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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...

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Looking 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...

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A 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...

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McRacist

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...

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Race 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...

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An 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,...

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White 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...

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Dances 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...

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The 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...

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How 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...

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UPDATE: 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...

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The “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...

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Why 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,...

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Racism 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°...

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Video: 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...

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Fear 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....

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Fear 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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