An Afrocentric Reading
This video of a Miss Teen USA pageant contestant is all over the Internet but most of the attention has focused on Miss South Carolina’s weird and stupid response to the question of why she thinks a...
View ArticleAll We Need is a Nice White Lady
–“When it comes to teaching inner-city minorities, you don’t need books and you don’t need rules… All you need is a nice white lady.” I can’t stop laughing! Thank you Mad TV!
View ArticleTutu barred from speaking at school
“I am Jewish, and stifling debate and dissent [and] criticism of Israel is a disservice to all Jews, the state of Israel and the American people,” [Marv Davidov] said. [source] Mr Davidov was referring...
View ArticleMore on Tutu Ban
Tristen Taylor (Contrary to Authority) has published a series of correspondence on the banning of Desmond Tutu from St Thomas University including his own letter to the university: Tutu’s Inquisition...
View ArticleUS funds homophobia in Uganda
The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) has published a disturbing story reporting that the US Government has been funding anti gay and lesbian groups in Uganda such as the...
View ArticleIn the fields & out of the massa’s way
Kym Platt sent me an article in the LA Times on blogger Field Negro. His blog is one of my regular reads and here he reveals himself as an attorney. I’ve noticed lately more and more bloggers are...
View ArticleIn a cage without bars
The lives of immigrants in Spain, the US, UK and pretty much everywhere else Via Racewire This week as I sat at home watching television, I felt I was watching Children of Men all over again. But it...
View ArticleStuff – what is it and where does it come from?
From Extraction through to production, consumption and disposal, Free Range Studios presents The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and...
View Articlethe real scary people have bacon and eggs for breakfast
This short clip from the BBC series “Century of the Self” shows how Edward Bernays (founder of public relations) set about creating fear in the people of the US as a way of fighting the “communist...
View ArticleCalling Maya Angelou a “ho”
Someone apparently thinks Dr. Maya Angelou is a “ho” because she supports Mrs Clinton and not Mr. Obama. Hmmm. I know this will generate hits for them, but who knows, maybe you can scold them, or tell...
View ArticleQuick Links
*** Freedom Rider on the “Obama Cult”. What a relief. They are every where, like pod people in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. If you don’t fall asleep and turn into a pod person too, they are out to...
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*** Oxfamming the word [via No Longer at Ease] from Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina who gave us the wonderful How To Write About Africa. “Would you like an Oxfam biscuit? Can we fly 103 of you to...
View ArticleRace at work: remembering Katrina three years on
As headlines focus on conventions and running mates, the third anniversary of Katrina offers an opportunity to examine the results of disastrous federal, state and local policy on the people of New...
View ArticleSomething fishy about Somali pirates
All the media hype around the $100 million crude oil tanker seajacked by Somalia “pirates” – I just cannot find anything within me to remotely sympathise with the cargo, it’s owner and owners and the...
View ArticleCharity porn
Just when I thought it was safe to go outside I discover that a Japanese porn company is making “charity porn. I don’t want to subject readers to my raving rant on NGOs and charities so I’ll just quote...
View ArticleBlack Hawk down – flying pirates flags high
Whilst the distinction between who are the real bandits [those dumping nuclear waste and stealing fish or those seajacking ships for ransom taxes] operating in and around Somali waters, the US is...
View ArticlePowerful Ugandan response to Kony 2012
An excellent response to Invisible Children by Ugandan blogger Rosebell and very pertinant for her to speak on this International Women’s Day.
View ArticlePATH OF THE SMILING SUN
one of the solos in my head keeps chanting that uncertainty is the best way to contaminate time. i, myself am not sure what i am meant to scream to that because i am already living the truth of that...
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Haiti: Photo journalism or poverty porn
To be poor in Haiti: is that to be nothing and hungry, sick or dead in a photo album on a desk in New York, sold for $10 a piece? To be poor in Haiti: is that to be nothing and desperate and needy,...
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