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I’m now considered a freak in New York
New York It’s nice to finally be in the Bagel, a place where the cows have two legs and no…
Kemi Badenoch: ‘Being black is not just about victimhood’
Equalities minister Kemi Badenoch on the ‘poison’ of identity politics
New York is a paradise for criminals
New York New York, New York, once a wonderful town/ The people are crap and the mayor’s a clown/ The…
Who’s missing from that list of Great Black Britons
There are two striking things about the new book, 100 Great Black Britons, which was compiled to celebrate the achievements…
The most important book on black Britishness has one flaw: its author was white
Can people of one race really understand the experience of another? asks Colin Grant
Borrowing Blackness
I’m old enough to remember when it was considered a noble goal for the United States to become a colorblind…
Jussie Smollett, reigning queen of the gaslight
MAGA country’s most famous resident wants his C-list career back. And some of the most despicable cretins on the left…
We are all Rachel Dolezal now
As late as 2014, most Americans felt there was no need for the country to make any changes to address…
The Republicans have a race problem
Congratulations to Sen. Tim Scott for delivering one of the best speeches on the opening night of the Republican meta-convention,…
How to have a happy old age
Gstaad Birthdays at my age are for the birds, but always a good excuse for a party. Messages of…
Will Biden get away with his bad record on race?
If there’s been one hallmark of the Trump campaign’s messaging against Joe Biden, it’s that the former VP is the…
Hyperbole radicalism and the politics of exaggeration
‘All I want for Christmas is White genocide.’ So remarked George Ciccariello-Maher, then professor of politics and global studies at…
What does Kamala Harris really believe?
When Joe Biden chose Kamala Harris as his running mate, the Religion News Service reported that she ‘now considers herself…
The dangers of unconscious bias training
Diversity training doesn’t work
When everything is ‘racist’, nothing is
Hearing that Dawn Butler MP had been pulled over by the Metropolitan police, I briefly hoped the taxpayer might get…
Kamala chameleon
Kamala Harris, the new Democratic vice-presidential nominee, certainly looks the part. Barack Obama once called her ‘the best-looking attorney general…
Should Kamala Harris pay reparations?
What do Stokely Carmichael, Harry Belafonte, Colin Powell, Sidney Poitier and Busta Rhymes have in common? And how are Beyoncé,…
Why are black Americans likelier to die of COVID than Latinos?
Only part of the dramatic racial differences in age-adjusted COVID-19 death rates can be explained by racial differences. The remainder reflects a substantially lower black…
Trump campaign misses the mark with latest Biden attack
Former vice president Joe Biden handed the Trump campaign an interview gaffe for the ages on Wednesday. When asked if…
Open letters have become ransom notes
The ‘open letter’ is enjoying quite the formal renaissance. Curiously, recent examples of this newly popular epistolary genre exhibit striking…
Planned Parenthood finally grapples with Margaret Sanger’s racist past
In a startling departure from its typically dogged defenses, Planned Parenthood admitted through clenched teeth this week what many have…
Silence isn’t violence
In the evenings, when I want to relax, I watch a Russian named Max build a log cabin. Max is,…
Will black voters abandon the Democrats in 2024?
Joe Biden owes his nomination to black Democrats, who never joined the revolution led by Sen. Bernie Sanders, closed ranks…
Is this the sanest debate on race yet?
The race debate is rapidly descending into a one-note diatribe where white accountability has become the only game in town.…
We’re making a spectacle of shame
When I was about ten, on return home from church I ate a peach, the juice of which dribbled down…
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