When pointing out the obvious becomes racially divisive, the problem isn’t with racism: It’s with the ability to face facts.

Now, competitive middle-schoolers in Florida are flocking to sign up for high-school classes.

For parents and students, it’s a great chance to get ahead. And school districts have something else to brag about: seventh- and eighth-graders completing courses such as Algebra II Honors and biology that had been reserved primarily for ninth- and 10th-graders.

But the nation’s foremost scholars in middle-school education are worried the fast-growing trend is leaving minority children behind. They also question whether the practice is legal because, nationwide, it has tended to result in students being segregated by race.

Legal? These courses aren’t mandatory. Parents and kids sit down together to decide what courses the kids should take, if any. If the parents or children (or both) show no interest in speeding up the learning process voluntarily, then that’s their choice. It certainly isn’t illegal.

When those in social jobs like teaching and counseling talk of equality, they don’t mean equality of opportunity. We already have that: All kids, black, white or green, can go to school and get a basic education. The social nannies mean equality of outcome. Give everyone a medal, even if they played poorly. Get everyone into advanced education, even if they can barely read or have no interest. And if that advanced education is too hard for them, either dumb it down or cancel it altogether.

Ever hip to what today’s immigrants are into, Citizenship & Immigration Canada wants to hear from new Canadians. Despite the fact that in rural villages and big cities around the world, locals are using modern technology like cell phones and blackberrys to send rape videos to their friends, and YouTube to disseminate beheading videos, Canada’s bureaucrats want them to find a VHS recorder (why not Beta?) to tell them all about how to end racism.

1. be between 45 to 60 seconds in length;
2. be submitted on one Mini-DV tape, DVD or VHS tape per entry;
3. be accompanied by one entry form, which also includes a parent or guardian signature PER PARTICIPANT;
4. not contain any images not created by the entrants (such as pictures, photographs, stock film or images from the internet) without a letter of permission from the person having rights in the images to use them for insertion in the video for the purposes of the Competition and granting to the Department of Citizenship and Immigration and its agents the right to use all videotape images they receive as they see fit and allow any television station participating in this initiative to edit, reproduce and broadcast any and all video submissions or portions thereof. Remember to include, unless he/she stated otherwise, the name of the author of the images in the credits of the video; and
5. use only original music in your video (i.e. music you and your team composed), or use royalty-free and rights-free music.

Canada is very concerned about the right of those singers and bands to which it gives enormous and unnecessary monetary grants. As for the rights of the budding videographers… well, not so much.

All videotape entries become the property of the Department of Citizenship and Immigration, including all intellectual property rights, and will not be returned. It should be understood that this involves that the Department of Citizenship and Immigration will have the right to use all videotape images they receive as they see fit and allow any television station participating in this initiative to edit, reproduce and broadcast any and all video submissions or portions thereof.

Better hurry! If you get your entry in by January 19, 2009, racism will end. Actually, that’s kinda true. The next day is Obama’s inauguration, and I swear I will rip the head off of anyone who plays the race card for the next 4-8 years after that.

H/t Kathy.

God, I love this blogger!

Forget the war on terrorism. Forget mounting foreclosures. No, the one thing America must do is apologize for something that ended over 100 years ago. Without that mea culpa the country can’t go on! Gimme a break!

Let me tell you atonement crazy, guilt ridden, libtard weirdos something. I wasn’t a slave. My parents weren’t slaves. My grandparents weren’t slaves. My great-grandparents weren’t slaves. My great-great-grandparents weren’t slaves. To get to anyone in my family who MIGHT have been a slave you have to go back FIVE generations. I DON’T NEED YOUR F–KING APOLOGY!!!!

Representatives, Senators, get on with the nation’s business, and that business is NOT apologizing for slavery. America was NOT the only country in the history of mankind to practice slavery, and Blacks are NOT the only people to ever be held as slaves. Slavery is a HUMAN sin, not a sin only of Whites, Christians, and/or Americans. If Blacks really cared about getting an apology for slavery, if it really meant something to them, why aren’t they demanding one from the Arabs, who traded in African slaves for over a thousand years? Too bad no one in the House had the cajones to bring up that bit of inconvenient history.

The Americans have finally figured out that while not all Muslims are terrorists, all terrorist are Muslims. It only took seven years.

The Justice Department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, relying instead on a terrorist profile that could single out Muslims, Arabs or other racial and ethnic groups.

Law enforcement officials say the proposed policy would help them do exactly what Congress demanded after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks: root out terrorists before they strike.

Although President Bush has disavowed targeting suspects based on their race or ethnicity, the new rules would allow the FBI to consider those factors among a number of traits that could trigger a national security investigation.

Currently, FBI agents need specific reasons - like evidence or allegations that a law probably has been violated - to investigate U.S. citizens and legal residents. The new policy, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press, would let agents open preliminary terrorism investigations after mining public records and intelligence to build a profile of traits that, taken together, were deemed suspicious.

Among the factors that could make someone subject of an investigation is travel to regions of the world known for terrorist activity, access to weapons or military training, along with the person’s race or ethnicity.

