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Cubans are getting wired. The island’s communist government put desktop computers on sale to the public for the first time Friday, ending a ban on PC sales as another despised restriction on daily life fell away under new President Raul Castro.
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“The word originally meant “woman” but took on a derogatory meaning as white settlers used it to describe a promiscuous or unworthy woman, says University of Montana anthropology professor Neyooxet Greymorning.”
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Excellent article on black ballet dancer Desmond Richardson.
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“Could it be that because of unpleasant and race-loaded issues [...] that Oprah and Obama no longer seem so special or different from, you know, other black people? Are they starting to seem kind of ordinary black?”
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“Jemmott, a co-founder of Mexico Negro, an organization that seeks to promote cultural pride and political strength in the coastal pueblos, said many Costa Chicans often don’t fully understand what it means to be black in Mexico until they leave their reg
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“On my first trip to China more than 20 years ago, crowds would gather at the sight of foreigners, especially blond and fair-skinned ones. White people are not quite so exotic these days. My husband hardly merited a second look. But my mixed-race children
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“It’s much harder to be a white person and go to an all black party at Duke than vote for Obama, says Jessie Weingartner, a Duke junior. “On a personal level it is harder to break those barriers down.”
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“The new mayor of Rome has promised to purge the Italian capital of 20,000 illegal immigrants and to raze 85 gipsy camps.”
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“Bahrain is nominating a Jewish woman named Huda Ezra Ebrahim Nonoo as its ambassador to the United States, according to official hand out.”
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“Many already feel marginalised as Latinos and gays in the broader American society but also feel stereotyped as Latinos within the gay community, he says.”
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“Observes a BET producer who declined to be identified for fear of losing his job: “You can criticize BET all you want, but it’s about money. . . . You put all these high-minded, socially conscious programs on and your profits dip, you’re right out of the
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“She has gone from leading among black voters to losing them 90 percent to 10 percent in Pennsylvania. One would expect Obama to win these voters, but 90-10 is a total collapse that Obama is not experiencing among any constituency. Simply put, Hillary Cli
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wendi muse wrote:
omg so many good articles today
1- i always told people there were black folks in mexico, and no one freakin’ believed me! the diasporas the jews, black africans, south asians,and the chinese are immense and span globally. why people aren’t told about the migration of POC is beyond me considering its nature and large size!
2-when i saw the cuba + compute article, all i could think was “oh shizzle” lol
Posted 05 May 2008 at 11:16 am ¶
gatamala wrote:
Whites have long felt comfortable with black people entertaining them. Politics is not entertainment – at least not intentionally. Still, it’s hard not to wonder if the massive white crowds that came out for Obama’s speeches early on weren’t also seeing him as some kind of eloquent performer, and now it’s sinking in that Obama really is running for president and not for American Idol, and that he comes, like all Americans, with some racial baggage. Could this be why so many white people are now asking, more than a year after Obama launched his campaign, if they can really trust him and basing those doubts not on his political record but on the speeches of his minister?
YES!!!
Posted 05 May 2008 at 2:20 pm ¶
Mira wrote:
The Telegraph article on Alemanno is really, really, really not a happy one. The “abusive nomad camps” part is particularly terrifying — of course he’s talking about the Roma. Apparently he made an effort to suggest that he’s the “mayor for all Romans”, sending a telegram to the chief rabbi, etc. The Roma, though, are so politically undesirable — being not only ethnically distinct, but poor, and mostly immigrants — that they’re not even worth acknowledging.
I looked around on the Google for any comments about Alemanno and the Roma, and all I’m finding are things along the lines of “Oh, he means gypsies, doesn’t he? Well that’s okay, they should be kicked out.” I’m perpetually appalled at how ignorant and prejudiced even ordinarily tolerant people are towards the Roma. It’s really disgusting.
Posted 06 May 2008 at 12:33 am ¶