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Editor’s note: On the 10th anniversary of Michael Brown’s death, I republish the column that proves “Hands up! Don’t shoot!” was built on a lie. —- Without meaning to, George Floyd has brought us together, both Americans and foreigners. There have been more memorials and protest marches
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By Prof. John Banzhaf WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Several members of Congress have introduced a "Reparations NOW" resolution calling for $14 trillion in reparations for Black Americans, claiming that "The United States has a moral and legal obligation to provide reparations for the enslavement of Africans and
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I lost my brain in San Francisco Amidst the homeless and debris To be where Lincoln now is banned And reparations are in demand The morning fog may chill the air, I don't care The Woke waits there in San Francisco To hand out lots of cash for
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Here is an example of how you can be blinded when you view everything through the prism of race. My former colleague Will Bunch recently wrote a heartfelt column about the declining number of African-Americans going to college. Such a decrease might be worrisome, and Bunch helpfully published a graph
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Having taken the time to think about it, Whoopi Goldberg was wrong, but not that wrong. There has been a discussion for a long time about whether Jews are a “race.” When I was a schoolboy, there were three races -- called Caucasian, Negroid, Mongoloid. That’s from memory in
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Thank you, Gold Medalist Tamyra Mensah-Stock, for providing me with the most indelible image of the delayed 2020 Olympics. Yeah, I know it is not over yet, but nothing, nothing can top the interview she gave after becoming the first African-American woman to win gold for freestyle wrestling. If you
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I can understand why some African-Americans decline to celebrate July 4th, the birth of the United States. The Declaration of Independence was a sort of promissory note, not fully available to them. “You call it Independence Day,” they say, “but it was not independence for Black people in America.” That
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From the mid-‘70s to mid-‘80s I was an adjunct at Temple University, usually teaching introduction to newswriting. Adjuncts were outsiders, freelancers who were paid by the number of courses they taught without benefits such as health insurance or paid vacation. They were like Uber drivers with briefcases. I
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Columbia University has announced that starting in the spring it will designate student and faculty bathrooms as “White” and “Colored.” Segregation is important for students to have a clear sense of their own cultural identity, the administration did not say. Things have gotten so insane in Woke America that this
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How many unarmed Black men do you think were shot by police in 2019, the last year available from the Washington Post, which maintains probably the best data base on this subject? Do you think it was 10? 100? 1,000? 10,000? Have you picked a number? Do you
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I grew up steeped in the belief of equality. For a number of years I wore a round lapel pin that was all black except for an = symbol in white. It was a simple, powerful message, a product of the Urban League. In recent months, maybe longer, I noticed the