National Review 6/28/99 John O'Sullivan "...It is, in fact, quite hard to find actual expressions of anti-Chinese or anti-Asian racism in public statements by Republicans or anyone else. The nearest thing to an allegedly bigoted remark came from Alabama's Sen. Richard Shelby, who described the Chinese spies behind the stealing of U.S. technology as "crafty." This was seized upon as an, er, crafty employment of an ethnic stereotype about Asians. But since the spies undoubtedly were crafty -- that comes with being a spy -- the bigotry could well repose in the minds of those who heard the word "crafty" and instantly leapt to the conclusion that Shelby must have intended an ethnic slur. Even before Sen. Shelby had committed his faux pas, however, Amb. Richardson had denounced those who were supposedly questioning "the patriotism of Asian-Pacific Americans and sowing the seeds of a darker xenophobia" because of the spy scandal. But his denunciation, bravely issued to a meeting of Chinese-Americans in New York, contained no hard evidence of anti-Chinese racism. And when the Los Angeles Times sought to fill this gap with anonymous anecdotes of "ethnic profiling" in America's nuclear-weapons laboratories, these turned out to be less than totalitarian. For example, "Snickering and hushed laughter broke out in a roomful of computer users as a person with a Chinese surname was introduced to lead a session on computer security." ....Most accounts blame Americans first. They leave no doubt that the racism of ordinary Americans -- made worse by politicians who incite and aggravate it -- is to blame. Richardson's speech, for instance, defended Asian-Americans against unnamed American racists. A spokesman for Beijing similarly blamed the spy scandal on "typical racial prejudice." Then Maurice Meisner declared in the Los Angeles Times that "opportunistic American politicians now portray Chinese in stereotypical fashion. The increasingly dominant images are of 19th century vintage: Chinese are crafty, deceitful, villainous and half-crazed automatons manipulated by evil rulers. It has become ever more difficult for Americans to see Chinese as fellow humans," etc., etc. There is a neat symmetry here. Meisner's picture of Americans might almost be of "half-crazed automatons manipulated by evil rulers." But the reader will search in vain for any evidence supporting such a picture...."

Jewish World Review 10/1/98 Cal Thomas "Liberal Democrats are today's slave masters. They should let these people go, instead of holding them in indentured political servitude, trading their votes for a few government crumbs. The race panel should have committed itself to putting the black family back together again. But that might solve the problem and unemploy certain black "leaders'' who seem to have made a lucrative career for themselves by ensuring that the misery of others never ends. The impediment to greater black progress is not racial discrimination. It is family breakdown. In every category -- from out-of- wedlock births and fatherless homes, to the percentage of young males in prison and victims or perpetrators of violent crimes --- blacks are disproportionately affected because it is their racial group that suffers most from broken or never-formed two-parent homes.."

Associated Press 6/9/99 Kevin Galvin "...Taking action against racial profiling, President Clinton today is ordering federal law enforcement officials to collect data on the race and gender of the people they stop to question or arrest, an administration official said. The president was announcing the executive order at a roundtable on civil rights law enforcement as a way of encouraging state and local officials to examine their own law enforcement agencies. Clinton also was expected to make what the official said was "a very strong statement'' about racial profiling undermining community confidence in law enforcement and to voice support for a bill before Congress that would provide funds for states to collect similar data. The official spoke on condition of anonymity. Law enforcement officials generally have resisted such data collection....."

New York Times 6/10/99 STEVEN A. HOLMES "...Declaring racial profiling "morally indefensible," President Clinton on Wednesday ordered federal law-enforcement agencies to compile data on the race and ethnicity of people they question, search or arrest to determine whether suspects are stopped because of the color of their skin. "Racial profiling is in fact the opposite of good police work where actions are based on hard facts, not stereotypes," the president said. "It is wrong, it is destructive and it must stop." Clinton said he was issuing a presidential directive requiring all federal law-enforcement agencies, like the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the National Park Service, the Customs Service and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, to gather detailed demographic data on their activities. "The Justice Department will then analyze this data to assess whether and where law enforcement engage in racial profiling, and what concrete steps we need to take at the national level to eliminate it anywhere it exists," he said. Clinton acknowledged that because the vast bulk of police work was carried out by state and local agencies, and not the federal government, his directive would have limited i-pact on the practice of racial profiling. But he challenged state and local police forces to follow his lead in determining the extent of the practice....The president Wednesday also threw his support behind a bill requiring the attorney general to analyze data from a sample of jurisdictions on stops for traffic violations by state and local law-enforcement agencies. The study would look at the race, ethnicity and sex of the driver, what prompted the stop, whether the vehicle was searched, and if so, what contraband was found and whether an arrest was made...."

Washington Times 6/21/99 Jerry Seper "...President Clinton last week criticized racial profiling by police as a "morally indefensible, deeply corrosive practice," but he strongly defended such profiling when he was governor of Arkansas. He approved the profiling of Hispanics by Arkansas State Police as part of a drug interdiction program in 1988. The Arkansas plan gave state troopers the authority to stop and search vehicles based on a drug-courier profile of Hispanics, particularly those driving cars with Texas license plates. A federal judge later ruled the program unconstitutional. A lawsuit and a federal consent decree ended the practice --known as the "criminal apprehension program" -- the next year, and Gov. Clinton criticized the court's decision and, at one point, threatened to reinstate the program despite the court's ruling. Mr. Clinton said then that he considered the searches as he did airport metal detectors and that drugs were a bigger problem than airplane safety. He told the Arkansas Gazette he wished a way could be found to expand the searches again...."The Washington Post 6/21/99 Guy Gugliotta "...Jordan Pearce stood before the Bank United cash machine, stared at a blinking light for perhaps three seconds, waiting quietly while a hidden camera scanned his eyeball. The machine's television screen spasmed once and opened for business. Moments later Pearce pocketed $40 and departed, just like millions of other Americans who stop at their local ATM to get money every day. Except that Pearce, 18, a rising freshman at nearby Rice University, didn't have an ATM card. Instead, he simply allowed the camera mounted in the top of the cash machine to examine his iris -- the colored part of the eye -- and check its characteristics against an earlier scan stored in Bank United's iris database. Once the match was made, Pearce was free to use the machine. He needed neither ATM card nor identification number: "They told me about it when I was making a deposit," Pearce said. "It sounded pretty cool." The cash machines at Bank United, Texas's largest financial institution, have pushed the science of biometrics -- identifying people by their unique physical characteristics -- to a new frontier, transforming what began as a James Bond fantasy into everyday commerce....Whether it's iris scanning, fingerprints, voice prints, hand geometry, face geometry or signature authentication, biometrics are rapidly becoming a cheaper, easier and more secure way to conduct business...."

The Detroit News 7/16/99 Bill Johnson "...None of the 27 new comedies and dramas premiering on the top four networks this fall has minorities in a leading role, and too few in supporting roles..... Although I had failed to notice, there's no disputing the claim. NAACP President Kweisi Mfume's characterization of this fall's lineup as "a virtual whitewash in programming," is both cynical and accurate. ... while this observation received massive media attention, it certainly can't be one of the highest priorities of the media, the NAACP or America. In fact, the issue pales in importance when compared with the self-destructive pathologies gnawing at the core of black communities. Black Americans do, after all, show up in disproportionate numbers on the six and 11 o'clock television news segments and usually in ways that are unflattering. These images, unfortunately, reflect a stark reality a world apart from the cultural stereotypes usually found in the make-believe world of sitcoms. In real life, blacks are plagued by social problems that range from disproportionate HIV and other health problems to poor inner city schools, whose products are more apt to be high school dropouts than achievers.....Making the larger society aware of covert or overt acts of prejudice is within the NAACP's mission as a civil rights watchdog. It must not neglect, however, the problems that are occurring in the back yard of the black community...."

Los Angeles Times 7/20/99 BRIAN LOWRY,ELIZABETH JENSEN and GREG BRAXTON "…In 26 new prime-time shows slated to debut on the four major networks this fall, every lead character and nearly all the cast regulars will be white, even those on shows where the action takes place in urban high schools and New York City night spots…..Industry sources say the answer boils down to a harsh economic equation: there's not enough money in diversity to make it a priority….Olmos, and many other critics, say the problem is primarily institutional and financially motivated, not overt racism. "This was not done with malice," he said. "There was no understanding that this was happening, and that's the real problem." ….Still, some insiders maintain that the real cause of minorities being marginalized has to do simply with audience tastes…"

Philadelphia Inquirer 7/20/99 David Boldt "…The decision last week to put an official end to Boston's busing program for racial integration ought to provoke a moment of national reflection on why the policy was such a failure. At the end of the 1960s, the civil rights establishment, then led by the NAACP, decided that the way to improve the educational opportunities of black children in cities was to increase racial integration by forced busing of students….. One reason they failed was that white parents often withdrew their children faster than they could be bused. In Boston, 20,000 white students, accounting for a quarter of the pupil population, left in the four years after the lawsuit began. In those four years, the Boston public schools went from 60 percent white to 44 percent white. (The white percentage today is 14 percent.) White flight from the cities and their public schools was occurring anyway. The busing program did little more than accelerate the process. But the more important damage wrought by busing was to fracture the civil rights coalition….. Somehow, the leaders of the civil rights movement had become disconnected from the needs of its constituents and lost the high moral ground. Has this changed? Not according to a panel of black and Hispanic leaders I heard last week in Washington. They contended that civil rights organizations and the political left have generally opposed promising strategies like charter schools and school choice - and have no effective alternative….."

World Net Daily 7/21/99 Walter Williams "...One of the outcomes of last week's NAACP 90th Annual Meeting was a call to mau-mau network executives for not having enough blacks in leading roles in next fall's television shows. Another was Kweisi Mfume's call to sue gun manufacturers. The NAACP director said, "The time has come for us to look at the proliferation of handguns." Mfume, like the mayors of Philadelphia, New Orleans and Chicago, sees gun manufacturers as responsible for the murder and mayhem in black neighborhoods. At the turn of the century, Booker T. Washington warned against the agenda of "problem profiteers,"."...."

The Washington Post 7/27/99 Michael A Fletcher "...Hate crimes and law enforcement misconduct targeting Latinos are on the upswing, a trend that has gone largely unnoted because of a dearth of reliable data and policymakers' reluctance to move beyond the "black-white" racial model, according to a report released yesterday by the nation's largest Hispanic advocacy group. The National Council of La Raza report documents dozens of assaults, church burnings and cases of alleged law enforcement abuse against Hispanics. It also says the number of federally reported hate crimes against Hispanics increased nearly 20 percent from 1993 to 1996, which it called a consequence of broad "anti-immigrant" sentiment, the rapidly growing Hispanic population and an increased "tolerance for intolerance.".... The report says Latinos are frequent victims of racial profiling by police. That issue has received wide attention as it relates to African American motorists, but Latinos face similar unfair scrutiny, a situation that the NCLR says receives little attention. Besides noting an increase in crimes against Hispanics, who account for 11 percent of the U.S. population and are expected to be the nation's largest minority group by 2005, the report said there are indications that more Latinos are becoming perpetrators of hate crimes...."

AP 7/28/99 "...ABC, which has been criticized along with other major networks for planning nearly all-white fall series, is adding ethnic characters to at least five shows. ABC executives said they began the effort to make their programs more inclusive in May, before the NAACP and other groups condemned TV's lack of racial diversity. ``Clearly, we have an obligation to reflect society as it exists,'' Stu Bloomberg, ABC Entertainment Television Group co-chairman, told the Television Critics Association on Tuesday. ..."

Accuracy In Media 7/28/99 Reed Irvine Cliff Kincaid "...The media have been preoccupied with some sensational stories of violent white supremacists who have targeted members of minority groups. But the hate goes both ways. A new video on the immigration problem demonstrates that whites in California are being targeted for what might be called "ethnic cleansing." The video, produced by a group called "Voice of Citizens Together," features video clips of pro-Mexican militants openly declaring their aim to take control of California and drive white people out....Perhaps most shocking of all is film footage of a confrontation involving Mexican militants who openly attacked members of VCT. According to media on the scene, the Mexicans were carrying placards with Communist slogans and were "bent on violence." Some of the VCT members protesting illegal immigration left with blood on their faces after being pummeled...."

