Showing posts with label race. Show all posts
Showing posts with label race. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 05, 2024

Language, Race, and Man

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"Man belongs neither to his language nor to his race; he belongs to himself." --Ernest Renan
Monday, June 03, 2024

Nation, Race, and Individual

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"Nation and race do not coincide; there is no nation of pure blood. All peoples have arisen from a mixture of races.... "[T]he con...
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Can There Be Only One Race?

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I'm old enough to remember this 1960s Lay's Potato Chips commercial. (Hell, I'm almost old enough to remember when plays were i...
Wednesday, February 08, 2023

Black History Month?

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If a Martian social scientist were to visit America, he surely would assume that Black History Month had been concocted by racists. And he...
Friday, December 16, 2022

TGIF: The State Fuels Identity Politics

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Anyone with an ounce of good sense knows that destructive identity politics is run amuck in America and elsewhere. All incentives these days...
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Friday, November 26, 2021

TGIF: Racial Polarization Is Poison

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Be they "left" or "right," those who agitate for racial polarization seem to have no sense of the harm they could do to ...
Thursday, September 10, 2020

The Crisis in Civil Rights

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My old friend Bill Evers and the Independent Institute have assembled a useful reader's guide to the civil-rights issues of our time: ra...
Friday, July 24, 2009

For Gates and Against the Police

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Professor Henry Louis Gates was perfectly justified in being pissed at the cops who ordered him out of his own home. The police sergeant who...
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Conservative Hypocrisy -- What Else Is New?

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I can't stand hypocrites. I can't stand conservatives. But I repeat myself. Last night Sean Hannity, one of the the heavyweight thi...
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Saturday, December 02, 2006

Jesse Jackson: Keeper of the English Language

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John Ridley: The big news coming out of this meeting of minds [between Jesse Jackson and Michael Richards] is that Jackson, as supreme lead...