Tag Archives: racism
Why are people picking on Girls?
Last year when Girls debuted on HBO, there was a lot of pushback on the blogosphere. Why was the cast all white? Isn't this New York? These whiny people aren't the voice of this generation. I was, frankly, confused by this reaction. All the criticisms were founded, of course. I just had no idea why […]
The Oppression Olympics
Welcome to the Oppression Olympics! Here are some of the events you can watch, courtesy of the Google search engine: Which Is Worse? Racism, or Sexism, or Asking Which Is Worse?Sexism Is Worse Than RacismDo victims of racism or sexism suffer more? I don’t get why people get in stupid debates about whether racism or […]
Immigrants are Americans
In a recent letter to the San Francisco Chronicle, someone named David Ferris wrote Unfortunately, during the 2000-05 recovery, immigrants – both legal and illegal – got the jobs that should have gone to the youngest and poorest Americans. If we don’t make every effort to ensure that any jobs created go to our own […]
Turns out Jimmy Carter was right
Of course not all of the Obama hate is race-related, but a good deal of it is, and here’s a great example: Secret Service probes anti-Obama message at Lakeville golf course What Carter was wrong about was thinking it’s all about the South. This was in Massachusetts.