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Building on the writings of Ellis Cose, Smartypants highlights evidence that most African-Americans are happy with their lives and optimistic about the future. Smartypants comments: This kind of information creates great cognitive dissonance for many people. Folks on the right want to use it to claim that racism is over and so there’s no need [...]
Archive for the ‘Race & related -isms’ Category
June 6th, 2013
by Keith Humphreys
Category: Race & related -isms
Posted: Thursday, June 6th, 2013 at
10:25 am
Tags: optimism, race, Smartypants
7 Comments »
January 3rd, 2013
by Jonathan Zasloff
I agree completely with Mark about the grotesque refusal of the House GOP to renew the Violence Against Women Act, and about future Democratic strategy concerning it. But I think that Cantor was being completely honest here. Southern conservative hostility toward tribal courts goes back aways. Consider the example of Sam Ervin, who nowadays is [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 3rd, 2013 at
11:38 am
14 Comments »
October 30th, 2012
by Kelly Kleiman
Category: Barack Obama, Campaign 2012, Campaigns, Election reform, Elections 2010 and 2012, Good news, Music, Race & related -isms, Republican Party, Struggle Between Good and Evil, Vote Casting and Counting, Vote fraud
Mark asked for an update on Iowa, but I’ve moved out of the field operation and into voter protection at national headquarters. We sit at telephones and computers and people call in from Nevada and North Carolina and Ohio–especially Ohio!–and Florida and Wisconsin and ask where they can vote early and whether they’re properly registered [...]
Posted: Tuesday, October 30th, 2012 at
9:17 pm
Tags: early voting, Election 2012, voter i.d., voter protection, voter suppression
14 Comments »
October 20th, 2012
by Kelly Kleiman
Category: Campaign 2012, Election reform, Elections 2010 and 2012, Lying in politics, Race & related -isms, Vote Casting and Counting, Vote fraud
I got a ticket on Wednesday for changing lanes without signalling. (Yes, Chicago’s coffers are in need of a refill.) Because I’m no longer a motor club member, I no longer have a bond card, the thing you can give the cop instead of your license. So she took my license, and now I’m driving [...]
Posted: Saturday, October 20th, 2012 at
10:36 am
Tags: 2012 election, Driving While Black, Driving While Brown, DWB, election reform, photo i.d. laws, voter suppression
41 Comments »
October 14th, 2012
by Mark Kleiman
More frank racism from prominent Republicans. No one on the Red Team will complain.
Posted: Sunday, October 14th, 2012 at
6:11 pm
50 Comments »
August 27th, 2012
by Harold Pollack
I just read various analyses of race in the 2012 campaign. The conversation about the Romney campaign’s scurrilous welfare ads calls to mind this draft column I wrote mid-June but never posted. It seems relevant today.
Posted: Monday, August 27th, 2012 at
1:00 pm
7 Comments »
August 6th, 2012
by Jonathan Zasloff
Category: Human rights, Race & related -isms
We can argue about many things in the wake of the horrific shooting at the Sikh Temple in Milwaukee. And we can do some things. But the easiest thing to do is to tell the Sikh community there that we stand with them and will not tolerate bigotry. You can do that here, and send a [...]
Posted: Monday, August 6th, 2012 at
10:38 pm
5 Comments »
July 17th, 2012
by Harold Pollack
Glenn and I discuss what Romney should have said to the NAACP, the extent that GOP candidates should acknowledge previous misdeeds such as the Southern Strategy, and other matters. I do want to note one correction, where I was unfair to Barry Goldwater. He opposed civil rights legislation and believed there was a constitutional basis [...]
Posted: Tuesday, July 17th, 2012 at
3:30 pm
15 Comments »
May 25th, 2012
by Harold Pollack
A meme is afoot concerning attacks by black youth targeting whites for mayhem and racial revenge. This trend would be really scary, if it existed.
Posted: Friday, May 25th, 2012 at
12:23 pm
30 Comments »
April 24th, 2012
by Keith Humphreys
Category: Film, Race & related -isms
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, African-American actors had a boomlet of Academy Award acting nominations. Many predicted at the time that the civil rights era had finally come to Hollywood, and that Black nominees and winners would become a fixture at the Oscar ceremony. It was a false dawn. Nomination droughts set in [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 at
12:42 am
Tags: academy awards, denzel washington, halle berry
7 Comments »