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	<title>FrontPage Magazine &#187; american racism</title>
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		<title>Obama: America &#8220;Less Racially Divided&#8221; Under My Rule</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2014 15:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The economy is doing great. And we're going to the moon. ]]></description>
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<p>America is<a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/12/26/obama-america-has-become-less-racially-divided-under-my-presidency/"> less racially divided than ever.</a> The economy is doing great. Unemployment is over. And we&#8217;re going to the moon. Any day now.</p>
<blockquote><p>NPR released quote excerpts of an interview set to air on “Morning Edition” starting Monday, including one in which host Steve Inskeep asked if the country is more racially divided now compared to when Obama took office six years ago.</p>
<p>“No,” the president answered. “I actually think that it’s probably in its day-to-day interactions less racially divided.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Polls show otherwise, but Obama trumps facts, polls and even the laws of physicists. Anyone who disagree is racist.</p>
<p>But Obama does face a paradox. His protectors have to blame racism for all the disagreement and criticism. But then Obama can&#8217;t actually concede that the country now polls more racially divided, so he instead has to claim that despite all the racism, it&#8217;s less racist than ever.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s kind of like how the Communists always insisted that things were getting and worse at the same time.</p>
<p>Obama whipped up racism for voter turnout. His administration has spent more time race baiting than doing just about anything else. It&#8217;s why the country polls as so racially divided. His Attorney General mocks Americans as a nation of cowards on race. But Obama has to avoid taking the blame by claiming that things are getting better while hedging on daily interactions so that his DOJ is still free to run its racist witch hunts.</p>
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		<title>School Warns Students that Dressing Like the &#8220;Village People&#8221; is Racist</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2014 14:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has “Y.M.C.A.” ever struck you as a racist song? ]]></description>
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<p>Apparently you can stop the music and Felipe Rose, despite being part Sioux, was really a racist.<a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/school-cancels-y-m-c-a-performance-after-parent-complains-its-racist/"> So were the Village People</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Has “Y.M.C.A.” ever struck you as a racist song? Well, one North Dakota parent complained about a school performance of the song, and her complaint got Bennett Elementary School to pull the song from the school’s talent show in May. However, the complaint had nothing to do with the content of the song itself, but the fact that the group that sings it, the Village People, has one member that dresses up like a Native American.</p>
<p>The school said students should dress up like the Village People for the performance, because the song would be performed by the entire first grade class, but the mother complained it would be “offensive” for children to come dressed to school like Native Americans. She explained, “Hopefully those people that are can make the right choices so all students of any culture and race won’t feel singled out or like their race is being stereotyped against.”</p>
<p>As a result of the complaint, the school, instead of waiving the costume requirement, pulled the song entirely.</p>
<p>The mother Elaine Bolman said, “I&#8217;m not in a position to do anything for these educators and hopefully those people that are can make the right choices so all students of any culture and race won&#8217;t feel singled out or like their race is being stereotyped against.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Odds are Elaine is as Indian as Elizabeth Warren. She also talks like a PC zombie.</p>
<p>Aside from the usual SJW/PC insanity, this is also a collision between gay culture and claims of racism. And that&#8217;s an interesting intersection considering the amount of racism in the gay community and homophobia among a lot of minorities. (The Rainbow coalition is not a happy place.)</p>
<p>The real problem though is the need to constantly denounce things. Once something is banned, it&#8217;s time to show your cred by campaigning to ban the next thing. And on and on.</p>
<p>It has no end because a PC competition never does. Someone always has to be more PC than someone else.</p>
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		<title>Dumbest Woman in Russia Writes New York Times Op-Ed Whitewashing Racism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jan 2014 15:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of them had lashed out at my daughter, calling her a “white bitch.” ]]></description>
