Your Random-Ass Roundup: Mia Love’s Racial High-Wire Act.
While Mia Love’s victory would be a milestone, her candidacy encapsulates a lot of the practical and ideological obstacles the GOP faces in becoming less white.
Race Archives
White Woman Wears Afro, Life Changes. Or Something.
There’s a white woman running around New York in a big black afro wig because she thinks it’s teaching her something about herself and the world and how she sees it and how it sees. She blogs about it sometimes on her website, Before and Afro.
Don’t Call It a Comeback. (No, Seriously. Don’t.)
After a viagra no prescription brutal 12 days in which he hemmorhaged his once-considerable national lead, President Obama got some good news: he’s eked out tiny advantages among likely voters in both the ABC/Washington Post and Politico/GWU polls. Here’s the takeaway from the first poll: Likely voters give Obama the edge — by varying margins Read More
Do Black People Support Obama Because He’s Black? (Why Are We Still Having This Conversation?)
The AP concern-trolls about whether black people side with President Obama because he’s black after a handful of Negroes on Twitter were mean to Stacey Dash. No, seriously: Surviving slavery, segregation and discrimination has forged a special pride in African-Americans. Now some are saying this hard-earned pride has become prejudice in the form of blind Read More
About That ‘Obama-Can’t-Be-Angry’ Meme.
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: President Obama can’t show too much anger or passion in public because it could make him look like an angry black man and scare away skittish white folks. After last night’s vice presidential debate, some people said that Obama could never behave the way Joe Biden did Read More
How Much Should Race Matter In College Admissions?
Funny lede in Adam‘s story on arguments yesterday in the Supreme Court’s big affirmative action case: Three white lawyers argued before a mostly white Supreme Court on Wednesday about whether the University of Texas-Austin’s admissions process—designed to diversify its student body—discriminated against a white applicant. Besides the Court being almost entirely white, Adam notes that Read More
Talk To Me Like I’m Stupid: The Texas Affirmative Action Case.
As you probably know, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments this m buy levitra orning in a closely watched affirmative action case that could have epic consequences for the way colleges and universities consider race in admissions. The state of Texas attempted to diversify its student body in a race-neutral way that could survive a Read More
White People Problems.
My blogmate Monica has been banging this drum for a minute, but John Sides looks at some new research that contradicts a bunch of the ideas about the voting habits of working class whites. Sides finds that the white working class is hardly a monolith, and says that studies show that they’re less motivated by Read More
What If …
… Michael Vick was white? Well, if we have to provide an answer, I suppose he’d look like Brian Austin Green and play like a slightly less effective but more dynamic blend of Steve Young and Fran Tarkenton. But that’s not really the question worth asking. What I really want to know is what is Read More
