Yglesias on Reihan Salam's claim that white conservatives aren't racist, but rather simply nostalgic about an American that has largely ended: On its face it鈥檚 difficult to make sense of that. John Boehner was born in 1949. Does he feel nostalgic for the higher marginal...
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As if to provide a perfect example for Dahlia Lithwick's demonstration of the superficial and selective nature of Tea Party reverence for the Constitution, Steve King has decided to open.
Like Matt, I think Cotes's point here is very important: I guess I can agree that merely displaying the flag of a white supremacist Army, praising a group which opposed integration in the 1960s, and--at this very moment--is boycotting a Hollywood movie because for casting...
Rick Perlstein has a typically brilliant analysis.聽聽 Read the whole etc., but a preview: What happened between Brown v. Board of Education and that January day in 1970 comprises some.
Is Haley Barbour really going to run for the GOP nomination in 2012?聽 I hope so; the modern neo-Confederate+Corporate Lobbyist Republican Party might as well have a definitive standard-bearer: As.
The former President in a forthcoming interview (emphasis mine): MATT LAUER: You say you told Laura at the time it was the worst moment of your presidency? GEORGE W. BUSH: Yes. My record was strong, I felt, when it came to race relations and giving...
While the Na'vi may be blue, the people who played them are not. Consider:NeytiriTsu'teyEytukanMoatHorse Clan LeaderIt could be the case that all the other models for the Na'vi are white,.
Annalee Newitz writes that "[w]hether Avatar is racist is a matter of debate," but it isn't: the film is racist. Its fundamental narrative logic is racist: it transposes the cultural.
In the comments to a long, inaccurate attack on those who consider Palin evidence that the conservative movement is trending stupid, Darleen Click claims that those who point out the extreme whiteness of Palin supporters "reveal a great more about [themselves] than Palin." Because such...
Race in America has always seemed to me like the terrible secret at the end of Chinatown, that isn't really a secret at all. Forget it, Jake . . .Anyway.
A few months ago, I foolishly claimed that Pat Oliphant could never get away with open racism comparable to his misogyny. I was certainly mistaken. (Latter link via Ez.)