Category: Race and Race Relations
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UVA Report Finds No Pay Inequity for Black, Hispanic Profs
by James A. Bacon The Racial Equity Task Force, a 2020 document that transformed governance at the University of Virginia, listed 12 top priorities for addressing the legacy of historical racism. One was to address “serious challenges to racial equity in staff hiring, wages, retention, promotion, and procurement” by auditing where policies and procedures might…
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UVA As a “Maze of Predatory Systems”
by James A. Bacon If you visit the latest exhibit at the University of Virginia’s Ruffin Gallery, “EscapeRoom,” it takes no more than five or ten seconds for the artists’ message to sink in — the amount of time it takes to read the signage at the entrance: The University of Virginia (UVA) is a…
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In Their Own Words: Jefferson, Whiteness, and Dicks in the Sky
๏ปฟ๏ปฟ Meet Marisa Williamson. The Harvard-educated assistant professor in the University of Virginia art department works in video, image-making, installation and performance art around themes of “history, race, feminism, and technology,” according to her UVA faculty page. Most recently, she co-curated the EscapeRoom exhibition at the Ruffin Gallery, which we highlight in a companion article.…
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University of Virginia Spends $20 Million On 235 DEI Employees, With Some Making $587,340 Per Year
It takes tuition payments from nearly 1,000 undergraduates just to pay their base salaries! Bacon’s Rebellion is reposting this article published by Open the Books, a nonprofit group dedicated to transparency in government spending, and republished on the Jefferson Council blog. Open the Books CEO Adam Andrzejewski will speak at the Jefferson Council 3rd annual…
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Weโre Doctors. Implicit Bias Training Has No Place in Medicine.
by Martin Caplan, MD, and Kenneth Lipstock, MD Apparently, Virginiaโs doctors and nurses are racist. This is the message ofย twoย bills that are moving through the state legislature. The bills would force medical professionals to take ongoing โimplicit bias trainingโ to get and keep their license. The problem is that such training is insulting, dangerous, and…
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No More Legacy Admissions in Virginia
by James A. Bacon Bills to ban preferential treatment for relatives of alumni at Virginia’s public universities flew through the 2024 session of the General Assembly in remarkable time. In a legislature marked by intense partisan divisions, companion bills passed subcommittees, committees, and the full Senate and the House of Delegates on unanimous votes. According…
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“Enacting Racial Change by Design”
by James A. Bacon The backlash against Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in higher-ed and the corporate world may be gathering momentum across the country, but the University of Virginia is rolling out a new DEI initiative oblivious to the shift in the national mood. UVA’s College of Arts & Sciences has launched a program this…
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Virginia Legislation Would Penalize Lack of Diversity in Firms Seeking Economic Development Aid
by Hans Bader Recent Virginia legislation raises interesting constitutional issues under the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection clause. Virginia legislators have introduced bills that would make corporate board diversity a factor in whether to give corporations tax incentives for economic development. In deciding whether to approve tax incentives to a company, the MEI Project Approval Commission…
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The Fighting Editor
Alexander, Ann Field. Race Man:ย The Rise and Fall of the โFighting Editorโ John Mitchell Jr., University of Virginia Press, 2002 Review by Dick Hall-Sizemore John Mitchell, Jr. was a major figure in Richmond and Virginia public affairs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Over the course of this career, he was a…
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Virginia Child Victims in the Leftโs War on the Enlightenment and Science
by James C. Sherlock Modern progressivism is religion, defined by Webster as โa cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith.โ The critical theory progressive, that is to say the modern American progressive, rejects proudly and publicly, root and branch, both the Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolutions of the 16th through…
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Racism Comes in All Colors
by Kerry Doughertyย What follows here is fiction. Totally imaginary. Still, picture this with me: The mayor of Virginiaโs largest city — that would be Virginia Beach, population 458,000 — decides to hold a holiday party for city council members on city property. The mayor — and let me remind you this is hypothetical, it…
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Charlottesville, Its Public Schools and UVa – Part One – Bad things Happen
by James C. Sherlock In the relationship between Charlottesville and the University of Virginia, very bad things have happened to Charlottesville and continue to do so. I have developed a working thesis on that relationship. The city is at the mercy of the University by virtue of the latter’s wealth, influence, and power in Charlottesville…
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Race, Disparities, and Reality
##### sponsored content ##### by James A. Bacon Statistical disparities between Whites, Blacks, Hispanics and Asians are at the root of the debate about race in America today. Other than a few powerless voices on the fringe of society, no one questions that racism is evil. With no one admitting to being racist, leftists have…
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What the Heck Does “a Historical Connection to Slavery” Mean?
by James A. Bacon Project Gabriel, an initiative of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, discussed ideas this summer on how to circumvent the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling restricting the role of race in college admissions, Do No Harm has found through a public records request. โVCU and other medical schools are trying their…
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Revisiting the Intellectual Foundations of Conservatism — One Book at a Time
by Suzanne Munson From time to time, members of every great movement such as American Conservatism need to stop, take a breath, and see where the movement is going. Great movements, founded by great individuals, can sometimes be hijacked by lesser minds. Many of the founders of modern conservatism were intellectuals. William F. Buckley was…