I think racism is a major problem in the US and one that doesn’t get the open discussion it deserves. I’d like to talk more about how to combat racism, especially in the US, and work toward healing the wounds it has inflicted. I believe that racism stems from issues of power in Whiteness and is primarily a White issue. I don’t define racism and racial prejudice as the same thing. I believe racism is racial prejudice + power to oppress.
And it’s even on Boing Boing. So again we’ve got national attention because one of our local yokels has made an ass of himself. As the Salt Lake Tribune reports, Don Larsen, a Republican party delegate, has decided that Satan’s new plot to ruin America is to flood it with immigrants. And he brought a [...]
Today marks the anniversary of the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King’s assassination in 1968 was an act of terrorism that robbed this country of a moral and courageous leader. Stephen F. Rohde, in an editorial for t r u t h o u t, reminds us that a year to the [...]
What’s the whole story here? Nineteen year old Pfc. LaVena Johnson died in Iraq; the Army declared her death a suicide. Her grieving parents want to know why she appeared to have been raped and beaten before being shot with an M-16 that shows no signs she touched it. More than a few of the [...]
