The right-wing rhetorical flap over the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court puts me to mind of the failed nomination of Lani Guinier to the position of Assistant Attorney General back in 1993. As I wrote at the time,
One minute, [Lani Guinier] was a respected law professor and Justice Department nominee; the next [...]
The Huffington Post reports that Glen Beck and other conservative media personalities are blaming undocumented immigrants from Mexico for the spread of swine flu into the United States. Given that the true vector — tourists returning from Mexican vacations — has been widely publicized, there’s no way to read this other than as racism and [...]
South African singer and activist Miriam Makeba is dead. In her memory, let me refer you to this past post inspired by her song “Soweto Blues.” In that post, I discuss the 1976 massacre of South African schoolchildren as well as present-day student activism in Baltimore. So you can understand why the post is entitled [...]
Over at RaceWire, there’s an interesting commentary on a controversy I missed. Evidently, otherwise righteous defenders of evolution are going around comparing creepy Creationists to “welfare queens.” Rinku Sen cheers Stephen Colbert for challenging Kenneth Miller on such rhetoric and calls for more white people to do the same.
That reminded me that I once wrote [...]
Arguing that “hamburgers and radical feminism are mutually exclusive,” Twisty over at I Blame the Patriarchy has bid farewell to bacon.
Meanwhile, over at AfroSpear, thefreeslave argues that “you can’t be a revolutionary and eat the white man’s food.”
Check out the comments steams for both of those posts. Also of interest is the ongoing problem-solving comment [...]
I’ll have quite a bit to say about this another day but I wanted to make sure that I opened a space for dialog right away.
clipped from www.blacklooks.org
(If you’re angry that I said this, come over to my blog and vent at me.)
I’m still busy writing other things (one of which you will see soon) and [grrr] grading, so let me send you elsewhere again.
The Black Looks blog is a collective effort of several African and one African American blogger. According to the blog’s founder, “I wanted to primarily focus on anything to do with African Women [...]
