racism | racism
Mar.17.2011
“Feels like I only went for a slash and now here we are again.” Lobster Ron complains.
“Yeah.” Lucky Eric says, “Didn’t sleep much either last night.”
“I was up all night and all.” Jimmy The Con says. He winks and grins.
They stare at him.
“Getting the lumps out of your turn-ups were you?” Lucky...
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Feb.23.2011
“I can tell you as a novelist that I wouldn’t want to be Caucasian, Christian or American. Because there just isn't enough raw material if you are any of these.”
I was a bit surprised at this comment by Pakistani writer, H.M.Naqvi. He has lived in New York and returned to his hometown Karachi. For...
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Jan.21.2011
One fine day somebody wakes up to the fact that William Dalrymple is a Scot and he has taken over the Jaipur Literary Festival like one of the White Mughals he wrote about. There is the cry about racism. It is a bit surprising because Mr. Dalrymple has been ‘doing’ India since 1984. His...
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Jan.17.2011
Perhaps it's no great surprise that Glenn Beck would distort Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s message, as he did when he held a rally for mostly white reactionaries on the 47th anniversary of King's "I Have a Dream" speech in August, all the while suggesting that the group was "...
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Jan.12.2011
Note: Seven years ago, I wrote my tribute (below) to Marty Haag, WFAA-TV's longtime News Director, a few days after he died around this time in early January 2004. I tried to get it published-first in print, then on the air-in Dallas where Marty reigned.
It didn't happen.
But, after watching the...
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Jan.10.2011
Found it, nailed it
Racism is stil alive in the south
Maybe still alive in the north too
Sat in a bar in Arkansas and listened
To one of thew richest people in the community
Tell me that the reason blacks in the NFL
Were sauperoiro was beacause from salavery they were
Bred that way, to be big
He...
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Jan.07.2011
From my City Brights column of January 5, 2011.
"Nigger" appears 219 times in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. A new version of the book aims to reduce that number by 219. That's right. Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn: The NewSouth Edition has replaced the...
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Dec.18.2010
Inside every American there is a president waiting to come out. So it would seem from former Prez Jimmy Carter’s recent statements. I find this open-for-all attitude rather patronising in a subtle way. It also assumes that the top post validates a section of society that the candidate...
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Dec.16.2010
Is Black to be shunned? Why did Oprah Winfrey’s team have the Mamee Golliwog dolls taken off the shelves because it would offend her during a visit to a Melbourne toy shop?
Golliwog, they say now, stands for racism and slavery. If that is the yardstick then I am afraid every person of Black...
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Dec.07.2010
Thilo Sarrazin was a leading member of the German Contralbank. He has been under fire for his anti-Semitic remarks on Jews. Personally, I understand that Jews were offended by his remarks because he should have had used his common sense, when he made a decision to write a book about Germany being...
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