Tag: racial equality

For the right price, Ibram X. Kendi will explain to you how everything that isn’t explicitly antiracist is racist.

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Not long ago, Ibram Xolani Kendi — formerly Henry Rogers — was at the cutting edge of the burgeoning “anti-racism” industry. He and other high-ranking professional activists already were treated as sagacious specialists in race relations and lauded as public intellectuals. Then his career went into overdrive during the George Fentanyl tantrum of mid-2020, followed by the media’s unprecedented outpouring of anti-white bile since then.

Had things continued on this trajectory without a hitch, it’s anyone’s guess as to what lofty heights he might have attained. Could he have followed in Barack Obama’s footsteps? (more…)

Christopher Rufo

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Christopher Rufo is an outspoken conservative critic of Critical Race Theory and the bizarre excesses of “sex ed” in today’s schools. He is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the author of America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything (New York: Broadside Books, 2023). (more…)

From left, lawyers George E. C. Hayes, Thurgood Marshall, and James M. Nabrit, Jr. at the Supreme Court following the Brown v. Board of Education ruling on May 17, 1954.

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Jesse Merriam
How We Got Our Antiracist Constitution: Canonizing Brown v. Board of Education in Courts and Minds
Claremont Provocations Monograph Series, 2023

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion . . .” — First Amendment of the United States Constitution, 1791

“Equal opportunity is the bedrock of American democracy, and our diversity is one of our country’s greatest strengths… It is therefore the policy of my Administration that the Federal Government should pursue a comprehensive approach to advancing equity for all, including people of color and others who have been historically underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by persistent poverty and inequality. (more…)

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Daniel Kevles
In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985

It is young men like you, Bertie, who make the person with the future of the race at heart despair. Cursed with too much money, you fritter away in idle selfishness a life which might have been made useful, helpful and profitable. You do nothing but waste your time on frivolous pleasures. You are simply an anti-social animal, a drone. Bertie, it is imperative that you marry. — P. G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (1923) (more…)

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In Ayn Rand’s celebrated novel Atlas Shrugged, the enigmatic pirate Ragnar Danneskjöld said the following about a fictional crook with good public relations:

I’m after a man whom I want to destroy. He died many centuries ago, but until the last trace of him is wiped out of men’s minds, we will not have a decent world to live in . . . Robin Hood. (more…)

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Recently I had a lucky find: the article “Suburban Chicago High School District To Implement Race-Based Grading By 2023” hosted on GOPUSA. It was signal-boosted from an Accuracy In Media piece by John Ransom. (more…)

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Tucked away into a plandemic relief act, there was an appropriation included toward substance abuse harm reduction programs, with the modest title Notice Of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) No. SP-22-001. The total aid toward that was $30 million — not such a big deal in terms of major government programs, such as a typical spit-in-your-eye war. Given the number of American adults who pay income tax, this means the average working stiff will fork over about 20 cents for it. (more…)