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Professional Conservative Black Person Shelby Steele appears to have bequeathed his role as the Republican Party’s resident race therapist to his son, Eli Steele: The day will arrive when this interracial generation reaches political consciousness and finds itself at odds with America’s divisive identity politics. Of all Americans, they represent the best opportunity to end […]

Pat Buchanan, noted scholar of black people, last seen complaining that Sonia Sotomayor was “an affirmative action hire” and pounding his fist over Obama nominating another Jewish person, Elena Kagan, points out Obama hasn’t nominated any black justices: Bill Clinton had two nominations to the Supreme Court. Obama has had two. Not one of the […]

Eugene Robinson has an excellent column picking up on the similarities between Newt Gingrich‘s embrace of once-fringe Islamophobic conspiracy theories and garden variety McCarthyism. Towards the end, he makes an important point about a case often-cited by Gingrich and other Islamophobes as proof that adoption of Taliban-style sharia law is imminent: Andrew Silow-Carroll, the editor […]

Ta-Nehisi Coates‘ takedown of Marty Peretz–and his defenders–is epic, and I’d do it a disservice by quoting it at too much length. I do want to focus on one particular observation: And so it is, 15 years later, with a magazine whose effective co-editor defends the statement “Muslim life is cheap,” and within weeks skips […]

Michael Steele Defends Newt Gingrich: In an interview with CNN’s Chief National Correspondent John King on John King, USA, Steele said he thinks Gingrich’s comment, made to the National Review on Saturday, was not based on the president’s race. “I know probably some folks out there want to, but I don’t see that,” Steele said. […]

Dinesh D’Souza is among the early practitioners of using his ethnicity as an alibi for abhorrent racial views, although Michelle Malkin‘s Defense of Interment has to rate as the all time classic of the genre. Basically the idea is that if someone who isn’t white says something racist, then it can’t actually be racist. The […]

Timothy Burke points out that “anti-colonialism” as a blanket political philosophy doesn’t exactly make sense: African anticolonialism in the 1950s and 1960s didn’t entail any specific view of the state, capitalism, globalization, liberalism, or the desirability of French cuisine. Among the anticolonial activists of Barack Obama Senior’s generation across Africa were devoted American allies in […]

Classics: In The End of Racism, Dinesh D’Souza blurts out what most of his colleagues have the wit to remain mum about: It is entirely rational for city dwellers to treat all black men as threatening members of an immoral and predatory underclass. For “taxidrivers, storekeepers, and women,” writes D’Souza, “the prejudice is warranted. In […]

For Wisconsin Senate campaign watchers, Democratic Senator Russ Feingold‘s new spot attacks his challenger, Republican Ron Johnson, for campaigning against government spending despite his business having taken generous helpings of government funds in the past: There hasn’t been a great deal of recent polling on the race, so it’s hard to know where each of […]