Have you seen this picture of the Spanish basketball team? Apparently it's bad. I don't think it's a big deal.

There's this dumb article quoting Jason Kidd complaining that the Spanish players won't be punished like American players would have been. Instead of saying that no one should be punished for this, he insists that the Spanish should be punished because the Americans would be too.

Interestingly, this CNN article shows that American Asians are a lot more offended than the actual Chinese, who should be the first to be offended should there be a real reason for it.

I had completely forgotten about this blog until someone recently reminded of its existence. Stuff White People Like is an absolutely hilarious blog detailing, well, stuff that white people like. The top post right now is "unpaid internships," which is so true. One of my favorite posts is #98, The Ivy League.

Of course, there is also a plethora of variants now online, including Stuff Educated Black People Like, Stuff Desis/Brown People Like, and Stuff Yellow People Like.

All are equally hilarious and politically incorrect. Gotta love it.

My latest column covers the rare truthfulness of Jesse Jackson. Why is anyone surprised that even he would say that Barack Obama talks down to black people?

Read it here.

You may have read the Inside Higher Ed article I linked to a few days ago, about how the American Bar Association's pressure on George Mason Law to accept more black students resulted in unbelievably high failures rates among those accepted at lower standards.

Inside Higher Ed has another excellent piece out, discussing how universities obsessed with an image of physical diversity are putting out viewbooks with pictures that are much more diverse than the schools' actual demographics. In some cases, they are even doctoring photos of white students to add minorities in them.

I wrote a column on this issue more than a year ago. Excerpt:

I decided to track the website of Cornell University, my alma mater... On one of my visits to the site, the pictures showed a total of eight students, all minorities, with seven of them being women. For reference purposes, Cornell is split down the middle gender-wise, with blacks making up five percent of the student population.

This quote from the Inside Higher Ed article says it all: “Sometimes you see the same black kid in every picture."

You may have read this piece a couple of months ago in the Wall Street Journal detailing how the American Bar Association has pressured the George Mason University School of Law to accept more minorities at lower standards, even threatening to revoke the school's accreditation.

Well, GMU Law had no other choice but to begin to comply, and the results, as we see in other affirmative action programs, were not so hot. My friend Andy Guess over at Inside Higher Ed wrote a very good (yet sad!) article about what happened to GMU Law upon being forced to accept less than qualified minorities. Excerpt (emphasis mine):

The “mismatch” theory, as it’s been called, posits that some African-American students have struggled and at times dropped out of highly competitive law schools even though they might have thrived at lower-ranked or less rigorous institutions, and gone on to pass the bar exam. The article concluded that without affirmative action, black students would be better “matched” with institutions that meet their qualifications, and that disparities in failure rates would disappear.

Now, an organization that opposes race-conscious admissions policies asserts that it has found data from one particular institution illustrating the sort of dynamic the study would predict. According to data obtained through a public records request, from 2003 to 2005 some 45 percent of African-American students at George Mason University School of Law, outside of Washington, had grade-point averages below 2.15, defined as “academic failure.” For the rest of the student body, however, the figure was 4 percent.

Insane, isn't it?

Gail Herot, author of the WSJ piece I linked above, adds in her blog:

The pity is that, as Richard Sander's research suggests, some of these who failed at GMU might have succeeded at less competitive schools and had a greater chance of ultimately passing the bar.  Because somebody at the ABA thought that it was more important for George Mason's student body to look like America, a number of students have now wasted a year of their lives and saddled themselves with debt with little or no chance of ever practicing law.

A pity indeed.

Remember the black Columbia Professor who, during the Jena 6 episode, "found" a noose on her office door?

Well, she, Madonna Constantine, has been fired for plagiarism. You can draw any conclusions you want from that.

This has so much hypocrisy jam-packed in it that I'm going to let it speak for itself for now.

It also reminds me of a blog post I made a couple of months ago about Obama staffers stuffing the crowd behind Michelle Obama with white people.

Priceless. 

A brilliant group of pro-lifers decided to call different Planned Parenthood branches about the country, asking if Planned Parenthood would accept donations that would go directly to aborting black babies, because there are too many blacks in the world. See the video for Planned Parenthood's response (and this is only Part I, you can find the rest on YouTube):

Of course this is not very surprising to those of us familiar with Margaret Sanger, the founder of the organization that became known as Planned Parenthood, and who sought to use abortion to clean up the human race. Some of the results can be seen at www.blackgenocide.org.

The student Newspaper at Carnegie Mellon, the Tartan, reports on Michelle Obama's visit to campus:

While the crowd was indeed diverse, some students at the event questioned the practices of Mrs. Obama’s event coordinators, who handpicked the crowd sitting behind Mrs. Obama. The Tartan’s correspondents observed one event coordinator say to another, “Get me more white people, we need more white people.” To an Asian girl sitting in the back row, one coordinator said, “We’re moving you, sorry. It’s going to look so pretty, though.”

“I didn’t know they would say, ‘We need a white person here,’ ” said attendee and senior psychology major Shayna Watson, who sat in the crowd behind Mrs. Obama. “I understood they would want a show of diversity, but to pick up people and to reseat them, I didn’t know it would be so outright.”

There's too much chocolate in my Banana Split! Can I get some vanilla? Oh and please take out the bananas, it looks prettier without it.

So much for the "post-racial" candidate.

My column today takes a deeper look at the facts of the Jeremiah Wright affair, and at Barack Obama's inexcusable inconsistencies on the matter. Obama can either choose to embrace his last 20 years with Wright, or regret them. Instead, he's trying to have it both ways, and that won't fly.

Jonah Goldberg recognizes that if Obama hadn't called for a conversation about race, no one would have done it. Absolutely no one. zip.

Excerpt:

Oh, thank goodness Obama fired the starter's pistol in the race to discuss race. Here I'd been under the impression that every major university (and minor one for that matter) in the country already had boatloads of courses -- often entire majors -- dedicated to race in America. I'd even read somewhere that professors had incorporated racial themes and issues into classes on everything from Shakespeare to the mating habits of snail darters. And scratching faintly in the back of my mind, I felt some vague memory that these same universities recruited black students and other racial minorities, on the grounds that interracial conversations on campus are as important as talking about math, science and literature. A ghost of an image in my mind's eye seemed to reveal African American studies centers, banners for Black History Month and copies of books like "Race Matters" and "The Future of the Race" lined up on shelves at college bookstores.

My column this week discusses Obama's poor decision-making regarding his relationship with Rev. Wright, his poor handling of the controversy, and his highly insulting association of Rev. Wright with the idendity of the "black community."