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Last week's column discussed the political trade-offs made by black politicians and civil rights organizations that condemn whole generations of black youngsters to failing schools (http://tinyurl.com/6mmlsf). Similar political trade-offs in labor markets condemn many blacks, particularly black youths, to high rates of unemployment and reduced economic opportunities. Let's look at this, starting with a few historical facts. Today white teen unemployment is about 20 percent, while that for blacks is about 40 percent and more than 50 percent in some cities. In 1948, the unemployment rate of black 16-year-old and 17-year-old males was 9.4 percent, while that of whites was...

The son of a slain Sikh temple president plans to challenge U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan in next year's congressional election, in a Wisconsin district where support for the 2012 Republican vice presidential nominee has been strong but slipping. Amar Kaleka, 35, told The Associated Press he'll file paperwork Wednesday to form an exploratory congressional committee. He plans to formally announce his candidacy as a Democrat next month. Kaleka said he wants to bring accountability and transparency back to Washington. He blamed the government shutdown on Ryan, who's the House Budget Committee chairman, and his GOP colleagues. He said citizens are...

As the Supreme Court's October term beckons, it is worth noting that the Justices have accepted an important case, Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action. This case pits defenders of a Michigan constitutional amendment designed to prevent racial preferences against those who wish to protect such preferences. Passed with overwhelming support by the voters of Michigan in 2002, the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative would prohibit both discrimination and preferential treatment on the basis of race or sex in public university admissions. Proponents of this initiative point to verified evidence showing that admissions based on merit rather than race improve...

Event aims to give parents practical knowledge about best practices when raising Black children The Black Parent Initiative is hosting its 4 th Annual Parent Symposium on Oct. 19. The symposium, entitled “Breaking the Cycle-Closing the Gap; Saving Our Boys,” will be held at Marshall High School from 10 am to 3 pm. It’s designed to provide parents and community members with practical knowledge about best practices when raising Black children.

Imagine riding a public bus, minding your own business, when another passenger begins harassing you for absolutely no reason....

Neither whites nor blacks are doing better than before the economy collapsed, but new census numbers show that blacks are suffering more lasting effects across the nation and the region. While white household income in the St. Louis region is 7 percent less than it was five years ago, income is 17 percent less for blacks. By comparison, white households nationally are bringing in 8 percent less while black households are 11 percent lower.

What most people in Greenville, N.C., thought they knew about why Lakim Faust allegedly shot four people near a Walmart parking lot is wrong. Faust tried to kill them because they were white, a grand jury indictment released this week has revealed. This contradicts earlier police reports the shootings were random. According to WRAL: “Faust, who is black, picked out his victims based on their race, according to the indictments. The documents didn’t specify why Faust wanted to shoot white people, and police have not talked about why he picked out his targets.” Prosecutors made this determination after searching his...

The family of a man killed during a police chase in DeLand released video of the incident in Volusia County. Police dashcam video released on Wednesday shows then-DeLand Police Officer James Harris in hot pursuit, chasing Marlon Brown after Brown jumped from a car and took off on foot. The video shows Brown slip and fall. As he is getting back up, it appears he was struck by the front of Harris' patrol car. Brown died in the incident.... ... "Simply put, this was an execution in a vegetable garden," said Brown family attorney Benjamin Crump.

Opening in theatres across the country this week: the all NEW Race and Class Wars IV! If you think you’ve already seen this movie, you have. And like most sequels, it’s nothing more than a vehicle to cash in on the original franchise. Accordingly, it showcases celebrities sleepwalking their way through a brainless, self-indulgent script that’s a weak tea version of the original. It lazily deploys a recycled plot, is pumped up with cheesy emotion rehashed characters, and lame lines, from a cast that’s phoning it in: And the all new Race and Class War IV can’t even pass the...

Earlier this morning I saw a gun-control propaganda report masquerading as news....the Obama worshiper, masquerading as a journalist, talked about the victims of the murderous liberal Aaron Alexis. I noticed that MOST of the victims were white. Could we have some racism here? I mean, this black man shot UNARMED white people....