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<p>There are two definitions of racism. The real one and the liberal one.</p>
<p>1. rac·ism &#8211; hatred or discrimination against another race</p>
<p>2. rac·ism &#8211; being a member of a majority group</p>
<p>The second definition, also known as white privilege, is the one that the left likes to use. And proving that the New York Times will print any op-ed, no matter how dumb, that supports its point of view, it backwashes this tepid mess of idiocy from Masha Gessen, a <a href="http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2014/01/nyt-op-ed-confirms-whites-cannot-be.html">Russian gay rights activist with a high level of stupid</a> even by New York Times op-ed standards.</p>
<blockquote><p>In Boston, where I went to high school, I quickly learned the very peculiar fact that being Jewish meant being part of the majority — the white majority. Many Soviet émigrés, buoyed by this discovery, adopted rabidly racist attitudes. This embarrassed their kids, the people of my generation, who, as they became American adults, usually moved steadily to the left of their parents.</p></blockquote>
<p>Masha Gessen isn&#8217;t just an idiot, she&#8217;s also a liar. Russia is about as racist as it gets. No one from Russia, Russian, Jewish or any member of a minority living in Russia, develops racist attitudes because they&#8217;re a majority in America. They already have them to begin with.</p>
<p>That gives them something in common with 99 percent of the planet.</p>
<p>Gessen has to make up something this stupid to prop up the bizarre liberal argument that racism can only exist between the majority and the minority. If Russian Jews had negative views of blacks in Russia that would negate the whole nonsensical argument.</p>
<blockquote><p>We neighborhood-shopped and chose Harlem — among other reasons, because many people who are roughly my age and in roughly my field of work are moving to the neighborhood. Soon enough, I was speaking to one such woman. She mentioned she sometimes sensed resentment from Harlem’s old-timers. She said she had been the target of “racist remarks.”</p>
<p>I cringed. This woman was white, and the remarks had been made by people who were not. And I knew there was no such thing as “reverse racism”: You cannot be the object of racial discrimination if you are a member of the powerful majority. I had learned this as an American before I became a Russian again.</p></blockquote>
<p>Reverse racism is a stupid term. The only acceptable context in which to apply it is when a measure intended to alleviate racism backfires and leads to racial discrimination as in the case of affirmative action.</p>
<p>Describing racism itself as reverse racism is as stupid and wrong as Masha Gessen.</p>
<p>Gessen claims that a racist remark is not a racist remark if it&#8217;s directed from a minority to a majority. So what is it then? She&#8217;s not capable of answering the question.</p>
<p>Not even when her own daughter asks it.</p>
<blockquote><p>A couple of drunken men loitered nearby. Apparently, one of them had lashed out at my daughter, calling her a “white bitch.” He then collected his kids from the playground, making it clear this was done on her account.</p>
<p>“Isn’t this racism?” she asked me, shocked.</p>
<p>Somehow, my model, which denied the possibility of racism directed against the majority, could not account for the power dynamics involved in being a child being berated by an adult.</p></blockquote>
<p>This is what happens when you observe life through ideological models, instead of dealing with what is there. Communism was an elaborate demonstration of the economic effects of doing just that. And Masha Gessen has learned absolutely nothing from it. Zero.</p>
<p>But let&#8217;s take her bizarre contention that there is no such thing as bigotry from a minority to a majority. As she knows quite well, most of the various peoples back home hate each other.</p>
<p>If a Latvian uses a slur toward a Russian in Latvia, it&#8217;s bigotry, under her model, but if he does it in Russia, it&#8217;s not bigotry. If the Latvian and Russian move to New York and exchange slurs, it&#8217;s possibly bigotry. If they both suggest that Masha Gessen is a mindless idiot burying what&#8217;s left of her ideas of right and wrong in Party dogma no different than that of the Politburo ,it&#8217;s observed scientific fact.</p>
<p>Racism is not about power dynamics. Racism is about hate. If you define racism by power dynamics, you end up accusing non-racists of racism and excusing racists of racism.</p>
<p>Defining racism by power dynamics is as stupid as defining any form of hatred in terms of power dynamics instead of in terms of hatred.</p>
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		<title>Is Opposition to ObamaCare Racist, Sexist or Anti-Mormon?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2014 15:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So why did Republicans oppose Bill Clinton? ]]></description>
