I call Columbus Day "Boat Day," in honor of the comedian who once said something along the lines of, "The Native Americans could have TOLD the Africans a thing or two - The Europeans are coming? Don't let them off the boat! What? You want food? Stay there, we'll throw it to you!"

While I'm not quite ready to substitute NDoM for Thanksgiving, I ( Read more... )

I'll give you a topic: Racism is not a Cancer but a Parasite - discuss.

I've been fortunate - so many of my race-based incidents have been on an individual level, peer-to-peer - people, usually minors, who didn't like me for a lot of reasons, but race/ethnicity was the easiest thing to attack, so they did. I've been punched, bruised, intimidated, ( Read more... )