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“A police officer accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend and her nearly full-term fetus made his first court appearance Monday and was ordered held on $5 million bond.”
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“There is something very disturbing about this video, “The Manny”…With a script that includes, “…got a driver from Jamaica, a tailor from Hong Kong, got a super from Rica, and a maid named Wong, got a nanny from Manila, another from Peru…,”
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“A judge ruled Monday that no pair of pants is worth $54 million, rejecting a lawsuit that took a dry cleaner’s promise of “Satisfaction Guaranteed” to its most litigious extreme. Roy L. Pearson became a worldwide symbol of legal abuse”
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“The photograph, of four popular high school students standing side by side, each clutching a gun in one hand and giving a stiff-armed Nazi salute with the other…further intensified a bitter racial divide”
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“All of her life, Zoila Meyer believed she was an American. She even won election to the City Council of Adelanto. But now she is facing a threat of deportation for illegally voting, because she never became a citizen after being brought to this country f
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“St. Petersburg Times reporter Rodney Thrash examines a white woman’s feelings of racism, from their genesis, she says, living in a hood in Florida, to its coming out–when she went to the public about her dwindling respect for Black people.”
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“Professor Judy Atkinson from Southern Cross University says she was stunned to hear of plans to freeze welfare payments and ban pornography and alcohol from Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory.”
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“the Army implemented policies barring soldiers from taking part in racist hate groups. But the recent arrests of two paratroopers that authorities say were linked to extremist groups have prompted questions as to whether those policies are working.”
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“new documentary “Reel Bad Arabs,” which makes the case that Hollywood is obsessed with “the three Bs” — belly dancers, billionaire sheiks and bombers — in a largely unchallenged vilification of Middle Easterners here and abroad.”
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“Chin was attacked on June, 19, 1983, by two men with a baseball bat as he celebrated his pending nuptials at a Warren strip club. He was beaten so badly he was in a coma for four days before he died.”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of 
merq wrote:
That “My Neighbors Made Me Racist” piece was priceless!
Posted 26 Jun 2007 at 7:12 am ¶
Latoya Peterson wrote:
Man, that piece just made my head hurt. She was angry…because some young kid stole some of her items? A scooter and a ladder and maybe a couple other things? She wasn’t assualted, beaten, called “a stringy-headed ho?”
Flimsy pretenses in my opinion. The article was well written though…
Posted 26 Jun 2007 at 9:01 am ¶
gatamala wrote:
merq - for a priceless response see the comment on 6/25 10:23
http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/blurbex/2007/06/21/racist-debate-continues-%e2%80%a6/#comment-1087
Poor Cathy, she was all good until THEY stole her weed whacker.
Posted 26 Jun 2007 at 9:07 am ¶
Carmen Van Kerckhove wrote:
It reminds me of this New York Post column from last February in which a white woman admits her fear of having sex with a black guy:
http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/02/01/sex-with-black-man-scary/
” Standing in the surgeon’s bedroom, I was frozen with fear. It was one thing to be seen in public with him, but quite another to be naked. The darkness of his body was frighteningly exotic, so opposite my own fairness, which, by comparison, I suddenly perceived to be weak and wane. How would I touch his hair when I couldn’t run my fingers through it? What if he was physically aggressive?
My reaction startled me. Until that night, I’d prided myself on being progressive and tolerant, especially since I’d devoted many years to teaching at inner-city high schools. I was no Scarlett O’Hara, yet, to my shame and horror, I held sexual fears that were practically antebellum. Where did they come from? Who was to blame?
No one and nowhere, I surmised. I had unconsciously inherited social myths about African-Americans because I had no personal basis for formulating my own opinions. My fears resulted from ignorance. I wasn’t even aware I harbored them until I had to face them. But when my lips met my bedmate’s, all my worries melted away. I ran my hand over his head, enjoying the wooliness of his hair. I’d never felt anything like it. And as for his moves? We were totally in sync. “
Posted 26 Jun 2007 at 9:22 am ¶
Lyonside wrote:
She can “apologize” all she wants, but her true crime is intellectual laziness.
Does she think that only she has gotten stuff stolen?
Does she really not see that poverty, drug addiction, underdeveloped ethical compasses (”want-take-have”), and poor morals (which are taught, not innate) are the causes of theft and a lot of other crimes?
I know quite a few poor white neighborhoods she can move to, and get her things stolen too.
Lack of frickin’ imagination…
Posted 26 Jun 2007 at 9:43 am ¶
gatamala wrote:
cvk -
there goes my breakfast
Posted 26 Jun 2007 at 10:28 am ¶
Carmen Van Kerckhove wrote:
gatamala, what, you don’t appreciate the courage of these two women in coming clean about their feelings on race?
Posted 26 Jun 2007 at 11:55 am ¶
mr guy wrote:
You guys at Racialicious should dedicate and entire post or even podcast to “My neighbors made me racist”.I’ve read her blog and she says it scares here that there are people who feel the same way, try to convince here that the thoughts are not racist, and that she has
“courage” for voicing them.
Posted 26 Jun 2007 at 2:18 pm ¶
mr guy wrote:
By the way, you can hear more about this in this link:
http://wmnf.org/news_stories/show/4389
She does an interview with Tampa Bay Association of Black Journalists about all of this.
Posted 26 Jun 2007 at 2:34 pm ¶
Carmen Van Kerckhove wrote:
Yeah it’s a trend. I have a link going out tomorrow to this gem:
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=1852
White women are feeling really courageous this week.
Posted 26 Jun 2007 at 2:36 pm ¶
Kai wrote:
Carmen, I’m kinda with gatamala, I can’t believe you made us all read that bedroom excerpt…”coming clean”? Doh!
Posted 26 Jun 2007 at 3:08 pm ¶
mr guy wrote:
Another one?Wow…
Posted 26 Jun 2007 at 3:14 pm ¶
Carmen Van Kerckhove wrote:
What?? You guys didn’t enjoy reading about “the wooliness of his hair”??
Posted 26 Jun 2007 at 3:16 pm ¶
justin wrote:
Last week an all white jury sent a Police Officer back to work after he popped an Aboriginal mans liver and spleen!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Palm_Island_death_in_custody
I saw a 2 minute article on Australia’s nine network news and the presenter said “it’s about time.” with out irony or sarcasm. I hope John Howard doesn’t go through with his abuse plan.
F–k the police!!
Posted 27 Jun 2007 at 5:23 am ¶
Lyonside wrote:
You know, the “wool” analogy for African-American texture hair only works if, say, one has never felt WOOL.
I’ve pet quite a few sheep in my time (in zoos and for my job). It really feels nothing like my Dad’s or my Grandfather’s hair (back when they had hair :P)
Posted 27 Jun 2007 at 7:58 am ¶