Victoria’s Secret Does It Again: When Racism Meets Fashion[...]
Posts Tagged ‘race’
Donald Trump Attacks A Jewish Racist
What race is Trump?[...]
Steve Jobs, An Arab Genius!
Jihad el-Khazen from Dar Al Hyat by Jihad el-Khazen I wanted to write about Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple Inc., straight after he passed away on the fifth of this month. However, the approaching defeat of Muammar Gaddafi, and then his capture and death, as well as the developments relating to [...]
Sunday Revelations: Europeans ARE Cro Magnon
DNA study deals blow to theory of European origins By Paul Rincon Science editor, BBC News website Did Palaeolithic hunters leave a genetic legacy in today’s European males? Continue reading the main story A new study challenges previous research showing that farmers displaced that of Euro[...]
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[...]
October 8th, 2011 - 12:12 pm § in Misc.
Miscegenation Nation of Republicans
Public Policy Polling asked self-identified Mississippi Republicans how they feel (PDF) about interracial marriage. And 74% of those who’d like to ban interracial marriage also have a “favorable view” of Sarah Palin. Miscegenation[...]
October 1st, 2011 - 7:02 am § in America
Teaching at a Colored University
from the AAUP listserv at UW. Dear AAUP: Just a note as a lurking alumna. I got my Ph. D. from Slavic Languages in 2001. I worked as a Mellon Post-Doc at Emory University the two years after that. Since then, I have mostly been working as a lecturer at Howard University in Washington DC, […][...]
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[...]
July 4th, 2011 - 10:17 am § in America
Great Read
American Uprising by Daniel Rasmussen First books don’t get much better than this recent Harvard graduate’s vitally important, page-turning history of the January, 1811, slave uprising and march on New Orleans.[...]
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 [...]