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December 4, 2010 •
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-= Variations on a Theme of a Mulatto =- I got the following from Claudine Chiawei O’Hearn’s book on biculturalism Half and half: Writers growing up biracial and bicultural. I strongly recommend the book for anyone interested bicultural/ biracial
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October 3, 2010 •
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-= Black and White and Spic and Span =- -Naaaahhh… You ain’t no Porta Reecan. -I keep telling you: The boy is a Black man with an accent. — Wille Perdomo (for Piri Thomas), Nigger-Reecan Blues Editor’s Note: I’ve been lazy and as
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September 1, 2010 •
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by Eco.Soul.Intellectual It is unfortunate that Fantasia had to address the issue of colorism at a time when unwise decisions and straight gutter behavior in her personal life undermined the truth of skin color preference in the media that has been going on
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July 30, 2010 •
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-= Sex, Domination & Resistance =- The term miscegenation was first used in the 1860’s when American journalists invented the word in order to discredit the Abolitionist movement by stirring up debate over the prospect of white-black intermarriage. (On
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February 15, 2010 •
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Lemme go ahead and beat this barely breathing dead horse on race and the economy. More specifically, why our government should be held to account and pressured into enacting policies aimed at people of color in communities most affected by the current
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January 28, 2010 •
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Just when I thought that the ignorance afflicting certain dumbass racists was tempered, here comes the biggest douchebag of 2010, Paul Shirley, a pathetic excuse for an athlete, and supposed basketball player. The guy’s basically a jack of
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January 16, 2010 •
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Back in the day I could remember as an immigrant from the Caribbean myself when “being Haitian” was the butt of all jokes. What can I say, everybody has to have somebody to pick on I suppose. Considering that Haitians have been placed in such an
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December 10, 2009 •
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As you may have seen on the news, the memorial and procession for the four murdered Lakewood Police officers was held on Monday in Tacoma. It was a somber, sad day and the memorial was touching and heart wrenching. As I watched the evening news, recaps of the
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September 24, 2009 •
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But they only prosecute them if they threaten the lives of White people? Ok, hold up, wait, lemme check my back pocket to see if I can find a new race card. I’ve been pulling them out left and right for a while and I hate to approach another blog post
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September 16, 2009 •
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Yeah, I’m gonna need someone to talk me down on this one because you know I agree with him, right? Surely he can’t be right about this and what he said about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and likening it to a system of apartheid like he did a
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June 5, 2009 •
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Every now and then readers of this blog put me hip to some of the stuff that’s going on in the country as it involves race matters. If you look to the left sidebar on this page and scroll down almost to the bottom of the page. You’ll see a section
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June 3, 2009 •
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Proving once again just how divisive the Republican Party is and has been in steps Manuel Miranda. Not an everyday household name like Rush Limbaugh and company, but he too is a member of their ilk. He is a former Republican staffer and aide to former Senate
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June 1, 2009 •
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Dr. Michael Eric Dyson is my dude. You hear me? He is my dude! Anybody who knows me will tell you that I have the potential to stalk that brother just so I can have an exclusive conversation with him. OK, so this is the part of the blog after saying those
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May 26, 2009 •
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I’m taking bets on the new Supreme Court Justice nominee Sonia Sotomeyer. So what’s the bet you ask? I’d like to know just how long is it going to take for right wing nutjobs to say that Sonia Sotomayor, the new Supreme Court Justice nominee
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December 6, 2008 •
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Me being of direct Caribbean decent, I’ve been exposed to African cultural practices not seen by too many African Americans.Oh yeah, I was born in ….Trinidad & Tobago….One of the things I saw as a child living there, was the religious
