Category: Race and Race Relations
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Democrat Racism and the Delusion of Moral Superiority
by Stephanie Lundquist-Arora Last week, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” panelists argued that Abigail Spanberger wasn’t dominating the Virginia gubernatorial race because of sexism. The gaffe prompted her opponent, Winsome Earle-Sears, to post on X, “Who wants to tell them?” Had the shoe been on the other foot, if these political commentators overlooked a Democrat black woman running against a Republican…
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Be Careful What You Wish For
by Dick Hall-Sizemore President Trump has directed the Secretary of Education to expand the reporting requirements of institutions of higher education in order to determine if any of those bodies are still using race as an admissions criterion. Accordingly, the Secretary has directed the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) to collect the following data…
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Can a Black Woman Get Elected as Governor in Virginia?
Probably not. And Winsome Sears, who has failed to capitalize on her position as lieutenant governor, is no exception. Paul Goldman Virginia’s political reporters and pundits need to be honest. Here in 2025, being a Black woman is a very serious political disadvantage for GOP gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears. No useful public interest is served…
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Trapped in an Ideological Bubble
by James A. Bacon Michael Paul Williams, the Richmond Times-Dispatch columnist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his post-George Floyd commentary, is trapped in an ideological bubble and can’t break out. When opining on the departure of Jim Ryan from the University of Virginia presidency in his most recent column, he displays a bare-bones familiarity…
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Lawsuit Alleges Principal Made False Racism Claims
Elected officials fanned the flames about an alleged racist incident at Kellam High School—creating community scorn for the students and families. by Victoria Manning Three Virginia Beach parents filed a $10 million defamation lawsuit on June 2nd against Kellam High School principal Ryan Schubart contending Schubart wrongly accused their children of racism. The families claim…
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Youngkin Ramps Up Fight Against Anti-Semitism
by James A. Bacon “We’re not anti-Semitic, we’re anti-Zionist.” That’s the refrain we hear from pro-Palestinian protesters calling to free Palestine “from the river to the sea” and to “globalize the intifada.” They don’t hate Jews, they say. They hate the Israeli state, which just happens to be populated by Jews. Anti-Semitism, according to this…
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A Peninsula Tale and a Commission’s Work
Captain Newport hits a reef. by Gordon C. Morse Thanks to The New York Review of Books, we have this 1994 observation by the late Yale historian Edmund S. Morgan: “The distinguishing mark of American politics has been the absence of irreconcilable differences between the two parties that successively dominate the national government. Each party…
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Separate But Unequal Lives On Without School Choice
By Chris Braunlich May 17 marked the 71st anniversary of the 1954 court decision called Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS — but the case began here, in Virginia. In 1951 Virginia public education operated under the doctrine of “separate but equal,” but the definition of “equal” left much to be desired. In Farmville’s high school for African-American…
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Abuse of Statistics: Loudoun Edition
by James A. Bacon The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office is making more traffic stops this year than last. The number of stops conducted between Jan. 1 and March 31 this year totaled 7,088, up roughly 65% over the 4,290 stops made during the same period last year. Sofia Saiyed, director of New Virginia Majority, knows…
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ODU Med School Discriminates by Race, Goldfarb Contends
by James A. Bacon Stanley Goldfarb, a former associate dean at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, served a half year on the Old Dominion University Board of Visitors before his nomination by Governor Glenn Youngkin was torpedoed earlier this year by General Assembly Democrats. He had made a national name for himself as…
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Racial Turmoil in the Alexandria PD
by James A. Bacon Delton Goodrum, a Black police officer in the Alexandria Police Department, has been awarded compensatory damages for racial discrimination at the hands of Alexandria’s acting police chief Don Hayes… who is Black… and who aspired to create a more diverse workforce… and who even told others that he wanted to promote…
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Many Segregated Graduation Events to Choose From
by James A. Bacon Stu, the Jefferson Council’s social media guru, notes in the X post above that the University of Virginia continues to hold identity-based graduation ceremonies: one dubbed the LGBQT Lavender Ceremony and one the Multicultural Recognition Ceremony. Although the Department of Education recently issued guidelines that forbid racially segregated graduation ceremonies, UVA…
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DEI and the First-Gen Dodge
by James A. Bacon Virginia Tech’s Board of Visitors has joined the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University in voting to dismantle its Diversity, Equity & Inclusion program. Of course, local media found minority students who are unhappy with the decision. “I’m here on a scholarship for first-generation students, so I find these kinds…
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AG Wins $750,000 Verdict in Racial Discrimination Case
by James A. Bacon In a case prosecuted by the Attorney General’s Office of Civil Rights, a Franklin County jury rendered a $750,000 verdict against a landlord for evicting two families from her rental property on Smith Mountain Lake after learning that one of the family members was black. “Housing discrimination—and discrimination of any kind—will…
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Team Youngkin: No More Racial Preferences in Higher Ed
by James A. Bacon Virginia’s public colleges and university must act now to eliminate all forms of racial discrimination on campus, state Secretary of Education Aimee Guidera wrote Saturday in a letter to the institutions’ presidents and governing boards. Guidera’s letter directed the governing boards of each school to review in their next meeting all…