- It is known in police parlance as “contagious shooting” — gunfire that spreads among officers who believe that they, or their colleagues, are facing a threat. It spreads like germs, like laughter, or fear. An officer fires, so his colleagues do, too
- “Instead of helping to provoke a serious conversation about race and racism in Hollywood and broader American society, McBride and Doss only reinforce the “race hustler” caricature that follows real activists and cultural critics…”
- “Of course, it’s scary to confront race. Beyond polite conversational conventions, we don’t even have much of a shared vocabulary. It’s a lot easier to learn the P.C. rules than confront any biases you might find within…”
- “For some reason it seems like racist incidents on college campuses have peaked during the fall semester this year. There have been several blackface incidents, and other random racist happenings. Here are a few…”
- “Can teaching poor children to act more like middle-class children help close the education gap?”
- “a group of white men taunting a group of Asian women — including Hai Vo’s sister — with dollar bills and suggestions that “Asian women cost five dollars”. We don’t know the extent to which Hai Vo attempted to defend his sister. All we know is that he
- “Simply put: Thanksgiving is the day when the dominant white culture (and, sadly, most of the rest of the non-white but non-indigenous population) celebrates the beginning of a genocide that was, in fact, blessed by the men we hold up as our heroic foundi
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The Octavia Butler Book Club
(Click the book for the latest conversation) Feminism for Real – Jessica, Latoya, Andrea
The Same Woman – Thea
I Speak For Myself – Fatemeh
Yes Means Yes – Latoya
Sex Ed and Youth – Jessica
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