Black conservatives, with their politics of self-abuse, have managed to obtain access to the halls of power – at the expense of respect from within the black community.
In criticizing affirmative action at the University of Michigan, Bush made clear the inability of yet another white person to grasp the magnitude of white privilege.
In criticizing affirmative action at the University of Michigan, Bush made clear the inability of yet another white person to grasp the magnitude of white privilege.
Nowhere is the tendency to "play the King card" more apparent than in the claim by many contemporary writers and theorists that Martin Luther King's principal goal was "color-blindness."
The war on drugs was too busy busting the black and brown in the lower ninth ward of New Orleans, to make a stop uptown, where the white Tulane freshmen were busy filling up two foot bong chambers with pot smoke.
Can giving a standardized test to profoundly unstandardized students from unstandardized schools ever be fair? And how can those test results be used to determine college placement?
If what we see in Israel is democracy, then what does fascism look like? In a world such as this, where words have lost all meaning, we might as well just burn all the dictionaries.
When white folks rioted over beer at the Olympics, it was laughed off in a "gee, don't they have anything better to do" way. What if blacks or latinos had done the same?
Though many Americans don't want to hear it, Martin Luther King Jr. would not have supported our current war or many of the racist policies that have adopted his name.
The resurrection of the "heroic cop" image after 9/11 may be perpetuating brutality, misconduct, discrimination and racial profiling in police forces nationwide.
Ruthless? Cold-blooded? No regard for human life? To be sure, these statements describe Osama bin Laden. But they also describe far too many of our own allies and military elites.
As with all racial profiling, the present incarnation is unjust and irrational, despite calls from many quarters for more profiling under the rubric of "common sense."
There are many good alternatives to fighting terrorism. And those who oppose the bombing of Afghanistan are talking about them -- on the street corner, on the Internet, in town hall meetings, but not on Fox News and CNN.
Recent comparisons between our war on terrorism and WWII break down quickly, but speak volumes about our national need to justify our unjust, unwise military actions.
When warhawks call those of us who question war "naïve," it reminds me of something my Grandma once said: "You can call your ass a turkey, but that doesn't make it Thanksgiving."
If an angry white American had plotted the 9-11 attacks, would talk of "Kill the Arabs!" have been replaced with "Kill the Crackers?" Would we bomb the cornfields of "middle America" to take out a few anti-government types?
Soon, I will have to tell my young daughter about Tuesday's mass death. Will I also have to explain our retaliation, our infliction of more mass death to show others that our collective national dick is the biggest?
A "dissident Jew" reflects on the U.S.'s withdrawl from the World Conference Against Racism in Durban, going back to the roots of Zionism. (Also see "Dispatch from Durban," by Lillian Galedo.)
Last Sunday, yet another story of white suburban crime hit the headlines, and everyone acted amazed. When will whites and the media admit that most killers look like them?
In the wake of police brutality scandals like those in Cincinnati and Nashville, cops across the nation are cranking up their propaganda mills to counter the trend of bad press.
Seven out of ten whites think that blacks face no inequalities. Yet 50 percent of blacks say they have been discriminated against in the past month. How can whites be so blind?
Whites from suburban Chicago are the latest example of a culture that goes to amazing lengths to convince others (and perhaps themselves) that the wish to steer clear of urban blacks isn't the least bit racist.
When author Tim Wise sent his recent essay "School Shootings and White Denial" to his editors, he unwittingly set off a firestorm of national reaction, controversy and dialogue.
Imagine that the bullet-spraying cop arrested last week in Nashville had been a young black man. How long would it have taken police to drop him in a hail of bullets?
When African Americans rioted to protest police violence in Cincinnati, they were called "terrorists." Meanwhile, white college kids "misbehave" after sports events and drunken binges that cause equal destruction.
I said this after Columbine and no one listened so I'll say it again, after the recent shooting in Santee, California: white people live in an utter state of self-delusion.