Reuters 7/30/99 Steve Holland "...- President Clinton said Thursday it was intolerable that the patriotism of U.S. scientists of Asian-Pacific heritage has been questioned in the wake of the Chinese spy probe. ``Asian Pacific American scientists and engineers have long made major contributions to our country, to our national security, and to our unmatched scientific enterprise,'' Clinton said in a written statement.... ``Security matters are of the highest priority in my administration, but history has shown the damage to the lives of our citizens and to our society that results from the destructive grip of prejudice, suspicion and discrimination. Racism and stereotyping have no place in our 'one America' in the 21st century,'' Clinton said. ..."

U.S. News Online 8/9/99 John Leo "... Animal Group Calls Milk Racist," said the headline in the Burlington (Vt.) Free Press. Yes, indeed. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals was at it again, arguing that milk is a racist beverage because "tens of millions" of blacks, Latinos, Asian-Americans, and American Indians are lactose intolerant, while most Caucasians are not. Sunshine, on the other hand, racistly burns more whites than minorities.... "

WorldNet Daily 8/3/99 Joseph Farah "....Impeachment hearing hero David Schippers told Bill O'Reilly on the Fox News Network that former Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary gave marching orders to halt all scheduled promotions of white males in her vast federal bureaucracy. "Now you know something about Hazel O'Leary in your capacity as -- looking over everything, and ... that there was an ongoing ... conspiracy to make certain that no white males got promoted to any offices of responsibility and got -- indeed got no promotions at all," he said. "Really?" questioned O'Reilly. "So Hazel O'Leary, then the chief of the Department of Energy, you're saying that your client told you, was knocking out all white males that -- when they -- when they were up for promotion?" "As I understand it -- this is secondhand. As I understand it, when Hazel O'Leary got into the office, she asked for the promotion list and then asked them to strike the names of all white males," charged Schippers. "That's against the law," observed O'Reilly astutely.

"Well, this information's been furnished to the -- to the Congress. They have it," said Schippers. Is it hard to believe? Not with the bunch in this administration -- not with what I know about the political nature of Hazel O'Leary, who personally targeted me and my organization for extinction as well. She's the former Cabinet official who made phone calls to my news organization's donor base threatening individuals with government retribution if they continued to support the Western Journalism Center, parent company of WorldNetDaily.com...."

Cato Institute 8/5/99 Stephen Moore "...America seems to be suffering from an identity crisis of late. Almost with every passing day, America is splintering into disparate factions divided by ethnicity, race, language and income. There was more than a little irony to Al Gore's famous slip a few years ago when he said that E Pluribus Unum means "Out of one, many," and not "Out of many, one." Has the traditional concept of Americanization been sacrificed to multicultural fervor? As John Miller of National Review points out in his insightful book The Unmaking of Americans, our modern institutions in America and many of our intellectual elites often put more emphasis on "E Pluribus" than on the "Unum." Through such programs as bilingual education, racial and ethnic quotas, and multiculturalism, we seem to mistakenly celebrate our separateness more than the ties that bind us together as a nation. Such policies emphasize group entitlement not individual achievement. As set forth by the Founding Fathers, our common bond as Americans is not our ethnicity but our shared values: our respect for freedom, and the self-evident right of every citizen to pursue life, liberty and happiness. ..."

NewsMax.com 8/8/99 "...If an American President used the "N" word and it was captured on tape, undoubtedly the news media would be all over the story. But what about a presidential brother? A controversial videotape depicts first brother Roger Clinton repeatedly and enthusiastically using that most offensive of all racial epithets while he was under investigation for suspected drug dealing during the 1980's. Here's an excerpt of Roger's clearly audible comments in a June 27, 1984 police surveillance video, as he was using cocaine and discussing a recent encounter his dealer had with a local African American teenager: "Some junior high n - - - - r kicked Steve's ass while he was trying to help his brothers out; junior high or sophmore in high school. Whatever it was, Steve had the n - - - - r down. However it was, it was Steve's fault. He had the n - - - - r down, he let him up. The n - - - - r blindsided him." The clip appears in the blockbuster 1996 documentary, "The Mena Cover-Up: Drugs, Deception and the Making of a President", distributed by Citizens for Honest Government. Another Citizens for Honest Government video, "Obstruction of Justice: The Mena Connection," is currently the subject of a defamation trial in Little Rock, Arkansas....And how come Roger's tape recorded hate speech never found its way into the mainstream press? Is it because a story about slurs hurled by someone very close to the President isn't news? Tell it to Newt Gingrich's mom, who used the "B" word on videotape to describe the First Lady in a 1994 interview with Connie Chung. Her faux pas was recycled for days on end just as Gingrich was about to assume the Speakership. Would the media have given Nixon or Reagan such a break -- had a brother of theirs been caught using the "N" word on tape? Don't bet on it. ..."

Orlando Sentinel 8/12/99 Charley Reese "...The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is urging a boycott of South Carolina until officials there take down the Confederate battle flag that flies on their capitol, underneath the American and state flags. Some years ago, the NAACP passed a resolution calling that dear, old flag " . . . the most odious symbol in the Universe." A bit of hyperbole, I would say. There is no point in arguing the meaning of any symbol. Like beauty, the meaning of a symbol lies in the eyes of the beholder. You can bet that when Japanese and American World War II veterans look at the American flag, it doesn't mean the same thing to both groups.

So I don't deny that some blacks may be offended by the sight of the Confederate battle flag. I just say, "With due respect, I don't care." No one in this free country should get the idea that all he or she has to do is announce, "I am offended by (fill in the blanks)" and then his or her subjective feelings will have the force of law. Let's not get into the business of censoring symbols. Flying a flag is a harmless act....."

AP Wire 8/10/99 "...The nation's largest organization of black lawyers is asking Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist to stop singing ``Dixie.'' Calling the song an offensive ``symbol of slavery and oppression,'' the National Bar Association passed a resolution at its recent convention in Philadelphia urging Rehnquist to ``refrain from such offensive behavior in the future.'' The group represents some 18,000 lawyers. A Supreme Court spokesman said today that Rehnquist would have no comment about the NBA's resolution ..."

New York Post 8/10/99 Michael Meyers "...LAST week some black militants assembled the press to assail the NYPD as some sort of mob and to attack the ads that are aggressively recruiting minorities to join the ranks of this nation's finest big-city force of crime-busters. The radicals - organizers and backers of this Labor Day's second "Million Youth March" in Harlem - screamed that blacks shouldn't sign up for the NYPD. Instead, they favored self-determination and self-policing of the black community. What a crock! The TV pictures of the snarling racial loudmouths were annoying enough, but the sound of their hatred of America and their paranoid stereotyping of the police was deafening. What makes these fools the spokesmen for any neighborhood, much less the entire black communiy? We New Yorkers are lucky - yes, lucky - to have the brave men and women of all colors on our police force who every day get out there to patrol our streets and sidewalks. (No matter their mediocre wages!) Not enough of us thank them - but let just one or two or three cops make a mistake or break under the stress of the dangers all around them, and the haters in our midst emerge to denounce all cops as some sort of "occupation army." Good cops get no demonstration in their favor...."

Boston Herald 8/10/99 Editorial "...Lower crime, abort the unborn children of poor minority women. Offended? You should be, but that's the gist of a sickening new study by researchers from the supposedly prestigious University of Chicago and Stanford University. According to this quack thesis, the nation's crime has dropped during the past 20 years largely because the unwanted offspring of poor, teenage minority women were aborted at a disproportionately high rate in the 1970s, thus draining the pool of potential young criminals. The researchers, Chicago's Steven Levitt and Stanford's John Donohue, even say that legalized abortion may be responsible for as much as half the overall reduction in crime that occurred from 1991 to 1997, and that areas with high abortion rates are safer compared to those where it's less common...."

The Washington Times 8/9/99 Zhengyuan Fu "...President Clinton has renominated Bill Lann Lee as head of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department and pressured the Senate to confirm his nomination. In 1997, the Senate refused to confirm the appointment of Bill Lann Lee because of his support of racial preference policies. But Mr. Clinton installed Mr. Lee on an acting basis. Since then, Bill Lann Lee has been holding illegally the post for more than 18 months in blatant violation of federal law that limits the tenure of acting officials to 120 days. One of the purposes of Mr. Clinton's nomination of Bill Lann Lee is to portray his opponents as bigoted against racial minorities of Asian descent. Another purpose is to portray himself as a supporter of the Asian-American community. In reality, as the former director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's Western office, Bill Lann Lee is renowned for his support of the racial preference programs that openly discriminate against Asian-Americans and violate the fundamental principle of equal treatment under the Constitution. Under the pressure of Bill Lann Lee's former organization, the NAACP, the San Francisco Unified School District imposed different standards of admission based on race and outright racial quotas, which brazenly discriminated against Asians in general and Chinese in particular...."

8/11/99 AP "...A gunman wounded five people, including a child, at a Jewish community center today. Dozens of police officers searched the complex for the shooter. Five people were hit by gunfire, Fire Department spokesman Jim Wells said...."

Washington Post 8/11/99 David Segal "...The American Bar Association today threw the weight of the nation's lawyers against "racial profiling," the controversial police practice of stopping and questioning minority motorists based on their race. In a unanimous voice vote, the governing body of the ABA, holding its annual convention here, approved a measure calling for state and local municipalities to collect data about police traffic stops to determine whether minorities are regularly pulled over because of their skin color. If authorities are disproportionately targeting minorities, the resolution said, the nation's agencies of justice should "identify the most efficient and effective methods of ending such discriminatory practices as they find exist." Minorities, particularly African Americans, long have complained that they are routinely detained, frisked and even handcuffed by police for no apparent cause. In Maryland, for instance, a court-ordered study found that on one stretch of Interstate 95 minorities accounted for 27 percent of traffic stops, even though they comprised 17 percent of drivers....."

The Des Moines Register 8/11/99 David Yepsen "...Former Reagan administration official Alan Keyes said Tuesday one reason abortion should be outlawed in America is that it has a disproportionate impact on black Americans. Keyes, a Republican and the only black among the major presidential candidates, made the comments Tuesday during an interview on KJMC radio's "In The Public Interest" program. Keyes, who is one of the strongest anti-abortion critics in the GOP field, said fixing the nation's problems starts "with a belief that God is the source of our rights and we human beings have to respect His will. The enforcement of that begins in the womb. " . . . Back in the "70s, when I was coming along, a lot of the black leadership understood that abortion is genocidal. It"s disproportionately affecting black people and now the demographics are such that we will lose our position as the number one minority, the largest minority, in America almost entirely due to abortion and this is not a good thing for us," he said. He said blacks make up only 12 percent of the nation"s population and those numbers will soon decline...."

CNSNews.com 8/12/99 "...When a person is in the midst of violently taking the life of another human being, it is difficult to imagine any emotion other than hate running through their mind - a pure, unadulterated, all-consuming hate. So why must we classify some crimes as hate crimes and others as mere crimes? Tuesday's horrible scene outside a Los Angeles-area Jewish community center has once again focused much attention on hate crimes. The suspect in this case has openly stated his hatred for Jews, and if even a fraction of the information about his white supremacist background is accurate, it would appear that his was a deeply-held hatred. The shooting of those little kids and those watching over them was horrible and scary and wicked. But would it have been any less horrible or scary or wicked had he shot them simply because they were there?.... But what does that say about us and our attitude toward violence? Would the calculated murder of myself be somehow worse than, say, the casual murder of a young black man in Southeast Washington, D.C. just because the perpetrator in my murder espoused a hatred of Norwegians? The premise is ludicrous, but that's the point to which we've come. In America today, we presume to make a crime worse because it is openly rooted in hate rather than quietly rooted in hate....."

Los Angeles Times 8/12/99 William Rempel "...Criminal prosecution of fired nuclear weapon scientist Wen Ho Lee could incite public hysteria over national security fears and "unleash a virulent anti-Chinese frenzy in this country," an organization of 'prominent Chinese Americans' warned Wednesday in a letter to Atty. Gen. Janet Reno and Energy Secretary Bill Richardson..... The New York-based Committee of 100, a nonpartisan public policy group of Chinese American professionals from business and the arts, said in the letter signed by Chairman Henry S. Tang that it is concerned about indications the Taiwan-born Lee was "being pursued vindictively," possibly as a result of personal "or racial animus." The letter also raised questions about whether "the racial prejudice and popular hysteria" that sent 100,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps during World War II might lead to "yet another miscarriage of justice" in the Lee case. "Dr. Lee and the nation deserve a case made on the merits of a thorough and professional investigation, not a racist witch hunt," the letter said....."

