Europe’s Deepening Refugee Crisis A young Liberian refugee arrives in Italy, where he is left to fend for himself and winds up homeless in a filthy slum. When he flees to Germany, the government there invokes EU asylum law and sends him back. It is a cycle of degradation faced by thousands of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Euros’
HAPPY NEW YEAR … unless you are a refugee in Europe or Israel
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Abuse of the Torah.
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Voters Rights Day
It was on this day in 1965 that thousands of marchers, led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., left Selma, Alabama, headed to Montgomery, to protest the disenfranchisement of African-American voters. They had attempted the march twice before, earlier in the month, but the first time they had been badly b[...]
Purim: Hitler’s last regrets
Last moments as Der Fuehrer realizes that he has been betrayed by simpletons who hated his Jews.[...]
Slur of the Day: another Honkey word
Redlegs in Barbados, the term is offensive to many, and refers to the islands’ laborer-class whites.[...]
The Shooting Range
Goddamned racist America, Pharygula by PZ Myers A few years ago, at TAM, Blake Stacey and I took Ben Goldacre to a shooting range — we wanted to introduce him to the real America. Once we got there, though, we discovered an unexpected challenge: we had to choose a paper target to shoot at, and [&h[...]
Bill Cosby weighs in on Trayvon Martin case
“We’ve got to get the gun out of the hands of people who are supposed to be on neighborhood watch…..”[...]
Trayvon Martin, What is “Black”
Six years ago, an English couple gave birth to twin daughters. Their twin daughters, now six years old, offer a lesson to those who are exploiting Trayvon Martin’s memory. Racists .. .. whether Sharpton who uses race with all the subtleties of a pimp or the self satisfied Fauxies who can[...]
A UW Graduate Writes About Howard, III. a response.
I disagree with you about the notion of “people of color.” A response to the essay here by Amarilis Lugo de Fabritz. I think this term is NewSpeak, in the Orwell tradition. “People of Color” The term is used by aggressive African Americans to claim a larger constituency t[...]
The Hypocrisy of Racism
There is much talk about “the talk.” “Sean O’Reilly was 16 when his mother gave him the talk that most black parents give their teenage sons,” Denisa R. Superville of the Hackensack (NJ) Record tells us. Meanwhile, down in Atlanta: “Her sons were 12 and 8 when Marlyn Tillman realized it [...]