Author Archives: Jack Stephens

Ike says “it’s water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.”

Posted on December 20, 2007 by Jack Stephens

But the Angry Black Woman blogs:
I am tired of people using the “But he was a great artist” line whenever someone who is, otherwise, a despicable human being, writes a song or a book or a poem that they like. I hate to break Godwin’s Law here, but even Hitler wrote some nice poetry and […] Continue reading →

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IQ and Genetics

Posted on December 19, 2007 by Jack Stephens

Amardeep Singh blogs:
Malcolm Gladwell’s latest in the New Yorker is a must-read for anyone who’s been stuck arguing with an IQ fetishist at a dinner party (sadly, this has happened to me once too often). Gladwell relies heavily on the work of James Flynn, who has a new book out called What is Intelligence?. […] Continue reading →

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Kid GenocidalNation

Posted on December 18, 2007 by Jack Stephens

Rob Schmidt blogs about the “reality” TV show Kid Nation in where a bunch of kids “go back to the basics” and live in the “Wild” West in Arizona. In one of the shows the kids meet Native Americans in where a whole slew of stereotypes, tepees and all, take place:
Let’s sum up what […] Continue reading →

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Disability Blog Carnival

Posted on December 17, 2007 by Jack Stephens

The December addition of the Disability Blog Carnival is up at Andrea’s Buzzing About:
We all have a number of little things that not only delight us in small ways, but also make life just so much more pleasant, and even help reduce our stress loads. These tend to fall into three categories: technology that enables […] Continue reading →

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Asian American Immigrants and Schooling

Posted on December 16, 2007 by Jack Stephens

Stacey J. Lee, over at Asian American Empowerment, blogs about Asian American immigrants and the lack of support they get from the U.S. educational system:
Despite the growing number of immigrant students in schools throughout the country, many schools lack the expertise to adequately serve second language students. In fact, many school districts face a shortage […] Continue reading →

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Invisibility of Whiteness

Posted on December 14, 2007 by Jack Stephens

Carlo Montemayor, a blogger at Double Consciousness and fellow Blog Bullet editor, blogs on the invisibility of whiteness and on some comments that Oprah “transcends” race since most of her audience is white:
What the writer here implies is that Oprah’s personality as well as her show are “race neutral” because most of her viewers are white. Likewise, Obama has […] Continue reading →

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Proving Manhood

Posted on December 13, 2007 by Jack Stephens

DesiGirl blogs about the movie Varalalu in where the main actor Ajith “proves his manhood” by raping a woman:
The cherry on top of this sick icing happens a few scenes later, when the girl’s mum pleads his case to her now pregnant daughter, with the standard “He is a good man, sweetheart” line. Of course […] Continue reading →

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On (White) Feminism

Posted on December 11, 2007 by Jack Stephens

BrownFemiPower blogs about the book Full Frontal Feminism, on teaching it at university women’s studies classes, her own experience as a woman of color in such classes, and the overall arch of teaching feminism in general:
It’s time for all of us, but in particular, women’s studies departments, to stop pretending that these interactions between women […] Continue reading →

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Authentic Mystical Experiences

Posted on December 10, 2007 by Jack Stephens

The Stumbling Mystic blogs about the documentary Jesus Camp, a movie on a camp that indoctrinates children into a hard-ling arch conservative Christian message:
Authentic spiritual experiences erase the “us versus them” mentality. They blur the boundaries between self and other. Emotional and vitalistic experiences like the ones portrayed in Jesus Camp by their very nature […] Continue reading →

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Religious Fundamentalism and Imperialism

Posted on December 7, 2007 by Jack Stephens

On the blog Red Diary, Vidrohi writes:
Imperialism succeeded in pushing back the Left through an expensive smear campaign against the Leftist forces trough out the world – a campaign that was not limited to mere words, but involved systematic suppression of Communist Parties. However, it could not eliminate the roots of the Left, which lie […] Continue reading →

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