Jewish World Review 8/13/99 Cal Thomas "...SHAKESPEARE WAS WRONG. To solve our collective problems, we don't first kill all the lawyers. We first kill all of those we think might grow up to be criminals. That is the inescapable conclusion reached in an unpublished study circulating among economists and "experts'' in criminal law. The study suggests that since abortion was made legal in 1973, the crime rate has declined. The implication is that crime is down because abortions are up. So, a good anti-crime package includes first killing all the babies our sociological models determine might grow up to be criminals. That would include Jesse Jackson and a lot of other people who were born in poverty but overcame it. Steven Levitt, a University of Chicago economist, and John Donohue III, a Stanford University law professor, are responsible for the study. Are they doing for modern-day eugenicists what Margaret Sanger did for the Third Reich -- declaring some categories of humans unfit to live and laying down guidelines for the master race?....... "

Washington Post 8/14/99 Vernon Loeb "...Chinese American groups, breaking months of public silence, have expressed concern to federal officials that espionage suspect Wen Ho Lee may have been targeted on the basis of his ethnicity and that his case could trigger what one group called "a virulent anti-Chinese frenzy in this country." "Such a high-profile prosecution, with its attendant media circus atmosphere, could do incalculable harm to the welfare of millions of law-abiding Chinese and to our foreign policy toward China itself," the Committee of 100, a New York-based group of prominent Chinese Americans, said this week in a letter to Attorney General Janet Reno and Energy Secretary Bill Richardson. The committee's letter came less than a week after the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee sharply criticized investigators at the FBI and the Department of Energy for failing to pursue other possible suspects, since there is no direct evidence that either Lee or anyone else at Los Alamos National Laboratory gave nuclear secrets to China. ..."

New York Times 8/12/99 Abraham Foxman "...In the late 1980's violence by neo-Nazi skinheads was on the rise across America. At a meeting with Richard Thornburgh, then the Attorney General, we urged the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to place the skinheads on the F.B.I. watch list -- to monitor their activities and vigorously apply the law. The Attorney General did just that, and as a result violence by neo-Nazi skinheads declined significantly. Fast-forward to this past July 4 weekend, when Benjamin Smith, who had been linked to the white supremacist, anti-Semitic World Church of the Creator, went on a shooting rampage, wounding six Jews coming home from Sabbath services and killing an African-American and an Asian before committing suicide. The Anti-Defamation League and other organizations knew about this group -- we monitored its activities and Web site, sought to expose it in the news media. After the July 4 rampage, again we went to the Attorney General, this time Janet Reno, and asked that a full field investigation be initiated in keeping with the Attorney General's "Guidelines on Domestic Security/Terrorism Investigations." We believe we had documented examples of violence and criminal activity perpetrated by members of the World Church. I believe that if Ms. Reno was not restricted by certain legal parameters put in place since the Thornburgh era, she would have acted immediately. Instead, she said she had to "review whether the group itself was tied to individual acts." Mr. Smith's activities on behalf of the World Church of the Creator, while public and abhorrent, were protected by the First Amendment, irrespective of his shooting rampage. Now, in the shootings this week at a Jewish community center in Los Angeles, we have the worst act of anti-Semitic violence since the killing of Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights eight years ago, and we have a suspect with clear ties to known hate groups. The suspect, Buford Furrow Jr., who turned himself in yesterday, had spent considerable time at a compound of the Aryan Nations, authorities say, and he may have aspired to the Phineas Priesthood, to which one gains "membership" by committing violence against nonwhites. Once again, the information we're getting about the suspect is coming largely from private groups. This doesn't mean that the F.B.I. has not been tracking these hate groups. But the Justice Department and the bureau are so hamstrung -- by the unpleasant legacy of the Hoover years, by fears of suits from the American Civil Liberties Union, by complaints from conservative lawmakers about avoiding another Randy Weaver fiasco -- that they can't act aggressively....."

New York Post 8/12/99 Steve Dunleavy "...SINCE the big daddies of hate - the Ku Klux Klan and the Black Liberation Army - are drawing Social Security checks, you might think their venom has been transferred to walkers. The truth is since those big daddies of hate have dissipated into the Viagra age, there has spawned a great family - Sons of Hate - and what an attractive brew they are. There are Aryan Nations, The Aryan Brotherhood and The National Alliance, whose leader, William Pierce, wrote the "Turner Diaries." Now, that is a tidy little handbook of hate. And then there is World Church of the Creator. Man, do they hate Christians like me. One of their passionate members went and killed a black and a Korean in Chicago on July 3 and 4. What a hero. Of course there is the Skinhead Movement, The Posse Comitados, who call all non-whites "Mud People." Charming. And don't let's forget our old friends in The American Nazi Party. The misfit who triggered Tuesday's ugliness in Granada Hills, Buford O'Neal Furrow, 37, was reportedly in Aryan Nations and its more active offshoot Order, another highly-resistible group..... So if you were in New York and wanted to join a hate group in Idaho, you would have to read an out-of-town newspaper, write letters, make telephone calls and virtually expose your identity, otherwise how can anyone get back to you without a name and address? But voila. The Internet. "Today, cyberhate can come right into your living room, right into your kids room and you can be anonymous, your neighbor or the local police don't know who you are."...."

Judicial Watch 8/13/99 Larry Klayman "...Yesterday, in what has now become a routine with the corrupt Clinton Justice Department, John Huang, who even Bob Woodward and The Washington Post called a likely Communist Chinese spy, entered into a plea agreement, in which he gets off "scott free," with only a $10,000 fine and 500 hours of community service. Huang was uncovered in the fall of 1996, and when he ran from U.S. Marshals trying to serve him with a subpoena in the Judicial Watch case which sparked the Chinagate scandal, his story rose to national prominence. Later, he would testify to Judicial Watch, untruthfully. When Judicial Watch moved the Court to have Huang testify again, and it so ordered, he invoked the Fifth Amendment over 1000 times, leading the widely respected liberal journalist Christopher Hitchens to remark that Huang had established a "new indoor record." As was true with Huang, thus far the Clinton Justice Department has indicted primarily Chinese, Indonesians, African Americans, and Indians in the Chinagate scandal, to create the appearance of justice. However, they have all been plead out with little to no jail time, with no real commitment to implicate other, high up Clinton-Gore officials. "The Clinton Justice Department is effectively playing the race card, by blaming just a bunch of foreigners and minorities, but not holding them accountable in any event for fear they might implicate the corrupt 'white men in the White House,'" stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman. "Judicial Watch will not allow justice to be compromised, and will now ask the Court to bring Huang back again for testimony, as he can no longer even claim that the Fifth Amendment is applicable," added Klayman and Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. ..."

Front Page 8/13/99 Chris Weinkopf "...Jesse Jackson's Rainbow-PUSH Coalition, which routinely attacks corporations for hiring too few minorities, seems similarly nonplused about the suggestion. A spokesman high-mindedly answered that he wants to "see the study," which has been summarized in the Chicago Tribune but is not yet published, before commenting on its conclusion-that aborting indigent and minority babies makes the world a safer place. Representatives at the Congressional Black Caucus and the American Civil Liberties Union have yet to utter a peep, or return this writer's phone calls. The report, "Legalized Abortion and Crime," by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and Stanford sociologist John Donohue III, notes that nationwide, the number of abortions skyrocketed after the passage of Roe v. Wade in 1973. Crime, on the other hand, began to taper off eighteen years later, in 1991, when the first aborted babies would have entered the most crime-prone age group. Where there were many abortions, police reported fewer robberies, rapes, and murders two decades later. From that correlation, the scholars infer causality. They reason that since an inordinate number of abortion-obtaining mothers are unwed, poor, or ethnic minorities, their children, if born, are more likely to become violent criminals. The logic is dubious; the implications are downright frightening....The study's authors, and those who have embraced its findings, insist that they do not endorse the idea of abortion as crime control, but their words speak louder than their denials. Cory Richards, vice president of the Alan Guttmacher Institute, tells the Tribune that the study "is not an argument for abortion per se. [It] is an argument for women not being forced to have children that they don't want to have." But were "choice" all that is at stake, there would be no need to talk about national crime statistics. Implicit in the study is the suggestion that the country is better off for having permitted some 34 million abortions of demographically undesirable people. As Richard Posner, chief judge of the Seventh U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago, claims, "unwanted children are quite likely not to turn out to be the best citizens." Or, as one of the study's authors puts it, "Abortion provides a way for the would-be mothers of those kids who are going to lead really rough lives to avoid bringing them into the world." That sounds a lot like an argument for abortion......There are too many other factors-the rise and fall of the welfare culture, the burgeoning prison population, stricter methods of law enforcement-to determine conclusively why crime went up in the 1970s and down in the 1990s. Abortion probably has removed some sinners from the nation's ranks; it has surely taken some saints, too. That's all a matter of speculation, because 34 million Americans were deemed "unwanted" well before their time. "This idea of culling before birth," a Planned Parenthood spokesperson candidly confessed, "seems a little creepy." It's strange to hear an abortion proponent admit as much, while activists who claim to fight for the civil rights of minorities remain silent. The "unwanted" designation says more about those who apply it than those who are so defined. That America has dealt with 34 million lives so brutally is itself a crime-one that Professors Levitt and Donohue neglected to include in their tally..."

Chuck Baldwin Live 8/18/99 "…Without question, we live in the most hypersensitive generation in history. In this atmosphere of politically correct sensitivity a man was fired job for using the word "niggardly." The word has nothing to do with insulting a particular minority race, of course, but simply means, "miserly, stingy, covetous." No matter. The man was fired posthaste. Just this week Sen. Robert Bennett from Utah was told to apologize for quipping that unless Gov. G.W. Bush did something stupid, like have an affair with a black woman, he was certain to win the Republican nomination for president. He did. Americans are told that they had better not offend black people, Jewish people, homosexuals, Asians, Muslims, Indians, handicap people, short people, fat people, near-sighted people, ugly people or any other people. Any other people except Christian people, that is. Christians are routinely impugned, denigrated and held up to scorn from practically every quarter of society. In movies they are pictured as maniacal murderers, serial rapists and the like. They are favored targets of every late night TV comedian. Christians are routinely told that if they are offended by the content of television programs to "turn the channel". Christian chaplains in our military services are categorically instructed to not mention the name of Jesus. The leaders of public education tell Christian valedictorians the same thing. Christian schoolteachers are told to check their faith at the entrance to the school. Christians must listen to profanity, look at co-worker’s girlie magazines but are threatened with their jobs if they bring a Bible or gospel tract to work….."

NewsEdge Reuters 8/17/99 "…Robert Vrooman also told the Washington Post he does not believe China obtained top-secret information about U.S. nuclear warheads from Los Alamos or any other laboratory belonging to the U.S. Energy Department. Any such stolen data, he said, could have come from documents distributed to ``hundreds of locations throughout the U.S. government'' as well as to private contractors. While ``details of this investigation are still classified,'' he added, ``it can be said at this time that Mr. Lee's ethnicity was a major factor.'' Vrooman is the first high-ranking participant in the investigation to state that Lee's ethnic background played a key role in his emergence as the government's prime suspect….. In a separate statement faxed to the Post, Vrooman said Lee was identified by the Energy Department's Office of Counterintelligence ``as the prime suspect based on, at best, cursory investigation'' of only Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Vrooman said he had personally counted 13 Caucasians at Los Alamos who were ``left out of the investigation'' although like Lee, they had visited China and met officials at a physics institute there…."
The Wall Street Journal 8/19/99 Edward Jay Epstein "…According to Mr. Vrooman, Mr. Lee, who had worked at Los Alamos for 20 years, was only one of many scientists who had access to the design information of the miniature W-88 nuclear warhead--in fact, the data were "distributed to 548 different addresses at the Defense Department, Energy Department, various defense firms, the armed services and even the National Guard." Mr. Lee, it seems, was targeted for investigation because of his Chinese ethnicity. But the full story does not end there. There are, to begin with, reasons to doubt Mr. Vrooman, who was fired because of his putative mishandling of security at Los Alamos and so has an interest in exonerating Mr. Lee. A search of Mr. Lee's computer files found that he had downloaded classified design information on his own backup computer, evidence of a security lapse (for which he was fired), though not of actual espionage. …"

