Internalized Racism and Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Body Dysmorphic Disorder, as the Mayo Clinic puts it, is a “type of chronic mental illness in which you can’t stop thinking about a flaw with your appearance.” It’s a compulsive disorder that shouldn’t...
View ArticleLooking for Refugee Status in Canada? Invoking the Black Boogieman Seems to Work
Brandon Huntley Last week the story emerged that a white man from South Africa was granted refugee status by the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board. The claimant is Brandon Huntley, a 31 year-old...
View ArticleA Facebook Page, Denied
For the third time this year, I have made a failed attempt to create a Page for this documentary film on the social networking site Facebook. It fails because it appears there is something offensive in...
View ArticleMcRacist
McDonald’s is loving it, and by “it” I mean racism. (click image to enlarge) Don’t be passive. Go tell McDonald’s what you think of this ignorance. UPDATE (9/12/09): I have asked McDonald’s UK...
View ArticleRace and Online Dating
An interesting study made by the people at OkCupid examines the correlation between first-contact attempts and responses. According to them, “it was immediately obvious that the sender’s race was a...
View ArticleAn Honour and a Privilege
I have to admit, back a few years ago when Twitter first hit the scene I was skeptical. My first impression was the same as that of many others: that it was just another silly outlet for vanity,...
View ArticleWhite Man’s Burden: The Movie!
My first article for Race-Talk.org is finally up. Not only that, but it has also been cross-posted in The Huffington Post! Much thanks again to Jamaal Ra’Shon Bell from the Kirwan...
View ArticleDances With Wolves… in Space! (aka Avatar)
Kirk Cameron’s—wait, no—James Cameron’s latest epic Avatar is now playing, and if you’re like me, you’re thinking to yourself “big fucking deal.” I can’t see myself watching it anytime soon. Cameron’s...
View ArticleThe Audacity of Humanity
Last month I was honoured with an invitation to contribute to a new ebook titled The Audacity of Humanity, which was edited by Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D, a professor of ethnomusicology at Baruch College-CUNY...
View ArticleHow you can—and why you should—consider helping crowdfund this documentary film
Independent filmmaking is hard. Independent documentary filmmaking is even harder; many indy docs—either self-produced or produced collaboratively with a small (also independent) production...
View ArticleUPDATE: Glenn Beck, meet blow-back…
It’s been about a week or so since Radio Rwanda Fox News pundit Glenn Beck, while on Fox and Friends, said US President Barack Obama “has a deep-seated hatred for white people.” He quickly back-tracked...
View ArticleThe “Birther” Movement: Petty Partisanship or Underlying Racism?
The so-called Birther Movement was handed a dose of reality yesterday when the US 10th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed another “attenuated, insubstantial, and frivolous” lawsuit. Ari Rabin-Havt at...
View ArticleWhy do we fail to respond to racist violence as it is happening?
On the evening of Wednesday, July 29, 2009, a Muslim man on his way home got on a Vancouver city bus where he was attacked for what appears to be no reason other than that he was Muslim. Qasimali Baig,...
View ArticleRacism and our First Responders
It was around 9 o’clock in the morning on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 when Eric Schweig, passing through Vancouver’s Grandview Park, noticed a man laying the prone position. It was 35° Celsius (95°...
View ArticleVideo: Origins of the KKK
Bill Noxid, who runs the Attention 101 blog, tweeted this link earlier today. It’s a seven minute segment from a documentary on the history of the Ku Klux Klan’s “infiltration and collaboration with...
View ArticleFear of a Black IT Department: Microsoft WTF
A #racism “compare-and-contrast” tweet was circulating the Twitterverse today: two of Microsoft’s Business Productivity sites, specifically their American/English/default site and their Polish site....
View ArticleFear of a Black IT Department: Microsoft Says “Oops! Our Bad.”
It’s been only two days since word went out on Twitter about the Microsoft promo that had a white man’s head superimposed ontop of a black man in what has been widely criticised as mostly a bad...
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