- “what is most interesting is that by doing a search in Google, a lot of other people – and not just people of colour, by the way – have also commented on the racial stereotyping in the movie. So it’s not just black paranoia….yipee!”
- “Burns has dealt with criticism that there was not enough attention in the documentary paid to Latinos. Last week, he said he added nearly a half hour to his film, with separate new stories about two Latino veterans and an American Indian veteran that wil
- “Reporters from a variety of newspapers…made lame comparisons between the mayor’s affair and telenovelas, Spanish-language soap operas. Do you think they didn’t write “soap opera” because the English-language versions lack sufficient sex and intrigue?”
- “A group of Pygmy musicians were temporarily lodged in a Republlic of Congo zoo while visiting Brazzaville for a music festival. Visitors to the zoo snapped photos as the 22 pygmies collected wood from the zoo forest and cooked their meals.”
- “he was the man from Ebony and Jet magazines, which meant, in a symbolic manner, beginning in the 1950s, he was the man from Negro and black America with a press pass. He was all over the South — before it became a beat and a newspaper cause — writing u
- “Michael Richards…has gone “Siddhartha”: He is on a spiritual journey in Cambodia. “That night, when I was insulted and disrupted, I lost my heart; I lost my sense of humor,” Richards said of his night of shame.”
- Another white woman shares her feelings about race with us. ” In going around a single block, I got stares. Mine was the only white face around, and for five minutes, five blocks from my home, I was a stranger in a strange land.”
- “Not only did Georgia DA McDade release a video of underage teens having sex in order to bolster his non-existent case against Genarlow Wilson, but he did not even make an effort to obscure the faces of the other individuals on the tape.”
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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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