- H/t Resist Racism. “Records of those cases provided to the Orlando Sentinel show that 45 of the 46 people banned from Disney for life during the past two weekends were blacks or Hispanics.”
- “The district attorney prosecuting a racially charged beating case in the small Louisiana town of Jena abruptly reduced attempted-murder charges Monday against a black high school student accused of attacking a white student…”
- “Ann Coulter responded to Obama’s comments by implicating him as a terrorist. Coulter remarked, “Anyone named B. Hussein Obama should not use the words ‘hijack’ and ‘religion’ in the same sentence.””
- “Embracing “queer” was gay America’s punk moment. Suddenly, queer was a good and brave thing to be…Around the same time, academia picked up on the term and invested it with considerable cachet. “Queer studies” caught on at Yale, Duke, UCLA”
- “My grandfather…tried to forget his Mexican roots, because he never wanted his kids to be made to feel different in America. He and my grandmother didn’t speak Spanish to their children. Now, as a third-generation American, I feel as if I have final
- “In a decision of sweeping importance to educators, parents and schoolchildren across the country, the Supreme Court today sharply limited the ability of school districts to manage the racial makeup of the student bodies in their schools.”
- Thx Marie. “he was struck by how often teachers at the predominantly black and Hispanic school shushed the black girls and admonished them to “act like ladies.”
- Maybe it’s just my Hong Kong pride but it annoys me when Hong Kong and Macau are lumped under “China” even if it’s technically true.
“Hugh Hefner is planning to open a Playboy Mansion in the burgeoning gambling mecca of Macau” - “I have examined the shifting history of intimacy among American males, charting the role that homophobia has played in the shifts that men’s intimacy has experienced over the last century and a half.”
- “President Bush’s immigration plan to legalize as many as 12 million unlawful immigrants while fortifying the border collapsed in the Senate on Thursday, crushing both parties’ hopes of addressing the volatile issue before the 2008 elections.”
- “Either blacks are having a lot more sex, non-blacks lied on the survey, or our high percentages are due to black male respondents padding their numbers just a tad. However you look at it, we came out on top. No pun intended.”
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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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