Race

POLICE VIOLENCE AS A RACE SHIBBOLETH

Posted Wednesday, January 4, 2023

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It is funny.  In the old days, issues concerning blacks were referred to as race relations.  Today, it’s almost exclusively under the marquee of Racism.

Homicide is the cause of death in 4.5% of all black deaths. That is high, but who is doing the killing?  Where is the church in the black community?

1.  Purity of Yankee Soul, Fred Reed, 2015.
2.  Walter Williams on Jewish Violin Players and other racial disparities, 2015.
3.  BET Awards and “Whiteness.”  Reminiscent of Ken Hamblin?
4.  Tim Scott observes, paraphrasing Schumpeter, “[Whiteness] stands its trial before judges who have the death sentence in their pockets.”  You’re already convicted of racism.  All that’s left is that you confess.
5.  Black woman beats a white woman in Ft. Lauderdale with a baseball bat for cutting her off in a parking lot.  Huh.  
6.  Vicki Momberg: South Africa Becomes the USSR of Race, Dan Roodt, March 30, 2018.  This was excellent.  
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Posted on Monday, July 20, 2020.

Posted on Monday, July 20, 2020.
Jason Riley on False Black Power. 
 

Posted on Monday, July 20, 2020.
Nick Gillespi really annoys me.  He seems lazy to me.  His questions are softball, which is annoying.  

Posted on Friday, July 9, 2021

Wealth, Poverty, and Politics, Thomas Sowell, 2016.  Thanks to Don Boudreaux:

… is from page 403 of the 2016 second edition of Thomas Sowell’s Wealth, Poverty and Politics (original emphasis):

The “legacy of slavery” argument is often presented as if to excuse bad behavior in black communities by depicting such behavior as results of the past sins of whites. But the “legacy of slavery” argument also serves as an exemption from scrutiny for counterproductive social trends in the wake of welfare state policies and the vision behind those policies. Tactically, these arguments have been very successful in a political sense. But, empirically, to say that a “legacy of slavery” has kept black communities from rising above their current level of behavior is to defy historical evidence that many black communities had a higher level of civilized behavior generations ago, before the triumph of the welfare state vision. Moreover, a very similar retrogression in the behavior of low-income whites in England, in the wake of very similar policies and visions there, suggests that similar policies and visions have produced very similar results on both sides of the Atlantic.