Making themselves to home. The latest alienated, homicidal incompetent to personalize the sort of racial pandering the president is presently cranking to eleven for the 2012 campaign was shot and killed by police today. And we’re off: “He used to do so much for the community. Something must have happened to make him flip outContinue reading “The Roost is on the Left”
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A Belated Introduction to Your President
New and improved, 10/4Updates below The hits just keep coming for the Wonder Brother. I discount the president’s more explicit race-baiting; he’s never more full of shit than when he’s adopting that phony gospel intonation for such as the naive souls at Trinity United. Sinister as it is, the president’s fervor is depressingly dull. HeContinue reading “A Belated Introduction to Your President”
This ain’t the Summer of Love
“Really? Is this really happening?”–Flash-mob victim This ain’t the Garden of Eden, There ain’t no angels above, And things ain’t what they’re supposed to be, And this ain’t the Summer of Love—BÖC The post-racial dream has become a nightmare. The use of social media to take over public space by surprise (the definition of “flashContinue reading “This ain’t the Summer of Love”
Equality, now
The Republican Party’s continuing survival now depends as much on the Democratic Party’s inherent contradictions as anything else. The latter has become less a labor party than a coalition of identity groups united in resentment toward a myth of majority privilege that grows more fabulous and farcical by the day, and–being identity groups–viewing one anotherContinue reading “Equality, now”
What is (a) hate (crime)? I
psy•cho•sis, nloss of contact with reality: a psychiatric disorder such as schizophrenia or mania that is marked by delusions, hallucinations, incoherence, and distorted perceptions of reality.Microsoft Encarta Is it too soon, for decency, or too late, because things move fast nowadays, to speculate on the potential for an Omar Thornton fan page? Due to theContinue reading “What is (a) hate (crime)? I”
Basketball is Basketball, Equality is Excellence, War is Peace
Boldly now comes the WNBA’s television campaign for its new season, to accompany the NBA playoffs. Interspersing footage from both leagues the spot creates the illusion the men and women are playing together. For example, a WNBA player makes a pass; we cut to an NBA player hauling it in on his way to theContinue reading “Basketball is Basketball, Equality is Excellence, War is Peace”
D’uhccuse…!
He’s just saying there’s nothing wrong with that. Well, they look like a white crowd to me. Not that there’s anything wrong with it, but it is pretty monochromatic up here. No surprise in terms of the ethnic nature of the people showing up. Nothing wrong with that. But it is a fact. I thinkContinue reading “D’uhccuse…!”
Condescension and Credulity
No matter with what skill the great manage to seem other than they are, they cannot conceal their malignity.—Jean de la Bruyere, Characters That implicit credulity is the mark of a feeble mind will not be disputed.—Sir William Hamilton After a brief, nominal flirtation with the ideal of objectivity the political press is poised toContinue reading “Condescension and Credulity”
Deconstructing Eric, or, Little by Little
Abraham Lincoln once said that “If you’re a racist, I will attack you with the North,” and these are the principles I carry with me in the workplace.–Michael Scott Our Attorney General is right. We are a nation of cowards, fearing an honest discussion of race. But, unless he’s breaking utterly with rigorously observed convention,Continue reading “Deconstructing Eric, or, Little by Little”
Deconstructing Barry
(And the Myth of White Racism)She had seen May Day parades when people were still enthusiastic or did their best to feign enthusiasm…As a group approached the reviewing stand, even the most blasé faces would beam with dazzling smiles, as if trying to prove they were properly joyful, or, more precisely, in proper agreement.(…)Kitsch causesContinue reading “Deconstructing Barry”
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