Race Relations

Something tells me this category will be getting a lot more use in the next four years. That's a good thing, I think.

First, Baldilocks has thoughts on the latest Zawahiri tape:

Zawahiri used the word 'abd' which means both slave and Negro. Big Media seems to have only just translated this magical bit of evidence of Arabic racism and are scandalized, no doubt because their hero has been insulted. Soon they will "discover" that Arab Islamists are enslaving black Africans right now!

A language that uses the same word for both "negro" and "slave". Not much doubt what place black folks hold in their society, is there?

Then there's James T. Harris (who I need to read more often) on adoption policies here in America:

If Obama can be raised by a white mother and white grandparents and go on to be elected to the highest office in the land, what excuse can black zealots offer for blocking the adoption of black children to white parents?

Thanks to Elliot for the pointer.

My hope is that the education stigma gets lifted from the black community. Although it's never been "cool" to be a brainiac/egghead, there's been a real resistance in the black (and latino) community to applying oneself at school.

Hopefully, now that Obama has been elected, more kids won't be accused of "acting white" for trying to get a good education. Hey, I'm not the one who came up with this idea. I'm just agreeing with it.

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