Race War or Class War?

“There’s great hostility toward the high-schoolers and the university students, a kind of social racism against the young bourgeoisie. It’s serious. Ninety percent of the kids from the projects don’t leave their territory to engage in that kind of activity. That’s why the riots were in the projects. But here you have acquisitive, destructive violence. [...]

More on France

Today’s demonstrations in Paris and around France, culminating the one-day national strike called to protest the youth employment law were massive by all accounts, although the strike itself fell far short of paralyzing the country. Estimates of the number of demonstrators across France topped 1 million, while reports on the turnout in Paris ranged from [...]

An American Realist?

“I’ve never believed in that melting pot shit. You have to be white for that.” – <a href=”http://www.signandsight.com/features/673.html”>Spike Lee</a>

Some Reflections on the Immigration Debate

<i>Note: I am in Monterey, CA today and tomorrow at a conference. While I was on a break outside the Convention Center this afternoon, a pro-illegal immigration demonstration passed by. The several hundred marchers – apparently all Latino high school students – chanted “el pueblo unido jamas sera vencido.” The only flag [...]

In France Those Loveable Casseurs Are At It Again

WHEN I came out of St Michel metro station on Tuesday evening, I found a scene that appeared to be straight out of the movie, Mad Max, rather than the familiar, civilised tourist and student mecca of central Paris.
It was not the protests that were shocking so much as the menacing sense of anarchy and [...]

More Scenes from Paris

Casseurs at work.
Perhaps it’s time to start thinking about live ammunition for the riot police.
(Photos borrowed from No Pasaran.)

Is it just me, or is something wrong here?

<i>The [California High School Exit Exam] English test asks for ninth- or 10th-grade reading and writing abilities. The math test measures skills on an eighth-grade level. Students have all day to take each test, and multiple chances to take them. The passing scores are 60% for English and 55% for math, which would be an [...]

Race War in LA, continued

Honestly, it was a gang thing that turned into a race thing… We’ve never had this Latino and black problem. But it started in the jails, it poured into our streets and now it’s spilling into our schools. – Eddie Jones, Los Angeles Civil Rights Association
Last month in “… the underclass is at war”, I [...]

Good News and Bad News

The Bad News is that I continue to be extremely busy and don’t have much time to post.
The Good News is that business is great and, most importantly,
<h2>I’ve fixed the comments!</h2>
(which until a kind reader pointed it out, I hadn’t noticed were broken.)

Sydney Smith on the Population Crisis (1820)

<img alt=”sydney_smith.jpg” src=”http://www.faceright.com/archives/images/sydney_smith.jpg” width=”94″ height=”140″ align=”left”/><i>The Catholics marry upon means which the Protestant considers as insufficient for marriage. A few potatoes and a shed of turf are all that Luther has left for the Romanist; and, when the latter gets these he instantly begins upon the great Irish manufacture of children. But a [...]