Note: I’m off meditating in the woods until April 30th. This post was written beforehand and set to go live in my absence. Feel free to comment and discuss as you normally would. Just be aware that I can’t take part until I come home.
When white people say: “I don’t see color” or “We should live in a colorblind society” What they’re actually saying is: “I refuse to deal with how our culture and societry treats people of color because it makes me uncomfortable. I don’t want to understand
Passing the Buck and Missing the Point: Don Imus, White Denial and Racism in America by Tim Wise …those who are telling black folks to “get over it,” when it comes to racial slurs, such as those offered up by Imus, are missing an important
Note: I’m off meditating in the woods until April 30th. This post was written beforehand and set to go live in my absence. Feel free to comment and discuss as you normally would. Just be aware that I can’t take part until I come home.
I’m about to disappear for a week and a half. At least this time I warned you all, right? Tomorrow I am off to a meditation retreat in the Massachusetts wilderness. 11 days of no talking, meditating for 9 hours a day, no eating after
[digg=http://digg.com/political_opinion/The_N_Word_Discuss_its_history_present_use_and_if_it_should_be_banned]Continuing on the theme of language… New York City bans racial slur New York City symbolically banned use of the word nigger on Wednesday, the latest step in a campaign that hopes to expunge the most vile of racial slurs from hip hop music and
Wanna know what makes me angry? I’ll tell you. Hours after a guy walks on to a college campus and kills upwards of 30 people and wounds around 30 more using a gun and several rounds of ammo there is an NRA person on the
[digg=http://digg.com/political_opinion/In_Defense_of_Political_Correctness]I cannot pinpoint the exact year when I started hearing about this thing called Political Correctness. I know I was fairly young (pre-teen, I think) and no one ever gave me a firm definition of what “Politically Correct” meant. I knew it had something to
I just finished reading a book called “The N-Word” that I’m going to talk about/review this week in the context of a larger conversation about language. But to get you all ready, frothing at the mouth, or chomping at the bit for this discussion, I
[digg=http://digg.com/political_opinion/Why_Afrocentrism_is_not_like_White_Supremacy]During the legendary Barack/Black Church/Tucker post there was some discussion of Afrocentrism (in relation to the church) and how it was either the same as or different from White Supremacy. I noted at the time that perhaps this blog needed a post that talks about