Racism

Feministing: Precious, my Precious: Black Female Citizenship, Complexity, and the Politics of Unrelenting Survival There is a real untold story here, and the voice of that child and the voice of her mother need to be heard. They need to be heard because it is our silence on issues of sexual abuse and systemic violence...
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Telegraph.co.uk: Rachel Marsden: Vancouver’s 2010 Winter Olympics are peddling a politically correct fantasy Forget the 2016 Rio Olympics – there’s a more pressing issue to address: Who is fighting to ensure that the immigrants of European descent are adequately represented at next year’s Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games? I’m talking about the people who can be...
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The Black Snob: Are Conservative Yakkers Stoking White Racial Resentment? Short answer: Yes. Full transcript at Crooks & Liars. Share this Post:
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NYTimes.com: The Recession’s Racial Divide WHAT do you get when you combine the worst economic downturn since the Depression with the first black president? A surge of white racial resentment, loosely disguised as a populist revolt…. When you’re going down, as the white middle class has been doing for several years now, it’s all too...
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OpEdNews.com: The Racial Context for Joe Wilson’s Outburst South Carolina Republican Congressman Joe Wilson shouted “you lie” at the president during his address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night. Few would doubt this was a sign of disrespect that most Americans would find objectionable. But beyond Wilson’s callous disdain for the office...
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Advocate.com: Minorities Make Up Half of DADT Firings While racial minorities account for approximately 29% of active service members, according to the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute, about 45% of the 640 men and women discharged under “don’t ask, don’t tell” in fiscal year 2008 were nonwhite…. Women, who make up 15% of all armed forces,...
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MnIndy runs a report on how Wells Fargo hates poor, brown, and poor brown people but loves their money. former loan officer for Wells Fargo testified in one affidavit that employees regularly referred to minority borrowers as “mud people” and called subprime mortgages “ghetto loans.” In the latest development, a Superior Court Judge in Los...
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“George Sodini: Misogynist and Racist” To ignore the role that race played in this, is to speak about half of the story. We know that historically White men have constructed negative stereotypes about Black men to reduce competition, retain power, and forestall any kind of partnership between White women and Black men…. Sodini felt emasculated because...
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“BET Awards and Racist Tweets in Twitterville” It reminded me of how different it feels to watch a Tyler Perry movie, for example, in a theater full of white people vs a theater full of black folks. The jokes FEEL different. Watching with a white audience feels like white people laughing at black people, stereotypes...
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Michelle Obama Reborn She has been called an angry, unpatriotic, and even uppity, yet there has been a wall of silence instead of a rousing defence. When she announced that she was going to be “mom in chief”, the wolves howled at the moon questioning what kind of modern example she represented by “standing...
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