Somebody give these guys a smiley-face scratch’n’sniff sticker on their paper, and move them to the front of the class.

An interesting article about immigration and assimilation. Can’t we all just get along? No, probably not.

Richwine praised Krikorian’s book, but said he disagreed with its opening lines “It’s not the immigrants, it’s us. What’s different about immigration today as opposed to a century ago is not the characteristics of the newcomers, but the characteristics of our society.”

He agreed that our society changed, but made the blunt point that a major difference between today’s immigrants and yesterday’s is that today’s are almost all non-white while the earlier groups were almost all white. He went on to say this is important because whether we like it or not, people are naturally tribal and—to the gasps of many of the audience members—there are serious racial differences in IQ and that having groups with vastly different achievement levels will create more racial strife.

He said that the fact that saying that all European immigrants once thought unassimilable were eventually included into the Melting Pot in no way means that non-white immigrants will also be assimilated.

He pointed to Native Americans, African Americans, and earlier Mexican immigrants as examples of groups that have not assimilated after hundreds of years. He echoed Peter Brimelow by suggesting that Krikorian is triangulating between the Open Borders crowd and himself.

He ended by making a thought experiment: What if the earlier waves of immigrants had been Pakistanis and Australian Aborigines instead of Italians, Germans, and Irish? Would they have assimilated? In the Q&A, I brought up Pat Buchanan’s comments about Englishmen assimilating more easily than Zulus and asked a corollary question: If our immigrants were coming from Europe, would we have the problems we are having today with Third World immigrants?

Agree or not (I do), it’s nice to see some debate. Differences between our cultures and their abilities to integrate based on tribalism and IQ levels are taboo subjects in a multicultural society, even if it means that silence leads to poverty, crime and death.

I had never heard of Richwine before this speech. It turns out that he is currently finishing his dissertation at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government on the topic of immigration and IQ. He will then stay on as a research fellow at AEI focusing on “applying the science of mental ability to better inform public policy on a variety of issues, including immigration, race relations, education, and welfare.” Definitely someone we want to keep our eye on.

Indeed. H/t Kathy.

Even if it’s true, we know that truth is no defense in Canada. And there are some things we just don’t talk about. Things like the general whereabouts of babby-daddies.

Yes, ladies and gents, Barak (no middle name) Obama said something intelligent the other day. But only because he’s less likely to get tarred and feathered for saying it than you or I would be.

Barack Obama’s blunt call to absent black fathers in the United States — “any fool can have a child” — needs to be heard in Canada. From comedian Bill Cosby to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, from academics to grassroots groups, the cri de coeur about disappearing fathers is hardly controversial any more in black communities in the U.S. But in Canada, silence prevails.

Everything Mr. Obama said applies in Canada. “It’s the courage to raise the child that makes you a father,” he said in a Father’s Day speech in a black church in Chicago’s South Side. “Too many fathers are MIA, too many fathers are AWOL, missing from too many lives and too many homes. They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our families are weaker because of it.”

This was not a case of a liberal playing the conservative card of “personal responsibility” to broaden his appeal. This was a politician speaking from personal conviction as a child whose [black] father left when he was 2 and played little direct role in his life.

He knows from which he speaks, and he is one of the lucky ones. His [white, racist] grandmother must have whupped him good, to help him get through school and make something of himself.

But what of our own disaffected youth? We continue to employ hordes of social workers, to no avail. We build enough basketball courts so that every gangbanger can actually have his own, yet that’s obviously a failing policy. When are we going to have the nerve to stand up to the black community and say “Hey, stop being a slut, because he’s not going to take care of you and your baby!” or even “If you get her knocked up, we will give you a court order mandating you reside with and support her and the child for at least 5 years, as a sentence for your stupidity.” Instead we just keep our moths shut while the young men kill each other, and the even younger women keep getting pregnant, starting the cycle all over again.

When Bill Cosby said the same thing a few years ago, he was denounce, called “Oreo”, and even smeared by a trumped-up sexual assault claim to ruin his credibility. Louis Farakkhan doesn’t actually have any credibility, so there was none to strip him of. It will be interesting to see how this plays out for Obama. He seems to be pretty respected in black circles - but will his words change that?

Quick, tell me where I fill out a Human Rights Commission complaint! I went to a little Chinese restaurant on Yonge south of Eglington with Mr. Right this evening. The food was great, the service was great… but at the end of the meal I noticed that the Chinese party at the table next to us had been given chopsticks, while Mr. Right and I had eaten with the supplied forks.

It’s racism, folks. Institutional racism. Whitey couldn’t possibly figure out how to eat with the wooden sticks. Where’s Babs Hall when you need her?

The black-focused school is a go.

After a heated but civil debate, Canada’s largest school board voted 11-9 last night to open an alternative Africentric school to help fight a 40 per cent dropout rate among Toronto’s black teens.

It will be interesting to see how many school buses are needed to ensure that no one sits at the front of them…

Somewhere out there, Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King are shaking their heads.

If all black teachers, teaching all black culture were the magic pill to create all black geniuses, then wouldn’t the degenerate black hole at Jane and Finch be a rocket science research complex by now?

