links for 2006-12-01

“the City Council voted to send the case back to the drawing board…At issue is whether Pierce was the victim of a harmless firehouse joke or vicious racism when his comrades slipped dog food into his spaghetti two years ago…”

(tags: discrimination workplace africanamerican black)

“Fervent fans of the show have been charmed by his gleeful energy and how he scrunches his face like a “constipated hamster” before traveling through time or space…”

(tags: asian asianamerican tv)

Thanks Rob! Ugh, fresh off his Esquire magazine debacle, John Ridley is at it AGAIN. “I have no qualm about using the word. It is just a word in the English lexicon, and no amount of political correctness will remove it from reality.”

(tags: africanamerican black n-word racism)

Thanks Rob! “More than 500 students, faculty and administrators rallied in support of the American Indian community on Wednesday, a day after The Dartmouth Review published on its front page a picture of an Indian warrior brandishing a scalp with the head

(tags: americanindian nativeamerican racism college)

Thanks Rob! “GOP strategist Ed Rogers ridiculed a potential Obama candidacy by using…bama’s little-known and politically unfortunate middle name. “Count me down as somebody that underestimates Barack Hussein Obama,” Rogers said.”

(tags: tv racism politics)