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Rand Paul on William Lloyd Garrison and Segregation
By Wiz A couple of days ago Rand Paul had his balls surgically removed by Rachel Maddow on her show, concerning the issue of whether or not private businesses have the right to discriminate. Watch it...
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Park 51 Protests: First Hand Account and Thoughts
by Wiz According to the New York Post, there was a “Holy War” yesterday in the Financial District over the misnamed “Ground Zero Mosque.” I actually was there, and have some thoughts about the dueling...
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Restoring our Honor
by Wiz In honor of Glenn Beck’s whitepeoplapoloza (even the AP described a “a vast, predominantly white crowd):
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The Great Filipino Hope? A Brief History of Race in the Ring
by Weiner It was not long after Filipino congressman and champion boxer Manny Pacquiao defeated Antonio Margarito in a masterful 12-round unanimous decision that somebody decided to play the race card....
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Asians in Universities: A Canada-US Comparison
by Weiner A recent Maclean’s magazine article reported that some white Canadians students worried about the growing Asian and Asian-Canadian presence of university campuses. Originally titled, “‘Too...
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Huck Finn and Teaching the “N-word”
by Weiner Growing up in Canada, I was never required to read Mark Twain, so I never did (I do remember the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes where he appears as Samuel Clemens though). With the...
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B-Hop vs McNabb: Racialism from the Ring to the Gridiron
by Weiner Here we go again. Only a short while after the Grant Hill versus Jalen Rose “Uncle Tom” controversy, and a few months after former middleweight championship boxer Bernard “The Executioner”...
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New Book on Race on the Canadian Campus
by David (shameless self-promotion) In line with our series of three posts on affirmative action, I thought I would mention this cool new book that just came out called “Too Asian?” Racism, Privilege...
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Barack Obama: Jackie Robinson of Black Presidents
by David Barack Obama For the most recent issue of The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates has penned a superb essay on Barack Obama as Black president. Coates argues that Obama, by not talking about race while...
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Israel Through Its Cab Drivers
David recently went on a trip to Israel with his father. Here is a brief reflection of his time there. More will follow. My father and I had arranged for a cab to take us from Rehovot to Tel Aviv. The...
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