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...with New York City-based Human Rights Watch, is that the twin forces of repressive policies and rising Han immigration can create a fear in minority populations "that can lead people to do almost anything." It is precisely that kind of fear and bitterness that led to the ugly racial violence in Lhasa by Tibetans against Han Chinese that left more than a dozen Chinese immigrants dead and scores wounded...
History, however, suggests the opposite. Political success is separate from economic success, and culture causes many of the gender and racial divides in our country...
Unfortunately, Obama’s track from 1863 to 2008 railroads the facts. Economist Thomas Sowell recounts reality in his book, “Economic Facts and Fallacies.” Today, African Americans have the lowest marriage rate of any racial group in the country, and lower labor force participation rates than whites. At the turn of the 20th century, however, blacks had higher marriage rates than whites. They also had higher labor force participation rates than whites in every census from 1890 to 1950. The problems that Obama cites are recent trends, not ancestral legacies...
...better remembered as the revolutionary sex kitten of 1960s French cinema, but these days Brigitte Bardot is better known as a standard-bearer of the anti-immigrant wing of France's political spectrum. Bardot went on trial Tuesday charged with "inciting racial hatred," and in view of her four previous convictions on similar charges, prosecutors sought exceptionally stiff penalties of $22,000 and a two-month suspended sentence...
...that her passionate denunciation of the ritual slaughter of Eid-al-Kabir had been misinterpreted as an attack on Islam in France. A similar defense had failed to spare her from conviction in four earlier trials. In 1997, for example, Bardot was first convicted on the charge of "inciting racial hatred" for her open letter to French daily Le Figaro, complaining of "foreign over-population", mostly by Muslim families...