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“In my observation from personal experience, almost 100 percent of white people have almost no concept of the “struggle” that African Americans face today. They may think they do, but it’s not so.”
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“No wonder Dave left Chappelle’s Show. I’m sure when if he had tried to have a conversation with Charlie Murphy about whether or not the show was questioning stereotypes or reinforcing them, Murphy wouldn’t have had the slightest idea what he was talking
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“Satender Singh was having a picnic with some friends celebrating a promotion in his job. Days later he was pronounced dead because of a vicious attack on him because of his racial and sexual identity.”
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“More troubling still, yellow-peril imagery has been oozing from the extreme margins into the mainstream. Recently…Food for Health International even became the first to take this “China equals menace” meme to market”
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“there are plenty of American babies who need homes — African-American babies. And more and more of those children are finding homes abroad, especially in Canada, according to people who work in the U.S. adoption field.”
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“A recent study exploring white peoples’ understanding of the black experience in America reveals that whites still drastically underestimate the cost of being black because they don’t want to know or can’t face the consequences.”
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“San Francisco began considering factors like family income, instead of race, in school assignments when it modified a court-ordered desegregation plan in response to a lawsuit.”
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“BET President Reginald Hudlin insists that “Hot Ghetto Mess” is being prejudged — and wrongly so. When the public finally does get a look at the show, they’ll wonder what the controversy was all about, he said. “There’s this presumption that BET has il
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“Film studio Universal Pictures did not sack a black assistant director from the 2003 movie 2 Fast 2 Furious because of his race, a judge has ruled.”
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On banning TinTin. “Even those less interested in the boy reporter’s adventures and more interested in modern race relations must realise this is an important part of our history. Civilised humans do not see black people like this now, so why hide these i
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“here is a clip from the 1990 documentary film, Paris is Burning, which explored race, class, and gender in the United States through a chronicle of ball culture in New York City.”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of 
BR wrote:
That ABC News story is from 2005…why is it news again?
Posted 16 Jul 2007 at 9:09 am ¶
Carmen Van Kerckhove wrote:
Oops my bad. Someone sent me the link and I thought it sounded familiar, but you know how the news loves to recycle the same story over and over. Sorry - should have checked the date.
Posted 16 Jul 2007 at 9:20 am ¶
Rob wrote:
Regarding the story about the new Yellow Peril and China’s food industry. This was on ABCNews’ home page.
http://abcnews.go.com/WaterCooler/wireStory?id=3381084
Posted 16 Jul 2007 at 10:31 am ¶
Carmen Van Kerckhove wrote:
Wow Rob - nice find. All I can say is WTF???
Posted 16 Jul 2007 at 10:41 am ¶
Carmen Van Kerckhove wrote:
Ok a friend just sent me another recent link. Ridiculous:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/07/12/cardboard.food.ap/index.html
Posted 16 Jul 2007 at 10:48 am ¶
deb wrote:
I love Robert Jensen, and visit alternet.org daily. How did I miss this? Thanks for posting.
Posted 16 Jul 2007 at 3:17 pm ¶
Mina wrote:
On another forum I saw some idiot claim China was trying to get at America by poisoning exports, as if Chinese people hadn’t already died from bad products sold domestically. o_O
Posted 16 Jul 2007 at 6:08 pm ¶
WomunOfColour wrote:
Sorry about the 2005 one. I saw it somewhere and thought it was recent, but I realized that it was not after I already submitted.
Posted 16 Jul 2007 at 8:45 pm ¶
Karen wrote:
OT: but how do you use the delicious thing to share articles?
Posted 16 Jul 2007 at 11:57 pm ¶
Carmen Van Kerckhove wrote:
Hi Karen, check out this post in which I go into a bit of detail on how to use it.
Posted 17 Jul 2007 at 6:59 am ¶