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  • Race matters when athletes race.

    Look, I'm not saying race being black makes you automatically fast or strong. I'm saying the so-called $%& gene is more likely to be found among blacks. Why is it that tiny Jamaica produced faster runners than all of China(1.3 billion), Japan(100 million), Koreas(65 million), Taiwan(25 million), etc? Of course, not all Jamaicans are fast, ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Andrea Freiboden on December 5, 2008

  • Hitch On Helms like White on Rice

    Gee Hitchens, why don't you and the Queen of England tell us how you really felt about that North Carolinian champion Senator Jesse Helms? I did not know him very well, living in the Midwest among Chicago Democrats and Suburban ''Collar County'' Repubs early in life, and then moving to New England, where both the Democrats and the Republicans have ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on July 7, 2008

  • My Samoan Mother Does Not Need Affirmative Action

    An AA surgeon, who got into medical school with lower aptitude, grades, test scores and abilities, should operate on my Samoan mother, even though there are better-qualified physicians! Besides your Native grandmother makes you a bigger victim than me with a Mexican (Aztec) mother, so you need AA more. However, I am especially needy, because my ...
    Posted to XX Factor by Ralph7 on June 28, 2008

  • I'm a Black Clinton Supporter...

    and I will not vote for Obama. After the 2004 election, I decided that I had had enough of holding my nose and voting for a candidate I did not genuinely support. Sen. Obama may say he has similar policy positions as Sen. Clinton, but I am thoroughly unimpressed with him. I cannot stomach his saccharine speeches about ''hope,'' ''change,'' ...
    Posted to XX Factor by NewYorkNewYork on June 12, 2008