Civil Rights
Watch out! Critical Race Theory is coming for our children!
The front page of Monday’s NY Times featured a story that was both distressing and infuriating. It told of the travails of Andrea Kane, the supervisor of schools in Queen Anne’s County Md., who tried to raise with the parents ...
Read MoreThe Problem of Police Racism (II)
Yes, I wrote about this topic in a series of posts years ago, and I don’t generally like to repeat myself. But whether I like to or not, history does seem to insist on repeating itself, so here I go ...
Read MoreThe Politics of Protest
In an earlier post, I supported the NFL “kneelers” protests as justified and appropriate. But I didn’t deal with a very important relevant issue: the political consequences of the protests. David Leonhardt took up that issue in his op-ed in ...
Read MoreOf Protest and Patriotism
You can never be sure with Trump. His attacks on African-American athletes certainly look like a calculated appeal to his base, who undoubtedly delight in seeing the President of the United States putting down uppity blacks. Or, they could simply ...
Read MoreShort Takes
Bernie Endorses Hillary Bernie’s timing was, I think, just right. A lot of Democrats were understandably impatient for Sanders to move on, accept defeat and begin to help unite the party against Trump. But Sanders hasn’t been running just to ...
Read MoreCharleston, etc.
So, the Confederate flag will probably come down from the South Carolina state capitol grounds, as it should. I have no patience with those who assert that the flag is a legitimate symbol of the South’s heritage. Yes, it is ...
Read MoreFree Speech and Bigotry
There should be no question that Pamela Geller had a right to organize the contest that became a target for two jihadist would-be assassins. There can be no excuse for the jihadists’ assault, which surely qualifies as an act of ...
Read MoreThe Problem of Police Racism
In my last post I noted without elaboration that the problem of police racism is neither simple nor straightforward. Now I’ll try to explain. First, we need to consider the nature of contemporary racism in the United States. For centuries, ...
Read MoreDe Blasio and the Police (III)
An op-ed in today’s New York Times, “Why we’re so Mad at de Blasio,” provides a good, reasonable statement of the NYC police case against the mayor. But it’s not good enough. The author is Steve Osborne, a retired NYC ...
Read MoreDeBlasio and the Police (II)
A meeting yesterday between Mayor Bill DeBlasio with the leaders of five NYC police unions, though apparently fairly civil, yielded no clear progress toward a resolution of the current antagonism between City Hall and New York’s men in blue. That ...
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