racism
September 16, 2009
- I'm a racist.In reality, I don't believe that to be true and neither would anybody who knows me on a personal basis, but according to Jimmy Carter, an irrelevant former US President widely considered to be one of the worst Presidents ever, I am a racist.And he's just the most recent in a line of people using this tired argument. The race card gets played whenever liberals don't actually have an ...
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September 10, 2009
- "[Racism] is not about how you look, it's about how people assign meaning to how you look." -- Robin D.G. Kelley, HistorianIf you are in Southern California or nearby, visit the RACE project at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, 10/3 - 12/31.www.californiasciencecenter.org"Looking through the eyes of history, science and lived experience, the RACE Project explains ...
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August 30, 2009
- This morning while sauntering with Simone, my 11 and a half pound king charles cavalier, we are abruptly and verbally accosted by the obnoxious barking of a fierce, muscular--and what seems like--300 pound german shepherd trying to knock down a chain link fence to eat us. I've nicknamed him Rush. This is not the first or second time we have been shouted down, but today it seems like the ...
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August 28, 2009
- I've heard many times that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. That said, I'm done. I will no longer rise up in revolt against Rush Limbaugh or respond antic for antic to every racist, sexist, anti-Muslim, anti-Obama, rant where inevitably the same (and obvious) conclusion is reached everytime: "but that's insane".The truth is, while ...
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August 27, 2009
- Two Days in August (Version #2 - Bad Manners) Sitting in my car, staring at the back of a dirty Jeep stopped in the middle of the road in front of me, there is nowhere for me to go. All I can see of the driver is her ponytail. Next to her, in a truck pointed downhill, is a middle-aged man in a cowboy hat. I'm returning home after having lunch with two friends who live a couple of ...
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August 18, 2009
- Today is a glorious day indeed. First, our youngest daughter began kindergarten this morning, amidst great excitement and enthusiasm, and was walked to her classroom by her big sister (in 2nd grade), who felt especially "adult" for getting to do that, I'm sure.And secondly, because yesterday afternoon, Rush Limbaugh attacked me on air. The afterglow, as they say, is still with ...
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August 17, 2009
- "How dare you say this is about racism!"And a pleasant Monday to you too sunshine, I thought, as I stared at my computer screen this morning, reading over the first e-mail of the day.It was from someone who had apparently seen my presentation on CNN last night, in which I explained why racism is indeed a driving force behind the outpouring of anger we've been seeing at the various ...
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August 12, 2009
- The mountains in this photo look like a prone woman. I guess I'm always seeing women in mountains. I was taking a walk along Pontoosuc Lake in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the other night when I took this shot. It's not just the woman, and the sky that I like. I have an attachment to that railing. The state was going to put up a concrete wall when they rebuilt this section of Route 7 in the ...
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August 12, 2009
- If you get a chance, today or perhaps tomorrow, do yourself a favor. Look up some file footage, perhaps on YouTube, of Adolf Hitler, addressing his followers. I know, it doesn't sound like the best way to spend your day, or even a few minutes of it, but trust me, there's a point to the recommendation. While you watch, notice the unhinged shouting, the wild eyes, the veins on his neck, the ...
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August 10, 2009
- Throughout the first six months of his administration, President Obama--perhaps one of the most politically cautious leaders in contemporary history--has been routinely portrayed as a radical by his opponents on the far-right. In particular, persons who have apparently never actually studied Marxism (or if they did, managed to somehow find therein support for such things as bailing out banks and ...
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