Casual racism is when a white male Olympian laughs during the National Anthem and people think it’s charming ( Read more... )

One of my friends shared this story on Facebook today.

I’m reposting here, because it came up in conversation at lunch with fionaniconnor and guy_todd today, and because I want to archive it over here where I can find it in my tags if I need it later. If you don’t believe that racism exists in this country, I’ve got a story for you. I was horrified when I read this ( Read more... )

It was a bad week, what with two judicial homicides of black men by police, followed by the killing of five white police officers in Dallas by a black sniper. I couldn’t deal with man’s inhumanity to man, or having my Facebook feed blow up with race and gun politics again, so I retreated into the blanket fort for the weekend ( Read more... )

”…or to submit to the degradation of being reduced to an equality with them, and all its attendant horrors.” SourceAnd I just had a light bulb moment about why some members of the dominant culture are so horrified about the idea of social justice ( Read more... )

Sorry if I've been scarce around here. One of my Facebook friends who posts good reading links also happens to be a photojournalist who lives in Baltimore. So this week I've been pretty much following his feed and reading everything he's posting about the situation in Baltimore.

An African American business woman from Long Island was drugged and locked in a hospital psyche ward for eight days because first police, and then doctors could not believe her high-powered career was realWhy is it so hard for the NYPD to believe that a black woman could own her own Mercedes and have a successful business career ( Read more... )

What kind of Trekkie would I be if I didn’t support this?


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