- “The more Iran thumbs its nose at Israel, and by default America, the more popular it will become with the one constituency it must win over to achieve regional hegemony – that being Sunni Muslims.”
- This is unbelievable. “School security guards in Palmdale, CA have been caught on camera assaulting a 16-year-old girl and breaking her arm after she spilled some cake during lunch and left some crumbs on the floor after cleaning it up.”
- Talk about yellow peril: “If recent headlines are any indication, China’s rap sheet of capitalist crimes is growing as fast as its economy”
- “How many times does Soulja Boy use the word “hoe” in his song? 30 times. Since we know words carry meaning, let’s take a closer look at what the term “hoe” really means.”
- “These events all point to something that has been swept under the rug for too long in black America: the crisis in relations between men and women of all classes and, as a result, the catastrophic state of black family life”
- “In this racially ridiculous country, people want, need, to see ‘the other’ reduced to the characteristics assigned to them by their worst enemy. Blacks and browns are lazy, rapacious animals who could never handle freedom.”
- “So what happens if women of color are not included in the conversation about beauty and femininity? What happens when those lighthearted stories about how to apply the latest shades in makeup never include examples of ebony skin?”
- “A new study…has concluded that Los Angeles is not on the brink of a major interracial crime wave. Surprised? That’s understandable. Because… the media have been increasingly fixated on the specter of black-versus-brown violence.”
- “Supreme Court justices are private people who rarely give interviews and Justice Thomas doesn’t think much of the press, but he gave correspondent Steve Kroft and 60 Minutes seven days of his life to talk about all of it. “
- Media Matters – Radio host John DePetro: White people go to Harlem for “either” drugs or prostitutes“If Dan Abrams and John DePetro, Bill O’Reilly, some white guys are sitting around a table, and Dan Abrams said, ‘Yeah, I was up in Harlem last night.’ We would think you were either, a) looking for drugs, or, b) looking for a prostitute.”
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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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