National Review - Washington Bulletin 8/25/99 Ramesh Ponnuru "…The backlash to the Chinese spy scandal is in full flower. The former head of counterintelligence at Los Alamos, Robert S. Vrooman, told the Washington Post that not only is suspected spy Wen Ho Lee innocent, he is the victim of racist scapegoating, the high-tech equivalent of Driving While Black: Call it Researching While Asian. (Bear in mind that Vrooman, who has been humiliated, has an interest in minimizing security lapses that occurred on his watch.) Meanwhile, Notra Trulock, the Energy Department security official who a few months ago was a hero for breaking the spy scandal, has resigned from the department, accused of targeting Lee unfairly. The idea that China spied at all-instead of picking up information from the Internet or other open sources-is now in doubt, making the whole fuss seem a creation of the fevered imagination of a few paranoid white males. But not so fast. Wen Ho Lee may or may not be guilty of passing to the Chinese design information for the W-88, America's most advanced warhead. But there was a legitimate reason to suspect him. In the early 1980s, Wen Ho Lee reportedly told another U.S. scientist under suspicion for giving the Chinese neutron-bomb secrets, "I can help you-I can tell who ratted on you"; he failed to inform security officials of his various contacts with PRC scientists; he agreed to meet with an FBI agent posing as a Chinese official; he failed two lie-detector tests; and, of course, he downloaded massive amounts of material from a classified to an unclassified computer. His defenders seem to want affirmative action for security risks: Minorities can meet lower security standards to ensure that no minority pressure group will ever have reason to cry "racism." (Foreign intelligence agencies will no doubt be impressed by our commitment to diversity.) …"

National Review Online 8/25/99 Kenneth R Timmerman "…1. What do you make of Notra Trulock's sudden departure? I don't know whether Trulock was forced out or not. But at the very least, it's clear he felt he had no mandate to continue actively pursuing foreign-intelligence penetration of the Department of Energy and our nuclear-weapons establishments. 2. Several people from within the energy department have now charged Trulock with singling out Wen Ho Lee because he is Asian. What do you make of the charge? And, is giving extra scrutiny to Chinese-Americans legitimate? The charge is both unfortunate, and inevitable. Mr. Lee first attracted the attention of DoE counterintelligence in the mid-1980s, when he accompanied his wife on a speaking engagement to Communist China. By all accounts, the Chinese were more interested in his knowledge of U.S. nuclear weapons, than in his wife. Any normal employee in a government national-security agency would have accepted such an invitation with great trepidation and reserve. It was common knowledge that Chinese intelligence was actively seeking to recruit people with access to U.S. weapons secrets from what they called the "overseas Chinese" community. Despite this, as far as we know from the published accounts, Mr. Lee did not submit a report on his contacts in China. So by his own actions, he invited scrutiny by DoE counter-intelligence. If I had been in Mr. Lee's position, I never would have gone to China, in the same way that many American Jews, working in senior government positions, refuse to deal with Middle Eastern issues in their official capacities. Is that fair? No. But they aren't bus drivers, either. We are talking about people who are handling our most dangerous and valuable secrets. They must be like Caesar's wife, free from even the suspicion of blame…."

Drudge Report 8/25/99 "…TIME magazine savaged writer David Horowitz in its August 30th issue with a column by Jack E. White titled: "A Real Live Bigot." And now Horowitz says is planning to launch a $50 million lawsuit against TIME magazine for defamation of character! White was responding SALON.COM column by Horowitz called "Guns Don't Kill Blacks, Other Black People Do." "My column was about the NAACP's loopy lawsuit against gun manufacturers because of the high homicide rate in inner city black communities," Horowitz says from Los Angeles….. In a letter to TIME magazine managing editor Walter Isaacson, Horowitz charged: "Jack White's column in your August 30th issue, which features my image and describes me as "A Real, Live Bigot" is a hateful racial lie... Horowitz continued: "What do I tell my African American daughter-law or my three granddaughters when they ask me why an otherwise reputable magazine like TIME would pillory their grandfather as a racial bigot?... "

Colorado Springs Gazette 8/13/99 Robert Holland "…It wasn't one of the South's proudest moments. By the late 1950s, the movement to end officially enforced racial segregation in public schools had gathered moral force. Most Americans realized that education freedom was inevitable and just. However, Southern politicos mounted an ugly resistance that was doomed to fail. History repeats itself. In 1999 the movement to enable all American families to send their children to the schools of their choice is on an unmistakable roll. Majorities of all groups, blacks most of all, recognize the rightness of this cause. Yet there are bitter-end resisters who are trying to block the schoolhouse door as pitifully as did Alabama's George Wallace. Consider two examples: * With fall opening just a few weeks away, a coalition led by the National Education Association, the nation's largest teacher union, has filed for an injunction to block 4,000 low-income Cleveland children from using vouchers to attend private schools….* The NEA, along with its trusty lapdog, the national PTA, is among the plaintiffs in Florida seeking to strangle in the crib Governor Jeb Bush's A-Plus reform, which features vouchers for students who wish to escape public schools that have consistently flunked basic tests. Never mind that fewer than 100 Pensacola students will receive "opportunity scholarships" the first go-round. Never mind that Bush's bold plan gives the education establishment the power to kill the vouchers they so detest - by simply teaching children to read so that there are no failing schools. The NEA would rather squelch competition than do right by children….. Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young has likened those who refuse to accept consignment to ghetto schools to Rosa Parks' refusing to sit at the back of the bus. When an amazing 1.25 million low-income families (upwards of a third of all those eligible in several major cities) applied for the first round of scholarships created by philanthropists Ted Forstmann and John T. Walton, Young said those who had applied for "educational emancipation" will go down in history "not as victims" but as "heroes with whom a great awakening was born."…"

David Horowitz responds to Time 8/25/99 "… In a column authored by Jack White in your Aug. 30 issue, your magazine has committed an outrage against me and my family, which I appeal to you to redress. As you know, the exercise of freedom of the press comes with a responsibility not to abuse its power and crush unequal individuals with statements that are defamatory and libelous. White's column, which features my image and describes me as "A Real, Live Bigot," is a hateful racial lie….All these facts are publicly known and were readily available to your reporter. In the course of the "interview" he conducted with me in preparation for his column, Jack White indicated that he had consulted my Web site, www.frontpagemag.com, where my Salon article appears in a version that restores three paragraphs the editors had cut. If White had the least interest in reporting the truth about me and my beliefs, he could have found out about Hollywood Concerned, the Larry Elder campaign and the Arizona and Colorado conferences, and he could have read the booklet I have written about the Republican Party, since all are available on the same Web site. But White did not care about the truth. Instead he caricatured me as a racial bigot, and wrote a column that disregards the facts in order to perform a character assassination dressed up as commentary. In the process he has made me and my family the target of racial resentment and anger from who-knows-what sources. You and your headline writers have abetted this destructive agenda. …."

Salon.com 8/26/99 Camille Paglia "…Editor's Note:This is a copy of a letter the writer sent to the editors of Time magazine. Aug. 26, 1999 | -- That the ever-platitudinous Jack E. White has called David Horowitz a "bigot" is, of course, stupid and unprofessional but hardly surprising to the weary Time readers who, like hikers confronted with a bog, must rapidly skirt White's flatulent prose whenever it appears. But that Time's editors allowed the sophomoric libel to pass raises questions about the magazine's process of internal review: Was this simply a late-summer slip-up (in which case Time will promptly admit it), or is there a double standard for PC propagandists like White? I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit -- audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change…."

The Arizona Republic 8/29/99 "…As arguments over the fate of a 24-week-old fetus swirl across Arizona, another controversy is building around the country about a connection between abortion and crime. A study by two respected scholars contends that the sharp increase in abortion following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Roe vs. Wade in 1973 may account for as much as half of the drop in the nation's crime rate during the 1990s. Their research suggests that fewer crimes were committed partly because many potential criminals, who would be in their teens and 20s in this decade, were aborted…..Joseph Scheidler, executive director of the Pro-Life Action League in Chicago, chastised the study as "an insidious rationale for tolerating abortion" and called it consistent with the "get rid of the undesirables" approach of eugenicists. "Naturally, if you kill off a million and a half people a year, a few criminals will be in that number. So will doctors, philosophers, musicians and artists -- maybe even some economists," he said. "This smells like arguments made in Nazi Germany and even in this country in the 1920s by those who favored compulsory sterilization to make sure that "breeders' didn't produce a subclass of people," said John Jakubczyk, a Phoenix lawyer who represents Arizona Right to Life….."

AP 9/4/99 "…Two black men were charged with murder in what police said was the racially motivated killing of a white man - but prosecutors have not decided whether to pursue the case as a hate crime. Terrence McCray, 18, and Ledell Lawrence, 20, were being held in Duval County jail without bond after their arrest Friday. Police said the two men and possibly others beat, kicked and stomped Gregory Griffith, 50, who was mentally handicapped, on Aug. 16 until he was unconscious. ..."

The Boston Globe 9/2/99 Jeff Jacoby "…Why does Jack E. White insist on using his pulpit in Time magazine to squirt racial poison into the nation's public discourse? …..But when it comes to politics, White pens some of the ugliest commentary around. A favorite brand of venom is to accuse political conservatives of being racists. Mind you, he never offers actual evidence that they are racists; it is enough for him that they are conservative. Thus, when the New Liberty Baptist Church in Alabama was torched in 1996, White wrote this: ''All the conservative Republicans from Newt Gingrich to Pete Wilson ... should come stand in the charred ruins ... and wonder if their coded phrases encouraged the arsonists.''…. White has suggested that Clarence Thomas is ''an intellectual slave'' who is ''lavishly rewarded for serving ... conservative white Republicans.''….. White and Time get away with this stuff because the victims of these smears never fight back. Until now. In Time's Aug. 30 edition, White wrote about David Horowitz, a noted conservative activist. In the '60s, Horowitz was a militant radical; famously, he later had second thoughts and moved to the political right….. On Aug. 16, he wrote about the NAACP's plans to sue gun manufacturers on the grounds that firearms are a leading cause of death among young black men, who are nearly five times as likely to die of bullet wounds as young white men. ….. He went on to lacerate the leftist mind-set that holds that ''there cannot be a wound the black community inflicts on itself that is not ultimately the responsibility of malicious whites.'' If nearly half the prison population is black, Horowitz wrote, ''that cannot be allowed to suggest that the black community have a problem when it comes to raising its children as law-abiding.... Oh, no. Such a statistic can only be explained by the racism of [the] criminal justice system.'' …..Well, White read the column and came to a different conclusion. His usual conclusion. The column ''reminded'' him that ''blatant bigotry is alive and well'' on the Internet, even at liberal Webzines. He pronounced Horowitz guilty of a ''blanket assault'' that outdid ''the antiblack rantings'' of other conservatives. Worst of all was the headline: ''A Real, Live Bigot.'' …….White's accusation is scurrilous. But the damage such a libel can wreak is massive. ''To be labeled a `bigot,' particularly in the wake of Buford Furrow, is a verbal death sentence,'' Horowitz says. ''That column is a calculated attempt to prevent anyone from ever again listening to what I have to say.'' He's not taking it passively. He fired off a blistering letter to Time demanding an apology. He posted an appeal for support and his letter to Time - on Front Page (www.frontpagemag.com). He is talking to lawyers about a libel suit. In short, he is making a stink. If more conservatives did that when they are slandered as racists and bigots, maybe the slanders would stop…."

CNSNews.com 9/2/99 Bruce Sullivan "…Eloise Anderson is a mother, a grandmother, a former middle school teacher, and now the director of the Project for the American Family at the Claremont Institute. She is also black and has a visceral dislike for proposals such as a recent one from the Educational Testing Service that would designate students from inferior school systems who perform better than expected on their Scholastic Aptitude Test as "strivers." "Kids will do mostly what you expect of them. They will perform up to expectations," Anderson told CNSNews.com. Anderson said that she thinks it is wrong to expect less of students because they are minorities or come from poor backgrounds. "Who decides what should be expected or not expected from black students?" asked Anderson. "I remember when it was expected that blacks were not mentally qualified to play professional basketball and football," said Anderson. She added that blacks earned the right to play those, and other, sports professionally by competing with white athletes on the same playing fields. In sports, blacks neither received nor asked for special favors from their white counterparts, why should academics be different wonders Anderson? "Why change the rules in the education arena?" she asked…."

Eagle-Tribune 8/26/99 Nancy Rodriguez "…Teachers have always been the arbitrator of grades, but soon they will be able to confer something else on their students -- race and ethnicity. Starting this school year, parents who refuse to give ethnic information about their children will forfeit that right to teachers, principals and other school officials. School officials will then be expected to use ''their good faith determination'' to figure out what race a student is and provide that information to the state, according to the Massachusetts Department of Education (DOE). Schools cannot require parents or students to identify themselves on the basis of race, ethnicity or national origin. However, it is not illegal for school officials to ''fill in the blank.'' …."

