Drop The Mic, No More To Be Said On The Race War

Many others have commented on this but O'Reilly really nails it in one succinct package.
There will be no improvement in black America until these issues are addressed.

Oh, and piss on BLM.

H/T iOTW

Horror Story: American Academia

Powerline has a terrifying article about the pustulous cancer known as liberal education:

I am an inveterate optimist, but the more I learn about what goes on in our universities, the more I conclude that our civilization has a death wish. Heather Mac Donald’s article in City Journal on “micro-aggression” at UCLA prompted this particular bout of despondency. What goes on in our universities is scarcely believable. Mac Donald’s article is lengthy and should be read in its entirety, but here are a few excerpts with my comments.

In November 2013, two dozen graduate students at the University of California at Los Angeles marched into an education class and announced a protest against its “hostile and unsafe climate for Scholars of Color.”

Scholars of Color? Sadly, this is not a parody. And these are graduate students–i.e., presumably adults.

[UCLA], which trumpets its “social-justice” mission at every opportunity, is a cauldron of simmering racial tensions. Students specializing in “critical race theory”—an intellectually vacuous import from law schools—play the race card incessantly against their fellow students and their professors, leading to an atmosphere of nervous self-censorship. Foreign students are particularly shell-shocked by the school’s climate. “The Asians are just terrified,” says a recent graduate. “They walk into this hyper-racialized environment and have no idea what’s going on. Their attitude in class is: ‘I don’t want to talk. Please don’t make me talk!’”

The article cited in Powerline can be found in City Journal.

The pattern would repeat itself twice more at UCLA that fall: students would allege that they were victimized by racism, and the administration, rather than correcting the students’ misapprehension, penitently acceded to it. Colleges across the country behave no differently. As student claims of racial and gender mistreatment grow ever more unmoored from reality, campus grown-ups have abdicated their responsibility to cultivate an adult sense of perspective and common sense in their students. Instead, they are creating what tort law calls “eggshell plaintiffs”—preternaturally fragile individuals injured by the slightest collisions with life. The consequences will affect us for years to come.

These blockheads are here to stay. They are nothing but ticks burrowing their heads underneath the skin of America's ass and sucking for everything it's worth. And they are being prepared for this ignoble occupation in America's universities.

Name One

H/T to Charlie

UPDATE:

I went back through the author's methodology and didn't like the way he extrapolated the numbers. I went through the government's stats (FBI Uniform Crime Reports) for 2011 and 2012 myself and came up with a lower number: 8,663. Using the 2011 FBI numbers (the 2012 report will not be ready for months) blacks were responsible for 14% of white murder victims while whites were responsible for 7% of black murder victims.

Therefore it is not unreasonable to pose the following: blacks are kiling whites twice as much as whites are killing blacks. This is based on HARD DATA from the FBI's 2011 Expanded Homicide Data Table #1 found at this url.

There are problems (there always are) in the FBI's Expanded Homicide data. It only includes those murders where the age, sex and race of the offender is known. While blacks comprise 13% of the US population (40.25 million out of 308.74 million), black murder victims comprise 50% of all 2011 murder victims (12,664 where the age, sex and race of the victim is reported - there were actually 14,612 murders in 2011) and 91% of blacks (again this is hard data) are murdered by blacks. It is very likely that the ratio is more along the lines of 3X more likely rather than 2X.

A venomous Left-wing witch hunt is out to destroy Trevor Phillips

Quentin Letts of The Daily Mail has written an article that includes two of my favorite subjects...

1. Left-wing Witch Hunts
2. Red Ken Livingstone

Ken Livingstone's loathing of Mr Phillips - Livingstone once accused him of 'pandering to the Right' - was such that he once referred to him at a political meeting as 'that bastard Phillips', and there are some who wonder if the current ructions are being fuelled by Mr Livingstone.

There is no good evidence for this. It seems more likely that the anti-Phillips stuff is being pumped out because, with his denunciation of multiculturalism, Mr Phillips undermined the belief system which has created thousands of public sector jobs.

When ferrets are fighting, it is seldom wise to plunge your hand into the sack to separate them. That way, yowling pain and finger loss lie.

In the case of the squealing, claw-baring squabble currently happening at the Equality and Human Rights Commission, we should make an exception.

The person caught in the middle of the fray, the Commission's chief executive Trevor Phillips, is worth saving. And I say that even though he is a friend of Peter Mandelson.

In the columns of the Left-wing Guardian and Independent, not to mention on the metro-trendy airwaves of the BBC and Channel 4, Mr Phillips is being assailed almost daily.

It might have been a slow news week, but the attention paid to this story is amazing. What on earth has Trevor Phillips done to deserve such a mauling from Islington's stormtoopers?

Mr Phillips is being accused of 'poor leadership skills'. There is dark talk of loose stewardship of millions of pounds of public money. There are grumbles about his personal stake in an equality consultancy. In short, it is 'get Trevor' week.

Six of the Commission's 16 Commissioners (16 of them, all on fat deals!) have baled out, squawking about how 'unacceptable' it is that Mr Phillips has just been reappointed by Equalities Minister Harriet Harman.

Her husband Jack Dromey is an old friend of Mr Phillips.

The Left, infuriated, is out to topple him. When you see Lefties fighting, you do slightly wonder how on earth anyone could have called the Tories the 'nasty party'. This lot make the Borgias look wimpy.

Why should those of us on the Right be concerned? The Commission, after all, is an umbrella group for subsidised special interests. Why should we side with a suave Labour schmoozer who has plainly not kept as keen an eye as he might on an annual budget of more than £70 million?

Well, Trevor Phillips is something of a hero. This sometime Left-wing firebrand has realised that his party got certain things badly wrong in the past three decades.

You will seldom hear the BBC admit this, but his chief crime, as far as the Left is concerned, was to declare that multiculturalism was undesirable.

He also said that the Metropolitan Police of London could no longer accurately be called institutionally racist. Those pronouncements took courage. He is now paying the price.

For the head of the equalities world to disown multiculturalism was like the Archbishop of Canterbury disowning God. Mr Phillips denounced the very belief on which much of the equalities industry depended. So who is Trevor Phillips?

He was born in London and educated partly in Guyana, partly in Britain. He is proud of his Afro-Caribbean heritage - indeed, he and his brother Mike made a film documentary about the slave trade - but he is not obsessed with it. That sets him apart from many in the equalities game.

For such professional egalitarians, loyalty to minority is as important as loyalty to old school tie once was for pukka Englishmen. From one's minority springs one's political power. Ergo, salute the minority interest at every turn.

Mr Phillips takes a more modern view. He thinks that we all, whatever our minority (if we have one), belong to a wider community, the British nation. Sometimes loyalty to national interest trumps loyalty to one's home-team minority.

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