Category: Race & Ethnicity

  • By Selwyn Duke Laura Ingraham was filling in for Bill O’Reilly last night on his cable news show, and one of the segments pertained to an alleged rise in "hate crimes" in 2007.  She had as a guest Brian Levin, a civil rights attorney and Director of the Center for the Study of Hate &…

  • By Selwyn Duke A little while back, I wrote a piece about Keith John Sampson, a student at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) who was charged with "racial harassment" merely for reading an anti-Ku Klux Klan book (for background, read my piece here and my follow-up here).  This story had left my radar screen, and…

  • By Selwyn Duke NewsWithViews.com is currently running an article titled "Multiculturalism: One American Woman’s Story."  It was penned by a columnist named Frosty Wooldridge, a man who writes exclusively (as far as I know) about our immigration woes.  The piece is centered around an email Wooldridge received from a woman who was persecuted by the…

  • By Selwyn Duke It’s now well-known that the mainstream media studiously avoids identifying the race or ethnicity of criminals or terrorists.  When Moslems riot, for instance, usually absent from articles on the subject is any reference to the religious classification of the rioters.  Used instead is a characterization such as the generic "youths."  "Two-hundred ‘youths’…

  • By Selwyn Duke Today I’m responding to a reader who is quite dismissive about the truth regarding race and Barack Obama.  He is A.F. and writes:

  • By Selwyn Duke Just recently I wrote a piece about Keith John Sampson, a college student who was charged with “racial harassment” for reading an anti-Ku Klux Klan book. Not surprisingly, the article evoked a great response, including emails from those with their own stories to tell about persecution inspired by what I will call…

  • By Selwyn Duke The May 9 edition of the New York Post carries a short article by an Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis student named Keith John Sampson. He tells a story of being charged with "racial harassment" simply because he was "caught" reading an anti-Ku Klux Klan book. I’m not kidding. Sampson tells his story:

  • By Selwyn Duke In a way, I prefer the old, overt affirmative action. While it was government-sanctioned discrimination, at least it was, in some measure, more honest than our cultural affirmative action. There is such a thing. It’s when people in the market and media privilege others – sometimes unconsciously – based upon the latter’s…

  • By Selwyn Duke When all is said and done, the slippery Illinois senator running for president may steal Molly Brown’s nickname and be known as the unsinkable Barack Obama.  This is especially likely given the kid-gloves treatment he’s receiving from the media.  And, unfortunately, Mr. No Spin himself, Bill O’Reilly, is part of this.

  • By Selwyn Duke By now, everyone knows about the controversy surrounding Barack Obama and his vile, bigoted pastor, "Reverend" Jeremiah Wright.  Everyone is awaiting Obama’s speech on the subject, but what’s the point?  We know what he’s going to say.