Torture in the USA
People kept in secret foreign prisons without access to lawyers or rule of law aren’t the only ones being tortured — our domestic prison system condones torture and abuse as well. Lenin’s Tomb links to this video of prison torture. Here’s the description if you can’t stomach watching it (I couldn’t): The prison guards stand [...]
...read moreNo, sir, my use of the n-word was in no way intended to be racist
…right. A Tory aide was suspended today for allegedly posting images on the internet of a fellow researcher with her face blacked up accompanied by a racist insult. [...] Philip Clarke, a parliamentary aide to the former attorney general Lord Lyell, was responsible for posting the photographs, according to the website, and the 24-year-old has [...]
...read moreWhite people only go to Harlem for drugs or prostitutes
From Media Matters: On MSNBC Live with Dan Abrams, discussing Bill O’Reilly’s recent controversial comments about his visit to Sylvia’s restaurant in Harlem, Rhode Island radio host John DePetro stated: “It was a discussion on race and we’re talking about Harlem. And by and large — I lived in New York for years — white [...]
...read moreGirl assaulted over dropped birthday cake
A middle-school girl had her wrist broken by a security guard after she dropped a piece of birthday cake and didn’t clean it up to his liking. In the process of arresting her and breaking her wrist, he called her a “nappy head.” When her mother protested, she was arrested too. A student who videotaped [...]
...read moreReporting While Black
One New York Times reporter exposes abuse and racism from police officers: THE police officer had not asked my name or my business before grabbing my wrists, jerking my hands high behind my back and slamming my head into the hood of his cruiser. “You have no right to put your hands on me!” I [...]
...read moreJustice in Jena?
The District Attorney involved in the Jena 6 case has an op/ed in the New York Times, wherein he justifies the prosecutions of the six teenagers in Jena, and claims that “The victim in this crime, who has been all but forgotten amid the focus on the defendants, was a young man named Justin Barker, [...]
...read moreAdrianne Curry boycotts BET and Black History Month
I think my IQ just dropped about 10 points. America’s Next Top Model winner Adrianne Curry is “boycotting” Black History Month and BET — because they’re racist. The post on her MySpace blog is… something. Let’s just say there are LOTS of capitalized WORDS. This is gonna be hard guys. I LOVE the comedians on [...]
...read moreThe GOP *hearts* racism
Conservatives tend to get up in arms when the Republican party is accused of racism, but given their behavior over the past few decades — and the continuance of that behavior right up until today — can anyone really argue that the GOP isn’t the party of race-hate? Bob Herbert has a great op/ed up [...]
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A Little Rock Reminder
Fifty years after Dwight Eisenhower sent 1,000 soldiers to protect nine black students entering Little Rock Central High School, our country’s schools remain pitifully segregated. And as Juan Williams points out, Americans are increasingly uninterested in doing anything to battle that segregation. Our own Supreme Court is even handing down decisions that make it more [...]
...read moreIt’s the racism, stupid
Paul Krugman: But the reality is that things haven’t changed nearly as much as people think. Racial tension, especially in the South, has never gone away, and has never stopped being important. And race remains one of the defining factors in modern American politics. Consider voting in last year’s Congressional elections. Republicans, as President Bush [...]
...read moreShocker: Black people act like people!
Certainly news to Bill O’Reilly: During the September 19 edition of his nationally syndicated radio program, discussing his recent trip to have dinner with Rev. Al Sharpton at Sylvia’s, a famous restaurant in Harlem, Bill O’Reilly reported that he “had a great time, and all the people up there are tremendously respectful,” adding: “I couldn’t [...]
...read moreSen. Dodd on the Jena 6
Nice to see a Presidential candidate and a mainstream politician speaking out on this one: “The events in Jena, Louisiana are a sobering reminder that while segregation was outlawed long ago, de facto segregation in many parts of this country is still very real. No reasonable person would call what these young men have received [...]
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