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Thx Eric “’You are in the Bronx. A black van is stopping in front of you. Three African-Americans are getting out and they are insulting your mother in the worst ways. … Act.’’ That is the…translation of the German Army training video making the r
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“Minorities are much more likely to develop and die from cancer than the general U.S. population, with previous research pointing to lack of health insurance, poverty, cultural barriers, and limited access to good medical care as causes.”
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Thx Karen! “South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said Tuesday the government hoped the Virginia Tech shootings, allegedly carried out by a 23-year-old South Korean native, would not “stir up racial prejudice or confrontation.”"
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“A STUDENT’S love for 18-year-old Emily Jane Hilscher may have sparked the worst school shooting in US history. Ms Hilscher was one of the first two victims to be identified in the Virginia Tech massacre, along with 22-year-old Ryan Clark.”
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Thx Tereza. “I read that, too, and I felt, dammit, here we go again,” said Berry, who heard those same sentiments after she won the Best Actress Oscar for “Monster’s Ball.” “I remember after I won the Academy Award, some people said, Well, she’s not reall
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Thx Tereza. “As staff and students arrived Tuesday morning at Wilson Hall, they found fliers slipped under office doors and posted in the hallways. On the fliers were the words “White unity is not hate” and “Resist propaganda lies!””
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Thx Tereza. “What difference does it make if they ban the n-word?” said Yaya, 29…”Ban police brutality. Ban racial profiling. Ban that. Forget the n-word.”
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Thx Tereza. “As of recent months, there have been many accounts of Progressive news sites and Progressive sites in general experiencing difficulty on the Web. Some sites have been completely censored off the web for a period of time…”
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Thx Tereza. “DON IMUS and Uncle Ben. Two icons emblematic of a very strange moment in how Americans and the people who market to them think about race. Call it cultural schizophrenia—we denounce racism but still find it commercially appealing.”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
H. Lewis Smith wrote:
Most of white America isn’t aware of an anti-n-word movement presently building throughout the black community which is being directed primarily at black users of the word and other demeaning terms. Insofar, as Imus is concerned, everything is about timing and his was all wrong…of course this goes without saying that he had no business saying what he said in the first place…but he did get caught up in something that’s brewing within the black community. To learn more please go to:
http://www.theunitedvoices.org
Posted 18 Apr 2007 at 9:38 am ¶
S wrote:
I don’t see what Debra Dickerson’s concern of Obama not having a black dad or his ability to relate to our country’s slave history has to do with him being able to be president. Did we ask any either of the Bushes wheter or not they “related” to it?
I CAN, however, see why some people would not consider him our first black president, just like Halle wasn’t the first black actress to win the award she won. They are children of white mothers, and I hate that people are still buying into the ODR. Halle says Obama has been “treated as one” (black) his whole life. “Treatment” doesn’t change your racial make up. And again, none of this should stop anyone from supporting him if they feel he’d make a good president.
Posted 18 Apr 2007 at 2:33 pm ¶
Britt Bravo wrote:
I nominated you for a Thinking Blogger Award (:
http://havefundogood.blogspot.com/2007/04/thinking-blogger-award-5-blogs-that.html
Posted 18 Apr 2007 at 2:37 pm ¶
Sara wrote:
Regarding the white supremacist fliers distributed at the WSU dorm, there was a guy (town resident, nonstudent) who wrote in to the WSU Evergreen later to explain that they weren’t about racism at all (natch), thereby outing himself as a racist bigot. On the one hand, if there are going to be people like that in the community, I’d like to know who they are. On the other hand, I’d really rather they not be around at all.
Posted 18 Apr 2007 at 4:38 pm ¶
Tereza wrote:
Re: Minorities more likely to develop cancer.
I don’t appreciate the half-truth approach in this piece, mostly attributing this tendency to genes. Yes, the article vaguely references socioeconomic status and poverty, but what about the fact that a brand new report from from the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University, “which serves as an update to a landmark 1987 study uncovering the proximity of minority groups to hazardous waste sites across the country, found that an even larger number of Hispanics/Latinos and African-Americans live within two miles of one of more than 400 such facilities in the U.S.?”
That’s what’s missing from the MSNBC article and I find that angering.
Posted 18 Apr 2007 at 7:41 pm ¶
Tereza wrote:
And that missing link, by the way, is environmental racism.
Posted 18 Apr 2007 at 7:43 pm ¶
damie_dee wrote:
S wrote:
“I don’t see what Debra Dickerson’s concern of Obama not having a black dad or his ability to relate to our country’s slave history has to do with him being able to be president.”
If Blacks or Whites can’t racially relate to Obama, they have the freedom not to vote for him. There are mono-racials who aren’t ingratiated by multi-racialism. Unfortunately, not everyone is like-minded about that.
Posted 18 Apr 2007 at 9:41 pm ¶