Love/Hate

The government of a restive Chinese Muslim region rocked recently by ethnic strife said on Thursday it has adopted what appeared to be a sweeping law barring the spread of views deemed to threaten national unity. Read More

Like it or not, the race card has been played with Wednesday's discovery of racist graffiti at City Hall. Read More

We entered the year 2009 with great hopes after the historic 12 th general election of 2008 when Malaysians rose above all racial divides to vote for change, a change they hoped would bring greater accountability and transparency in governance. Read More

Melbourne, Dec 31 (PTI) Indo-Australia ties were in the news in 2009 for all wrong reasons - a spate of racial attacks on Indians, particularly students, forced the two governments to act to contain the fallout even as they agreed to take their strategic relations to a new level. Read More

The word used to describe the feelings by Urban League president J.T. McLawhorn isn't anger or surprise. Read More

I think that Mr. Obama is not just inexperienced; he is also hampered by a distinct inner emptiness—not an emptiness that comes from stupidity or a lack of ability but an emptiness that has been actually nurtured and developed as an adaptation to the political world. Read More

America still has a race problem, though not the one that conventional wisdom would suggest: the racism of whites toward blacks. Read More

Everyone agrees that racism is a scourge, a malignant cancer which eats away at the body of a healthy society. Read More

Former CIA officer Jack Rice hits back hard at the comments made by Pete King and his cohorts about racial profiling on the Ed Schultz Show. Schultz: Jack Rice this is a political hot potato for the White House. Read More

Most of the time, when we talk about racism we are talking about institutional racism, a system of privilege based on race that "pervades, permeates, and interconnects all major social groups, networks, and institutions across the society" (Feagin, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism#Sociological ) microagressions ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microaggression ) that reinforce racist hierarchies It's worth noting that both of these forms of racism are often committed UNCONSCIOUSLY by people WITH GOOD INTENTIONS. Read More