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Nov.23.2010
Thanksgiving has always been among my least favorite holidays.
Not merely because of the mendacity of the traditional narrative regarding its origins -- you know, the whole "Indians and Pilgrims living in harmony" nonsense that conveniently ignores the genocide being planned even then...
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Sep.09.2010
Recently I was talking with another white person about race. I mentioned the study discussed in my last post, which demonstrates that white prejudice against black males is a factor in job hiring in New York City. That part of the conversation went fine. But we went on to discuss prejudice in our...
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Jul.30.2010
In this summer of white resentment, one would think it sufficient to have to suffer through the daily droning of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and the rest of the crew at Fox News, or perhaps the dishonest machinations of professional liar and fear-pimp Andrew Breitbart.
What with their endless claims...
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Jul.05.2010
The message began ominously enough, with words no one really likes to hear directed their way.
"With all due respect," it read.
As a writer I am painfully aware of the imprecision of language. Meaning is not always perfectly--and often not at all--communicated by the words we choose to...
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May.13.2010
Here we go again. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed a bill targeting school district’s ethnic studies programs. “The bill prohibits classes that advocate ethnic solidarity, that are designed primarily for students of a particular race or that promote resentment toward a certain ethnic group” (AP...
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Apr.25.2010
Let’s play a game, shall we? The name of the game is called "Imagine." The way it’s played is simple: we’ll envision recent happenings in the news, but then change them up a bit. Instead of envisioning white people as the main actors in the scenes we’ll conjure--the ones who are driving...
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Apr.21.2010
Originally posted on April 20, 2010, on The Rag Blog:
After a recent talk on racism and other illegitimate hierarchies at a diversity conference in Dallas, I received a letter from one of the people who had attended that asked "why you feel it necessary to perpetuate and even exacerbate...
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Mar.03.2010
lost cause
in a few thousand yearswhen the remnantfragments of our lostcivilization siftthrough the fingersof an eager archaeologist
will she feel after allthe documents and dvdsthe rage that runs throughthe credit cards and christmaslights the empty tea bagscoffee cups and jesus prints
and...
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Feb.27.2010
Recently, I received an e-mail from a college professor who shows a video of one of my speeches in her classroom. She explained that she was in need of a citation for a claim I had made in the video, to the effect that although blacks and Latinos are far more likely than whites to be searched by...
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Jan.17.2010
My friend John Timpane wrote a terrific op-ed piece for the Philadelphia Inquirer on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King. He says it better than I could:
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/currents/81907482.html#comments
I was in sixth grade at a Quaker school in Philadelphia when Dr. King and...
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