links for 2007-05-09
- Thx HighJive. “The share of Americans who identify themselves as multiracial has shrunk this decade, an unexpected trend in an increasingly diverse nation.”
- Thx Eileen. “Most of them, like my own sons, had lived their entire little lives in a community as vanilla as the ice cream we enjoyed after each game. Until that day, they…never had they seen so many players with different-colored skin in the same plac
- Thx AAM. “Fifteen years ago, Wayne Lo went on a killing spree at his Massachusetts campus. Here’s his take on Virginia Tech.”(tags: virginiatech asianamerican)
- Thx Kyla. “In 1957, the fight was over whether nine black students could attend an entirely white high school. Now it is over whether the city’s black leaders can exert firm control over the direction and perquisites of an urban school district in the w
- “To know that the American authorities permitted their soldiers to benefit from the enslavement of women most certainly distorts any image of the men as “peacemakers””
- “Electroman (aka James) and I were so blown away by Mr. Buchannan’s illogical bloviating (I learned a new word today!), that we decided to respond.”(tags: virginiatech racism)
- “Diego “Chico” Corrales, who won titles in two weight classes and won one of the most exciting boxing matches in recent years, died in a high-speed motorcycle crash. He was 29.”
- “We shouldn’t be the least bit surprised. This is a the rightward turn I have been predicting for France. Nicolas Sarkozy is also a conservative, who wants to rebuild the relationship between France and the US. Sarkozy beat France’s first woman can(tags: immigration politics)
- “I swear, if Sanjaya Malakar becomes a contestant on the second season of I Love New York as TMZ predicts, I’m canceling my cable and throwing the TV out the window.”
- Thx Wendi. “Recent events and media coverage seem to have swung the image of Asian American males away from the “meek, passive and mild” end of the spectrum and toward “violent, bloodthirsty and dangerous.”
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