Tag: racism
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Were Slaves Immigrants?
Were Slaves Immigrants? Yes. If that answer troubles you, please hear me out. This week, Ben Carson touched off a firestorm when he referred to slaves as immigrants. (Barak Obama has done the same several times.) The uproar has been that equating slavery and immigration minimizes the horrors of slavery. I have engaged in several…
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Minimum Wage, Nativism, and the Illiberal Roots of Progressivism
Virginia Postrel has an interesting article at Bloomberg, "Progressive and Racist. Woodrow Wilson Wasn't Alone," a book review of Thomas Lenoard's Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics and American Economics in the Progressive Era. Here are a few key quotes: The progressives believed, first and foremost, in the importance of science and scientific experts in guiding the…
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The Enduring Myth of Black Criminality
The Atlantic: The Enduring Myth of Black Criminality "In his upcoming October cover story, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores how mass incarceration has affected African American families. "There's a long history in this country of dealing with problems in the African American community through the criminal justice system," he says in this animated interview. "The enduring view of…
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Race and Justifiable Homicide by Law Enforcement
Stanford psychologist Jennifer Eberhardt recently recounted this conversation between her and her son: I'm on an airplane with my son. And he looks up and he sees a black man, and he says, "Hey, that guy looks like daddy." And I look at the guy, he doesn't look anything like my husband, and I notice…
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What we teach our children about race
Miami Herald: What we teach our children about race Leonard Pitts Last week, Soledad O'Brien made a young mother cry. It came in the midst of a special series, "Black Or White: Kids on Race'' on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360. The series was based on a new version of the famous "doll tests'' pioneered by…