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–”When it comes to teaching inner-city minorities, you don’t need books and you don’t need rules… All you need is a nice white lady.”
I can’t stop laughing! Thank you Mad TV!
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This video of a Miss Teen USA pageant contestant is all over the Internet but most of the attention has focused on Miss South Carolina’s weird and stupid response to the question of why she thinks a fifth of Americans can’t locate the US on a map and how she believes it’s because “some people [...]
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When I first heard about the Michael Vick dog abuse case, I came out in support of Vick being punished for involvement in an illegal dogfighting setup that was found on his Virginia property. I also stated that race should not be a factor in the case, as many of Vick’s Black supporters believed [...]
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For a year, Elvira Arellano, a Mexican immigration activist and illegal immigrant, has been given sanctuary in a church, protesting her impending deportation and illuminating the political situation faced by many illegal immigrants in the US.
“From the time I took sanctuary the possibility has existed that they arrest me in the place and time they [...]
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A Glamour magazine beauty editor told a women’s luncheon of a Wall Street law firm, Cleary Gottlieb, that Black female attorneys should avoid wearing “political” hairstyles like dreadlocks or Afros, because these hairstyles are seen as unattractive and unprofessional.
To make a long story short, the Black lawyers in the audience and many in the blogosphere [...]
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Leigh Raiford of CODEZ interviews revolutionary Black artist, Emory Douglas.
–For those of us born in the seventies, the post-soul generation, the artwork of Emory Douglas, Minister of Culture of the Black Panther Party (1967-1979) and Revolutionary Artist (4Life), is wedged deep in our political unconscious. Our revolutionary imaginings have been fueled by Douglas’s powerful thick-lined [...]
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This is a true story.
There was this tree in the heart of Louisiana, but the tree was no ordinary tree. The tree was only allowed to offer shade to white people. Sadly, the tree was more than just a tree, it was a symbol of the legacy of racial segregation in the US [...]
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This is what I would look like!
Thank you so much to Nathan from phophoto for transforming my pic into a vector portrait! Note the Barack Obama t-shirt I’m rocking… I love phophoto so much, their artistic skills are unbelievable!
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The website, GayGamer.net, was the target of a hate crime that involved flooding his site with hate speech and threatening e-mails. GayGamer was knocked offline “with a series of denial of service attacks”.
Flynn DeMarco, the sites owner had this to say, “By Friday the site, working with their host, was able to block the [...]
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Ultimately, I think it would be a great idea to have a union, despite the absolutely horrible experiences I have had working as a union organizer. It’s different when you are a member of a union I think…
The implications of a blogger’s union is fascinating, especially because bloggers and the Internet transcend national boundaries, [...]
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Last August in NYC, seven young Black lesbians from New Jersey made news all over the country for stabbing a man for sexually harassing them. The women claim they were acting in self-defense.
Harassment of lesbians is not uncommon and right now in South Africa a rash of hate-crimes against lesbians is occurring, with [...]
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Radical artist, damali ayo, is organizing the National Day of Panhandling for Reparations on October 10, 2007.
–”NATIONAL DAY OF PANHANDLING FOR REPARATIONS is coming this Fall! October 10, 2007
People of all races across the United States will take an hour or two to collect reparations in the form of money from white Americans for the [...]
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The new Resident Evil video game depicts a white man in what appears to be Africa killing Black people. The Black people are supposed to be zombies and the white man’s job is to destroy them and save humanity. “I have a job to do and I’m gonna see it through.”
This is problematic [...]
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There’s been much controversy surrounding the case of Atlanta Falcons football player, Michael Vick and the allegations of animal cruelty that lead to his arrest. Police found all the makings of an illegal dogfighting setup on his rural Virginia estate.
–”The case began April 25 when investigators conducting a drug search at a [...]
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An article in the Mail & Guardian has triggered some thoughts about reparations.
Thousands of Jews are seeking reparations from the German government not because they are holocaust survivors, but because their parents were.
–”The lawsuit was seen as the first ever filed by representatives of the so-called “second generation” or those descended from the [...]
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The public use of derogatory slurs is a hot topic these days, with famous utterances from Mel Gibson, Michael Richards, Paris Hilton, and Isaiah Washington. Remember “macaca”? Last week the NAACP buried the word “nigger”.
Today in the news a prominent member of the board and benefactor to Roger Williams University admitted to calling [...]
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I’ve been mulling this one over. The new show on BET (Black Entertainment Television) called Hot Ghetto Mess has been in the news lately with its debut of July 25, 2007 quickly approaching. I’ve been sent links about the show and implored by AskThisBlackWoman readers to write something about it… but I had [...]