Liberal Schadenfreude: What Happens When a Black German Woman Confronts the...
Have you watched this segment from the BBC in which a black German woman confronts Neo-Nazis and KKK members? If you have watched the clip, what are your thoughts and feelings about it?In the United...
View ArticleWhitewashing 'The Greatest Generation': Never Forget the African-American...
My father died ten years ago today. I used to remember his passing with the reminder that he passed away on the Sunday before Father's Day during the Sopranos while Tony ran away from the feds as his...
View ArticleHow the Right-wing Echo Chamber Helped Spawn the Las Vegas White Supremacist...
What shall we do with the white people...again?I ask that question when white men commit mass shootings. I ask that question when Right-wing domestic terrorists kill innocent people. It is unfortunate,...
View ArticleWhy is the "Liberal" Media Afraid to Tell the Truth About Right-wing Domestic...
The brilliant Noam Chomsky exposed that the "liberal media" is a myth with the following simple and incisive logic.The Right-wing wing media assert the opposite, i.e. that the media is "liberal" in...
View ArticleThe Right-Wing Media is a Trough Urinal: Apparently, the Las Vegas Shooters...
Earlier this week, I outlined how the Right-wing media will use Goebbels' principles to lie and obfuscate about the basic facts regarding the Las Vegas white supremacist shooters.Right-wing media...
View ArticleChauncey DeVega Discusses the Las Vegas White Supremacist Shootings on Ring...
Last week, I spent a good amount of time discussing the Las Vegas white supremacist shootings here on Daily Kos, Alternet, and on my own site We Are Respectable Negroes.I had the opportunity to appear...
View ArticleAn Arab Uncle Tom? 'Brigitte Gabriel' and the Heritage Foundation's...
Once again, the Right-wing in America shows us who they really are. We should not be surprised.On Monday, the "serious" thinkers at the Heritage Foundation hosted a panel on the faux Benghazi scandal....
View ArticleThe Right-Wing's Insincere Embrace of Black Armed Resistance in the Civil...
The role of armed resistance and guns in the Black Freedom Struggle is one of America's hidden histories. The mainline Civil Rights Movement was publicly non-violent: this was essential for Dr. King's...
View ArticleWhat Happens When a Black Member of the Gun Nut Right 'Discovers' Racism?
I myself am an african american and as much as I hate to claim the race card, it holds true in open carry situations. I've been places with a white friend and we both open carried and law enforcement...
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'Stunning Portraits of Mixed Race Families'?: Slate's Human Zoo of Race...
Am I the only person who found Slate.com's photo essay "Stunning Portraits of Mixed Race Families" to be very problematic? To my eyes, it contains and channels the echoes of race science and eugenics...
View ArticleJohn Boehner's Lawsuit Against President Obama is Racist. Why Won't the Media...
Speaker of the House John Boehner's lawsuit against President Barack Obama is driven by racial animus and white supremacy. Boehner's efforts to comply with the racist Tea Party and other herrenvolk...
View ArticleIsraeli Young People Taking 'Selfies' at Auschwitz?
Four teenagers huddle together, striking a severe pose like a boy band. In the background, just overhead, a sign looms: “Arbeit Macht Frei.” A girl kneels down next to some austere-looking, moss-ridden...
View ArticleWhat if a Muslim Company Used the 'Hobby Lobby' Decision to Impose Its Values...
The slide towards American theocracy was nudged one more step forward by today's Supreme Court decision in support of the "freedom" of corporations with "religious" beliefs to restrict the rights of...
View ArticleHow Long Will the 'Hobby Lobby' Alliance of Christian Fundies, 1 Percenters,...
I would like to thank all of you who shared my earlier piece on the Hobby Lobby decision, and the counter factual question "What if Muslims Used the Hobby Lobby Decision to Discriminate Against White...
View Article10 Things I Learned From Eavesdropping on Conservatives Who Just Saw Dinesh...
America: Imagine the World Without Her is the newest propaganda hit piece from confessed criminal and Right-wing operative Dinesh D'Souza.During my weekly visit to the movies, I saw Deliver Us From...
View ArticleA Broken Saxophone Playing 'Hail to the Chief': Black America and Barack...
There is a black saxophone playing street musician who is a fixture on Michigan Avenue here in Chicago. I have been living in Chicago for more than ten years. I would guess that he has been here for...
View ArticleBlack Conservative Race Hustlers and the Anti-Immigrant Protests in Murrieta,...
The harassment and poor treatment of the refugee families and children in Murrieta, California by Tea Party militia hooligans and thug nativists is embarrassing. I am not bewildered, although I will...
View ArticleAmmosexuals and Open Carry Gun Fetishists Will Not Like 'Dawn of the Planet...
I had the good fortune to see a screening of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes last evening. What follows are some preliminary thoughts on what is a great film, and one guaranteed to make many millions of...
View ArticleWhy is Eric Holder Finally Telling the Truth About the Tea Party GOP's Racial...
In a recent interview with ABC, Attorney General Eric Holder told the truth about the role played by white racial resentment and racism in the White Right's opposition to Barack Obama where he said...
View ArticleWhat Sort of White Person Do I Want to Be? A Dialogue With Paul Breines,...
I offer a podcast series at my main site and home base, We Are Respectable Negroes.I was lucky enough to chat with Dr. Paul Breines, who is a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement and a Freedom Rider....
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