That girl has issues has written a great post. It is long, but you should totally read it all. ( Here's a longish snippet )

Thanks to the comment responses that grant pointed out to this similarly racist comparison of Iowa and New Orleans and some rampant plagiarism of this helpful piece by Tim Wise, I was able to construct
( this response to my sister's racist email )

My one sister, whom I like a lot, just sent me (and a cc:'d cast of thousands, mostly from the Midwest US) this email message ( Read more... )

This is an excellent article from the Washington Post by a writer named Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie entitled "The Color of an Awkward Conversation." It's about how race works in America, how, when witnessing an incident that a black person might experience as racist, most white onlookers will immediately either deny it was racist, because they ( Read more... )

I just read about this guy "Bill Johnson"--aka "Bill Pace" who publicly advocated deportation of all non-white people and has twice unsuccessfully (thank heavens) run for Congress (using still other names), once with a KKK member as his campaign manager.

(btw, the link goes to "Racialicious" which is a great blog).

Comment #13 on Latoya Peterson's excellent entry on race-conscious feminism on Racialicious led me to this fabulous 1981 (!) essay, ‘Coalition Politics: Turning the Century,’ by Bernice Johnson-Reagon, of Sweet Honey in the Rock fame, today! (Why did it take me nearly 30 years to encounter this essay? Don't answer that ( Read more... )

From blackprof.com


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I am going to try this again, this disembodied speaking to the world. It still feels like stepping out onto a stage, where I'm about to sing, solo, to a group of people whose vague presence behind the footlights I can sense, but whom I can't actually make out in the glare. There might be . . . one? two? people out there? ... Oh, as my eyes ( Read more... )