One of the things I dislike most about the USA is the belief that we can assign “race” by appearance. Believe it or not, the guys in the three pictures to the left are all George Zimmerman! Worse, he is widely assumed to be “white.” So, here is the challenge … who i[...]
Posts Tagged ‘rhetoric’
April 22nd, 2012 - 9:03 am § in America
The AVE CHALLENGE: Racism and Photography of George Zimmerman
Emails I Get About Dennis Kucinich
Friends, Dennis has repeatedly said he would not run against another Democrat – even a conservative Democrat. I have had lots of people emailing me saying Dennis should run against all three of our incumbent Democrats here in Western Washington. In my opinion, he would never do that. The only [...]
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 [...]
April 6th, 2012 - 11:34 pm § in Uncategorized
Will Tablets Change Art?
David Hockney’s iPad art By Martin Gayford, The Telegraph One day last summer I got a text message from David Hockney. It read: “I’ll send you today’s dawn this afternoon, an absurd sentence I know, but you know what I mean.” Later on it duly arrived: pale pink, mauve and apricot cloud[...]
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[...]
April 2nd, 2012 - 2:28 am § in Jews
Happy Waralda Day!
In this season of Republican extremism, the day after April Fools seems to me to be a good time to remember the myth that the Nazis were atheists. For more on their god Waralda, click here. “Atheism is the only world, or religious view that is not tolerated within the SS… I have not tole[...]
March 30th, 2012 - 6:17 pm § in America
LIberals Act Like The Tea Party, I Blame Sharpton, II
Whatever happened between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin, the people with the most visible blood on their hands are Al Sharpton and others of his ilk who are exploiting this for their own self promotion. Saturday’s scheduled 11 a.m. march from Crooms Academy of Information Technology to t[...]
ISRAELI EXCEPTIONALISM
Reuters, by Dan Williams JERUSALEM | Wed Mar 28, 2012 1:11pm EDT (Reuters) – In May 1972, forty years before becoming Israel’s top decision-making duo, Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak first made news on the blood-stained wing of a hijacked Belgian airliner. Disguised as tousle-h[...]
March 22nd, 2012 - 8:18 am § in Misc.
North Korea: The Mystery
South Korea’s president Lee Myung-bak told The Daily Telegraph that he was convinced a debate was under way within Kim Jong-un’s regime over changing the pariah regime. Mr Lee said Kim’s outlook was a puzzle even though he was partly educated in Switzerland, granting him a more int[...]
Tea party a la France
Far right hits historic heights Far-right National Front candidate Marine Le Pen obtained a surprising 18% of the vote in the first-round of France’s presidential election Sunday night. But who will those votes go to in the second round? By Sarah LEDUC (from France 24) Having secured nearly one in[...]