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Dr. Laura Punches A Tar Baby

ABC News reports: Usually, she gives advice. But after broadcasting a five-minute-long rant in which she used the N-word 11 times, Dr. Laura Schlessinger is now on the receiving end... Schlessinger ignited a firestorm of criticism after Media Matte...		 Aug 26, 10 Hobbes 0 10

The Racism Monster Eats Its Young 2

The first article in this series noted an abrupt and seminal shift in how the mainstream media report racial politics. The NAACP, which both blesses and promotes black discrimination against whites, approved when the Secretary of Agriculture fired a lo...		 Jul 28, 10 Will Offensicht 0 2

The Racism Monster Eats Its Young 1

By now, most Scragged readers know of the controversy involving Shirley Sherrod and her speech at a NAACP meeting. To summarize: * Ms. Sherrod is a black 62-year-old who worked for the USDA in rural Georgia. * She gave an address at a NAACP ...		 Jul 26, 10 Will Offensicht 0 4

E Unum Pluribus

We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. - Dr. Benjamin Franklin From the very first days of the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers understood that America had to be one nation - truly, the United States. Of cou...		 Jul 21, 10 Petrarch 0 0

Death of a Klansman

Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the longest-serving American senator in all of history and a former official of the Ku Klux Klan, died this past weekend at 92 years of age. The many eulogies and obituaries this week will no doubt cite...		 Jun 29, 10 Hobbes 0 9

Rand Paul, Truth-Teller 2

The name of Dr. Paul, whether the elder or the younger, is like that of Sarah Palin or Margaret Thatcher: prone to generating strong feelings, either of love or of hate, but definitely never neutrality. Dr. Ron Paul created a near-insurgency in 2008 wit...		 Jun 4, 10 Petrarch 0 7

Rand Paul, Truth-Teller 1

 One of the most honored rule of politics is, don't pick an avoidable fight with your voters. Not all such fights are avoidable, of course: it's hard to run for office without taking a position on something, and there's bound to be someone who disagrees...		 Jun 2, 10 Petrarch 0 2

Arizona Goes Two for Two

 Ethnic politics, which is a polite term for racial politics if not racist politics, has been poisoning American society for decades. Various minority groups have agitated for the creation of special university departments dedicated to "black studies," ...		 May 3, 10 Will Offensicht 0 1

Reparations for Slavery: Two Beers, a Conversation, and That's It

The New York Times article "Ending the Slavery Blame Game" started: Thanks to an unlikely confluence of history and genetics — the fact that he is African-American and president — Barack Obama has a unique opportunity to reshape the debate over one of...		 Apr 27, 10 Will Offensicht 0 1

Tanning Democrats' Racist Hides

We've unfortunately got used to incessant false accusations of racism from the left while seeing genuine leftist racism ignored. With the current administration and Congress we've also been confronted with actions that, while not explicitly racist, are ...		 Mar 29, 10 Hobbes 0 2

What's In a Black Name?

Poor Harry Reid! Not only did he fail to drag health-care reform through a Senate in which his party supposedly commanded a supermajority; not only is his own Senate seat under heavy threat as generally-conservative Nevadans realize that he doesn't repr...		 Jan 21, 10 Hobbes 0 0

Dr. King's Judgment

 One year ago, America had just elected the First Truly Black President. The long road to equality had been traveled; blacks had smashed the ultimate glass ceiling, and Barack Obama stood ready to usher in the new Promised Land of smooth race relations ...		 Jan 18, 10 Petrarch 0 1

Racism Is Everywhere, Even In Korea

When Mr. Obama was campaigning for the Democratic nomination for President, voters were assured that only by electing a black President could America cleanse itself of centuries and centuries of racism. Electing a black President didn't work as promised...		 Dec 16, 09 Will Offensicht 0 3

Is Hiring Prejudice Racism? Or Common Sense?

The New York Times is wringing its hands about the disproportionate effect of the Obama Recession on blacks. Their teaser for "In Job Hunt, College Degree Can't Close Racial Gap" said: There is ample evidence that race remains a significant obstacle ...		 Dec 9, 09 Will Offensicht 0 54

A Plea to Rush Limbaugh

 There is no more prominent voice of conservatism in America today than Rush Limbaugh. Others may have more direct personal power (e.g. Gov. Bobby Jindahl or Senator Tom Coburn), or more political potential (Sarah Palin); and there are even those with a...		 Oct 16, 09 Petrarch 0 10

Affirmative Action Holds Blacks Down

Just as we thought there couldn't possibly be any more accusations of racism floating around the public square, a black scholar had to come along and rip the lid off once again. In "Rich, Black, Flunking," the East Bay Express reports on the research ...		 Oct 9, 09 Will Offensicht 0 3

Olympic-Caliber Racism

 As all the world now knows, Chicago will not host the 2012 Olympic Games. That honor, and the bill, goes instead to Rio de Janeiro. This would not ordinarily be a major political issue; it would appear on the front page of the sports section, then p...		 Oct 5, 09 Hobbes 0 2

More "Racism," Please!

