Show your support by purchasing VDARE.com merchandise. 
VDARE.com's Amazon connection has been restored! Remember to enter Amazon via the VDARE.com link and we get a commission on any purchases you make—at no cost to you!
In tonight's Steve Sailer column Playing With Fire: The Obama Administration Backs Anti-White Discrimination in Ricci, I couldn't resist adding a link to the classic American Renaissance article Quotas in the San Francisco Fire Department -A report on ten years of mischief.
As I've repeatedly noted, America has a huge data-collecting and data-interpreting infrastructure serving a political and media juggernaut designed to make sure that minorities get plenty of mortgages. In contrast, we have virtually no infrastructure to let us know whether minorities then pay back those mortgages.
In VDARE.com in 2001, I wrote:
ConEstablishment types assume that "assimilation" works automatically, sort of like "osmosis," to solve any minor cultural problems created by heavy immigration. They tend to have this 19th Century picture of assimilation in action: The huddled masses stumble off the docks in Boston, only to notice the Cabots and Lodges glowering at them for their uncouth behavior. Chastened, the newcomers resolve to begin the long struggle to become good Americans just like those august families.
For years, mainstream economists pooh-poohed the very existence of the concept of "predatory lending." When two willing parties agree to a transaction, how can one be "predator" and one "prey"?
Of course, this totally ignores differences in, say, math ability between lenders and bottom-of-the-barrel borrowers.
The Washington Post's top story is:
Supreme Court Poised to Review Civil Rights Laws
Justices to hear cases challenging government efforts to ensure equality in voting, employment at time of national dialogue on race and diversity.
Charging on from his rash reinstatement of Vivek Kundra as “chief information officer” despite serious questions, President Barack “I am a Desi” Obama has now come up with another young Indian to put in a position of immense power in the Federal Government IT world:
NOTE: PLEASE say if you DON'T want your name and/or email address published when sending VDARE email.
04/18/09 - A Reader Says VDARE.COM Makes Excuses For White People "who have failed in life"