Keling a word used to describe people originating from the Indian subcontinent by native Malaysians and Indonesians – originally merely descriptive, it has come since the 1960s to be considered offensive by a majority of Indians Kike Honkey term for Jews. Kraut (from Sauerkraut) (North Amer[...]
Posts Tagged ‘American Diversity’
August 13th, 2014 - 4:45 am § in America, The Ave Scene
Do That! Willies vs. Bourbon and Bones
A couple of days ago Barbara and I went to a new, fancy “Nawilns” style BBQ place in Ballard. Bourbon and Bones, it is called. No complaints! Bourbon and Bones was more than OK. The barbecue is kind of North Carolina style , vinegar-based, OK but the grits, the smoke chicke[...]
Anniversary of the Negris leaving Spain
My family name, when we lived in Spain, was Negri .. a word meaning that we were dark folks like the moors. In March 1492 King Ferdinand, under pressure from Torquemada, issued a decree of expulsion against the Negri. Four months later, two days before Christopher Columbus set sail, my family left[...]
People of Color: What is the antonym for POC?
CENSORING IGGE A ruckus has arisen because of an op-ed in the monthly West View News of the West Village in New York. The author, James Collier, used the N word to make the all to real point that “far right voters hate Obama …America’s increasing tolerance of far-right o[...]
June 20th, 2014 - 12:41 am § in America
FREE PREGGERS TESTS IN ALASKA!
Researchers from the University of Alaska–Anchorage are installing pregnancy test dispensers in the women’s restrooms in bars and restaurants in remote communities in Alaska. The goal is to avert fetal alcohol syndrome. Of course, the obvious next on will be to require women to show the tes[...]
June 13th, 2014 - 3:22 am § in Politics
Invasion of the Children
immigrant children are being held in temporary U.S. holding pens. The U.S. border patrol says its forces are overwhelmed, and the courts are bracing for a flood of immigration cases from children held in temporary detention facilities designed to handle a fraction of the numbers. Sanitati[...]
European Anti Semitism
Bernard-Henri Lévy , has written a powerful essay on European anti Semitism published at the Daily Beast The essay is very powerful, focused on the hypocrisy of Belgium and France in dealing with the all too real problem of Islamic fanatics. As horrible as Islamic anti Semitism is, [...]
June 8th, 2014 - 4:00 pm § in America, The Ave Scene
When Will The Seattle Get Great Southern Food?
Seattle has never had much southern food. The great Hills Brothers barbecue closed decades ago to be survived by the good but not great Willies and Jones’ brothers. Until it closed a few months ago, Les Bon Ton was pretty good at imitating a N’awlins road house. Of course there is [...]
Back From Canada
Got quite a different view of the US.[...]