- “Well the same is true for white racism. No matter what people of color are doing. We whites don’t need to make an excuse, saying when Black people do better then we will stop being racist.”
- “But the Justice Department could not point to any recent arrests on hate-crime charges as a result of incidents involving nooses, and…Democrats sharply criticized department officials for not aggressively pursuing such cases.”
- I can’t believe The Telegraph would run such blatantly racist shit on their site. “Good eveling broggers! This Hu Jintao” Want to complain? Email simon.goodley@telegraph.co.uk, readrel@telegraph.co.uk, and dtletters@telegraph.co.uk
- “Caving to xenophobia, Trader Joe’s announced that it will purge its shelves of all single-ingredient Chinese products by January 1. Will consumers be any safer? No. The company readily admits that the move is largely symbolic.”
- “illegal immigrants have become virtual walking A.T.M.’s for muggers”
- “U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal became the nation’s youngest governor and the first nonwhite to hold post in Louisiana since Reconstruction when he carried more than half the vote to defeat 11 opponents.”
- “Why does this LA Times story spend so much time insinuating that something is not quite right, going into hints of organized crime, mystery donors, and whether or not a person can understand English?”
- “However oppressive and determinative racism remains in America – and boy does it – black complicity and inertia has allowed it to turn too many of them into the racist’s wet dream: a caricature of disfunction, underachievement and futility.”
- Disgusting. From the new Vogue India: “I think it is important for her to know that this is the environment that she is growing up in. I am not going to shelter her from the dirt and the filth – but then I also bring her to the Vogue office.”
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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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