Category: Race and Race Relations
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School Discipline in Virginia – Part 3 — A Sharp Policy Turn to the Left after 2009
by James C. Sherlock Here is the information from a slide briefing to the Loudon County school board on February 6, 2013. “Experimentally.” The slide itself was actually produced in 2008 by pbis.org. It seems like a bad joke now, but that was how it was presented. Not a word about race there, but there surely…
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Fairfax County Officials Pay Big Bucks to Another Controversial Author
by Asra Q. Nomani Fairfax County Public Library officials are paying controversial writer Nikole Hannah-Jones, author of The 1619 Project, $35,350 for a one-hour lecture on Feb. 19 at the McLean Community Center, with a price tag that amounts to $589 per minute, according to a copy of the contract obtained by the Fairfax County…
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School Discipline, Part III: Reframing Discipline in Virginia and Considerations for Making New Policy
by Matthew Hurt and Kathleen Smith Reframing School Discipline The Student Behavior and Administrative Response (SBAR) data collection was implemented in response to reframing school discipline from that of criminal, punishment, and exclusionary practices from 1991-2020 to that of restorative, intervention, and inclusionary practices in 2021 and beyond. The SBAR reports on behaviors that impede…
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Leave Arlington’s Confederate Memorial Intact
by Phil Leigh Arlington National Cemetery’s Confederate Memorial should remain intact. Although four of the first seven cotton states arguably seceded from the union over slavery, they did not cause the Civil War. They had no purpose to overthrow the federal government. After forming the seven state Confederacy in February 1861, they promptly sent commissioners…
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Part II: School Discipline, Virginia Data and Virginia’s Disproportionality Concerns
This is the second of a three-part series on school discipline. The authors present information and provide discussion questions for the audience to respond. We hope the discussion will further an understanding of the complexity of school discipline and safe and orderly schools within the context of the presented data. by Matthew Hurt and Kathleen…
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Dominion Energy Scholarships Define “Communities” by Race
By Carol J. Bova Dominion Energy is offering 60 undergraduate Equitable Education Scholarships totaling $500,000 for “students from historically underrepresented communities.” The rules exclude White students (unless they identify as Hispanic), no matter what “community” they’re from, because to be eligible, applicants must: — Self-identify as Black or African American; Hispanic or Latino; American Indian…
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As TJHSST is Investigated, an Email from 2020 Reveals a ‘Pattern and Practice’ of Hiding Awards
by Asra Q. Nomani This week, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares walked through the glass doors of the Korean Community Center off Little River Turnpike, the dome of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology visible through the window, and with him stood five parents of current and former students at TJ, as the…
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$15 Million+ and Growing Fast
The Jefferson Council released the following press release at 1:00 p.m. today. The cost of Virginia’s higher-ed DEI bureaucracy is spinning out of control. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., January 6, 2023 – Virginia’s 15 public four-year universities paid its Diversity, Equity & Inclusion administrators more than $15 million in salaries in 2020, according to a new report, “Should Virginians…
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Why Does Princeton Have All the Luck?
by James C. Sherlock Cavalier Daily, where are you? There is an article in The Daily Princetonian that is, end-to-end, utterly beyond satire. It’s title: “3 Princeton DEI staff members resign, alleging lack of support.” Where to begin? The “Prince” offers in a single posting Homeric tales of the peripatetic journeys of three school officials…
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Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
by James A. Bacon I’m so confused. We’ve been hearing for years that air pollution from fossil fuel plants disproportionately impacts minorities. Take, for example, a 2018 Environmental Protection Agency study which found that African-Americans faced a 54% higher health burden from particulate air emissions like soot compared to the overall population. Systemic racism was…
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Violent Crime Wave? What Violent Crime Wave?
And this, my god. The rate of gun homicides among Black men is right back to where it was at the height of the early 90's wave of violence. Keep that in mind the next time someone tries to minimize the current resurgence. pic.twitter.com/GTFRzWCL5l — Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) November 30, 2022 Who’s more racist —…
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Anti-Semitism in Virginia
by James A. Bacon Antisemitism in Virginia isn’t as severe as in some other states, but the number of incidents of harassment and vandalism has increased in recent years, according to a report by the Commission to Combat Antisemitism, “Combating Antisemitism in Virginia.” In 2021, 411 reported antisemitic incidents impacted residents of the Commonwealth, reports…
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Fathering While Black
by Asra Q. Nomani and Debra Tisler STAFFORD, VA — “They are not taking my baby girl!” cries Sean Jackson, the black father of a beautiful girl, Amoria Adams, 10 months old, holding his beloved daughter. This week, a school board member from Fairfax County, Va., Karen Keys-Gamarra, put in motion a judge’s order that…
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In Higher-Ed, Diversity = Affirmative Action
by Allan Stam A couple of years ago, in a conversation with another dean at the University of Virginia, I was asked about my views on the ever-expanding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion enterprise. I explained that I was not a fan of the diversity movement and affirmative action. When asked why, I explained that my…
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Blue on Blue: Richmond Progressive Attacks White Feminist Privilege
by James A. Bacon There’s big money in telling White people how racist they are. Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo have made millions of dollars doing it. Now Saira Rao, an Indian-American Richmond resident, has figured out how to cash in on the action. Rao has written a book with Colorado co-author Regina Jackson,…