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This is how you become a white supremacist • Dylann Roof’s role model • Red states, drugs and HIV • Romance 101 • Desegregation case follow-up • Who gets pulled over? •
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Tag Archives: Racism
* A martial arts movie I liked
* A third phase has begun.
Saturday 2015-05-02
A third phase has begun, with yesterday’s filing of charges against the six officers involved in Freddie Gray’s arrest; but perhaps more importantly, with the press conference given by the Gray family’s attorney, Billy Murphy, that afternoon. I will attempt to link here to, or embed, a complete video of that press conference; or, alternatively, copy the complete transcript here.
Wednesday 2015-05-20
Media coverage of gang violence sure looks different when the perpetrators are white
There has been no “gang violence” in Baltimore in 2015, so this article is attempting to compare two completely dissimilar events. The article also actually says nothing about “media” coverage, as that term is normally understood; its focus is on social media responses, something very different.
34 Murdered in Baltimore Since Freddie Gray Died
“Black lives matter:” the message hasn’t gotten through.
Friday 2015-05-22
Yesterday afternoon I was able to look at a hard copy of the day’s Baltimore Sun. A front page article reported that there had been 22 shootings “Tuesday and Wednesday” in the Western [Police] District alone. I am unable to link here to the article, because the Sun website says I’ve exhausted my free views for this month. But again:
“Black lives matter:” the message hasn’t gotten through.
Reblogged 2021-09-23.
* Celebrities, go home!
… if you’ve never lived here, if you’ve never worked here …
Now that Baltimore is the center of national media attention, an endless string of celebrities and celebrity-wannabes can’t wait to come here and get their share of the limelight …
… at our expense.
* The mayor’s conference on black-on-black crime …
… apparently went just as anticipated.
City leaders call on black men to mentor youths and stop the violence
“The usual suspects” — those you’d expect — all showed up — and none of the people who needed to.
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* Hormone makes dogs “man’s best friend” (or does it?)
* The great questions of our time
In recent weeks it has been a matter of some chagrin to me that my Yahoo! News feed keeps bringing articles from major outlets that prove in my estimation to have far less merit than my own; while my own work continues to be ignored.
Frankly, it seems to me that my work is on a par with that of the Washington Post columnists. I see myself as in that league. If I can find my way there, my goal would be not so much to set forth my own views, as to alter the direction of public discourse; to influence, perhaps even at a national level, the way people talk about the great questions of our time.
* “Acting White”
Against the notion that blacks victimize themselves by “acting black,” Princeton undergraduate Kristen Coke complains that “acting white” does not insulate her from petty racist insults. After all, she doesn’t act “ghetto.”
I’m not concerned about victimizations that occur when blacks “act white” in the presence of whites. In my world, there aren’t enough white people to matter. I’m concerned about the victimizations that occur when black people “act black” among blacks.
* Student Stripper Makes $180K a Year and Will Graduate Debt-Free
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Student Stripper Makes $180K a Year & Will Graduate Debt-Free • Talking about race is no black-and-white matter • This Hummus Has Standards, OK? • Mass murder, misogyny and movies • Even the NRA thinks taking assault rifles to Chipotle is dumb • McDonald’s update •
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* My homeless self: White “resentment” and black power
“Generations of slavery and discrimination make it difficult for blacks to work their way out of the lower classes.”
Do you agree with that statement? If not, you harbor resentment toward blacks.
That is the premise, not the conclusion, of a recent study by three political scientists. As reported by James Goodman in the October 6, 2013 Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, the study’s conclusions seem indisputable. I question its premise. I ask whether “resentment” was the best or right thing to measure; whether this criterion statement was the best or right way to measure it; whether the criterion statement is factual, and if so, whether it matters.
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