Theocracy Now!
Max Blumenthal has a truly hilarious/terrifying video up on HuffPo today. It features GOP presidential hopefuls speaking to leaders and followers of the Religious Right — and while it’s not surprising, it’s still disgusting. Max describes some of the scenes: Though no candidate emerged from the Summit as a clear Christian right favorite, the badly [...]
...read moreComparing apples to drowned people
The Rude Pundit on the dangers of comparing disasters.
...read moreWhiteness and Blogging: An Interview Request
A well-timed entrance, if I do say so myself. Hey y’all, hope your week’s wrapping up nice like Saran. My name is Katie, and I’m an undergrad at Harvard surviving writing my senior thesis on whiteness in U.S. feminist and pro-feminist blogs. Evidently my interview with Jill the other day wasn’t too traumatizing: she’s generously [...]
...read morePrejudice & University
My university (VK, *waves back!*) has dug up a lot of controversy this year. First, Bristol had to contend with a posh aristocratic girl on a reality TV show who argued that black people are “really bad”, condemned multicultural Britain and called lesbians “sinister”. Definitely a cocktail for intense press coverage and disaster. Buchanan also [...]
...read moreMore Nooses
Ugh. A hangman’s noose was found hanging on the door of a black professor’s office at Columbia University Teacher’s College on Tuesday morning, prompting the police to start a hate-crime investigation. Detectives with the New York Police Department’s hate-crime task force were investigating whether the noose, which was discovered on the fourth floor of the [...]
...read moreTorture 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 [...]
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