News with Nezua: The Invisible Flower

JUDGING BY THE EGREGIOUS SILENCE on mainstream U.S. infotainment stations, one might assume that the life and premeditated murder of an innocent child is only worth our compassion and outrage if she is white. Because the brutal shooting and home invasion that swallowed up the life of nine year-old Brisenia ( Read more... )

In not posting this when it first came out.  My online friend, Nezua, attended the Netroots Nation Conference in July and while there filmed this mock ICE immigration status checkpoint.  It's interesting to watch the reactions of the conference attendees when faced with the mock ICE agents.  The lack of understanding shown in the video is HUGE but ( Read more... )

For anyone who thinks I'm exaggerating when I talk about the backlash against Latin@s, here's a little something for ya:

Arizona Expands Its Discrimination: Teachers With Heavy Accents Can’t Teach English, Ethnic Studies Are Banned

Arizona’s supporters of the state’s draconian new immigration law insist that it has nothing to do with race and isn’t ( Read more... )

For the past week or so I have been confronted with rather egregious race fail in fairly personal ways.  I'm getting kinda tired of it, to be honest and if it doesn't stop I think I'll be making with the stabbins'.  And no, I do NOT take it as a compliment if you try to separate me from those "other" Mexicans/Latinos/Hispanics.  It is simply out of ( Read more... )

Hotel owner tells Hispanic workers to change names - Yahoo! News
TAOS, N.M. - Larry Whitten marched into this northern New Mexico town in late July on a mission: resurrect a failing hotel ( Read more... )

Tomorrow we can drive around this town and let the cops chase us around, the past is gone but something might be found take its place....

Dallas Police Gave 38 Improper No-English Tickets | NBC Dallas-Fort Worth
Police officers have improperly cited Dallas drivers for not being able to speak English 38 times in the past three years, Chief David ( Read more... )

What If Henry Gates Jr. Had Been a Working-Class Black Teenager?
Two black males are seen attempting to enter a house and a concerned neighbor calls the police. When officers arrive on the scene a confrontation occurs and the resulting press coverage results in a debate over whether the alleged burglars should have simply been quiet and obedient. ( Read more... )

The Associated Press: Interracial couple denied marriage license in La.
Interracial couple denied marriage license in La ( Read more... )

Daily Kos: Racism, Right-Wing Rage and the Politics of White Nostalgia
"You know full well that no one is talking about wanting to go back to the days of segregation."

Well, no, I don't know it. I don't know that at all, seeing as how so many of the tea-bag set and anti-health care folks make "taking their country back" one of the most prominent ( Read more... )

I am all in favor of microbicides.  Anything that will help stop the spread of HIV is fine by me (with ethical considerations a given here of course), however, I would really love it if these people writing about them would stop acting like African women are the only women in the world who are not empowered to require condom use by their partners!  ( Read more... )