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“A Media Matters for America review of Maureen Dowd’s columns since the beginning of 2007 reveals that Dowd frequently characterized Sen. Hillary Clinton as masculine, while portraying Sen. Barack Obama and John Edwards as feminine.”
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“The former director of Yad Vashem’s Department of the Righteous has expressed his dissatisfaction with Israel’s Holocaust Memorial for an “unreasonable” delay in bestowing the august title of Righteous Among the Nations on the first Arab nominated for th
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“At Snopes.com, the urban legends clearinghouse run by a couple in the San Fernando Valley, Barack Obama’s page has 18 entries, only one of which Snopes determined to be true. Of the rest, Snopes rated 11 false, four partly true and two undetermined. “
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“Gynecologists say that in the past few years, more Muslim women are seeking certificates of virginity to provide proof to others. That in turn has created a demand among cosmetic surgeons for hymen replacements[...]“
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“The Friendswood principal who invited two Muslim women to give a presentation about Islam to junior high students has been reassigned at her own request.”
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“John McWhorter, who is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, put it more bluntly: “White people are weary of the kinds of black people who are dedicated to indicting whites as racists. So, to be ‘too black’ is to carry an air about you that w
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“Children who were taught Nazi ideology by their parents were taken to the authorities to have a permanent custody of the kids. “
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“McGuinty has said he is disappointed Toronto trustees have chosen to launch an Africentric alternative school as a way to battle a 40 per cent dropout rate among black students. He says he favours keeping students of all backgrounds together in public sc
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“Hillary and Obama are both being victimized by long standing, deep seated social constructions about the appropriate ways women and Black men must behave and carry themselves if they are to be affirmed by white men.”
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” However, with relative consistency, when the target character was Latino, as viewer racial identification increased, perceptions of the character’s education and qualifications decreased.”
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“I called the first friend a Diminisher and the second a Denier and came to discover that both represented how mainstream America talks about blackness.”
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“Women don’t just like a story because it is about women. We like stories that are well-written and well-developed, just like anyone else. There’s no need for Lifetime comics.”
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F (pstars) wrote:
That Texas school one upset me so much.. particularly the comments. Especially because it seems that the Muslim boy who got bullied (which the attempted presentation was in response to), was beat up and suffered concussion so that an ambulance had to be called. Awful. But the ignorance and hatred in the comments really scared me.
Posted 16 Jun 2008 at 7:31 am ¶
DEAF FEMINIST PUNK!! wrote:
I hate, HATE, *HATE* Maureen Dowd. She’s such a self-hating woman… who is she kidding herself?
Posted 16 Jun 2008 at 10:21 am ¶
Jas wrote:
That Diminisher and Denier article was on point. Most of the whites, and of course a few minorities, who talk I’ve discussed racism usually fall into those 2 categories. Although I would have added the “Placater” for 3. Basically individuals who will nod their head sympathetically and vocally agree with whatever you say regarding racism just to keep things friendly and tension low.
Posted 16 Jun 2008 at 12:55 pm ¶
squidfly wrote:
Blackness has always been a movement, not a color or a race. Every white musician who has laid down a syncopated back beat, blue note, bass smack, walked the walk with the movement is Black. John McWhorter really means, “He’s wary” Like any good Social Conservative, he should be.
Posted 16 Jun 2008 at 8:01 pm ¶
stickinthemud wrote:
i enjoyed reading the Chimamanda Ngozi Adchie article. I like her idea on banishing the word “racist/ism”. I know it will never happen, but I too share her frustration at the myriad and often thoughtless ways the word is applied, and thus diluted.
Something else that I have been interested in for a while and that she touched on a little bit in the article is the experience immigrants of African descent have with American blackness. I would love to see more posts on this. Are people’s first experiences with being referred to as “black” after coming from a majority black nation always negative? Do a lot of these new Americans come to think of other black Americans as “brother” and “sister” like Adichie did? (The part where she said after 10 years she considered Cheadle a talented brother kind of warmed my heart…I’m not entirely sure why…well, I know a little bit, but I won’t parse it out here in the comments section.)
Posted 17 Jun 2008 at 12:36 am ¶
stella wrote:
Jas, I love your number 3. The Placater. The Placater nods but silently dismisses
Posted 17 Jun 2008 at 5:44 am ¶