Rebuttles to Stupid Statements
I read Steven Barnes’ blog and wonder why I bother to blog at all… he says it all and then says a little bit more. He rocks. Slavery Was Fair To Slaves. Yeah, Right. Over the weekend, I spoke with one of the few black
John McWhorter, What is Wrong With You?
Hey kids, remember John McWhorter, the shufflingest shuffler that ever shuffled? He’s still shuffling. blac(k)ademic caught him on CNN last month and… it wasn’t pretty: i turned on my television yesterday and came across your two hour talk on cnn, where you were promoting your
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
Why I’m Angry: Abeer Qasim Hamza
People ask me why I am so angry all of the time. Putting aside the fact that I don’t spend 24/7 angry, I tell them that I have plenty of reason to feel this way. Today’s reason? This post by blogger Y. Carrington. The short
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,
Dear James Dobson
No, no, and no. Not only is this a bunch of bullshit, but you just violated Tubman’s Law. So where does the issue go from here? Time will tell. It took William Wilberforce more than 30 years to bring about an end to Britain’s slave
Cultural Appropriation
I told you before that I’m a Science Fiction and Fantasy fan. I also write in that genre. You probably wouldn’t know me if I told you who I am. At any rate, last month I attended the WisCon Feminist Science Fiction convention, which is
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
More Judges Who Get It
Negro Leagues players’ payments upheld Major League Baseball is entitled to pay former Negro Leagues players $10,000 a year and provide medical coverage as compensation for their exclusion from the big leagues, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, rejecting a reverse-discrimination suit from a group
See, I’m not the only one!
Even if you don’t live in New York, you should know about Overheard in New York and New York Overheard. I can’t breathe for laughing while reading the entries on these sites. What makes it even more fun is that, as a denizen of this