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<p>The left never can seem to get its ObamaCare game together. And I&#8217;m not talking about the dysfunctional website or even more dysfunctional program. Those are functional things that the left doesn&#8217;t care that much about. Every time it screws up is just a reason for it to demand more money and power so that it can fix its last screw up by screwing it up even more.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m talking about what really counts. Assigning blame.</p>
<p>Theme 1 is that ObamaCare<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/01/professor-blames-southern-white-radicals-for-obamacare-debacle/"> failed because Republicans are racist</a>. A sample of that rhetoric comes from Gloria J. Browne-Marshall from the  John Jay College of Criminal Justice.</p>
<blockquote><p>In January, President Barack Obama began his second term. However, southern White radicals vowed to stop implementation of the Obama-care law leading one to wonder if Tea Party members would oppose affordable healthcare if it came from a nonBlack President.</p></blockquote>
<p>Because if there&#8217;s one thing that Tea Party members love it&#8217;s big government social entitlements as long as they come from white men.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s striking how little many politically active black people in urban areas know about the Tea Party. But they keep referencing it nonetheless. Instead they adopt the MSNBC attitude of conflating it with the KKK.</p>
<p>But ObamaCare is just HillaryCare in drag. And even if Bill Clinton was our first black president, I don&#8217;t think that privilege extends to Hillary. No amount of blurred vision will let her pass as a soul sister.</p>
<p>If opposition to ObamaCare is racist, then why did Republicans oppose HillaryCare? Sexism obviously.</p>
<p>But wait&#8230;</p>
<p>Theme 2, the main theme in the pro liberal ranks, is that ObamaCare is just RomneyCare. Michael Moore&#8217;s op-ed just used that same talking point.</p>
<p>So if ObamaCare is really RomneyCare then opposition to it can&#8217;t be racist, it must be Anti-Mormon.</p>
<p>The left has been claiming that Obama adopted a Republican program and that Republicans only hate it because it was proposed by a black man. If only it had been proposed by a Republican president, they would have gone for it.</p>
<p>But if you believe that, then there are no policy differences. Only racial differences. If only Bill Clinton could run for a third term, Republicans would go along with everything he says and they wouldn&#8217;t try to impeach him.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve run out racism, sexism and anti-mormonism. So why did Republicans oppose Bill Clinton?</p>
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		<title>WW2 Navajo Code Talkers Appear in Redskins Jackets; Liberal Heads Explode</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2013 02:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["My opinion is that's a name that not only the team should keep, but that's a name that's American."]]></description>
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<p>The Redskins, as everyone who isn&#8217;t the media by now knows, got their name from their Native American players back in the day. Some of the surviving WW2 Navajo code talkers may know that, because unlike liberals, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/football-insider/wp/2013/11/25/redskins-honor-members-of-the-navajo-code-talker-association/">they weren&#8217;t born yesterday</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>As a joint celebration of the NFL’s Salute to Service month and Native American Heritage month, the Washington Redskins recognized four members of the Navajo Code Talkers Association.</p>
<p>The code talkers were a group of Native American service members who transmitted secret communications beginning in World War II.</p>
<p>Four representatives — Navajo Code Talkers Association President Peter MacDonald Sr., Vice President Roy Hawthorne and members George James Sr. and George Boyd Willie Sr. — were recognized during a commercial break during the first quarter of the Redskins’ game vs. the San Francisco 49ers. They stood in the end zone nearest the tunnel that leads to the Redskins’ locker room and received a round of applause while a video tribute to the code talkers played.</p></blockquote>
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<p>The event got lots of snide remarks from white liberals, particularly the Deadspin crew, which is everything you expect from a Gawker franchise. Meanwhile the <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2013/11/28/navajo-code-talker-says-redskins-name-not-derogatory/?intcmp=latestnews">Navajo code talkers had no problem wearing Redskins gear</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=214709">Roy Hawthorne, 87, of Lupton, Ariz.</a>, was one of four Code Talkers honored for their service in World War II during the Monday night game against the San Francisco 49ers.</p>
