RIP Troy Davis
Rest in Peace, Troy Davis. I’m so sorry your country failed you.That’s all I can say.The fight has to go on.(Posting suspended for the rest of the week because posting anything else just seems….wrong.)
View ArticleJim Crow 2.0
I’m back! I know you missed me. Let’s ease into another year of blogging with some good ol’ voter disenfranchisement, courtesy of The Societal Pages:Voter ID laws disproportionately affect Black...
View ArticleInstitutionalized racism
More black men are in prison in America today than were enslaved in America in 1850. More African-American men are disenfranchised because of felony convictions today than because of all the laws...
View ArticleCheating death, or not
Want something heartbreaking? Here’s Gin and Tacos’ take on the Trayvon Martin situation, posted a few weeks back:DL Hughley has a joke about why “extreme” recreational pursuits like skydiving or...
View ArticleThe easiest setting to argue about
Oh boy.John Scalzi is a pretty popular science-fiction writer, known in particular for Old Man’s War and Android Dreams. He also runs a pretty popular blog.Yesterday, he put up a post discussing the...
View ArticleBeing The Default
The Society Pages has a series of stunning posts about the “neutrality of whiteness”.What does that mean?It means when a non-Caucasian woman wears something that’s light beige or tan, it’s described as...
View ArticleRacism in tattered jeans
There’s a great essay in XO Jane about casual racism and how it contributes to a society that’s just a little bit worse for the non-majority:Are all people of color universally offended by all this...
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