- “Beck claimed that Obama “is colorless,” adding that “as a white guy … [y]ou don’t notice that he is black. So he might as well be white, you know what I mean?” In addition, Beck said: “I guarantee you, there will be blogs today that will have me being
- “The more you understand your racial prejudices, the less they will show up at work. In the mean time, I polled a few people, and here are a some annoying things that white people say that African Americans wish they wouldn’t.”
- “As is often the case with the more subtle forms of racism, the problem isn’t the way Smash and his friends are treated; it’s the limiting assumptions they face about what they can and should do. Fighting back, though, has its risks”
- Thanks Rob! “Only one student was completely European. The rest discovered they had some mixture of European, Native American, Sub-Saharan African and Asian ancestry.”
- Thanks Tereza! “From the seducing tribesman to controlling sheik to the bomb-wielding terrorist, Hollywood has consistently broad brushed Arabs with caricature and cliché. But can an Arab be an American film hero?…Hollywood is starting to believe that
- Thanks Tariq! “for a growing number of young Chinese people, dark skin now means having the money to afford foreign holidays or Western-style glamour.”
- Thanks Kim! “Even supporters acknowledged that the bill to make English the official language of Nashville was mostly a symbolic slap at illegal immigration. But even that was too much for Nashville Mayor Bill Purcell. He vetoed the measure”
- Thanks Rob! Article about Maggie Q. “Getting roughed up in China is just part of the ride for many young Asian-American actors, who have been finding it easier to get started abroad than at home…”
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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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