Noel S. Williams – It’s almost laughable, but whenever I turn on my TV, I’m confronted by an alternate reality: white males are dotards, whereas minorities, seemingly the majority in every commercial, are practically perfect. Maybe that’s true in the White House, but not at large. This representation of minorities as over-achieving heroes may assuage DIE sensibilities, but it will not narrow the persistent achievement gaps.
In the movie Being There, Peter Sellers plays Chance (Chauncey) Gardiner. Chauncey has connections, is presentable, and dons nice clothes. He is also really stupid, which may be why the intelligentsia hang on his every word. His “wisdom” comes from two endeavors: gardening and watching TV. Actually, TV so represents his reality that if he were watching today, he’d presume that white people, especially males, are a bumbling minority. Continue reading
Janet Levy – When the current occupant of the White House openly asserts that white supremacy is the greatest threat to America, it shows that demonizing whites is now an acceptable part of American life. Conservative writer Ed Brodow dubs this phenomenon the “new national sport” in the subtitle of his book The War on Whites.
Greg Salsbury – On the tsunami of 
Christopher Chantrill – So they are calling the Tennessee Republicans racists because they 
Judy Wallen – I arrived in San Francisco an agitating radical. Decades later I left an agitated conservative. With its variety pack of human types and myriad available life paths seemingly as fascinating as its meandering undulating roads, San Francisco presented itself as the irresistibly perfect escort to help usher a youth into adulthood.