Interesting article on just who decides what cultural icons are essential for everyone to know.

http://race.change.org/blog/view/the_color_of_social_illiteracy

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http://www.feministing.com/archives/019729.html

All-American Basketball Alliance admits only white players

From the Feministing article:

No, this isn't an Onion headline and you didn't just get out of a time machine ( Read more... )

http://www.examiner.com/x-15540-New-Orleans-Top-News-Examiner~y2009m11d8-Black-elementary-students-told-to-act-like-slavesRead more... )

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/493148/horror_at_fort_hood_inspires_horribly_predictable_islamophobia

Fox News host Shepard Smith asked Senator Hutchison on air: "The name (of Maj. Hasan) tells us a lot ( Read more... )

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Origanlly seen in debunkingwhitein this post.

Points to consider:
- White guy at 3:08 is a douche. You probably noticed this already, but it bears repeating.
- White women's tears make an appearance at 4:33.
- It was bought up at
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http://resistracism.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/merkins/Read more... )

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/03/louisiana.interracial.marriage/index.html

In an update to the story of the justice of the peace who refused to marry interracial couples, the man in question has resigned. However, he still maintains he ( Read more... )

I don't think this was posted already ?

Illegal 'Alien' Halloween costume pulled from distribution

I find it particularly surprising that Amazon.com ever stocked this. They are such a huge chain!

A US Justice of the Peace (white) in Tangipahoa Parish (Louisiana) denied a mixed race couple a marriage license. Worst of all, apparently this isn't the first time he's refused to marry a mixed race couple. He estimates that in the last two and a half years he's denied marriage licenses to four couples. The reason? He believes that most mixed ( Read more... )

OK, I know it's easy to poke at Rush Limbaugh, but I think he has hit a new low even for him:

He says we ought to go back to segregated buses for schoolkids; and racism is inborn just like being gay so it should be justifiable if homosexuality is.

Excuse me while I try to put my head back together after it exploded from reading that.