One deputy was hospitalized and another injured after a woman who refused to move her car at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport got violent Sunday, authorities said. Omolola Modupeola Dawodu, 36, was arrested on charges of battery on an officer, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, resisting an officer with violence and resisting an officer without violence, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office.

Former White House chief of staff William Daley abruptly dropped out of the race for Illinois governor Monday, signaling he wasn't sure he wanted to devote time to a long, hard campaign followed by at least four years in office. The decision leaves Gov. Pat Quinn without a prominent challenger in the Democratic primary next March, unless another candidate makes a late entry into the race. Daley spokesman Peter Giangreco confirmed that the son of late Mayor Richard J. Daley and brother of former Mayor Richard M. Daley was ending what many had believed would be a serious challenge to...

It’s an obvious question. After George Zimmerman was acquitted Obama got on TV and gave a very racially divisive speech condemning the law, the legal system and America’s treatment of blacks. He made it clear he believes that blacks are treated almost as bad as they were in the 1950s, in spite of his four years in charge making progress. And Dividing America into opposition groups against one another is how Obama won two elections. And now this Navy Yard mass shooting After all as liberals endlessly lecture us : ‘words mean things’ and 'they have consequences'. After all they...

An attacker pummeled a bus passenger so hard he smashed the bones in his face after calling the victim a “cracker” in Manhattan – marking the second time in two days that people appeared to be randomly targeted in racial tirades against white people, authorities said. In the latest incident, the suspect passed a 31-year-old rider on the M60 bus riding through Harlem, on West 127th Street, between Amsterdam Avenue and Morningside Drive, around 2:45 p.m., Friday, when he shouted the racial slur and punched the victim in the face, breaking his nose and eye socket, cops said.

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – An Opa-Locka teenager is being held without bond after a court hearing and after Miami-Dade Police arrested him for shooting and killing a 71-year-old man.

Do you think the Dems had blacks best interests at heart

New York (CNN) -- A Manhattan grand jury is investigating the beating death of a man in New York's Union Square as a possible hate crime, New York Police Department Deputy Commissioner John McCarthy told CNN Tuesday. Jeffrey Babbitt, 62, was pronounced dead Monday, five days after being beaten by a man who allegedly said, "I'm gonna punch out the first white guy I see," according to police commissioner Ray Kelly.

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- Authorities are looking for a man they say shot a teenager playing basketball on a middle school court in Miami Gardens. The 18-year-old was injured in the Wednesday night shooting....

<p>About two months after George Zimmerman was acquitted in the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, Martin’s mother is finding new ways to keep working against gun violence.</p>

Is your purpose to stoke anger and outrage among some rather ignorant readers? If so, you’re doing a great job. Your posting on WND contains so much misinformation that I can’t help but wonder what your intent actually is. From the beginning of the report, you start leading your readers to put any intelligence aside. Just one question — since when does one woman and her dog(s) constitute a mob, black or white? Personally, I have never seen the so-called roving Black mobs. You are taking advantage of some of the most ill-informed people in our society by stoking racial...

Black mob violence is back in Minneapolis. Some say it never stopped, and if you depend on the local newspaper for information, you might think it never started. But Minneapolis police recently issued a “crime alert” for the downtown area following a rash of mob robberies and assaults. According to City Paper: “What we’re seeing in this pattern is victims walking downtown by themselves on a sidewalk outside, and they’re approached by a group of three to five African American males,” MPD spokeswoman Cyndi Barrington told City Pages. “The average age range of the [suspects] is late teens to early...

On Saturday, a couple walking through the French Quarter was severely beaten in what appears to be yet another act of violence, motivated by racism. Around 6 a.m., the couple was approached by three young black men near the intersection of Iberville and Dauphine Streets. The suspects quickly surrounded the couple and without warning, physically assaulted both of them, according to police. The Times-Picayune reported: The woman was punched in the mouth, police said, and her male companion was struck several times by the group. The man was beaten so badly that his jaw broke, requiring him to be hospitalized...

