Word: racism
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Many Democrats insist that prejudice is keeping women and minorities out of politics and business. In this frame, their presidential candidates are appealing. If Senator Barack Obama wins the nomination, racism will recede from the inner city. If Senator Hillary Clinton wins, sexism will exit the boardroom. According to these ideologues, economic success is tied to political success, and one must occur for the other to follow...
...racism makes for a much scarier bogeyman. In his recent speech on race in in Philadelphia, Obama warned, “…many of the disparities that exist in the African-American community today can be directly traced to inequalities passed on from an earlier generation that suffered under the brutal legacy of slavery and Jim Crow...
...Racism doesn’t always prevent minorities from prospering, as Sowell explains in another book, Ethnic America. When Japanese immigrants arrived in California at the end of the nineteenth century, the state government forbade them from owning land. In 1942, the federal government forced over 100,000 Japanese Americans into internment camps. During the upheaval, Japanese Americans lost many of their belongings, worth around $400 million in 1942 dollars...
...Racism exists, but it doesn’t explain many of the economic disparities among minorities. Sexism is the other scapegoat that Democrats fleece. Clinton often sobs that women earn “just 77 cents for every dollar that a man makes.” But those 23 cents aren’t lining some sexist employer’s pockets. Because women are the only ones who can have children, they are more likely to take time off to care for those children, losing experience and seniority. To devote more time to family, many women choose fields that...
...Letter to My Lost France" grieved for "...my country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims." And in 2004, another Bardot book, A Cry In the Silence, again took up the question of immigration and Islam - ultimately running afoul of anti-racism laws by generally associating Islam with the 9/11 terror attacks, and denouncing the "Islamization of France" by people she described as "invaders...