Fall is here and all those TV shows I had forgotten about enjoying are starting again. Looking for jobs can’t take up all the time in a day, so I find myself streaming pop culture into my house from Hulu.
The third season of Heroes premiered last night. Heroes is to X-Men what John Legend is […]
Aternet posted an excellent article about the role of white privilege in the current presidential race. It can be hard for white folks to recognize privilege, precisely because we have it and consider it normal. The article does a good job of highlighting things we may have overlooked, for example:
White privilege is when you can claim that […]
There was a time when I was ignorant of oppression; a blissful childhood spent aloof to the suffering in the world. My eyes began to open in my adolescence, and my identity shifted. Naively, I thought we could use the system’s own channels to reform and ameliorate oppressive conditions. I slowly became disillusioned with this […]
Last Friday I took part in Chicago’s Critical Mass. Rain was expected and it was the first Mass of the summer, so we numbered in the hundreds rather than thousands. Those who road found gorgeous weather, only light rain, and high spirits all around.
Hundreds of cyclists riding in unison tend to block traffic out of […]
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Remember the Sean Bell murder? The three cops who went to trial were recently acquitted. As in, not guilty. Of anything.
It’s been a busy weekend, and I don’t have time to write an impassioned post about racist cops, how quickly they will lie, and how this reflects on society and each of […]
I found this excellent video posted over at Feminocracy. This is a nice follow up in light of my earlier post about Jeremiah Wright. I hadn’t heard of Pfleger before, but this interview is very impressive. Turns out he lives in Chicago, so maybe I will get a chance to see him speak. Anyway, enjoy […]
This is a very long post. If you get all the way through it, there is a treat at the bottom just for you.
Somewhere lying on a desk in the back of our cultured minds is a definition of property. We read it once, and can’t recite it verbatim, but we have a good idea […]
Here’s the background: an old sermon given by Obama’s former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, pops up suddenly and causes political turmoil. Obama gives a speech distancing himself from Rev. Wright. Then, after a month of silence, the Reverend makes further comments. Finally, Obama denounces the Reverend forever. That’s the brief version, you can click the […]
My buddy posted about this interview with N’Gai Croal, and I found it fascinating. Here’s the background information: (1) Capcom released a trailer for the latest installment of Resident Evil, (2) the game takes place in either Africa or the Carribean, and has a white protagonist, (3) the trailer depicts a white man gunning down […]
