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And yet, there is something in the matter of fact tone that leaves your personal radar, finely honed after years of Al Sharpton being treated like a serious thinker, sending up a 'yellow alert'.
Harharhar, this gave me a real smile....at an ungodly hour in the morning.

The Fields Medal, officially known as International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place every four years.
I learned something new this morning.

Question and, I hope, an honest one: Why does John Derbyshire feel that this issue has to be aired yet again? It's interesting but, why? And why now?

Why does John Derbyshire feel that this issue has to be aired yet again?

It's stated in the very first paragraph of the piece.

John Derbyshire has set off a mini firestorm by responding to an article which details advice that black parents give their kids about coping with "White America", by giving advice to his own kids about coping with black America. And imagine White America's collective shock... he has been denounced for it as being racist. (actually I think it's ... "RACIST!!!")

I believe it’s in reaction to the black community’s reaction to the Trayvon Martin tragedy. He’s illustrating, quite effectively, that what black people say or do is ok, but when a white person mirrors that behavior, it’s racism (or RACISM!!)