racism Category Archives
Starving for Tenure
Published on 6 Feb 2007 at 1:17 am.
7 Comments.
Filed under racism, academia.
This week, a qualified Black professor at MIT was denied tenure. This is not an irregular occurrence. In the United States, African American professors - senior Blackademics - fight an up hill battle in academe, which has a long history of racism and patriarchy. It is not unfathomable that James Sherley, a biological engineer in […]
Klansman indicted 43 years after slayings
Published on 26 Jan 2007 at 12:08 pm.
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Filed under racism, history.
Transcripts were recently released from a press conference from the Department of Justice discussing the indictment of James F. Seale. Seale is being held for the 1964 kidnapping and murder of Charles Moore and Henry Dee. Both were 19 years old at the time.
The following excerpt from the Associated Press recounts the grim events […]
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Stomped Out
Published on 13 Jan 2007 at 11:05 pm.
16 Comments.
Filed under racism, film, black image.
This week in Barak Obama’s home territory of Illinois, the owner of a mid-west theatre chain, Kerasotes Theatres, took measures to ban a controversial new film on Black culture, for fears that it might ignite gang violence. I’m sure you’re all wondering which outrageous Black film merits such extreme action, perhaps a new Spike Lee […]
Black and Brown unite?
Published on 8 Jan 2007 at 1:21 pm.
14 Comments.
Filed under racism, inter-minority relations, history.
Having lived in California all of my life, hearing about the conflicts between Black folks and Latino/a folks is commonplace. I never understood how two wretchedly oppressed groups could direct so much hatred and distrust toward each other when there is so much potential embodied in a collaboration between folks who suffer (of course […]
prussian blue
Published on 5 Jan 2007 at 3:27 pm.
41 Comments.
Filed under racism, ridiculousness, music.
in September a duo of blond haired, blue eyed, teen-aged girls came out of the blue and hit #4 on the Billboard Chart! No … it’s not the Olsen twins. How can this happen? They sold 91,000 copies of their album in one week! They did it with out the assistance of big record company […]
Russell Simmons a PR Puppet for the Diamond Industry? Simmons=Diamond Industry’s New Best Friend?
Published on 23 Dec 2006 at 5:25 am.
4 Comments.
Filed under racism, news/politics, entertainment, poverty, commercialism.
Apparently, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons is the diamond industry’s new best friend. Simmons just returned from a nine-day fact-finding mission to South Africa and Botswana after an invitation from the industry’s Diamond Information Center. The Diamond Information Center handles public relations in the United States for the Diamond Trading Company, the marketing […]
“It’s time for ascended blacks to wish niggers good luck.”
Published on 6 Dec 2006 at 10:52 am.
24 Comments.
Filed under racism, women's issues/feminism, mainstream culture.
This is a quote from (and the general thesis of) an article entitled, The Manifesto of Ascendancy for the Modern American Nigger written by John Ridley for this month’s issue of Esquire Magazine. It’s a long article, intentionally provactive, and a little distasteful - but an important read for Blackademics, as it reflects many of […]
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Branding the Victim
Published on 28 Nov 2006 at 7:43 pm.
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Filed under racism, news/politics, black image.
In the wake of the outrageous murder of Sean Bell by the NYPD, I’m beginning to notice a disturbing trend in the media. As we know, Bell was not the first unarmed Black men to be shot and killed by New York’s finest. Anouther was Patrick Dorismond. Dorismond was shot during a fight with several […]
The Destruction of the Black Family . . . by the NYPD
Published on 27 Nov 2006 at 10:13 am.
28 Comments.
Filed under racism, news/politics, ignorance, poverty, radical politics.
This is one of the saddest stories I’ve read in a while. It’s a story about a 23-year old brother named Sean Bell who was killed on the day of his wedding by the NYPD who let off 50 shots into his car. He was, of course, unarmed. In addition to his wife, he left […]
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Who wants their 50 acres and a mule from England?
Published on 26 Nov 2006 at 12:20 pm.
9 Comments.
Filed under racism, news/politics, history.
Laying on the couch still in recovery mode from Turkey day, I came across this interesting CNN article about Bi-centennial and Toni Blair. Prime Minister Blair, on behalf of England, will convey “deep sorrow” for Britain’s role in starting and participating in the slave trade. In a newspaper targeted towards the black community Toni Blair […]
