Monthly Archive: January 2004
“Everybody tends to hire people like themselves.” Neither Dean nor Jackson understands that who we consider “like ourselves” changes based on different situations and where we are in certain periods of life. The people...
David Gewirtzman says, “She’s black, I’m white;” Maybe he thinks he’s just talking about physical descriptions, but the government-imposed “races” of “black” and “white” are just as dangerous as the “races” of “Aryan” and...
In SLAVES WITHOUT MASTERS, Berlin admits that at least 70-75 percent of the “free colored” were “mulatto” or mixed-race rather than “black.” Paul Heinegg calls these people “African Americans” even though they had no...
Apparently, I’m not the only one getting hate mail (here and here for examples). Margaret Cho was recently the recipient of free samples from some of the Free Republic’s finest writers. Link courtesy of...
Some Younger U.S. Arabs Reassert Ethnicity The New York Times January 11, 2004 by LYNETTE CLEMETSON CLEVELAND – Bring up ethnic identity in the Coury family and prepare to sit a while. Joseph M....
I received the following announcement from Carmen Van Kerckhove of EurasianNation: Please come to a discussion panel entitled “The Emerging Mixed Race Community” on Wednesday, January 21, 2004 in New York City. The event...
My man Ron Bronson on If one more bleeping person… I talk to people sometimes before I meet them, either online or whatever. Sometimes, when I talk to folks on the phone who don’t...