Category Archives: racism

racism

God Bless The Child Who Has His Own, on Old School Friday

Old School Fri­day, and it’s “Diva Day”.
Diva, a term is used to desc­ribe a woman of excep­tio­nal talent. The term ori­gi­na­ted from opera but now inc­luds popu­lar music.
We don’t do trashy no talent Diva’s here. Just acting like one doesn’t make you one. Believe me I know, my parents made that per­fectly clear when I was 10

The Truth Is Scary

In this won­der­ful post racial world we have a Philly subur­ban pool that accep­ted $1,950 dollars for a group of kids from Crea­tive Steps day camp so the kids could go swim for 90 minu­tes every so often. When the kids got there for the first swim peo­ple noti­ced they were black and

Injustice Here, Injustice There, Injustice Injustice, Everywhere

While we’re on jus­tice let’s look at the case of Troy Davis, digres­sing slightly for a moment.
Nisha recently wrote about Iran’s exe­cu­tion of Delara Darabi, won­de­ring why there wasn’t more cove­rage of the case by mains­tream media. Darabi, a juve­nile when the crime was per­pe­tra­ted, having ori­gi­nally con­fes­sed to the crime, later recan­ted, saying she

Don’t Punish Me With Brutality

A dis­tur­bing pre­ce­dent con­cer­ning mur­der of the foreign born  —  there was no indi­ca­tion that those who beat Luis Rami­rez to death knew he was an undo­cu­men­ted immi­grant  —  has been set in Schuyl­kill County, Pennsyl­va­nia. Tee­na­gers Not Guilty in Fatal Bea­ting
A Mexi­can man named Luis Rami­rez was bea­ten to death by three young white men