Last November, when a victorious Barack Obama stood in a Chicago square and proclaimed "Change has come to America," the vast majority of Americans - whether they'd voted for him or not - hoped that he was right in one particular way: that the election o...		 Sep 24, 09 Hobbes 0 3

Science Says: Blacks and Whites are Born Racists

We hear a great deal of bloviating about the evils of racism, particularly from liberals who think that any and all criticism of Mr. Obama is due solely to racism. Nobody could possibly criticize him for his policies, they being so self-evidently all-wi...		 Sep 23, 09 Will Offensicht 0 11

Black and White, Starkly

 American blacks and whites live in two disjointed worlds. They always have, but in different ways over time. Fifty years ago, blacks lived in a physically different world - the "other side of the tracks," the designated black neighborhood, separate ...		 Aug 6, 09 Hobbes 0 35

Teaching Moments with the President, the Policeman, and the Prof

 By now, just about everybody in the United States knows that President Obama called the entire Cambridge police force "stupid" because its Sergeant Crowley arrested his good friend Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates for disorderly conduct. Mistakes ...		 Jul 28, 09 Will Offensicht 0 4

The President and the Policeman

 As surely as the sun rises in the east, comes another charge of racism against the police by those who seem to have no fear of criminals. We all know the cycle: an arrest; a controversy; fiery accusations of racism; the talk-show rounds by the usual ra...		 Jul 24, 09 Hobbes 0 12

White Men Can't Judge

For anyone who has been watching Judge Sotomayor's confirmation hearings and who watched the hearings twenty years ago for Judge Robert Bork who was nominated by Ronald Reagan in 1987, it's hard to believe that the process for the two is technically the ...		 Jul 21, 09 Will Offensicht 0 2

President Obama Kills Dr. King's Dream

 Scragged has often quoted Dr. Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech: But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And s...		 Jul 15, 09 Will Offensicht 0 2

Michael Jackson: Requiem for an Artist of Unity

 So, the King of Pop is dead. On the one hand, 50 is not very old, especially for someone who can afford the very best medical treatment money can buy. On the other hand, we have become accustomed to celebrities dying early deaths; for every centenar...		 Jul 2, 09 Hobbes 0 17

Making a Monkey of Michelle Obama?

One of the more unique aspects of the 2008 election was how, whenever anyone sidled close to making a damaging charge against Barack Obama, they were instantly accused of racism no matter what they were talking about. Republicans suffered most from this...		 Jun 25, 09 Hobbes 0 37

Taking D.C. to School

During the George W. Bush years, it was easy to think that American politics could not possibly get nastier or more polarized than it already was. With Mr. Obama's election, that view has turned out to be much too optimistic; opinion polls demonstrate t...		 May 12, 09 Petrarch 0 1

Barack Obama's Democrats Promote White Supremacy

 Over the last few weeks, the Democratic party of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid has willfully destroyed the educational opportunities of thousands of inner-city black children through fraud and deceit, in exactly the same way as the vicious ...		 May 8, 09 Petrarch 0 5

Our Black President Helping Blacks Would Help ALL Americans

As everyone in the world including pristine African tribes is well aware, Barack Obama is our first black President and the most powerful black man in all of history. No doubt there are KKK knuckle-draggers who are unhappy with this; but by and large, M...		 Mar 9, 09 Petrarch 0 2

More Racism Needed, Says New (Black) Attorney General

Ever since the glory days of the civil rights era, Americans have been told repeatedly that a person's race is not a legitimate reason to discriminate against him or her; it is, as it were, only skin deep, and we should confine ourselves to judging peopl...		 Feb 19, 09 Hobbes 0 15

The Last King Day

Today celebrates the eightieth anniversary of the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., although, thanks to the modern preference for the long weekend, his actual natal anniversary was last week. Tomorrow, tens of thousands in D.C. and millions around...		 Jan 19, 09 Petrarch 0 3

Chinese Are Black; Are Vietnamese?

