Monday, May 31, 2010

forget the black origins of "memorial day"

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Today is "Memorial Day," the day on which (some) people in the United States remember and honor their war dead. What few white Ame...
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Thursday, May 27, 2010

flip the script to make an anti-racist point

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Something to watch on a Friday -- an anti-racism activist name Josh put this video on YouTube last week. I'm thinking you're likely...
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associate black men with drug dealers

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About 35 seconds into this clip, Bill O'Reilly -- Fox News'  racisme provocateur  -- tells a black man, Marc Lamont Hill -- who happ...
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

find ways to counter the racism of their co-workers

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This is a guest post by a white swpd reader named Sarah.* I'm a graphic designer at a company that makes Christmas cards. More specif...
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Monday, May 24, 2010

expect black people to behave better in public than white people do

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This is a guest post for swpd by Sheri, who blogs eponymously as Filthy Grandeur  here . She writes of herself, "I'm a writer stil...
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Sunday, May 23, 2010

commit crimes with relative ease

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From PostSecret . (What do you suppose the drain represents? The name of the image file is "vortex.jpg.")
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Friday, May 21, 2010

claim that the "free market" could take care of racial problems

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So what is Rand Paul -- an ordinary white racist? Or a more sinister sort of closet racist? In response to an onslaught of what he terms ...
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

rewrite u.s. "history" so that white people look better than ever

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This is a guest post by Chauncey DeVega, who blogs at We Are Respectable Negroes, where this post also appears . What Would U.S. History ...
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pay little attention to terrorism directed against minorities

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Did you hear about the mosque bombing in Florida last week? If not, then why not? Actually, I think I can answer that second question. C...
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

let their biases shape their perceptions of non-white people

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In the following video, a teacher named Brad Wray (who's apparently a really cool teacher) sings a song that he wrote on the various typ...
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Saturday, May 15, 2010

expect black female models to look like "white girls dipped in chocolate"

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This guest post (which also appears here ) is by Renee, who blogs at Womanist Musings . The following documentary looks at the struggles ...
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Thursday, May 13, 2010

blame their crimes on phantom people of color

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This is a guest post by  Melissa McEwan, who blogs at Shakesville, where this post originally appeared . Bonnie Sweeten , Ashley Todd , ...
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

displace non-white peoples and put their cultures on display in zoos

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This is a guest post written for swpd by Shannon Joyce Prince. Ota Benga, a Congolese pygmy who was featured in a 1906 human zoo exhibit...
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Monday, May 10, 2010

think that gains for non-white people come at the expense of white people

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I'm trying to come up with some handy replies to the white people I sometimes encounter who feel that whites have been getting an increa...
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Friday, May 7, 2010

embody the fairest of them all

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Here's a shot of Friday goodness, an infauxmercial sent in by James Yamanoha (who's half of the HabuNami Media collective). James a...
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