- Thx HighJive! Two teachers are fired for signing a letter of protest written by students who were forbidden by the school from reciting a poem about Emmett Till during a Black History Month program because it was seen as not celebratory enough.
- Thx HighJive! “So when Daniels uses “ghetto” to describe something, she does not exclusively mean lower class or black. Nor does she only mean the super tacky bling of wealthy, upper-class black knuckleheads who couldn’t recognize refined style if it slap
- Thx Angry Asian Man! “An unrepentant Andre Boisclair refused to apologize Thursday for using the term “slanting eyes” to describe Asian students.”
- Hilarious satirical take on Angelina Jolie’s pathological obsession with adopting non-white kids! “Jolie would not swear that she wouldn’t “browse a bit” if she found any “exceptionally exotic-looking” infants along the way.”
- (paid sub required) “Perhaps no institution in America is less racially diverse than the swimming pool. The result: Black children drown at rates far above average…black parents haven’t much protested against the dearth of pools and swim instruction in
- Thx Tereza! “Warning of a ‘strong increase in racist acts’ across the European Union, EU lawmakers on Monday urged the bloc’s governments to adopt new rules to criminalize racism and xenophobia.”
- Thx mattputpoul! “This raises one of the oldest and most uncomfortable truths about the superhero genre: its surprising dearth of non-white heroes, particularly black ones.”
- Thx Tereza! Nice… The KKK is defending Tarleton State students’ rights to be racist assholes. “The rally came two months after some Tarleton State students held an off-campus party on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and ate fried chicken, drank malt liquor”
- “The recent indictments against three of the five officers…have left some in the Latino community justifiably unsatisfied. Some showed their dissatisfaction by committing and act of civil disobedience by blocking the entrance to the Queens Criminal Cour
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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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