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Poll: MOST Black Americans Believe in Anti-American Racial Conspiracy Theories

By Selwyn Duke

What are the fruits of propaganda, of playing the woke racial-grievance card? Here’s one consequence:

Most black Americans today, a new study has found, believe in racial conspiracy theories — i.e., that U.S. institutions were designed to hold them back.

What’s more, the entity conducting the study, the normally sober Pew Research Center, descended into wokeness when reporting the results.

Media Flips Script: Olympic Boxing Controversy is About Pro-white Bias

By Selwyn Duke

When then-18-year-old South African runner Caster Semenya was dusting female competition in races and arousing suspicion about “her” sexual status almost a generation ago, I made a prediction:

Medical tests would determine that Semenya had internal testes.

Sure enough, this was the case, examination results showed upon coming to light. Furthermore, Semenya was found to have an XY (male) genotype and also no womb or ovaries.

You wouldn’t know it, though, from recent years’ reporting, with outlets merely describing the runner as having “naturally elevated levels of testosterone.” Well, yes, hermaphroditism is not normal — but it is “natural.”

Now there’s a similar controversy surrounding Algerian Olympic boxer Imane Khelif, especially after one of the fighter’s opponents, Italian Angela Carini, quit in her bout against Khelif, exclaiming “This is unjust!” Only, now, defenders of willful blindness have a new strategy: the race card. As the Associated Press put it yesterday: “For female athletes of color, scrutiny around gender rules and identity is part of a long trend.” Perhaps — so is media misdirection.

“Racist and Clueless”? That’s Today’s Colonialist Narrative, Says Writer

By Selwyn Duke

“The white race is the cancer of human history,” wrote feminist author Susan Sontag in 1966. While Sontag has passed on, her idea has passed on to critical-mass stage; in fact, the notion that whites are history’s “oppressors” and everyone else is the “oppressed” is now left-wing dogma as much as “four legs good, two legs bad” was in Orwell’s communist allegory Animal Farm. But it’s also something else, states Newsweek’s Dan Perry: nonsense.

“Democrats Are Guilt Tripping Us Into Voting,” Says Black Author

By Selwyn Duke

It’s no surprise that black Americans used to be Republicans. The GOP is, after all, the party of Lincoln and slavery abolition. For more than half a century, however, blacks have given approximately 90 percent of their support to Democrats every election. What’s more, laments a black writer and speaker, “Democrats are guilt tripping us into voting.”

Report: Long Touted, Culture-altering Study Showing “Diversity” Increases Profits is Bunk

By Selwyn Duke

“New research makes it increasingly clear that companies with more diverse workforces perform better financially,” proclaimed McKinsey & Company in 2015. McKinsey’s study was taken seriously, too; in fact, it would be transformational.

Citing McKinsey in 2016, the Harvard Business Review announced, definitively, “Striving to increase workplace diversity is not an empty slogan — it is a good business decision.” Woke capital leviathan BlackRock made McKinsey Exhibit A when making the case for a board-diversity target of 30 percent, Nasdaq and a Securities and Exchange Commission figure touted it when lobbying for policies pressuring companies to embrace diversity, and multitudinous activist groups have done likewise while encouraging various diversity-oriented social-engineering schemes. There’s a problem, however:

The McKinsey study, it turns out, appears to be hogwash.

Caitlin Clark and the Psychology of WNBA Racial Hatred

By Selwyn Duke

It’s not hard to understand why Caitlin Clark, the record-setting white ex-NCAA women’s basketball standout, is enjoying attention and endorsements like no WNBA player before her. And, no, it’s not because of (mythical) “white privilege.”

White Girl Paid a Lot: Caitlin Clark’s Woes in Racialized America

By Selwyn Duke

Caitlin Clark would assuredly just like to play basketball. Unfortunately for the WNBA standout, however, focus on the game has been subordinated to racial games in an America in which everything is now about identity politics.

