You know who the real oppressed minority is in this country? Southern white male judges, that’s who.
Entries Tagged as 'Race'
It’s not easy being white
November 6th, 2009 · No Comments
We were never really that white
October 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
Sullivan posted this a few days back, in response to a really stark, racially-charged column by Pat Buchanan basically asserting that white people feel like they’ve had their country ripped away from them:
Notice that for Buchanan in this column, it is axiomatic that America was once defined by its whiteness. This is what he means […]
Black and white and denied all over
October 16th, 2009 · No Comments
Lovely.
NEW ORLEANS – A white Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have.
Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long.
“I’m not a […]
I was actually black before the election
September 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
Funny.
Ordinary blackness
September 16th, 2009 · No Comments
Via Kos, Ta-Nehisi Coates notes:
It’s intensely grating to live say, in Atlanta, and have some dude in Harlem crowned as your unelected leader. It’s even more grating if said dude’s agenda seems, in large measure, come down to standing in front of cameras and tweaking his opponents. It’s no mistake that O’Reilly and Sharpton would […]
Respect my authoriteh
July 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
Ah, I see Drudge is milking the arrest of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates for all it’s worth - black and white! How dare anyone suggest white cops sometimes unfairly target blacks!
OUTRAGE!!!
You know what, it does indeed seem as if Gates if milking this. But Gates is standing in his own home when the cop […]
Tags: Drudge · Police misbehavior · Race
Ultra foolishness
May 29th, 2009 · No Comments
Josh Marshall makes a key point about how the Sotomayor nomination serves as the sledgehammer that pounds on the wedge already driven between wings of the Republican Party:
Sen. John Cornyn’s swipe at Gingrich and Limbaugh yesterday on the Sotomayor candidacy shows what’s emerging as a critical effect of the confirmation battle. We know that a […]
Not so normal anymore
March 31st, 2009 · No Comments
Via John Cole, this would be Michael Barone of US News and World Report:
This is similar but not identical to a point I’ve often made: that the Republican Party is the party of people who are considered, by themselves and by others, as normal Americans—Northern white Protestants in the 19th century, married white Christians more […]
Tags: Demographics · Race
When the white boys no longer call the shots
January 6th, 2009 · No Comments
Yeah, this one’s gonna go down well with that certain segment:
Just as Tiger Woods forever changed the country-club culture of golf, and Will Smith confounded stereotypes about the ideal Hollywood leading man, hip-hop’s rise is helping redefine the American mainstream, which no longer aspires toward a single iconic image of style or class. Successful network-television […]
Tags: Race
Race and ‘reservations’
May 12th, 2008 · No Comments
Tucker Carlson and Christine Todd Whitman are on “The Verdict” right now wondering why people in West Virginia and Kentucky are going to vote for Hillary instead of Obama.
Gee - maybe because Obama is black?
There are of course reasons why people wouldn’t vote for Obama, legitimate reasons. But when, in a state (West Virginia) that’s […]
Tags: Race · Racism · Obama · Uncategorized
Philly police beating
May 8th, 2008 · No Comments
Saw this on CNN this morning, story about the situation in Philadelphia that kind of makes the Rodney King deal look like a day at the park:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaDv1kEXEIM
I mean, the cops all rush over so they can kick these guys, prone on the ground. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that five officers have been placed on administrative leave; on CNN this […]
Tags: Race · Law Enforcement · Pennsylvania
Who’s playing the race card now?
April 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Hm. I noted yesterday that Obama’s response to the Wright business provided, among other things, a chance for Obama to take on the stereotype, to divorce himself from the Sharpton-Jesse Jackson almost charicature. Others are noting the same thing:
Right now, at this very moment, we have an African-American candidate for president who commands overwhelming support […]





