I could do a seriously long St. Patricks Day post, but I’m busy and lazy all at the same time, so I’ll direct you to this blog, who has already done the work. Most of the time, white people consider celebrations of European heritage to be racist unless they omit large swathes of the 16th […]
I know this is legally “hearsay” but dammit, this pissed me off. Click for the story and the link to her blog; courtesy of Boing Boing. Now I’m off to the doc to see if they’ll change my meds. Really. NPR colleague Farai Chideya has been reporting from areas hit by Katrina — aka the […]
This time from “Time” There are still certain things some black people won’t talk about in front of some white people. American culture may be seemingly more integrated than, say, 50 years ago, but cultural walls remain. Racial issues, in multiracial company, are often circled until they are impossible to ignore and have to be […]