January 2010
16 posts
“There’s no such thing as a whole story; every story is incomplete.”
– Howard Zinn
“It is exceedingly difficult for an earthquake to kill a person. Perhaps someone...”
– A geologist’s perpective on the Port-au-Prince earthquake « Repeating Islands (via bonesarecoralmade)
“There’s no such thing as a ‘natural’ disaster. 200,000...”
– Greg Palast
US Schools are More Segregated Today than in the... →
(via robot-heart-politics)
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Promised Land: Martin Luther King Jr. would be... →
A highly problematic article on the gentrification of Harlem in today’s Sun. I’m not convinced that living somewhere because one has to necessarily precludes one from wanting to live there, as this article suggests. And, in the end, is moving in because you have to any more socially debilitating than moving out because you have to? It really is long past time to challenge this “common...
WatchJohn McWhorter and Glenn Loury on “The Other N-Word”
WatchGRITtv: White Nationalism in the Age of Obama
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Sending a message to Wells Fargo →
“Judge Motz’s injudicious remarks made it sound as if the city is so dysfunctional that no corporate crime can ever be committed against it…Baltimore isn’t the only city in the country grappling with high unemployment, failing schools, drugs and crime. By Judge Motz’ reasoning, none of them should be able to sue predatory lenders who target minority homeowners unless...
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A new exodus In a worrying trend, blacks are now... →
Let me say with all the force that I can muster... →
Ta-Nehisi Coates, doing his bourgeois provocateur thing, “Billy Dee Williams Says “Be a credit to your race…”
