Category: Race and Race Relations
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DEI Training Makes Race Relations Worse — the Podcast
Lila Maverick and Jaxon Wilder, Bacon’s Rebellion’s AI-generated avatars, are back with a new podcast based on my recent post, “DEI Training Makes Race Relations Worse.” For those not inclined to wade through my dense prose, they cover the same ground in an easy conversational manner. It’s fascinating to hear the avatars depart from the article about…
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Are UVA Nurses Racist?
by James A. Bacon Last month the University of Virginia School of Nursing sponsored an online event: “Dynamics of Prejudice: Antiracist Nursing Education 1968-1978.” A major theme to emerge from the presentation was that white nurses respond defensively when called racist and their reluctance to acknowledge their racism creates obstacles for “anti-racism.” The speaker, Cory…
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Youngkin on Maternal Health: Find Out What Works
by James A. Bacon In 2022 there were 67 pregnancy-associated mortalities per 100,000 live births in Virginia. Although that translates into a rate of less than one per 1,000 births, maternal mortality has become a major issue because the rate for Black women is more than twice that of White women. The Office of Health…
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Academic Excellence Slipping at T.J.
by James A. Bacon In 2021 the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology changed its standards with the goal of admitting more “marginalized” minorities. Scrapping its rigorous admissions test, Fairfax County imposed wholistic criteria which, according to the school’s Wikipedia page, incorporate “grade point average, a math- or science-related problem-solving essay, a student…
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Do We Want a Color-Blind Society or Not?
by James A. Bacon A University of Virginia mentorship program for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) students discriminates against White people on the basis of race, contends a complaint filed Tuesday by the Equal Protection Project. The BIPOC Alumni-Student Mentoring Program provides up to 25 UVA students in the School of Education and…
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“Bert, You Useless, Racist, Fat [Bleep]!”
by James A. Bacon So much for civil discourse at the University of Virginia. So much for empathetic listening. Soothing aspirations emanate from the President’s Office, but it appears that many members of the University community haven’t gotten the message — or just plain reject it. A week ago, The Cavalier Daily student newspaper published…
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Jamming Statistical Square Pegs into Round Holes
by James A. Bacon Another day, another study highlighting a racial “disparity.” In this case the study, published by Julian, a civil-rights and international and international human-rights organization, focuses on racial disparities in traffic-stop outcomes in Virginia. The findings have been uncritically reported by Radio IQ — headline: “Race is a factor when police stop drivers in more…
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“Anti-Racism” As Oppressive System
by James A. Bacon One of the seven families filing a lawsuit against Albemarle County to end the county’s “anti-racist” school policies came to the United States from Panama. The father of another student listed in the lawsuit hailed from Turkey. Sometimes it takes an immigrant to see clearly just how racist “anti-racist” policies are…
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Worthless Poll Question, Worthless Reporting
by James A. Bacon Last week Virginia Commonwealth University’s Wilder School of Government issued findings from its latest public opinion poll. Some of the results were interesting, which I’ll get to in another post. But one was worthless to the point of being deceptive. Here is the question: “Do you agree or disagree with the…
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How About a Production About Blacks’ Reverse Migration?
by James A. Bacon The University of Richmond’s Modlin Center for the Arts is bringing the dance troupe Step Afrika! to Richmond to perform its signature work, “The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence.” Inspired by the paintings of Lawrence, an African-American artist of the era, the production “charts the story of African American migrants moving…
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The “Black Jobs” Narrative is False, Harmful
By Derrick Max While most of the post-debate news coverage is still rightly focused on the mental acuity (or lack thereof) of President Biden, the use of the term “Black jobs” by former President Trump in the context of low-income, unskilled jobs that will be impacted by our open southern border, bothers me almost as…
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Senator Warner vs the Congressional Black Caucus
by Paul Goldman After the stories about Senator Mark Warner trying to be the John Hancock of the revolution against President Joe Biden hit the national news wires, a leading member of the Congressional Black Caucus called me on my cell phone. “Is this Warner the guy who the Virginia Democratic Party claims ran Doug…
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Raven Baxter Found Her Virginia Beach Dream Home. The Owner Didn’t Want To Sell To A Black Woman.
by Kerry Dougherty I’m just going to say this: 84 is not THAT old. Being born in 1940 is no excuse for behaving like a modern-day segregationist. Guess who was born that year? Al Pacino, Ringo Starr, Dionne Warwick, Chuck Norris, Cliff Richard, Mario Andretti, Nancy Pelosi and the late John Lennon and Bruce Lee.…
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The Junk Science Behind a Property-Valuation Study
by James A. Bacon When you examine every issue through a racial lens, everything looks like racism. It’s even easier to find racism everywhere when you resort to junk science (or social science, as the case may be). A case in point is a new study by Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Virginia (Home), which…
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Wait, I’m Confused. Are Rising Housing Valuations Good or Bad for Black Neighborhoods?
by James A. Bacon It’s hard to keep up with the twists and turns of what progressives deem to be racist these days. Once upon a time, gentrification was considered racist because the phenomenon of White people moving into a neighborhood increased local property values, which increased taxes on long-time African-American residents and pressured them…