Archive for category demography
The Color Test
Posted by taino8632 in african-american, analysis, demography, news, politics, pundits, racism on June 17th, 2008
~New York Times
“…where is the line? Does it change over time? And if it is definable, then how black can Mr. Obama be before he alienates white voters?…”
A Different State of Race Relations
Posted by taino8632 in analysis, demography, politics, racism on June 11th, 2008
With Few Blacks Living There, Utah Is Feeling Its Way
~Washington Post
Earlier this year, a state senator stood on the statehouse floor here and spoke disparagingly of a pending bill. “This baby is black,” said Sen. Chris Buttars, a Republican, adding, “It’s a dark, ugly thing.”
Immigrant Africans Push for Recognition, Services
Posted by taino8632 in african-american, demography, immigration, latino, news, racism on June 10th, 2008
From the outside, parking garage attendant Kobina Azhir looks like an American-born Black man…
~The Chicago Defender
There are approximately 582,000 Mexican immigrants living in metropolitan Chicago, compared to just 23,000 African immigrants. Africans come to America to flee political instability, pursue education, or establish a better life.
Advice for Obama: Talk to Hispanics as a man who has made his way through black and white America.
Posted by taino8632 in african-american, analysis, demography, essays, latino, politics, racism on June 2nd, 2008
~Newsweek
“I hear often enough that America is becoming a post-racial nation. This election season was supposed to prove it. Yet I am struck by the contrary—how mired our politics remain in the dialectic of black and white…”
MSNBC Series: Multiracial in America
Posted by taino8632 in analysis, demography, education, happenings, news on May 29th, 2008
MSNBC Series: Multiracial in America
MSNBC’s “Gut Check America” series using first-hand accounts to explore the multiracial experience in America.
On Racism: Fighting Racism Globally
Posted by taino8632 in analysis, antiracism, demography, essays, racism on May 27th, 2008
~ZNet
“Racism takes different forms at different places and in different times, but, basically, it is an attitude or ideological stance that is divisive and anti-humanist. It does not take all the human beings to be equal, but divides the entire society into two, namely, human and subhuman beings. The latter are not to be allowed equal rights and equal opportunities with human beings…”
Respecting - And Recognizing - American D.N.A.
Posted by taino8632 in african-american, analysis, demography, immigration, news, racism, stupid people tricks on May 21st, 2008
An amazingly dumb essay extolling that American superiority is encoded in our DNA except for those who are descended from slaves. The first link is the article; the second a rebuttal.
Respecting - And Recognizing - American D.N.A.
~Townhall.com
“…two respected professors of psychiatry have recently come out with challenging books that contend that those who chose to settle this country in every generation possessed crucial common traits that they passed on to their descendants.”
and the rebuttal:
Michael Medved says something dumb
~scienceblogs.com
“[Michael Medved] has declared American superiority to be genetic, encoded in our good old American DNA. Because our ancestors were immigrants, who were risk-takers, who were selected for their energy and aggressiveness. Oh, except for those who are descended from slaves.”
Revealed: scientist who sparked racism row has black genes
Posted by taino8632 in african-american, analysis, demography, happenings, news, stupid people tricks on May 21st, 2008
Revealed: scientist who sparked racism row has black genes
~The Independent
In a very funny case of irony a Nobel Prize winning scientist who claimed that blacks are less intelligent than whites has been found to have a DNA profile with up to 16 times more genes of black origin than the average white European.
I wonder if his findings have changed any since this discovery?
Racism in the Presidential Race
Posted by taino8632 in activism, african-american, analysis, asian-american, demography, immigration, latino, news, politics, racism on May 14th, 2008
Racism in the Presidential Race
~U.S. News & World Report
The monster lurking behind the curtain in the Democratic presidential contest is racism. Up to now, Obama’s supporters in the extreme left wing of the…
Racist Incidents Give Some Obama Campaigners Pause
~Washington Post
… Mr. Obama expressed puzzlement at that perception, saying that in the black community in Chicago he had been accused of being ‘too close to the Jews...
The Media’s Perpetuation of Racism
~The Huffington Post
Reverend Otis Moss III, who succeeded Rev. Wright at Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ, offered an intimate and perspicacious meditation on the media’s obsession with Rev. Wright…
Study: Immigrants in U.S. adapt quicker than in the past
~Chicago Tribune
Immigrants of the past quarter-century have been assimilating in the United States at a notably faster rate than did previous generations…
Some Detainees Are Drugged For Deportation
~Washington Post
The U.S. government has injected hundreds of foreigners it has deported with dangerous psychotropic drugs against their will to keep them sedated during the trip back to their home country…
Nothing to “cheer” in TV sitcom on “Aliens in America”
~The American Muslim
It tells you how bad the situation is when Arabs and Muslims in America cheer a program that promotes the stereotype that they are “Aliens…
As cities revive, America’s poor are forced to the periphery
~Financial Times
The pattern of urban wealth and poverty has changed markedly since the US race riots of the late 1960s, but areas of deep divide and deprivation still exist throughout America - just hidden behind white picket fences…
The Continuing Racial Polarization of the Electorate
The Continuing Racial Polarization of the Electorate
~National Review Online
I was at a party a few weeks back, and talk turned to the presidential race. One guest, an immigrant from Europe, expressed shock and anger that Barack Obama commanded such an overwhelming lead in the African-American vote…
