racism

Uganda and Arizona? We're Comin' Fo' Ya!
by Saab Lofton

"While the wicked stand confounded, call me with thy saints surrounded."
--The Boondock Saints

Don't get it twisted: The homophobes behind Uganda's anti-gay legislation are NOT equal to the white supremacists behind Arizona's anti-Latin legislation. Sure, they're both ignorant as pig shit, but whites are FAR more powerful than blacks, as I explained in the following commentary years ago ...

http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2004/02/04/scorched_earth/fear_...

A Nation of Cowards and Hypocrites
by Saab Lofton

It's official: Arizona has gone from flirting with fascism to becoming outright facsist ...

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0512/arizona-governor-signs-bill-banning-eth...

Beware of False Prophets
by Saab Lofton

In the comics, Spider-Man's superheroic career was often hindered by the libel of J. Jonah Jameson's Daily Bugle, and boy, can I relate -- be it online stalkers or right-wing hate mail, my reputation has taken more hits than a crack pipe, and as D.J. Casey Kasem would say, the hits just keep on comin' ..!

The Problem is White Women
by Saab Lofton

"The Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate."
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., The Letter from Birmingham Jail

Henry Louis GatesA Better Class of Guardian
by Saab Lofton

I got a story
That's harder than the hardcore
Cost of the holocaust
I'm talkin' 'bout the one still goin' on
--Public Enemy, from the rap, Can't Truss It

As I understand it, the royal guards at Buckingham Palace are instructed to withstand any insult -- so long as you don't actually, physically touch those guards, you can call them a bunch of Satan worshiping child molesters who drink rusty buckets of maggot-ridden diarrhea ...

Rewarding Bitchiness
by Saab Lofton

"If white men in my day did badly by Negroes, white women did worse."
--page 88 of Roxanna Slade, by Reynolds Price

Ralph Ginzburg's book, 100 Years of Lynchings, compiles hundreds of horrendous newspaper articles, but this particular atrocity stands out ...

BIRMINGHAM VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
April 1st, 1916
BUMPS INTO GIRL; IS LYNCHED

Quotations on race relations in America ring true
Yael T. Abouhalkah

Today’s celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day has special significance because of what will happen Tuesday: the inauguration of Barack Obama as the first black president of the United States.

It will be a magnificent step forward for this nation, although it will have come too late for some, including King, who was assassinated in 1968.

Forty years later, Obama’s campaign for the White House benefited from the leadership shown by King, other civil rights leaders, and those who have fought — often in controversial and sometimes conflicting ways — for racial equality.

Target Demographics With Disposable Income
by Saab Lofton

One of the biggest problems with Barack Obama is the problematic paradox he presents: If Obama loses this November, the claim will be that Rev. Jeremiah Wright's brutal honesty contributed to his downfall. If Obama wins, then supposedly the path to electoral success will lie in denouncing the brutally honest. In either event, those who tell the truth in this world are fucked.