Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

The Origins of Cool in Postwar America Cool. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came to define a global attitude and style. If African-American slang is the cradle of the new kind of cool, then jazz culture was its nursemaid. Popular American music was already quite friendly to the vernacular, but swing-style jazz went so far as to turn language into a self-conscious plaything. Starting in 1938, Cab Calloway began publishing his “Hepster’s Dictionary,” a pamphlet explaining that “jive talk is now an everyday part of the English language. Its usage is now accepted in the movies, on the stage, and in the song products of Tin Pan Alley.” Subverting the usual method of explaining unusual words in more familiar language, the “Hepster’s Dictionary” was the un-Webster’s. To be unhep was t

Why Are Majority Black Cities Always Such Failures? DC, Detroit, memphis, Oakland, Atlanta and St. louis Failures characterized by high levels of crime, corruption, poverty and violence. In the USA, every area of a city (or the entire city itself)that becomes majority black and black run, quickly descends into a third world cesspit dependent upon mostly white tax dollars to survive since the majority black population and leadership seems incapable of running or sustaining a first world environment or paying for it themselves. The infrastructure starts to rot, services get curtailed and the black population bitches about it as if someone else was responsible even though they're the majority and IN CHARGE! Other races quickly move away once the black racial toxicity level is reached and the crime rates go sky high. The neighborhoods turn to shit, the schools rot, everything becomes African third world. Then, the blacks see the NICE communities that the other races formed aft

France investigates rapper's call to 'hang white people' (Reuters) - The Paris prosecutor's office on Wednesday opened an investigation into a little known French rapper who shot to social media fame with a video called "Hang white people". #NickConrad became the top trending topic on Twitter in France on Wednesday after politicians of all stripes condemned the music video, which YouTube said it had removed for violating its policy on hate speech. The video shows the rapper, a black man, performing the song as he walks through a city suburb at night, and includes a scene of him pulling a pistol on a white man crawling on the ground, and then assaulting him. The lyrics include calls to kill white people and their children, with a chorus of "hang the whities". Although YouTube deleted the original video, other uploads were available. "I fully condemn these abject words and ignominious attacks," Interior Minister Gerard Collomb sa

Are Today’s White Kids Less Racist Than Their Grandparents? In America’s children, we often see hope for a better future, especially when it comes to reducing racism. Each new generation of White people, the thinking goes, will naturally and inevitably be more open-minded and tolerant than previous ones. But do we have any reason to believe this? Should we have faith that today’s White kids will help make our society less racist and more equitable? Previous research has had mixed findings. So to explore more fully what White kids think about race, I went straight to the source: White children themselves. In my new book, “ W h i t e K i d s : G r o w i n g U p w i t h P r i v i l e g e i n a R a c i a l l y D i v i d e d A m e r i c a ,” I explore how 36 White, affluent kids think and talk about race, racism, privilege, and inequality in their everyday lives. T h e l i m i t a t i o n s o f s u r v e y d a t a Before beginning my research,

The Criminal Injustice of Black Youth Tried As Adults When 25-year-old guard Keriana Alexcee found the body of Jaquin Thomas hanging in a New Orleans jail cell, she didn’t know that Thomas had been dead for more than 90 minutes. According to the Advocate , Alexcee had not been trained to check on Thomas every 15 minutes—as mandated by a federal consent decree. When she passed Jaquin’s cell earlier that evening and saw him writing, she had no idea that he was penning his suicide note . Prison officials didn’t seem to know why Thomas wasn’t given his medication for a mental illness. The Times-Picayune reports that Thomas’ family couldn’t get answers to why the Orleans Justice Center, an adult jail, had only one deputy supervising 13 inmates on Jaquin’s tier. No one had any idea why Jaquin hanged himself, but Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office attorney Blake Arcuri assured everyone that it wasn’t because he had been “jumped” by other inmates who repeatedly stole his food.