Around Martin Luther King, Jr. day we tend to get a spate of articles from conservatives trying to
claim Dr. King as their own. And there’s also a lot of at-best misguided talk about color blindness. “I don’t even see color, I’m color-blind.” “It doesn’t matter to me whether you are white or black.” And [...] Read more »

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My friend and colleague Cheryl has written another interesting piece on race, and her experiences growing up.

Are You A Quadroon? I wasn’t surprised by the question. Since about a third of the way through Uncle Tom’s Cabin, I’d been wondering when someone would ask. It was clearly a third rail question that had pointedly [...] Read more »

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Via
Fred, I see Matt Ruff talks about racism in World of Warcraft.

For my first World of Warcraft character, I decided to play a troll of the hunter class. About an hour into the game I got sent on a quest to a seaside village called Sen’Jin, populated by my fellow trolls, and while interacting [...] Read more »

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I don’t know. But let me suggest that using nicknames isn’t the brightest idea in any circumstance, especially if you are trying to be disparaging about someone’s presence. Just because Bush calls people names (like
Turd Blossom) doesn’t make it a good PR move.
From the
Washington Post

S.R. Sidarth, a senior at the University of Virginia, [...] Read more »

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I’ve pretty much kept my own counsel on the Lott affair so far.
That’s because something has been bothering me about this. I think it’s because the brouhaha over Lott’s remarks has been woefully late and also terribly misplaced. Let’s forget for the moment that the Liberal Press, which is dedicated to the Destruction of [...] Read more »

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