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The New Pharaohs?

William H. Lamar IV | Posted 05.09.2013 | Religion
Read More: African-American, Jews, Religion, Church, Sermons, Blacks, Slavery, Black Churches, Whiteness, Alliance-of-Black-Jews, Black Christmas, American Jews, American Judy, Exodus, Book of Exodus, African-American Issues, Scripture Commentary, Scripture Study, Martin Luther King Jr., Christianity, Judaism, Religion News
William H. Lamar IV

Here we are, Black American church folk and Shabbat observing Jews. We are the children of those who suffered in the sweltering house of bondage. And many of us have become Pharaohs.

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Can Muslims Be 'All-American'?

Krystina Friedlander | Posted 05.01.2013 | Religion
Read More: Islamophobia, Islam, Boston Marathon Bombing, Religious Conversion, Religion and Politics, Whiteness, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, Islam in the Media, Muslim Converts, Religion News
Krystina Friedlander

If Muslims aren't "all-American," and if "all-American" is used to describe white women before they convert to a racialized faith, then assumptions about who is "all-American" not only deny 3 million Muslims of their national and cultural identity as Americans, but they deny full Americanness to anyone who isn't white.

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'Good' and 'Evil' Whites? The Shared Meanings of Race

Matthew W. Hughey | Posted 11.20.2012 | Black Voices
Read More: Politics, Racism, Whiteness, Racial Identity, Domestic Terrorism, Inequality, Antiracism, Black Voices News
Matthew W. Hughey

If we stop looking for the "racist" or "antiracist" intent within people and instead within the shared, patterned, and common ways that people interact, we can move beyond the common and often misleading ways of dividing the world into simplistic dichotomies of good and bad.

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Being White at a Black College: An Interview

Marybeth Gasman | Posted 09.30.2012 | Black Voices
Read More: Famu, Robert Shorette, Whiteness, African American, Black College, Hbcu, Florida a&M University, Marybeth Gasman, Students, Diversity, College Life, Black Voices News
Marybeth Gasman

Having a racially diverse group of HBCU alumni helps to communicate the merits of these institutions to a larger and more diverse audience. Telling the HBCU story on a wider scale can be nothing but beneficial.

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Post-Whiteness

Darnell L. Moore | Posted 07.24.2012 | Black Voices
Read More: Obama Post-Racial, Whiteness, Race, Blackness, Post-Racial, Post Racial America, President Barack Obama, Bv-Politics, Black Voices News
Darnell L. Moore

Whose bodies and lives will this grand social vision of a post-racial world benefit especially when considering the counter-investment in notions of "blackness" that post-racial propagandists seem to maintain?

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When A 'Bad White People Day' Is Just Another Tuesday

Molly Secours | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Prejudice, Anti-Islam, Anti-Muslim, Racism, Discrimination, Fox TV, Michelle Obama, Immigration, Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Racial Discrimination, Anti-Immigration, Sarah Palin, Fox News, Whiteness, Tea Party, Glenn Beck, Healthy Living News
Molly Secours

Just before the November election I witnessed an incident involving two men at a gas station, and although there was no physical confrontation and no crime committed, the potential for violence was undeniable.

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Dedrick Muhammad | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Racism, White Supremacy, Anti-Racism, Whiteness, Avatar, Entertainment News
Dedrick Muhammad

I have been waiting for some discussion linking the not so subtle politics of the film Avatar with the serious political critique of whiteness.

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Going Where Glenn Beck Wouldn't: Defining White Culture

Mikhail Lyubansky | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Glenn Beck, CULTURE of the UNITED STATES, White Culture, Whiteness, U.S. CULTURE, American Culture, Black Culture, Katie Couric, Colorlindness, Politics News
Mikhail Lyubansky

Just so I'm clear: I like the people fine. It's their whiteness (or rather the privileges associated with it) that I'd rather do without.

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White People Confronting Racism

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Social Justice, Traces of the Trade, Slave Trade, Anti-Racism Conference, Pbs, Slavery, White Privilege, Coming to the Table, Racism, Anti-Racist Activism, Anti-Racism, Whiteness, Race, White Privielge Conference, Media News
Abby L. Ferber

Two weeks ago I participated in the eleventh annual White Privilege Conference, where I had the chance to talk with Holly Fulton, who was involved in the documentary film Traces of the Trade.

