Richard Fernandez;

[Razib] Khan examines how this transformation happened and concludes that the term “white” was once the proxy variable for attributes of powerful, rich and capable. He marshals tables to show that over the years, the relative success of Asians has pushed them into socio-economic and cultural categories formerly occupied by what used to be called white people. “But we don’t have a more complex narrative to go along with it” and so rather than ditching the old story of white supremacy and guilt culture took the easier path: they made the Asians white.

Flashback: the “W” word.

“But if I had a campaign staff, they’d look like my white grandmother. “

“But if I had a campaign staff, they’d look like my white grandmother.” *

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Rich Lowry, October 21, 2010 – The Shameful Firing of Juan Williams
Rich Lowry, April 7, 2012 – Derb is effectively using our name to get more oxygen for views with which we’d never associate ourselves otherwise. So there has to be a parting of the ways.
Jeff Goldstein:

Eric Holder famously noted that we’re afraid to talk about race in this country. Derbyshire proved he, at least, isn’t. And his comrades are crawling over themselves to gain distance.
And the reason is, Holder, the left, the “pragmatic” right — they don’t really want to talk about such things. They only want to talk about the need to talk about such things, while simultaneously demonizing any real attempts to do so. An easier way to bank some cheap grace you won’t find in a PC-soaked society.

Avert your eyes.

It’s the new white.

The Scientist;

In an analysis of 250 women aged 18 to 44 years, researchers found that 200 milligrams of caffeine per day elevated estrogen levels in Asian women, but decreased the hormone’s levels in white women. Black women who drank the same amount also demonstrated elevated estrogen levels, but the result was not statistically significant, the authors reported. However, when caffeine sources were examined individually, coffee intake mirrored the original trend but caffeinated soda or green tea consumption was associated with a higher estrogen levels in all three races.

Or is the word “intentional”?

The Department of Education has acknowledged using flawed data in a study on the impact of race on student loan repayment rates, having omitted black students from its calculation. The analysis was conducted during the debate over gainful employment regulations, in response to complaints that the rules would hurt colleges that enroll relatively high percentages of minority students.
[…]
The Obama administration designed the federal rules in an attempt to ensure that most programs at for-profit colleges and certificate and vocational programs at nonprofit institutions prepare students for “gainful employment.” For programs to be eligible for federal financial aid, they must adhere to benchmarks related to student loan repayment and debt-to-income ratios.
The original analysis was included in the introduction section of the final rules, which were issued last June. It asserted that the “percentage of the students that are members of a minority group explains 1 percent of the total variance in repayment rates” at for-profit institutions. The low figure, the department concluded at the time, meant the racial composition of students was not a statistically significant contributor to how an institution stacks up on loan repayments. The percentage of lower-income students an institution enrolled was a better measure.
But by failing to count black students, the study understated the impact of race: the actual variance at for-profits is 20 percent over all, and 31 percent for four-year institutions, the department said in the December filing.

Via Instapundit

$90 million bucks and nothing to show for it? I’d be in favour of civil disobedience, but I’m white, so that would get me arrested. (h/t jwkozak91)

CALEDONIA — The 8 suspects charged in a foiled plot to walk in a group on provincially owned land represent a “broad strata” of Canadian society.

What could possibly go wrong?

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Real Clear Politics, Aug.23rd – Dem Congresswoman Blames Black Unemployment On “Racism”
Telegraph, Aug. 24th – Martin Luther King memorial made in China
Outstanding catch by KevnB

h/t

And that’s why I’m saving up for a villa in Paraguay;

“While people in different contexts can experience prejudice or discrimination, racism, in a North American context, is based on an ideology of the superiority of the white race over other racial groups. Racism is evident in individual acts, such as racial slurs, jokes, etc., and institutionally, in terms of policies and practices at institutional levels of society. The result of institutional racism is that it maintains white privilege and power (such as racial profiling, hiring practices, history, and literature that centre on Western, European civilizations to the exclusion of other civilizations and communities). The social, systemic, and personal assumptions, practices, and behaviours that discriminate against persons according to their skin colour, hair texture, eye shape, and other superficial physical characteristics.”

“They are not protesters.“

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
CNN, 2011;

According to Publishers Weekly, NewSouth Books’ upcoming edition of Mark Twain’s seminal novel “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” will remove all instances of the N-word — I’ll give you a hint, it’s not nonesuch — present in the text and replace it with slave.

“Roots”, page 325;

h/t Charles Adler

They’ll fix America like they’ve fixed Detroit.

It has been a very bad week for the dwindling number of people defending the dismissal of the voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party by Eric Holder’s Justice Department. Today might have been the worst day of all. Former Voting Section Chief Christopher Coates testified to the United States Civil Rights Commission that Obama political appointees dismissed the case because they are opposed to enforcing civil rights laws in a racially neutral fashion.
And that was just the beginning.

…goes horribly wrong

Haunted as we are by a record of slavelessness.