links for 2007-03-31
- Thx Kimberly! “Democratic presidential candidates crave the Latino and black vote, but ignore the Drug War’s unfair toll on people of color.”
- Thx Luke! “I’ve got big-time lawyers,” said former NBA All-Star Micheal Ray Richardson. “I’ve got big-time Jew lawyers.” And that’s just the beginning of his remarks.
- Hat tip to Oh Word. “There is a certain irony inherent to an episode in which an elite black athlete praised successful Jewish professionals for being “crafty.”…White athletes are called “cerebral”; black athletes are called “athletic.”
- “The very fact of Jeff Chang’s stewardship of this book suggests that hip-hop is not a blacks-only art. But the book is a confused mess, reluctant or unable to offer any clear view of hip-hop aesthetics…”
- Thx Geraly. “the two men got out of their car at the residence and reportedly threatened Brown, shouting racial slurs and allegedly pulling out a handgun and hitting brown in the face. He said they also pushed his wife to the ground.”(tags: hatecrime)
- Thx Deb! “A white woman who claims she was racially harassed by “jokes” insulting black people has won the right to take her case to an employment tribunal.”
- “Where are Obama’s non-white relatives? We see the black wife and kids everywhere, snippets of his Indonesian half sister, but where is little ol’ white granny?”
- “Most Americans just rolled over and surrendered when Arab terrorists took over the government and the media, but not Michelle Malkin. She’s fighting back. By starting a club. All you have to do to join is report everyone you see who seems to be a foreign
- Look at the response Sarah got when she pointed out to her classmates why a theme party where you dress as your favorite stereotype might be a bad idea.
- “Leaders of the civil rights organizations that initiated the protest against AsianWeek’s publication of a hate speech column against African Americans today noted the newspaper’s decision to remove Samson Wong as editor-in-chief.”
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