There are more people of color in the U.S. than ever before, and that growth is expected to make a big difference in this year’s election.
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Kentucky Progressive Group Tweets Racist Conspiracy About Mitch McConnell’s Wife
ProgressKentucky is a progressive group that first made headlines by announcing its intention to fund a tea party candidate to run against Sen. Mitch McConnell (R) in the 2014 primary.
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What Mandela taught us – FT.com
In 1993, South African general Constand Viljoen was plotting an Afrikaner guerrilla war against multiracial rule. So Nelson Mandela invited him over for tea.
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White Mayor, Black Wife: NYC Shatters an Image
Another milestone is passing in America’s racial journey: The next mayor of New York City is a white man with a black wife. Even in a nation with a biracial president, where interracial marriage is…
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I heart New York!
I am so f’in excited about this that I can’t even organize my thoughts. But I’m gonna try. So yesterday, just like the first time I voted for Obama, I ran to the school where I vote to mark my bal…
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Chirlane McCray, Bill De Blasio: Partners In Life, Politics – CBS New York
De Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, discussed her marriage as well as her childhood.
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NYC’s First Mixed-Race First Couple? | The Afro-American Newspapers | Your Community. Your History. Your News.
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Jindal: Racism persists because minorities cling to their heritage | The Raw Story
Jindal accused minorities of placing “far too much emphasis on our ‘separateness,’ our heritage, ethnic background, skin color, etc. We live in the age of hyphenated Americans: Asian-Americans, Italian-Americans, African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Cuban-Americans, Indian-Americans, and Native Americans, to name just a few.”
Community Village‘s insight:
Racism persists because of xenophobic racists.
In Jindal’s list of hyphenated Americans he forgot to mention European-Americans.
Jindal also listed Native Americans in his list of hyphenated Americans. The term “Native American” is not hyphenated.
There are four types of Americans:
1. First Nations Indigenous Amerindians
2. Colonizer-Americans
3. Immigrant-Americans
4. Migrant-Americans
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Where I Come From | Soya Jung
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“When I ask people where their politics come from, it’s because I’m hoping to find something in common, those places of overlap…”
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“… my silence was tantamount to complicity in a system with deadly consequences.”
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What Interracial and Gay Couples Know About ‘Passing’
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As I awaited news of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions in the same-sex marriage cases last month, I began to reflect on all of the daily privileges that I receive as a result of being heterosexual — freedoms and privileges that my husband and I might not have enjoyed even fifty years ago. For our marriage is interracial.
Given my own relationship, I often contest anti-gay marriage arguments by noting the striking similarities between arguments that were once also widely made against interracial marriage. “They’re unnatural.” “It’s about tradition.” And my personal favorite, “what about the children?” In response, opponents of same-sex marriage, particularly other blacks, have often told me that the struggles of gays and lesbians are nothing at all like those African Americans (and other minorities) have faced, specifically because gays and lesbians can “pass” as straight and blacks cannot “pass” as white — as if that somehow renders the denial of marital rights in one case excusable and another inexcusable. In both cases, denying the right to marriage still works to mark those precluded from the institution as “other,” as the supposed inferior.
But what does it mean to “pass”? And what effect does passing have, in the longer term, on a relationship and on a person’s psyche?
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