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Is Satoshi Kanazawa’s problem racial, sexual, or both

The personal motivations of those who make them are the most interesting things about racist choices. Because I am African American and blog at Psychology Today a friend wrote to tell me about another blogger, Satoshi Kanazawa.  Kanazawa, a lecturer at the London School of Economics, recently published an answer to his own question: “Why [...]

May 26, 2011 / No Comment / Read More

Obama is black but he’d better not say so

June 11, 2010 2 Comments

Against blatant racism there are weapons and white allies; against stealth racism, not so many.   It is now politically incorrect to call anyone a racist, even if they are. But how can you tell anymore? Those who used to be identifiable as black racists now have white friends and white racists have black friends. [...]

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Grading President Obama’s freshman year as President

January 4, 2010 No Comment

I have seen several grades for the first year of Barack Obama’s Presidency. Whenever I see a grade of “C”, I think that the grader has not marked on a curve that takes into account the difficulty of his particular test. Back when I used to grade work in my narrative writing courses at Rutgers [...]

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