Archive for April, 2006

Confrontation Works - MCRI

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

“Al Sharpton quite explicitly rouses the rabble with the intent of scaring the white man into concessions: ‘Confrontation works,’ as he admitted….” -John McWhorter, Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America (32-33).
It was in the Kresge Lounge at Oakland University in about 1996 that I heard political science Professor Vincent Khapoya admit that something like […]

Stigmatized as racists

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

“Now stigmatized as racists, whites can easily be extorted by blacks for countless concessions.” Shelby Steele, A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America (120).
BAMN’s tactics have been precisely those described so perceptively by Shelby Steele as stigmatization, threatening it, and exploiting the sense of guilt white liberals and others misguidedly feel. […]

Not the result of racist admissions policies

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

“Supporters of affirmative action are in a state of massive denial. The problem of black enrollment at elite universities is not the result of racist admissions policies. It is the result of poor black academic performance.” -David Horowitz, Hating Whitey (77)
Having taught English composition for ten years to freshman students in four different universities and […]

Opponents obscures the identity of By Any Means Necessary (BAMN)

Sunday, April 2nd, 2006

It is reprehensible that the mainstream media, such as NPR and now the Chronicle of Higher Education, would spin their reporting to assist BAMN. Serious concern for race relations in America today ought to at least begin with the recognition that Ward Connerly, John McWhorter, and many other outstanding Americans, including more than 176,000 African-Americans […]