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“A DNA test has confirmed that a Busan man is the biological father of U.S. freestyle skier Toby Dawson, who took bronze in the men’s mogul competition at the Turin Winter Olympics last year.”
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“All but closing the books on a crime that helped give rise to the civil rights movement, a grand jury has refused to bring any new charges in the 1955 slaying of Emmett Till, a black teenager who was beaten and shot after whistling at a white woman in th
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“brewing controversy over Dr. Kapoor, who is now under investigation by the California medical board for his alleged role in supplying Ms. Smith with the alleged pharmaceutical products that are alleged to have contributed to her demise…”
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“Do black people need to publicly apologize when one of our major figures (or even minor, in this case) says something ignorant about Asian people? Hell yeah. The whole “black people can’t be racist” argument does not hold water with me…”
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Oh snap! My favorite tragic mulatta speaks: “In spite of the fact he was a segregationist, he did many wonderful things for black people…. I’m not sure that Reverend Sharpton is aware of all the things he did,” said Essie Mae Washington-Williams.
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Law students have accused University of Wisconsin Law Professor Leonard Kaplan of making statements in class that denigrate Hmong people, leading to a public apology from the dean of the Law School at a meeting of more than 100 people.
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“We now live in a society where when someone who is negatively judged by their ethnicity, sexuality or gender has the courage to speak out, they can be called a racist.”
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“The City Council voted today to approve a symbolic resolution banning the “n” word from the city vocabulary. The non-binding measure, approved unanimously, calls on New Yorkers to voluntarily stop using the word.”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of 
Colin wrote:
About the PC article, the original one BlogHer commented on, (I guess that’s the term, right?) I went ahead and looked at the original Violent Acres article, at the link below…
http://www.violentacres.com/archives/116/im-sick-of-political-correctness
…it’s a real tour de force of paranoid mumbo jumbo mixed with a slight tinge of idiocy. So, I looked ahead at her posts after that one, and she did a quick follow-up to explain WHY she did that piece, I presume after she was dissected by other bloggers all over these series of tubes they call the Internets.
She went on, in a little ditty called “Maggie and the Client”…link coming later… to talk about her poor co-worker from at least a decade ago who was harassed by a black customer who was, to say the least, unreasonable. To end a little spat, the customer argued to Maggie that the reason she wasn’t given the service she thought she deserved was because Maggie was racist. Maggie said she didn’t care that the customer was “black”, and the customer’s claim of racism grew from the use of the term “black”. Maggie then showed pictures of her black husband and their child together, as proof of her non-racist nature and Violent Acres, the incredibly quiet bystander in this, remarks…and this is the amazing thing to me…
“I said, “Maggie…no one really believes that you’re a racist.”
“You don’t understand,” she wailed, “I love my family!”
But I did understand. I understood that for Maggie, being called a racist was as big an insult to her as being called a n****r is to a black man.”
I couldn’t help but think, really? I mean, word Maggie? Reminds me about all those people who got put in trees to the cries of “you racist sonofabitch”, yeah, all zero of them. And that’s why Violent Acres says she made that dumb article about political correctness. She really thinks being called a racist is as bad as being hit with racism. It would not be an insult to call her beyond moronic, would it?
http://www.violentacres.com/archives/117/maggie-and-the-client
Maggie and the Client
Posted 01 Mar 2007 at 10:12 am ¶
bertie wrote:
I can’t be too hard on ol’ Essie mae–I was taught to respect my elders. But she should respect Sharpton’s right to react however he needs to with the information that her ancestors owned his.
As far as all Ol’ Strom did for black people–she’s probably more accurately referring to all the good he did for one black person in particular (her).
Assuming he did do alot for blacks in S.C. (like increasing funding for HBCU’s in the state, which he did do) his quiet, behind the scenes, small to moderate good deeds on behalf of blacks pales in comparison to the very public and extreme rhetoric and vilification of black folks he engaged in as a presidential candidate.
Posted 01 Mar 2007 at 11:46 am ¶
FEB wrote:
Re: Kenneth Eng will never get it
Good article. Good introspection on the part of the author. I also heard the argument “black people can’t be racists,” and it’s utterly discredited. The one aspect about this article I diverge from (albeit slightly) is that apologizing for your fellow co-ethnic’s bad behavior is less effective than speaking up against his/her bigotry.
Posted 06 Mar 2007 at 10:03 am ¶