corner.nationalreview.com - 12/18/2008
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The New York Times headline "2-Parent Black Families Showing Gains," Wednesday seemed like great news. ( Full disclosure: I am briefly quoted in the article.) After decades of decline, more black kids are finally growing up with their mothers and fathers!
Alas, check out the third paragraph ...
Income gap among black and white families grows
usatoday.com 1/21/2009 — Incomes have increased among both black and white families in the past three decades — mainly because more women are in the workforce. But the increase was greater among whites, according to the study being released Tuesday. One reason for the growing ...
He's Not Black
washingtonpost.com 11/30/2008 — Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ...
Working Families for Obama
workingfamiliesparty.org 10/29/2008 — Vote change like you mean it. Vote for Obama on the Working Families Party ballot line - "Row E".
A Black Black Friday
lawhawk.blogspot.com 11/28/2008 — There is absolutely no excuse for this, and yet one man lost his life and a pregnant woman had a miscarriage when a WalMart in Valley Stream, New York opened its doors for a doorbusters sale this morning.A Wal-Mart worker was killed Friday after an ``out of control'' throng of shoppers eager for ...
McCain: Black, Black, Black!
talkingpointsmemo.com 10/19/2008 — McCain's latest: claiming that Obama will turn the IRS "into a giant welfare agency." And this even though McCain's rationale for this claim is Obama's support for a refundable tax credit, something McCain himself supports as a centerpiece of his ...
Economy Made Few Gains in Bush Years
washingtonpost.com 1/12/2009 — President Bush has presided over the weakest eight-year span for the U.S. economy in decades, according to an analysis of key data, and economists across the ideological spectrum increasingly view his two terms as a time of little progress on the ...
Do blacks care about black on black crime?
ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com 1/10/2009 — Often when a cop comes under scrutiny for shooting a young black man, I hear some version of the following argument, "Blacks are only angry when a cop kills one of there own. But they don't care about black on black crime, which is way more common." ...