Racism

Steph Pituc, writing at her blog urbanfoodie, tells the story in a post entitled "Racism by Any Other Name Smells Just as Rotten." She starts with a very apt personal anecdote and then launches into the tale of a horribly executed PR event.
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Chris Steller asks about the display of FBI Wanted posters on digital billboards. Are they useful? How do the wanted individuals to display get chosen? What is the effect in the community when only black people are shown? Where does the responsibility lie between a city, the FBI, and Clear Channel?
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Pandagon: The Dumb Blacks Hypothesis Jesse Taylor weighs in on the Harvard 3rd-year law student who sent a widely-publicized email defending her racist position on the intelligence of black people. Many people have defended the right to ask and subsequently investigate the question of genetically-based intelligence as a matter of science. To which Jesse...
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Stephanie Grace, racist Harvard emailer. Jill Filipovic at Feministe writes a fantastic article that not only includes this wonderful quote… You know you’re an extra-special racist when you send out an email clarifying that your views are actually more racist than those that pissed people off at dinner. …but also addresses this premise: I’m...
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The Mixed Race America blog partakes in April Fools' Day.
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Sophia Reed wrote this column for The Southerner, the newspaper of Minneapolis’ South High School. I always knew that there were a lot of obnoxious and disobedient black kids in my neighborhood and old school, but I was never like that, and I wondered why so many of these white people treated me like...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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