The farcical furor over Anthony Weiner’s candidacy for the mayor of New York has opened up another Pandora’s box containing the tortured narrative of American sexuality, as well as the problematic world of machismo and Latino masculinity, my tenuous relation to them, and the way sexism and racism keep vying to remain at the top […]
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The Good Morning America interview of juror B-29, a/k/a Maddy, has revealed an even more tangled web that symbolizes America’s complex racial landscape. While Maddy’s stunning assertion that George Zimmerman “got away” with murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, ambiguous nature of Latino’s racial identity was thrust into the spotlight. At various points during the […]
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I’m not sure if you’ve wasted your time reading this press release about Tea Party bobo Raúl Labrador (R-Idaho) in the Huffington Post, but if you did you might have wondered whether you were reading the arch-right Daily Caller instead. After all, it quotes word for word the same passage about el bravo Raúl fighting back against MSNBC’s effete […]
Read moreListening to Randi Rhodes earlier today I was reminded of this particular story, which was extremely disturbing when I read it, but, because of the modern miracle of disallowed testimony, it seems most of us have forgotten about it. The story reported by Trymaine Lee, who was on staff at the New York Times before […]
Read moreThe strangely contradictory world of Eric Holder and the US Department of Justice continues to get stranger and more contradictory by the minute. Just today, for example, he is being lauded as a hope for bringing civil rights charges against the acquitted George Zimmerman (something that may prove difficult, if not impossible), while also speaking […]
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We spent all that time protesting all over the country and in Vieques itself to force the Navy to stop using it as target practice for this? Tomorrow, July 17th, the TLC channel will be premiering a “reality” show called Wedding Island, which is set on la Isla Nena. The show, which is basically a vehicle […]
Read moreIt’s easy to think that this is the look of a man who just got away with murder, but rather than get carried away with the negative emotions associated with that, there are many larger issues surrounding George Zimmerman’s acquittal that are troublesome for what is left of America’s fraying social fabric. While there was […]
Read moreThere he go Trapped in the kit kat again Back through the system With the riff raff again The new Jean Michel It ain’t hard to smell A rat with the cats On the Downtown mat He be rags to riches Not just rag to rich But the filthy rich Marcy Brooklyn Rhyming past the […]
Read moreNew York mayor Michael Bloomberg’s remarks last week claiming that more African-Americans than whites should be stopped and frisked is emblematic of how corporate technocratic thinking produces a profoundly ill logic. Appearing on John Gambling’s show on WOR AM, Bloomberg asserted that because whites were being stopped and frisked 9% of the time and were […]
Read moreA few things come to mind re: the recent fallout from George Zimmerman murder trial witness Rachel Jeantel’s use of the word “cracker.” Jeantel, clearly not comfortable in the courtroom scenario, seemed caught up in multiple emotions: sadness over the death of her friend, Trayvon Martin; guilt over not having attended his funeral; annoyance over […]
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