There are a lot of bad Best Picture winners. And I really dislike Slumdog Millionaire, although the other Best Picture nominees that year are no great shakes. I'd like to give it my vote. And it's a crime against humanity than Dances with Wolves, off...
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A last point on Richard Sherman, from Greg Howard, who places the reaction to Sherman in the context of American racial tropes: When you're a public figure, there are rules..
On a day where we are celebrating MLK Day with a bunch of old white men complaining about the behavior of a young, brash black man in a football game.
Since the world is now obsessing over Santa's whiteness, or really more specifically just how racist is Megyn Kelly, it's worth noting that even if Santa is Scandinavian we can legimiately question his whiteness. After all, if it wasn't for a totally bogus 1908 court...
The increasingly common multiracial faces of America, via National Geographic. I'm sure all the old white people in Alabama who are hearing Spanish at their favorite buffet restaurants, the old.
In a story almost too good to be true, Jeremy Fugleberg of the Casper Star-Tribune chronicles a meeting between a local NAACP member and the regional leader of the Ku.
Johnny Manziel has to serve a suspension of one whole half of football for selling his autograph. Which, whatever except that Ohio State was put on multi-year probation for a few players doing the same thing, players who happened to be black. As part of...
When we think of the Republican Party in its early years, we often think of it as a party of freedom because it opposed slavery. But that's way too simplistic.
Last month, SEK brought up the racism of The Searchers, which I argued was as racist as Birth of a Nation. I decided to rewatch the film. It had been.
Recommending a Ross Douthat column is like seeing an ivory-billed woodpecker. You know that it is probably impossible, but theoretically one could emerge once every century. Amazingly, today is the day, as Douthat writes about the Ivy League existing to reproduce privilege. Of course, Douthat...
This is a good expose of the real story behind Abigail Fisher, the lead plaintiff in the case attempting to destroy the remnants of affirmative action in higher education admissions..
Yale has a very exciting new deal with the Department of Defense: As early as this April, Yale plans to welcome a training center for interrogators to its campus. The.