Because of this, some may say the WNBA is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Clark, much touted as one of the greatest female collegiate players of all time, could be the WNBA’s ticket to success. The league has been losing approximately $10 million annually every year since its 1997 launch, and only exists because the NBA subsidizes it financially. But instead of welcoming Clark as someone who could perhaps do for women’s basketball what Tiger Woods did for golf — greatly increase the sport’s fan base and earnings — some of her fellow players have signaled that she’s less than welcome in their sisterhood.

Non-white Privilege? Anti-white Racism Reigns in U.S., Says Jeremy Carl

By Selwyn Duke

On one side, we hear about “white privilege” and “white supremacism.” On the other, we hear that you hear about those things only because whites are one of the few groups you can impugn with impunity, inclusive of calling them privileged while treating them prejudicially. And one man who’d agree with the latter sentiment is political commentator and Claremont Institute fellow Jeremy Carl.

In fact, says Carl, America is “systemically racist” against whites.

President’s Lies Matter: Obama Defends Black Lives Matter Movement

By Selwyn Duke

It’s a phenomenon that has led to riots and the killing of police officers. But that didn’t stop Barack Obama from defending the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement last Thursday at a White House criminal-justice forum. It was an action that, critics say, reinforced divisive misconceptions — ones that have contributed the murder and mayhem.

While Obama paired his defense of BLM with praise for the “overwhelming majority” of police who want “to do the right thing,” he also spoke of “a specific problem that's happening in the African-American community that's not happening in other communities.” Yet he wasn’t referring to the black community’s 72 percent out-of-wedlock birthrate or that blacks are approximately 50 percent of the United States’ homicide victims (while only 13 percent of the population) — or that 90 to 93 percent of these victims are killed by other blacks. Rather, referencing the notion that an inordinate number of black suspects are shot by police officers, the president said, "We as a society, particularly given our history, have to take this seriously. And one of the ways of avoiding the politics of this and losing the moment is everybody just stepping back for a second and understanding that the African-American community is not just making this up. It's not just something being politicized.”

The truth, however, is that made up and politicized describe BLM’s claims perfectly.

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Ahmed the “Clock Boy” Meets with Obama and War Criminal

By Selwyn Duke

The media has dubbed him “Clock Boy,” but critics have pointed out that he’s really just Crock Boy. This hasn’t prevented Ahmed Mohamed (shown), the 14-year-old Texas student arrested for bringing to school a device that could be taken for a bomb, from making the rounds as a celebrity and meeting world leaders. This included an encounter Barack Obama at the White House’s Astronomy Night last evening, even though the meeting was left in doubt after Mohamed met last Wednesday with an African president wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court.

The boy’s dubious meeting with Sudan’s president Omar al-Bashir — accused of orchestrating genocide and crimes against humanity in Darfur — put the White House in an uncomfortable position. Obama had already committed to the now-discredited narrative that Mohamed was a fertile-minded inventor victimized by “Islamophobia,” and revoking his Astronomy Night invitation would have been a blow against that victim narrative. Ultimately, the administration decided to walk a fine line. Press Secretary Josh Earnest played down Mohamed’s visit at a press briefing yesterday, saying he didn’t believe Obama would “have an opportunity to meet one-on-one with Ahmed” as “several hundred people” would participate in the event. And so it transpired: Obama met with the high-school student while mingling with the attendees, but didn’t showcase his visit.

Unfortunately, Mohamed’s tale is an example of how, as Jonathan Swift wrote in 1710, “Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come to be undeceiv’d, it is too late; the Jest is over, and the Tale has had its Effect…” And a tall tale Mohamed’s is.

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What Really Drives Obama’s Destructive Mideast Policy?

By Selwyn Duke

It’s not a stretch to say that what ex-president Jimmy Carter did for Iran, Barack Obama is doing for the whole Middle East and beyond. Islamic State is on the move; jihadism in general is raging and all the rage; and with the Iran deal, the man who helped enable the “Arab Spring” may give us a nuclear winter.

A Mideast policy with such results has befuddled many. Why did Obama help overthrow Muammar Gaddafi and hurl Libya into turmoil? Why did he throw Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak under the bus? And why, as radio host Michael Savage asked late last week, does he have such a “vendetta” against Syria’s Bashar al-Assad?