Black history is American history. It ought not be “relegated” to a month, and slavery ought not be relegated to only the European slave trade.
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Inconvenient Historical Truths From ‘Black History Month’
A few historical and inconvenient notes left on the cutting room floor during Black History Month.
What Left-Wing Educators Don’t Teach During ‘Black History Month’
A few historical and inconvenient notes left on the cutting room floor during Black History Month.
Black History Month: Celebrating Race-Based Achievement is Racism
The unchosen physical characteristics that make us automatic members of one race or another must always come secondary to those characteristics that we do choose.
Black History Month
What is called Black History Month might more accurately be called "the sins of white people" month. The "sins" of any branch of the human race are virtually inexhaustible, but the history of blacks in America includes a lot more than the sins of white people, which...
Black History or “Sins of White People” Month?
What is called Black History Month might more accurately be called “the sins of white people” month.
Audible’s “Black History” Month Blackballs Important Non-Left “Black Voices”
From the Audible website: “Black history and American history are forever intertwined. Limiting any celebration of Black history to a single month on the calendar does a disservice to the Black men and women who were (and are) integral to making this nation what it is...
Why Today’s Young Generation Must Study The History of Socialism
It is vital for the history of socialism not to be forgotten by those fortunate enough not to live under its reality of terror, tyranny, and social disaster, less history tragically repeat itself.
Untangling The ‘Gay Pride’ and ‘Black Pride’ Package Deal
I was recently asked if I thought “Black Pride,” “Gay Pride” and other forms of ethnic pride were legitimate.
Leftist Supremacy, Not White Supremacy, is the Gravest Threat to Black Lives
Is traditional racism, anti-black hatred, a major threat to black lives, as Black Lives Matter claims? Is there a far greater threat to black lives than traditional racism, that is widely overlooked? If so, what can we do about it? What must be done to protect black lives?
1619 Project “New History” of Capitalism Collapses Under Scrutiny
Far from representing non-white scholarly voices and introducing challenges to a previously stagnant historiography of slavery, the NHC school is actually a stunning embodiment of everything it charges against its critics.
The Shameful Blackout of Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams
The exclusion of people like Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams explains why there’s no serious discussion in the black community about government dependency; school choice; the damage done by high taxes, excessive regulation and laws like minimum wage; and why blacks should rethink their allegiance to the Democratic Party.
Do Blacks Need Favors?
Is it within the capacity of black Americans to make it in this society without the special favors variously called racial preferences, quotas, affirmative action and race-sensitive policies?
Election Year 2000: A Million Black Voters Disenfranchised?
Tell me again. Which of the presidential candidates calls himself a "uniter" and not a "divider"? "Don't tell us that the strongest democracy on earth," said Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry in a recent speech for the NAACP, "that a million disenfranchised...
UN Weapons Inspector Hans Blix: Fading Away into the Dustbin of History
As I watched the 24 hour war coverage on Monday I saw a most amusing spectacle, UN weapons inspector Hans Blix was professing to be excited about going to Iraq after Saddam is gone so that he can resume his weapons inspections.Apparently the Swede has yet to realize...
Blacks and Guns
Black Americans have a serious problem with guns. They don't have enough of them. Despite being victimized by crime at several times the rate of whites, only 30% of black adults own guns, compared to 43% of whites.(1) Blacks are also heavily represented in California...
American History vs. Affirmative Action Hogwash
Bill O'Reilly of "The O'Reilly Factor" is one of the few major media figures who does not hesitate to criticize Jesse Jackson, so it was appropriate that the author of a critical new book about Jackson appeared on that program. The book is aptly titled "Shakedown," in...
Education of Blacks in America: Do Facts Matter?
Recently a young black man sent a thoughtful e-mail to me. Among his kind comments was an expression of sympathy for the racism that he thought blacks of my generation must have experienced in going through college. In reality, it is his generation of blacks who have...