Category: Critical Race Theory / Identity politics

  • Lighten up, guilty white liberal

    The joke is on you! Heard that canard about our liberal-progressive-socialist acquaintances having no sense of humor. That canard happens to be true. As proof, we present Carousel Andrea Bayrd, county supervisor from Madison’s West side and aggrieved white liberal. Sees everything through the “lens of racial equity.” (Official policy of the Dane County Board.…

  • NY Times makes sow’s ear out of Diamond and Silk

    Always hostile to conservatives, the New York Times is so besotted with Trump hate that it is resorts to reverse racism. How then, to treat the Facebook censorship of two conservative black women who support Trump? With disdain, of course. Ann of Althouse (go there, she needs the traffic), neatly encapsulates something that leapt from…

  • Veteran of Wisconsin’s Iron Brigade asked former Confederates to fund monument at Forest Hills

    After the death of Alice Whiting Waterman in 1897, Madison resident Hugh M. Lewis, who had been a captain in Company A of Wisconsin’s famed Iron Brigade, appealed to his Southern counterparts in Washington D.C., to raise money for a lasting memorial to the selfless lady and “her boys,” the southern soldiers who died as…

  • Has the race card been revoked in Madison schools?

    Madison schools boss admits race-based discipline isn’t working Young people from Madison are marching on Janesville to the home of Speaker Paul Ryan to protest school shooting deaths. It’s not quite marching on Selma, Alabama, for Civil Rights. Or the Mobe March on Washington 1971 during the Vietnam War protests but, as Marlon Brando said in…

  • Reliving the past in Charleston, S.C.

    [UPDATED with new photos] Researchers from the Blaska Policy Werkes are on the ground here in Charleston, South Carolina, birthplace of the Confederacy (1860-1865). This is an old city —  ancient by American standards — founded at the behest of the newly restored King Charles II in 1670, and perhaps the best preserved large city (metro…

  • Imagine there are no races

    It’s easy if you try … and the world will be as one Not enough homeless people are showing up to testify at Common Council meetings. Some people are “under-served” and “under-represented.” Who knew? And, more to the point, how do “they” know who is under-served and who is over-served? (Take a number.) The City of…