race

My opinion piece about skin lightening creams...

Quoted: Sammy Sosa’s new vampire complexion is a jarring reminder that, from the Dominican Republic to Dakar to New Delhi, white is still right, yellow is still mellow and if you’re black, get back.

I love the claim that he's not racist because he marries black couples all the time...

Quoted: A 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.

uhmmmm WHOA. unbelievable. there are so many ridiculous things this guy says that I don't even know where to start.

Quoted: A 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 racist...I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else."

Um, sorry dude but anyone who describes himself as having "piles and piles" of black friends is racist. I am pretty sure the phrase "piles and piles" refers to things that are inanimate objects - like paper. not people. so many things wrong here.

Interesting piece from Henry Louis Gates Jr. on the historical context of "race mixing" in America.

Quoted: In defiance of law, social convention and what some “believe,” an enormous amount of “race mixing” has long been occurring in the U.S.

The end of Ebony...

Quoted: Four years ago, at the funeral of Ebony magazine founder John H. Johnson, then-Sen. Barack Obama remembered the man who almost single-handedly built the economic foundation for black-audience periodicals.

You tell 'em, Jimmy!

Quoted: Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst to President Barack Obama during a speech to Congress last week was an act "based on racism."

wow... uhm, so wrong on so many levels! we are certainly not in a "post racial" world (whatever the heck that is?) as some like to claim.

Quoted: Software giant Microsoft Corp. is apologizing for altering a photo on its Web site to change the race of one of the people shown in the picture.

Great blog post by Pramila! And, all the content is good - but immediately relevant is the piece about Mallahan (running for Seattle Mayor) - his comments make me very worried and provide yet another reason for me to vote for Nickels.

Quoted: The day that Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, a conversation began in the news media: Now that we have a black President, aren't we done discussing issues of race in America?

Dr. Gates writes about having a beer with Sgt. Crowley and Pres. Obama at the White House.

Quoted: Skip Gates on the White House beer meeting: "It is incumbent upon Sergeant Crowley and me to utilize the great opportunity that fate has given us..."