Category Archives: Race, racism and related issues

Microaggressions

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

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!

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.

Posted in Race, racism and related issues | 13 Comments

Why Barack Won't Get Angry

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

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

Posted in crossposted on TADA, Prisons and Justice and Police, Race, racism and related issues | 33 Comments

Births For Unmarried Black Women Have Been Dropping For Decades

[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

Posted in crossposted on TADA, Families structures, divorce, etc, Race, racism and related issues | 18 Comments

Fragments of Evolving Manhood: When Witches Stole Penises 2

Part 1 ended with the following paragraph: And so on and so on, until the fundamental difference between the Jew and the woman. Neither believe in themselves; but the woman believes in others, in her husband, her lover, or her … Continue reading

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Still Not Satisfied

It was 47 years ago today… There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?” We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of … Continue reading

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Killing Rage

I should be planning my classes. School starts in a couple of weeks and I am in the middle of setting up a long and complex assignment for the technical writing class I will teach starting in September. On top … Continue reading

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The Anti-Defamation League Should Be Ashamed of Itself

I first read about the ADL’s statement supporting those who would stop the building of Cordoba House, a Muslim community center modeled on the YM/YWHA’s and CA’s you can find all over New York City over at The Debate Link. … Continue reading

Posted in Islamaphobia, Jews and Judaism, Race, racism and related issues | 62 Comments