Think Progress alerts us to this racial asshattery:

The OhioDaily blog reports on a “rogue” dispatcher from the North Canton Police who recently sent out a racist e-mail from her work account. Dispatcher Anita Malachowski forwarded this message:

“New “Air Force One” Tail Number and yes, please forgive me, I’m really sorry, I really, really [...]

Reader Michael sent in this interesting chess set:

The description?
“For their RS&A chess set commission, the Chapman Brothers chose to create a game played by postapocalyptic adolescents, the one side white with Arian haircuts and the other side black with Afro hair. The set is displayed in its own handcrafted games box, the board inlaid [...]

Shashwati’s Blog – Manufacturing Outrage – Slumdog and Its Discontents (via DeafMuslim)
Piecing the story together, it seems that the tabloid entrapped the family by posing as an Arab couple (being Arab increases the pathology, get it?), and offered to adopt Rubina and pay $300,000 to the family. This exchange took place via a translator since [...]

We talked about The Game on Monday – here’s some more information:

Here’s the forum thread. (via Black Enterprise)
Geist Magazine has an interesting piece on wealth stratification and social status at the border (via Utne):
This Berlin Wall for the twenty-first century reflects the ironic era of its construction. Built to protect a territory defined in [...]

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Sepia Mutiny responds to Raakhee Mirchandani’s article in the New York Post about dating inside the race.
The Los Angeles Times reports on how Middle Eastern students at UCLA want alternatives to “white” or “other” when filling out demography boxes on applications. KABOBfest weighs in.
Renee Martin writes about Madonna and [...]

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WireTap – Ask a Sex Goddess: How Do I Address Privilege with My White Partner?

I am a brown-skinned woman of color, and I have been dating a white man for almost 8 years. Our different ethnicities have never really been a problem, but lately I have been noticing a disparity in [...]

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Washington Monthly – Black and Blue

The violence perpetrated by the P.G. cops is a curious development. Usually, police brutality is framed as a racial issue: Rodney King suffering at the hands of a racist white Los Angeles Police Department or more recently, an unarmed Timothy Thomas, gunned down by a white Cincinnati [...]

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The Daily Beast – Obama’s ‘Third Culture’ Team
John Quincy Adams lived in France, and young Franklin Delano Roosevelt visited Europe often enough to master French and German, but Barack Obama is the first modern American president to have spent some of his formative years outside the United States. It is a trait [...]

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A high school in Pennsylvania banned students from wearing the keffiyeh after an escalation of tensions between Jewish and Muslim students. After a few days, the high school rescinded the ban.
Speaking of clothing issues, Urban Outfitters has done it again with new levels of offensive appropriation: the Allah bracelet. [...]

The American Prospect – NAACP Takes a Stance Against Prop 8
The NAACP has been walking a tightrope on gay rights. Polls show that African Americans overwhelmingly oppose gay marriage, but much of the high-level leadership of the nation’s oldest civil-rights organization opposes legal efforts to deny gays the right to marry. Last week, the national [...]

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Over at Resist Racism, there are two excellent posts up discussing the damage racism does to white people.
The first talks about a loss of empathy:
I often think that one way racism does serious damage to white people is by stripping them of their empathy. Privilege has long taught them that white [...]

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Here are a couple items I’ve come across in my internet reading.
Valleywag: Was an ‘Anarcho-Transexual Afro-Chicano’ Behind the IM Worm?

Yesterday’s ViddyHo worm, which spread over Google Talk and Gmail, has been linked by some to Hoan Ton-That, a San Francisco software developer. A very San Francisco software developer.
Ton-That owns the domain name [...]

Restructure turns an eye to “What PoC Do: Restrain Ourselves“:
The people who say these things appear to think that racism occurs rarely, and that when a non-white person complains about allegedly “trivial” instances of racism, it means that she is like a young child who hasn’t yet learned that not everyone in the world [...]

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Two items involving the KKK to lead this off. First, over at Rachel’s Tavern, Rachel posts a video of Klu Klux Klan member Owen Wilson discussing his apology to congressman John Lewis.

In two steps back news, Renee brings word that PeTA has decided to dress up like Klan [...]

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On Amreeka, a Sundance film that examines the lives of Arab Americans.

What distinguishes the film from others is its sense of humor. Laughter, not tragedy is the watershed of Munah’s life. “I wanted to tell a story that’s lighthearted,” Dabis said. “There’s a side to the experience that’s [...]