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“The skeleton of the fossilised, 3.2 million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy, will go on display in the US, Ethiopian officials say… the discovery of Lucy represented “the true story of Ethiopia being the cradle of human civilisation and the home
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“We can be sure that of one thing- that with Brangelina in India this year, and Paris Hilton going to Mumbai next year, that the Indian paparazzi are hitting jackpot on the tabloid photo front…”
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Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” is so last year. Apparently businessmen are all about Indian philosophy now. “known as Song of the Divine One, the work relates a conversation between the supreme deity Krishna and Arjuna, a warrior prince struggling with a mora
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"[Penelope] Cruz in her directorial debut, will put on celluloid the story of Anita Delgado, the flamenco dancer from Andalucia who created a stir when she agreed to marry an Indian king -Maharaja Jagatjit Singh Bahadur- in 1908."
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“you can save 20% by purchasing your Hindu Goddess Costume now (don’t forget to wear it with the retch-inducing nude pantyhose). For just under $32, you, too, can wear an outfit even Diwali Barbie wouldn’t touch. The best part? My wrath and beat down
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“In the 10 years I’ve been giving public speeches, I’ve never faced a crowd like the one in Wilberforce, Ohio Tuesday evening….I have never spoken to any audience where dozens of students actually booed and jeered and hissed. Until last night.”
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“Though poor and minority neighborhoods suffered the brunt of Katrina’s fury, residents living in white neighborhoods have been three times as likely as homeowners in black neighborhoods to seek state help in resolving insurance disputes…”
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“Masonic groups operate in a separate-but-supposedly-equal system in which whites typically join one network of Masonic groups, called Grand Lodges, and blacks typically join another, called Prince Hall.”
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“Boy, if ever there was a textbook case of how to subtly bash the victim, it’s this show’s take on the Duke rape case. They hammer on and on about her ‘inconsistant stories’ but all the evidence they present is skewed against the victim and for the attack
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A Republican Vietnamese American candidate has been accused of illegally intimidating Democratic Hispanic voters in California by sending Lations letters warning that illegal or legal immigrants could be deported if they try to vote.
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“if the Republicans are able to exploit this decision and use it to resurrect fear among their conservative base, the Democrats’ hopes of taking back both houses of Congress could easily be dashed.”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
Ann wrote:
Hello, Ginmar.
Thanks so much fo your post on the Duke rape case. I enjoyed reading also what the commentors over at your site had to say.
My biggest anger goes towards the disrespectful way the police handled this case. It translates into, “She was just a black woman/stripper so who cares if we obtain DNA evidence to give to the proscecutor?”
And because of the sloppy callous disregard the police had for this woman’s case, who knows what kind of valuable, crucial evidence was lost through inept (racist) shoddy police work.
And you are right that a BLACK WOMAN is more likely to be raped than a woman of another race. She is also more likely not to report it as much either.
Black women in America are still looked upon as “un-rapeable”, as beasts with no feelings, as the “mules of the world.”
Here is a link to a “study” that a young white man did to study whether or not blacks all cry racism. He dyed his skin black to see what life was like for a black man in America:
http://www.thecode.net/interviews/solomons.html
He found that racism was still occurring in America, although more underground, more “sophisticated”.
But, the most chilling thing that he spoke of in his interview is how white men in America STILL view black women and their sexuality. Here is an excerpt from the interview:
“AC: Do you feel that you would have had an easier time if you had been able to be, portray yourself as a black women. How do you think, that as a white male, society views black women and/or treats them with respect to black males.
Solomons: It would be even more difficult, cause not only would you have to deal with the racism, but, the sexism, from both, you know, black men and the white men. I think that would have been extremely difficult. to see the way white men see black women is, you know, if you could magnify the racism with black men, I think that’s what you would get. you see, and you also gotta like, I’ve been in the company of several white men recently who, you know, a lot of, I haven’t let any of the newspapers or the magazines articles run pictures of me, cause I’m really, you know, kinda trying to protect my anonymity and so I’m kinda still able to kinda sit down and talk to people about this stuff and, you know, and they were talking about these black women who walked by, I mean, as purely sex objects and telling how they would never ever consider marrying one or having a relationship with one, but, you know, the thought of having sex with them was perfectly fine. And, you know, I hear that often. I mean, that’s common. I think it common with white women too, but, not to the, I guess, there’s a certain animosity there that makes it unique.”
But, it’s his words that stay with me the most that I found so sad, so chilling, but obviously still true. And that was this part of his statement:
“And, you know, I hear that often. I mean, that’s common.”
Hear it often. Still so common.
With the degrading racist/sexist images that black women still have to fight in America still prevailing against us, it comes as no surprise that these white men would speak their innermost true thoughts to this young white man.
America still will not let go of her racist/sexist devaluation of black women.
And from the looks of things, she never will.
This woman has been tried and convicted in public opinion.
What the hell.
She’s only a black woman.
Posted 26 Oct 2006 at 2:12 pm ¶