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“Celebrated scientist attacked for race comments: “All our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours – whereas all the testing says not really”"
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“this New Yorker article where the world’s wealthiest rock critic, Sasha Frere-Jones, claims that indie rock ain’t “miscegenated” enough for his liking, i.e. it ain’t got enough African-American in it.”
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“after reading about one man’s plan for diversifying NASCAR — his blueprint for Negro NASCAR, if you will — I was forced to wonder, is all diversity good? Should we minorities be interested in every little cultural Aperitif Y.T. has to offer?”
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This is fucking crazy. “the family was forced to pick cotton, clean house and milk cows—all without being paid—under threat of whippings, rape and even death.”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
Tish Jackson wrote:
My God. My God Carmen. I cannot even express my thoughts and feelings on the slavery story and I’m a writer. I just…am clueless. What is even worse is the nephew saying his uncle couldn’t POSSIBLY have participated in rape because he was “good Christian folk”. I’d like to slap people and vomit at the same time. I looked at that youtube video and just … it makes you feel helpless. As if you are nothing, because you are still treated like nothing. Constant negation of your humanity tends to do something to you. My God. That’s all I can say, except thanks for putting this out there. I will be posting it as well.
Posted 18 Oct 2007 at 10:57 am ¶
tasha wrote:
did you read the comments section for the Watson/ Black DNA story?
Posted 18 Oct 2007 at 12:37 pm ¶
Tish Jackson wrote:
They must have taken the comments off the story because I couldn’t find them. But I can just imagine. I had to get on someone last week in a comments section, talking about how if Europeans knew it would’ve caused all this drama, white folks would’ve picked their own damn cotton. Riiiiiiiight. The story about the Gordons and the Walls proves that wrong. I told him every Black person in the world wish they would’ve picked it themselves.
Posted 18 Oct 2007 at 1:56 pm ¶
Fatemeh wrote:
Concerning the scientist story:
James Watson also happens to think that sunlight is directly linked to libido, and obliquely insists that Muslim women who cover the majority of their skin are frigid. It’s beyond charlatan-ery. This man’s theories are not science.
Posted 22 Oct 2007 at 12:48 pm ¶