Category Archives: Race, racism and related issues

The Thing Not Being Said

Posted on July 28, 2009 by nojojojo

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…about all this “birther” crap, in which fine upstanding folk who are legitimate natural-born citizens of this fine country (the US of A, because we’re all from it or want to be from it, of course) incessantly and illogically question the fact that our president is also legitimately natural-born…
…is that they’re not crazy. They’re […]

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Carl Brandon Society Open Letter

Posted on July 27, 2009 by Mandolin

Quite recently, something rather nasty happened to K. Tempest Bradford. On this blog, you know her as the angry black woman. For various reasons, Harlan Ellison believed Tempest to have said some nasty things about her, so he wrote a … Continue reading →

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President Obama puts to rest any silliness about a “post-racial society”

Posted on July 23, 2009 by the angry black woman

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MY president weighed in on the Gates arrest and said pretty much what every right-thinking person has said on the subject in specific and the subject in general. Take a peek:

Again, I don’t feel the need to say much about this because what all went wrong here is pretty much obvious. But I’ve heard from […]

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More Gatesgate links (including Obama's commentary on the arrest)

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Ampersand

It’s not even midnight and everyone at my sister’s house (where I’m visiting this week) is asleep. Guess I’ll post some links. Professor Gates’ version of the story. This is a must-read if you’re interested in this story. I guess … Continue reading →

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On racism and certainty, or, how White people are Gaslighting People of Color

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Ampersand

In the thread about the recent arrest of Henry Louis Gates in front of his home, Ron asked how we could be certain that the cops involved were racist. We don’t know what was in the cop’s head, after all. … Continue reading →

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Rachel Maddow Corrects Pat Buchanan on Race

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

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Hello Jim Crow!

Posted on July 9, 2009 by karnythia

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Apparently, not only is Jim Crow alive and well, he isn’t even pretending to be hidden any more. What makes me say that? Well let’s start with a curious incident in Philadelphia. Seem a day camp paid for their kids to be able to swim one day a week at a private club. First time […]

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Brian Kilmeade's Seed is Pure

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Jeff Fecke

Fox and Friends’ Brian Kilmeade (he’s the idiot. No, not Doocy, the other idiot. No, not Gretchen Carlson….) has a problem: it seems that there’s too much race-mixing in America. Not between whites and Blacks — I mean, that goes … Continue reading →

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Party Like It's 1959

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Jeff Fecke

I’m sure glad that the election of Barack Obama means the end of all racism. I mean, otherwise, one would read this article about a Philadelphia swim club that banned 60 paying African-American kids from their pool because they would … Continue reading →

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I liked Pixar's UP — and it had a fat co-star!

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Ampersand

(Spoiler warning!) 1) We paid the extra couple of bucks to watch in 3-D. The 3-D was so well-done, so utterly natural and looked so good that we all stopped noticing it after the first fifteen minutes. Not really worth … Continue reading →

Posted in Fat, fat and more fat, Feminism, sexism, etc, Popular (and unpopular) culture, Race, racism and related issues | 59 Comments