This post contains the n-word and a death threat. I’m so effin furious. This happened in Delaware. Mind you, this is Day 1 of Trump being elected. Media & police need to be on this. pic.twitter.com/bWL8FFpTEX — Shaun King (@ShaunKing) November 10, 2016 It seems like it was only day before yesterday that people were […]
Category: racism in the morning
Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. I read David Brooks, and must share it with you. Lede This column is directed at all the high school football players around the country who are pulling a Kaepernick â
A new study sheds more light on slavery’s continued impact on Americans. In the South, it seems, old prejudices have persisted. Southern counties that had more slaves on the eve of the Civil
If you like mental images of reddened, steroid-inflated faces beneath buzz cuts; if you want evidence that white supremacy is alive and well in the U.S., then you’ll enjoy CNN Transcription Service’s article about the shit-loss-a-thon that various police organizations are staging over Beyoncé’s video for Formation and her Super Bowl performance the following day. […]
Jonah Goldberg wrote something stupid. It feels like I never left. So what was it this time? I am willing to concede that some conservatives get carried away in their anti-soccer tirades, usually just
Dennis Prager confuses me. In an attempt to mitigate the overwhelming whiteness of the tea partiers, Prager argues that “the virtual absence of blacks from tea party rallies cannot possibly re
It should be abundantly clear to any regular readers that I am not one to criticize the S-CHIP reauthorization effort. That remains unchanged. But what I do think is worthy of criticism — or a least a critical eye — is the way S-CHIP is being sold. The Frosts (and the successors, below) are blameless […]
It’s no longer a surprise to hear about Republican presidential candidates (or presidents) blowing off the black community. But it’s still enraging and sad…and, at the hands of the D
I’ve been remiss in not writing about the Jena 6. There are excuses but I am not offering them. Just going to jump right in. Reed Walters, the District Attorney who has led the prosecution again
In case any more evidence were necessary, here’s yet another example of why the Supreme Court’s decisions banning school admission plans that consider race were just plain wrong. UPDATE [BY SL]: I have more here. “Color-blind” conservatives who endorse state racial discrimination as long as it’s manifested in the drawing of district boundaries instead of […]
This’ll get your blood boiling. Upon waking up this morning, I read this headline in the NY Times: Despite DNA Test, Prosecutor is Retrying Case. That’s right. A Mississippi prosecutor is
Genarlow Wilson, a promising high school sports star who was also a whiz in the classroom, was sentenced to ten years for having consensual oral sex with a fifteen year old girl (he was the recipient,