Round-up

1. Members of the Ball State University men's basketball coaching staff found notes that included racial slurs in the basketball office over the weekend, Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Tom Collins announced Wednesday.

OK, reading the article there seems to be SOME racism there, as evidenced by the word "nigger". But it really should be pointed out to the Bali State Daily News that "liar" and "cheater" are not racial slurs.

2. Here's a level-headed blog post refuting one of those foaming-at-the-mouth, moral high ground left-wing articles about racism. It's sensible and non-judgmental. Give it a read.

3. Rapper XZIBIT has accused staff on an Australian talk show of racism, alleging an employee told him viewers wouldn't tolerate a hip-hop performance.

Again, this is another case of blacks imagining racism where none is to be found, simply because it is the easiest option and a good excuse to gain sympathy by complaining. It's made quite clear by Mr. X. Zibit himself that he was among a demographic which disdained hip-hop music. Not black people, but hip-hop music. And guess what: there are LOTS of people who disdain hip-hop music. Get over it.

4. This is an opinion piece which helpfully informs us that "Racism still exists". I thought with this one I'd go into a bit more detail on a couple of points.

Scientific studies have reported that all humans are 99.9 percent genetically identical, meaning that physical features such as skin color make up a small difference in our genetic makeup.

I would love to see an example of such a study. Certainly depending on geographic area body shape and size can be different for each race. There are also genetic differences, particularly when it comes to the immune system, where Africans, for example, are much more susceptible to certain diseases, and not just because of the conditions they live in but because of their genetic make-up. Not that any of this should influence the way races are treated, but then I'm not the one who brought this up, am I?

For example, why do blacks represent a disproportionately large amount of people living below the poverty line?

I've covered this question before. The answer is BECAUSE THEY CHOOSE TO. They don't put in the effort required to get themselves out of the hole, because they are LAZY. It is far easier to complain it's racism and wait for somebody to help than it is to actually work at it.

Sociological studies have demonstrated that race is a fairly new concept and serves as a false social construction that separates people of different ethnic backgrounds into stratified groups that form an unbalanced social hierarchy.

Again, I'd like to read one of these studies. And the writer of the piece should perhaps try telling more primitive parts of the world, where people get brutally murdered simply for belonging to a different tribe, that race is a "new" concept incompatible with the modern age.

Individuals should accept they have probably developed some type of racial bias, intentionally or unintentionally, and then consciously work to correct that bias.

This is perhaps sensible, but I would just love to know what the author is doing to correct THEIR unintentional racial bias. I'm particularly interested to hear how they will locate it in order to correct it, if it's unintentional and thus harder to find. Or do they claim not to have any racial bias? When analysed, this sounds more like hollow PC platitudes to me than actual practical advice.