A reader writes: In White-liberal white-baiting link-baiting gone wild you mentioned this: Make an outlandish statement about White people.Watch White people react in denial.Use denial reaction as proof you were right all along. There’s a word for this logical Fallacy. It’s called Kafkatrapping.In short it takes the form of using denial of guilt as proof of guilt. Here’s the blog that explains it very well.I think the term should be used more widely. Absolutely, and thanks for the heads up.Kafkatrapping now not only is in our vocabulary, it’s a “tag� (I need to go back and add it to past posts).Here’s...

DIRGIN, Texas (AP) — Ida Finley smiles wistfully, recalling how she used to cook for an entire East Texas community — nearly all descendants of slaves... Now, just weeks from her 102nd birthday, Finley faces the prospect of losing the land worked by her husband and his parents, slaves who toiled for a master. For three years, Luminant Mining Co. has tried to purchase this 9.1-acre plot, which is currently owned by a bevy of relatives spread across the country. The company owns more than 75 percent of the parcel but can't mine it because of a complex inheritance arrangement...

West had some harsh comments for MSNBC's Al Sharpton and Michael Eric Dyson Friday. Early in the radio show "Smiley and West," West said of the previous day's commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington, "We saw of course the coronation of the bonafide house negro of the Obama plantation, our dear brother Al Sharpton, supported by the Michael Dysons and others who’ve really prostituted themselves intellectually in a very ugly and vicious way"...

Conservative commentators have had a lot to say over the last 24 hours about the fact that Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), the only African-American in the Senate, was not invited to yesterday’s March on Washington 50th Anniversary celebration. According to Bill O’Reilly, it was strange that “no Republicans and no conservatives were invited� to the event. As it turns out, that’s just not true.As the Washington Post’s Ed O’Keefe reported today, “not a single Republican elected official stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday.� But it’s not because they weren’t invited. While Scott’s office has confirmed...

One of the controversies surrounding the 50th anniversary celebration of the March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King‘s “I Have A Dream� speech has been the absence of Republicans at the event, despite many of them having been invited. One prominent Republican, Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), told Roll Call through a spokesperson that he had not been invited, but the paper reported, Thursday afternoon, that an email confirms that Sen. Scott’s office declined an invitation to the event earlier this month.On Wednesday, Roll Call reported on the status of invitations to Republican leaders like Speaker John Boehner and Majority...

The leader of a prominent civil rights activist group expressed outrage after he was prevented from joining President Obama in speaking at the 50th anniversary commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s March on Washington on Wednesday. “This morning, my time as well as that of Sofia Campos, leader of United We Dream, was cut from the march. But we still have much to say. They told me that they had run out of time, but I believe that our time is now,” Phillip Agnew, leader of the activist group Dream Defenders, said in a video posted to Youtube Thursday in...

Michael Eric Dyson, a King admirer and hard leftist himself, makes this point unmistakably clear in his, I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr. Blasting away at the “the conservative misappropriation” of King, Dyson shows, not that King would have supported much of the left’s agenda, but that he in fact did do so. For starters, King resoundingly endorsed what is today called “affirmative action.” King insisted that “the nation must not only radically readjust its attitude toward the Negro in the compelling present, but must incorporate in its planning some compensatory compensation from...

- FrontPage Magazine - http://frontpagemag.com - Black-on-White Violence: The Forgotten VictimsPosted By Jack Kerwick On August 29, 2013 @ 12:17 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | 6 Comments As the nation remembers Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, it should also note that while the self-appointed guardians of King’s legacy, the “anti-racists,” obsess over Paula Deen and liken Trayvon Martin to Emmet Till, they say nothing about interracial violence when it involves black perpetrators and white victims. Below is a select list of interracial atrocities committed by blacks against whites.  These forgotten victims are men and women, young and...

NEW YORK — With less than two weeks before the election, Bill de Blasio has surged into a significant lead in the city’s Democratic mayoral primary, according to a new poll. ((snip)) That’s a 15-point lead over Christine Quinn, the City Council speaker who had been considered the front-runner to replace outgoing Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Quinn, with 21 percent support, is now statistically tied for second place with former Comptroller Bill Thompson, who registered at 20 percent in the poll. The other contenders were trailing in single digits, including former Rep. Anthony Weiner (8 percent),

The depth to which the “civil rights” movement has fallen in one image.

