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Apparently this is a vintage 27 second TV spot for an actual 1960′s exploitation film: via postbourgie (which also has a good post on the cop video from earlier). Your Thoughts?
Archive for the ‘Racism’ Category
My Baby Is Black!
June 19th, 2010 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Film, Racism, Unintentional Comedy 
Tags: Exploitation Films, Interracial Dating 
No Comments »Ebert On The Arizona Mural Story
June 8th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Sometimes, there’s just no excerpting from a piece, you just have to insist people read the whole thing. Read Roger Ebert’s whole piece on how we come to think and feel as we do with respect to race and the consequences of what we do about it. Your Thoughts?
Radio Host Fired After Pressuring Arizona To Change A Mural Explains Himself
June 7th, 2010 Daniel Fincke This image is part of a mural, based on photographs of students from the Arizona school on whose outer wall it is painted. Radio host Steve Blair fomented baseless anti-minority outrage among his listeners, leading the school to decide to “lighten up” the image of the boy in the foreground so he looked “happier”. Blair [...]
Sex And The City 2 (And Religion) (And Feminism) (And Race) (And Homophobia)
June 5th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Diana Bass complains: It just wasn’t very funny to see four smart American women parading western consumerism and sexualized identity in blatantly insensitive and anti-religious ways in a traditional world. Wait a minute, what she describes may not be funny but it’s certainly the best thing I’ve heard about the film from everything that I’ve [...]
ZJ Defends “Everybody Draws Muhammad Day”
May 28th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Free Speech, Islam, Racism, Religion Tags: argument, Censorship, chilling effect, conversion, criticism, Deconversion, Depictions of Mohammed, draws the prophet muhammad, Everybody Draw Mohammed Day, Fear, free expression, guilt by association, intimidation, lds, Mormons, Muhammad cartoons, Muslims, offended, offensive, provocation, provocative, racial prejudice, racist, reactions, religious beliefs, Religious Violence, Responsibility, Rights, salvation army, threats, violation, violent response, Xenophobia, zinnia jones, zj, ZJemptv No Comments »Should Religions Be Exempt From Laws Otherwise Applicable To Others?
May 25th, 2010 Daniel Fincke ProfMTH explores the issue with a wealth of information, siding against such exemptions: The second video is chock full of legal information. The most interesting bit in here is where he discusses Antonin Scalia’s strong case against religious exemptions and Sonia Sotomayor’s general support for them. 1. Regarding Christian Legal Society v. Martinez– –the decision [...]
Posted in Abortion, Applied Ethics, Atheist Videos, Bio-Medical Ethics, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Free Speech, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Homosexuality, Law, Law & Politics, LGBTQAA, News Discussion, Political Secularism, Racism, Religion, Religious Rights, Roman Catholic Church, Same Sex Marriage, Secularism, Separation of Church and State Tags: "The Ministerial Exception", Anti-discrimination Laws, Antonin Scalia, Archbishop Donald Wuerl, Archdiocese of Washington DC, Automatic Charitable Deductions, Bob Jones University, Bob Jones University v. United States, Boy Scouts, Catholic Charities, Catholic Charities of Sacramento v. Superior Court, Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany v. Serio, Christian Legal Society, Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, Connecticut, Contraception, DC Same Sex Marriage Law, Employment Division v. Smith, Establihsment Clause of 1st Amendment, Federal 9th Circuit, Free Exercise Clause of 1st Amendment, Jonathan Turley, LAPD, Los Angelas Police Department, Mandated Benefits Laws, McClure v. The Salvation Army, Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, Palmore v. Sidoti, ProfMTH, Sonia Sotomayor, Special Rights, Supreme Court of the United States of America, Tax Exemptions for Churches, The New York Times, The Supreme Court, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, University of California Hastings College of Law, Wisconsin Supreme Court No Comments »Huge, Growing, Income Gap Between Whites And Blacks In America
May 19th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Must be all that reverse racism we suffer from after 40 years of political correctness and affirmative action to blame. If only we had been listening to the Rush Limbaughs and Glenn Becks and FOX News’s of the world all these years, we whites might have ten times the assets of our black counterparts instead [...]
Tim Wise On “The Pathology Of White Privilege”
April 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Earlier today I posted excerpts from a really insightful essay by Tim Wise talking about the differences in perception that people would have were the tea party protesters black, rather than white. In reply, one of my Facebook friends, tipped me off to this genuinely eye-opening lecture from Wise: Your Thoughts?
Imagining Black Tea Parties: A Thought Experiment
April 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Tim Wise offers a powerful counterfactual: Imagine that hundreds of black protesters were to descend upon Washington DC and Northern Virginia, just a few miles from the Capitol and White House, armed with AK-47s, assorted handguns, and ammunition. And imagine that some of these protesters —the black protesters — spoke of the need for political [...]
Untangling The Language Of Racists Who Deny They’re Racists
October 25th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Sendai Anonymous pointed me to a really interesting sociological study by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva which attempts to shed light on the various contortions that “color blind” racists go through in an incoherent attempt to evade their racism while expressing their views. First, I document how whites avoid direct racial language while expressing their racial views. [...]
