Mukoma Wa Ngugi writes an interesting piece examining possible reasons why “[t]he devastation of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina is being compared to disasters in the “Third World”.”
He writes that:
The American citizen has been stewing in nationalism, manifest destiny and the myth of the democratic society that errors but never oppresses or marginalizes for so […]
As reported in the Wall Street Journal today, rich white people own, run, and will rebuild New Orleans in their own image.
excerpts from Girl Fight by Aina Hunter in the Village Voice, 6/28/05
[On March 30, 2005, 5 or 6 black eighth-graders get into a fight with a group of white tenth-graders from St. Edmund’s Catholic high school on the basketball court in Marine Park, Brooklyn, outside the junior high. When the police come,] the white girls […]
excerpts from “Chinese Parents Not Tricked, Judge Says in Custody Case,” Ariel Hart, NYTimes, 5/13/04 (See wp entry 3.14.04)
A judge in Memphis has terminated the parental rights of a Chinese couple who say they were tricked into giving up their daughter. The Hes have spent four years trying to get their daughter back. The […]
excerpts from “Chinese and American Cultures Clash in Custody Battle for Girl” by Andrew Jacobs, www.nytimes.com, 3/2/04
For five years, Jack and Casey He and Jerry and Louise Baker have been tussling (in the courts) over a child who was born to the Hes, but who ended up with the Bakers for what both sides initially […]
Whiteprivilege.com is pleased to present a powerful new voice, Kelvin Monroe, who begins a multipart series, which he calls “Etudes in Whiteness”, with this essay “My White Teeth: Counterpoint in F”.
_Do you know what white racists call black PhD’s?_ . . . ‘Nigger!’ — Malcolm X
_Just exactly what in the hell is enough?_ — Gil […]
Unemployment among blacks is rising at a faster pace than in any similar period since the mid-1970’s, and the jobs lost have been mostly in manufacturing, where the pay for blacks has historically been higher than in many other fields.
Nearly 2.6 million jobs have disappeared over all during the last 28 months, which began with […]
(I wrote the following as an invited opinion editorial which appeared in the 13 April 2003 issue of the Free Lance-Star, Fredriksburg, VA.)
The debate about racism in America today revolves around achieving diversity. But focusing on diversity means questions of history and power go unasked and unanswered. Without an unflinching understanding of the history […]
As Joshua Marshall reports, someone is trying to suppress the African American vote in Baltimore. On November 4th, the following flyer was distributed in African American precincts in Baltimore.