Today is the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and martin Luther King Jr’s famous “I have a dream speech.” While the pro-abortion giant Planned Parenthood participated in Saturday’s March on Washington, King’s niece says the civil rights leader would have been pro-life on abortion. Alexis McGill Johnson, Chairman of Planned Parenthood Federation, told rally participants that Planned Parenthood gave King an award. But Alveda King, the niece of Martin Luther King, Jr. and director of African American Outreach with Priests for Life, told WMALK that planned Parenthood is misleading people. She said: “It is odd that Planned Parenthood...

[SNIP] The issue of civil rights remained at the forefront of my consciousness and on that summer day in August of 1963, while attending Catholic University in Washington D.C., I was one of 200,000 people at the Lincoln Memorial to hear Martin Luther King deliver his "I have a Dream" speech. Over the next five years I participated in voter registration drives, demonstrations, and marches to once and for all put an end to the stain on the American character. I have, over the years, watched with some degree of pride and accomplishment as doors were opened, barriers torn down,...

MSNBC obliterated the notion of separating cable-news hosts and their political activism when the network brass gave Rev. Al Sharpton a nightly show two years ago. It was just another day at the office when Sharpton held a rabble-rousing rally for Trayvon Martin in the afternoon and then covered it on his show hours later. But Saturday's rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial celebrating the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's March on Washington was the most dramatic conflict of interest yet. Sharpton organized the rally (with Martin Luther King III), and MSNBC aired huge chunks of it...

You've already heard, I'm sure, about Delbert Belton, the 88-year-old World War II veteran who was beaten to death by two black teenagers. The police are assuring everyone that there's no need to get worried, because this wasn't a race crime. Instead, it was Delbert's own fault. According to the police, when the boys tried to rob Delbert, he had the temerity to fight back, leaving them with no other option than to beat an old man to death.A friend of mine noted that, using this reasoning, if one assumes solely for the sake of argument that the race-hustlers are...

In a vulgar tirade caught on tape by Fox News, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said he wanted to "cut his [Barack Obama's] nuts out" and he accused the fellow Chicagoan of "talking down to black folks" by giving moral lectures to African-Americans, source said Jackson's shocking quotes were picked up by a hot mic before an interview on health care in Fox's Chicago studio last Sunday...

The Left is uncomfortable about “keeping score” of racial attacks by Black males on (especially) defenseless Whites. The favorite targets of these cowards are fragile elderly Whites and White women although when they are assembled in sufficiently lopsided numbers these predators will attack young healthy White men. The numbers of stories about these savage attacks are growing faster than the Democrat controlled media can smother them. Last week we heard about two Black males attacking and killing a World War II hero in Spokane – a place that prides itself on its liberality. They beat this fine American veteran with...

Unfortunately, the vicious murder of an innocent jogger in Oklahoma by two “bored” Black teenage boys is not an exceptional act. The only reason why the media is reporting it is because the victim was an Australian and to its credit his government won’t let the story die. Finding the two killers had a White accomplice makes this story only a little bit more acceptable to the media so they are grudgingly covering it. In his new book “White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America” Colin Flaherty chronicles the alarming but grossly under reported attacks...

Fifty years after the March on Washington, mystical memories of that seminal moment in the civil-rights era are less likely to focus on movement politics than on the great poetry and great music. The emotional uplift of the monumental march is a universe of time away from today's degrading rap music—filled with the n-word, bitches and "hoes"—that confuses and depresses race relations in America now. The poetry of Aug. 28, 1963, is best on view when Martin Luther King Jr. went off his speech script and started using a musical, chanting reprise—"I have a dream." The transforming insight born of...

Here's a case of the fruit falling and rolling a long way from the tree. Last Saturday, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, Martin Luther King III spoke. He echoed his father's words from fifty years ago about people not being judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. In the words of MLK III: "The task is not done, the journey is not complete," he said. "The vision preached by my father a half-century ago was that his four little children would no longer live in a nation where...

