January 2012
9 posts
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Zora Neale Hurston wrote the following letter to... →
The Danger of an Attack on Piracy Online →
In a piece often cited on the Web, the computer culture journalist Joshua Kopstein watched the debate in Congress in which members bragged about their online ignorance, and he wrote an open letter on the technology Web site Motherboard titled, “Dear Congress, It’s No Longer O.K. to Not Know How the Internet Works.”
December 2011
20 posts
“Science is not “neutral,” nor is it purely beholden to positivism. People do...”
– More Race Science: They Lock Up Those “Crazy” Negro Agitators and Call Them “Schizophrenic,” regarding Jonathan Metzl’s The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease (via thetart)
this is my father’s story
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“When I ask my students at the beginning of my Men and Masculinity course about...”
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“Built into any system of domination is the tendency to proclaim it’s own...”
– Michel-Rolph Trouillot, An Unthinkable History (via amantesuntamentes)
November 2011
7 posts
Liquor&Spice: notime4yourshit: This book is the... →
notime4yourshit:
This book is the first extensive survey of African-American gardening traditions in the rural South.
Richard Westmacott has recovered valuable data for those interested in African-American material culture and the history of vernacular gardens by creating measured…
“Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To...”
– Fullmetal Alchemist via creepy is as creepy does:
THIS TIMES 10 ——> Also, in all this arguing over... →
motherjones:
…and who’s more in-touch with “real people,” it’s striking how all the discussion centers on the consumer, and none of it considers, for just a minute, the retail worker: the hourly-paid, benefit-lacking working stiff today who doesn’t get that holiday between Thanksgiving and the weekend off, but…
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“Instead of celebrating our father’s birthday, May 29, 2011, his two ungrateful...”
– Hari Kondabolu, “Das Racist Cover Story: These Colors Don’t Run,” for Spin Magazine (via theoceanandthesky)
October 2011
3 posts
'...If start-up activity is the true engine of job... →
September 2011
7 posts
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“By the time I feed my family, I have maybe $400,000 left over,” - Rep. John...”
– Quote For The Day/Andrew Sullivan (via nickbaumann)
Suit Contends Black Children Exposed to Lead... →
A leading medical research institute in Baltimore stands accused of intentionally allowing black children, some as young as 12 months, to become increasingly poisoned by lead as part of a study conducted during the ’90s. The Kennedy Krieger Institute constructed experiments meant to address the chronic problem of lead poisoning for poor children in the city, seeking to measure the efficacy...
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get free or die tryin'.: in which i ask for help... →
dopegirlfresh:
it’s easy for me to go to bat for other folks. consistently, i tweet, share via facebook, email, and tumblr, etc. i’ve got friends who have paid bills and bought meds, gotten food, and everything you could imagine via crowdfunding on these here internets.
now, it’s my turn. and i’m kind of at a…
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August 2011
16 posts
Dangerous White Stereotypes →
“There’s a problem, though, with that message. To suggest that bad people were racist implies that good people were not.
Jim Crow segregation survived long into the 20th century because it was kept alive by white Southerners with value systems and personalities we would applaud. It’s the fallacy of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” a movie that never fails to move me but that advances a troubling...
The real grand bargain, coming undone →
“Indeed, a century ago many, if not most, Americans were convinced that capitalism had to be replaced with some form of “cooperative commonwealth” — or that large corporate enterprises should be broken up or strictly regulated to ensure competition, limit the concentration of power and prevent private interests from overwhelming the public good. In the presidential election of 1912, 75...
Why should government subsidize choices that don’t... →
I’ll ask again, as I asked in the prior post: why does this argument count against public education and not against any other governmental enterprise? Again, rich people have many more choices in transportation than poor people. Should the government fund a system of charter buses that perform about the same service as the regular bus? Where are Yglesias’s posts calling for such a thing? Or...