- “The native of Waipahu, Hawaii, who is of Hawaiian and Chinese ancestry, will start at quarterback for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in today’s Labour Day clash with the Toronto Argonauts at Ivor Wynne Stadium, becoming the first person of Asian heritage to beg
- “And what is up with Kanye singing that he wants a “blonde dyke”? Blonde dyke could refer to many things, but most obviously… it’s a slang term for the word lesbian.”
- “So why is it that with Hurricane Katrina, it seems like the only major news outlet to feature the story of the two-year anniversary of this disaster is CNN? Why do we still debate whether or not to re-build New Orleans?”
- “La Perla de San Juan Puerto Rico is a shanty town/slum/neighborhood with squatter roots made famous infamous by the arguable racist anthropological study La Vida by Oscar Lewis. As a child I was never allowed to go inside la Perla…”
- “Prosser and 34 supporters were executed in Richmond on Aug. 30, 1800…In an informal pardon, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said Prosser was motivated by “his devotion to the ideals of the American Revolution — it was worth risking death to secure liberty.”
- “Federal agents spied on the widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for several years after his assassination in 1968, according to newly released documents that reveal the FBI worried about her following in the footsteps of the slain civil rights icon.
- Oh great. “Carton’s track record demonstrates his misogyny and prejudice: He “outed” politicians thought to be gay, started a game called Operation Rat a Rat/La Cucha Gotcha to turn in undocumented immigrants”
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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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