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Wednesday Link Extravaganza

Many times I come across articles or discussions that i’d like to point to, but don’t want to clutter up the blog with one every five minutes. Instead, I’m going to do twice-weekly link roundups. If I find I need to, it’ll be daily (say

Always Blogging Against Racism

International Blog Against Racism week is coming to a close. I bet you all thought I was going to let this one slip by, didn’t you? I almost did. I feel the same way about IBAR week as LJ user misia does: I am fundamentally

White Liberal Guilt

Over in the comments on the Pirates post Wendy said something very prescient: I didn’t think about the racism at the … but now, dammit, you’ve made me think about the racism. Grr! I hate racism! I hate finding myself colluding with it, mentally, even

How to Suppress Discussions of Racism

The brilliant LJer coffeeandink authord a brilliant article called “How to Suppress Discussions of Racism” in the tradition of How to Suppress Women’s Writing (which you should also read). Tired of discussions of racism in literature, television, and film? Worn out from the unexpected criticism

Cannibals of the Caribbean

There are spoilers for the new Pirates movie in this post. I warned you. There’s been some talk around the blogosphere about a section of the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Specifically, the part where Jack Sparrow and the crew are captured by some

Presented Without Comment

An ad from the Netherlands: (click to enlarge) Consider this an open thread. Found via blackfolks. ETA: I said I wouldn’t comment, but I lied. Someone pointed me to this article, which elicited this response: Sony is being disingenuous about the message their ad for

Some Things You Need to Understand #3

This one comes from LJ user stickykeys633 in the blackfolk community: Dear lovely white people in real life, The people who can rightfully declare racism to be over? Are the people to which the racism is happening. Don’t worry, we’ll let you know. Yes, yes,

Things You Need To Understand #2 – Tubman’s Law

Tubman’s Law (subset of Godwin’s Law) By trying to equate black racial oppression–which involved millions of people being taken away from their countries and carted across the sea, where many died or got horrible diseases, and then were used as free laborers and were more

Race Card Redux

Apropos of my post the other day, Tim Wise also has some thoughts on the “Race Card”. Recently, I was asked by someone in the audience of one of my speeches, whether or not I believed that racism–though certainly a problem–might also be something conjured

Some Things You Need To Understand #1

An ongoing series. Here’s something you need to understand before engaging me in any debate: Racism = Prejudice + Power By definition, Blacks and other minorities cannot be racist because they do not have insitutional, systemic power. The term Minority doesn’t even refer to a