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  • “Race”: a Political Weapon

    “Race”: a Political Weapon Counterpunch: Tells the Facts and Names the Names 2014-12-03 Luciana Bohne, Professor Edinboro University, Edinboro, Pennsylvania “The racial categories included in the census questionnaire generally reflect a social definition of race recognized in this country and not an attempt to define race biologically, anthropologically, or genetically.” —US Census According to a…

  • Obama Plans Meetings on Ferguson Unrest at the White House

    Obama Plans Meetings on Ferguson Unrest at the White House The New York Times 2014-11-30 Julie Hirschfeld Davis, White House Reporter WASHINGTON — President Obama is planning a day of meetings at the White House on Monday to respond to the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., and racially tinged anger across the country after a grand…

  • The new threat: ‘Racism without racists’

    The new threat: ‘Racism without racists’ Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-11-27 John Blake They showed people a photograph of two white men fighting, one unarmed and another holding a knife. Then they showed another photograph, this one of a white man with a knife fighting an unarmed African-American man. When they asked people to identify…

  • Barack Obama, Ferguson, and the Evidence of Things Unsaid

    Barack Obama, Ferguson, and the Evidence of Things Unsaid The Atlantic 2014-11-26 Ta-Nehisi Coates, National Correspondent Violence works. Nonviolence does too. In a recent dispatch from Ferguson, Missouri, Jelani Cobb noted that President Obama’s responses to “unpunished racial injustices” constitute “a genre unto themselves.” Monday night, when Barack Obama stood before the nation to interpret…

  • Obama failed Ferguson. The prosecutor is pathetic. Between the split-screen, the protesters get it

    Obama failed Ferguson. The prosecutor is pathetic. Between the split-screen, the protesters get it The Guardian London, United Kingdom 2014-11-25 Steven W. Thrasher, Columnist for Guardian US Politicians have found themselves on the wrong side of the gap between the fantasy of what the law does and the reality that people live There we had…

  • Mixed-Race Identity, Ferguson & Why it Matters to Us

    Mixed-Race Identity, Ferguson & Why it Matters to Us Mixed In Canada 2014-11-25 Rema Tavares By now you probably already know that Darren Wilson wasn’t indicted yesterday, November 24th, 2014 for murdering unarmed Black youth Mike Brown on August 9th, 2014. Ever since that day, folks around the world have been showing their support, as…