<p>Hawthorne, vice president of the Navajo Code Talkers Association, said the group&#8217;s trip was paid for by the Redskins. The four men met briefly with team owner Dan Snyder but did not discuss the name, Hawthorne said.</p>
<p>Still, he said he would endorse the name if asked, and the televised appearance in which three of the Indians wore Redskins jackets spoke for itself.</p>
<p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t have that in mind but that is undoubtedly what we did do,&#8221; Hawthorne said when asked if he was intending to send a statement with the appearance. &#8220;My opinion is that&#8217;s a name that not only the team should keep, but that&#8217;s a name that&#8217;s American.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Sadly liberals are not American.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;It does not take a code talker to crack this particular code,&#8221; columnist Dave Zirin wrote in The Nation. &#8220;Dan Snyder is on the wrong side of history.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>That one is hilarious. Because it&#8217;s a fat white guy making a joke about WW2 heroes to uh fight racism. Also he&#8217;s the sports editor of The Nation. Did you know The Nation even had one? Neither did its readers.</p>
<blockquote><p>Zirin has also published Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports, and A People’s History of Sports in the United States, a sports-related volume in the manner of Howard Zinn&#8217;s A People&#8217;s History of the United States series for The New Press.</p>
<p>Zirin called for a boycott against sports teams from Arizona, in particular the Diamondbacks, to protest the Arizona SB 1070, the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act</p>
<p>On June 2, 2010, writing for The Nation, Zirin justified the decision of the Turkish U-19 soccer team to boycott a match against Israel. He described the Gaza flotilla raid as an act of state terror committed by the Israeli government and proposed a boycott of Israel</p>
<p>On October 6, 2011, during a live interview conducted on the sports cable television network, ESPN, Zirin referred to Hank Williams, Jr. as a racist and proslavery after Williams, the writer and singer of ESPN&#8217;s then-Monday Night Football theme song, made a political statement in which he seemingly compared multiracial US President Barack Obama to former German national socialist leader, Adolf Hitler</p></blockquote>
<p>Just the guy you want to hear from.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Navajo.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-211931" alt="Navajo" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Navajo-450x337.jpg" width="450" height="337" /></a></p>
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		<title>California Grad Students Claim Correcting their Spelling is Racist</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2013 18:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students described spelling corrections on their dissertation proposals as "micro-aggression."]]></description>
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<p>Nothing says white privilege like correct spelling.</p>
<p>And who is to say what the correct spelling of a word should be? Why privilege the Euro-centric model of linguistic integrity over a multi-dimensional approach that takes in the voices of everyone and respects their spelling choices?</p>
<p>What about <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/2013/11/22/ucla-students-say-professor-highlighting-spelling-and-punctuation-errors-is-racist-contributes-to-toxic-racial-climate/">Native American trans-women of color in wheelchairs </a>who refuse to spell to protest the historic injustices against their people?</p>
<blockquote><p>Student demonstrators alleged that there is a “toxic” racial climate in the graduate school, including in Rust’s classroom.</p>
<p>Rust said students in the demonstration described grammar and spelling corrections he made on their dissertation proposals as a form of &#8220;micro-aggression.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I have attempted to be rather thorough on the papers and am particularly concerned that they do a good job with their bibliographies and citations, and these students apparently don&#8217;t feel that is appropriate,&#8221; Rust said in the letter.</p></blockquote>
<p>I recall a lot of acts of micro-aggression by my teachers. I had no idea that spelling corrections were really acts of war.</p>
<p>Now these are grad students, working on computers that have spell check built in, making spelling errors that are egregious enough to require constant corrections.</p>
<blockquote><p>He said the protesters were also responding to a conversation in class between two students about critical race theory that he allowed to take place by not stopping the discussion.</p>
<p>The demonstration’s organizers said they are aware of several examples in the graduate school where minority students claimed they faced challenges and “micro-aggressions” from professors.</p>
