A column about who should be running the two-minute drill for the Washington Redskins may seem like an unusual jumping off point for a serious discussion about race, but this awful sports column for by awful sports columnist Rick Reilly* hits so many of the low notes of contemporary racial discourse that it’s worth examining. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'race'
Racism on the Redskins? Impossible!
November 14th, 2010 · 1 Comment · AR, Sports
Tags: colorblindness·Donovan McNabb·implicit bias research·John Feinstein·Mike Shanahan·race·racial bias·racial coding·racism·Rex Grossman·Rick Reilly·Washington Redskins
Other Bills Not Worth Reading
May 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment · AS, Law and Justice, Politics
We have already said a few things here about how dumb Arizona is with its unreadable laws against all things Latino. But lost in the discussion of racial profiling is this other creepy law Jan Brewer signed regarding public school curricula. Arizona schools are now forbidden from having courses which “promote the overthrow of the [...]
Tags: ACLU·after-school club·Arizona·education·ethnic studies·First Amendment·Immigration·Jan Brewer·Jim Crow·Old South·public education·race·racial bias·racial profiling·racism·segregation·students·Tom Horne·Tuscon·white people
See? It says so right there!
May 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · AR, Immigration, Law and Justice, Politics, Uncategorized
This post by Monica Potts shows that cries from supporters of Arizona’s abhorrent immigration law that the law’s opponents haven’t even read the bill aren’t quite the smoking gun they’re presented as (regardless of what Jan Brewer’s cheap Kermit rip-off might say.) However, the post does not address the obnoxious argument that’s usually paired [...]
Tags: Arizona·Brown v. Board of Education·conservative logic·Immigration·Jan Brewer·John Yoo·race·racism·SB 1070
Better Late Than . . . Once, 14 Years Ago
February 17th, 2010 · No Comments · AS, Law School, Law and Justice, Supreme Court
Weirdly enough, a new challenge to Proposition 209 is underway in federal court. Prop two-oh-what, you say? Yes, Ward Connerly’s hilarious parody “civil rights” initiative of 1996, which prohibited public institutions in California from considering race, sex, and ethnicity EVER (except when they do, constantly), is being called unconstitutional. It’s like some law student was [...]
Tags: 1990s·affirmative action·Beverly Hills 90210·civil rights·Doritos·ethnicity·Garth Brooks·George Washington·Grutter v. Bollinger·I Love The 90s·John Roberts·Ninth Circuit·Potomac·Proposition 209·race·Ricci·Samuel Alito·sex·Supreme Court·The Coyote·The Road Runner·UCLA·UCLA Law·Ward Connerly