The Democrat’s Jefferson-Jackson Fundraising Tradition and the Limits of...
One of my weekend rituals involves watching MSNBC’s Saturday and Sunday morning political talk show, Up, now hosted by Salon.com’s Steve Kornacki. Up provides a pretty good capsule account of the...
View ArticleWhy Whites Should Fear Demographic Change
Yesterday a New York Times article ran under the headline Census Benchmark for White Americans: More Deaths Than Births. I’m guessing that story read something like Tornado Strikes Minutemen Border...
View ArticleWe All Live On Food Stamps
The Farm Bill is dead for now, in part over right wing demands to cut food stamps. This post was written last year but it timely now. We all live on food stamps. About 45 million people in the U.S....
View ArticlePaula Deen Damns Herself By Excusing Her Racism By Claiming She’s Old
By now I’m guessing you’ve all heard about Food Network personality, Paula Deen’s, giant P.R. problem. When the transcript of a video deposition revealed she’s used racist slurs, including the n-bomb,...
View ArticleAnd the Supreme Court Punted…
In the continuing drama surrounding the case of Fisher v. University of Texas, the suit challenging Texas’s race conscious college admissions policy, the Supreme Court punted. In a 7-1 decision, SCOTUS...
View ArticleWhy Paula Deen Matters
The Food Network dumped Paula Deen. While many are angry at them, it seems to me to be a pretty okay outcome. After all, Deen went from local restaurant owner to multimillionaire culinary superstar...
View ArticleMarriage Equality Is Step in a Much Longer Journey
The Supreme Court struck down Bill Clinton’s discriminatory and down right offensive Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Their decision was just, and it was a long time coming. The first words out of my...
View ArticleWhy for Some, SCOTUS Same Sex Marriage Ruling Just Doesn’t Feel Right
While most of LGBT America celebrates the legal defeat of the Defense of Marriage Act, some of us are finding this moment bittersweet. We recognize the decision is a real and meaningful victory, but...
View Article5 Things Not To Do When Accused Of Racism: A Note To Paula Deen And The Rest...
Okay, I know this subject has been beat to death but I need to go there one more time. Why? Because Paula Deen’s crying, pleading, borderline belligerent I is what I is, and I’m not changing play for...
View ArticleRacial Justice After Fisher and Shelby
The following is a guest opinion written by Daniel Martinez HoSang. Dan is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon, and a long time community...
View ArticleOn Racial Healing
“We live in a society that has so deeply internalized race, that race, and by extension racism, is at the very core of who we are as a people. As Americans, our history of racism is the story of us....
View ArticleWhy Are White People So Touchy About Being Called Racist?
I’ve often pondered the question, why are white people so touchy about being called out for racism? I know some of you will say that racism is much more than the hurtful prejudice of a marginal few....
View ArticleAsiana Airline Crash Brings Out the Racists on Twitter
Yesterday, an Asiana Airlines passenger jet crashed at the San Francisco International Airport. Upon impact, the plane was smashed to pieces and then caught fire. At least two passengers are reported...
View ArticleWhen Xenophobia Trumps Common Sense, Common Decency Often Goes By the Wayside
I’ve written here before about the dilemma Washington Apple Growers were faced with in 2011 because of crack downs on undocumented immigrants. It turns out that the majority of documented immigrants...
View ArticleThe N-Word
This article on Salon.com about Brittney Cooper’s experience with the N-word on the 4th of July got me seriously annoyed. It’s time to end the ridiculous, manipulative and/or intellectually lazy (you...
View ArticleWhat Is Racial Justice?
I recently received this email from a reader. Hi. Came across your website. What exactly do you mean by “racial justice”? I realize the question might sound trollish, but it’s a serious question....
View ArticleSo, I Ask You, What If Trayvon Martin Was Asian?
Last year, I asked the question, What If Trayvon Martin was Asian? The post, included below, is timely now in light of all of the warnings against rioting in reaction to the verdict in the George...
View ArticleStop and Frisk Affects Us All
The following post is written by Helena Wong, Executive Director of CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities (also known as Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence), a pan-Asian social justice organization...
View ArticleSame Sh*t, Different Decade: Trayvon Martin and the Politics of Race
When the verdict in the George Zimmerman murder trial was announced on Saturday I turned off the TV and went to bed, emotionally exhausted. My exhaustion surprised me, though the verdict did not. The...
View ArticleThe Sensitivity of White People and the Problem of Race in America
A recent post on this site, Why Are White People So Touchy about Being Called Racist?, touched off a debate that basically served to support my general thesis that white people are, in fact, pretty...
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