the stone that remainsCarved next to his name his epitaph plain "Only a pawn in their game."

  • Gasthaus Blut und Boden

    Imagine a German restaurant so named. "Best blood sausage in the East Valley!"  Or MOM's Diner of Mesa.  "Fine Aryan cuisine served up right by members of the militia of Montana."  Would you be offended?  I just made up those examples. But this is a real example: La Raza Steak and Ribs, a Mexican joint…

  • Victor Davis Hanson

    A tip of the hat to one of the oldest of my blogger buddies, Bill Keezer.  He keeps me hipped to the output of the amazingly prolific Victor Davis Hanson.  The Tangled Web of Race Brave New World  

  • Political Correctness: Black Thuggery not Reported as Black

    Rod Dreher reports in The Mall Killers. It is wise to remember that PC originated with the CP.  Dorothy Healey on Political Correctness.

  • Race Matters

    For your holiday enjoyment: Victor Davis Hanson, The New Racial Derangement Syndrome John Derbyshire, White People are Pussies  

  • Equality

     Image borrowed from Political Correctness Watch. "'Equality,' I spoke the word/As if a wedding vow/Ah, but I was so much older then/I'm younger than that now."  Bob Dylan, My Back Pages. Where would liberals be without their double standards?

  • Of Rice and Race

    Victor Davis Hanson on Susan Rice: We are asked to believe that a multimillionaire African-American woman, who boasts that those who “mess” with her end up badly, is a victim of racism for not being welcomed as a nominee for secretary of state — a position that has not been held by a white male…

  • Tribal America

    One of my darker thoughts is that in the end tribal allegiances trump whatever people piously imagine unites us. For a time the great American experiment worked.  People assimilated under the aegis of e pluribus unum.  People valued liberty over material equality.  But now talk of these ideals seems quaint to a growing number.  Books…

  • The New Jim Crow Again

    Daniel M. writes: Coincidentally, I'm currently a TA for a class in which significant portions of this book have been assigned (a philosophy of law class, focusing on legal punishment).  Alexander's main focus in the book is not incarceration (and related phenomena) in general, but the War on Drugs in particular.  An important part of…

  • Are Blacks Labeled Felons to Keep Them from Voting?

    This from a reader: I have been a fan of your blog for a long time. In fact you helped to establish my first wary steps into the discipline of philosophy. I struggled through your entries, persistent and confused, ultimately rewarded for my efforts. Your scathing, surly, incisive political commentary is a great alternative to…

  • Chris Mathews, Unhinged, Shamelessly Plays Race Card

    Does Mathews really believe what he says here?  If he does then he is mentally unhinged.  I'll assume he's unhinged just to be charitable.  If he doesn't believe what he says,  then he is a scumbag.  But he seems like a nice guy! Note also the psychological projection.  Unwilling or unable to face the hatred…

  • Derbyshire’s Defenestration: Six Months Later

    Derb calls it a six month anniversary, but how can there be a six month anniversary?  (L. annus, anni, year.) Call me a pedant and a quibbler.  So while I'm just being myself, I'll also point out that he uses the pleonastic 'true fact.'  What, as opposed to a false fact? Much more importantly, the…

  • Michelle Malkin on Racial Code Words

    Here are her recent additions to the list.   By the logic of the Left, cosmologists are racists because they study, among other things, black holes. The willful stupidity of liberals is evidenced by the umbrage they take at the apt description of Obama as the food stamp president: At the dawn of the modern federal food…

  • Why Do Jews Do So Well and Arabs So Poorly?

    I don't think much of Richard Cohen as a commentator on the passing scene, but his A Difference Beyond Question is right on target in his defense of Mitt Romney for pointing out the obvious: The cultural difference between Israel and its Arab neighbors is so striking that you would think it beyond question. But…