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Thanks Tariq! “Authorities at Tarleton State University said they plan to investigate a Martin Luther King Jr. Day party that mocked black stereotypes by featuring fried chicken, malt liquor and faux gang apparel.”
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This is HILARIOUS! “During literally tens of thousands of media interviews over the years, I always have put these black heroes in the glowing light of adulation they so deserve, crediting the black man for the intense soul and spirit that has enriched ou
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Hat tip to TheThink. “Britain’s Channel 4 Television, already under fire for broadcasting alleged racism on its top-ranked show, faced further criticism on Tuesday after a contestant on another reality television program made remarks praising slavery and
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Hat tip to The Anti-Essentialist Conundrum. “Federal officials said Tuesday they arrested more than 750 illegal immigrants over the past week in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in what they described as one of the biggest such sweeps in U.S. history.”
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“The spokesperson for the gay-lesbian community in Matamoros, José Ernesto Leal Rodríguez, was found murdered, with 8 stab wounds, in his home, according to the state authorities.”
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“A former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy has been charged in the 1964 kidnappings of two black teenagers who were long believed to have been abducted and killed by the Ku Klux Klan, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.”
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Hat tip to Harlow’s Monkey. “she says that critics of celebrity adoptions “get me all riled up … I think they can stick it — you can quote me on that,” she says.” Way to gloss over the complexities, Oprah.
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““Dutchman,” the poet Amiri Baraka’s controversial 1964 race play…The white person who goes to see this is supposed to leave feeling like a viper sent off to repent…”
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Nina wrote:
Oprah, Oprah. How much more disconnected and full of yourself can you be? This article proves Oprah gives to get back. Is that really the spirit of giving she extols through her “Life Your Best Life” mantra? She continues to generalize her work in South Africa as her work in Africa as a whole. South Africa is just one of many countries on the continent. One of the richest I might add, and the easiset for most Westerners to embrace. Development and infrastructure in the primary cities is comparable to the western world, luxury tourist attractions and ammenities abound and there is a significant white population with English as a dominant language. But I digress, back to Oprah…educating girls in South Africa will have little to no afffect on girls or life in Kenya, Swaziland or Togo. I am not saying that it shouldn’t be done, but just that its effects will not be continent-wide. Oprah tells critics of Madonna and other celebrity adopters to “stick it” yet admits that she would not bring her own 10 South African dependents to the U.S. because of her “day job.” So Madonna’s life is more suited to adopting foreign children? And she continues to demean American inner city youth by basically playing a sort of “oppression olympics” of her own comparing the lives and struggles of poor youth in America with poor youth in South Africa. I could go on and on but….. UGH!
Posted 26 Jan 2007 at 5:02 pm ¶
Marshall wrote:
You’re right Nina. Oprah could have spent less money elsewhere in Africa and it would have had a larger affect.
Posted 29 Jan 2007 at 3:27 am ¶