- “Senator Barack Obama rolled to victory by large margins in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia on Tuesday, extending his winning streak over Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to eight Democratic nominating contests.”
- “The Writers Guild of America said its members voted Tuesday to end their devastating, three-month strike that brought the entertainment industry to a standstill. Writers will be back on the job Wednesday after voting in Beverly Hills and New York.”
- “So “Asians are racist” can make white people look better. It can also make black people look worse, of course. If you’re convinced that black people ruin everything, you can use Asians as justification.”
- Um, late much? “President Bush said Tuesday that recent displays of nooses are disturbing and indicate that some Americans may be losing sight of the suffering that blacks have endured across the nation.”
- “people often make statements about “the rights of children to have a permanent, loving home.” Yet, rarely do I hear about another right that I believe all human beings…are entitled to: that of knowing who they are and where they came from.”
- “a single-sex bus system in Mexico City, Mexico has been implemented…the introduction of these buses is revolutionary in that it serves to protect women from the frequent sexual harassment they received while aboard the crowded co-ed buses.”
- “Explain to me this: how does a national newspaper make the leap from one fire service setting aside a few days to recruit women and ethnic minorities, to “white men banned” from joining?”
- “And even when POC are as polite as possible there is still hostility read into the words because people are so afraid of being called racist that they would rather go on offending than deal with the hard road of confronting their own prejudices.”
- “I don’t think that many pundits understand that about Barack Obama because they are sunk in the mud and in the statistics of a past America in which things were much less fluid.”
- “Throughout history, privileged white women, attached at the hip to their husband’s power and influence, have been complicit in black women’s oppression. Many African American women are simply refusing to play Mammy to Hillary.”
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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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