RACE-BAITING FOR FAME
Most people view slavery as an abomination, pure and simple. David Horowitz, president of the Los Angeles-based Center for the Study of Popular Culture, has a different spin. For today's...
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A NEW LANGUAGE ON RACE
An oddly antagonistic tone infects much of the news and commentaries about how Hispanics may now outnumber African-Americans. In TV and in print I have seen reporters ask questions like:...
HOW A POOR SELF-IMAGE CAN STIFLE SAT SCORES
I winced when President Richard C. Atkinson of the University of California recently proposed ending the use of the SAT in admissions. I appreciate Atkinson's desire to improve his student...
PIECING IT ALL TOGETHER
New racial and ethnic numbers in the 2000 U.S. census show an increasingly complex picture of the way we Americans look at ourselves. It also shows the job of counting...
FOLLOWING THE FINANCIAL PAPER TRAIL
When he finally faced a firing squad of reporters to explain the complex finances of his non-profit organizations, it did not take long for the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson to...
CAN WE STOP OUR KIDS FROM BECOMING KILLERS?
OK, I admit it. I was relieved to learn that the 15-year-old who opened fire in a suburban San Diego high school was middle class and white. I was relieved...
VICTIMHOOD AND BEING `CLARENCE’
Amateurs once again are ruining the high art and often-ennobling stature of being a victim. This thought crossed my mind as I was watching a tape of Supreme Court Justice...
DEMOCRATS CAN SURVIVE THE CLINTON CAPERS
These are tough days for Democrats. A lot of commentators are blowing taps for the party's prospects as scandal swirls up around the sleazy way Bill Clinton and Sen. Hillary...
JAIL RECORD SHOWS BILL WAS NO FREE WILLY
Here's a not-so-trivial trivia question for you: Under which president did the most Americans go to prison for serious crimes: Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton or the first George Bush? Here's...
SYMBOLS AND STEREOTYPES
I recently spotted a newspaper obituary that brought back a flood of memories: Emmy-award winning actor Gail Fisher died at a hospital in Los Angeles. If you do not remember...