Some time ago, the South African government decided that Chinese are black by virtue of an official government decree which finally decided an issue which had wandered through the court system for many, many years before its ultimate resolution. As one ...		 Dec 22, 08 Will Offensicht 0 4

Lying Down with Swine

 President-elect Barack Obama has not even had the chance to remove the "-elect" from his title and a good portion of the electorate are suffering buyer's remorse. Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, to say nothing of Robert Gates as Secretary of Def...		 Dec 15, 08 Petrarch 0 1

This Racist Election

The sheer heights of joy and giddiness on the part of Mr. Obama's supporters, most definitely including the media, is something to behold. One would almost think Osama bin Laden had been captured and the Islamofascists converted en masse to social-democ...		 Nov 14, 08 Petrarch 0 20

Media Insults 40% of Whites with Racist Poll

 Throughout the course of this Presidential campaign, comments about Barack Obama's heritage and hue have been a constant refrain from the left. Bill Clinton was the first to "play the race card" in South Carolina; from that day to this, there has been ...		 Sep 23, 08 Petrarch 0 1

News Flash: Chinese are Black

On June 18, 2008, BBC News reported that Chinese citizens of South Africa have "become black." Although readers of the American national media might be forgiven for thinking that government-mandated race-based programs such as affirmative action are s...		 Jul 11, 08 Hobbes 0 1

The Definition of a Gaffe

 It's been said that a political gaffe is when a politician accidentally tells the truth. Never have we seen a clearer illustration of a classic gaffe than in Jesse Jackson's recent remarks on FOX News. He intended his remarks to be private, but his wo...		 Jul 10, 08 Petrarch 0 7

You Are What You Won't Eat

 Scragged often pokes prose at bureaucracies which exceed their authority, lean on people, give bad advice, and generally cost society far more than they're worth. We've uncovered yet another case of bureaucratic excess which will not only cost society ...		 Jul 9, 08 Hobbes 0 8

Affirmative Action at the Crossroads

Some time back, Scragged predicted that affirmative action might become a Presidential issue this year. In pointing out that Michelle Obama's feelings had been badly hurt by affirmative action at Princeton University, we speculated that, as Mr. Nixon wa...		 Jul 4, 08 Will Offensicht 0 2

Two Views of Race Relations

Regardless of how the election turns out, Americans owe Mr. Obama a sincere vote of thanks for triggering a meaningful discussion of race relations in America. In his Philadelphia speech, Mr. Obama said: But the remarks [of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright...		 May 6, 08 Will Offensicht 0 1

The Door is That Way

The American political scene has been preoccupied with a growing controversy over incendiary remarks made by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who happens to have been Mr. Barack Obama's spiritual mentor and his personal pastor for over twenty years. No doubt m...		 Mar 21, 08 Hobbes 0 3

Words Versus Works

To say that Mr. Obama is a magnificent orator is to say that the surface of the sun is a trifle warm. This is a good thing in a President. The day-to-day job of being President of the United States includes a lot of cheerleading. When Mr. Reagan took ...		 Mar 19, 08 Will Offensicht 0 1

Racism, Obama Style

Mr. Obama is far too smart to get specific about all the changes he wants to make and the media won't push him, so we're left guessing. One way to understand his views is to look at the people he hangs out with. Contrary to rumors floated by the Clin...		 Mar 7, 08 Will Offensicht 0 18

Michelle Obama, Victim of Affirmative Action

The blogsphere has been discussing Mrs. Obama's senior thesis from Princeton university. The article Michelle Obama thesis was on racial divide has links to the full text, and quotes her: "My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of m...		 Feb 26, 08 Will Offensicht 0 4

King Obama

As we come to that time of year in which the American establishment honors the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it's always interesting to observe the doings of his putative heirs. This year, we see an especially interesting phenomenon: the viab...		 Jan 21, 08 Hobbes 0 7

Voices of unity, voices of disunity

 A nation has to be unified enough that people want to share a government. Historically, immigrants came to America to find a better life. They realized that the American system was designed to give them maximum opportunity to improve th...		 Nov 13, 07 Will Offensicht 0 4

Racism is always stupid, but stupidity isn't always racism

There've been debates about affirmative action since before it started. The stated goal of affirmative action was to overcome years of racial prejudice against Black people. Dictionary.com defines "racism" as "a belief or doctrine that inheren...		 Nov 8, 07 Will Offensicht 0 4

Black-on-Black Racial Profiling?

As standards of personal conduct, decorum, and appearance continue to slide, various local authorities in the United States from time to time attempt to push back. This year's episode of Civility Strikes Back, relates to the baggy-pants half-mo...		 Sep 19, 07 Petrarch 0 0