<p>Nora Cisneros, a graduate student who participated in the sit-in, said the group chose to hold their protest because they feel Rust’s class does not encourage a climate where students of color can discuss issues of race openly.</p></blockquote>
<p>Inability to discuss issues of race openly is PC code for someone disagreeing with the contention that all white people are racist. Rust is being targeted because he apparently allowed someone, presumably white, to disagree.</p>
<p>Now the radicals, who are doing the same thing that California students have been doing for a while, will pressure UCLA to hire some of their fellow radicals for top positions.</p>
<p>Meanwhile UC will refuse to address Muslim Anti-Semitism and harassment on campus. Because that form of bigotry is politically correct.</p>
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<p><strong>[Editor&#8217;s note: This article is reprinted from </strong><a href="http://www.city-journal.org/"><strong>City Journal</strong></a><strong>]</strong></p>
<p>As the United States prepares to try Nidal Malik Hasan for 13 counts of murder and 32 counts of attempted murder at Fort Hood last month, few question the suspect’s guilt, but many disagree about his motives. Yet the evidence is now <a href="../2009/11/20/major-hasan%25E2%2580%2599s-islamist-life-%25E2%2580%2593-by-daniel-pipes/" target="display">conclusive</a>: the Fort Hood massacre was an act of Islamic terror. Before his shooting spree, Hasan told colleagues that non-Muslims were infidels condemned to hell and that they should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats. Hasan traded 18 e-mails with <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/us/10inquire.html" target="display">Anwar al-Awlaki</a>, an al-Qaida recruiter. On the morning of the massacre, he gave his <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6526030/Fort-Hood-gunman-had-told-US-military-colleagues-that-infidels-should-have-their-throats-cut.html" target="display">neighbor</a> a Koran as he was departing for the base, telling her that he was going to do “good work for God.” Wearing Pakistani garb, Hasan shouted “Allahu akbar” as he began firing at U.S. troops.</p>
<p>Despite the plentiful evidence, however, leftists refuse to accept Hasan’s Islamic inspiration. We’ve heard the <a href="../2009/11/10/hasans-motives-by-dennis-prager/" target="display">rationalizations</a>: Hasan was a nut; the stresses of serving in the military drove him crazy; he experienced anti-Islamic discrimination; anyone is capable of “losing it” under such stressful conditions; and so on. These reflexive denials are a logical continuation of the Left’s long tradition of denying the evil of our totalitarian enemies—or, when forced to acknowledge them, blaming them on the United States. This was the pattern throughout the Cold War, and it’s continued during the War on Terror.</p>
<p>When it’s proven beyond reasonable doubt that jihadism was in fact Hasan’s motive, here’s a prediction: leftists will either fall into apathetic silence or respond that it was American racism, oppression, and Islamophobia that forced Hasan’s hand. To recognize the evil of Nidal Hasan and his ideology, to admit the existence of pernicious enemies, is to concede that there are societies, cultures, and systems that are much more unjust than ours. This is an untenable step for leftists to take, because it means acknowledging that there is something superior about our civilization that’s worth saving and defending.</p>
<p>The notion that his own society is evil and unjust is the bedrock of the leftist’s vision. Wicked capitalists trample on the poor, the oppressed, and the downtrodden; the leftist appoints himself to rescue these victims. He is a self-styled social redeemer, leading a movement to liberate the masses, even if it results in the destruction of his own society. This political mission provides him with immense moral indignation and, therefore, moral superiority, dispositions from which, in turn, he derives emotional self-gratification. His whole belief system provides him with a sense of belonging; he joins other social redeemers, as well as the victims, real or imagined, who wait for him to break their chains.</p>
<p>Thus, the leftist’s political disposition is a faith that reinforces his personal identity and sense of belonging. Admitting that Hasan is a jihadist would undermine that faith. It would also expose the leftist to potential excommunication from his social community. He’d become politically suspect to his peers, perhaps even accused of becoming a reactionary right-winger. That’s why we will continue to witness more Fort Hood denial from the Left, with all of its irrationality and disregard for human life.</p>
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<p><strong>To get the whole story on the Left&#8217;s Jihad Denial, read Jamie Glazov’s new book, <em><a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.amazon.com/United-Hate-Romance-Tyranny-Terror/dp/1935071602');" href="http://www.amazon.com/United-Hate-Romance-Tyranny-Terror/dp/1935071602">United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror.</a></em></strong></p>
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