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 'racial bias'
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