[Tijeras_Slim]

*YAWN*

[Drango]

Rather, the siege is one of effect, manifested by policies not aimed at black people but which disproportionately affect them.

You mean like the Democrates pushing a minimum wage law? It impacts blacks far more than whites...

[aomagrat]

Exhibit 7: This article. Another example of blaming whitey.

[mhking]

The only statement in this entire load of hooey that makes any kind of sense:

By giving $90 million to a high school kid who has yet to put a ball through an NBA hoop, the athletic shoe company has assured that countless thousands of black kids (and others) will figure dribbling a ball, not studying math or science, is the surest way to riches and glory.

[RKV]

Stop giving (some) minorities unearned (and immoral) advantages and the issue of Blair's race goes away. It is a fact that minorities with lower test scores/grades than whites/asians get accepted to schools due to affirmative racism. Same is true in hiring. The issue in this article is that some poverty pimp is going to be out of a job if he/she admits to the facts. Legal and societal racism in the US is minimal. The failure of minorities (and particularly American born blacks) to achieve is CULTURAL and self-inflicted. This is well documented and it is not racist to point out facts.

[Alberta's Child]

By giving $90 million to a high school kid who has yet to put a ball through an NBA hoop, the athletic shoe company has assured that countless thousands of black kids (and others) will figure dribbling a ball, not studying math or science, is the surest way to riches and glory.

Imagine trying to convince a former slave like Frederick Douglass that this amounts to "racism."

By this author's idiotic rationale, Nike should only give $90 million contracts to white athletes.

[longtermmemmory]

The herals supported returning a small boy to a communist country after his mother DIED get her son to freedom.

Its just leftist poop.

[lady lawyer]

Yup. The answer is to make standards as low as possible, and blame society, instead of the felon, for the fact that he forfeited his right to vote.

Psychologists will tell you that accepting responsibility is the most empowering thing one can do. These apologists for black bad behavior are very literaly disempowering their own people.

[chachacha]

No one can add anything more to this epistle. "More of the same" and, "in support of the same".

VOMIT

[FroedrickVonFreepenstein]

[brownsfan]

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Geez, when will people get over it?! If you follow the format of this whining drivel, you could make a case that there is subtle discrimination against: Men named John, short people, bald men, etc!!!!

[cherry]

"urging ex-offenders to stay straight after completing their sentences"

I liked the part about the "urging" the criminals not to be criminals...

........yeah, that "urging" always works.....lol

[BrooklynGOP]

The Jayson Blair affair is the case of a problem individual, period. Yet it quickly morphed into a broadside against affirmative action.

How ironic. Affirmative actions doesn't treat people on individual basis, either.

[billhilly]

It sure sounds like it is difficult giving up one's victim status.

[Roughneck]

Blair's case is about as relevant to black America collectively as, say, Mike Tyson's or Darryl Strawberry's -- which is to say, roughly, not at all.

I'm sure trent Lott would agree. . .

[Fzob]

It was about The New York Times believing it had a potential superstar, but badly misjudging his suicide-bomber maliciousness. The paper's efforts to help Blair were not unlike the baseball teams that kept giving repeat drug offender Strawberry new chances -- not because of his race but his perceived ability.

Spin. Raines so much as admitted Blair got special treatment because he was black. I'm sick and tired of the press claiming that Blair's actions negatively affected black Americans.

The Times management is what was screwed up by allowing Blair to continue working.

[Roughneck]

"demonstrates that when a black individual slips up, critics often make it an issue of race. Yet when black Americans try to raise an issue of race, they are denounced as divisive and malignant. "

I hardly see where Clarence Thomas made a mistake, yet dems CRUCIFIED the guy!

I hardly view Condoleeza Rice or Colin Powell with racism, yet blacks call them "house niggers"...

[CaptRon]

Exhibit 5: One other ''attack'' on black America bears mentioning -- by Nike. By giving $90 million to a high school kid who has yet to put a ball through an NBA hoop, the athletic shoe company has assured that countless thousands of black kids (and others) will figure dribbling a ball, not studying math or science, is the surest way to riches and glory.

Not if their parents and their community impress upon them that this is not the way to go.

[Roughneck]

Gov. Jeb Bush staunchly opposes the automatic restoration of rights

Really? and what RIGHTS did those criminals take away from others? In most cases FELONS have murdered - losing the "right" to vote should go with the terrority.

Besides, Democrats and Socialists would overtake this country if felons could vote.

Next.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

It was about The New York Times believing it had a potential superstar, but badly misjudging his suicide-bomber maliciousness. The paper's efforts to help Blair were not unlike the baseball teams that kept giving repeat drug offender Strawberry new chances -- not because of his race but his perceived ability.

... this is as far as I read. Strawberry, like him or not, has ability, not PERCEIVED, but provable. Blair had been suspect for years and was kept at the paper BECAUSE he was a minority, not because of ANY proven ability.