By: D.Green
Yep. I agree- and I’m black. I’ve also been saying the same thing for years. Blacks have done everything in their power to be identified collectively as a group based solely on the tribalistic notion...
View ArticleBy: James Williams
I recently was quoted in a story on a nationally-known baseball platform with a stance against the baseball players’ unions, and unions in general. The people who replied to me kept reminding me of the...
View ArticleBy: Ben
Right up front, I’m a white guy.No disrespect to Mr. Goldblatt or to Mr. Green, but it seems to me that the argument that african-americans vote en masse for Democrats because they’ve adopted an...
View ArticleBy: Alan
I wish I had more time to respond, but job applications and a dissertation are beckoning. So, I’ll just link to my pre-response to this post and add an addendum:...
View ArticleBy: Derrick
I think this is an interesting and compelling argument, but I’m not sure if I agree with it. I think I’ll have to think about it for a bit. But I do like the point made near the beginning about the...
View ArticleBy: Rick
The author negatively misrepresents liberalism, and mischaracterizes the relationship of African-Americans to liberals. Also, isn’t it incredibly condescending to suggest American blacks vote in ways...
View ArticleBy: Sheri Reaves
You’re right. Timothy Dalrymple. It was offensive. White people also glorify the gangster culture, among many of their young, and more of them are on welfare, also having illegitimate children, than...
View ArticleBy: Gregory Peterson
“Race” is a social construct, and “racism” is abusing and manipulating the social constructs around a minority “race” by a majority “race” identifying population for unearned group privilege and...
View ArticleBy: Gregory Peterson
Ooh Ooh..National Review…. Just to be vicious, cruel and snarlingly snarky: Channeling back to Mr. Buckley’s “The advanced race must prevail” National Review era, Mr. Goldblatt? (He did come to regret...
View ArticleBy: Marcion
You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger” — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re...
View ArticleBy: Marcion
Audio here, in case you don’t think this quote is realhttp://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=X_8E3ENrKrQ&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DX_8E3ENrKrQ
View ArticleBy: Joel
Tim, this is just awful. I really thought you were better than this and I’m very disappointed to see you post it. First of all, there seems to be an assumption in this article that institutional racism...
View ArticleBy: Joshua
I am black and I vehemently disagree with you, for multiple reasons. In the spirit of brevity, I’ll say these two things: Blacks didn’t come to America to collectively separate themselves from society....
View ArticleBy: Marta L.
It’s obvious to me that Republicans engaged in a certain amount of dog-whistle politics, especially in the primaries. It’s also obvious to me that they focused on issues (Obamacare, “you didn’t build...
View ArticleBy: Timothy Dalrymple
It’s a real quotation. But how do you interpret it? I want to test whether you’re really getting what he’s saying here.
View ArticleBy: Marcion
Atwater is talking about how to appeal to racist voters without appearing racist yourself. It was called the southern strategy, because it was mean to turn the south from a democratic stronghold into a...
View ArticleBy: Marcion
Ad before you say it, yes, the racist southern establishment of the 19th and early to mid twentieth centuries were democrats. The dixiecrats were the conservative wing of the democratic party. After...
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