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Something positive is happening in race relations west of the Missouri River in South Dakota

Something positive is happening in race relations west of the Missouri River in South Dakota
It was a scorching hot day at this year’s Central States Fair until dark clouds drifted slowly over the Black Hills and brought the temperatures down. It was a special day for Native Americans because a man named Roon Jeffries and his assistant, Dixie Holy Eagle, took the challenge of the Year of Unity...
August 30th, 2010 | American Indians, Featured, Talk About Race | Read More

Dr. Laura, meet Omar Thornton

Dr. Laura (Getty) Over the past few days, I have been intrigued by the aftermath of Dr. Laura’s racist rant. What’s been most interesting to me is the way that Dr. Laura and her supporters have transformed her from culprit to victim, claiming that her first amendment rights have been taken away....
August 30th, 2010 | Talk About Race | Read More

Race, lies, and videotape

Race, lies, and videotape
Is “post-racialism” and “racism denial” in America related to the much more widely studied and deadly virus, “genocide denial,” only less sever? Wikipedia states: “Most Holocaust denial claims imply, or openly state, that the Holocaust is a hoax arising out of a deliberate Jewish conspiracy...
August 10th, 2010 | Talk About Race | Read More

Post racial what?… Codes, language & a new paradigm

Why is it so hard to talk about race and why are these conversations so politically charged? Historical roots notwithstanding, the Shirley Sherrod affair yet again points out that we’re addressing the wrong problem.  President Obama offered that rationale in his now famous Philadelphia speech when...
August 6th, 2010 | Talk About Race | Read More

Race, racism & rampage shootings

Race, racism & rampage shootings
Originally posted on Racism Review Earlier this week, Omar Thornton walked out of a meeting in which he was being fired from his job at a beer distributor in Connecticut and opened fire on his former co-workers.  He shot 10 people, eventually killing 8 and ending his own life.  Omar Thornton was African...
August 6th, 2010 | Featured, Talk About Race | Read More

You cut, I choose: Imagining a brighter racial future

You cut, I choose: Imagining a brighter racial future
Remember when some people said that Barack Obama’s election meant we had gone post-racial? It really hasn’t turned out that way. In the last 20 months, we’ve heard the Attorney General of the United States say we’re a “nation of cowards” about race. We’ve seen a movement of people...
July 29th, 2010 | Featured, Talk About Race, US, Visions 2042 | Read More

Going where Glenn Beck wouldn’t: Defining White culture

Going where Glenn Beck wouldn’t: Defining White culture
My facebook and twitter friend @clyde_online, a community organizer in DC, has been pestering me to define U.S. white culture. Up until now, I’ve demurred. Frankly, there are other things I’d rather write about. Besides, though I’m certainly aware of the status and meaning that...
July 29th, 2010 | Talk About Race | Read More

Backslide in America’s “National conversation on race”

Backslide in America’s “National conversation on race”
Last week, the so-called national conversation on race was dominated by voices that would roll back the Civil Rights Movement.  First, there were loud calls for an end to the basic religious freedoms of Muslim Americans.  Then, a firestorm surrounded false charges of “reverse racism” involving Shirley...
July 27th, 2010 | Featured, Politics, Talk About Race, US | Read More

Farm aid: The black and white of it

Farm aid: The black and white of it
My family has been farming since slavery. I say this in a literal sense, not using the metaphor of how we all sew and reap the harvests of our lives.  We have gone from slaves to sharecroppers to owners of our own land and crops.  Our story is uniquely and beautifully American.  As such, my father...
July 22nd, 2010 | African Americans, Featured, Shirley Sherrod, Talk About Race | Read More

Help fight JMS

Help fight JMS
I write to you, in desperate need of assistance. There is, and has been for a long time now, a growing epidemic within our American society. And if we do not soon band together to stop it, it stands to consume us all. Though growing in numbers daily, this illness rarely receives adequate coverage in...
July 19th, 2010 | Talk About Race | Read More

Danziger bridge is just the beginning

Danziger bridge is just the beginning
Six New Orleans Police Charged in Post-Katrina Killings, Activists Say Deeper Change is Needed By Jordan Flaherty, floodlines.org http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jordan-flaherty/six-new-orleans-police-ch_b_647771.html This week, federal officials charged six current and former New Orleans police officers...
July 19th, 2010 | African Americans, Featured, Talk About Race | Read More

Racism in the elevator; misogyny in the video production room.

Racism in the elevator; misogyny in the video production room.
I just came across a video I’m pretty sure was intended as a statement of anti-racism. I’m also pretty sure its intention fails. More than that, I think it’s one huge step backwards. I hate writing anything critical of any attempt at anti-racism.  It’s hard to put yourself...
July 15th, 2010 | African Americans, Culture, Featured, Pop culture, Talk About Race, Women | Read More

Closing the educational gap

Closing the educational gap
Latino families have the highest workplace participation rates in the country. In most recent years, they have worked more hours per week than other Americans. Their median family income is higher than that of Black families, but only because they tend to have more adults working in each household. The...
July 8th, 2010 | Education, Featured, Immigration, Organizing Latino Immigrants for Social Justice, Politics, Racial Equity, Talk About Race, US | Read More

Joel Stein, we are not laughing: The South Asian legal community responds

Joel Stein, we are not laughing: The South Asian legal community responds
Humor writer and journalist Joel Stein’s recent piece in Time Magazine, “My Own Private India,” has received a lot of well-deserved criticism.  Indeed, one of the (only) good things to have come out of the fiasco of Stein receiving a public forum in which to express his “sense of loss and anomie”...
July 7th, 2010 | Pop culture, Talk About Race | Read More
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