Tag: racism

The Perils of Declaring Racism a ‘Public Health Emergency’

Commentary With COVID-19 apparently on the wane, the technocrats who eagerly seized upon the pandemic to justify hobbling American liberty now advocate declaring racism a “public health emergency.” Such a policy would enable the governing class and our corporate overseers to deploy the same power tools in the fight against racism recently utilized to combat…


Racism’s New Meaning and the Double Standard It Serves

Commentary Over at the website American Greatness, Victor Davis Hanson has an excellent column under the heading of “The Biden No-Go Zones,” which simply documents some of the ways in which American journalism has discredited itself over the last five years by holding President Donald Trump and the Republicans to a completely different standard from…


NYC’s American Museum of Natural History to Take Down Theodore Roosevelt Statue Due to Protests of Racism

A bronze statue of the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, will be removed from the main entrance of the American Museum of Natural History due to claims of “racism” and symbolism of colonialist dominance. On Monday, The New York City Public Design Commission unanimously voted to move the president’s statue, which had…


If America Is Racist, Why Have Millions of Blacks Emigrated Here? Did Jews Emigrate to Germany in the 1930s?

Commentary If America is systemically racist, why have millions of blacks from Africa and the Caribbean come to this country over the past 50 years? Why would they and many millions more want to move from all-black societies to a white-dominated, racist one? This is a question every black and white leftist should be asked….


Democrats Need a Day of Atonement

Commentary With the creation of June 19th (“Juneteenth”) as a federal holiday, Democrats have one more claim to be the party of civil rights and equal opportunity for African Americans, though most Republicans also voted for the holiday. That claim has been promoted for decades by a compliant media, academia, and high-profile politicians, but the facts say…


Professor Says Blacks Commit Hate Crime Against Asian Americans Because of ‘White Supremacy’ | Larry Elder

If you are not familiar with what Larry Elder calls the “axis of indoctrination,” it’s the idea that academia is brainwashing the minds of young people. Take for example the professor from Cypress College in California that berated her student for expressing the opinion that cops are heroes. Another example is Jennifer Ho from the…


Welcome to Wokespeak: Its Logic-Defying Rhetoric Is Making Heads Spin

In the midst of the nation’s racial upheaval last year, media outlets including the Associated Press, the New York Times and the Washington Post rushed to start capitalizing the word “Black” in reference to African Americans, some announcing the move as a long-overdue gesture of respect. While RealClear has not changed its style, the change…


Boston Schools Chair, Member Resign Over Racially Charged Texts Targeting White Parents

Two Boston School Committee members, including the chairwoman, have resigned after text messages disparaging parents of students as “delusional” and “racist” were made public. The texts were sent last October during a public debate on whether the city’s three prestigious public schools will continue to use an entrance exam to select students or decide eligibility…


The State of Black America

Commentary Listening to all the rhetoric in the popular media, you would think America is the most unfair, racist nation in the world. You would think that black Americans are uniformly living in oppression and poverty, with no hope for the future, save the federal government arriving on the scene to their rescue. Sorry, liberals,…


Chris Harrison Permanently Leaves ‘The Bachelor’ Franchise

LOS ANGELES—Chris Harrison, the original host of ABC’s “The Bachelor” and its spinoffs, is leaving the long-running franchise. His departure comes four months after he defended contestant Rachael Kirkconnell against criticism over 2018 photos showing her at a fraternity formal with an Old South plantation theme. Harrison is “stepping aside as host of ‘The Bachelor’…