Author Archives: Jack Stephens

Want to Call Yourself Canadian? Assimilate–or Else…

Alex blogs:
Canadians are too polite to tell the gooks to go home, that just wouldn’t seem right.
It does, however, seem to be ok to tell them to “integrate” with “our culture” or else “Canada should reject that person as a potential Canadian citizen.”
A recent Toronto Star article titled “Sure we have rights, but what […] Continue reading

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Montreal-North is Burning

Kersplebedeb blogs:
Montreal-North is burning. After the murder of Fredy Villenueva by the Montreal Police (SPVM), and the riots which broke out to express the people’s anger, the community of Montreal-North remains angry. The time has come to organize a social and political offensive against the local elites who are trying to cover up this state […] Continue reading

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Race and Biology

Ridwan blogs:
Last year around this time Nobel Prize laureate, James Watson, shocked the scientific community with his ludicrous claim that race is a scientific category.
Watson, you may remember, won the Nobel Prize for his research that led (in part) to the ‘discovery’ of DNA.
So, it is October again. Now comes a report that Akhil […] Continue reading

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On Privilege

Resistance blogs:
First, the author notes that she was expelled from high school for truancy. Yet none of the vitriolic responses chastise her for “not valuing education” or “not finishing school” or “not having parents who knew the value of hard work.” All of these sentiments are expressed. However, they are all directed towards black people.
Second, […] Continue reading

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The Exotifying Gaze

Johanna blogs:
I am really uncomfortable with how a lot of vegan cooking is described as “exotic” (to whom?). It assumes so much about the audience racially & culturally, & as well is loaded with really creepy connotations — the exotic is there to be conquered, mastered; it’s there purely to titillate your (white/Western/etc.) self (which […] Continue reading

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The West and Intervention

In light of Jeff’s good analysis on the South Ossetia conflict I thought I would provide a link and excerpt from my blog The Mustard Seed.   I read an interesting (but ultimately trivial) opinion piece in today’s Finnancial Times … Continue reading

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What Do We Want? A Five Part Series

I got this e-mail from the blogger Brown Man, check it out:

I’ve heard a constant refrain lately – at work, on TV, on the internet – from some of my black brethren about Barack Obama.
He doesn’t need to “lecture black people” about personal responsibility.
He should be mindful of the tone he uses when he speaks […] Continue reading

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On Responsibility, Accountability and Values: The Process to Change

Asabagna blogs on white people and no longer expecting them to change a system that benefits them:
In regards to the eurocentric dominant culture, this has meant four things. One, I no longer felt any responsibility to be their teacher (and/or confessor… as a way for them to ease the angst of their white privilege) on the effects of white […] Continue reading

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Race is a Lie

Jasmin blogs:
…race is not real; it is a socially constructed phenomenon based solely on visible physically differences. Race is so fictitious a concept that in the post-emancipation U.S. a man could be considered Black in one state, and White in another!
Although race is not real, the effects of racial differentiation; however, are very real. Not […] Continue reading

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Orwell Online

Snowball, a British socialist blogger, writes:
If only Orwell were still around to see that certain things seem to run in the family of the British Union of Fascist leader…
Anyway, instead, we will have to make do with the fact that Orwell’s old diaries will be serialised online starting from tomorrow, day by day, here. […] Continue reading

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