Oh. And this particular author, Brittney Cooper, teaches college students. No, I’m not kidding: I teach college students, and in the hopefulness and optimism of their youth, they are often quick to point out that racial politics are so “different in their generation.” But what I see is black students their age being murdered unceremoniously in locales throughout the country, by white or non-black men, who receive insufficient justice for
February 20, 2014
Salon writer needs to know: is it time for Blacks to engage in violent revolution against Whitey?
““Entrenched anti-Semitic views’ very rare among whites and Asian Americans, common among blacks and Latinos”
— All of which means that the studies aren’t looking at the right kind of whites, namely, those who hide their anti-Semitism in the more political sounding (and socially-“responsible” posturing) of “anti-Zionism,” which manifests itself in leftist academic attempts to push boycotts on Israeli companies, or pressures investors to divest holdings in Israeli interests, etc. But as the megaphones of those types are outsized compared to their actual numerical numbers,
“Stagflation, Anyone?”
Or, “Carter Country: The Return.” IBD: Food and energy prices are rising, wages are flat and the top concern among Americans is unemployment. What was that word coined in the ’70s to describe a stagnant economy suffering inflationary pressures? Since the Obama “recovery” started 4-1/2 years ago, inflation appears to have been relatively tame, with core prices climbing just 7% from June 2009 to December 2013. But as CBS News
