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Am I the only one who read "Beware the narcoterrorists" and thought "beware the jabberwock"?
@beth: Thank you
@Watcher If you scroll through Barry's old cartoons on leftycartoons.com, some of the old ones are about Clinton, while some…
@Watcher: Much as I would like to have Obama or Clinton or even Dubya* back rather than the current wannabe…
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Category Archives: Race, racism and related issues
I Hate This
I hate that this song is still relevant. It shouldn’t be.
Confidential NOM strategy memo: “Provoke the gay marriage base… fan the hostility.”
[Crossposted at Family Scholars Blog.] From the Associated Press: The leading national organization opposing same-sex marriage has sought to split the Democratic Party base by pitting African-Americans and Hispanics against gay-rights groups, according to confidential strategy memos made public by … Continue reading →
Alfre Woodard reads Sojourner Truth
This is just a stunningly great reading: TRANSCRIPT MODERATOR: Here, the black abolitionist Sojourner Truth, who was freed from slavery in 1827, speaks to a gathering of feminists, in Akron, Ohio, in 1851. ALFRE WOODARD AS SOJOURNER TRUTH: Well, children, … Continue reading →
Analyses of Trayvon Martin’s Murder
Two important pieces on the broader issues behind Trayvon’s death. First, from the Crunk Feminist Collective: In this post- most-racial moment*, we must seriously re-evaluate this narrative of linear historical progress that we are beholden to. No, Black men don’t … Continue reading →
Feminism, Men, and Redemption
[Trigger/content warning: Violence] A couple of people have emailed me asking what I think about the Hugo Schwyzer, erm, Internet Feminist Situation. (See Alas, for a roundup of related links and background.) (tl;dr version: What role should or can a … Continue reading →
What Dr. King Did
We all know what Martin Luther King, Jr. did. He marched, and integrated the lunch counters, and made white people and black people friends forever and ever, and also he opposed affirmative action because he had that one line in … Continue reading →
Michelle Obama Must Be Fat
So with all the swirling excitement about Iowa, not to mention my having a day job, I missed this awesome story: Can you imagine how the incident would play out if an African American congressman made a crude remark about First Lady Laura … Continue reading →
Things That Are Not Racist
A landlord putting up a “Whites Only” sign on her swimming pool? Not racist: An Ohio landlord accused of discriminating against an African-American girl with a “white only” sign at her swimming pool told ABCNews.com that the sign was an antique and … Continue reading →
It Was Never Easy for Me. I Was Born a Poor Black Child.
I don’t have time go give Gene Marks’ asinine column the kicking around I’d like to. Suffice to say that if you’re white, you probably don’t want to write a column on what you’d do if you were a poor black child. … Continue reading →
News from White Land
Karnythia sort of beat me to this, but I found two very interesting news items yesterday. One comes from James Fallows’ blog on The Atlantic, courtesy of an anonymous reader: You all (and by you all I mean whites, yes … Continue reading →
I heavily criticized Obama for his drone strikes, but I do think there are legal (maybe not moral[?]) differences even…