Brent Staples is such a hypocrite. Most of his columns are devoted to promoting the “one drop” myth of “light-skinned blacks” and “passing for white.” He admits that blacks are […]
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Category: A Mixed Blog
Category listings of blog entries. Approximately 1200 blog entries and 500 comments from the old "A Mixed Blog" are in the process of being converted and imported to this section. Stay tuned – the archives will eventually be complete!
Beautiful Ambiguity
Ruth La Ferla of the New York Times on Generation E.A.: Ethnically Ambiguous EACH week, Leo Jimenez, a 25-year-old New Yorker, sifts through a mound of invitations, pulling out the […]
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Ol’ Strom and Me
Ol’ Strom and Me By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet December 15, 2003 The skeleton that rattled in the late South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond’s closet with the revelation that he […]
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South African “Coloureds”
1. Why coloureds can’t shed a troubled identity As the Democratic Alliance began devouring itself over the past few weeks and New National Party leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk announced his […]
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“One drop” in South Africa
IT’S CLEAR TO ME THAT THE WRITER HAS NO IDEA WHAT HE’S TALKING ABOUT. SOUTH AFRICANS HAVE THE SAME “ONE DROP” MYTHS IN THEIR OWN WAY. IT’S INTERESTING HOW THIS […]
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Irish Slavery
Most Americans are led to believe that slavery was synonymous with “black” or “African.” Slavery is a system of selfishness and profit that turns the vulnerable into chattel – whatever […]
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A Canadian view of the Strom/Essie issue
This Canadian paper denounces the racism of Americans but endorses the “one drop” myth and sees no contradiction in it. Letters to the Editor can be sent to Letters@GlobeAndMail.ca. The […]
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American gothic
American gothic Salon By Rebecca Traister In 1948, while running for president of the United States on the Dixiecrat ticket, Strom Thurmond proclaimed, “All the laws of Washington and all […]
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Strom’s daughter shows what class — not race — is all about
Strom’s daughter is class act TownHall.com by Kathleen Parker COLUMBIA, S.C. Ask most thoughtful South Carolinians what they think about Essie Mae Washington-Williams – Strom Thurmond’s biracial daughter who publicly […]
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Thurmond’s Grandson
Posted on 12/19/2003 6:04:05 PM PST by GraniteStateConservative Check out the responses on the link: CENTRALIA, Wash. — Following his mother’s lead, a 53-year-old doctor in Onalaska has come forward […]
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