[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZxmuMmPLUU&w=560&h=349] You ever get hit with the “nice” racism? Call it offensive with a smile. I was visiting a meeting for a group in Lake Oswego, which I won’t name, and I introduced myself to one member who, ironically, was named Bruce. He was white. We shared a quick laugh about the coincidence and …
I’m not a programmer so my vision of a Black Power video game where you can free Mumia or save Fred Hampton won’t be happening soon. Neither will my Wii accessible “Martin Luther King’s Marcher”. My best hope for a black video game that doesn’t primarily involve sports or music will most likely come whenever …
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAs9AVKkG5w&w=425&h=349] “You said don’t go to war unless I got my money behind me Aight, I got my money right here, now I want war” -Tupac Shakur When we discuss populist movements, it’s always important to take history into account. The American political system may be broken but even if it was “fixed”, it …
“Not bad for a white woman, trying to capture a black story.” That was my mother’s reaction after seeing “The Help“. She was a “mother’s helper”, another word for maid, in high school in the 60s. She got the job after her mother, who worked as a domestic worker in South Carolina, moved up to …
I wish they would do reparations on Maury Povich. Think about it. “You… are the slave master.” If there’s anything I’ve learned from “The Help”, it’s that white people aren’t necessarily afraid of touchy subjects, they just need them packaged in an entertaining way (They’re talking about it for the Oscars while Spike Lee and …
Check out this story on The Guardian discussing how the condition for black Britons is worse than it was in 1985. Since the beginning of the London riots, which started after a black man named Mark Duggan (who the police claimed shot first but ballistic tests later found the bullet he supposedly fired was police …
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After Anders Brevik murdered scores of mostly youth in Norway, American pundits were quick to deny he was a Christian fundamentalist. He wrote a 1500 page manifesto outlining a Christian crusade but that couldn’t shake the selective amnesia (You would swear some on the right practice it as a religion to get closer to Reagan) …
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Check out this article from The Root on Don Cheadle’s connection to Native Americans. The Root editor-in-chief Henry Louis Gates Jr. details the history of Native Americans owning slaves, the Dawes Commission and the few blacks that were able to get the promised 40 acres, not from white slave owners but Native Americans. Here’s an …
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Check out this article on the Huffington Post on black women’s hair and the stigma towards natural hair. I believe women should be free to wear their hair however they want first and foremost. However, when society says that a women’s natural hair is unacceptable, then the choice has already been made. White women are …
Mexico’s First Black President. Category: Press Releases from The Berkeley Daily Planet. Check out this history lesson on Vicente Guerrero, Mexico’s first black President. He was a war hero who helped expel Spanish rule and abolished slavery. Elected in 1829, he puts US racial history to shame because not just was he historically significant, as …
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