links for 2006-12-14

Thank god justice is being served for this horrific hate crime, which we told you about back in April. Two white boys sodomized a Latino boy with a sharpened plastic pipe and poured bleach all over him to try an destroy DNA evidence.

(tags: hatecrime latino hispanic)

“If he is so enthralled with human sacrifice, let him make some films about Euro-American-Australian human sacrifice…about the centuries of human sacrifice in America/Australia (Gibson’s original invader state) to keep the race “pure” through the lynchi

(tags: indigenous movies)

Thanks HighJive! “the language that scholars call Virginia Algonquian has come back from the dead…The result, for Virginia Indians such as Custalow, has been a stunning opportunity — to speak in words that their grandparents never knew.”

(tags: americanindian nativeamerican language)

Thanks Adrianna! “One ad in particular, called ‘So White’, features the tagline ‘So young…so pretty…So white!’ and is marketed to attract the impressionable young female consumer.”

(tags: hair beauty colorism africanamerican black)

Thanks Rob! The Los Angeles Times seems reluctant to cover a black on white hate crime in which “three young white women were surrounded and severely beaten by about 30 black youths…comments like “We hate white people, f— whites.”

(tags: hatecrime newspaper)

Thanks Rob! “”Ask yourself,” Greenfield says, “is there any other major public figure who dresses the way [Obama] does? Why, yes. It is Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad…And maybe that’s not the comparison a possible presidential contender really wa

(tags: politics)

Thanks Tariq! “The West Virginia Human Rights Commission is investigating charges that an elementary school teacher used a biracial kindergarten student as a prop to illustrate differences in skin color and ethnic backgrounds during a world cultures class

(tags: mixedrace school teachers)