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Predictably, talk of racial profiling turns very nasty very quickly. No matter the venue, the debate revolves around the same set of slippery questions: Do differences in data equal racism? Or could it be that blacks actually drive more recklessly or, in the case of schools, behave worse? Perhaps race is just incidental, and gender or class is the overriding factor. "This is not a simple matter, where the numbers speak for themselves," says Samuel Walker, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. "In the past two years there have been five or six conferences...
...while white students were typically reprimanded for behaviors like smoking and vandalism, black students were more often disciplined for nebulous infractions like excessive noise and disrespect. "It's pretty clear that black students are referred for more subjective behaviors," he says. "You can choose not to use the word racism, but districts need to look seriously at why this is going...
...point, of course, is not that the former Fletcher University Professor is a closet racist, but rather that when one goes looking for racism, it seems to pop up everywhere. Better to reserve condemnation for those who truly merit it—“racist” is too serious an epithet to be tossed about offhandedly...
...development as the result of impotent mainstream politicians, the fragmentation of the Left’s vote, or the political apathy of the “silent” majority, while conveniently sidestepping the true root cause of Le Pen’s “victory’: Racism...
...people of “foreign origin” in France: 38 percent said that there are too many blacks while 63 percent of those surveyed said that there were too many Arabs. Perhaps France’s motto should be expanded to liberty, equality, fraternity—and racism...