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It was almost two weeks ago when the Oregon State University faculty senate voted for furloughs for all faculty (grant-supported salary is exempt) in 2010. It should be noted that the Oregon State University chapter of the American Association of University Professors “came out in support of furloughs provided that a number of important […]
Tim Wise on white folks and historical memory:
There is none so dangerous as the white American who waxes nostalgic about what he or she likes to call “the good old days.” Or, alternately, those “simpler” times, or the era of so-called “innocence” remembered from their childhoods, memorialized in a Norman Rockwell painting, or via […]
“Princeton professor Dr. Cornel West reflects on what love has meant through his life and talks about his memoir, ‘Brother West‘.”
Tags: Cornel West, Race, Social Justice, video
The hypocrites that make up the North Dakota State Board of Higher Education voted last week to allow the University of North Dakota to have more time to purchase the approval of a Sioux tribe regarding UND’s racist mascot.
The University of North Dakota’s controversial “Fighting Sioux” nickname got a 30-day reprieve today, as the […]
Embedded video from CNN Video
Tim Wise and Don Lemon break down “white racial resentment / white racial paranoia” that is occurring at town hall meetings and the inflammatory rhetoric (e.g. comparing Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler) spewing out of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Pat Buchannan et al.
Jon Stewart and Larry Wilmore, from the Daily […]
If a certain family member wonders why I stopped reading their blog, it is due to their defense of (and site link to) Glenn Beck. Rather than engage in a fruitless back-and-forth (like last time when my life experience was called into question), I will simply post these recent videos. Glenn Beck’s rhetoric is […]
From Iowa, the home for immigrants by the Iowa Board of Immigration:
Native American populations in Iowa were conveniently “reduced” to make room for white settlers according to the text in this Iowa immigration advertisement from 1870.
The lowas, next to the Sioux, were once the most numerous and powerful of all the tribes between the […]
via Driftless: Stories from Iowa
Driftless: Stories from Iowa, is a MediaStorm project that features stories from rural Iowa from the point of view of photojournalist Danny Wilcox Frazier. Frazier, a white guy from Iowa City, Iowa, frames Iowa from a majority white, romanticized point of view.
I was raised in Southeast Iowa near Iowa […]
Amazing videos by middle and high school students in Eugene, Oregon:
The Asian American Video Production course is a two and a half week program as part of the Pan Asian Rites of Passage Program at Lane Community College. Taught by Jason D. Mak from Eugene School District 4J and is also the Executive […]
Stephen Colbert on white privilege.
“In America, white is neutral.” Colbert describes white privilege via scathing satire. Brilliant.
Tags: BAND AID, discrimination, gender, Race, racism, Social Justice, Sonia Sotomayor, supreme court, white men, white privilege
