Category Archives: Race, racism and related issues

Right Speech vs. White Privilege:

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Julie

ETA: My curiosity took me to the Wikipedia page for Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, and it turns out that O’Brien’s comparison is even less apt than I initially thought: The village’s long name cannot be considered an authentic Welsh-language toponym. It was artificially … Continue reading →

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This is Hatred–Shameful, Disgraceful, Unnerving, Frightening, Racist, Xenophobic, Islamophobic Hatred

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Apologies for posting twice in such quick succession, but I saw this video on Facebook and I just had to post it. It speaks for itself, though I especially appreciated the woman who calls out, “One nation under God, not … Continue reading →

Posted in Islamaphobia, Race, racism and related issues | 7 Comments

Teaching Cornelius Eady’s “Brutal Imagination”

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

One of the projects I have set myself for this tenth year after the September 11 attacks on New York City and Washington DC is to read all the books of poems I own that were published in 2001. I … Continue reading →

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Quote: Make It More Ethnic

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Ampersand

I have been on sets before when a director says ‘can you make it more ethnic?’ I always say ‘can you demonstrate to me how you want it done?’ That usually ends it. –Yvette Nicole Brown Reading this article by … Continue reading →

Posted in crossposted on TADA, Media criticism, Race, racism and related issues | 10 Comments

Microaggressions

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Myca

My wife pointed me to an excellent, if infuriating, blog last night, and I was up until 2 AM reading through it. Microaggressions is a blog about the little daily fuck-yous that populate the world if your race, gender, ethnicity, … Continue reading →

Posted in Anti-Semitism, Class, poverty, labor, & related issues, Colonialism, crossposted on TADA, Disabled Rights & Issues, Fat, fat and more fat, Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer issues, Links, Race, racism and related issues, Whatever | 11 Comments

Identity, Class Politics, and the Burgis

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Jack Stephens

Originally posted on my blog The Mustard Seed. My lifelong friend (since 1st grade ya’ll!) and activists and organizer in the Filipino American community, Carlo, recently posted a piece on his blog on Asian American Studies (specifically at San Francisco … Continue reading →

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Cupcakes With a Side of Racism!

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Jeff Fecke

Uh…Duncan Hines? Really, Duncan Hines? Yeah, they pulled the ad. But seriously, nobody looking at this thought, “Jesus Chrimbus, are those cupcakes wearing blackface?” Yep, we’re a post-racial America, all right.

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Why Barack Won't Get Angry

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Jeff Fecke

One of the truly annoying memes among my fellow lefties has been the recurring demand that Barack Obama get angry. “Why won’t he fight the right?” goes the mantra, as if Obama pushing through a health care plan and massive, … Continue reading →

Posted in Elections and politics, Race, racism and related issues | 52 Comments

Oscar Grant's Life Is Worth Two Years

Posted on November 8, 2010 by Ampersand

Johannes Mehserle, the white transit cop who accidentally drew his gun rather than his taser (completely different weight and placement on his body), and then accidentally turned off his gun’s safety, and then accidentally shot Oscar Grant, a young black … Continue reading →

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Births For Unmarried Black Women Have Been Dropping For Decades

Posted on October 3, 2010 by Ampersand

[Published on Alas, TADA, and on Family Scholars Blog.] The Heritage Foundation thinks that births to unmarried Black women is a problem that just keeps getting worse: [The out-of-wedlock birth rate] remained relatively low until the onset of Lyndon Johnson’s … Continue reading →

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