There 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 moreBloomberg’s Ill Logic
New 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 moreOn Rachel Jeantel’s Use of the Word “Cracker”
A 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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Curious George
It’s not easy to warm up to George Zimmerman as he sits silently at his trial for second-degree murder of Trayvon Martin. How do we read his expressionless, stoic frumpiness, stuffed into that gray suit? HIs eyes dart around the courtroom, at the witnesses, the jury, then down to a sheet of paper where he […]
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The Banality of Devious Maids
By now you’ve heard about the controversy over Devious Maids, a pastiche of a Mexican telenovela and Desperate Housewives, the primary vehicle for executive producer Eva Longoria, emerging Latina venture philanthropist. Clearly the set-up is problematic, since it involves a cast of five Latina maids, and domestic work is obviously a way that Latin@s are stereotyped. One […]
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Draco Still Livin la Vida Loca
Draco Rosa: From Livin’ La Vida Loca to Beating Cancer By ED MORALES March 20, 2013 For a while Draco Rosa was losing his grip on life, fighting a gritty battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which he’d been diagnosed with in April 2011, and finding himself alone in his room, facing his own mortality. “You’re in […]
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Iraq War: Ten Years After
This week is the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War. There’s an exhaustive summary of the costs of the war by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies here. It’s kind of overwhelming, but worth scrolling through just to add context and clarity. Back in March 2003, I watched the “Shock and […]
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So What Is Love, Then?
It’s a beautiful mystery, at least it was/will be before and after the postmodern era.
Read moreObama’s Immigration Speech Strong at Heart, But…
January 31, 2013 President Obama’s speech on immigration Tuesday was a significant demonstration that the second-term president has embraced a mandate that demands rights for marginalized people. By making the argument that America has always been a nation of immigrants, he has taken the first step in reversing a tide of anti-Latino sentiment, stoked by […]
Read moreSonia Sotomayor: An Ordinary Woman?
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Elana Kagan arrives on the West Front of the Capitol in Washington.(Win McNamee, Pool/AP Photo) Jan. 25, 2013 Two days before Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor swore in returning Vice President Joe Biden, she was paying a visit to El Barrio, or at least El Museo del Barrio, a […]
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