Late Night Shots is an "invitation-only" social networking site for elite GOP youth of Washington, DC that the late
Steve Gilliard mockingly described as
"the best and whitest." The Wonkette blog has devoted an
entire section to the site that documents Late Night Shots'
racism,
date rape,
anti-Islamic prejudice, and
incest with second cousins, at least until
Wonkette's editor started getting invited to their parties. The founder of Late Night Shots,
Reed Landry, plans to take his networking site to other cities, but even though Wonkette has lost interest, the Washington City Paper has attracted scrutiny to the site again with a juicy new
exposé.
posted by jonp72
on Jul 12, 2007 -
83 comments
"Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix." Thankfully, the
Supreme Court disagreed, on June 12, 1967.
Happy Loving Day.
posted by caddis
on Jun 12, 2007 -
68 comments
David Oluwale arrived in Britain in 1949, one of many African immigrants. By the close of 1969,
he was dead. Two years later, two police officers were charged with his murder, although they got away almost scot-free despite a massive amount of evidence against them. Although it caused a national scandal at the time, more because of police malpractice than racism, Oluwale's sad story has been forgotten since (apart from a play, written by
Jeremy Sandford, a few years later). However, it deserves to be remembered not just because of a tragic and unnecessary death, but because it was
the first recorded death of a British black person as a result of police racism. A new book,
Nationality: Wog, The Hounding of David Oluwale is helping bring Oluwale's plight back into public consciousness.
Via the BBC's Thinking Allowed.
posted by humblepigeon
on Jun 6, 2007 -
8 comments
Under the ole shade tree... Welcome to Jena, LA -- mix high school segregation, racism, nooses, fights, ineffective school administration, attempted-murder charges, shotguns, and a town in upheaval--
a "racial powder keg".
Much more here, including links to help.
posted by amberglow
on May 23, 2007 -
87 comments
Is "Apocalypto" pornography? "I am not a compulsively politically correct type who sees the Maya as the epitome of goodness and light... But in "Apocalypto," no mention is made of the achievements in science and art, the profound spirituality and connection to agricultural cycles, or the engineering feats of Maya cities." Traci Arden
posted by hard rain
on Jan 6, 2007 -
129 comments
Operation Red Dog. "The group of [N]eo-Nazis planned to travel from New Orleans to Dominica on a chartered boat, land at night in rubber boats, meet up with John and his guerrilla force of disgruntled army veterans and Rastafarian rebels, and then lay waste to Dominica's police force and political leaders." Of those Neo-Nazis, Don Black would go on to marry David Duke's ex-wife and
found the notorious racist site Stormfront. Another of the gaggle, Wolfgang Droege, would
get fatally shot by a man who was convinced that he'd installed surveillance and tunnels into his house as revenge for the time he'd laughed at Mr. Droege.
posted by Sticherbeast
on Dec 26, 2006 -
23 comments
Palm Island off Queensland’s stunning north coast is one of the most beautiful places on earth, well maybe not if you’re an Australian Aborigine.
Mulrunji Doomadgee, a fit, healthy, 36-year-old man, died in police custody on Palm Island on 19 November 2004 following his arrest by Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley on a charge of "public nuisance". Yet Queensland DPP Leanne Clare has
described the death as "a terrible accident’ caused by a ‘complicated fall’. [via
crikey.com.au- subs req’d]
posted by mattoxic
on Dec 14, 2006 -
10 comments
It will always be known as the "
date which will live in infamy," but this year - the 65th Anniversary - may mark the last time survivors can/will come together at
the site to pay their respects to the fallen and to shake hands with their former adversaries. Hawaii affiliate KHNL News 8 has already
started its 5-day long
coverage of the ceremonies, which culminate on the morning of the 7th and will feature a live web feed and a keynote adress given by
Tom Brokaw (@ 7:30am HST).
Some consequences of the attack inside...
posted by krippledkonscious
on Dec 4, 2006 -
27 comments
He loves tradition: "[He] said he came to Virginia because he wanted to play football in a place where 'blacks knew their place'."
He gives free food to the poor: "After they had killed a deer, [he asked] where the local black residents lived. [He] then drove... to that neighborhood with the severed head of the deer. 'He proceeded to take the doe's head and stuff it into a mailbox'".
And even before "macaca", he enjoyed giving out clever nicknames: "[He] gave him the nickname 'Wizard,' because he shared a last name with.... the imperial wizard of the United Klans of America".
(But don't call him
a Jew! That would be an
"aspersion.")
posted by orthogonality
on Sep 24, 2006 -
145 comments
Savitri Devi Mukherji. Born Maximiani Portas in 1905, this French woman of Greek and English extraction would, in pilgrimages to Palestine and India, experience a series of strange awakenings - that she was a National Socialist, that she was a Hindu, that the two were entwined in the struggle against the Judeo-Christian order, and that
Hitler was the living incarnation of Kalki the Destroyer, the final avatar of Vishnu. Known to many as "Hitler's guru," she stood at the forefronts of Hindu nationalism,
Nazi mysticism, Holocaust denial,
animal rights, and the international Neo-Nazi movement.
