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Oh, spare me:
Panel rejects Coretta Scott King portrait proposal
Legislator says action worse than Imus comments
By JEREMY REDMON
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 04/12/07
A state lawmaker angrily lashed out at a legislative committee this morning after it rejected her request to hang a portrait of Coretta Scott King in the state Capitol, saying the committee’s action was comparable [...]

I watched about 10 minutes of the Oscars–enough to absorb the self-congratulatory, aren’t-we-all-special-and-so-diverse theme and the unanimous Al Gore-is-our-president adulation.
Allah’s got running commentary, video, and an open thread over at Hot Air.
Related: Bryan Preston weighs in on James Cameron’s cinematic effort to sink Christianity.

The always-must-read Heather Mac Donald in the always-must-read City Journal:
…for all the evasions of the political and educational elites, the growing anti-preference push, with initiatives contemplated in several more states in 2008, could be one of the most important populist movements of recent years. Racial manipulation, while not eliminated from California, has been greatly reduced, [...]

Columbia University junior and Marine corporal Matt Sanchez has a must-read in today’s NYPost:
DiD you hear the one about the Marines that Columbia University invited to campus for Fleet Week?
Not any time in the last few decades, you didn’t.
But you might have heard the one about the Marine who was told by a fellow Columbia [...]

An e-mail from Michigan about Ward Connerly’s anti-racial preference initative:
Hi Michelle,
Just a quick FYI – Michigan seems to be voting “Yes” on Prop-2….prohibiting affirmative action in the state. Interesting that CNN won’t call that “race” yet but has no problem calling the governor and Senate races with 1% of the precincts counted. Hey, [...]

The Grassroot Institute has released a survey of every household in Hawaii. The survey, conducted from July 8 to 10, 2005, and released yesterday, shows an estimated two out of every three responednts oppose the Akaka Bill aka the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2005. According to the Hawaii Reporter:
The poll, which attempted to [...]

According to a new poll, only 20 percent of Hawaiians support the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2005 (aka “the Akaka Bill”), which would give Native Hawaiians the rights of self-government as indigenous people that American Indians now enjoy. 41 percent of those polled said they do not support the bill and 39 percent [...]

Lawrence Downes of the New York Times writes in support of the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2005, S.147, which would give Native Hawaiians the rights of self-government as indigenous people that American Indians now enjoy.
Downes suggests the bill precludes “radical outcomes.” Don’t believe it. As Tim Chapman notes, the bill would create a [...]

It seems racism against black Americans is unacceptable, except when it’s endorsed by the untouchable Mexican government.
As CNN and many others are reporting, Mexican President Vicente Fox’s administration has issued a stamp depicting an exaggerated black cartoon character known as Memin Pinguin.
The series of five stamps released for general use Wednesday depicts a child character [...]

Townhall.com’s Tim Chapman reports:
Senator Daniel Akaka (D-HI) has introduced a bill called the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2005, S.147. Akaka wants to extend the government’s policy of self-governance and self-determination to Native Hawaiians. He, and fellow Hawaiian Senator Inouye intend to do this by creating a race-based and racially separate government for Native [...]

If you are interested, Dan Riehl at Riehl World News has been tracking all the twists and turns in the tragic Natalee Holloway case in Aruba.
Why do so many people seem to care so much? I’m very sorry for the Holloway family, but no more so than I am for the families of several missing [...]

So, how does CNN propose to change its image as America’s al Jazeera? By hiring more non-white liberal journalists! But of course! From TVNewser:
“Today we are committing $1 million, which will be divided equally amongst the National Association of Black Journalists, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and the Asian American Journalists Association, to fund [...]

Just in…
Appeals Court Sides With Cheney in Lawsuit:
The Sierra Club and Judicial Watch alleged that energy industry officials had in effect become part of Cheney’s 2001 task force and that the panel was a federal advisory committee with an obligation to provide public disclosure about its operations.
The appeals court disagreed, saying “There is nothing to [...]

Thirteen years ago, thugs and morons in southern California terrorized law-abiding business owners and citizens and sent Los Angeles up in flames. Coddling apologists still insist on referring to the L.A. riots as “civil unrest” or the “disturbance.” Korean-American shopkeepers in particular will not soon forget. Meanwhile, one of the most famous hate-mongers to emerge [...]

Jeralyn Merritt at TalkLeft asks an interesting question: “Why is Laci Peterson more important than Lisa Eatmon?”
Eatmon, 33, was 8 months pregnant when her body was discovered in the Hudson River earlier this month. Yesterday, the father of Eatmon’s unborn child was charged with her killing:
Mr. Glinton, a sanitation worker, was arrested on Friday after [...]

