"That Shiniqua S--t": Affirmative Action and the Blogosphere

"Since I live in New York, I know just how you feel."

Since I live in California, I know just how you feel! Thanks for the article, I recognized all of it. Especially since I've worked for the state, the city, and the local regional transit system. I have to tell you, it's a nightmare being a white female slave. They just kept me around so there'd be someone there to get the work done...

Oh, brother. I was thinking, maybe it's a bicoastal thing, but then I remembered Cincinnati, Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta, Gary ...

PS: My grandkids are black, and very proud that their names are in the Bible - John, Phillip, and Michael (especially Michael). They were told at school that they are African Americans and my little John (8 years old at the time) said, "no, I'm an American!" I pray they never become brainwashed, but they do attend public school...

I'll say a prayer for them, too.

BTW, did Jesse really say that? He sounds like he's been reading German metaphysicians!

Fascinating article. FWIW, Mr. Stix completely misrepresents my comments (I am the infamous "Tom Maguire" noted in his piece.) His confusion is actually made clear in his own article, as illustrated by these two excerpts:
De Long's readers tend to be left of Clinton...
The discussion was blindly supportive of the tendentious study that the Times' Alan Krueger was trying to pawn off on readers.
Yet, later on, we are told:
Most of Brad deLong's readers screamed "racism" at any poster who doubted black college graduates' academic credentials.
Well, yes, they did. Several earnest righties, myself among them, raised a number of objections to the study Krueger had cited. Anyone who has the time to follow the links to deLong's site, and has the inclination to wallow in a food fight, can see for themselves.

In fact, I was pounding the table in favor of the "preferences in admission leads to preferences in grading" theme, and introduced pieces by Sowell and Stix as evidence. Since all critics of the study had been labelled "racist", I made the sarcastic comment that Mr. Stix still refuses to comprehend, namely "Two books [sic][sic], one by Thomas Sowell, who is well known; one by Nicholas Stix, who for all I know is a member of the Klan, reach that conclusion."

I went on to argue the same point Stix is arguing here.
Easy to check - follow the link to DeLong's site and check the comments; or follow the link to my site, and see my criticism of the Krueger study.

So, just to be crystal clear - my suggestion that, for all I know, Stix is a member of the Klan was a SARCASTIC COMMENT directed at some overheated lefties.

Simply excellent, again.
This Stix hits another Grandslam; which, looks to be getting kind of routine for this man, huh? {g}
~& yea I read the whole, fabulous piece.

...twice.

I'm sure he'll very pleased to know that, L.

I checked in to see what Alan Weberman was up to. Looks like he's one of Rosenberg's buddies; my guess is that he knows people who were members of that YPSL group in the NY/NJ NY Metro area who were implicated in a number of attacks on the now deceased Postmaster General, William F. Bolger.

I'm not familiar with that case. Can you provide any background?

If you wanted suspects in the athrax attack, there they are, and given the way this Weberman guy struggles to blame somebody else, it's likely that we can parse all of that nonsense and identify all the relevant pieces of information HE LEFT OUT. Those will target his friends. They may implicate him before it's over.

Hmmm. With the way the feds have botched the anthrax investigation, I fear we may never know who carried out those attacks.

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