Via the Houston Chronicle, it seems a graduating Senior from a high school in Richmond, TX, is suing UT-Austin. Her suit alleges that she, as a white person, was denied admission to UT due to race-based admission policies.
The complaint, filed yesterday in Austin (.pdf here), states that plaintiff Abigail Fisher is graduating in the […]
Late last week, Newt Gingrich delivered a curious, under-reported speech at the American Enterprise Institute. He called it, “Answering the Obama Challenge”, and it was framed as a response to Barack Obama’s historic speech about race. (Video and transcript available here. My emphasis.)
Segregation was a horrible institution imposed by force by the […]
While talking with one of Adorable Child’s friends yesterday afternoon, she mentioned that her 8th grade History class is talking right now about politics, and they’ve been looking at the current election campaign.
A fairly wide-ranging discussion ensued in my den, and when the name “Barack Obama” came into our conversation, this young teenager said (paraphrasing): […]
When Adorable Child (AC) started middle school in the Katy school system this past year, I had a somewhat malicious sense of satisfaction in knowing she has to get up a full hour earlier (6 am) than she had to in elementary school. Given the flack that comes my way from my pre-teen, […]
Every year, the Katy Independent School District holds “Red Ribbon Week”. Kids dress up in silly clothes, or wear odd head-gear, and school buildings and grounds are festooned with fluttering crimson.
What this is supposed to be about is saying “No” to drugs — but as ever, some danged idiotz forgot to read the memo.
And […]