- “the movie Live Free or Die Hard could have been a great action movie, but instead – because of its racist language towards Asians and Asian women – it’s racist moviemaking at its best – and I’m proud to say I walked out of that piece of trash before
- Protest the new BET show “Hot Ghetto Mess.” “there has to be another way to reach African Americans than subsidizing the promotion of a television show called “ Hot Ghetto Mess” whose logo is a “blackface ” cartoon.”
- Check out Sylvia’s blog for a petition to help the Jena Six, as well as updates on the latests developments in this case.
- “Mari persuaded 49 of her 140 fellow scholars to sign a letter she and a dozen others had drafted and she had just written longhand on notebook paper, calling on President Bush to reject torture and treat terrorism suspects humanely.”
- “A judge denied bond Wednesday for a teenager who’s serving a 10-year prison sentence for having consensual oral sex when he was 17 with a 15-year-old girl, an aide to the judge said.”
- “Many of the events underlined how Hong Kong has become a far more Chinese city over the past decade, even though individual liberties have been preserved.”
- “Nationwide, minority parents in struggling school districts have skirted the debate over racial integration and pushed instead for more money for their children’s schools, in lawsuits demanding that states give poor districts more resources.”
- “56 percent of Americans believe that gays and lesbians could not change their sexual orientation even if they wanted to do so — the first time that a majority has held that belief regarding homosexuality since CNN first posed the question nearly 10 year
- “Senator Barack Obama raised at least $32.5 million from April through June, he announced Sunday on his campaign Web site, attracting more than 258,000 contributors since entering the Democratic presidential race nearly six months ago.”
- “A fourteen year old female Muslim student reported to a teacher that she was forced to perform oral sex on two male students. The teachers reported the assault to administrators, who decided that there was not enough evidence to pursue the complaint”
- Wow I’m so saddened by this. “David Ritcheson hated being known as “that kid” — the teenager who was beaten unconscious and sodomized with a plastic pole during a party where one of his assailants shouted “White Power!”"
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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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