Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Race

  • The Trayvon Martin Case and the Growing Racial Divide

    Utterly outstanding analysis by Victor Davis Hanson.  I have but one quibble.  Hanson writes, Millions of so-called whites are now adults who grew up in the age of affirmative action, and have no memory of systemic discrimination. To the degree some avoid certain schools, neighborhoods, or environments, they do so only on the basis of…

  • America’s Most Indecent Race Mongers

    A list.

  • ‘Institutionalized Racism’

    Liberals love the phrase, 'institutionalized racism.'  A  racist society it is in which so many blacks achieve high political office despite the fact that blacks are a small minority of the population.  Indeed, we have a black president.  What better proof that racism is inscribed into our institutional structure?  But then again, Obama is only…

  • ‘White Hispanic’

    Libs and lefties just love to play the race card, as I document in my Race category.  Jonah Goldberg exposes the latest example.

  • Infinite Affirmative Action?

    Here. 

  • The Race Card is a Joker

    Here.  And here we read about another prominent defector from the Global Warming scare.

  • The Hyphenated American

    One may gather from my surname that I am of Italian extraction. Indeed, that is the case in both paternal and maternal lines: my mother was born near Rome in a place called San Vito Romano, and my paternal grandfather near Verona in the wine region whence comes Valpollicella. Given these facts, some will refer…

  • Insanity About Race: The ‘Niggerhead’ Non-Issue

    I watched The O'Reilly Factor last night.  In one segment Bill O'Reilly and Brit Hume were discussing some word once used by locals as the name of a hunting venue that is connected with some trouble Rick Perry is in.  But they were so gingerly tip-toeing around the topic that I couldn't figure out what…

  • ‘Racists’ for Cain

    An excellent article by Mona Charen.

  • The Slanderous Left

    When they lie about us we must tell the truth about them.  We must expose them for the moral scum that they are. The examples of their hate-driven mendacity are legion, but here is a particularly egregious instance of race-baiting slander.  Representative Andre Carson, D-Indiana, a leading member of the Congressional Black Caucus, said the following: …

  • Tea Party ‘Racism’ Again

    This from an NPR interview of Julian Bond: SIEGEL: Some people read into the Tea Party's almost neuralgic reaction to government spending, a sense that white people figure black people benefit disproportionately from federal programs. Do you suspect a racial subtext to that whole argument? BOND: Absolutely. And I'm not saying that all of the…

  • Thomas Sowell

    The man is an excellent dispeller of the toxic fog of liberal-left pseudo-think.  Here is some plain talk about race.

  • Flash Mobs

    Another indicator of the decline of the West.  And another argument for concealed carry. And of course there is a Pee Cee taboo on mentioning any of this: The hateful murders of Matthew Shephard, who was gay, and James Byrd, Jr., who was black, were memorialized with national legislation. When similar crimes are committed by…

  • Bill Clinton, the Race Card, and Voter ID

    Say it ain't so, Bill.  This from the The Wall Street Journal: The last time Bill Clinton tried to play the race card, it blew up his wife's primary campaign in South Carolina. Well, the Voice is back, this time portraying the nationwide movement to pass voter ID laws as the return of Jim Crow.…

  • Zero Tolerance and the Death of Common Sense

    (Here is a fine rant from the old blog.  Originally appeared 23 August 2007.) Is common sense dead? Apparently, given the large number of incidents like the one reported in this story of a boy who was suspended from school for merely drawing a picture of a gun. And this  occurred in Arizona of all places,…