Category Archives: Race, racism and related issues

“What are you?”

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Nisi Shawl

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Been looking all over for the Natasha Raymond poem by that title. Natasha and I performed it with my friend Elise (menshed in “My Favorite Beatle” below) in venues around Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Natasha, like most mixed race people, got that question a lot, and as a light-skinned black woman I could and can relate.  “What are you?” these inquiring […]

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My favorite Beatle

Posted on July 3, 2009 by Nisi Shawl

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My friend Elise Bryant wrote a play called The Zoo-zoo Chronicles about her life on the University of Michigan campus in the 1970s.  In the first scene, Elise’s stand-in moves into a four-bedroom dorm suite with three white women.  As an ice-breaker, one of the white women asks their new Black (we capitalized it back […]

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Personhood was not an important pro-slavery argument

Posted on June 30, 2009 by Ampersand

At the start of the month, Megan McArdle — who is, I think, pro-choice — wrote: But in this case, I think the analogy to slavery is important, for two reasons. First of all, it was the last time we … Continue reading →

Posted in Abortion & reproductive rights, Race, racism and related issues | 53 Comments

Terra Nullis

Posted on June 24, 2009 by Maia

I live in New Zealand, and like so many other countries it gives me a strange view of the USA. I’m familiar with so many things that are alien to my life. As a child I read of twinkies and … Continue reading →

Posted in Colonialism, Race, racism and related issues, Whatever | 29 Comments

Genocide

Posted on June 16, 2009 by Julie

This is genocide: CROW AGENCY, Mont. – Ta’Shon Rain Little Light, a happy little girl who loved to dance and dress up in traditional American Indian clothes, had stopped eating and walking. She complained constantly to her mother that her … Continue reading →

Posted in Anti-Semitism, Health Care and Related Issues, Race, racism and related issues | 10 Comments

It's Funny Because They're Black

Posted on June 15, 2009 by Jeff Fecke

I really don’t understand why the GOP has so much trouble attracting nonwhite voters. I mean, sure, a Republican activist said an escaped ape was “one of Michelle [Obama]’s ancestors,” then blamed the whole thing on a statement by Michelle … Continue reading →

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Fatology

Posted on June 15, 2009 by Nisi Shawl

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A while back I saw this comic strip.  Can’t remember the name.  The setting was white suburbia, a family, which as my friend Sara points out “really narrows it down.”
The female lead of the comic strip (let’s call her Wilma) has a black friend of, shall we say, “a certain size.”  Wilma spends three panels hinting around about an […]

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Glossophilia

Posted on June 12, 2009 by Nisi Shawl

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While at WisCon 33 I was on one panel that wasn’t going to be a panel.  Cultural Appropriation 101 was supposed to be a workshop.  At least, that’s what Programming asked us to do.  But then we only had your normal panel-length time slot of 75 minutes to do it in.
(”We” being myself and Victor […]

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New Jersey Man Beaten By Cops For "Wandering" While Black

Posted on June 9, 2009 by Ampersand

From WPIX: PASSAIC, N.J. (WPIX) – A police officer in New Jersey, captured on surveillance tape viciously beating a mentally ill man, has been reassigned while an investigation into the incident is underway. Passaic cop Joseph J. Rios III, a … Continue reading →

Posted in Disabled Rights & Issues, Prisons and Justice and Police, Race, racism and related issues | 14 Comments

The Modern Republican Party Sure Seems to Have Some Deep-Seated Racial Issues

Posted on June 6, 2009 by Jeff Fecke

Okay, so let’s say that National Review decided to do a racist caricature of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, but they decided to do a racist caricature that changed her race? Would that be better? That may seem like an insane question to ask, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Race, racism and related issues, Supreme Court Issues | 9 Comments