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When There's No Winning Strategy1 comment

Alan wrote 6 days ago: Here it is, late May, and Team Obama and Team Romney have decided the November election will be a pl … more →

Tags: Conservative Framing Devices, Conservative Values, Race and Politics, The Conservative-Liberal Divide, The Culture Wars, Michael Lind, Mitt Romney, BAIN CAPITAL, November Plebiscite on Private Equity Firms

Vibe and Vegas Show: Trayvon Martin - Poll Shows 73% Of Black Americans Think George Zimmerman Would Have Been Arrested If Youth Was White

thevibeandvegasshow wrote 1 month ago: Do Black Americans think shooter George Zimmerman would have been arrested if the teen had been whit … more →

Tags: VIBE AND VEGAS SHOW TAKES, Vibe and Vegas Show

The True-Man Doctrine5 comments

Alan wrote 2 months ago: Americans like their guns, and seem to like the idea that those guns frighten others, as that makes … more →

Tags: Race and Politics, Racism Lives On, race war, Race and Tolerance, racial profiling, Trayvon Martin, Newt Gingrich, Blame-the-Victim Defense, Obama Speaks Out on Trayvon Martin

Confused Alarms of Struggle and Flight

Alan wrote 4 months ago: Down in Kent you’ll find the port city of Dover and those famous white cliffs – they’re  … more →

Tags: Race and Politics, Racial Dogwhistles, Newt Gingrich, Racial Dog Whistles, Lee Atwater, Republican Racism, Republican Southern Strategy, Dover Beach, Matthew Arnold

Racism and Nostalgia1 comment

Alan wrote 9 months ago: Some people have no use for nostalgia and others can’t live without it – probably because thei … more →

Tags: Racism Lives On, the fifties, Conservative Nostalgia, Ozzie and Harriet, reihan salam, conservative racism, Nostalgia and Racism, Nostalgia is NOT Racism, Tea Part Racism

Roger Ebert, Huck Finn, and me.

Patrick A. Reed wrote 1 year ago: It seems there’s a new edition of Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn being published, with all instances … more →

Tags: personal anecdotes, censorship, Roger Ebert, Stories about Life, Huckleberry Finn, pulp fiction, The Virginia Film Festival, media furore

Old Movies Always Playing

Alan wrote 1 year ago: Out here in Hollywood you get used to it. The social conservatives – the evangelicals and End Times … more →

Tags: Race and Politics, Republicans – Party of the South, Hollywood and America, Republicans - Party of the South, racism, southern strategy, Race, Republican Southern Strategy, Christmas Tends To Lean Slightly Left

USDA’s Shirley Sherrod, Consumer Rudeness, and the Conundrum of Blacks in Power1 comment

Dr. Ibram H. Rogers wrote 1 year ago: Shirley Sherrod (Source: cltnetwork.org) The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently forced its Geor … more →

Tags: racism, Shirley Sherrod, USDA, U S Department Of Agriculture, white farmer, NAACP

The One-Day Never-Ending Story2 comments

Alan wrote 1 year ago: Hollywood will be the death of America – but not for the reasons some evangelical fire-and-brimstone … more →

Tags: race war, Andrew Breitbart, Fox News, racism, hollywood values, Blaming Hollywood, acorn scandal, House Resolution 809, James O\'Keefe

Panic Nation

Alan wrote 1 year ago: Hollywood is a stupid place, but they do get some things right. Panic reveals character. You set up … more →

Tags: Race and Politics, race war, glenn beck, Racism in America, long-term unemployment, Panic, Don't Panic, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, New Black Panther Party

Building the Discreetly Angry Black Man

Alan wrote 1 year ago: If you’re not in the office, listen to the song Run Charlie Run. It’s from 1972 from The … more →

Tags: Race and Politics, Obama Too Cool, The Angry Black Man, Race in America, glenn beck, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Beck Calls Obama a Racist, Run Charlie Run, the temptations

Trying to Understand a Strange and Foreign Land

Alan wrote 1 year ago: Ah, Pittsburgh in the early sixties – that was an odd place to spend your high school years. The wor … more →

Tags: Race and Politics, Race and Tolerance, Sarah Palin, Race in America, The South, Pittsburgh, Hill District, August Wilson, Roberto Clemente

Talking About Race

Alan wrote 2 years ago: White guys shouldn’t talk about race. What do they know about being black, or Hispanic, or Asi … more →

Tags: Arizona Senate Bill 1070, racial profiling, Pat Buchanan, Racial Profiling, Obama a racist, glenn beck, Racism in America, Rush Limbaugh, talking about race

Cultural Whiplash1 comment

Alan wrote 2 years ago: It was over ten years ago in London, Ontario – on assignment running the systems shop at the big loc … more →

Tags: Race and Politics, Appealing to the Base, Immigration Policy, Arizona Senate Bill 1070, "illegal immigration", frank rich, Immigration reform, Illegal Immigration, Arizona Senate Bill 1070

The Old Dominion1 comment

Alan wrote 2 years ago: Virginia’s state nickname “The Old Dominion” came from King Charles II of England … more →

Tags: Republicans – Party of the South, Cival War Again, Confederate History Month, Bob McDonnell, Civil War Again, The South Will Rise Again, Old Dominion, Virginia History, Lost Cause Enthusiasts

Advice from the Wrong People

Alan wrote 2 years ago: Let’s say you have a problem with your car – there’s this odd sound coming from the tran … more →

Tags: Catholic Child Abuse Scandal, who to trust, Expertise, Bill Donohue, Pope Implicated in Child Abuse Scandal, Pope Benedict XVI, priestly Celibacy, Pedophile Priests, Vatican cover-up

Losing It

Alan wrote 2 years ago: As a rule, liberals don’t collect knick-knacks. It’s a matter of temperament. The need t … more →

Tags: Conservative Thought, Americans Scared Silly, Pat Buchanan, Conservatives and Change, White World Passing, Losing Our America, Pat Buchanan Defends White Rule, White Supremacy, Defending White America

Blacks Wear More Blackface Than Whites1 comment

Dr. Ibram H. Rogers wrote 2 years ago: In recent weeks, people of African descent and their allies around the world have showered the inter … more →

The Last Wasp1 comment

Alan wrote 2 years ago: In early 1995 they were gone. The Los Angeles Rams were gone, off to St. Louis. And Los Angeles, the … more →

Tags: Rush Limbaugh, Pat Buchanan, WASP culture, Racism in America, Tad Friend, Cheerful Money, Limbaugh and the Rams, Limbaugh as Victim, Affirmative Action Nobel


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