…not a hate crime? When the attackers are black junior high school girls shouting “Black power!” and “White crackers!” and “Martin Luther King!” as they pummel white Catholic school girls on a New York City basketball court.
Cops initially refused to charge the alleged assailants with a bias crime, but city lawyers have now overruled them.

Who earns more, college-educated black women or college-educated white women?
Click on “Read More” to see the answer.

We’ve all heard the claim that black soldiers are frontline fodder in Iraq and are being killed disproportionately.
In fact, as this New York Times op-chart makes clear, the truth is just the opposite. White and Hispanic soliders are overrepresented among military personnel killed in Iraq, whereas African American soldiers are underrepresented. (Blacks account for 18.6 [...]

Ever wonder why so many liberal politicians support public subsidies for professional sports stadiums? Here is one reason:
More than a dozen black and Hispanic leaders endorsed the West Side football stadium yesterday amid a “historic” deal with the Jets to ensure that minority- and women-owned firms get a share of the construction contracts.
Jets President Jay [...]

Didja hear about the hypersensitive woman who accused a cop of racism last month during a Martin Luther King Day event because he ate a banana?
Not making it up. Read more at Rambling’s Journal with a hat tip to one of my favorite guys, Neal Boortz.
The ululations of the aggrieved never cease…

My new column is up addressing the use of the race card by Michael Jackson’s family. Here’s the intro:
Cry me a river. Michael Jackson’s father is blaming — what else? — American “racism” for his ghoulish son’s persistent legal and personal problems.
Joe Jackson reportedly told CBS News’s “48 Hours”:
This is just the United States. All [...]

Just a glib thought on President Bush’s apparent willingness to use race as a factor in the Social Security reform debate:
So, the Bush administration thinks it’s okay to use racial profiling to hand out government retirement benefits, but it’s not okay to use racial profiling to prevent terrorists from getting on planes?
Crikey.

My hero Ward Connerly has finished his term on the University of California’s Board of Regents. I was surprised but pleased to read here that he received a standing ovation at the end of his final Regents meeting.
Fortunately, Connerly will continue to lead the fight against race and gender preferences in government hiring, contracting, and [...]

What others are saying around the ’sphere in commemoration of Martin Luther King Day…
Juliette Ochieng says “Thank you”
Casey Lartigue tackles Dr. King’s legacy and the school-choice angle.
Dawn Eden highlights MLK’s niece Alveda, an outspoken opponent of abortion.
Dustbury on Why This Day Matters
Molotov at Booker Rising on the centrality of Rev. King’s Baptist faith
Michael King muses:
Contrary [...]

My column today discusses the hidden impact that the Armstrong Williams/Dept. of Ed. scandal will have on minority conservatives:
As a result of the Williams/Department of Education payoff, the rhetoric against the rest of us will get even nastier. In the name of “minority outreach,” the Republican education bureaucrats who cooked up their pathetic scheme with [...]

So say nine of the New York Times‘ own employees, who have filed a lawsuit against the paper charging they were subjected to racial and religious discrimination at the paper’s Edison, N.J., printing plant.
According to The Jewish Times, the suit includes complaints that supervisors aimed racial and religious epithets at employees ? or ignored such [...]

Too many black people are dependent on the Democrats for handouts and racial preferences. Black politicians depend on the Bush haters for financial resources enabling them to gain office. Black civil rights organizations are beholden to liberal foundations. The bottom line of all of this is that he who pays the piper calls the tune [...]

Do you know where your kid’s school bus is? In Beantown, city officials want to install GPS tracking devices to make sure unionized drivers aren’t goofing off or endangering schoolchildren. Naturally, the ridiculous labor goons have turned this into a racial issue. The bus drivers are threatening a strike. Carpundit says, “Go for it:”
Yet another [...]

The New York Times editorial board is happy because cardiologists are paying attention to racial differences in responses to pharmacological treatments. The Times encourages the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve a drug aimed at a single racial group–something the FDA has never done before.
Fair enough.
Naturally, the Times can’t leave its readers with the [...]

According to this article, White House counsel Alberto Gonzales is the leading candidate to replace John Ashcroft as Attorney General.
This column by Robert Novak, written in January 2003, suggests that Gonzales is no friend of conservatives. An excerpt:
Gonzales’s views on affirmative action became widely known in Washington last year when, at a [...]