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The traditional pomp and circumstance will be shaken and stirred with camp and remonstrance.Looking forward to the inauguration with the WP.
Steve Jobs has a potty mouth.
Liberals have attacked John Ashcroft recently with charges of racism. True? In a sense, sure. I’m not convinced that he’s a bigot; I am convinced that anyone who would praise the malignant Southern Partisan is someone who doesn’t have my family’s best interest at heart.
Washington Post columnist Donna Britt says that calling anyone a racist who hasn’t clearly demonstrated such bigotry is wrong, but I think it’s a question of tactics. I don’t think it’s unfair to ask if this man who would be Attorney General of the United States is driven by an ideology that might run counter to the ideal of a nation united by equal protection (rather than defeated by it).
Indeed, Kendall Clark argues convincingly that to incorrectly identify racism is of far less consequence than to deny racism where it exists. I’ll agree that anyone who makes such an accusation should be prepared to support their claim, but more importantly, anyone who expects to be granted a very powerful and visible position in the federal government should be prepared to answer a few simple questions.
Instead of “randomWalks” this site is now going to be “the best of plasticboy”. Today on the best of plasticboy, we have: 2 reviews of Ken Burns' Jazz (review of Jazz, other review of Jazz) (mini bonus review of Jazz: fuck yeah!) and vegetarian recipes.
Boing Boing has posted all the links I would have recently, had I been posting, except for this incredible Beagle Bros tribute site which I’ve been willing to exist for the longest time. Here’s where I’ve been spending time instead of posting:
thanks to rogers cadenhead for the Beagle Bros link.piercing, an online comic.
The Asian American Movement Ezine is produced by a radical Boston-based collective working to document the history of Asian American activism. Like ModelMinority.com, it looks to be a great resource for Asian Americans and for anyone who wishes to broaden their understanding of racial issues in the United States.
A liberal will tell you the system isn't working properly. I will tell you that the system is working exactly the way it's supposed to. After reflection on my two decades plus of service, I am convinced that I only served the richest one percent of my country. In every country where I worked, poor people's poverty built and maintained the wealth of the rich.Stan Goff served in the U.S. military for two decades, much of the time with Special Forces training Third World armies.
New One Hundred Demons by Lynda Barry, last one for a while.
Americans reluctant to address the realities of continuing racism and white privilege have consistently portrayed Asian Americans as a "model minority" who have uniformly succeeded by merit.
While superficially complimentary to Asian Americans, the real purpose and effect of this portrayal is to celebrate the status quo in race relations. First, by over-emphasizing Asian American success, it de-emphasizes the problems Asian Americans continue to face from racial discrimination in all areas of public and private life. Second, by misrepresenting Asian American success as proof that America provides equal opportunities for those who conform and work hard, it excuses American society from careful scrutiny on issues of race in general, and on the persistence of racism against Asian Americans in particular.
The mission of ModelMinority.com is to provide this scrutiny in every possible way, so as to educate, inform, provoke, and inspire movements by individuals and groups toward Asian American empowerment.
What I'm trying to do is to target market my product towards a younger crowd, which no one is really addressing right now. Or at least to make it more contemporary. I mean what's up with the big hair? It's so over. So eighties.Annabel Chong, from actress to producer.
After a year of preparation, that war is about to begin in earnest. Against whom is it to be waged? Not against the coca cartels in Colombia or the consumers in Manhattan but against the peasants who plant the coca and against the guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) who protect them. This will solve neither the civil war nor the drug problem.If you've had an uneasy feeling about Plan Columbia but weren't sure why, read this. Z Magazine has put together a great set of links if you want to learn more. For a quick fix read Chomsky on Columbia.
I somehow made my way to Hobbsblog and was struck by the fascinating depth of information in the Orange Bowl Special Edition – last Wednesday, the Oklahoma Sooners played football with the Florida State Seminoles, right? Well, it turns out that the historical Sooners actually got their name by jumping the gun on a land rush and settling/stealing Seminole (among other tribes) land before anyone else had the chance.
Check out the new Blogger server! Congratulations, you guys rock.
Time (?!) presents the best comics of 2000. via c-log, a comics news weblog I’d like to see take off.
The Poppy Garden’s got it going on. Check out 4 January for a slew of J20 activism links.
Macworld San Francisco is right around the corner, and here at randomWalks, we’re keeping the faith. thanks, morning news.
Young white men see white men at the top of nearly every organization, court, government office, military position, university, and other powerful structures visible in our society. They are fed an unrelenting stream of history books, literature, TV shows, movies, video games, and advertisements which tell them that the place for white men is on top, in control, in power, in charge and that women, all people of color, people with disabilities, lesbians, gays and bi-sexuals, and recent immigrants are inferior, less worthy, and not entitled to the same power as white men. Many of their parents reinforce this by telling them that they are special, they are leaders, they can be anything they want, and that it is up to them to achieve and be successful. They often end up feeling entitled to special attention, to time devoted to their interests, to resources put into their activities, and to money invested in their future. The messages of entitlement leads them to expect sex and care taking from women, service and deference from people of color, and gratitude, sacrifice, and self-abasement from recent immigrants, from homosexuals, and from people with disabilities. They become angry and confused when their sense of entitlement is not responded to, when others are demanding access to what they do not want to share, and when their ability to get to the top is threatened.I used this great Kivel quote (full article) in response to a post in this MetaFilter thread accusing this Slashdot comment of "racism" against whites (a fallacy, of course). All of this surrounds the Microsoft discrimination suit.
Microsoft’s Xbox – I saw it here first.
Hey, look at this: Pyra’s asking for donations to help make Blogger go faster. I was gonna buy a Stalkers CD this week, but I think I’ll Napster it instead, and use the $15 to … um, buy food for my family. Then I’ll find another $15 somewhere and donate it to my favorite company.
There’s still time to nominate Dr. Menlo.com Blogs From Space! and Apathy for the most underrated weblogs of the second millennium.
The text in the Flash intro to the Rage Against The Machine site is something I’ve seen before (actually, quite recently) but I can’t quite place it. Do you know where it’s from?
“No one knows who installed the sculpture.”