San Diego Union-Tribune 8/29/99 Kelly Thornton Ruth L. McKinnie and Michael Stetz "….A white San Diego cop who patrols mostly black neighborhoods bluntly says this about dealing with African-Americans: "People pay us to be suspicious. Little bells go off with certain things. I'm probably more suspicious of blacks, just based on experience. There's more of a possibility of problems than with others." As offensive as his comment must be to many law-abiding blacks, it illustrates what police are reluctant to admit: Sometimes there's a big difference between how they treat whites and the city's minorities. It's not just white officers who acknowledge the gulf. "There's no doubt in my mind, with persons of color, officers are more aggressive or more willing to detain or handcuff," said a black officer. "They give a white guy more chances than a person of color. Why? Because the officer's only been exposed to the negative out there."….Officers of all races can become jaded by repeated exposure to inner-city violence, leaving them with stereotypes that they apply to an entire group, say police and law enforcement experts…..Even some minority officers say they can become more suspicious based on a person's color. "People we stop and talk with, no matter what color the officer, they say the only reason we're stopping them is because of the color of their skin. And sometimes it is," said one police veteran who is black. …..

Chicago Tribune 8/31/99 John Kass "…An ugly racial incident happened in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood over the weekend. But strangely, black ministers and political activists are holding no angry news conferences. There is no mayoral campaign, so City Hall isn't publicly calling on the president or the county state's attorney for justice. The word is out in Bridgeport for the people to shut their mouths. And official Chicago wants this one to go away. Roy Trumblay, 55, and his daughter, Christine, 22, were walking on 35th Street toward Comiskey Park on Saturday, to watch the White Sox. Roy also had two grandchildren, a boy, 8, and a 10-year-old girl, and other family members with him. As they passed the Deering District police station, with dozens of other fans, a man jumped out of a car, police said. He was clutching a wooden table leg, with a chunk of metal on the end. Roy and Christine didn't know the man with the table leg. But he picked them out anyway, on that crowded street. When he was finished, father and daughter were crumpled on the pavement. Their skulls were crushed open…… When these types of incidents occur in Bridgeport, they usually make national news. And they're usually called hate crimes. Bridgeport is a tough white ethnic neighborhood that has spawned several Chicago mayors, including both Daleys, so the drama is set. ……But for this one, the direction has changed. There were no ministers on TV. And police say this is not a hate crime. Perhaps it's because the Trumblays are white, from southwest suburban Burbank. The man charged with the attack is Thomas Cooper, 19, an African-American from the South Side. Ask yourself. How would it be if the races were reversed? If a white man jumped out of a car and cut down a black father and daughter with a club in front of the police station in the Daleys' ancestral neighborhood? …."

NewsMax.com 9/10/99 Mona Charen "….Everyone has heard by now of the study purporting to show that legalized abortion has been at least partly responsible for the drop in crime we have been experiencing nationwide. Initial reaction ranged from cautious (from those who believe it) to contemptuous (from those who don't). Could it be, many wondered, that Steve Levitt of the University of Chicago and John Donohue III of Stanford are recommending prenatal capital punishment? If we can take them at their word, they were simply searching for truth. The question is: Does the study illuminate the drop in crime, or simply play upon unspoken prejudices in the minds of most educated people? Steve Sailer makes an extremely persuasive case in the online magazine Slate (the liveliest site on the Internet) that the study is quite flawed. Levitt and Donohue began with a postulate: 1) that legalized abortion results, by definition, in fewer unwanted babies being born, and 2) that since unwanted children are more likely to grow up to be criminals than others -- an assumption bolstered by plenty of data -- then abortion should lead to lower crime rates. They tested this hypothesis by examining crime rates in the years after Roe vs. Wade became law. Eighteen years after Roe, they conclude, crime began to drop. Moreover, in the five states that legalized abortion in 1970, three years before Roe, crime rates began to fall three years earlier. Levitt and Donohue further found that those states that had high abortion rates in the mid-1970s experienced greater decreases in crime in the 1990s than states that had low abortion rates in the 1970s. Not so fast, says Sailer, businessman, gadfly and intellectual jack-of-all-trades. If Levitt and Donohue are correct, the kids who managed to get born despite legalized abortion should have been more law-abiding than previous generations. Instead, they launched the greatest youth crime spree in American history. According to FBI statistics, the murder rate for 1993's crop of 14- to 17-year-olds (who were born in the freely available abortion years of 1975 to 1979) was 3.6 times that of the children born between 1966 and 1970 (pre-Roe). If abortion reduces crime, Sailer continues, then the lower crime rates should have shown up first among the youngest (the wanted babies). But instead, the crime rate drop began among those ages 35 to 49. The 800-pound gorilla that Levitt and Donohue ignore, Sailer insists, is the crack epidemic that transformed urban neighborhoods in the 1980s. Looking at black males born between 1975 and 1979, Sailer notes that their youth murder rate grew 5.1 times. And although black women have abortions at three times the rate of white women, the black juvenile murder rate grew relative to the white rate, from five times worse in 1984 to 11 times worse in 1993. …."

FrontPage Magazine 9/9/99 Christopher Rapp "….I’VE BEEN TOLD that one way to gauge the political slant of any gathering is to take a look at the folks who are trying to make a buck off of it. But the elderly woman selling souvenir buttons at the 1999 Million Youth March last Saturday in Harlem was sending a rather ambivalent message. The first pin I noticed brought a tear to my eye—SLICK WILLIE: YOU GOT TO GO: WE DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. In other cases, though, the juxtapositions were downright weird. Buttons with nice-sounding slogans like STOP RACISM IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY shared space with little photos of Elijah Muhammad, the late Nation of Islam leader who taught that white people are the evil creations of a mad scientist named Yacub. And right there, sitting uneasily next to PRAISE THE LORD, was the little gem I remembered from last year’s march: THE WHITE MAN IS THE DEVIL. Things got clearer as I walked through the crowd, past the scraggly white guy giving out literature from the Worker’s World Party and the aging hippie selling the current issue of Socialist Action (Page 2: "We fight for jobs for all—30 hours work for 40 hours pay!"). The inevitable "Free Mumia" banner flew overhead. A few women were selling T-shirts in support of Mumia’s fellow cop-killer Assata Shakur. The Canadian branch of the Nation of Islam was there, hawking their newspaper and looking sharp in tailored black suits with red piping. The American version of the NOI was conspicuously absent—march organizer Khallid Muhammad having been kicked out of the Nation in 1994 for rhetoric that even Louis Farrakhan considered too bigoted and anti-Semitic. The most popular item on sale was a T-shirt with Khallid’s likeness silk-screened on the front, above the lines 100% BLACK MAN and THE WHITEMAN’S WORSE NIGHTMARE! (sic). …..And so we learned that AIDS, asthma, and cancer are creations of the white government "against our people." In fact, said Muhammad, things here in the "United Snakes of America" (he had the crowd repeat the phrase) are so dire that young people must "lay the base for revolutionary change." He suggested as their models not only the Tienanmen Square protesters, but also the Vietcong, Fidel Castro’s troops, and "the youth who stood up with Moammar Al Qaddafi." Muhammad later gave a detailed explanation of the origins of the term "cracker." …..Muhammad went on to say that black men should respect black women because white women are inferior, and that Hollywood is bad because it is "controlled by the Jews…..With what must have seemed to him like superhuman restraint, Muhammad refrained from his usual habit of referring to Jews as "bloodsuckers." But he did take pains to catalogue the misdeeds of "the so-called Jews." He explained at length that black people are the true Israelites of the Bible, God’s chosen people, their rightful identity fiendishly stolen by the people today called Jews (whom he said had "just crawled out of the caves and hills of Europe a few days ago"). But in one of the mental contortions typical of Afrocentrism, Muhammad also told the crowd that blacks are the direct descendants of the ancient Egyptians—who enslaved the Israelites for 400 years and were drowned in the Red Sea for doing so. Such contradictions, of course, are irrelevant, the purpose of the story being simply to provide a rationale for hating Jews and for yet another round of Black Power salutes…..Keith, a 22-year-old I met at the march, got the message loud and clear. When I asked him what the afternoon had taught him about the future of race relations, he said "There will be no relationship. It can’t happen." ……"

Associated Press 9/9/99 "….Minority students have a much higher chance of being admitted to the University of Minnesota than white students, according to a report released today by a group that challenges affirmative action policies at U.S. universities. On the university's Twin Cities campus, the odds of being admitted are almost seven times more favorable for Asian students than for white students, said the report by the Center for Equal Opportunity in Washington, D.C. Hispanic students are about five times and black students about three times more likely to be admitted than white students. That amounts to discrimination, the CEO report said. CEO president Linda Chavez, director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in the Reagan administration, said the preferences found in Minnesota were "moderate." …."

Salon 9/13/99 David Horowitz "…This was indeed the text of many a political sermon when objections were raised to the "Million Man March" because it was organized and led by the blatant anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan. "Don't tell us what leaders to choose or what marches to join," was the response of many otherwise sensible black commentators. It was a "black thing." A matter of community pride. "We're not listening when white people tell us what to do anymore -- we're not letting you choose our leaders." Indeed, marching behind an unpalatable figure like Farrakhan was seen in and of itself as a way of emphasizing black independence. A similar attitude was apparent during the O.J. Simpson affair, when black leaders showed not the slightest embarrassment at the fact that African-American communities all over the nation, in a demonstration of striking insensitivity, cheered Simpson's acquittal. Imagine the reaction of black leaders if white communities had cheered the release of a white defendant accused of murdering his black wife and a black stranger, particularly if the white defendant was confronted by overwhelming circumstantial and DNA evidence, and had a record of beating his black spouse prior to her death. A triumphal response to the acquittal in such a case would have been taken as evidence of racism. But in the Simpson affair the response of the African-American community was: We don't care what you think or what you feel. We know what we feel and that is all that matters. If our response is insensitive, so what? We are going to be the judges of what is right or wrong for us, and no one -- least of all any white -- is going to tell us how to behave. Imagine if the colors had been reversed! ….."

FrontPagemag Magazine 9/14/99 David Horowitz ".... JULIAN BOND WAS ONCE the crown prince of the civil-rights movement. In the 1960s he was elected to the Georgia legislature, the youngest person ever to have achieved that office. Great things were expected of Bond. Somewhere along the way, however, he went off track and never fulfilled those expectations. In the Eighties, he was ignominiously defeated by fellow activist (now congressman) John Lewis and retired from political life. Bond never seems to have had a new idea after the Sixties. Probably for this reason, his left-wing comrades didn't forget him. They got him appointments as a professor of history at two colleges, despite the fact that Bond had no advanced degrees and had never written a historical monograph. But then, the PC university is first and foremost a political patronage operation of the Left. A year ago, Bond became chairman of the NAACP after the organization had gone through a series of scandals, sexual, financial, and political under the misleadership of Benjamin Chavis, who wound up as a lackey for the racist anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan..... Under Bond's leadership the NAACP now supports racial preferences and the "one drop" theory of black blood. It is they who are defending the racial identification of American citizens by the government and the idea that if any part of you is black you are all black...."

Wall Street Journal 9/16/99 Shelby Steele ".... This season's affirmative-action debate seems to be shaping up as an argument over the meaning and relevance of merit. For decades racial preferences in college admissions have effectively preserved higher standards of merit for whites and Asians by lowering standards for blacks and Hispanics. Academic merit, as the quality most prized by universities, could go relatively undisturbed as long as it did not prevent schools from bringing in more blacks and Hispanics. But now that court decisions are making it clear that universities (and society in general) will have to move away from racial preferences, it is also clear that merit stands in the way of diversity. On average, black students from families earning $70,000 and up do worse on the SAT than whites from families in the lowest income bracket. Without a racial preference, blacks and Hispanics must compete unaided in an academic contest that can only be decided on merit. Thus, diversity suddenly requires a direct assault on merit. Merit must be weakened and relativized as a principle. Its decisiveness must be recast as unfairness. And, most of all, it must be smothered in sophistications. What is merit really? Isn't academic ability only "one kind" of merit? Should higher education "referee" opportunity? Today, the educational establishment finds itself devoted to an odd kind of innovation: schemes in which the mechanism of social inclusion is tolerance for academic mediocrity. One such scheme, the new "strivers" formula for the SAT developed by the Educational Testing Service, would effectively handicap students by race and social disadvantage. The more markers of disadvantage a student has--the number and kind of electrical appliances in the home is one such marker--the more points are deducted from a projected score. When a student scores 200 points over this obviously low concocted score, he is designated a "striver"--someone with more potential than his actual score reveals. If this formula errs by using dubious arithmetic to arrive at a judgment of human potential, its worse offense is to count being black, by itself, as a handicap. In fact, unless blackness is thrown into the calculation, this formula fails to bring in the desired number of blacks....."