Posted in Racism, Social Psychology, Sociology Tags: Color Blind Racism, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Language, Racial Language, Semantics No Comments »ZJ On Mormons And Civil Liberties
October 22nd, 2009 Daniel Fincke Everyone should see this video: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Law, Law & Politics, Politics, Racism, Religion, Religious Rights, Same Sex Marriage, Theocracy, Theocrats Tags: Church of Latter Day Saints, Mormon Opposition To Civil Liberties, Mormon Racism, Mormonism, Mormons, Mormons and Gay Marriage, Mormons and Proposition 8, Religious Extremism No Comments »Loving Wives And Loving Countries
October 20th, 2009 Daniel Fincke On Bloggingheads, philosophers Simon Keller and Niko Kolodny dissect love. If you don’t have the hour to watch the whole thing or if you are only interested in one of the subtopics they discuss, below is the set of topics. The time listed next to each topic indicates how long that portion of video runs. [...]
Coates On How Obama Drives The Racists Nuts
September 17th, 2009 Daniel Fincke It’s no mistake that O’Reilly and Sharpton would break bread together at Sylvia’s–they feed each other. But Barack Obama, bourgeois in every way that bourgeois is right and just, will not dance.He tells kids to study–and they seethe. He accepts an apology for an immature act of rudeness–and they go hysterical. He takes his wife [...]
Kanye Disses Taylor Swift (On The Pusillanimity Of Joe Wilson And Kanye West Vs. The Magnanimity Of Beyonce Knowles And Barack Obama)
September 13th, 2009 Daniel Fincke So last night, Kanye proved once and for all that he has no class through a single action which demonstrated an unbelievable lack of grace. Taylor Swift looked so demoralized and her speech had been all about feelings of being surprised to be accepted by this particular voting bloc, when he insulted her by implying [...]
Posted in 2008 Presidential Race, Barack Obama, Culture, Ethics, Featured, Music, News Discussion, Nietzsche, Politics, Pop Culture, Racism, Videos, Virtues Tags: Agon, Agonistic Democracy, Barack Obama, Beyonce, Cruelty, Ignobility, Illegal Immigration, Joe Wilson, Kanye West, Magnanimity, MTV, Nobility, Obama’s Health Care Speech, Pettiness, Pusillanimity, Rancor, Ressentiment, Taylor Swift, Vices, Video Music Awards, VMAs, Xenophobia 24 Comments »Is Birtherism More Nationalist Than Racist?
August 22nd, 2009 Daniel Fincke Daniel Larison has an interesting spin on what’s more operative in the Birther movement’s attempt to discredit Barack Obama as genuinely American: Assuming that racism is the central or overriding element behind this obsession, as Aziz does, is the easiest move in the world, but it is not necessarily accurate. It is a ready-made answer [...]
Don’t Tase Them, Bro
August 12th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Pam’s House Blend makes the case that tasers are being used excessively. Her most disturbing (but, sadly least surprising) revelation is that blacks are getting disproportionately tased: The abuse of this device is disproportionately deployed against minorities (surprised, no?). In Houston, an audit found incredible statistics: Black officers are less likely to use Tasers, but [...]
Why Do Torture And Increased Police Authority Increasingly Appeal To Americans?
August 5th, 2009 Daniel Fincke The Economist has a chart on views on torture which reports a disquietingly high amount of tolerance among Americans for the practice: OPINIONS on whether the use of torture should be prohibited appear to vary widely around the world. According to opinion polls conducted early in 2008 respondents in western European democracies such as Britain [...]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, George W. Bush, Moral Psychology, Philosophical Ethics, Psychology, Racism, Religious Extremism, Torture Tags: 5th Amendment, 9/11, American Psychology, Authoritarianism, China, Courage, Dick Cheney, Fascism, John Yoo Memos, Justin Barrett, Military Service, Police State, Tea Parties, Terrorism, The Patriot Act No Comments »Fascism + Racism
August 5th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Analyzing the despicable e-mail from Boston police officer Justin Barrett that contained these true colors: Your defense of Gates while he is on the phone while being confronted [INDEED] with a police officer is assuming he has rights when considered a suspect. He is a suspect and always will be a suspect. His first priority [...]
Posted in Andrew Sullivan, News Discussion, Racism, Theocracy Tags: Dick Cheney, Fascism, Henry Louis Gates, Justin Barrett, Police State No Comments »A Pro-Nazi Museum In Germany?
July 27th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Well this is disquieting news… Jürgen Rieger, the vice-president of the party that seeks to ban all immigration and sever all ties with the EU, has submitted plans to authorities in Wolfsburg – home to car giant Volkswagen – for the museum intended to “show the people what this organisation did and what it meant”. [...]
Posted in History, News, Politics, Racism, World Affairs Tags: Germany, Jürgen Rieger, Museums, Nazis, NDP Party, Ralf Schmidt, Right Wing Extremism No Comments »Is There Conflict Between Gays and Blacks?
July 20th, 2009 Daniel Fincke LZ Granderson paints an ugly picture (thanks to jackandjillpolitics): Despite the catchiness of the slogan, gay is not the new black. Black is still black. And if any group should know this, it’s the gay community. Bars such as The Prop House, or Bulldogs in Atlanta, Georgia, exist because a large number of gay blacks [...]
Posted in Civil Rights, Gay Rights, News Discussion, Politics, Racism Tags: Black Experience, Black Gays, Homophobia, Human Rights Campaign, Proposition 8, Slavery, Stonewall No Comments »What Species Are The Italians and The Irish?
July 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke PZ Myers watches FOX and Friends so we don’t have to: Brian Kilmeade is, for some unknown reason, trying to dismiss a study that found that married people were at a lower risk for Alzheimer’s disease. his reasons for dismissing its applicability to Americans are bizarre. BRIAN KILMEADE: We keep marrying other species and other [...]
Posted in Pop Culture, PZ Myers, Racism, Unintentional Comedy Tags: Brian Kilmeade, FOX and Friends, FOX News, Gretchen Carlson No Comments »
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