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The Jena Six

By ~LS~ On September 11, 2007 · Add Comment · In Race and Racism and tagged Tagged With: Louisiana, Race

At Jena High School, students of different races customarily seldom sat together. Black students traditionally sat on bleachers near the auditorium, while white students sat under a large shade tree, referred to as the “white tree,” in the center of the school courtyard. During a school assembly on August 31, 2006, a black male freshman student asked permission from the principal to sit in the shade of the “white tree.” The principal told the students they could “sit wherever they wanted.” The following morning, three nooses were discovered hanging from the tree. What follows below is a chronology of racial violence in Jena over the past school year, copied from the BRActionForJena6 website.

Chronology of Racial Violence in Jena over the Past School Year

Aug. 31, 2006: Two black youths, after talking to the school principal at Jena High School, sit [...]

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Ann Coulter on Imus

By ~LS~ On April 12, 2007 · 4 Comments · In Politics, Race and Racism and tagged Tagged With: Ann Coulter

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By ~LS~ On February 15, 2007 · 3 Comments · In Politics, Race and Racism and tagged Tagged With: Ann Coulter, Obama, Race

I really dislike Ann Coulter, as I have stated on this blog before.

Like other right-wing nutcases, she insists on referring to Barack Obama’s middle name, Hussein, which is just petty and stupid.

And she attributes the media hype and public attention about Obama to white liberal guilt. WTF is that supposed to mean.

Obama’s identity is in a double bind. He’s not black enough for many black folks. He’s too black for many white folks. White liberals love him because he’s “articulate” (there’s that old stereotype), which means he’s not really very black afterall. As Debra J. Dickerson writes in Salon:

Also, and more subtly, when the handsome Obama doesn’t look eastern (versus western) African, he looks like his white mother; not so subliminally, that’s partially why whites can embrace him but blacks fear that one day he’ll go Tiger Woods on us and get all race [...]

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LiberalslikeChrist.org

By ~LS~ On January 17, 2007 · 1 Comment · In Politics, Race and Racism and tagged Tagged With: Politics, Religion

I’m frustrated because I can’t blog from work. I am emailing myself my blog entry and posting it later on tonite. My computer has blocked off access to blogger.com. Very frustrating. Not that I have anything important to blog about or anything burning to say. It’s just the principle of the thing! Ha!

Netscape featured an interesting website today: LiberalsLikeChrist.org. This website offers a nice, if scary, treatise on what Christian Conservatives believe.

I think it is ironic that people like Steve’s father support the agenda of the Christian Coalition and the Christian Right, since most fundamentalist Christians believe that Catholicism is a cult.

The article reminded me of when I was in school at UT (before I temporarily joined the God Squad) and I was protesting apartheid. The Christians would come and heckle us and try to get us into debates with them. Their reasoning was pretty screwy. [...]

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Ching Chong Rosie O’Donnell

By ~LS~ On December 15, 2006 · Add Comment · In Race and Racism and tagged Tagged With: Obligatory Links, Politics, Pop Culture, Race, The View

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Random Musings

By ~LS~ On December 14, 2006 · 2 Comments · In Race and Racism, Random Musings, This is my life? and tagged Tagged With: BRCC, Race, The View, Work Sucks

Well, this is the second time that I’ve written this post. The electricity has gone out in our house approximately 5 times today. I’m surprised my computer hasn’t gotten fried.

For those of you who are keeping up with my blog (the three or four of you that are left), I have accepted a position at BRCC starting in the Spring. It is a step down from Research I and a step up from being unemployed. As you can see, I still suffer the Research I snobbery without the props to do it. OTOH, I can’t help that I’m so jaded about doing research, though. It’s just not in me. And so much of it is dreck. I’m such a hypocrite. There’s a lesson here for me to learn, I am sure. I also hope that there will be opportunity for professional development.

In any case, I’m looking forward to [...]

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