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 'racism'
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
A Really Nice Guy to Everyone He Doesn’t Hate
September 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · AR, Politics
The Summer of Islamophobia found its most respectable spokesman in Marty Peretz, editor-in-chief of the august and generally liberal New Republic. Peretz, who has a long history of rabidly supporting Israel and denouncing Arabs and Muslims, wrote in a September 4th blog post that “Muslim life is cheap, most notably to Muslims” and wondered “whether [...]
Tags: Andrew Sullivan·assholes·bigotry·Islamophobia·Marty Peretz·racism·Slate·Ta-Nehisi Coates·The Atlantic·The New Republic
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
Today’s Reason to be Grateful
May 16th, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Immigration, Politics
There are lots of reasons to be frustrated with the first 16 months of Barack Obama’s presidency. Continuation of many of the Bush anti-terrorism policies. Escalating the war in Afghanistan. Dragging his feet on gay rights. Failing to put an unabashed, bleeding heart liberal on the Supreme Court. But it’s important to step back, take [...]
Tags: Arizona·Immigration·John McCain·racism
Which One is Arizona Again?
April 29th, 2010 · No Comments · AS, Immigration
I wholeheartedly support the decisions of state and local governments to boycott Arizona in order to protest that state’s new anti-immigrant law. Unfortunately, after reviewing Gawker’s helpful guide to the boycott, I realized I have unknowingly been on a lifelong boycott of Arizona and all things Arizonan. The only thing about boycotting Arizona that really [...]
Tags: anti-immigrant measures·Arizona·boycott·boycott Arizona·Gawker·gorge·Grand Canyon·Immigration·racism·San Francisco
Another Dumb Birther Argument
April 6th, 2010 · No Comments · AS, Immigration, Politics, Supreme Court
George Will wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post last week called “An argument to be made about immigrant babies and citizenship.” How anyone got past that atrocious title to actually read the thing is beyond me. The article should more accurately be titled, “Every year someone makes the same argument about immigrant babies and [...]
Tags: 14th Amendment·African-Americans·birthright·Chinese·citizenship·Civil War·common sense·conservative logic·conservatives·Dred Scott v. Sanford·George Will·Immigration·Indians·jus soli·Mexicans·racism·slavery·Washington Post·welfare
Be Careful What You Wish For
March 20th, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Politics
Kathryn Lopez of the National Review denies having seen any signs of racism in the crowds of protesters outside the Capitol and demands that Democrats be more specific in their allegations. OK. -AR
Tags: angry white men·health care·racism·right-wing hysteria·The Corner