Los Angeles Daily News 9/15/99 AP "....The Latino and Asian populations of the United States surged during the 1990s, the number of Latinos growing by more than 35 percent and Asians more than 40 percent, the Census Bureau says. A report released Tuesday furnishes fresh evidence of increasing ethnic diversity and its unpredictable impact on the nation's political and social landscape. African-Americans, whose numbers grew almost 13 percent between 1990 and 1998, remain the nation's largest minority at 12.7 percent, or 34.4 million of the nation's population of about 270 million in 1998. Latinos made up 9 percent of the population in 1990, and that grew by 1998, to just over I I percent of the total, 30.3 million, the annual update of the 1990 Census said....... "We've seen race relations as a black-white issue," said Roderick Harrison of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Washington think tank. "Clearly, the size of the Latino population and the Asian population turns it into a multicultural issue." ..."

WorldNetDaily 9/15/99 Stephan Archer ".... A group of black pastors in New Jersey yesterday announced plans to march from Newark, N.J., to Washington, D.C., on behalf of the 1,452 black children aborted each day in the United States. .....During the interdenominational march, people will be carrying signs with the title "Genocide Awareness Project." These signs, which Hunter described as "graphic," will show the connection between the evil that happened in the past -- such as the Holocaust and the lynching of blacks -- with abortion. ....."This march is a civil rights march," said Owens. "We're organizing this march to tell our black brothers and sisters we have been duped into destroying ourselves. Even though we make up 12 percent of the population, we supply 33 percent of the abortion industry's business. We have fallen prey to the Margaret Sangers of the world."

United States Court of Appeals FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT Argued April 30, 1999 Decided September 17, 1999 No. 98-3017 United States of America, Appellee v. Ion Cornel Popa, Appellant Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (No. 97cr00306-01) Evelina J. Norwinski, Assistant Federal Public Defender, argued the cause for appellant. ……. A jury convicted Ion Cornel Popa of making anonymous phone calls with the "intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person," in violation of 47 U.S.C. s 223(a)(1)(C). Popa appeals, arguing that the statute is unconstitutional both on its face and as applied to his conduct, which involved calls to the office of the United States Attorney. Because we agree that the statute, as applied to Popa's conduct, violates the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, we reverse his conviction on that ground and therefore need not resolve his claim that the statute is unconstitutionally overbroad. I. Background Popa is a political refugee from Romania. He has resided in the United States since 1986. Between April 10 and May 9, 1997 he made seven telephone calls from locations in Virginia to the office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Eric Holder. In the two calls that were recorded Popa refers to Mr. Holder as "a criminal, a negro," a "criminal with cold blood," and a "whore, born by a negro whore, [who] became chief prosecutor of Washington, D.C." He also claims that Holder "violated ... our rights." In the most nearly lucid passage on the tapes, Popa says: Eric Holder is a negro. Is a negro. Which is a criminal. He make a violent crime against me, violating the rights in court of the white people. [Inaudible] negro. He's negro. Eric Holder. Criminal. Popa was charged with violating 47 U.S.C. s 223(a)(1)(C), which makes it a crime, punishable by a fine and up to two years' imprisonment, to: make[ ] a telephone call or utilize[ ] a telecommunications device, whether or not conversation or communication ensues, without disclosing [one's] identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person at the called number or who receives the communications. Popa moved to dismiss the indictment on the ground that "this type of speech directed at a public official ... is entitled to First Amendment protection." …… Conclusion As applied to the conduct at issue in this case, 47 U.S.C. s 223(a)(1)(C) violates the First Amendment. The judgment of the district court is therefore Reversed. _ Randolph, Circuit Judge, concurring: I do not agree with the government that s 223(a)(1)(c) "is a generally-applicable regulation directed at conduct." Brief for Appellee at 18. A hang-up call could, I suppose, be characterized as conduct only. So too perhaps calls consisting only of a grunt or a moan. Nonetheless, in general, telephones are devices for communicating and this statute regulates how telephones may be used for that purpose. The acts of picking up the phone and dialing are conduct. The act of speaking on the phone is also a form of conduct but it still is "speech." Whether the caller is exercising his "freedom of speech" depends on what he says and why. A blackmail attempt, a bomb threat, a fraudulent promise, a kidnapper's demands--all are communications, but none are protected by the First Amendment. Partly this is because of history; partly it is because of the consequences of such communications. To characterize anonymous telephone calls intended to annoy or harass as "conduct" rather than speech is to confuse the analysis…."

Ft. Worth Star- Telegram 9/17/99 "...- The jobless loner whose attack at a Fort Worth church killed seven people and led to his suicide was connected to a violent, anti-Semitic group as early as three years ago, according to the Houston Chronicle. Author John Craig told the newspaper in a copyright story for today's editions that shooter Larry Ashbrook boasted of membership in the Phineas Priests, an anti-Semitic group that advocates killing Jews and minorities. "When I heard about the shootings Wednesday night and I heard that the gunman was wearing black and killed himself, I knew it had to be a Phineas Priest," Craig told the newspaper. "I called some people I know in the white supremacist movement, and they told me it was Larry Ashbrook." Police on Thursday said they had not found a link between the 47-year-old Ashbrook and hate groups. But Craig, one of three authors of the book "Soldiers of God, White Supremacists and their Holy War for America", said the 1996 interview had left him convinced. ..... Experts said the group gets its name from an Old Testament Book of Numbers story involving a man named Phineas who kills a mixed-race couple to appease God. Witnesses to the shooting spree at the Wedgwood Baptist Church said Ashbrook spewed obscenities and ridiculed Baptists before opening fire on 150 teen-agers and adults attending a youth rally. He then sat down in a pew and turned the gun on himself. "It all fits too well," said Craig, a former undercover operative and private investigator who lives in Houston. Other Phineas Priest members linked to violence include Buford Furrow, who allegedly shot children in a Los Angeles Jewish day-care center and killed a Filipino-American mailman; fugitive Eric Rudolph, the alleged abortion center bomber also suspected in the 1996 Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta; and a man convicted for a series of Washington state pipe bombings and bank robberies in 1996. ...."

Wall Street Journal 9/17/99 "...The head of the 800-member Colorado Springs, Colorado, branch of the NAACP is forced to resign in a scandal. His transgression? Writing an article in which he supported school choice, because the status quo leaves "the poorest kids who need the most help . . . trapped in our very worst schools." In an article last month for the Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph, Willie Breazell, a 54-year old systems analyst, also said he'd been wrong to wrong to oppose an 1993 voucher initiative in the state. The NAACP, which has a strict anti-voucher policy, moved quickly against him. It didn't matter that the article made clear Mr. Breazell was speaking for himself and not the NAACP. Earlier this month, citing pressure from the national office, Mr. Breazell resigned his post , even though he says the overwhelming majority of his local membership wanted him to stay. "I was kind of lynched, so to speak," Mr. Breazell says. "If you join the NAACP, you sacrifice some of your liberties, and if you don't have the group-think mentality, you won't last." The NAACP national office did not return phone calls asking for its position. ...."

WASHINGTON (AP) 9/19/99 "….President Clinton agrees with author Toni Morrison: he is — unofficially — the nation's first black president. Clinton jokingly claimed that distinction for himself Saturday night at the Congressional Black Caucus' annual awards dinner. He said comedian Chris Tucker told him he'd like to see the Oval Office to prepare for an upcoming movie role as the nation's first black president. "I didn't have the heart to tell him that I've already taken the position,'' Clinton said. …."

NewsMax 9/21/99 "...During the six years Patterson guarded the Clintons, he said their deep-seated anti-Semitism became apparent in slurs they hurled at each other. Bill Clinton also frequently told Jewish jokes. Patterson made the revelations in a new two-hour audiotape More than Sex: The Secrets of Bill and Hillary Clinton Revealed! published by NewsMax.com. Patterson explained that during his tenure with the Clintons, the pair was in constant, heated arguments with one another behind closed doors. As their conversations degenerated into arguments, Bill and Hillary would begin making demeaning remarks to each other. Patterson said that during these verbal brawls "it was quite common" for both Bill and Hillary to refer to each other as "a Jew mother f-cker" or a "Jew Bastard." Bill Clinton also liked ethnic humor. Patterson recalled that "a lot of jokes were made about the Jewish people." The trooper had no explanation of why the Clintons made derogatory comments or jokes about Jews. He did find it bothersome, however, that Bill Clinton had a deep fascination for Adolf Hitler and his book Mein Kampf. Clinton's interest in Hitler was not based on the fascist leader's anti-Semitism, but the great leadership skills of Hitler, according to Patterson....."

Seattle Times 9/21/99 "...Black columnist Willaim Raspberry today praised Bill Gates's billion dollar scholarship fund for minority students, saying "last Thursday the heavens opened and minority students hit the number." According to Raspberry, the generally poor performance of black and other minority students (excepting Asians) is the fault of whites. Raspberry blames controversies surrounding "affirmative action" on the refusal of whites "to admit that it's their fault that minorities continue to face a variety of social, educational, and economic problems." Raspberry does not explain how Asians, many of them recent immigrants, have been able to outperform whites. If we accept Raspberry's premise that minority performance is totally determined by white attitudes and policies, then we must give whites credit for the success of Asian students. This is absurd, of course, but it follows from Raspberry's view of minorities as helpless pawns in a world controlled by whites. As for Bill Gates, he is playing the old "look at me, I'm not a racist" game that white liberals play so well. Such people endear themselves to minorities by discriminating against other, less advantaged whites....."

Accuracy in Academia 9/21/99 Eric Langborgh "....Educational benefits derived from a diverse student body highlight the need for race-based preference programs, concluded a just released study from Harvard University. According to the study, "89% of Harvard Law School students and 91% of Michigan Law School students reported a 'positive' impact-the large majority reporting a 'strongly positive' impact-of diversity on their total educational experience." ....."

Daily Oklahoman 9/21/99 Christy Watson Melissa Nelson "....The petition that NAACP President Roosevelt Milton used to call for an investigation of a high school principal contains false signatures, inaccurate addresses and the names of people who do not live within the Oklahoma City School District. The highly publicized petition, which contains 681 signatures, was obtained Monday from the school district in response to an open records request by The Oklahoman. Milton initially used the petition at a Sept. 8 news conference to accuse Douglass High School Principal Sally Cole of using profane language, changing grades, carrying a concealed weapon and financial mismanagement. He demanded she be fired if the allegations were found true.... A check of 35 signatures found 18 people who said they didn't sign the petition, including a handicapped woman, a minister and a woman who friends said lives in Georgia. At least two dozen other phone numbers registered to people who signed the petition are unpublished or have been disconnected. ...."