WonderWoman, commenting on the idea of all black schools in Toronto

Canada has walked away from one of the most farcical UN conferences, calling it a “gong show”.

Canada has withdrawn its support for a UN anti-racism conference slated to take place in South Africa next year, the federal government announced Wednesday.

The so-called Durban II conference “has gone completely off the rails” and Canada wants no part of it, said Jason Kenney, secretary of state for multiculturalism and Canadian identity.

“Canada is interested in combatting racism, not promoting it,” Mr. Kenney told The Canadian Press. “We’ll attend any conference that is opposed to racism and intolerance, not those that actually promote racism and intolerance.

“Our considered judgment, having participated in the preparatory meetings, was that we were set for a replay of Durban I. And Canada has no intention of lending its good name and resources to such a systematic promotion of hatred and bigotry.”

The 2001 World Conference Against Racism in Durban turned into “a circus of intolerance,” Mr. Kenney said.

One government official on Wednesday called the conference “a gong show.”

I’m proud of Canada. Durban I in 2001 was a Cinco de Mayo with Israel as the pinata. All the Muslim countries got together to blame the Jooooos for all the world’s ills. To have our current Conservative government stand up and tell the UN to shove their conference is something that I applaud.

Now if they would just turn their attention to the Human Rights Commissions…

I know that the squeaky wheel gets the Crisco, and that the shrieking loudness of the gay lobby has brought about a new kind of “equality” in Canada whereby some are actually more equal than others. But I had to shake my head when I saw this article in the Star:

Two concerts have been cancelled after mega-club Kool Haus pulled the plug at the last-minute on two controversial reggae and dancehall artists.

Entertainers Elephant Man and Sizzla were scheduled to perform last Friday night and Oct. 5 respectively, but both Jamaicans have been under fire from human rights organizations who say their lyrics are homophobic and incite violence against gays.

Akim Larcher, founder of Stop Murder Music Canada – a coalition made up of 20 organizations that promote human rights – says the federal government has remained silent in this issue.

Suddenly a lobby group is worried about the violence of the Jamaican music scene? Why the hell did it take the gays to bring this about?? What about women’s rights groups, or the anti-gun freaks around Toronto, who are happy to ban an inanimate weapon, but not the inspiration, culture or criminals that perpetrate the killings?

Stop Murder Music talks about human rights, but when will they act against other groups that target not just gays, but women, other blacks, rival gangs etc?

This 2004 article out of Montreal about Sizzla got lots of pro- and anti-Sizzla comments, but no one seemed to mention the other types of dangers associated with the rasta/hip-hop/reggae/bling bling yo homie culture that we actually have to live with every day in Canada and the US.

Here’s an example of Elephant Man’s anti-gay lyrics:

Ok, don’t dat tune a fit fi radio play (Yeah)
Don’t dat tune a mek di gal dem wine up when dem hear it waan stay (True)
It tell mi seh dem waan dat tune a day (Boom)
Don’t dat tune a mek yuh feel like likkle pickney ready fi play (Yeah)
Don’t dat tune a mek yuh feel a way (True)
Don’t dat tune a mek yuh feel like seh fi tek a gun and shot a gay (Bo!!!)
Dem waan pollute go dung and not obey
Doolas nah support it not away

Bad? Yes. Terrible to the point of outcry? Well, that depends. How do you feel about this:

Homey you a bitch you got feminine ways
Heard you got four lips and bleed for seven days
I got fo’ fifths and bananas on the K’s
And got more whips than a runaway slave

That’s from 50 Cent, who isn’t banned in Canada, and is in fact considered mainstream popular.

What about sexual objectification of women? Isn’t that a more widespread issue affecting 50% of the country, whereas gays only make up about 2%?

This is why I’m hot, catch me on the block,
Every other day, another bitch, another drop,

From Mims.

I see you windin’ n grindin’ up on that pole,
I know you see me lookin’ at you and you already know
I wanna f**k you,(f**k you) you already know
I wanna f**k you,(f**k you) you already know, girl

Money in the air as mo feel grab you by your coat tail take you to the motel, hoe sale,
don’t tell, wont tell, baby said I don’t talk Dogg but she told on me, oh well,
take a picture wit me, what the flick gon’ do, baby stick to me & ima stick on u,
if you pick me then ima pick on you, d-o-double g and I’m here to put this dick on you,
I’m stuck on pussy n urs is right, wrip riding them poles and them doors is tight and tighter
and ima get me a shot for the end of the night cause pussy is pussy and baby you’re pussy for life.

Akon featuring Snoop Dogg. Two very popular “artists”.

Frankly, I haven’t the time or the inclination to research the lyrics that glorify gang violence - it’s been done before anyway.

Fact is, there’s more than just the gay bashing aspect of this culture we should be looking at. Why has it taken a gay advocacy group to speak up about it.

Shame on the other lobbyists. Where have you all been hiding?

But activist and Canadian author Orville Lloyd Douglas says “there are a lot of double standards here.”

These organization’s “don’t go after Eminem or Marilyn Manson.”

And there it is. The race card. Double shame.