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go on hiatus 27 Jul 2010 | 08:17 am
Other work is calling me away from effective management of this blog, so I'm going to take a break. Many thank-yous to the uncountable readers, commenters, emailers, and guest posters of swpd. I've l...
listen to anti-racist music 24 Jul 2010 | 05:00 am
It's Friday! How about some music? Here's a video by Jasiri X called "What if the Tea Party was Black" (lyrics below). Got any other anti-racist music to recommend in the comments? YouTube says, A...
wonder how to respect other cultures 23 Jul 2010 | 08:57 am
This is a guest post by Joanna, who blogs at My Name is JuJuBe. She's wondering just where the lines are for white people between "appropriation" and something like, "respectful appreciation." I have...
quotation of the week (sherman alexie) 22 Jul 2010 | 07:02 am
Sherman Alexie (Spokane/Coeur d’Alene) Go, Ghost, Go At this university upon a hill, I meet a tenured professor Who's strangely thrilled To list all of th...
pounce on any example they can find of "black racism" 21 Jul 2010 | 06:40 am
[Updates below] In apparent reaction to recent revelations of blatant Tea Party racism, Fox and other news outlets have seized on a relatively ancient video clip, of a black USDA official admitting t...
say things like, "aren't indian women beautiful?" 20 Jul 2010 | 08:05 am
This is a guest post by Epi Tales, who writes at a blog of the same name, where this post also appears. She writes of herself, "I can’t stop reading. I hate life unless I'm being propelled through the...
force non-white students to read "great literature" that demeans them 14 Jul 2010 | 05:16 am
This is a follow-up to the previous swpd post, in response to many of the readers' comments there. Here's something that I as a white person can never really know -- what's it like for non-white chil...
warmly embrace a racist novel (to kill a mockingbird) 12 Jul 2010 | 08:39 am
(source) I refuse to go along with this week's warm, feel-good celebrations of Harper Lee's novel (published fifty years ago today), To Kill a Mockingbird. Simply put, I think that novel is racist, a...
fear black men (oscar grant open thread) 10 Jul 2010 | 02:58 am
Oscar Grant (February 27, 1986 -- January 1, 2009) (source) I'm following Average Bro's lead here in opening up the comments to your thoughts and feelings on yesterday's Oscar Grant verdict. Given th...
wonder if they should call out what looks like racism when non-white people do it 9 Jul 2010 | 01:21 am
Two readers wrote this week with what amounts to a similar question -- is it ever okay for white people to blame non-white people for actions that they would blame white people for? What do you think...
