- “Our leaders will rise up in unison against Don Imus…Yet they remain silent when Isiah Thomas says it’s less offensive for a black man to call a black woman “bitch” than it is for a white man.”
- “He basically says in his column that when people discuss slavery, they are exaggerating its impact. He also says those people are in effect, ‘America bashers’. He outlines six ‘inconvenient truths about slavery‘.”
- “A video in which rapper-actor Mos Def asked students around the country to walk out Oct. 1 to support the “Jena Six” escaped comment by this town’s mayor. But when John Mellencamp sang, “Jena, take your nooses down,” he took issue.”
- “About 75 protesters…were arrested on Saturday after blocking Denver’s downtown parade honoring the Italian-born discoverer Christopher Columbus, an event they denounced as “a celebration of genocide.”
- “Workers polished the granite and tended to other last-minute details Friday before a dedication ceremony at a memorial at the African Burial Ground, where free blacks and slaves were buried more than two centuries ago.”
- “There stood two men, each gripping a chain saw. One yanked the cord on his saw, stepped toward da Costa and shouted above the roaring machine: “We don’t need Africans in our country. We’re here to kill you!”
- “The posters taped on the walls at a political rally here capture the rawness of Switzerland’s national electoral campaign: three white sheep stand on the Swiss flag as one of them kicks a single black sheep away.”
- “Let’s start by opening our eyes and recognizing that if there ever was a monolithic “black America” — absolutely and uniformly deprived and aggrieved, with invariant values and attitudes — there certainly isn’t one now.”
- “It’s ridiculous being black. You have no idea how much time it takes and the stupifyingly asinine conversations one must have. Like…Isaiah Thomas saying its bad for white men to call black women bitches but a brother’s gotta do what a brother’s gotta d
- “Badreya recalls when he first arrived in Hollywood in 1986. “I couldn’t work. I was too handsome,” he laughs. “So I put on some weight and grew a beard, and suddenly I was working every day and playing the angry Arab.”"
- “the epidemic of rapes seems to have started in the mid-1990s. That coincides with the waves of Hutu militiamen who escaped into Congo’s forests after exterminating 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus during Rwanda’s genocide 13 years ago.”
Spread This Idea
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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