- “Black Entertainment Television’s new animation division seems to have stepped right into a pitfall of self-parody: a short cartoon video it introduced on July 20, “Read a Book,” seems to flaunt every negative stereotype in the African-American comm
- ““I know all about Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, but today’s baseball stars are all guys named Rodriguez to me,” Mr. Rooney wrote in the second paragraph of the column, which appeared in The Stamford Times of Stamford, Conn.”
- “Hey…Shorty takes a look at the men who initiate street harassment and the young women who are preyed upon. With help from the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, the girls, who range in age from 15 to 18, shot and directed the 18-minute clip. “
- “Still, as much fun as it is to laugh at ghetto behavior, it’s hard not to wince at the thought that estimates of BET’s white audience run higher than 30 percent. A constant refrain among critics is the cry of “dirty laundry.” Shouldn’t BET clean up its a
- “The selection of a Chinese sculptor to carve a three-story monument to Martin Luther King Jr. on the National Mall is raising questions about what part of his legacy should be celebrated.”
- “The district ‘s internal policy,,,forbids white students from transferring out of school attendance areas…in which the minority student enrollment levels already exceed the district ‘s average of 43 percent.
- Sigh…”I have nothing against black women, but they’re raised differently. White women are raised to respect and serve their men. Black women are taught to question [their men]. Black women look at submission as being weak.”
- “African-Americans are abandoning this famously progressive city at a rate that has alarmed San Francisco officials, who vow to stop the exodus and develop a strategy to win blacks back to the city.”
- The quote they used: “If the police caught Brett Favre running a dolphin-fighting ring out of his pool, where dolphins with spears attached to their foreheads fought each other to the death, would they bust him? Of course not”
- “her supervisor for several months in 2004 “constantly” subjected the African-American file clerk to racial code words including “reggin,” (the N-word spelled backwards) and “N.P.” (N-word please).”
- Giuliani hires the agency who did the racist Harold Ford Playboy party ad. Why am I not surprised?
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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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