August 27, 2013
By Emma Roller
Tom Cotton: Race relations would improve "If we stopped emphasizing race in our public lives."
Interpretation: Shut up and it will go away.
Arkansas Senate candidate Rep. Tom Cotton (click here) has earned some flack for his Harvard Crimson columns, in which he at turns compares a golf cup to battle, calls libertarians "sanctimonious," brushes off feminism, and says affirmative action is "superficial" diversity. A new trawl through the archives shows Cotton wrote a review for the Harvard Salient, the university's conservative political journal, of America in Black and White by Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom. The thesis of the book seems to be that Democrats refuse to accept how much better life is for black people today (read: in the late '90s) than in the pre-war era....
...Common sense, however, has never been the forte of race-hustling charlatans like Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton. Unfortunately, it also seems lost on supposedly educated people like Roger Wilkins, Lani Guinier, and Derek Bell. They and other leaders of the civil-rights establishment—one of those many groups that lives off the capital of a noble heritage—blithely ignore all data on racial attitudes in America, as well as all trends of behavior that prove the sincerity of those attitudes. They state that racism is still "as virulent and as obvious as weeds in a garden," racism is "worse today than it was in the '60s," and that "white men are the most lying creatures on the face of the earth."...
FOX News has been running a campaign against Reverend Sharpton. I am sure it makes Mr. Cotton very happy.
FOX believes CNN came in second in ratings because of their news broadcast. As long as FOX News keeps up the attacks against Sharpton the ratings at MSNBC will tank.
Ya know it is a Harvard thing. Texas' Senator Cruz and now Alabama's Cotton; it is beginning to look like one heck of a cabinet line up, doesn't it? I betcha Cotton has dreams of being Secretary of State.
Yes, sir. A US cabinet of juveniles. That is exactly what the world needs, isn't it?
By Emma Roller
Tom Cotton: Race relations would improve "If we stopped emphasizing race in our public lives."
Interpretation: Shut up and it will go away.
Arkansas Senate candidate Rep. Tom Cotton (click here) has earned some flack for his Harvard Crimson columns, in which he at turns compares a golf cup to battle, calls libertarians "sanctimonious," brushes off feminism, and says affirmative action is "superficial" diversity. A new trawl through the archives shows Cotton wrote a review for the Harvard Salient, the university's conservative political journal, of America in Black and White by Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom. The thesis of the book seems to be that Democrats refuse to accept how much better life is for black people today (read: in the late '90s) than in the pre-war era....
...Common sense, however, has never been the forte of race-hustling charlatans like Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton. Unfortunately, it also seems lost on supposedly educated people like Roger Wilkins, Lani Guinier, and Derek Bell. They and other leaders of the civil-rights establishment—one of those many groups that lives off the capital of a noble heritage—blithely ignore all data on racial attitudes in America, as well as all trends of behavior that prove the sincerity of those attitudes. They state that racism is still "as virulent and as obvious as weeds in a garden," racism is "worse today than it was in the '60s," and that "white men are the most lying creatures on the face of the earth."...
FOX News has been running a campaign against Reverend Sharpton. I am sure it makes Mr. Cotton very happy.
FOX believes CNN came in second in ratings because of their news broadcast. As long as FOX News keeps up the attacks against Sharpton the ratings at MSNBC will tank.
Ya know it is a Harvard thing. Texas' Senator Cruz and now Alabama's Cotton; it is beginning to look like one heck of a cabinet line up, doesn't it? I betcha Cotton has dreams of being Secretary of State.
Yes, sir. A US cabinet of juveniles. That is exactly what the world needs, isn't it?
