Posts Tagged ‘racism’

Should social media sites like collect information about users’ race and ethnicity?

Should social media sites like collect information about users’ race and ethnicity?
So, apparently Facebook has figured out a way to predict user race/ethnicity. Which raises the question: Is this a good or bad thing? There’s a school of thought that the best strategy for dealing with the problem of racism is to stop paying attention to race.  The argument is basically that by...
September 1st, 2010 | 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

Rising above the blame: Politics, race and the “racial stalemate”

Rising above the blame: Politics, race and the “racial stalemate”
President Obama’s 2008 “A More Perfect Union” speech spoke of a country stuck in “a racial stalemate”: stuck in that place “for years”.  Yet, in 2010 we are still cemented there.  In “Shirley Sherrod: ‘Where are we headed?”, a July 22, 2010 interview conducted by PostPartisian’s...
August 11th, 2010 | African Americans, Featured, Politics | Read More

Katrina pain index 2010 New Orleans — five years later

Katrina pain index 2010 New Orleans — five years later
It will be five years since Katrina on August 29. The impact of Katrina is quite painful for regular people in the area. This article looks at what has happened since Katrina not from the perspective of the higher ups looking down from their offices but from the street level view of the people...
August 10th, 2010 | Featured, Racial Equity | 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

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

Racial aspects of economy are significant for White House to address

Racial aspects of economy are significant for White House to address
After an intense and shameful week of poorly dealing with ex-USDA worker Shirley Sherrod and issues of race, the country is left trying to make sense of where we are and why issues of race seem so hard and intractable.  There have been many editorials and stories – many of them very thoughtful. ...
July 28th, 2010 | Economics, Featured, Shirley Sherrod, US | Read More

Shirley Sherrod for president

Shirley Sherrod for president
Exactly one year ago, I published a book entitled, Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton.  My publisher, Palgrave Macmillan, has decided to re-print in paperback and they’d like me to change the title to “…from Kennedy to Obama” and add a chapter about the President. I’ve been blogging...
July 26th, 2010 | Featured, Shirley Sherrod, US, Women | Read More

Fourteen examples of systemic racism in the U.S. criminal justice system

Fourteen examples of systemic racism in the U.S. criminal justice system
The biggest crime in the U.S. criminal justice system is that it is a race-based institution where African-Americans are directly targeted and punished in a much more aggressive way than white people. Saying the US criminal system is racist may be politically controversial in some circles. But the facts...
July 26th, 2010 | Criminal Justice, Featured | Read More

USDA’s Shirley Sherrod, consumer rudeness, and the conundrum of blacks in power

USDA’s Shirley Sherrod, consumer rudeness, and the conundrum of blacks in power
By Dr. Ibram H. Rogers The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently forced its Georgia director of rural development, Shirley Sherrod to resign for her supposed racism. On Monday, a conservative blogger published a two-minute, 38-second video clip of a March 27 NAACP banquet. In the video, Sherrod apparently...
July 23rd, 2010 | African Americans, Featured, Shirley Sherrod, US | Read More

Shirley Sherrod’s victory: A teachable moment on talking race

Shirley Sherrod’s victory: A teachable moment on talking race
Shirley Sherrod should retire from the USDA, get her book deal, and tell her story. I certainly would not want to work for a group of people that were so quick to hang me out to dry. But seriously, Ms. Sherrod should pick the options that are best for her, because one of the many victories in this whole...
July 23rd, 2010 | Featured, Politics, Shirley Sherrod | 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

The legacy of nappy-headed hos

The legacy of nappy-headed hos
by: Terrion L. Williamson Remember Don Imus? Remember how upset we were a few years back when the wretched shock-jock and his pals took to the airwaves to dis women of the Rutgers women’s basketball team, after they just missed winning the NCAA championship, referring to the black team members...
July 13th, 2010 | African Americans, Criminal Justice, Opinion, Racial Equity, Women | Read More