Race

When Barack Obama launched his presidential campaign, he did it in Abraham Lincoln's hometown. When he arrived in Washington, he followed the train route Lincoln used in 1861. When he needed a Bible for his swearing-in, Obama picked Lincoln's.

Heck, even Obama's lunch on Inauguration Day was modeled after Lincoln's favorites, right down to the seafood stew.  Read More »

I am quite upset about the obvious double standard here at Progressive U so I decided to write a bit about it.  Read More »

The word "white", in a racial sense is a social construction. By studying history, the word "white" had never been applied so that it is use as a racial term. Shakespeare himself did not even the word "white" the way we do now. When Shakespeare applied "white" to a person, it never means anything racial.  Read More »

Dalton Conley’s Honky is something quite different from the other books because of the effect of a personal narrative; it gives us the knowledge of race and class from another personal perspective, and describes how it is to grow up as a white minority in the midst of a poor black and Latino neighborhood.  Read More »

Note: Not something I wrote for Prou but am sharing anyway but it is LONG.  Read More »

It is reported that hate for President-elect Barack Obama spans from the East to the West coast.

A lot of people may not be aware of the hate that breathes, wafting its foul smell toward Obama because big newspapers don't cover it, only local papers.  Read More »

Well, here goes my first blog entry. I am hopeful that it won't be offensive as that's not my intention, I just have noticed an alarming trend over the last few weeks and I feel the need to start this blog off with a bang!  Read More »

There's a scene in Clerks 2 where Randal says a racial slur (which i will not put in here; if you don't know what i'm talking about, go watch the movie). Randal gets way confused why everyone is freaking out, not knowing that the words are derogatory.  Read More »