Our South African comrades face the same fight
Identify Yourself – The Story of Bruin-ou.com – Part II Bruin-ou.com by Charles Ash Is the term Coloured apartheid baggage? In the last newsletter, I took a meander down memory lane to try to...
Monthly Archive: January 2004
Free Speech and the “Race” Game
King Posters Rile Some at Neb. School DiversityInc. Officials disciplined students who papered their nearly all-white high school with posters advocating a white student from South Africa for the school’s “Distinguished African-American Student Award.”...
Free “Mulattoes” without African ancestry
Delaware’s Invisible Indians Part 2 Edward F. Heite Although it today is taken to mean mixed black and white, the word “mulatto” in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries generally applied to anyone with dark...
Anger Management
Apparently someone named “FlagSucker” has announced that “If i ever meet a “Multiracial Activist,” i’m going to elbow them in the face.” Whatever that’s about is beyond me. Let’s just say I’m not going...
The End of Blackness (book review)
‘A manifesto against the stifling politics of racial identity’ In attempting to show the contradictions of Dickerson’s book, the reviewer (Lasch-Quinn) highlights her own desire for an America that moves ‘beyond race’. We are...
The importance of Language
This web site emphasizes what Susanne Heine says about the importance of language. It’s also a point I’ve been trying to make for years. When you use the opposition’s vocabulary, such as “light-skinned black”...
Blacks and Latinos Try to Find Balance in Touchy New Math
It’s going to be harder to maintain the “one drop” myth when people of obvious African ancestry who DON’T call themselves “black” are becoming more public. Remember when you NEVER saw a “black Latino”...