Democrats have rightly condemned the racist name of Washington, D.C.’s NFL team. So why do they continue to name their fundraising dinners after the president who presided over the genocide of Native Americans?
Race & Ethnicity
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
All of a Piece: Donald Sterling, Cliven Bundy and the Supreme Court of the United States
This past week has been hell for African Americans. So much for post-racialism.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Daily Meme: Racist Team Owner Loses Dignity; Keeps Team
Contemplating how best to celebrate the birthday of the late, great Edward Kennedy Ellington, one of the finest composers and orchestra leaders who ever lived, one might not have considered the banning for life of a racist team-owner from attending the games of his own team, but that’s not a bad way to fête the […]
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Daily Meme: Post-Racial America From Hell
It’s been quite a week in post-racial America, beginning with a Supreme Court decision on Tuesday that upheld the results of a ballot measure that barred the use of race-based affirmative action in the admissions process used by the University of Michigan, and exploded this weekend with the utterances, attributed to NBA team-owner Donald Sterling […]
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Words, Ideas, Actions, and the Tangle of Race
As people from Cliven Bundy to Donald Sterling to Paul Ryan are finding out, sometimes language isn’t really the problem.
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Pardon Me, Mr. President?
By appointing an advocate for defendants’ rights as the new pardon attorney, the Obama administration has signaled it is serious about commuting drug offenses.
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With Cliven Bundy, the Right Is Reaping What It Sows
They may try to distance themselves from his racist comments, but they can’t escape responsibility for him and people like him.
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Daily Meme: The Court’s Faux Colorblindness
“A blinkered view of race in America won out in the Supreme Court on Tuesday when six justices agreed, for various reasons, to allow Michigan voters to ban race-conscious admissions policies in higher education … ” So starts the New York Times‘s righteous take-down of today’s Supreme Court ruling in Schuette v. BAMN, in which […]
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Justice Sotomayor’s Powerful Defense of Equality
At heart, the dissenters in Schuette v. BAMN argue, a Michigan amendment outlawing affirmative action deprives minorities access to the political process.
Posted inLaw and Justice
How Big Data Could Undo Our Civil-Rights Laws
From “reverse redlining” to selling out a pregnant teenager to her parents, the advance of technology could render obsolete our landmark civil-rights and anti-discrimination laws.
