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California recall hopeful Larry Elder says there's a reason his candidacy has been targeted by media outlets: They fear the Black Republican will break the left's grip on minority voters.

YONELA DIKO: Are these the architects of the new ANC Youth League? OPINION The newly appointed, all women-led African National Congress National Youth League task team is full of promise and leads us to impose on them a question whether they are finally the true architects of a new ANC Youth League, different from the past task teams appointed since 2013 and certainly different from the past youth league, which measured its core relevance through antagonistic prisms with the mother body. This i...

In a photo from 2001, students against affirmative action, right, are confronted by another group for affirmative action during the Day of Action to Reverse the Ban on Affirmative Action rally at the University of California-Berkeley [File: AP photo/Jakub Mosur] Like many Americans on election night in November 2020, I nervously awaited the results of the presidential contest between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. But I had an additional reason to be anxious. In my home state of California, voters...

Mr. Custred, 82, attributes the success in both ballot fights to his love of diversity. “I’m an anthropologist; I love talking to different people and diverse audiences,” he said. Of course, in common academic and political jargon, “diversity” refers to attributes outside the mind and does not mean what Mr. Custred means, which is “people of different outlooks.” That difference, in Mr. Custred‘s view, also goes a long way to explaining how, in a time where the U.S. seems obsesse...

( ThyBlackMan.com) One of my favorite movies of all-time is “Deep Cover,” starring Laurence Fishburne. The movie debuted in 1992. Fishburne plays Russell Stevens Jr., an undercover Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agent. During his initial interview with the DEA, Fishburne’s character was asked: “So, Officer Stevens, tell me, do you know the difference between a Black man and a n–ger?” Fishburne’s reply was epic: “The n–ger’s the one that would even answer that question.” Li...

I thought we needed to be colorblind to fight racism — heres what convinced me I was wrong grayscale photo of people walking on street I realized I had to give up my quest for colorblindness when I stood slack-jawed as a Black school board member asked how we would know if racist policies and practices had been curtailed if we didnt track disciplinary records, graduation rates and other statistics by race. I had no answer for him — there was no good answer. That was several ye...

Where does Barack Obama really stand on racial issues? Is he the post-racial bipartisan conciliator of his campaign image, or is he the black racial activist depicted in his autobiography? On this issue, for once, Obamas stance is quite clear. Acolytes in the Obama Cult are taught that, when proselytizing over the phone for new converts, they should not answer direct questions about what Obama stands for, other than "hope" and ...

The Tuscaloosa News An article in the Wall Street Journal’s Nov. 20, 2020, edition, “The Duo That Defeated the ‘Diversity Industry,” caught my attention. The authors are an unlikely pair — a black man and an Asian-American woman — who joined and led “the team that vanquished California’s progressive elite on Nov. 3, when Proposition 16 — a ballot referendum that would have reinstated racial preference by state and local government agencies, including universities — was defea...

>> because they were the ones who could go to the schools particularly in the south. >> ward connerly, the litigant in most of these cases, fighting a lot of propositions in california and elsewhere, he has fought that and the university of california got rid of legacies in 2000 thanks to that. at least hes consistent about that. but i think you can principally oppose affirmative action -- where racism still exists in this country. i would argue its more prejudice than racism on a day-to-day bas...

The measure is often what you avoid.s was he progressive at all, wasey there any part of him progressive because he didnt seem -- progressives on the n republican side tend to go outbn and do war, but war as americans led by americans.merica. theodore roosevelt where the progress as i was on therac si democratic side go on and do war under an international umbrellab so was he progressive at all?ll not just on war? war? >> i would say he was liberal ir the classic liberal sense, that is, he stood...