Looks like George Zimmerman has taken time out from visiting gun factories and speeding in Texas to take care of more legal business: He plans to ask the state of Florida to reimburse him for up to $300,000 in legal expenses, his lawyer tells the Orlando Sentinel. Because he was acquitted, a Florida statute requires the state to pay his costs for things like expert witnesses and travel, and he plans to file a motion soon, lawyer Mark O'Mara says. "It's a pretty standard motion for a case that the defense won," says a spokesman for Zimmerman's legal team. But...

... Obama, a proud graduate of Whitney Young High School, is scheduled to host a screening of a documentary about Young's life. The screening of "The Power Broker: Whitney Young's Fight For Civil Rights," is planned for 3:30 p.m. CT Tuesday in Washington with a live-stream offered....

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Folks, let me tell you something. You know, privately there are a lot of Democrats that tell me that they are just distressed over what Obama has done to the health care industry and to jobs. They are afraid to say anything about it because of recriminations, because this regime fights back. I mean, this regime does not take internal criticism at all, just like they try to eliminate all conservative opposition. Likewise, if anybody in the Democrat Party goes public with the slightest disagreement or problem with what Obama's doing, it could be curtains for them,...

When Republicans planned a gathering to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, they weren’t initially sure who would show up. In the end, dozens of civil rights leaders, African-Americans, Democrats and Republicans gathered at the Capitol Hill Club. For many African-Americans gathered, it was a reminder that the Republican Party – the party of Abraham Lincoln – wasn’t as estranged from the civil rights movement as some of the more official commemoration events would make it seem. Former Rep. Allen West, a black Republican from Florida, said at the commemoration luncheon today that the speakers at Saturday’s...

The other day Martin Luther King III said "...the color of one's skin remains a license to profile, to arrest and to even murder..." He's absolutely right. To wit: January 6, 2007: Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom are kidnapped, tortured and murdered by four black men and one black woman. Authorities ultimately determined that Newsom and Christian had dined at a local restaurant on the night of Jan. 6. Afterward, Christian spoke briefly with her mother and told her that she and Newsom were planning to visit a friend’s house to watch a movie. Sometime after that call took place,...

Democrats think a rodeo clown's jokes are racist, Republicans think they are healthy free speech. Democrats think Trayvon Martin was shot for being black, Republicans think he was shot in self-defense because of his thuggish assault on Zimmerman. Republicans think the President should show leadership to counter the violent Rapper culture that leads to murder. Democrats think it is racist to mention the black murder rate. Democrats swoon over Obama's courage in saying if he had a son he'd look like Trayvon. Republicans see it as the lowest form of divisive race baiting. Are we finally having that honest conversation...

The Los Angeles Times recently published a devastating case study in the malign effects of academic racial preferences. The University of California, Berkeley, followed the diversocrat playbook to the letter in admitting Kashawn Campbell, a South Central Los Angeles high-school senior, in 2012: It disregarded his level of academic preparation, parked him in the black dorm — the “African American Theme Program” — and provided him with a black-studies course. The results were thoroughly predictable. After his first semester, reports the Times: [Kashawn] had barely passed an introductory science course. In College Writing 1A, his essays — pockmarked with misplaced...

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell called the verdict in the trial of George Zimmerman, the Florida man who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, “questionable” Sunday. But Powell, appearing on CBS’s “Face the Nation” also added that he felt the acquittal of Zimmerman, a neighborhood-watch volunteer who had been accused of killing Martin, an unarmed black teenager, won’t have a lasting impact on U.S. politics. “I think that it will be seen as a questionable judgment on the part of the judicial system down there (in Florida), but I don't know if it will have staying power,” Powell said of...

Yvette Heyliger took to the streets of Harlem Saturday for an anti-gun violence walk because the stories of gang warfare hit home for her... "I think the anti-gun violence march that we're having today here in Harlem dovetails beautifully with the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington," Heyliger said. "We're still fighting for so many rights, the right to vote, the right to choose, the right to have our own lives and to have our communities be safe."