What Does This Election Mean for Race?

To put it plainly: racism only ends when and as White supremacy is acknowledged as real group-effect and White people decide to do things otherwise. At a minimum, there must be recognition of non-White groups’ actually being asymmetrically constrained (in different forms and degrees among different racially other groups).

My 7th language…

Yesterday, I started studying a new language. This is the 7th one I’ve studied, and it’s quite fun to return to the systematic process of getting into a language. Mind you, I’m not fluent in speaking many of the languages I’ve studied, but retain a basic reading competence in all but one of them (Japanese).
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Obama’s race speech.

I have to say, I’m VERY AGONIZED over The Speech. On the one hand, it is among the most perfectly calibrated peaces of US political rhetoric in at least the past 30 years; from the perspective of political strategy, it is (in the words of my old Latin teacher) “breathlessly magnificent,” as well as ruthlessly [...]

Stuff White People Like.

Begun just under two months ago (January 18), this site has had over six million visits! That almost beats Obama (or Reagan) for a debut. Here’s a good sample that shows why this site is irresistible:
#16: “Gifted” Children
White people love “gifted” children, do you know why? Because an astounding 100% of their kids are gifted! [...]

SCOTUS: Further Alito swing?

Today the US Supreme Court heard arguments in a case under one of the nation’s oldest civil rights laws, Section 1981. Originally passed in 1866, the statute holds that “all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, [...]