The Lightning And The Sun, her most famous work, most directly espouses her philosophy, but perhaps the best place to start would be
Long-Whiskers And The Two-Legged Goddess, which is her autobiography as filtered through her many cats. Her nephews were Communists; her own mother was active in the French Resistance; and according to some, the daughter would have shot the mother dead for it. The world is not be a better place for the Savitri Devis of the world, but her presence made this world
like none other.
posted by Sticherbeast
on Sep 10, 2006 -
22 comments
Raed Jarrar was coming home from Jordan wearing a T-shirt with the phrase "We will not be silent" in Arabic script and English. Other JetBlue passengers who could not read the Arabic were "offended" and
she was apprehended by security and asked to replace it. She also had her seat changed to the back of the plane. Variations on T-shirt airline censorship have
happened before, but, taken to extremes, the fear of foreign language has
spawned some unpleasant nights. Where is the line drawn? And where is the path to multicultural reconciliation?
posted by ed
on Aug 21, 2006 -
70 comments
Bought from a slave trader and put on display at the Bronx zoo: the strange, sad story of Ota Benga, a Pygmy with filed teeth brought from the Congo to America in 1906.
Here are a couple of contemporary news accounts of the controversial exhibit. After the zoo, Benga tried to make a life in America, studying to be a missionary.
"But what he really wanted to do was to tell everyone in this country that his people were dying, and why. I think he thought that eventually they'd listen. But they never did. That, to me, is the real tragedy."
In 1916, at the age of 32, he built a ceremonial fire, chipped off the caps on his teeth, performed a final tribal dance, and
shot himself with a stolen pistol.
Creationists say the story illustrates "the racism of evolutionary theory" and "the horrors that evolutionary theory has brought to society."
posted by CunningLinguist
on Aug 7, 2006 -
35 comments
We hold that the New York Constitution does not compel recognition of marriages between members of the same sex. By a 4 to 2 margin, the
New York Court of Appeals, New York's highest court,
upheld (70 page pdf) the state's Domestic Relations law that bars same-sex couples from
getting married in New York and denying same-sex couples the hundreds of family protections provided to married couples. The court accepted the justifications advanced by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer for the state law barring marriage by same-sex couples. "Pointing out that stable relationships between parents are important for children, that straight couples can conceive children by 'accident,' and that gay couples can only have children with advance planning, Bloomberg and Spitzer argued that straight couples need the stability of marriage, but gay couples do not." The ruling was
denounced by the ACLU,
criticized by Howard Dean as based on "outdated and bigoted notions about families," and applauded by the
Marriage Law Foundation pleased by the "superb and straightforward legal analysis."
Background from NPR.
posted by three blind mice
on Jul 7, 2006 -
104 comments
The Jackie Robinson of architecture. An orphaned African American boy from downtown Los Angeles,
Paul Revere Williams wanted to be an architect, and when he mentioned his career goal the high school guidance counselor ”stared at me with as much astonishment as he would have had I proposed a rocket flight to Mars...
Whoever heard of a Negro being an architect?”. Therefore, Williams learned to read and draw upside down -- he knew that white clients would not sit next to him --
graduated from USC and in 1924 became the first certified African American architect west of the Mississippi. In a
50-year long extraordinary career, he designed landmarks like the
Theme restaurant at
Los Angeles International Airport (with
Welton Becket), the
LA County Courthouse, the
Hollywood YMCA,
Saks Fifth Avenue in
Beverly Hills, restored the Beverly Hills Hotel. Some of his most interesting buildings, like the
La Concha Motel in
Las Vegas have either been
razed to the
ground or, like the "
Batman house", aka
160 S San Rafael mansion in Pasadena, have been destroyed by fire. Now, Williams' historic
Morris Landau House has been
cut into 21 separate pieces and sits in a Santa Clarita storage yard,
rotting away. More inside.
posted by matteo
on Jul 2, 2006 -
25 comments
"many far-left thinkers believe the white power structure that controls America is bad, so a drastic change is needed." O'Reilly continued: "According to the lefty zealots, the white Christians who hold power must be swept out by a new multicultural tide, a rainbow coalition, if you will."
Then there's John Gibson's call for more white babies
posted by delmoi
on May 17, 2006 -
115 comments
Adidas earns the love of the masses once again, this time with
racist shoes! The most offensive part of the design is taken from original work by
Barry McGee. Yeah, maybe it's taken
out of
context (of, say,
other work dealing with racism), or is it some kind of inevitable
comic artist attraction to stereotypical imagery of the past? At any rate, those
wily Asians at Giant Robot
seem to like it, and his fans
don't seem that offended.
Whether you love or hate that particularly inscrutable mascot, McGee is actually an
experienced,
prolific, and
talented guy. (He was also married to artist
Margaret Kilgallen until her
death in 2001, and is now the
single father of their daughter Asha.)
McGee once said,
"Sometimes a rock soaring through a plate of glass can be the most beautiful, compelling work of art I have ever seen". Oh, and p.s.--he's
half-Chinese, you cry-babies ;-)
More on the controversy:
1,
2,
3.
posted by ibeji
on Apr 10, 2006 -
48 comments
Slips of the tongue are usually a result of the sound structure of an utterance. For example, saying 'Martin Luther Koong Junior', where the vowel in 'Koong' might be taken from either of the two flanking words.
Freudian slips are much rarer. Why then, are
these two people losing their jobs? [More inside]
posted by fcummins
on Mar 30, 2006 -
78 comments
Pork soup becomes political in France. Small groups linked to the extreme right are ladling pork soup to France's homeless. Critics and some officials denounce the charity as discriminatory: because it contains pork, the soup is off-limits for Muslims.
posted by rxrfrx
on Jan 25, 2006 -
105 comments
