I'm in my hotel room in Biloxi and there's a history channel documentary on about MS, Mara Salvatrucha, a Salvadoran gang with a serious (and not unwarranted) reputation. Some gems: they keep referring to the "brutal civil war" in El Salvador, and reason that the gang started being so violent: "they were so used to that level of violence because of ( Read more... )

I really, really don't like it when white people refer to people who aren't white/people of color as "minority" or "minorities." A. That ain't how they're defining themselves, yall, and B. It's incorrect!! White people are not the majority of the world, they're not the majority of my state, and they aren't/won't be (not sure the current state of ( Read more... )

It just occurred to me that everyone in my office is white. Weird ( Read more... )