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  • VG: Critique: Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison

    • "I want to draw a map, so to speak, of a critical geography and use that map to open as much space for discovery, intellectual adventure and close exploration as did the original charting of the New World -- without the mandate for conquest."

  • Allen: "On Roedigger's 'Wages of Whiteness'"

    • ) "the role of race in defining how white
      workers look not only at Blacks but at themselves"; 2) "the
      pervasiveness of race"; 3) "the complex mixture of
      hate, sadness and longing in the racist thought of white workers";
      4) the relationship between race and ethnicity."2 "Marxism as presently theorized,"
      he says, does not help us focus on "why so many workers
      define themselves as white."3
      He classifies Marxist and presumably Marx-influenced writings
      into two categories, the "traditional Marxists," who
      are distinguished by their emphasis on class, combined with a
      subordination of "race;" and the "neo-Marxists,"
      who subscribe to the perspectives of E. P. Thompson in Britain
      and Herbert Gutman in the United States, whom he credits with
      opening the way for the emergence of "a new labor history,"
      particularly by "call[ing] into question any theory that
      holds that racism simply trickles down the class structure from
      the commanding heights at which it is created."
    • Part II introduces white identity
      in "the language of class," wherein the European-American
      artisans responded to the threat of extinction by capitalist
      enterprise by an appeal to a "whites-only" republicanism.
      Part III relates the growing industrialization to the development
      of a "white" culture, the emergence of "whiteness."
      Unskilled European immigrant peasant recruits, resentful of the
      routine discipline of industrial employment, consoled themselves
      with the social distinction of being free and citizens. Special
      attention is given to laboring-class Irish-Americans who, the
      author says, combined their political and economic motives with
      an "unthinking decision" rooted in repressed sexual
      fantasies which they projected onto their image of African-Americans.

  • Monkeyfist.com: The Global Privileges of Whiteness

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    race riots whiteness on 2008-04-03 and saved by 2 people

    • White America's attitudes about race and racism are a mixture of

      self-congratulation and defensiveness -- ``Yes, we've had some

      episodes of racism and bias, but that's all clearly in the

      past.'' But, in truth, White racism hasn't gone anywhere. Its

      tenor and tone have mutated; it's now expressed in carefully coded

      messages rather than in crudely overt themes. White racism -- and the

      White supremacist ideology it reflects and networks of White privilege

      it maintains -- are alive and well.
    • The oppressive ideal is for privilege to be so deeply embedded and

      entwined in the social order that it's hard to see and, thus, hard to

      fight. One way that White privilege has been made invisible the

      creation of a widely shared sense of aggrieved White victimhood. If

      White people are victims of, say, affirmative action's so-called

      reverse racism, the real claims of people of color and of women will

      make little sense. False claims of oppression dilute the force of real

      claims. White aggrieved victimhood is a smoke screen for White

      privilege.
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  • iZania.com - Obama's Speech on Race: Not Just Empty Words, or Another "Eloquent Speech"

    This is what billy wants to have defened that I simply refuse - Barack is American and ANY ONE OF US!!!

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    billy jack conversation izania obama race on 2008-04-03

    • it had discovered the bone in Obama’s closet that would derail his run for the Presidency, Barack kicked down the door of the closet that holds America’s worse skeletons, its race closet.
    • So the race closet, stacked to the top with 400 years of skeletons-from the Middle Passage through today’s colorblind racism, is closely guarded by those who know and understand this vile and twisted history. However, this time America started it by trying to radicalize Obama and racialize Obama’s Minister, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Barack finished it by stating that if you really want to have a conversation about somebody’s racial views - then let’s talk about America’s racial views, in its totality. It was substantive, and it was eloquent.
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  • HaloScan.com - Comments

    • There is no denying the atrocities that took place against black folks in those days. There is also no denying that discrimination still exists to some extent today. I admit all of those things, and I am sorry about them. I wonder if you are just as willing to admit that things are much better for black people today?
    • you need to wake up
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  • Billy Jack’s Blog » Response To The Guest Post

    • Unlike you, I assume you are an honest hearted and intelligent man with a point of view that is drastically different from mine.
    • only points you’ve made
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  • Eugene Robinson - Two Black Americas - washingtonpost.com

    • On April 4, 1968, it was possible to make the generalization that being black in this country meant being poor; fully 40 percent of black Americans lived below the poverty line, according to census data, with another 20 percent barely keeping their heads above water.
    • Today, about 25 percent of African Americans are mired in poverty. In many ways, being black and poor is a more desperate and hopeless condition now than it was 40 years ago. For those who managed to enter the middle class, however, most of the old generalizations no longer apply.
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  • Ben Smith's Blog - Politico.com

    • What do you think of Obama?

      I’m riding my man Obama. I think he’s a visionary. Actually, Barack told me the first date he took Michelle to was Do the Right Thing. I said, “Thank God I made it. Otherwise you would have taken her to Soul Man. Michelle would have been like, ‘What’s wrong with this brother?’ ”



      Does this mean you’re down on the Clintons?

      The Clintons, man, they would lie on a stack of Bibles. Snipers? That’s not misspeaking; that’s some pure bulls***. I voted for Clinton twice, but that’s over with. These old black politicians say, “Ooh, Massuh Clinton was good to us, massuh hired a lot of us, massuh was good!” Hoo! Charlie Rangel, David Dinkins—they have to understand this is a new day. People ain’t feelin’ that stuff. It’s like a tide, and the people who get in the way are just gonna get swept out into the ocean.

