First, the quick story. On another blog, the writer quoted someone who said they’d gone to Africa, and after hearing that another country was apologizing for slavery, he wondered why no one had apologized to him while he was in Africa. Initially I assumed the writer was white, then when I learned the writer was […]
This week two things happened concerning the N-word; one didn’t involve me, one did. The rapper Nas, who had wanted to give his latest CD that negative appellation, was turned down by his record producers, and now it will just be named after him. It seems the publishers would actually like to sell some records […]
In communities across the country, the police are fond of saying that racial profiling doesn’t exist, and that people are making it up because of their hate for the police. I know I’ve been pulled over a time or two when I was younger, but those days seem to have passed at this juncture. Well, […]
I visited a blog earlier this evening called Stereohyped that had a cartoon posted, which I’m going to post at the end of this topic. It seems there were a bunch of cartoons that were basically banned because of the perception that they were racist, based on stereotypes, from the 30’s through the 50’s. Many […]
Man, I’m starting to feel so old. I was reading this blog called Stereohyped, where the reader was commenting on a story that came out this week stating that the percentage of black baseball players is tied for its all time low. He asked in his post who cares. I was going to respond on […]
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