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Showing posts with label race. Show all posts
Showing posts with label race. Show all posts
Friday, November 09, 2012

white people mourning romney

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First came the binders full of women... now there are the white people mourning romney.   And of course there are the more extreme resp...
Thursday, March 22, 2012

the chronic-WHAT!-cles of calormen

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For a while now I've been thinking about getting back to writing (I haven't written a new poem in ages). More specifically, I'm ...
Wednesday, February 29, 2012

billy crystal, blackness and the oscars

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I'm still trying to articulate for myself what I think about Billy Crystal's appearance in blackface at the Oscars. The term blackfa...
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

dhoruba bin wahad / keith ellison

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A lively exchange on the nature of effective political change between Rep. Keith Ellison and Dhoruba Bin Wahad. This was actually part of a ...
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Monday, February 07, 2011

egypt and race

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The Root has some interesting pieces on race relations in Egypt. First there is the blatantly-titled Egypt's Race Problem by Sunni M. K...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

qui-gon, islam and narnia

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In a recent interview Liam Neeson (who voices the voice of Aslan in the Narnia films and Qui-Gon Jinn in the Star Wars prequal films) has ...
Tuesday, December 14, 2010

so apparently the elves are black... and muslim

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Over at Black Improvement Blogging there is an interesting post called Santa's Black Elf. They give a nice summary of some of the Euro...
Sunday, September 26, 2010

i am black as well

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Here is a brief documentary about Miriam Abu Khaleid, a teenage African-Arab teenager working with the Freedom Theatre and sharing her expe...
Sunday, August 22, 2010

why they want obama to be a foreign-born muslim

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An excerpt from FogCityJournal.com: Why Republicans Need Obama to be a Foreign-Born Muslim By Rachel Kiernan What needs to be addressed is ...
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

when is a conservative not a conservative?

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For a while now I've been thinking about political labels and how we use them. 1. Firstly, our public language for describing the range ...
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

w. kamau bell - ending racism in about an hour

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I went to school with this cat many moons ago, but only recently found out that he's had this amazing career as a conscious stand-up com...
Saturday, June 27, 2009

michael jackson - they don't care about us

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MJ at his most controversial (at least in terms of his music). Before the song "They Don't Care About Us" was even released,...
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Saturday, November 29, 2008

you can't please all the people all the time...

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So Nader thinks Obama is an Uncle Tom and Al-Zawahiri thinks Obama is a House Negro (see obama, malcolm x, al-zawahiri and house negroes ). ...
Sunday, September 28, 2008

sarah palin on obama's winning the democratic nomination for president : "sambo beat the bitch!" (what ?!?!?!)

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From Chickenbones Journal: Palin Is "Racist, Sexist, Vindictive, And Mean" by Charley James "So Sambo beat the bitch!" ...
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Monday, June 09, 2008

political bits

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1. I really like this image but was a bit surprised by how the mainstream networks were covering it. They were like "what is this myste...
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Monday, May 12, 2008

more assorted bits

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1. I think it is not just surprising but sad that out of all the members of Public Enemy, Flavor Flav seems to be the most successful and ...
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Sunday, May 11, 2008

assorted bits

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I feel like quickly sharing a couple of quick items which have been on my mind rather than doing extended blogging on any one of them. 1. I ...
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Saturday, April 26, 2008

two different models of inclusion

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It is an interesting coincidence that these stories came out within a few days of each other. Together they show how the Nation of Islam and...
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Thursday, February 21, 2008

stuff white people like

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I found a link for Stuff White People Like over at Ali Eteraz's blog. After less than 2 months of existence it has apparently blown up...
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

dearabization of islam

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Over at Alt.Muslim, Fatemeh Fakhraie recently published an article The Arabization of Islam which cautions Muslims against simplistically e...
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