Category: Race and Race Relations
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The Real Danger with ANTIFA
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in Bacon and Pigs, Business and Economy, Civil Rights, Individual Liberties, Corruption and Scandals, Courts and law, Crime, Corrections, Law Enforcement, Culture wars, Demographics, Disasters and Disaster Preparedness, Economic development, Electoral process, Federal issues, Government Transparency, Gun rights, Immigration, Labor and Workforce, LGBQT, Libertarians, Media, Money in politics, Politics, Poverty & income gap, Race and Race Relations, Regulations, Gov’t OversightBy Peter Galuszka Get ready. The names of all kinds of leftist organizations are going to be kicked around as the masterminds behind violent, cop-beating looters, especially the so-called ANTIFA movement in Virginia and across the country.. But what is reality? I don’t have clear answers but I have some ideas to share since I…
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More Transparency for Police Shooting Incidents
by James A. Bacon In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in Minnesota, black politicians in Virginians are calling for changes to the criminal justice system. Maybe the problems that plague the Minneapolis police force bedevil police departments in the Old Dominion, maybe they don’t — I don’t know. Are police in…
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How Mark Herring Fuels Racial Discord
Wow, a lot of rage has been unleashed in the United States. Remember when “angry white men” was used as a put-down of the Tea Party movement? The implication was that anger clouded the reason and judgment of conservative voters, and their concerns thereby safely discredited and dismissed. Well, in the minds of many folks,…
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The Brewing Revolution in College Admissions
by James A. Bacon The traditional criteria for admitting applicants into colleges and universities is under assault. Critics from the left side of the political spectrum have been attacking SAT and ACT scores, originally devised as yardsticks to measure intellectual aptitude, as biased in favor of applicants from upper socio-economic groups. The University of California…
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Construction: Virginia’s Quiet, Strong Man
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in Agriculture & forestry, Blogs and Blog Administration, Business and Economy, Civil Rights, Individual Liberties, Consumer Protection, Culture wars, Demographics, Economic development, Energy, Entrepreneurs and Innovation, Environment, Federal issues, Government Finance, Government Transparency, Infrastructure, Labor and Workforce, Land use & Development, Poverty & income gap, Property rights, Public safety & health, Race and Race Relations, Science & Technology, Social Services and Entitlements, Taxes, Telecommunications, TransportationBy Peter Galuszka For all the complaints about the COVID-19 pandemic in Virginia – the shut-down restaurants and (temporarily) closed beaches – one industry has been working steadily and quietly all along – the state’s construction sector. Builders haven’t missed much of a beat since the “state at home” orders started going out a couple…
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COVID-19 in Black and White
by James A. Bacon For many social justice activists — please note, I refrain from using the potentially inflammatory term social justice “warriors” — racial disparities in the United States are a fixation. They have made an issue of the fact that African-Americans are more likely than whites to contract the COVID-19 virus than whites,…
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The Curious Case of Hispanic COVID-19 Patients
by James A. Bacon In Fairfax County, Latinos comprise about 16% of the population yet 60% of the county’s COVID-19 cases. A recent health study described the neighborhood of a Hispanic woman profiled by WAMU, Ana Mejia, as an “island of disadvantage.” A third of the neighborhood’s children live in poverty, and more than half…
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Celebrating the Contributions of Those on the Margins
I love B.K. Fulton’s powerful, uplifting message. As former Fortune 500 business executive, author, and serial entrepreneur, he speaks not only to other African-Americans but to all people. In contrast to those who dwell on the negatives of American society, he emphasizes the positive. He crafts a narrative of hope. Fulton was invited to…
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WTJU Podcast: COVID-19 and the Economy
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in Agriculture & forestry, Bacon and Pigs, Blogs and Blog Administration, Business and Economy, Charity, Philanthropy, Nonprofits, Civil Rights, Individual Liberties, Consumer Protection, Corruption and Scandals, Culture wars, Disasters and Disaster Preparedness, Economic development, Education (higher ed), Education (K-12), Efficiency in Government, Elections, Electoral process, Energy, Entrepreneurs and Innovation, Environment, Federal issues, General Assembly, Governance, Government Finance, Government Transparency, Gun rights, Health Care, Housing, Immigration, Infrastructure, Insurance, Labor and Workforce, Media, Money in politics, Planning, Politics, Poverty & income gap, Property rights, Public safety & health, Race and Race Relations, Regulations, Gov’t Oversight, Science & Technology, Social Services and Entitlements, Taxes, Telecommunications, TransportationBy Peter Galuszka Here’s is the twice-monthly podcast produced by WTJU, the official radio station of the University of Virginia. With me on this podcast are Nathan Moore, the station general manager, and Sarah Vogelsong, who covers, labor, energy and environmental issues across the state for the Virginia Mercury, a fairly new and highly regarded…
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Race, Injustice, the Northam Administration, and the Viral Inferno at Canterbury Rehabilitation
by James A. Bacon Virginia news outlets have published a spate of articles in recent days about the elevated rate of COVID-19 infection and mortality among African-Americans. Typical was this story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, which highlighted the fact that in the City of Richmond, black people comprise less than half the city’s population but…
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COVID-19 a New Excuse for Racial Preferences
by Hans Bader Government officials are handing out tax dollars based on race and gender in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. One example is in Arlington, where I live. The Arlington County government announced that it will hand out grants to small businesses based on “considerations” such as whether the business is “women and/or minority-owned.”…
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COVID-19 Update: Mounting Toll
Here’s the latest COVID-19 data from the Virginia Department of Health based on yesterday’s developments. Total cases: 1,706, up 222 yesterday. Total hospitalizations: 246, up 38 yesterday. Total deaths: 41, up 7 yesterday. Total tests: 17,589, up 2,245 yesterday. And here, straight from Cranky’s Excel spreadsheet to you, the updated “doubling” time for key metrics:…
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Racism and COVID-19 in Virginia
By Peter Galuszka “The Chinese Virus?” “Kung Flu?” Wuflu?” These are some pejorative and racist names being bandied about for what is technically known as the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2. The disease associated with the virus is COVID-19. These distinctions are part of a column written by the Virginia Asian Advisory Board in…
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Is This What We’ve Come to? Now Terry McAuliffe and Levar Stoney Are Racist?
MEMO TO: LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR JUSTIN FAIRFAX FROM: JIM BACON If you’re seriously interested in running for Governor, you’re not helping your case when you call former Governor Terry McAuliffe a racist, and, more inexplicably, when you call the African-American mayor of Richmond, Levar Stoney, a racist. Sure, I get it: You’re angry about the sexual…
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Virginia’s New Suburbia
by James A. Bacon Virginia’s suburbs are undergoing profound demographic changes with tremendous implications for politics and real-estate development strategy, argues Greg Weatherford in Virginia Business magazine. The suburbs are less white than they used to be. Northern Virginia, unsurprisingly, is leading the way. As of 2018, 49.4% of Northern Virginia residents identified as members…