MetaFilter posts tagged with racerelations

Oriental Angel

djduckie — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:37:19 -0800

Lou Jing was your average 20 year old woman from Shanghai, until being on Go! Oriental Angel, an American Idol like singing competition show, had to point out the obvious. Lou Jing is half Chinese, half African- America, something China apparently wasn't ready for.

Freedom Can Go To Hell

Talez — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:03:26 -0800

Geert Wilders is now making a splash in London drawing a protest from the hardline Islamic members of the British public. The protests featured such memorable slogans as "Freedom Can Go to Hell" and "Islam will dominate the world" and eventually forced Geers to change the location of his press conference. On the ground interviews conducted by Press TV show the attitude of some of the crowd. British nationalists are naturally responding in kind.

The 47th and Drexel Bit. Remember It?

Xurando — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:29:21 -0800

Tim and Tom. The first interracial comedy duo are on a book tour.

1966 federal ban on racial discrimination in housing

russilwvong — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:46:36 -0800

The Meaning of Box 722. Letters to Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois in reaction to the 1966 civil rights bill, particularly the federal ban on racial discrimination in the sale and rental of housing. At the time, Chicago was the most segregated city in the north, with boundaries enforced by mob violence. By Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland. When I started researching NIXONLAND I knew the congressional elections of 1966 would form a crucial part of the narrative. They'd never really been examined in-depth before, but by my reckoning they were the crucial hinge that formed the ideological alignment we live in now. Via Brad DeLong.

Test your national pride

goo — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:28:10 -0800

Kick A Migrant!

Crime and punishment in America has a colour

Sonny Jim — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:55:08 -0800

Despite a sharp national decline in crime, American criminal justice has become crueler and less caring than it has been at any other time in our modern history. Why? Former conservative economist Glenn C. Loury on incarceration in America. [via]

White people sin like THIS but black people sin like THIS

jonson — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 23:29:39 -0800

Lunatic religious cartoonist Jack Chick is targeting a new demographic; converting his greatest hits to provide more "urban" appeal.

Stereotype Threat & Affirmative Action

BlueTrain — Mon, 30 Jun 2003 08:39:30 -0800

So the Dems love the latest Court ruling regarding Affirmative Action. A relatively new, but much discussed, theory called stereotype threat may have a profound affect upon newly renovated affirmative action policies within the US. Slightly more info. here.

Integration

Beholder — Mon, 13 Jan 2003 17:54:39 -0800

I stumbled across a fairly controversial opinion piece concerning racial integration, but it's fairly mild compared to some of the writers other opinions. Never the less, his observations on this subject seem to hold up under scrutiny. With few exceptions, whites and blacks seem to prefer their own company, and as evidenced by these pictures, even young urban professionals seem happiest among their own race.

feckless — Wed, 11 Jul 2001 09:13:14 -0800

Washington Post Survey: Misperceptions Cloud Whites' View of Blacks. "I think it's pretty even, but you'd never get blacks to admit it," said Thomas Ripley, 71, a retiree who lives in Belleville, Ill. "It keeps the pressure on government for more programs."

Postroad — Wed, 21 Mar 2001 08:18:26 -0800

a white man speaking black truths After the California school shooting, ther had been a number of discussions and some links to the idea that blacks don't do school shootings. The article dealing with this issue elicited a huge response on-line by blacks to the piece, written by a whiteman. Here is how many blacks responded.