Yellow Peril, Coming for You

I wish the world would be considerate enough to stop the offensive, racist crap, at least until I’m done with this quarter of grad school. I don’t have time for you, Pete Hoekstra. I really don’t. So many things wrong with this ad– who thinks that a rural factory worker is getting rich off what [...]

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Fred Korematsu Day

Today is the second annual National Fred Korematsu Day. Well, not national, but California wide, for those of you in California. Being in Washington, not only is there no observance of Fred Korematsu Day,  I’m also spending my day writing about the National Defense Authorization Act. I’m writing about the National Defense Authorization Act of [...]

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As an aside, I think

As an aside, I think there’s an essay to be written about why any accusation of a racial offense is so often reduced to “Are you a racist?” It would be as if my wife said, “You forgot to check Samori’s homework” and I responded, “I’m not a bad father.”

Ta-Nehisi Coates, from the Atlantic, speaking about accusations that Ron Paul is racist. Ron Paul, or someone on his staff, writing in his name, wrote some racially charged stuff in a newsletter from the early 90′s. Or, Coates speaking to the difficulty in bringing up race in a conversation.

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