Inside from the Inside

Yesterday Hispanic blogosphere was buzzing with the news of Lou Dobbs exiting CNN.  Some claimed victory from their efforts to force CNN to muzzle Mr.  Dobbs on his anti immigrant anti Hispanic vitriol.  Personally, having worked in media for so many years I understood his strategy of content branding.  With the explosion of cable leading to the fragmentation [...]

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History is riddled with stories of progress and good coming from disasters and atrocities.  Racism can be added to that list of “bad” seeking good.  No I’m not some pollyanna, in fact I am more of a realist than a glass half full optimist.  Few would disagree that the temperature related to race relations has [...]

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I’m “phoning it in” today – ok, not literally, but I’m using audio for my post…and today I’m sharing a LITTLE bit about what it’s like to be Black. Thoughts. Feelings. Questions.

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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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When my friend Chidrup and I talked about racism in the US, there was a big chunk of information missing from his understanding: He didn’t know about the history of white domination and the enslavement of African people in the United States for nearly four-hundred years. It was hard to tell Chidrup the truth. I’m [...]

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i am not a coward I can’t quite remember how I found Tiffany. I probably surfed through an ocean of websites before landing on YouTube.  Oh, I remember. I clicked on something and ended up on The Sable Verity. Tiffany vlogs on YouTube. Through her vlog, Mulatto Diaries, Tiffany shares her thoughts and experiences as [...]

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Dave Chappelle’s video spewed the N-word like Dillinger’s machine gun.

I armoured up by recalling Richard. He nailed it.

Thought about George. He missed it. By many a mile.

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I’m starting to focus in a lot on health and healthcare disparities – especially as relates to race and socioeconomic “status”.

If you’ve ever heard someone say that racism is institutionalized, it’s this type of story to which they are referring.

I read this press release issued by the University of South Florida Health and was absolutely stunned.

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Ours was not a harmonious relationship. The few adult conversations we managed only cemented our divide with righteous opinons, thrown from both sides of the tent. He died unexpectedly in 2006. A year or so before, he made a rare appearance at my home. The time of his arrival signaled this was not just a [...]

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One of the realities of racial prejudice is that it inflicts real pain on real people—often people who are hiding the pain: the woman who cares for your kids or cleans your house, or the man or woman who cooks the food you eat in a restaurant or who processes the food you eat in a processing plant nearby.

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