Tag Archives: #Race

Short stories, character development

Look at me | #Writing about #race on Blog#42

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Look at me.
I mean, get really close and look.
I don’t fit into your book?
But you see
I have no book
In spite of the way I look

I am neither white, nor brown, or Black
Too brown
Not brown enough
To whites, not white enough
White to  everyone else
But other to all
I am all and I am nothing

An Ay-Rab to one uncle
To another, too much of a Jew

My grievances?
Criticized, minimized
My thoughts?
Reduced as invalid
Derided as of the privileged
My affection?
Pushed away
My pain
What pain?

Look at me!
Really look at me.
See me?

Analysis

Joe Morrissey’s family portrait: ephebophilism and racial fetishism | #Feminism on Blog#42

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December-May romances aren’t fodder for gossip anymore and neither are interracial relationships, even though, in many places around the country, they still raise a few eyebrows. The case of former Virginia legislator, Joe Morrissey, the man in the picture gallery below, doesn’t cleanly fit these stereotypes. Continue reading Joe Morrissey’s family portrait: ephebophilism and racial fetishism | #Feminism on Blog#42 →

Analysis, Black Lives Matter

From Lena Dunham to Trevor Noah, via Isaiah Washington

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Lena Dunham compared her Jewish boyfriend to a dog in a New Yorker piece. Trevor Noah, Jon Stewart’s just-announced replacement, turns out to have tweeted bad sexist and antisemitic cliches. Isaiah Washington, when asked by Don Lemon about Chris Rock getting pulled over three times over seven weeks for “driving while black,” suggested Rock should “adapt.” Continue reading From Lena Dunham to Trevor Noah, via Isaiah Washington →

Africana, Black Lives Matter

‘Suicide’ ruling in #NorthCarolina teen’s death challenged | #LennonLacy | The Guardian

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Lennon Lacy, 17, was found dead just hours before a big game in his high school’s football calendar. Photograph: The Guardian

Forensic pathologist questions procedures followed by authorities after Lennon Lacy, 17, was found hanging from a swing set in a largely white trailer park

Continue reading ‘Suicide’ ruling in #NorthCarolina teen’s death challenged | #LennonLacy | The Guardian →

Africana, My NY Times Comments

Postscript to my comment on: Lori Tharps: The Case for Black With a Capital B

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By Lori L. Tharps

November 19, 2014

PHILADELPHIA — I WAS sitting in my office at Temple University when I overheard an exchange between a colleague and his student. The student had come to see her professor to go over a paper, and he was patiently explaining that the abundance of grammatical mistakes detracted from her compelling content. I sympathized with my colleague as he pointed out error after error. Until he came to this one.

“Why did you capitalize black and white people?” he asked. “I thought I’d seen it written that way before,” the girl stammered. “Come on,” he said. “Why would you capitalize black or white?”

Continue reading Postscript to my comment on: Lori Tharps: The Case for Black With a Capital B →

Africana, Readings from around the webs...

Ferguson, Missouri’s Complicated History of Poverty and Racial Tension | The New Republic

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You Can’t Understand Ferguson Without First Understanding These Three Things – Reflections from a former state senator from St. Louis

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You can’t really understand Ferguson—the now-famous St. Louis suburb with a long history of white people sometimes maliciously, sometimes not, imposing their will on black people’s lives—unless you understand Kinloch. Continue reading Ferguson, Missouri’s Complicated History of Poverty and Racial Tension | The New Republic →

Readings from around the webs...

Hillary for Liberals: A Conversation With Walter Shapiro | The American Prospect

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This piece originally appeared in The American Prospect
By HAROLD MEYERSON
JULY 23, 2014
“As a campaigner, Hillary can do a shot and a beer better than Barack Obama can,” Shapiro says. So there’s that.

As a reporter and columnist for Time, Newsweek, the Washington Post, USA Today, Esquire, Salon, and other publications, Walter Shapiro has covered nine presidential elections and the nation’s politics for four decades. He is currently a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University and a lecturer in political science at Yale while he finishes a book about his great-uncle, a vaudevillian and con man who once swindled Hitler.

Shapiro is also an accomplished Hillary-ologist, having first interviewed Hillary Clinton in the Arkansas governor’s mansion for Time in September 1992. In early May, Shapiro sat down with Prospect editor-at-large Harold Meyerson to talk about a question he’s internally debated for years: On balance, would a Hillary Clinton candidacy and presidency be a good or bad thing for the liberal cause?

Continue reading Hillary for Liberals: A Conversation With Walter Shapiro | The American Prospect →