"But we can't all see it in the Vogue cover. So when we start talking about the Vogue cover as part of a long tradition of racist imagery that casts African-American men as aggressive apes, we get a much more useful conversation going. Instead of just a bunch of white liberals saying, "That's horrible!" and a bunch of white supremacists saying, "No ( Read more... )

lynching and racism are not southern (american) in nature. there is a vested interest in people from other areas of the united states trying to project all the blame on the south and deny regional complicity in the institution of racism, especially jim crow laws and the violence carried out by a racist society. but this is problematic at best and ( Read more... )

i have to say that loretta ross is effing amazing. i went to hear her speak a couple years ago and i was seriously moved to tears by the things she said. very rarely do i get to see/hear/interact with women who understand and approach feminism from the context of the south and the issues that most affect the women living here. and from someone who ( Read more... )

today, passing some students on my way back from grabbing my second dose of odwalla, i saw a sign that has been popping up on campus "support ron paul: hope for america, 2008." there had been a few chalked messages that purported that mr. dr. (but we'll get to that later) paul is a big supporter of the constitution, limited government interference ( Read more... )