The “Clear Law Enforcement for Criminal Alien Removal Act of 2003″:http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:H.R.2671:, sponsored by Rep. Charlie Norwood (R-GA), would encourage local and state police departments to “investigate, apprehend, detain, or remove aliens” discovered in the course of their normal law enforcement duties. This encouragement would come in the form of the witholding of funds that would […]
*by Jeremy Tavares*
It is probably true that the US “isn’t a country, it’s a world”–so different, so separate that everywhere else is, well, everywhere else, one blended reality not just separate, but distant too. The most obvious problem is that the American world is on display in ours. Americans exist beneath a one-way magnifying glass […]
*by Dr. Jamillah Moore*
It is saddening to read that California will take the lead in proposing yet another divisive initiative for the ballot. The Golden State has led the way on controversial issues of vouchers, immigration and affirmative action. Now the American Civil Rights Institute, founded by Ward Connerly, has proposed the Racial Privacy Initiative […]
As readers of this site know, I sometimes post the full text of Associated Press reports here. I do so because I think it’s important to use standard, mainstream press reports to demostrate the realities of white privilege. The Associated Press tends to do straight reporting with very little explitic editorializing.
But, having returned recently from […]
What the “Fighting Sioux” Tells Us About Whites
by Robert Jensen
(A talk by Robert Jensen at the University of North Dakota on October 10, 2003, sponsored by BRIDGES, a student group that works to remove the university’s “Fighting Sioux” nickname and logo.)
Appeals to the dominant white society to abolish the “Fighting Sioux” nickname and logo typically […]
By John Grogan
Inquirer Columnist
The caller, a middle-aged man, wanted me to know just how upset he was by what happened last month at Abington Memorial Hospital.
The husband of a maternity patient had demanded that only white staffers be allowed to participate in the delivery of the couple’s baby - and hospital administrators, to avoid an […]
by Caroline E. Mayer
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 1, 2003; Page E01
African Americans were almost three times as likely as whites to be charged markups on loans financed by General Motors Acceptance Corp., according to an analysis by an expert working for minority borrowers in a lawsuit against the nation’s second-largest auto lender.
When charged a […]