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October 1st, 2013 - 9:52 am § in America
Of Communists and People of Color
Does Communist Detachment Create People of Color?: What happened to a Jewish family after Castro. Miriam B. Abrahams, a contributor at The Tablet, wrote a memoir of the death of her uncle, a Jew and a Communist, left behind when the rest of her family fled to the US. The uncle was estranged for [...]
May 24th, 2013 - 3:03 pm § in Misc.
People of Color: Cultural Purity Comes to The Heritage Foundation
The hypocritical concept of “people of color” is so weird that it is now affecting the radical right. The Heritage Foundation has now fired Jason Richwine, the young conservative scholar who co-authored the Heritage Foundation report on the long-term costs of the amnesty bill backed by t[...]
May 23rd, 2013 - 11:08 am § in Misc.
People of Color
Chandigarh-born poised to make history as US judge Submitted by Jamie Williamson on Fri, 05/17/2013 – 04:34 Washington, May 17 – Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan has moved a step closer to making history as the first South Asian judge o[...]
May 13th, 2013 - 12:50 pm § in Misc.
People of Color: UC Berkeley
Indian wunderkid is youngest Berkley topper in a century Washington, May 11 : Kolkata-born Ritankar Das, a bioengineering and chemical biology double major at the University of California at Berkeley, has become the youngest student to receive the University Medal in more than a century. The medal i[...]
March 31st, 2013 - 10:07 am § in Misc.
People of Color: Who was Vicente Guerrero?
I want to take advantage of tomorrow being April Fools Day to comment on the hypocrisy surrounding the neologism “people of color.” The term is terribly misused by political partisans and ethnic activists in the US. Republicans use it to express their angst that America is turning ag[...]
People of color should not vote with everybody else!
Majority-minority? by N in Seattle at HorsesAss has a great post on the effort to increase a “majority minority” Congressional district south of Seattle … you know where all of those black, yellow, brown, people live unless they are Korean, Indian, Lummi, or Chinese. The proponents[...]
April 15th, 2011 - 6:34 am § in Uncategorized
Will the People of Color Alliance (aka BRICS) be the next world power?
BRICS is a grouping of the emerging economic powers. Most of the news has centered on their effort to create a new world currency, what I call the Omega! Perhaps more interesting, is the odd the mix of ethnic background and political leanings of the leaders of this new Rome: A Sikh Indian leader o[...]
People of Color: Two Harvard POC Speak Out
from The Crimson: To the editor: As two women of color who frequently reflect on race at Harvard, we were excited to see the recent Fifteen Minutes magazine scrutiny “Raceless Like Me,” by Zoe A.Y. Weinberg ’13. However, while we appreciate Weinberg’s opening up of a dialogue on race, we a[...]
People of Color: Riots in Sweden
What color is a Swede? Today saw the seventh consecutive nights of rioting growing from the immigrant community in Sweden . The Telegraph describes one long term Swede, Mr Mohammed Abbas,questioning the Swedish social model’s preference for the carrot over the stick. Many Swedes were le[...]