Inside from the Inside

Fellow blog author Tom Worth has read most, if not all, of our posts. Here’s an observation from one of his eye-catching posts:
“I’ve read Lisa in complete agreement, and I’ve also thought she’s nuts.  Oz, when I get him, I feel like I REALLY get him; problem is, I’m not sure if I’m getting what [...]

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Whenever I hear or read the “gummint” bad, regulations bad folks start to rant I always want to ask, ” Now exactly when were the halcyon days of minimal regulation, the salad days of small government, the glory days of rugged individualism?”   Before income tax? When a man (white) could become a robber baron. Before [...]

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Thankfully, it appears that the Six Flags chain has retired last year’s version of its current ad campaign, the extensive run of which led me to write the following post on my blog, MEDIA ASSASSIN.
—Harry Allen
I’m surprised Racialicious hasn’t picked this apart, yet: Six Flags’ “More Flags, More Fun!” campaign, and its English-gargling Asian pitchman.

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There were no slaves
There are no slaves now and never were.

The people we have been referring to as ‘the slaves’ were (and are) in fact enslaved men and women. They were people who had as much intelligence, dignity and capability as you and I have. ‘Slaves’ are not who they were.

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I recently became involved in a community project to develop a plan to increase pathways to employment for the homeless. The initial discussion included defining homeless. The stereotypes abound: drunk on the corner with the sign and his dog, drug addict, mental illness. The realities include a much broader segment of the [...]

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Not long ago, I wrote about the challenge Republicans’ have had attracting minority voters.  We explored the theories of Shelby Steel and Ta-Nehesi Coates, and the direction of Republican policy under George W. Bush and the neocons.
Maybe it’s not so complicated as all that…

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I came upon this poor man one uneventful afternoon in a typical Houston blistering hot afternoon.  This is Mexican stereotyping at its best by a cell phone dealer without a marketing budget.  
I don’t know about you but if I was in the market for a new cell phone this type of push marketing does not [...]

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I don’t know how, until this very morning, I missed the April 15 New York Times profile of white rapper Asher Roth by former VIBE music editor Jon Caramanica (”To Be Young, Rapping and White,” it was near sacrilegously titled), but it was certainly worth the wait.

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Okay, I agree. The title of this post is a terrible pun. But what can you do but laugh at the ignorance exhibited by Texas Republican official Betty Brown? The problem isn’t her confusion over the transliteration of Chinese names. The problem is that she refers to Chinese Americans as “your citizens” when speaking to [...]

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Not so much.  At least at the Hillsborough, NC event I visited last week.  I did see exactly two brown faces in various media, but these events seem to have had 99.9 % white attendance. The speakers were uniformly banal; taxes are bad, taxes are bad, and by the way, taxes are really bad. So [...]

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