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Thanks for the links, Richard. I read some of "These Things Are True" after you linked it in your newsletter,…
I thought I'd share some links to articles, newsletters, etc., often but not always written by Iranians: * The Factory…
That wasn't on purpose, but now that you mention it, I see it too. Neat.
Since you don't mention it in the chicken fat list it must be just pareidolia that makes me see the…
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Category Archives: Race, racism and related issues
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 →
Great YouTube Video on Racism by Maz Jobrani, Ahmed Ahmed and Ian Edwards
I just used this video in one of my classes to talk about two issues: how complex trying to talk effectively about racism can be and why comedy is so often such an effective way of confronting racism. I think … Continue reading →
Cartoon: The Modern Sisyphus
[spoiler]PANEL 1 The first panel has a close-up of a Black person’s hands pushing a boulder uphill. The title of the strip, “Modern Sisyphus,” is written on the boulder. PANEL 2 We see a black woman, wearing casual office clothing, … Continue reading →
Study: Lighter-Skinned Black Women Get Lighter Prison Sentences
From the blog “Layers of Blackness“: ‘The Impact of Light Skin on Prison Time for Black Female Offenders’ is the first of its kind to examine the relationship between skin tone and sentencing among African American women. It looked at … Continue reading →
Movies should show that good people can still be bigots
Patricia Turner considers the depictions of white characters in The Help: With one possible exception, the white women are remarkably unlikable, and not just because of their racism. Like the housewives portrayed in reality television shows, the housewives of Jackson … Continue reading →
Is Wayne Brady Gonna Have to Choke a Bitch?
One of the most brilliant sketches on the reliably brilliant Chapelle’s Show was Dave Chapelle’s night out with Wayne Brady. Brady, of course, has the reputation of being squeaky clean, almost to the point of absurdity. And so it comes … Continue reading →
A Messed-Up Libertarianism
A quote from libertarian Jim Henley, via LOOG: Most libertarians would agree that it’s a messed-up state that: * Creates a massive crime problem in poor minority neighborhoods with a futile, vicious and every more far-reaching attempt to prevent commerce … Continue reading →
Black Americans are Americans
One thing that cannot be said enough about birtherism, afterbirtherism, and all its myriad forms: it is racist at its core. An argument that Obama cannot be who he is — an intelligent, accomplished, American president — because he is … Continue reading →
YA RLY!
So today we learned that Barack Obama was, in fact, born in Hawai’i, just like he always said he was. Okay, “we” is kind of misleading. Most of us already knew Obama was born in Hawai’i, because, you know, he … Continue reading →
Deconstructing Sheri Tepper’s 2008 Interview with Strange Horizons
So, someone asked me what was so offensive about Tepper’s interview. After reading her comments, I’m convinced that it might actually be helpful to some people if I did a deconstruction. I don’t usually fisk things because it’s a format … Continue reading →
Watcher: I can’t really subscribe to the school of thought that intervention is obviously, tautologically, evidently wrong but I also…