According to the Pew Research Center, relative to white men, black men are disproportionately imprisoned by a factor of almost 6.5. In my experience, American liberals believe that racism in the criminal justice system explains the bulk of that disparity or,…
Tag: racism
Several people have pointed out about my post from yesterday that, beside the accusations that were made against Sessions during his confirmation hearing in 1986 and used again to disqualify him this year, there were many other reasons to oppose him.…
Jeff Sessions was finally confirmed by the Senate, after the Democrats made a spectacle of themselves again. I don’t agree with everything he says, but I’m sure he will be a great Attorney General, not least because he will actually enforce immigration…
Some people have reacted to the post I published on racism in law enforcement earlier this week and the conversations I had with them have convinced me that I should write a follow-up to clarify some points. First, some took issue with…
After the death of Laquan McDonald (which for what it’s worth strikes me as being murder pure and simple, but this has no bearing on what I’m going to be talking about), the Mayor of Chicago created a task force, with the…
The idea that liberal elites are disconnected from reality has been a major theme of post-election reflections. Nowhere is this more obvious than in academia, where Trump’s victory resulted in completely hysterical reactions. I think that most of these reactions are not only…