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What White People Fear
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Friday, March 19, 2010Redefining “Racist” in the Rather Complicated Age of Obama
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Saturday, March 13, 2010Rachel Maddow and Michael Moore Slam Anti-Choice Zealot and Beg the Dems to Get Something Done
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Friday, March 12, 2010How the war on drugs gave rise to a permanent American undercaste
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Wednesday, March 10, 2010NYT Editorial & Op-Eds (3)
The Times continues to take on the Second Amendment ("The Supreme Court should make clear that all of the protections of the Bill of Rights apply everywhere"); Bob Herbert on the NYPD's outrageous database ("The N.Y.P.D. must end its gruesome, racist practice of stopping innocent New Yorkers and compiling a computerized database of their personal information"); and Harold Ford Jr. explains why he's not running ("If I run, the likely result would be a brutal and highly negative Democratic primary — a primary where the winner emerges weakened and the Republican strengthened").Posted by Ian Alterman, Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Cornel West questions Obama’s commitment to black America, says a prayer for Rahm Emanuel
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Sunday, February 28, 2010NYT Op-Eds (2)
Bob Herbert on Paterson's possible cluelessness ("Now that the bottom has fallen out of Gov. David Paterson’s election bid, the question remains: Is he still suited to be governor?); Charles Blow on "Precious," Tyler Perry, and racial stereotyping ("Recent data do not support the ubiquity of black crack-mom characters in the movies").Posted by Ian Alterman, Saturday, February 27, 2010
NYT (5): National News
Paterson quits governor's race (plus many sidebar articles); JOBLESS BENEFITS LAPSE FOR FIRST TIME IN TWO YEARS DUE TO LONE SENATOR'S OUTRAGEOUS MOVE; IN EFFORT TO COURT ELUSIVE BLACKS, PRO-LIFE GROUPS MAKING CASE THAT ABORTION IS RACIST; Large batch of torture-related emails is missing; and students protest racism at UC San Diego.Posted by Ian Alterman, Saturday, February 27, 2010
NYT (14): National News
The new "chronic jobless"; DOJ LETS YOO AND BYBEE OFF THE HOOK FOR TERROR MEMOS; FBI "shuts book" on anthrax case; CPAC offers look at possible candidates [Ed. Note: See my comment to this post thread]; Hutchison lagging in Texas polls; Paterson official declares for governor; Monserrate loses first round in reinstatement appeal; FBI INVESTIGATES SCHOOL RE REMOTE ACTIVATION OF WEBCAMS IN STUDENT HOMES; Wyoming seeks to tax wind power; Malibu residents on "the edge" about U2 guitarist's (admittedly green) development plans; Alexander Haig dies; and new books on "Clinton vs. Starr," "The Politics of Happiness," and a black editor's memoir of working the NYT.Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, February 21, 2010
In devastated Haiti, a wary look at the sky
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Saturday, February 20, 2010NYT (5): National News
How Christian were the founders?; Black Caucus becomes a fundraising powerhouse; Is soda the new tobacco?; a new book on "The Science of Liberty"; and an inside look at the implosion of John Edwards.Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, February 14, 2010
The Tea Party queen
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Friday, February 12, 2010Republicans at highest levels really want to do away with democracy for all
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Friday, February 12, 2010Matt Taibbi: Populism, Just Like Racism!
Taibbi sets sights of potent pen on David Brooks ...After [Brooks'] latest article in the Times, in which he compares the “populism” of people who “blame Goldman Sachs” with exactly the sort of racist elitism I ripped him for last week, I think David Brooks might be trying to talk to me... the response of David Brooks to being called out as a racist weenie [over his Haiti article] is to write a passionate defense of the rich, one that includes the admonition that while blaming the wealthy is easy and feels fun, truly wise men should “tolerate the excesses of traders.” ... The propagandistic argument he makes about the dangers of “populism” is spelled out here as clearly as you’ll ever see it expressed in print, and this exact thing is a key reason why so much of the corruption that went on on Wall Street in the past few decades was allowed to spread uncheckedtrue, Taibbi - too true - mab .. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Sunday, February 7, 2010
White racial resentment bubbles under the surface of the Tea Party movement
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Saturday, February 6, 2010NYT Op-Eds (3)
Paul Krugman compares the deficit to the Iraq war ("Fear-mongering on the deficit as part of the Republican political strategy could end up doing as much harm as the fear-mongering on weapons of mass destruction"); David Brooks philosophizes about sports and character-building ("Big-time college sports, though absurd, have some virtues"); and is "Precious" racist? ("The blacks who are enraged by 'Precious' have probably figured out that the film wasn’t meant for them")Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, February 5, 2010
AlterNet: Will Avatar’s Pro-Indigenous Narrative Bother Oscar Voters?
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, February 4, 2010NYT Op-Eds (3)
"The fact that a certain percentage of crimes are committed by Hispanics or blacks is no reason for the police to increasingly harass individuals from those groups" (Herbert); "If the Obama administration wants to reform education, it should overhaul the current curriculum, which is completely at odds with the way a child’s mind develops" (Guest Op-Ed); "It now seems clear that the only way the U.S. is going to avoid an economic crisis is if the older generation takes it upon themselves to arise and force change" (Brooks)Posted by Ian Alterman, Tuesday, February 2, 2010
NYT Op-Eds (2)
"Canada’s regulatory habit of limiting the risk and leverage banks can accept helped protect that country from recessionary fallout" (Krugman); "The Greensboro sit-in changed the segregated South faster than anyone predicted, but the news media miscalculated the lasting political implications" (Guest Op-Ed)Posted by Ian Alterman, Monday, February 1, 2010
NYT (9): National News
SCOTUS opens door to massive corporate influence in elections; NASA data shows past decade to be warmest ever; CA revives universal health care proposal (!); Palin pal leading charge to emasculate EPA; Bible references to be dropped from rifle scopes; NYC jobless rate (10.6) higher than national average; Air America is gone; Judge orders FDNY to make up for long-standing discrimination; and Edwards finally admits child is his.Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, January 22, 2010
NYT Op-Eds (3)
"Martin Luther King Jr.’s fight for economic justice seems to have been ignored today as black Americans are bearing a disproportionate burden of joblessness" (Herbert); "President Obama, in trying to overhaul most sectors of national life, has erred in not sensing that even a pragmatic government could seem imperious and alarming" (Brooks); "'Colorism' may be harder to combat than racism, as research studies have shown that skin tone and other racial features play powerful roles in who gets ahead" (Guest Op-Ed)Posted by Ian Alterman, Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Some Thoughts on Haiti
Matt Taibbi dissects an amazingly condescending, borderline racist article by David Brooks, and in case you're wondering, "gee whiz why can't those Haitians just pull themselves up by their bootstraps", Ted Rall gives us a little history lesson - mabTranslating David Brooks (Taibbi)
Haitian Earthquake: Made in the USA (Rall)
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Martin Luther King at Riverside Church – April 7, 1967
"I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered" - KingPosted by Mike Blaxill, Monday, January 18, 2010
NYT Op-Eds (2)
"Sarah Palin’s decision to become a contributor to Fox News is a shrewd one. Touché, Barracuda" (Blow); "Is national angst causing people to ignore the issues and just react to candidates’ personalities?" (Collins)Posted by Ian Alterman, Saturday, January 16, 2010
