Category Archives: Race, racism and related issues

Racism Begets Racism

Riffing off a point by Matt Yglesias (who notes that the opposition to Sotomayor has been almost cartoonishly racist), Ta-Nehisi Coates says the GOP can’t help itself: One problem with the GOP is that when you build your brand on … Continue reading

Posted in Race, racism and related issues, Supreme Court Issues | 38 Comments

Judge Sotomayor's Speech on being a Latina on the Bench

In 2001, Sonia Sotomayor gave the keynote speech at “a symposium commemorating the 40th anniversary of the first judicial appointment of a Latino to a federal district court.” The text of the speech was later published in the La Raza … Continue reading

Posted in Race, racism and related issues, Supreme Court Issues | 49 Comments

Scattered comments on D00ds fucking up, savage islands, and imagining women's liberation as a separate geographic space

PhysioProf, guest blogging at Isis the Scientist has a post up called the Handy-Dandy Guide for D00dly Commenters which struck both me and Ampersand as being similar to his How Not to Be Insane When Accused of Racism: A Guide … Continue reading

Posted in Feminism, sexism, etc, Race, racism and related issues | 16 Comments

12 White Jurors Agree: Kicking A Mexican To Death Isn't Murder

“He’s dead because he’s Mexican. This is jury nullification….” Meanwhile, check out the reaction of the woman interviewed about one minute into this piece: Ornicus writes: Considering some of the details of the killing, it’s also inordinately clear this was … Continue reading

Posted in Immigration, Migrant Rights, etc, Race, racism and related issues | 23 Comments

R.I.P. Manong Al Robles: "For years I have been preparing for this thing called the community."

Recently Al Robles, a figure prominent in the San Francisco Bay Area Filipino American community passed away.  Here is a short excerpt from a post I did on him: Manong Al was a native San Franciscan and fought for the … Continue reading

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The Real Victim

Mark Halpern identifies the biggest concern about Souter’s replacement: Aw, poor white guys! We only make up seven of the nine Supreme Court Justices. Why, one of them’s a woman! And there’s even a black guy! What more do you … Continue reading

Posted in Affirmative Action, Feminism, sexism, etc, Race, racism and related issues, Supreme Court Issues, The Obama Administration | 11 Comments

Presenting ¡PRESENTE! (Guest post by Nezua).

This is a guest post by Nezua, cross-posted from The Unapologetic Mexican.) OVER AND OVER we hear about The Hispanic Vote™ and The Latino/a Vote® and it is a real thing we are talking about in all of this. Our … Continue reading

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Another racist cartoon by editorial cartoonist Donna Barstow

Racist cartoonist Donna Barstow, who is here seen being responsible for racist cartooning on the subject of swine flu, has unsurprisingly dabbled in racist cartoons before. In the following cartoon, she shows herself as unsavvy about race politics affecting African … Continue reading

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Race, racism and related issues | 110 Comments

Fox's "Glee," the stereotyping of fat black women, and making friends with the loser kid in the wheelchair

I’m getting sick of the-popular-kids-are-better-at-geek-stuff-than-the-geeks trope, which stinks of noblesse oblige. And there are a zillion other things wrong here. But I’ll still be giving this show a try, because I’m that much of a sucker for anything resembling a … Continue reading

Posted in Disabled Rights & Issues, Fat, fat and more fat, Popular (and unpopular) culture, Race, racism and related issues | 57 Comments

Bill in congress would eliminate racist cocaine sentencing discrepancy

  Via Global Investment Watch, a letter from Color of Change, asking for folks to contact their congresscritters.  This bill, if it passes, is a good example of how the marginal difference between Democrats and Republicans, marginal though it is, … Continue reading

Posted in In the news, Prisons and Justice and Police, Race, racism and related issues | 19 Comments