The mayor of the City of Oakland in California has come under fire for excluding poor white families from a $500 monthly cheque support scheme. White families are explicitly excluded from the race-based program which is funded by wealthy private donors, despite the fact that an estimated 10,000 of the city’s population are white residents living in poverty, with yearly earnings of […]
Who are the activists and the NGOs who have contributed to stirring up tensions in the past week, especially around the suggestion that bias might have motivated Garda actions leading to the death of George Nkencho? And why are so many of them funded by the hard-pressed Irish tax-payer? These people range from elected TDs […]
Coronavirus running wild, economy sputtering to a halt, no-deal Brexit coming down the tracks, and, at last count, six thousand and seventy-seven homeless people in the country. And the Government’s hot new idea? Counting the skin colour of lecturers in Irish Universities to make sure they’re “diverse” enough: IT WILL BE compulsory for third-level institutions […]
Which racial group is most likely to be killed by police in the United States? It’s not African-Americans, it’s Native Americans. Native Americans are less than one percent of the nation’s population but make up about two percent of police killings. Some of them have been dramatic. The Great Falls Tribune, a newspaper in Billings, Montana, […]
There is something about that phrase in the headline – “black crimes matter” – that makes you flinch, isn’t there? There is at least a part of you that thinks it is racist. We’re conditioned, as Irish people, and indeed as white people, to be on edge as soon as the word “crime” appears next […]
The University and Colleges Union (UCU), which represents over 100,000 lecturers and staff in third level institutions throughout the UK, said they would not only support transgender theory, but also claimed that white people could “self-identify” black, and that non-disabled people could “self-identify” as disabled.