"Racism without Racists": The Color-Blind Code
Socialist. Communist. Fascist. Hitler. Witchdoctor. Muslim. Pal of Terrorists. Purveyor of "death panels" and would-be killer of Grandma and Trig.Is this racism??The short answer is YES..So why are...
View Article"Race" Only Matters When Bill Clinton Says It Does.
More unhelpful hypocrisy from the self-absorbed former Prez....Today on GMA as reported by the AP in the NY TimesFull Text below
View ArticleLava Man: Please Give Five Minutes for a Horse UPDATED
This diary is not your typical fare here. There will be no health care debate (at least not as regards humans); there will be no deep discussions of racism, of global warming or war.This is simply a...
View ArticleHate Comes to a Town Near You: 'We hate the President; We're gonna kill the...
It could have been anywhere, but it was Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, an inner-ring suburb of Minneapolis. My town.The quote above was shouted during a racially-motivated attack on an 18 year old black...
View Article"The New Millennium Minstrel Show" (or Spike Lee was right)
Spike Lee has never been a stranger to controversy, but his 2000 film Bamboozled provoked exceptional praise and protest. It was just too much -- not us, not now..we are so post-racial..From the LA...
View ArticleThe School to Prison Pipeline: Drop - outs or "Push - Outs"?
Last week the New York Times reported the results of a disturbing but unsurprising new study from Northeastern University,On any given day, about one in every 10 young male high school dropouts is in...
View ArticleAnother Wrongful Execution in Texas: Remembering Shaka Sankofa aka Gary Lee...
Much has been written here about Cameron Todd Willingham, a likely innocent executed by the State of Texas. His case may represent the largest challenge to the death penalty that Texas has ever...
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The Long Shadow of Slavery -Two John Brown Exhibitions
Tragic Prelude John Steuart Curry (1938-40)Always iconic, albeit controversial, John Brown is captured again in art and exhibition..Reviewing for the New York Times, Edward Rothestein notes: But in two...
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The Master's Tools .....
A Black Lesbian Warrior Poet once said this -"Those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference -- those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are Black, who are older -- know that...
View ArticlePerspective: Thoughts for a Kossack, ImpeachKingBushII
In the midst of dueling in another GBCW diary turned warzone, a single post at the very end stopped me cold........The title of the post read..I know first-hand what a death panel is...
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Happy New Year Prisoners of Hope
At the edge of a new year, there is little optimism. Indeed there is cynicism, bitterness and divide..Divide and conquer -- the master's toolsUnresolved economic crises, a state of limbo on...
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For Whom the Bell Tolls: 3 Dead Per Day
This is the billboard you won't see in Louisville this week..
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The Oil We Eat
A new report from the United Nations Environment Programme advocates what many environmental and animal rights activists have been urging for eons --GO VEGAN!"A global shift towards a vegan diet is...
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World Environment Day: The Oil We Eat
In conjunction with World Environment Day, The United Nations Environment Programme has released a new report. It reiterates what scientists, environmentalists and animal rights activists have been...
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Bhopal 25+ Years Later: A Cautionary Tale
"In the early hours of December 3, 1984, chaos and panic broke out as a poisonous cloud, twice as heavy as air, enveloped the Indian city of Bhopal, wafting into homes, schools, temples,...
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Deadly Force, Deadly Fears: How Many More Oscar Grants?
If Oscar Grant had been white, odds are he would be alive.If Oscar Grant had been white and dead and shot in the back by law enforcement, odds are the verdict would have come closer to a sembalance of...
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EcoAdvocates: The Misfits
Tonight's EcoAdvocates edition includes posts by soothsayer99 on Mustangs and Burros Remain at Risk,and rb137 on Alaskan Wolves: Preditors or Prey. MUSTANGS AND BURROS REMAIN AT RISK by soothsayer99
View ArticleThe Deadly Drip Drip Drip of Everyday Racism
On Tuesday the delivery truck driver arrived early to Hartford Distributors beer warehouse. The occasion was a disciplinary hearing regarding a matter of stolen beer. His employers presented him...
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Daily Kos Demographics: White. Over 50. Well-off. Male. UPDATED
Not a day passes here without some outrage over the Democratic "betrayal of the base" or "true progressives".Not a day passes here without some vitriolic critique of President Obama and a host of...
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