Category: Race
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Madison pols demand more data from police but not from jail diversion programs
Who wants to know? Not the Dane County Board Chris Rickert has committed some real journalism. Demanding answers to tough questions. The tough question: All those jail diversion programs, are they actually, you know, working? The answer: Who (the hell) knows? But, by golly, diversion sure feels good, keepin’ folks out of jail. That’s the…
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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…
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The Rev. King: ‘We can’t keep blaming the white man’
Today is the 50th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King Jr. in that annus horribilis, 1968. It is a sad holiday, not just for his murder but for the tragic detour civil rights has taken since. In the last several decades, too many mistake rights with responsibilities. Equality of opportunity has been turned…
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Charleston remembers Confederates and rebellious slaves
Monument to leader of a slave rebellion is located in a park named after a secessionist and Lost Cause progenitor Amtrak is building a new, multi-modal passenger station in North Charleston, S.C. We thought it odd that the current train station still has telephone booths with working, coin-operated telephones— two in each of the identical…
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Madison school board gets an earful from La Follette High School parents & students
Madison School District’s goal is not safety, it’s making the racial disparity numbers work While the Madison School Board considers expelling police from its four high schools, our classrooms are being disrupted in the name of racial equity. Large-scale student brawls disrupted all four high schools in the last two weeks, starting February 13, when…