The Korea Times 9/22/99 Roger Richards ".... In the wake of racial violence in the U.S. leaving a Korean student and a black university basketball coach dead, I was asked where racism in the U.S. comes from. Why would otherwise perfectly intelligent people decide to hate and harm others because they are a darker shade of brown? The answer, as is often the case with intercultural problems, is rooted in history. It's been blamed on the Bible, but even a cursory review of history shows that is patently false. The concept of race is found no where in the Bible, which instead teaches that "all nations are of one blood". Indeed, biblical Christians in the U K and the U.S. worked tirelessly for slavery's abolition and to get African-Americans recognized as fully human with equal rights..... The idea of race really came in vogue in the 1790s with the then daring (though ancient) idea of evolutionism. It was Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles himself, who helped promulgate the idea of an elite race surviving and overcoming the "savage" races.[3] The results of such thinking were horrendous, just as the results of Charles Darwin's racist ideas were to be. Contrast the description of Tasmanian natives given by a Christian sea captain, Captain Cook, in 1777 with the description of a similar native tribe given by evolutionist, Charles Darwin in 1832 while on his journey around the world in the HMS Beagle..... Contrast this with Charles Darwin's description of a similar tribe, following 3 or 4 decades of evolutionary teaching by his grandfather and others of like mind that not all humans were fully human. They taught that some "savages" were closer to monkeys. On his first view of the people inhabiting Tierra del Fuego, South America, he repeatedly wrote of them as 'miserable degraded savages'. [5] He described them as being much closer to animals than to Europeans.[6] Later, in clear racist derision, he compared this tribe of people to devils he had seen in plays and said that their habits were animal-like. [7] He was shocked to find out that a missionary had gone in afterwards and taught them to read and write and that many had become Christians. .....The Tasmanians were hunted down like wild animals by men who viewed them through Erasmus Darwin's "primitive-savage" ideology. They were treated with unspeakable cruelty only equaled by Hitler's Mengele. Darwin's grandfather was one of the first researchers to dig up an aborigine from the grave to stuff for exhibit. According to Ali Gripper in The Daily Telegraph Mirror, Sydney, the stolen body was the first of up to 10,000 desecrated and it was placed in the Royal College of Surgeons. The purpose of this was "...was to try to prove their racial inferiority" and that they were the "missing" link between stone age men and fully evolved whites. King Hele, Desmond, in his biography of Erasmus Darwin said that "After 1794, statements of the principle of natural selection and evolution came fairly thick and fast". These were used to justify the belief that the black tribes found in Australia and South America were savages and not fully evolved. [8] Tasmanian and aborigine skulls became very popular for evolutionists to collect, driving the market. Bounties were put on Tasmanian heads. Mutilations and rapes were common. Settlers would cut off the sexual organs of the males and watch them run away and bleed to death, while round ups and mass exterminations were common. [9] By the time the Tasmanians were totally wiped out, Darwin had predicted their end in his "Descent of Man". He said 'At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world'. Twenty years later this came true in Tasmania, in large measure due to thinking based upon Darwin and his grandfather's own writings.[10] ..."

BBC, via News Plus 9/20/99 "....A white supremacist on trial for the brutal race killing of a black man who was dragged to death behind a truck has been found guilty of murder. Lawrence Russell Brewer, 32, faces either life in prison or death by lethal injection for killing James Byrd last year near Jasper, Texas. Prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty following the trial in Bryan, Texas. Another defendant, John William King, 24, has been on death row since his conviction in February for Mr Byrd's murder. A third man, Shawn Allen Berry, 24, is awaiting trial next month. In one of the grisliest racial crimes since the civil rights era, Mr Byrd was beaten up and chained to a pick-up truck before being dragged along a road for three miles (five kilometres). ...."

NewsMax 9/20/99 "....Under fire for a variety of scandals during nearly seven years of presidency, Bill Clinton has counted the black vote as the bedrock of his support. In More than Sex: The Secrets of Bill and Hillary Clinton Revealed! - a new audio set published by NewsMax.com - a former Clinton bodyguard and retired Arkansas State Trooper, Larry Patterson, reveals that Clinton was not beyond making derogatory remarks against African Americans. Patterson said that the remarks, which included the use of the "N" word, was voiced by Clinton in anger against black critics and opponents. Clinton also tolerated the use of the "N" word by political leaders and business leaders he dealt with, Patterson recalled. "When [Bill Clinton] had black political leaders in the state and he disagreed with them, he would frequently use the 'N' word," Patterson said. Patterson said Clinton never made the remarks directly to any African American but, on occasion, "after he got out of the meetings." ....Patterson said Clinton referred to McIntosh as a "N--ger" after "one of these confrontations in a public forum, after we got in the car." Clinton also used the "N" word in 1992 when referring to Jesse Jackson, Patterson said. Patterson said he was not present when the remark was made, but was informed by other troopers. Patterson also learned from two troopers, including L. D. Brown, that Clinton made particularly vulgar remarks about an African American state trooper who had died in the line of duty..... After attending a service for the slain officer, Governor Clinton left the event and remarked to the troopers that "it was just a G-d damned m-ther f--ker cop that had been killed." Patterson said the two troopers also reported Clinton had referred to the dead officer as a "pig." Are such remarks typical for Clinton? Patterson claims that the Bill Clinton you see on television is not the real Bill Clinton. "This man is so good at putting on this façade, this front, and then you see the real man. His public face and his private face are 180 degrees." ..."

The Toledo Blade 9/23/99 Dee Drummond "….More personal information than ever before will be recorded about Michigan motorists pulled over for a traffic stop. Michigan State Police have decided to begin recording the race of drivers. It's a policy change designed to respond to concerns of racial profiling, the term given to police who single motorists out based on their race…."

New York Post 9/24/99 Rod Dreher "…. IF an advocate for poor rural whites requested a meeting with a top broadcast executive to demand, on civil-rights grounds, that "Hee-Haw" not be canceled, he'd be laughed out of the office. As well he should. Poverty, unwed parenthood and illiteracy are keeping many rural whites mired in misery. The notion that making sure their favorite TV programs stay on the air should be a top priority is not only absurd, it's obscene. So, why is it that while African-American schoolchildren continue to suffer from a crippling paucity of educational achievement, Jesse Jackson is working overtime to make television safe for "Moesha"? Jackson met this week with CBS Chairman Mel Karmazin to express "concern" over the proposed CBS/Viacom merger. Jackson's agenda included sticking up for the Viacom-owned UPN network, whose fate may be up in the air should the merger go through…..But this latest scheme takes the righteous Rev to even greater heights of mountebankery. Why? Because watching too much TV helps keep black people uneducated and, in turn, poor. A 1998 report from the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics found that black 17-year-olds have an average reading proficiency equal to that of white 13-year-olds. The math and writing numbers are similarly bleak. And - this is key - there's a connection between TV viewing and academic achievement. Thirty percent of black 17-year-olds watch five or more hours of TV a day - three times the rate of white 17-year-old viewership. In fact, black kids are about twice as likely as kids from other minority groups to park themselves in front of the boob tube for five hours or longer. The message is clear: if your kid watches a lot of TV, he'll probably do poorly in school. And if he does poorly in school, his job prospects are grim. That's not racism, that's life….."

St. Petersburg Times 9/22/99 William Yardley "…Miami state Sen. Daryl Jones stumbles on just five words that affirmative action foe Ward Connerly has placed in a proposed amendment to the Florida Constitution. Connerly's amendment would prohibit state and local governments from "discriminating against, or granting preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin." To Jones, a black Democrat who says he has overcome episodes of racial discrimination in his life, the language would be lyrical were it not for the words "or granting preferential treatment to." Those, Jones says, are fighting words, though people might overlook them if they read the measure quickly….."

LA Times 9/2/99 Richard Lee Colvin "….A class-action lawsuit filed in Los Angeles this summer made some disturbing allegations. It said many African American and Latino students in California don't even have a shot at getting into the state's most prestigious public universities because their schools don't offer enough Advanced Placement classes. Those highly demanding courses are more crucial than ever these days. That's because they boost grade-point averages, an even more significant factor in college admissions since the end of affirmative action programs at the state's public universities in 1996. Given their importance, it's not surprising that AP classes have exploded in popularity in California in the past decade. In 1998, nearly 90,000 students took AP tests. Not all groups of students are participating equally in that boom, however. Fifty of every 1,000 white students took AP tests in 1998. But only 32 of every 1,000 Latinos and 16 of every 1,000 African Americans did so Those data might seem to provide strong support for the claims made in the lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of four Inglewood High School students. But the situation is not that clear cut. It turns out that even when African American and Latino students attend schools with large numbers of AP classes, they are less likely than their white and Asian American peers to take them…."

NewsMax.com 9/23/99 "….It's hard not to raise an eyebrow over the prosecution of Little Rock community activist Robert "Say" McIntosh, who just happens to be Bill Clinton's most outspoken black critic anywhere in the America. He was sentenced on Tuesday by Municipal Judge Vic Fleming to one year in jail for hitting his 39-year old wife. Why the jail time, Inside Cover wonders -- especially since McIntosh's wife Denise Armstead withdrew all charges five months ago and left the courtroom after the sentence arm-in-arm with her husband? After the political prosecutions of key Clinton scandal witnesses like Linda Tripp and David Hale, the IRS investigations launched against Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers and Billy Dale -- not to mention the countless others who have alleged all manner of threats and intimidation after telling what they know about President Clinton, McIntosh's current predicament should be viewed in context. What McIntosh claimed to know as early as 1988 was that Bill Clinton was the father of Danny "Danno" Williams, born in 1985 to Bobbie Ann Williams, an African-American prostitute, after what she said were 13 paid sexual encounters with the then-Governor. According to most journalists, her paternity claim was disproved this past January when Star Magazine compared a sample of Danny's DNA with the brief presidential genetic profile made public as part of Ken Starr's impeachment report to Congress….."

NewsMax.com 9/23/99 "….But several reputable laboratories consulted by NewsMax.com in the months since, contend that the Starr Report information on Clinton's DNA was too scant to be conclusive. Clinton biographer Christopher Andersen concurs, reporting in his recent best selling book "Bill and Hillary: The Marriage", that DNA experts told him, "it would have been 'impossible' to make any definitive comparison based solely on the information provided in the Starr report." Also, shortly after Star Magazine announced the results, NewsMax.com asked the FBI Lab if Clinton's DNA information might have been altered in public documents for national security and/or privacy reasons. A Lab spokesman responded curtly, "We're not going to answer a question like that." ……It was one of those photos of Danny that "Say" McIntosh had plastered all over Arkansas, after a local black minister brought the case to his attention. The Little Rock provocatuer told NewsMax.com last year, "Rev. Knotts came to me with the little boy's picture and said that Clinton wouldn't take care of the baby. So I just enlarged the picture and printed up fliers and put them all over town." He became a nagging thorn-in-the-side for Governor Clinton, especially after Little Rock's black community began to echo McIntosh's concerns. Suddenly Clinton was dogged at local appearances with signs demanding, "Just One Drop." The phrase was a reference to the blood test that could establish Danny's paternity once and for all. It was after one such confrontation that Trooper Patterson heard Clinton refer to McIntosh as a "n - - - - r." …."

NewsMax.com 9/23/99 "…. These days the Arkansas activist is amazed by the support Clinton wins from African-Americans. The outspoken black leader told NewsMax.com last year, "That's why Clinton puts black people in key positions with him. They won't tell him when he's doing wrong, like Betty Currie." Currie was the Oval Office secretary who looked the other way as Clinton risked his presidency to have sex with Monica Lewinsky. "That's one of the reasons for his downfall, " added McIntosh. "When it comes to Clinton fooling around, black people just say, 'don't judge, don't judge.'" …… Clinton's campaign staff desperately tried to chase reporters away from the story McIntosh had dredged up. The 1993 documentary "The War Room" shows George Stephanopoulos threatening an operative from the Perot campaign with political oblivion if he went public with records purportedly showing that Clinton was Williams' father. After Clinton won the election, McIntosh had another enounter with the law, this one far more pleasant than what he's been through lately. It's perhaps the most telling bit of evidence showing how worried the Clinton camp truly was about the story Robert "Say" McIntosh was spreading. In 1991 the activist publicly claimed that Clinton had promised to grant his then-imprisoned son a pardon. Nobody took him seriously at the time. Young Tommy McIntosh was doing 50 years behind bars on a state drug rap and wasn't expected to get out anytime soon. But that changed on inauguration day 1993. Clinton's Arkansas successor Jim Guy Tucker traveled to D.C. to watch his former boss take the presidential oath, leaving president pro tempore of the Arkansas State Senate, Dr. Jerry Jewell in charge. Suddenly, young McIntosh was issued a surprise parole. Was this part of a deal to buy "Say" McIntosh's silence? He certainly thinks so. The Clinton critic told the Washington Times shortly after his son was sprung, "Those who question my credibility should ask themselves: If there was no deal, how did this happen? How did my son get out of prison 18 years before he was eligible for parole?" …."

