This is appalling.

"A new experimental program at a nonconventional “lifestyle medicine” center is targeting pregnant women who are Black and Hispanic minority, poor and fat. These women are being enrolled into a free health program which tells them it will benefit them and their unborn babies and make their babies healthier."

http://junkfoodscience ( Read more... )

This made me cringe wildly, and also go, "Okay, now I get it."

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/4469/tears.html

This article is AWESOME...

Black Like Them
an article by Malcolm Gladwell
April 29, 1996
PERSONAL HISTORY

Through the lens of his own family's experience,
the author explores why West Indians and American
blacks are perceived differently

http://www.gladwell.com/1996/1996_04_29_a_black.htm

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And it's still going on.

Sigh.

I have one fairly honest question I'm dying to ask, but I'm honestly afraid to--for one thing, it's almost impossible to ask it without being offensive, and for another, the person at the head of the flail who would be most easily identified with the question is much better at going for the jugular than I am....not that ( Read more... )

Wow.

I believe I've mentioned my addiction to internet research in the past, how once I grab a topic with my teeth I will just worry it to the dregs or until I collapse in a heap.  Well, this time it started with a post onmatociquala 's LJ, leading to a whole ginormous brouhaha about racism in writing. Some unkind horrible person (okay, I'm kidding, it's not ( Read more... )

Okay, it's funny how often a comment I make at
pecunium 's blog turns into an actual post on my own...

Anyone who's been following the whole post-Prop-8 thing is probably aware of the huge blame game being passed around on a lot of levels, one dimension of which has to do with the black and Latino vote being overwhelmingly (say some...others say 70%-30%) in ( Read more... )

My folks sent me this--an email forward I'd never seen before, which is rare, and one which made me think, which is rarer.

( How Racism Works... )