excerpts from “Too Damn Little, Too Damn Late,” Salon by Debra J. Dickerson, June 28, 2005
You were expecting, maybe, gratitude for your lynching apology? You should live so long. Here are my top 10 reactions to America’s latest patronizing attempt to repent its racism:
1. Bite me.
2. Damn right, the least you could do.
3. Mighty white […]
from “Mr. White Now: Beware the Chocoholic,” by James Hannaham, Village Voice, June 22-29, 2005
Brutha, you’ve had enough of late nights with Cassandra Wilson on the boombox, smooth jazz, and leopard print sheet sets. You’re up to here with Essex Hemphill’s love poems. You’ve decided to date a white man. But you’re nervous. You want […]
excerpts from “Ex-Klansman Gets 60 Years for 1964 Killings,” by Emily Wagster Pettus, AP, for the Washington Post, June 23, 2005
PHILADELPHIA, Miss. — One-time Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen was sentenced to the maximum 60 years in prison Thursday for masterminding the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers. Circuit Judge Marcus Gordon […]
In The Twilight of Equality? Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy (Beacon Press, Boston 2003), Lisa Duggan exposes critical elements of the ongoing political and economic success of conservatives and the comparable weaknesses of the progressive Left. From the attack on public universities to welfare reform, she examines how conservatives, which she […]