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_metcalf/19991004_xcgme_racist_gun.shtml 10/4/99 Geoff Metcalf "....The legislative mania, which is sweeping the country to disarm law-abiding citizens, is fascinating. There is an overwhelming abundance of facts and figures, which document that guns, as tools, are good. Two incontestable axioms are: 1) Take guns away, and make it ponderous to own guns, and crime increases; and 2) Permit and encourage lawful gun ownership, and crime decreases. I have written and talked about those two facts a lot ... as some complain, too much. ..... Notwithstanding the disingenuous, duplicitous tripe we hear from the myopic ideologues about the imperative to disarm America (and if Kofi Annin had his way ... the world), the stark realities of gun control should gag even the most devoted bleeding heart, anti-constitutionalist, socialist liberal. Gun control is racist and elitist. The Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy (Winter 1995) includes "The Racist Roots of Gun Control." The article documents the "historical record provides compelling evidence that racism underlies gun control laws -- and not in any subtle way." The realization that gun control is racist and, tangentially, a means of weakening and making vulnerable to the whim of the power elite any and all "ordinary" people is significant. The vast left wing conspiracy has consistently and routinely positioned themselves as "the protectors of the downtrodden." However, what they inevitably fail to acknowledge is that by denying anyone and everyone the most basic inalienable right to protect and defend self, family and property, the presumed "protectors" are in fact, oppressors..... Can you see a common threat here? Vladmir Lenin, Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Bennito Mousellini, General Tojo, Emperor Hirohito, Mao Tse Tung, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, Josef Broz Tito, Nicolae Ceausescu, Ho Chi Min, Deng Zhou-Ping, Idi Amin, Muimar Qadaffi, Saddam Hussein, Zheng Ze-Min, Fidel Castro all were or are despotic rulers. They ALL forced civilian disarmament. Collectively they are responsible for the deaths of over 56 million people. The most recent example of the inherent racism of gun control can be seen in Kosovo. Imagine yourself as a resident of Kosovo when some armed "legal authority" knocks (or kicks) on your door requiring you and your family submit to summary execution. Before you discount the possibility as creative writing hyperbole, consider some Americans already have family experience similar to that "what if." Families of American Jews, Africans and Cambodians have already been there ... done that. Germany, China, Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Congo, Turkey, Burundi, Burma, Angola, Somalia, Russia, Iran, Iraq, Argentina, Namibia, Chili, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Sri Lanka, Columbia, Yemen, Botswana, and soon South Africa have ALL killed their citizens within the lifetime of your grandmother, mother, wife, and children. If you are one of the conditioned, naive sheeple whom would say, "Oh yes, that is all terrible, but it could never happen HERE" -- it already has. Just look back to 1994 and the warrantless searches of PRIVATE residences for guns in Chicago housing projects. Those warrantless searches were eventually blocked by a judge, but the media and our president were obviously unimpressed with the blatant violation of Fourth Amendment protections. Gun control has always been racist and discriminatory. The ultimate objective of gun control is to control an unarmed people by an armed oppressor....."

Los Angeles Times 10/5/99 Jim Pinkerton "...At the exhibit, one of the first pieces I see is "The Holy Virgin Mary" by Chris Ofili. The elephant dung angle, it turns out, has been overplayed. Only one turd is actually on the portrait--although there are two more at the base, one labeled "Virgin" and the other "Mary." But it's clear that Ofili has a thing for excrement, without regard to race or religion; another of his works on display features the names of such black superstars as James Brown and Diana Ross, neatly scripted on turds of their own. But what is offensive about the Mary piece are the little cut-outs of women's behinds plastered all over the canvas.... But the real outrage is the work of Jake and Dinos Chapman. Their artistic oeuvre is naked girls. They have taken department-store mannequins of little girls, festooned them with penises, and then added vaginas and anuses--the kind you might expect to see on a blow-up sex doll--in random places over their faces and bodies.... The caption for "Tragic Anatomies" asks the following: "What would the world be like if we were freed of all sexual inhibition? Do we falsely deny the existence of sexuality in children?" Why haven't the media reported on that? Is it because they've been focused on the feces? Maybe, but I think there's another reason. The critics and commentators don't want the real raw truth about this exhibit to get out, because they know that even they can't publicly defend Hustler-type photos or kiddie porn...."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/1999-10/04/032r-100499-idx.html 10/4/99 William Raspberry "....America no longer has a race problem--or, at any rate, a racial discrimination problem. And if it does, the group most likely to be discriminated against is: white men. I don't believe any of that, of course, and it's hard to see how any nonracist American can. But many do. As you might guess, I've been reading my mail again. The anti-affirmative action mail no longer surprises. What does is the number of readers who weighed in to question Bill and Melinda Gates's billion-dollar scholarship pledge to bright minority youngsters. Surely no idea is more fundamentally conservative than the right of rich people to do what they will with their own money. But listen: "What would [your reaction] be if someone donated a billion dollars to be used for scholarships for needy white students? . . . Please explain why this situation is acceptable today . . . in such a way that I can feel thankful for the donation rather than resentful." Or: "Is it true that a poor Caucasian from an economically distressed region need not apply for this scholarship? What percentage of 'minority' blood makes you eligible? I normally feel pretty middle of the road, but this strikes me as wrong and promoting the type of feeling that keeps races apart." Or: "Had this gift been given only to whites, what article would you have written?" ...."

The Florida Times-Union 9/2/99 James Salzer "....African-American parents with children in Georgia public schools are more likely than white parents to think private companies should run those facilities, a new study released yesterday suggests. A survey by Research Atlanta of more than 700 Georgia parents found that more than half of all AfricanAmerican parents with children in public schools support the idea of privatization, while only about one-third of white parents were willing to turn public campuses over to private companies. ''It looks like groups for whom public schools don't seem to work well are most open to new ideas,'' said Ben Scafidi, co-author of the study and an assistant professor in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. ''It may be that African-American parents, whose children consistently lag behind white children in all measures of school performance . . . are ready to let someone else try their hand at improving public schools.'' ...."

NewsMax.com 10/4/99 Carl Limbacher ".... A Dallas lawyer who alleges she had a lengthy sexual affair with President Clinton said Monday night that she heard Clinton repeatedly refer to a Little Rock black leader as a "G - d-d - - n n - - - - r." Dolly Kyle Browning made the charge to Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" in response to the account of Arkansas State Trooper Larry Patterson, who says he also heard Clinton used the "N" word to refer to the same black leader, Robert "Say" McIntosh. Patterson, who was Clinton's bodyguard from 1986 to 1992, first revealed the President's tendency to use anti-black invective in an exclusive interview last month with NewsMax.com's executive editor, Christopher Ruddy. Browning made her charge after host Sean Hannity introduced a video clip from Friday's "Hannity & Colmes" broadcast, where Trooper Patterson covered the allegation for the first time on national television: ...... BROWNING: I recall very clearly the first time that I actually saw one of these flyers that "Say" McIntosh put out. And I said to Billy, "Do you know this guy, this "Say" McIntosh?" And he didn't just use the "N" word. He took the Lord's name in vain, condemned the man to hell, and, if you get my drift, said "G - D - N", not just the "N" word. ......"

Toronto Sun 10/7/99 Michael Corens "....Oh, brave new world, what wonders you contain. The Web site for the United States government's National Institutes of Health includes a notice offering aborted baby parts for research purposes. The ad, worth quoting at some length, states the following. "Human embryonic and fetal tissues are available from the Central Laboratory for Human Embryology at the University of Washington. The laboratory, which is supported by the National Institutes of Health, can supply tissue from normal or abnormal embryos and fetuses of desired gestational ages between 40 days and term. Specimens are obtained within minutes of passage and tissues are aseptically identified, staged, and immediately processed according to the requirements of individual investigators. "Presently, processing methods include immediate fixation, snap fixation, snap freezing in liquid nitrogen and placement in balanced salt solutions or media designated and/or supplied by investigators. Specimens are shipped by overnight express, arriving the day following procurement." The notice, dated 1994 but advertising an ongoing, non-profit service, is chilling in the inhuman way it speaks of human life. "Normal" embryos mean unborn children that are perfect, "abnormal" means babies with disabilities. When the ad refers to "term" it presumably signifies unborn children that could survive outside the womb, possibly as late as nine months gestation. But business being what it is, even the large babes are guaranteed to arrive far quicker than the mail. .....One of the most poignant, and sickening, ironies of all this is that much of the macabre body crop is used for research into HIV/AIDS. While everything human must be done to find a cure for this plague, it's hard to deny that the majority of sufferers in North America contracted the disease through perverse sex. However, 95% of the world's AIDS population is in the developing world and lacks even basic health care. Nobody cared very much about these men and women before AIDS was brought to North America and, frankly, nobody cares very much now. They're poor and they're black and don't know Elizabeth Taylor or Barbra Streisand. If experimentation must take place it should take place on animals. But I forgot. That would mean hurting little kittens and puppies and it just wouldn't be right. After all, we're human beings and cruelty is unacceptable. ....."

NewsMax.com 10/7/99 Carl Limbacher "....The day after a longtime officer of the court joined a 32-year law enforcement veteran to accuse him of repeatedly using an ugly racial epithet, President Clinton suggested that it was Congressional Republicans who were the racists. Clinton leveled the charge on Tuesday after the Senate rejected his nomination of Ronnie White to the federal bench on a 54 to 45 party-line vote. White is the first African-American to serve on Missouri's Supreme Court. White's record had been "maligned and distorted" by the GOP, said Clinton, who added that the vote provided strong evidence "for those who believe that the Senate treats minority and women judicial nominees unequally." But others say it's the President who has the problem with racial equality. On Monday longtime Dallas attorney Dolly Kyle Browning told Fox News Channel that she repeatedly heard Clinton describe Little Rock black leader Robert "Say" McIntosh as a "n - - - - r" She added: "He didn't just use the 'N' word. He took the Lord's name in vain, condemned the man to hell, and, if you get my drift, said 'G - D - N', not just the 'N' word.... And sometimes in coversation, instead of saying, 'Say McIntosh, that G - D - N,' he would just start out a conversation by saying, 'That G - D - N....' And I knew exactly who he was talking about." The Dallas lawyer says she had a romantic relationship with Clinton going back to their teenage years. Ms. Browning's charge that the president used the "N" word matches that of former Arkansas State Policeman Larry Patterson, who served as Clinton's bodyguard from 1986 through January 1993...... "

THE WASHINGTON TIMES 10/7/99 Dave Boyer "....House Republican Conference Chairman J.C. Watts Jr. said yesterday that Democrats' cry of racism in the party-line rejection this week of a black Clinton judicial nominee "cheapens" real cases of racial bias. "It is fascinating to me that racism often is defined, not by your skin color, but by your ideology," said Mr. Watts, the lone black Republican in the House, in a luncheon with editors and reporters at The Washington Times. "Unless you're a Democrat," he continued. "It's OK to do it to black Republicans, black conservatives. But don't do it to a black Democrat." Mr. Watts' comments on racism were in response to the Senate's rejection on Tuesday of Ronnie White of Missouri, a black jurist who was President Clinton's nominee for a U.S. District Court seat. Democrats immediately accused Senate Republicans of racism. In an hour-plus interview, the Oklahoma lawmaker said Democrats use racism as a political tool and are guilty of a double standard, adding that Democrats stood idly by in 1996 when Mr. Watts' Democratic challenger lampooned him with old photographs of Mr. Watts' "Afro" hairstyle. "The national Democratic Party said nothing," Mr. Watts said. "The president of the United States said nothing about that. The state Democratic party chairman said nothing about that. They defended that. "Look what [Supreme Court Justice] Clarence Thomas went through," Mr. Watts said. "There's no way -- and I don't care what you think about Judge Thomas and his judicial decisions -- there's no way that the Judiciary Committee or what many term the 'white press' could have gotten away with that if that had been a black Democrat. It does cheapen, when there's real racism, it cheapens it because that's the first place we go." ....."

CNSNews.com 10/14/99 Nicholas Sanchez "....Well, since Mr. Mfume and the NAACP are in a suing mood, I have the perfect target for their next lawsuit. This is an industry that has made millions and millions of dollars a year by killing millions and millions of black children over the years. You may ask what this pernicious enterprise that exists and legally eradicates America's black youth is. It is not the gun industry. Nor is it the drug industry. It is not even the KKK, Inc. It is the abortion industry. Yep. The reports are in that show that, although black women make up 12% of the total number of females in the United States, they have 33% of all abortions. So, basically, even though Hispanics make up roughly ten percent of the population and whites make up the super-majority of U.S. citizens, for every three children aborted in the US, one of them is black. The nasty effects of abortion have not been limited to loss of young life in the black community. Howard University completed a study in 1993 that shows that black women over the age of 50 were 4.7 times more likely to get breast cancer compared to mothers that had not had abortions. Well, I'll be. This report clearly shows that feminists have been right all these years and that abortion is a "woman's issue." Although, Mr. Mfume has thus far failed to act on this major public policy issue, there have been other leaders in black community that have not been so hesitant to speak out against this attack on black babies and black mothers. And in the grand tradition of the old civil rights movement, the one that was born out of truly American ideals like life and liberty, this one comes not from a subsidiary of the Democratic National Committee, but from the cloth. A group of 12 black