  • Hak Pak Sak

    • America in flames? Sound familiar? The closing lines of Grine Kuzine are really no different from Barack Obama’s former pastor Jeremiah Wright’s “God Damn America” paraphrase of Irving Berlin’s maudlin patriotic tune God Bless America. As a singer of Grine Kuzine, and as a not-too-distant descendant of her fellow immigrant workers, I do not understand the recent hysteria over the U-Tube posting of an out-of-context video excerpt of one of Wright’s old sermons. Jews and Blacks and even the whitest-of-white Americans have the right — and maybe the obligation — to be enraged at polities and policies that misuse or deceive them or that fail to live up to their potential or rhetoric. The hyperbole of songs and of sermons generates reflection and vents steam and diffuses rage even as it broadcasts it.
    • Far more interesting and insidious than the slips-of-the-lips of members of Obama’s confessional circles is Hillary Clinton’s decades-long involvement in an oligarchical right-wing prayer breakfast group called The Fellowship, Sound like the stuff of crank conspiracy theories? Writer Jeff Sharlet of The Revealer, a New York University weblog covering religion and the media, has just completed a book on the subject. Will apologies and statements of distancing and denunciation of The Fellowship be forthcoming from the Clinton campaign? I doubt it.

  • The coming only is sacred: self-creation and social solidarity in Richard Rorty's secular Eschatology | Cross Currents | Find Articles at BNET.com

    • Walter Rauschenbusch was declared the father of the Social Gospel.
    • Richard Rorty's socialist parents, Walter Rauschenbusch's daughter Winifred and her husband James Rorty, moved from churchly circles into the cosmopolitan company of the old New York Intellectuals and at least for a season loved Trotsky more than Jesus. Their son Richard was born in 1931 into a family circle of leftist politics and very progressive social hopes. Frequent guests in the Rorty home included John Dewey, Sidney Hook, Lionel Trilling, the Italian anarchist Carlo Tresca and John Frank (Trotsky's secretary who lived with the Rortys under an assumed name). Richard Rorty confesses that as a boy of 12 he knew the point of being human was to give one's life to fight against social injustice. He also knew the temptations and terrors of radical politics. He knew that Stalin had ordered the assassinations of Trotsky, Tresca, Frank and scores of other anti-totalitarian leftist leaders and intellectuals.

  • Steve Young: Most Race-Baiting Column EVER! O'Reilly Uses Nearly Entire Column To Conjure Up A Race War Over Obama - Media on The Huffington Post

    • In one of the most incendiary columns ever written, "Race And The Presidential Election," Bill O'Reilly sets the race-bait bar to record-breaking...depths. Short of saying that Barack Obama wants to sleep with your pearly-white daughter, O'Reilly uses just about every button meant to alarm his white fans to the fact that Barack Obama is BLACK and that just his running for, let alone becoming, president, could set off race-laced fireworks.
    • "Obama's second dilemma is convincing skeptical white voters that he and his wife are sympathetic to their concerns. Let's be honest--few white Americans would tolerate a Reverend Wright for five minutes, much less 20 years."

  • Op-Ed Columnist - Running While Black - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com

    • Spare me any more drivel about the high-mindedness of John McCain. You knew something was up back in March when, in his first ad of the general campaign, Mr. McCain had himself touted as “the American president Americans have been waiting for.”
    • Evidence? John McCain needs no evidence. His campaign is about trashing the opposition, Karl Rove-style. Not satisfied with calling his opponent’s patriotism into question, Mr. McCain added what amounted to a charge of treason, insisting that Senator Obama would actually prefer that the United States lose a war if that would mean that he — Senator Obama — would not have to lose an election.
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  • BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: Why we think we're better than the rest - it's not all vanity

    • The obvious, egocentric explanation for why we do this is that it makes us feel better about ourselves. But there are at least two other more innocent explanations, which are based on subtle flaws in our thinking.

      The first possibility is that we find it easier to consider the favourable evidence for a single person than we do for a whole group. Consistent with this is the finding that people tend to be biased when comparing any single individual, not just themselves, against a group of others.
    • . In other words, it is the difficulty we have thinking about the favourable evidence for groups, as opposed to individuals, that seems to be the crucial factor underlying the "above average effect".

  • Love is not the enemy - Resilience

    • Poet-performer Jessica Care Moore’s “Love is Not the Enemy: Manifesto for 28″, Moore conveys a tough-minded resilience and a mature return to self in the face of disappointment. She isn’t sure what’s ahead of her, but there’s no doubt about how she’ll face it

  • Study shows gap growing between rich and poor

    • The United States has the highest inequality and poverty in the OECD after Mexico and Turkey, and the gap has increased rapidly since 2000, the report said. France, meanwhile, has seen inequalities fall in the past 20 years as poorer workers are better paid.

  • Post Modern to Where? « On Happiness

    • Going someplace is a very modern notion - it suggest progress - a point - utopia. The post modern themes that are part of these many statements decry these notions. Until know I simply thought of my state as a paradoxical mood - a kind of infestation of my spirit. The until I saw the following video.
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