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As the Mr. Roscoe says, “perhaps the best reason we can’t deracialize America is that the activists won’t allow it”. If activists aimed their rhetoric at the quality of inner city public education, which is far more responsible for holding back black academic and professional achievement than racism, they might deserve our respect. If MLK and Frederick Douglass were alive today, that’s what they’d be marching about. Most of the current crop of activists are grifters, using the people that they claim to represent to accumulate wealth, power and influence. The good news is that the AA community is increasingly aware of this duplicity.

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Great topic by the Great Clifton Roscoe.

Me, I'm cynical. I think the Democrats are trying to pound a square peg into a round hole because it wins elections. Why do I say this?

Blind auditions for orchestras. The flip-flop.

Heather Mac Donald's new piece on medical school admissions. It's scary.

Asians. For many who succeed, English is not even their native language.

Jackie Robinson. If he suffered from stereotype threat, it was gone within a few at-bats.

Issue that broke the camel's back: Releasing criminals because Blacks are 13 percent of the population, but a much higher percentage of the prison population. What next? Release 95 percent of male inmates so we achieve gender justice?

Heather Mac Donald, when testifying to the Senate Judiciary committee, "Prison remains a lifetime achievement award for persistence in criminal offending."

It's time to stop obsessing over group outcome and instead focus on every individual as an individual. Succeed yourself and the group will take care of itself.

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