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The Wall Street Journal's editorial denouncing "Holder's Racial Incitement" is so foul and tendentious about Holder's comments, America, and the partisan effort to deprive American citizens of one their most precious rights -- the right to vote -- that it compels response.
What new Census data proves is what the Republican party already knows very well: the traditionally conservative electorate, essentially their entire way of thinking and the political clout it's held, is in danger of being demographically pushed out of existence.
Reading about the Reverend Wright attack ads, it's clear to me that we are all still fearful of confronting our own racial anxieties. They remind me just how far we've come as a country but also how much further we need to go.
During an appearance on Fox News, liberal commentator Jehmu Greene referred to Tucker Carlson as a "bow-tying white boy." As one might imagine, that did not go over so well in the right-wing media.
I would not wish to be called homophobic just because quite of lot of individuals who happen to be white make anti-gay remarks. Problems arise when our only understanding and interactions with specific people result in our treating them as part of a group and not as individuals.
Some assume that quoting an anti-gay gay means they aren't bigoted. Citing a bigot, even one who is a member of the group against whom he is bigoted, does not exonerate you. If anything, it shows how desperate you are to justify your position.
Yes, there's a double-standard. And until there's full equality and the long slow process of racial healing is completed, the double-standard has to remain.
Sometimes white people think that racism is a dead issue, because they do not experience it. Yet it is not wise to judge other people's experience based on our non-experience.
White activists blocked the entrance of the NYPD headquarters at One Police Plaza, on Saturday, May 12, drawing attention to the city's ever-increasing, racially-skewed marijuana possession arrests.
Almost 30 years ago, the Special A.K.A. released "Racist Friend," drawing a clear line in the sand: "if you have a racist friend/ now is the time for ...
Some fans have launched a campaign to see that actor Jesse Williams gets cast as Finnick. This happens all the time in Hollywood. So what's the big deal? Well, to begin with the character's color, or lack of it, depending on how you see him, is striking.
Race is the elephant in the living room of the United States. We all know that race sits on the couch, yet many of us choose to ignore it. Many of u...
Sometimes I can't help myself, and I do the worst thing imaginable in modern society. I read comments online. I'm not proud, but I've found some recurring themes about me and my new movie, God Bless America, that I'd like to address.
The Keralite Cat's tales, in all its frivolity, made a profound point about the drivers, construction workers, the maids and cleaners: Can you believe that these people make love? Can you believe they even cheat on each other? Can you believe that they buy each other birthday presents too?
This is not a story about race, although it may seem so at first. I will leave that reflection for another day. Instead, it is about how a country chooses to embrace and create solutions when faced with something that has impacted each of us personally.
The end of a racist nation cannot just come from an integration of races in schools, the workplace and politics. It must come from a very personal change in perception. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 changed the law, but it's the people that change a culture.
