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Eat Pray Die
Image via Wikipedia Eat, Pray, Love could have been a fantastic book and movie about whiteness and capitalism. No, it really is about a bored white woman traveling the world, eating food and having...
View ArticleViolence
We have a right to be angry when the communities we build that are supposed to be the model for a better, more just world harbor the same kinds of antiqueer, antiwoman, racist violence that pervades...
View ArticleReading: Occupations
While I think it is fantastic that Occupy Wall Street is offering immigration training to protesters, I also think that the well-meaning individuals quoted in this article also need to wake up and...
View ArticleWho Gets Away With Hate Crimes?
Keep tabs on this one. George Zimmerman stalked Trayvon Martin, confronted him, called him a “f**king coon,” and shot him. And he’s still a free man. In his own words, “these a$$holes always get away.”
View ArticleThe Dharun Ravi Verdict
30 days in jail. No deportation. I’m thankful that a tragedy was not confounded by yet another tragedy. The media seems to be hell-bent on portraying this as a lenient decision where the perpetrator...
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Cooking Racism – Fojol Brothers Food Truck
I see this truck on my way to work every day. I wonder why Marion Barry isn’t complaining about the Fojol brothers food truck as a ‘dirty Asian shop.’ Is it the kind of Asian that people here prefer —...
View ArticleSikh Temple Shooting: I’m Not Like You; I’m Better
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” -Audre Lorde Satwant Singh Saleka died fighting back an act of white American...
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Remembering Fred Korematsu
English: Gravestone of Fred Korematsu at Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Fred Korematsu would have turned 94 today. This post is in honor of his legacy of rabble-rousing....
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Affirmative Action Survives But Not For Long
Protesting at the Supreme Court is now illegal, FYI. My heart skipped a few beats today when the Supreme Court vacated and remanded Fisher v. Texas, to the Fifth Circuit, but affirmative action remains...
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But We Are Criminals: Countering the Anti-Racial Justice Frame of Immigration...
He can be known as the Abraham Lincoln of undocumented immigrants. But thus far, President Obama’s record on immigration is depressing and dismal. The first black President has deported more brown...
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Asian Americans and Affirmative Action
Affirmative action is now the latest wedge issue in California to keep ethnic minorities from seeing our common interests. In California, a bill to revive affirmative action is dead. Mainstream media...
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#BlackLivesMatter
The system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect. – W.E.B. Dubois Marissa Alexander will spend more time in prison for not killing anyone than the person who shot an unarmed, young, black...
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Pretextual Airport Stops
Recently, while traveling from Washington D.C. to sunny Florida, Transportation and Security Administration (TSA) sent me to secondary inspection at the airport. Apparently, my bag had an object that...
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Is It Too Soon for ‘I Just Look Like a Terrorist’ T-shirts?
Coming of age in a post-9-11 America was an eye-opening experience that I have no intention of reliving in my 30s. And yet, the hatred against Muslim, and perceived Muslims, has reached another level...
View ArticleResisting the #MuslimBan
Donald Trump signed an Executive Order on Friday, purporting to suspend the U.S. refugee resettlement program for 120 days, with certain exceptions; suspend the admission of Syrian refugees for an...
View ArticleWho Is Banned from the U.S. this Week?
Reuters has published a leaked State Department cable outlining who cannot get a visa to the U.S. under the new Muslim ban. In particular, refugee admission from the six countries (Iran, Libya,...
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SF BART: Stop Giving a Platform to Hate Groups
A poster at the Civic Center BART station in San Francisco, part of an$80,000 ad campaign targeting tech workers and attacking U.S. visa policy SF BART is once again, giving a platform to white...
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Remembering Fred Korematsu
English: Gravestone of Fred Korematsu at Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Fred Korematsu would have turned 94 today. This post is in honor of his legacy of rabble-rousing....
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Affirmative Action Survives But Not For Long
Protesting at the Supreme Court is now illegal, FYI. My heart skipped a few beats today when the Supreme Court vacated and remanded Fisher v. Texas, to the Fifth Circuit, but affirmative action remains...
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But We Are Criminals: Countering the Anti-Racial Justice Frame of Immigration...
He can be known as the Abraham Lincoln of undocumented immigrants. But thus far, President Obama’s record on immigration is depressing and dismal. The first black President has deported more brown...
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