As Americans have learned over recent decades, there are endless, inventive ways in which cynical opportunists abuse the notion of "civil rights," and government capitulation to their demands has only emboldened them. This stark truth was never more clearly demonstrated than by the bureaucrats in charge of the country's education system, who flagrantly cast aside traditional academic goals, while substituting their own specious crusades.
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| The bad old days |
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Long before it was decided that America's former slaves were cripples in need of the state's largesse, black men proved their mettle. They developed capital, created banks, thousands of businesses, owned property worth millions of dollars, established schools, and uplifted communities. They did all this during the period now looked back on as "the worst of times."
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| Should blacks join political parties? |
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Leaving the world of racial politics behind, blacks should pay attention to the meanings beneath the platitudes and propaganda.
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| The overzealous integrationist court - Thomas dissents |
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The Pollyanna Supreme Court just can't mind its business.
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| Never enough blacks |
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Although there appears to be an abundance of black faces on TV, in film, in commercials, and just about everywhere else in entertainment, the NAACP is still hard at work coercing and intimidating Hollywood's moguls to hire more.
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| White Pride denied |
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The fears engendered during the 1960s-70s race riot crises, and years of multicultural indoctrination, has programmed the typical white to avoid anything that smacks of conscious endorsement of his own race.
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| Besieged with P.C. from the left and right |
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Will conservatives continue the censorship practiced by the left, or have the past several decades taught an important lesson?
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| Shaking down NASCAR |
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Another "urgent" need for blacks to intrude themselves into yet another white institution.
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| Understanding "Hate Crime" Laws |
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There's more to them than meets the eye. Stop thinking "protection" for minorities and gays. These laws are the first move towards doing away with the First Amendment, in incremental steps. A proposed federal law would bring about greater government censorship. Should we repeat the mistakes of Europe and Canada? Here are links for more information.
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| The Dutch wake up to a nightmare |
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Mass immigration rocks the Netherlands, and a naive people begin to face the facts of life.
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| The insidious chilling of debate |
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Europe's atrocious abuses of civil liberties.
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| Liberated from Jackson |
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After years of coercing millions of dollars from cowed corporate executives, Jesse Jackson is dealt a sobering blow.
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| The rap/hip-hop contagion |
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The poisonous "culture" continues to spread.
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| Jackie Mason versus the "gasbag" |
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The great comedian gets serious and takes on the mountebank Foxman.
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| Not a penny, but a prison term for your thoughts |
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It is hard to believe that in the United States, of all places, lobbyists have succeeded in getting laws passed that punish citizens for the thoughts in their heads. Two legal writers challenge "hate crime" laws.
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| FIRE fights to revive that fading First Amendment |
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From universities with peculiar "speech codes," to colleges where free speech is quarantined to certain parts of the campus, to administrative demands for political conformity, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education stays on top of it all. Over just a few years, FIRE has become an influential force in tearing down the barriers to free speech.
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| The tables turned |
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Liberals, through their "speech codes" and "hate speech" mandates, have ushered in policies that now restrict advocacy from the left.
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| Cross-burning and lies |
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Does an act of folly, that harms no one, deserve 10 years in prison?
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| Failure as ennoblement |
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Subverted by their own elites, blacks turned away from pragmatically countering racism with economic initiatives. They chose, instead, to play the "victim" and remain sidetracked in an ideological swampland.
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| Life in the overcriminalized society |
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When a law is inconsistent or capricious, how do you know if you've broken it?
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| Controlling black dissent |
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The "Uncle Tom" smear still doing its job of shutting down dissent among blacks.
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