The one online game I play, Guild Wars, recently hit expansion 3 - a titled called 'Nightfall' set in a mythical place modeled on themes of North Africa and Africa - and thereby featuring a mix of Arabic and African themes. Right out of the gate, one of the first things to happen is that players are giving an 'NPC Hero' joining them who is dark ( Read more... )

Everyone should drop on over to this and give it a good read: How to Suppress Discussions of RacismMy comment to it ( Read more... )

The essay below is inwork. I have just pasted in a message I sent to the 'roleplayers of color' yahoo group. I will probably come back and edit is a little later on.

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>> arcady's When purity prevails ... [evil triumphs] 3D art piece ( Read more... )

This started as a reply to a reply in my last entry, and in fact I've left it there, but it has a role as its own entry as well ( Read more... )

Visiting relatives for Christmas in a small break from legal studies.

On the list of gifts was the book 'Wicked', something I had avoided for years due to its connection with 'Oz', but that very same connection switched my interest recently.

Oz was written by Frank Baum, whose earlier writings had been a series of newspaper editorials in the ( Read more... )

Quote of the day...

If you are an American in a one race situation in the USA and it does not bother you, you need to do some self-analysis.

Which I originally stated here and here - in the context of how the gaming community seems to ignore or be in denial over race and the concerns of non-whites ( Read more... )

This started as a reply in a 'community forum topic', but then I started thinking it was really its own creature.

This is my stance on what it means to be multiracial and what multiracials should do about that.

1. Multiracials are not either or any of their ancestral races. They are something else, something new.
   
2. That something else is in a ( Read more... )