The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) recently released a report about the resurgence of the right-wing militia movement. This resurgence is undoubtedly connected to the backlash we’ve been seeing to the election of an African-American as President. Although people these days are way too polite to go around screaming, “Segregation Forever,” they’re still finding ways [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘race’
June 27, 2009
The Peddlers: Poetry
Writing about Michael Jackson and We Are the World yesterday, I wanted to post the second poem below, but since it makes more sense with the first one, I waited to post them together.
The Peddlers I
All that midtown weekend
when I walked
from hotel room
to tobacconist
to hotel room
to cafeteria
young black men
tried to sell me sunglasses.
From 34th to [...]
June 26, 2009
He Thrilled The World
It makes no sense to blog about anything today other than Michael Jackson—or even to talk or try to think about anything else, except perhaps an obligatory prayer for Farah Fawcett. If I blogged about anything else today, nobody would bother reading it.
I didn’t think I had anything to add to the dialog bouncing around [...]
March 24, 2009
Set It Off: Video Rant/Review
I am on a mission here. I make no bones about it; I’m on a mission to persuade every genteel, white moviegoer like me—the kind who eschews violent or even just action films, whose idea of movie-generated fear is River Wild—I’m telling you to go out and rent Set It Off. Chances are you [...]
April 21, 2008
Train Wreck: The Presidential Election
I don’t know about other progressives/liberals/radicals/Democrats, but I’m gettin’ real freaked out, kids. For 15 months this train’s been speeding headlong into what’s looking more and more like utter disaster. Because the media wanted sexy copy, they gave a black man and a white woman central billing from Day One, pushing some perfectly good potential [...]
April 16, 2008
Cell Phones, Race and Rudeness
“But we have poisoned everything
And oblivious to it all
The cell phone zombies babble
Through the shopping mall..”
–Joni Mitchell
I got into a verbal fight with a cell phone zombie on the bus last night. Almost got my ass kicked. “Ooh,” I told her when she threatened to slap me silly, “I’m shivering.” Buried my face in [...]
