Things You Need To Understand #2 - Tubman’s Law

Tubman’s Law (subset of Godwin’s Law)
By trying to equate black racial oppression–which involved millions of people being taken away from their countries and carted across the sea, where many died or got horrible diseases, and then were used as free laborers and were more mistreated than animals and then, even after being freed, being basically [...]

More Judges Who Get It

Negro Leagues players’ payments upheld
Major League Baseball is entitled to pay former Negro Leagues players $10,000 a year and provide medical coverage as compensation for their exclusion from the big leagues, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, rejecting a reverse-discrimination suit from a group of white ex-players.
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The programs were challenged in 2003 by Mike Colbern, [...]

See, I’m not the only one!

Even if you don’t live in New York, you should know about Overheard in New York and New York Overheard. I can’t breathe for laughing while reading the entries on these sites. What makes it even more fun is that, as a denizen of this great city, I know that people do indeed [...]

Some Things You Need To Understand #1a

Sexism = Prejudice + Power
Women cannot be sexist. Prejudiced, yes; sexist, no.

The White Minority

I live in California. San Diego to be exact. For those of you who never paid attention in geography class or are from Canada, San Diego is right on the border with France. Or Mexico, I forget which one. Either way, lots of people leave their respective regions to live in California because it’s better [...]

Race Card Redux

Apropos of my post the other day, Tim Wise also has some thoughts on the “Race Card”.
Recently, I was asked by someone in the audience of one of my speeches, whether or not I believed that racism–though certainly a problem–might also be something conjured up by people of color in situations where the charge was [...]

Some Things You Need To Understand #1

An ongoing series. Here’s something you need to understand before engaging me in any debate:
Racism = Prejudice + Power
By definition, Blacks and other minorities cannot be racist because they do not have insitutional, systemic power. The term Minority doesn’t even refer to a minority of numbers any more (after all, minorities outnumber whites [...]

Radio Fans

For those of you coming due to the JV & Elvis thing, here’s an open thread just for you. Scream at me all ya want!

Angry on the Radio

I’m going to be on the JV & Elvis show (92.3FM in NYC, around 9AM) this morning discussing race, I guess. (or this thing) I’m not quite sure what’s going to happen. however, I have a feeling that it will be a good time for playing Bingo. So, pick the bingo card [...]

The Race Card

From the tone of this blog you may have guessed that I often get into heated discussions about race all over the internet. It’s true, I admit it. I am angry in many and varied forms. 98% of these discussions devolve quickly due to people’s inability to have a dialogue about things [...]