Race and Racism
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The racist harvard law school email maneno
Posted by Greg Laden on April 30, 2010 I’ve spent a fair amount of time at the Harvard Law School. In fact, I was there when Barack was there. I didn’t attend the school, but I drank beer in the school’s beer hall, lived in a dorm shared by the law school and the science area, and cut through the main law school…
What does an illegal immigrant look like?
Posted by Greg Laden on April 27, 2010 Republicans Scuttle Climate Change, Immigration Reform, and Their Own Credibility. I can’t wait until the Hispanic vote totally abandons the Republican party. Because they are certainly working on that. (Note the Phillipe Rushton/Bell Curve, Psychometrics link)
Teabaggers Explained
Posted by Greg Laden on April 24, 2010 In their own words …
If someone pisses in your iced tea … you don’t have to appreciate that
Posted by Greg Laden on April 1, 2010 Subtitle: Republican Annoyed by Uppity Blacks with Phones Watch and listen, and marvel at it. Marvel at the attitude of the caller, which I’m sure is fairly widespread. Marvel as well at the way the host handles the call. For which he should be fired instantly.
Race and National Bias in East African Palaeoanthropology
Posted by Greg Laden on February 24, 2010 A half century of struggle has resulted in more than a little change, which we hope is still ongoing.
Russians, Canadians Tie for Gold in Repression Olympics
Posted by Greg Laden on February 21, 2010 Skaters performing in “Black Face” in 2010?
All White Basketball League
Posted by Greg Laden on January 22, 2010 Southern white racists in the US think of themselves as a repressed minority. Which, probably, they should be. Note the use of the word “fundamental” in this context.
Speaking of “Negro” …
Posted by Greg Laden on January 10, 2010 Nevada Democratic Senator and Senate Leader Harry Reid apparently stepped in it: The US Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, has apologised for private comments he made about Barack Obama before the 2008 presidential election. He is quoted in a new book as saying Mr Obama could win since he was a “light-skinned” African-American “with no…
Is Negro a Derogatory Term?
Posted by Greg Laden on January 9, 2010 Some people say yes, some people say no. Either way, Glen Beck is a Racist Moron. First, watch this:
Average Brain Size for the Three Races
Posted by Greg Laden on January 7, 2010 Philipe Rushton, in his book Race, Evolution and Behavior, reports average brain size for the three races. The following is the graph from Rusthton’s book:
Is “Blacks have excellent rhythm” a racist thing to say?
Posted by Greg Laden on January 1, 2010 Well, yes. But the question raises some interesting points.
Avatar as a racist trope
Posted by Greg Laden on December 31, 2009 HP asked me to look at a couple of posts discussing Avatar. I did.
Where Blacks, Whites and Orientals Fall on Various Traits
Posted by Greg Laden on December 29, 2009 This is Chart 1 from Race, Evolutoin and Behavior by J. Philippe Rushton, originally published in the Unabridged Edition of same.
Why Human Brains Vary
Posted by Greg Laden on December 28, 2009 Many people assume human brains vary genetically and genetic variation maps to races. But the races are not real and genetic variation can’t explain brain differences. Because, dear reader, brains don’t work that way. Let’s look just at the brain part of this problem.
The argument that different races have genetically determined differences in intelligence
Posted by Greg Laden on December 22, 2009 This post started out as a comment that would have gone here (but would have done just as well here). But it became sufficiently long and possibly interesting that I figured it would make a good, if somewhat rough, blog post.
PZ Myers Swarmed by Kliqueons!!!11!!
Posted by Greg Laden on December 17, 2009 Somebody is wrong on the Internet again, and it might be interesting enough to check out. It involved PZ Myers, Isis the Scientist, terrifiedtabetic, Stephanie Zvan, a few commenters, and it is all about Peter Watts getting beat up by border guards while crossing into the United States. I’m just guessing here, but I’m pretty…
The Taming of the Shrewd: “Get her drunk then get her done”
Posted by Greg Laden on December 1, 2009 “Get her drunk then get her done.” So reads one of the decals on the F-150 pickup truck parked in my new neighbor’s driveway. Of all the objectionable aphorisms on that particular truck, that’s the mildest one. I wonder what my daughter will think of that when she notices it some time over the next…
Nina Jablonski breaks the illusion of skin color
Posted by Greg Laden on October 22, 2009 Threats Against Obama
Posted by Greg Laden on October 20, 2009 Continuing on with our theme of anti-Obama wackaloonery, including the inherent racism involved in that, there is not additional evidence that there are indeed more death threats against our President than usual. From the Boston Globe:
Hispanic Children Rarely Get Top-Notch Care For Brain Tumors
Posted by Greg Laden on October 19, 2009 Hispanic children diagnosed with brain tumors get high-quality treatment at hospitals that specialize in neurosurgery far less often than other children with the same condition, potentially compromising their immediate prognosis and long-term survival, according to research from Johns Hopkins published in October’s Pediatrics. More than a decade after the Institute of Medicine’s landmark report Crossing…
No interracial marriage guy video
Posted by Greg Laden on October 19, 2009 He makes the argument that what he does is legal. It probably is. But he is still a dickwad. Watch CBS News Videos Online
DuWayne Brayton: We should all eschew the rejection of the other as your subaltern, even if only by accident.
Posted by Greg Laden on October 13, 2009 So, I said some things that got my friend DuWayne Brayton mad, and this caused him to write two blog posts (here and here), and now with a little time to spare I’m giving this the attention it deserves.
Don’t ever try to Jew down an atheist.
Posted by Greg Laden on October 7, 2009 Have you arrived to read this post because you don’t like the sound of the title? Does it piss you off? Good.
Primitive Cultures are Simple, Civilization is Complex (A falsehood) I
Posted by Greg Laden on September 21, 2009 This is yet another in a series of posts on falsehoods. To refresh your memory, a falsehood is a belief held by a number of people that is in some way incorrect. That incorrectness may be blatant, it may be subtle, it may be conditional, it may be simple, it may be complex. But, the…
A Trail of Shame: Racism and the Anti-Obama Movement
Posted by Greg Laden on September 16, 2009 A couple of weeks ago, I published a very controversial post titled “Maybe We Should Have Elected a White President After All” about the ongoing, possibly growing racism in connection with Obama’s presidency. The idea that a lot of the anti-Obama, including anti-health care reform, rhetoric and action was racially motivated was understood by some…
How racism works
Posted by Greg Laden on September 16, 2009 A follow-up on “Racist Act at Health Care Forum …”
Racist Act at Health Care Forum, Racist Act by Police, All White Crowd Goes Wild
Posted by Greg Laden on September 16, 2009 Senator Claire McCaskill’s health care forum. You can’t see much detail, but when a couple of black women in an all white room are dragged off by the police, I figure they were probably victims of the growing racism we are seeing in this discourse.
President Carter and Keith Olbermann seem to think there is a racialized feature to this anti Obama thing.
Posted by Greg Laden on September 16, 2009 This includes Jimmy Carter’s comments. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Chris Matthews, Melinda Henneberger, and Eugene Robinson and agree with me on the race thing.
Posted by Greg Laden on September 16, 2009 These are pretty mainstream voices. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Racism: A thing of the past. In Texas.
Posted by Greg Laden on September 15, 2009 There is no racism in America. People are not excluded from jobs or not allowed admission to a school because of the color of the skin. The whole racism thing is over, solved, kaput, no longer an issue. You’all can go home now. Especially if you live in Texas and/or are concerned with Social Studies…
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