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President Barack Obama: “[D]iscrimination in almost every institution of our lives — you know, that casts a long shadow. And that’s still part of our DNA that’s passed on. We’re not cured of it.”
Marc Maron: “Racism?”
Obama: “Racism. We are not cured of it.” (more…)
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Barack Obama
A Promised Land
New York: Random House, 2020
There were stacks and stacks of Barack Obama’s new memoir at the brick-and-mortar bookstore I went to on Black Friday, 2020. I hadn’t been to a brick-and-mortar store for some time. If possible, I go to the library.
Phil Eiger Newmann, Dancing for Dollars, 2020.
Phil Eiger Newmann, Dancing for Dollars, 2020.
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If white Americans kissed black America’s ass any harder, black America’s steatopygian ass would have a visible hickey — possibly even bleeding welts.
And yet the harder that white Americans try to appease blacks, blacks act less and less appeased.
While campaigning for the presidency in 2008, Barack Obama made a point of mentioning that he was black and that some people wouldn’t like the fact that he’s black. (more…)
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HBO is planning a reboot of The Boondocks, an animated television series which ran from 2005 to 2014. Created by black cartoonist Aaron McGruder, the show was an interesting sociopolitical satire, lampooning blacks at least as much as whites. Although the series’ creator majored in the largely grievance-focused field of African American studies in college, it is not the unreflective blaming of whites for the problems of blacks that one might expect. (more…)
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
New York: One World Publishing, 2017
I expected to hate We Were Eight Years in Power. After all, the book is written by a guy with one of those, dare I say, unusual black names — Ta-Nehisi — and I’m a total white nationalist. But I ended up finding the book both interesting and wise. (more…)
Obama and MLK, dreaming of America’s “post-racial” future.
Obama and MLK, dreaming of America’s “post-racial” future.
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“[I]dentity alone should neither uphold nor invalidate an idea, or we’ve lost the Enlightenment to pure tribalism.”
That’s the cry of journalist George Packer, a distraught liberal who can’t believe identity politics ruined his kids’ school system. (more…)
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Ryan T. Anderson
When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment
New York: Encounter Books, 2018
“At the heart of the transgender moment are radical ideas about the human person – in particular, that people are what they claim to be, regardless of contrary evidence.” — Ryan T. Anderson[1]
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“Hey, did you hear about that thing Trump did?”
“Nah, what did he do?”
“Something pretty based.”
“Man, I don’t care. We Yang Gang now.”
Art by KEKM8
Art by KEKM8
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The purpose of this article is to clarify a few basic, factual points about what is happening with Trump’s “Muslim ban,” and to pick up the slack where much of the media has continued its sloppy, partisan job of providing coverage.
First of all, a lot of the articles coming out focus on the fact that Iran is supposedly included on the list of banned countries, while Saudi Arabia (for instance) is not. (more…)
