Words matter. Obviously we believe this – even as we deny that it doesn’t matter to ourselves individually. We buy into (and pay attention to) advertising campaigns – […]
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Biology, Family, Race – only one matters.
If biology isn’t the basis for family, that makes a controversial subject even stickier: Interracial adoptions. I saw a young Black girl dancing in an Irish dance competition […]
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Prejudice or politeness?
Some of the racial prejudice I’ve seen recently (and locally) is excused by social and behavioral differences. Many Black people in this area tend to be louder and […]
politics / racism / rant / sociology
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Social fist-jabs
I continue to be appalled at the sheer amounts of intolerance that swirls around me. It is frightening how much it has become part of the social handshaking […]
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Transitional Times, Transitional People
In texts about race and minority relations (including feminism), there was only one that really made a solid attempt at envisioning a post-oppression world. Paradoxes of Gender, by […]
