Defending Minority Racism

The study tracked about 100,000 employees at more than 700 stores belonging to one, unidentified chain from February 1996 to July 1998.
The report found that replacing an African-American manager with a white, Hispanic or Asian manager resulted in the hiring of fewer African-American employees. The percentage of new workers who were African-American under the non-black [...]

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Blacks with 108 IQ admitted to Harvard

Thomas Kane finds that black applicants to selective schools “enjoy an advantage equivalent to an increase of two-thirds of a point in [GPA]—on a four-point scale—or [the equivalent of] 400 points on the SAT.” Second, although the SAT is often criticized as culturally biased against blacks, SAT (and GPA) scores at every level actually overpredict [...]

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African-American Studies

What should the mission of a truly modern African-American Studies department be?
The answer common in such departments is that the principal mission is to teach students about the eternal power of racism past and present. Certainly it should be part of a liberal arts education to learn that racism is more than face-to-face abuse, and [...]

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The Fairness of Nepotism and the Injustice of Affirmative Action

“Tell me? Who hinders your advancement more? AA minorities or recipients of white nepotism?”
- Nikcrit
I’ve written before that nepotism can’t be compared to nepotism to affirmative action.
A person hiring his son may do it because the son may care more, may be groomed to take over in the future or for a variety of reasons, [...]

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Beyond Affirmative Action: Scholarships and Set-Asides

“I don’t understand why a white male is not able to making over 6 figures a year???
If my black parents make over 6 figures a year then there is no excuse. I have rich people in my family- and they ALWAYS talk about this.”
Because white people don’t get affirmative action in school and at work, [...]

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On Affirmative Action and Nepotism

Poor blacks. So much racism against them. White guys just can’t understand what these poor folks go through.
First, blacks get higher grades in school than whites with similar knowledge. (The average black high school graduate scores only as well as a white 8th grader.) Then they get affirmative action in school, being accepted ahead of [...]

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Obama’s Affirmative Action and Bush’s Legacy Admission

I’ve written before that Affirmative Action is far more harmful than admission of rich kids whose parents donated money. Rich parents improve education by funding libraries, labs, scholarships – all while causing only one or two students to be admitted per year in a given school. Meanwhile, affirmative action floods universities with a huge percentage [...]

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The End of Affirmative Action?

This is a good essay on affirmative action by Bob Weissberg on vdare.com:
On a fateful September 28th in 1965, pursuant to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, President Lyndon Johnson signed Executive Order 11246 requiring the Department of Labor to “take Affirmative Action to ensure that applicants are employed” in firms doing business with the federal [...]

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Glenn Beck attacking diversity

Glenn Beck is currently attacking diversity and claims diversity will destroy our country. He’s also attacking the diversity czar at the FCC who thinks freedom of speech must take second seat to other policies, like diversity…
Now he’s telling people not to be afraid to be called racist or bigot…
The goal of the FCC is: diversity, [...]

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A Black Day in the United Kingdom

A black day indeed…
The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission has advised staff to replace the phrase “black day” with “miserable day”, according to documents released under freedom of information rules.
It points out that certain words carry with them a “hierarchical valuation of skin colour”. The commission even urges employees to be mindful of the term [...]

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