Tag: Racism
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If it Walks and Quacks like a Duck . . .
Despite his “good relationship with the blacks” and being the “least racist person” he knows, Donald Trump history of discriminating against people of color goes back to the beginning of his business career. The New York Times, which over the weekend released a story about how DT devastated lives in numerous bankruptcies in Atlantic City,…
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Speaking, plainly
I guess Chris Rock has always spoken this way. This was from his Bigger and Blacker 1999 tour. This excerpt of the transcript is courtesy of Drew’s Script-O-Rama Racism everywhere, everybody pissed off. Black people yelling, ”Racism.” White people yelling, ”Reverse racism.” Chinese people yelling, ”Sideways racism!” And the lndians ain’t yelling shit ’cause they…
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A Mercy
Nobel laureate and Pulitzer-prize winner Toni Morrison has a new book, “A Mercy,” out. I cannot wait to get my hands on it. From a review in the village voice: Seventy-seven-year-old Morrison sets her story down in primeval America in the 1680s, before slavery is institutionalized but when the law grants “license to any white…
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Update: Trumka’s transcript
This is a transcript of my post a week ago on AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka speech on Racism and Obama. “You see brothers and sisters, there’s not a single good reason for any worker — especially any union member — to vote against Barack Obama. There’s only one really bad reason to vote against him: because…
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Webb
“Black America and Scots-Irish America are like tortured siblings. They both have long history and they both missed the boat when it came to the larger benefits that a lot of other people were able to receive. There’s a saying in the Appalachian mountains that they say to one another, and it’s, ‘if you’re poor…
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Commonality
Although some insist that Latinos are too racist (the Clinton campaign inexplicably fanned this idea early in the campaign) to vote for black candidates, this man begs to differ and these two guys give better reasons why Latinos could support Hillary Clinton without being racists. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin