- Thx Jason! “You have an interesting phenomenon, where the ‘hip-hop experts,’ with university appointments attached to their name, have no credibility whatsoever in hip-hop circles. That…is a source of tension.”
- Thx Tereza! “Britain’s opposition Conservative Party had a full- blown race scandal on its hands Thursday after one of its top members said that soldiers from ethnic minorities were “idle and useless” and used “racism as a cover for their misdemeanours.”"
- Thx Tereza! “Asked at a National Press Club event if a political future was in the cards, [Woods] did not rule it out, saying he has had experience “meeting influential people in the political arena” but does not know where his “future lies.”"
- Thx Tereza! “The ‘antiracist’ and, actually, ‘anti-American’ curriculum permeates the school environment…My children do not know Christopher Columbus, except that he was a racist who caused the death of many innocents”
- Thx Kyla! “Walgreen illegally sent black staff to low-performing stores and shops in black communities, the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC) claims.”
- Thx Tereza! “he has proposed the misnamed “Academic Bill of Rights”…would give legislators and university administrations a warrant to police faculty on the basis of “ideological neutrality.”…“merely a smokescreen for the McCarthyite agenda be
- Thx Tereza! “Canada’s use of the term “visible minorities” to identify people it considers susceptible to racial discrimination came under fire at the United Nations Wednesday – for being racist”
- “hip-hop culture becomes the scapegoat for everything that’s wrong…But as Michael Eric Dyson points out…the objectionable messages of the music (the misogyny, the homophobia, the violence) only mirror the attitudes of American society as a whole”
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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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