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Blabbers Remorse, White Entitlement, and General Stanley McChrystal's Ego

Molly Secours | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Dnc, White House, Richard Holbrooke, Lindsey Graham, Joe Biden, Entitlement, Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton, John Kerry, Rolling Stone, Stanley McChrystal, Racism, Gop, Fox News, Whiteness, Tea Party, Politics News
Molly Secours

It is difficult to imagine McCrystal's words don't belong to a jacked up first semester frat boy who has discovered what his new status affords and suffers from the delusion that his 'winning streak' will never end.

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Nell Painter's History of White People: It's Coming to an End

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: History, Princeton, Radio, Conversation, Nell Painter, Genetics, Whiteness, Christopher Lydon, Race, Emerson, Brown University, Books News
Christopher Lydon

Now that we are all supposed to have absorbed the genomics of it -- that "race" is a social concept, not a scientific one; a construction, not a fact -- she is asking: who invented "whiteness" as a human category?

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Murdoch and Fox Portray Black Men as Terrorists on 24

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: New York Post Monkey Cartoon, Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh, Black President, Revenge Fantasy, Palin and Secession, Chimp, Liberal, Conservative, Sarah Palin, War Crimes, Sean Hannity, Ron Robinson, Jefferson Davis, Rupert Murdoch, Alaska Secessionist Party, Abc, Disney, 24, Fox, Fantasy, Phillip Goff, White Spiritual Supremacy, White Liberal, White Supremacy, Race, Plausible Deniability, Racism, Gop, Implicit Bias, Stereotype, Fantasy Bond, Frantz Fanon, Racial Categorization, Ashley Todd, Ny Post Chimp Cartoon, Eric Holder, Boycott, Media News, World News, News of the Day, Race Consciousness, Top News, Angry Black Man, Socio-Spiritual Liberation and Justice, Cultural Consciousness, Fundamentalist, Landmark Forum, Racist, Landmark, White Fantasy Bond, Twenty-Foured, White Privilege, White Entitlement, Guidance Church, Agape International Spiritual Center, Huffington Post, Agape, Self Empowerment, Black Tax, Self Help, Reparations, Latest Headlines, White Fantasy Bond With Obama, Whiteness, Rev. Michael Beckwith, Barack Obama, Rev. Nirvana Gayle, Evolution of Consciousness, Media Analysis, Media Matters, Lynching, Fox News, Lf, Implicit Social Cogntion, Implicit Race Bias, Implicit Association, Emotional Freedom, Happy Victimizer, Santa Barbara, Linkedin, Facebook, Scapegoat, Glendon Association, Belrusconi, Dittoheads, World News
Ronald B. Robinson

The first two Presidents on 24 were Black men. The first was assassinated and the second was responsible for allowing nuclear bombs into the country, causing mass destruction.

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Cancer, John Mayer and "Please Don't Call Me Racist" : Diffusing the R-Bomb

Molly Secours | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Hood Pass, White Supremacists, Bull Conner, Chemotherapy, Racism, Entitlement, Cancer, Whiteness, Rush Limbaugh, Bart Motes, John Meyer, Tim-Wise, White People, Strom Thurmond, George Wallace, Healthy Living News
Molly Secours

It wasn't until recovering from stage IV uterine cancer that I began to notice the parallels between cancer and racism -- and potentially similar paths of recovery.

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Fear and Envy of Black Masculinity: How Politico's Jonathan Martin Mugged President Obama and Got Away With It

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: April Ryan, Aggresive, Meltdown, Emotional, Implict Cognition, Obama, Media, Black, White Male Workers, Race, Ashley Todd, Bush, Msnbc, History, Press Room, Male, Agitated, Conservatives, Envy, Implicit Bias, African Americans, Racism, Masculinity, Whiteness, Meme, Rove, Fear, Carrie Budoff Brown, White House Press Corp, Rush Limbaugh, Irritated, Msm, Black Male, Lou Dobbs, Jonathan Martin, Association, White Male, Cnn, White, Politico, Press Corps, Barack Obama, Michelle Malkin, Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin, Fox, Politics, Rnc, Michael Steele, Republican Chair, Politics News
Ronald B. Robinson

Almost all black men recognize the contemptuous look Jonathan Martin gave Obama on Thursday.

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I Am Racist!

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Racism, Obama, Race, Barack Obama, Election, White Privilege, Whiteness, Privilege, Votes, Racist, Florida, Pennsylvania, Polls, Voters, New York Times, Florida Voters, Politics News
Abby L. Ferber

Race will be a factor in this presidential election. It is always a factor in our society. How much race impacts the election will depend on our willingness to consciously strive to be anti-racist.

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