- “The Kingdom is little more than a run-of-the-mill kill-’em-all fuck-you — a film in which the good guys (which is to say, the white guys plus Foxx) spend two hours tracking down the bad guys (which is to say, the brown guys).”
- “Pastoring is a tough assignment by any measure, but for many English-speaking ministers in some of the nation’s 7,000 Asian congregations, the work is made harder by cultural differences inside their own churches.”
- “How many show the horrible consequences of righteous vengeance? (…vengeance for being emasculated. Just as 9/11 was vengeance for the emasculating crime of putting infidel troops on Saudi Arabian soil.)”
- “We know that stress is an important risk factor, and it initiates the release of stress hormones leading to preterm birth and increase susceptibility for infection. The question is, do we think racial discrimination and racism is stressful?”
- “Duke University President Richard Brodhead apologized Saturday for not better supporting the men’s lacrosse team and their families after three players were falsely accused in last year’s highly publicized rape scandal.”
- “More than 100,000 people protested Saturday in southern Japan against the central government’s order to modify school textbooks which say the country’s army forced civilians to commit mass suicide at the end of World War II.”
- “Matthias Kuentzel, a German scholar who has traced the influence of Adolf Hitler in the Muslim world, says Judeophobia is at its worst level since the Nazi era.”
- “A contingent of leaders from four civil-rights groups said that they were “extremely disappointed” after a Friday meeting with the Justice Department, whom they said made no commitments to prosecute the hanging of nooses on a tree at Jena High School
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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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