PUBLIC MARKS with tag racism

Et bien…

Much has already been said about Geraldine Ferraro’s controversial comments implying that Obama wouldn’t be where he is if he were white (or a woman). The purpose of this post is not to attack or defend her comments, but to test her hypothesis that Clinton has been hampered by her gender while Obama has been helped by his race by looking at the exit poll numbers for people who said that a candidate’s race or gender had any influence on their vote.

Si votre nom a des racines nord-africaines, vous êtes automatiquement soumis à une procédure de vérification qui a presque l’odeur d’un délit de facies. Par contre, si votre nom fleure bon les origines nord-américaines, le bon Oracle disparaît et le logiciel vous est servi sur un plateau. Pour preuve, nous avons testé cet enregistrement en fournissant comme nom successivement Mohamed Ben Ibrahim et John Brown

C'est une histoire du vieux Sud. Une histoire tragique, hantée par des démons surgis d'un autre temps. Une histoire en noir et blanc.

Bono's hubristic declaration that he "he represents a lot of people [in Africa] who have no voice at all …. They haven’t asked me to represent them. It’s cheeky but I hope they’re glad I do' smacks of celebrity colonialism–a rather glamorized bastardization of old school colonialism [at the very least]. He's impinging on Africans' agency by inserting himself into dialogue with African leaders who have no accountability to the very Africans Bono is trying to 'represent.'

"That echoes very much the demonology of Nazi Germany when Hitler said it was the Jews' fault and the problems were brought upon themselves. There is a faint echo of that in a lot of the rubbish we have been seeing in the media recently."

Canada is to make a formal protest to the United States over the case of a Canadian man deported to Syria in 2002 over suspected al-Qaeda links.

nothing but a declaration of race war on Africa. It is an invitation to more Arabs to invadeand colonize Africa. Indeed, it is a call for the final phase of the 15 centuries old Arab lebensraum war on Afrikans - a war to Islamise and conquer all of Africa

Hispanics Across America founder Fernando Mateo called the move an "offensive and cheap trick" to boost ratings. "The participants will be held to the daunting and unfair challenge of representing an entire race of people," he said. "What will it mean for a team - a race - to fail in a battle of wits and strength against another race?"

[Shreveport Times] Nine black children attending Red River Elementary School were directed last week to the back of the school bus by a white driver who designated the front seats for white children.

[BBC] Too bad: we have to let the brown dudes go. Got to hassle them though!

[CNN] Arrested for unbuckling seat belt and using cell phones! Not much until you consider clincher: they were brown!