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"A man who was holding a sign reading "Death to Obama" Wednesday outside a town hall meeting on health care reform in Hagerstown, Md., has been turned over to the Secret Service."
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"We're left with a kind of bellyflop allegory as a result. District 9's aliens don't represent an oppressed race in South Africa, but instead embody the stereotype of outcast slum-dweller. They seem incapable of integrating themselves into human society due to something intrinsic to their natures, rather than anti-alien feeling among the citizens of Johannesburg."
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"The original was a surprise hit, grossing almost $70 million domestically from a budget of around $37 million."
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"Three white construction workers "asked us what we were doing here, in a very rude way," Mark Boyd said. "They were surprised that a black family could buy a home like this." When the new tile contractor, Dennis Rosaco, removed the tile several months later, he found a small package. Wrapped in newspaper were 11 M-90 firecrackers, ready to explode if anyone lighted a fire in the fireplace."
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"If there was a major link between Islam and honor killings, why aren’t there any cases to date involving convert families or Black American Muslims (and yes there are second and third generation Black American Muslim families). You’d think that the hard core who have adopted all sorts of cultural practices from the Middle East would have even more to lose in terms of their so called “Islamic authenticity.” "
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"Q-Tip, hip-hop legend and former member of A Tribe Called Quest, has taken to Twitter in a bid to sway New Yorkers from voting for Mayor Bloomberg this November."
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"You want to work on improving Palestine and the lives of its people, fine, that is admirable and fantastic. But don’t you dare undermine other struggles on the premise that Palestine is more important. We have other issues; and while the entire Arab world is writing about, talking about, fighting towards, and obsessing about Palestinians (a lot of whom are discriminated against by their own Arab neighbours) we are going to put a lot of time and effort focusing on the other issues that affect the lives of millions of individuals in this region and beyond, knowing fully well that not many care to make these other crimes the focus of their struggles, even when it’s often far worse than the Palestinian conflict."
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
Fiqah wrote:
Hmmm. The Obama poster idiot was arrested, as was artist Yazmany Arboleda for featuring Obama and nooses in “The Assassination Exhibit” last year…but the town hall jackhole with the gun and Timothy McVeigh t-shirt is allowed to roam free? Okay…
Posted 24 Aug 2009 at 12:27 pm ¶
Roy wrote:
Can you guys cover the apology from William Calley for the Mai Lai massacre. It seems to me that the privileged set are gaining the courage to confess their misdeeds against humanity under President Obama(Change I can appreciate).
Posted 24 Aug 2009 at 1:38 pm ¶
Danny wrote:
I like the movie District 9.
Posted 24 Aug 2009 at 10:45 pm ¶
Kendra wrote:
Not sure if you guys saw Dance Flick. I couldn’t stand most of the film, but after that black faced white girl got out of the car I just gave up. So yeah . . . White Girls 2 is gonna be great . . .
Posted 24 Aug 2009 at 11:08 pm ¶
Medusa wrote:
Okay, this is probably really, really bad and should go against all of my anti-racist and feminist sensibilities, but I was actually quite entertained by White Chicks, despite it being asinine.
And I liked the ending, because seemingly the Wayans brothers and the white girls they had spent the summer with ended up being genuine friends, despite being from totally different socio-economic racial groups….
Yeah, I just tried to seriously analyze White Chicks.
Posted 25 Aug 2009 at 8:11 am ¶
Shazza wrote:
Medusa, I must admit I enjoyed White Chicks too. I loved Terry Crews mouthing ‘1000 Miles’!
Yeah, it was stupid but not really mean-spirited.
Posted 25 Aug 2009 at 9:25 am ¶
atlasien wrote:
Wow… I think this has got to be the first time I’ve ever heard “White Chicks” discussed in terms of its own (very dubious) artistic merit.
Every other time I’ve heard the movie mentioned, it’s politically brandished by angry white people defending the use of blackface or other colorface: “But they used whiteface in White Chicks. HA! Got you there! Bet you weren’t expecting that, you fancy PC arguer! Now I totally win!”
Posted 25 Aug 2009 at 10:03 am ¶
jen wrote:
Please please cover Distrinct 9! That piece on it was alright, I would love to hear what you guys would have to say about it however. I thought there was some great dystopian Johnny Got His Gun inspired scenes,
and thought provoking scenes on speciesim- How the hell can we continue to buy beauty products that are tested on animals, how can I continue to buy clorox wipes from proctor and gamble when all their products are tested on animals, how can science continue various forms of vivesection and experimenting on sentient beings? This film seemed more science fiction action adventure, but it was just as chilling and agonizing as Children of Men & it’s accompanying documentary
Posted 25 Aug 2009 at 8:36 pm ¶
Adisa wrote:
“… why aren’t there any cases to date involving convert families or Black American Muslims… You’d think that the hard core who have adopted all sorts of cultural practices from the Middle East would have even more to lose in terms of their so called ‘Islamic authenticity.”’”
Great site, great posts.
Respectfully speaking, however, I think the quoted text is a misread of Islam and African Americans. The dominant strains of Islam among African Americans are Al-Islam, the Nation of Islam and the Moorish Science Temple. Among each, some of their core teachings include a clearly-expressed desire to avoid copying Arab culture. Islam is an expression of their spirituality and philosophy but not an attempt to imitate Middle Eastern norms. In fact, these African American Islamic groups often readily reject the trappings of Islam that don’t translate well to their urbanized, racialized reality.
These cultural differences _could_ be indicators as to why “honor killing” hasn’t been expressed in Islam as practiced by African Americans.
Again, great site with interesting thoughts. Carry on.
Posted 25 Aug 2009 at 8:54 pm ¶