Urban Apartheid In New Haven, CT
By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) | May 1st at 10:30 AM |
The New Haven, CT NAACP has looked at the statistical trends that they feel will drive the future of African-American prosperity in New Haven. What they have seen does not make them happy. In an effort to draw attention to this set of troubling tends; they regrettably entitled their recent report Urban Apartheid. This I find to be historically inaccurate and unjustly polemical in nature. I will lay out my reasons for saying so below.
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2010 US Census,
al sharpton,
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De Facto Segregation,
De Jure Segregation,
LA Riots,
NAACP,
New Haven,
Property Values,
SMSAs,
Urban Decay,
White Flight,
White Interlopers
Sunday Night Open Thread: SNL Mocks Sharpton
By: Caleb Howe (Diary) | May 20th at 07:00 PM |
Last night, Saturday Night Live did a pretty funny parody of Al Sharpton’s MSNBC show Resist We Much. I mean Politics Nation. Although mocking the general terribleness of Sharpton’s show is hilarious, it’s also very interesting that there was a subtle (and perhaps unintentional?) critique of the way liberals contort to defend the state of the job market in the Obamaconomy. In any case, enjoy. | Read More »
Tech at Night: Tomorrow, Tomorrow
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | December 21st at 12:15 AM |
Tomorrow, tomorrow, the FCC is meeting tomorrow, December 21. The key item on the agenda is Net Neutrality. So of course, The FCC couldn’t keep its website up. And they want to regulate the entire Internet? What’s at stake? Socialist plans to remake all the mass media in America in the style of Hugo Chavez. Al Franken’s bulling tactics succeeding. And overall, an unprecedented power | Read More »
The Fight For *Right*
By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary) | August 29th at 11:05 AM |
It should be lost on NO one how incredibly diverse and divisive the news coverage of events in DC on 8/28 has been; the white guys are talking about God and Country while the black guys are threatening to beat them up over it as they express their intolerance for insufficient levels of freebies and shout out their demands for even more nannyism from the | Read More »