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Is The New Tarzan Movie Racist?
_____ The Harry Potter director, David Yates, has a Tarzan film coming out July 1st, and I’m guessing I’ll see it, but I’m also thinking about race with regard to it: why is Tarzan always white? The recently departed Muhammad … Continue reading
Memo To Democrats: Thomas Jefferson Is Not The Confederate Flag
Thomas Jefferson is a Southerner, but he is not the Confederate Flag. I understand why the contemporary Democratic Party would backbench the two white males (Jackson and Jefferson) who founded the Democratic Party, but I still love Jefferson. His words sing. … Continue reading
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Tagged America, enlightenment, feminism, gay equality, racism, slavery, Thomas Jefferson, women's rights
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Republican Congressmen Want Confederate Flags Displayed On Federal Land
The Republicans’ ongoing racism problem. Even after what just played out over the Confederate flag in South Carolina, there are now racist Republican Congressmen–Congressmen!–who want to shift the battle to Congress. They want Confederate flags displayed on federal lands. Wow. … Continue reading
Clive Bundy’s Racist Meltdown
Nevada rancher Clive Bundy–Sean Hannity’s hero, the Tea Party’s id, and the latest cause celebre on Fox News–has just had his predictable meltdown, expressing overtly racist sentiments to a New York Times reporter. Right wing politicians, including presidential hopeful Rand … Continue reading
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Tagged African American, America, Clive Bundy, racism, Republican party
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Thinking about Obsession and Compulsion
It’s that locked down quality that I’m thinking of, like a bulldog latched and focused on a limb. Dante, in his Inferno, sets the obsessive and compulsive in the outer circles of hell. The obsessive and compulsive are not as … Continue reading
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Tagged compulsion, desire, life, lust, obsession, psychology, racism
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Republican House Committee Chairs: All White, All Men
The below image says it all. Not one woman will chair any major committee in the Republican controlled 113th Congress. And not one nonwhite. Not one.
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Tagged civil rights, patriarchy, racism, Republicans, rush limbaugh, sexism, women's rights
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Jonathan Rauch Powerfully Defends Free Speech
“We’re not delicate flowers.” __________ I like Rauch’s distinction between purism and pluralism: purism, on his account, protects from offensive speech, presuming that the community must be kept clean from the public expression of certain ideas; pluralism protects dialogue, presuming that … Continue reading
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Tagged college, dialogue, free speech, freedom of speech, life, racism, sexism, university, woody allen
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The Truth about Race and the Republican Party
The following “emperor has no clothes” moment of truth-telling comes from a white Republican, Laurence Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s former chief-of-staff: “My party, unfortunately, is the bastion of those people — not all of them, but most of them — who are … Continue reading
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Tagged Colorado, Florida, new hampshire, Ohio, racism, Republican party, rush limbaugh, Virginia, Wisconsin
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Martha Nussbaum’s Question: How Can We Activate Our Imaginative, Critical, And Moral Intelligences Against Invisibility?
In her essay, “The Narrative Imagination” (1997), Martha Nussbaum (b. 1947), a classicist, philosopher, and legal scholar who contributes regularly to the New Republic and teaches at the University of Chicago, writes the following: When a child and a parent … Continue reading
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Tagged critical theory, invisibility, literature, martha nussbaum, philosophy, Politics, racism
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A Headline You Won’t See at Drudge
In a recent poll, Public Policy Polling (PPP) has learned the following: 46% of Mississippi Republicans think interracial marriage should be illegal. 74% of those same Republicans view Sarah Palin favorably. Here’s Tom Jensen: We asked voters on this poll … Continue reading
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Tagged America, drudge, Drudge Report, gay marriage, interracial marriage, marriage, Mississippi, racism, Red State, Sarah Palin
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Adam and Eve and White Racism
When white Evangelicals and fundamentalists show picture books to their children depicting Adam and Eve and all the early humans (such as Noah) as white, it is no different from Afrocentrists teaching their kids that all great Egyptians were black, and … Continue reading
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Tagged africa, afrocentrism, apologetics, God, history, Jesus, John Macarthur, Mesopotamia, psychology, racism, san bushmen
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