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Welcome to the online edition of Issues & Views. The hard copy edition of this newsletter was founded in 1985 by black Americans who advocate self-help and business enterprise and the protection of constitutional rights. It is a forum for dissidents, genuine conservatives, and plain old mavericks -- all those who are concerned about liberties lost, especially through the ongoing exploitation of race.

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.

The artificial forcing of integration, by any means necessary and with no regard to what it costs the children, began in the late 1950s and is still an obsession among many of these Believers. Trapped in their own single-minded version of "diversity," they diligently promote that which Walter Williams calls "enlightened racism, uniformity of thought, and political proselytizing."

Noteworthy Themes

The Date: February 28, 1993 - Remember Waco - Neither the Left nor the Right defended these peaceful religious separatists

Understanding "Hate Crime" Laws: There's more to them than meets the eye

Immigration: Betrayal by Black Elites

Bob Barr: OK, scrap the Bill of Rights - Nobody's paying attention and nobody cares anyway

	Alienation as Self-Medication -- Review of John McWhorter's Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America, by
	Elizabeth Wright

William S. Lind on "The Other": The multiculturalist French learn a lesson in "diversity"

	John Leo: Free Speech on the Run in the West 40 Years of Lies: Kay Hymowitz's excellent rendering of the Moynihan Report, and
	what might have been

Walter Williams on freedom of association. Remember that?

Thinking Outside the Politically Correct Box

The bad old days

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."
Banking Pioneers S.B. Fuller Charles Smiley Philip Payton Charles Douglass

	Should blacks join political parties?
	Leaving the world of racial politics behind, blacks should pay attention to the meanings beneath the platitudes and propaganda. Read More..

	The overzealous integrationist court - Thomas dissents
	The Pollyanna Supreme Court just can't mind its business. Read More..

	Never enough blacks
	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. Read More..

	White Pride denied
	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. Read More..

	Besieged with P.C. from the left and right
	Will conservatives continue the censorship practiced by the left, or have the past several decades taught an important lesson? Read More..

	Shaking down NASCAR
	Another "urgent" need for blacks to intrude themselves into yet another white institution. Read More..

	Understanding "Hate Crime" Laws
	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. Read More..

	The Dutch wake up to a nightmare
	Mass immigration rocks the Netherlands, and a naive people begin to face the facts of life. Read More..

	The insidious chilling of debate
	Europe's atrocious abuses of civil liberties. Read More..

	Liberated from Jackson
	After years of coercing millions of dollars from cowed corporate executives, Jesse Jackson is dealt a sobering blow. Read More..

	The rap/hip-hop contagion
	The poisonous "culture" continues to spread. Read More..

	Jackie Mason versus the "gasbag"
	The great comedian gets serious and takes on the mountebank Foxman. Read More..

	Not a penny, but a prison term for your thoughts
	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. Read More..

	FIRE fights to revive that fading First Amendment
	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. Read More..

	The tables turned
	Liberals, through their "speech codes" and "hate speech" mandates, have ushered in policies that now restrict advocacy from the left. Read More..

	Cross-burning and lies
	Does an act of folly, that harms no one, deserve 10 years in prison? The all-purpose smear The cross-burning decision A law for every distasteful thought Law as thought control

	Failure as ennoblement
	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. Keeping the Spotlight on Failure

	Life in the overcriminalized society
	When a law is inconsistent or capricious, how do you know if you've broken it? Jailing the innocent There ought not to be a law

	Controlling black dissent
	The "Uncle Tom" smear still doing its job of shutting down dissent among blacks. Read More..

	Controlling black dissent
	The "Uncle Tom" smear still doing its job of shutting down dissent among blacks. Read More..

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