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I’m sure you’ve heard by now, but the US Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have opened an official investigation into the killing of 17 year old Trayvon Martin by a vigilante “Neighborhood Watch” member George Zimmerman. Zimmerman pursued, confronted, then shot to death Trayvon Martin who was on his [...]
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US Justice Department Will Investigate Murder of Trayvon Martin
March 20th, 2012 
Greg Laden 
Posted in Gun Ownership, Race and racism, Trayvon Martin 
Tags: gun control, race and racism, Trayvon Martin 
9 Comments »Are you annoyed by those pesky Indians and Black folk?
January 23rd, 2012 Greg Laden All that whinging and hand wringing about slavery, taking the land from the Indians, and all that stuff is very annoying, especially when the assertion is made that our founding fathers had anything do to with all that. Even though they did. But still, it is very annoying to have the names of those who [...]
Posted in Race and racism, Teabaggers Tags: Education, race and racism, Racism, Tea Party, Teabaggers, Tennessee 13 Comments »Women in Elevators and Black Guys Sneaking Up Behind You
January 16th, 2012 Greg Laden As you may know, I wrote a post, Women in Elevators: A Man To Man Talk For The Menz, in which I wrote: I am not afraid of dogs, and most women are probably not “afraid of men.” Except I’m actually afraid of dogs and most women are justifiably afraid of men. If you get [...]
Danny Chen’s Death: The Ultimate Hate Crime?
December 21st, 2011 Greg Laden Nineteen year old Private Danny Chen killed himself with a firearm in a combat station in Kandahar, Afghanistan after being taunted and verbally and physically abused in a decidedly racist manner by several of his fellow soldiers. Eight such soldiers, of C Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry, are now facing charges related to Danny’s death. [...]
Forbes’ Gene Marks Needs To Check His Priv
December 13th, 2011 Greg Laden Gene Marks, you wrote an essay for Forbes that has gotten a lot of people rather upset. People are upset because you display insensitive unchecked privilege and, essentially, you blame an entire class of people as the victims of what is mostly not their fault but rather, your fault and the fault of the modal [...]
Posted in Education, Protest, Race and racism Tags: Occupy Wall Street, race and racism 58 Comments »SCOTUS will review Arizona’s Immigration Law
December 12th, 2011 Greg Laden Moments ago, the Supreme Court of the United States has agreed to review a highly controversial Arizona law. This promises to be one of the more significant things they’ve done in a while. The deck is stacked for a more conservative ruling because Justice Kagan will recuse as she worked on the law while in [...]
Atheists who are Nazis should be shamed and driven from the community
December 4th, 2011 Greg Laden From my Facebook message thingie: Mat Nuzareyin We have 47 mutual friends and are both atheists. Greg Laden Except in real life, I have only about 4 friends, but that’s OK! Mat Nuzareyin Do you think stupid people should be sterilized? Greg Laden I wasn’t thinking that, no. Mat Nuzareyin Why not?
Racial Bias in Presidential Pardons?
December 3rd, 2011 Greg Laden The pardon process relies on the recommendations of a special office of the White House, which takes a number of factors (not skin color) into account overtly, including things like level of remorse or financial or family factors. The process was, wisely one would have thought, depoliticized by George Bush at the beginning of his [...]
Why do NASCAR fans hate our troops?
November 21st, 2011 Greg Laden Several NASCAR fans booed two women who were announcing the start of a race (with the famous words “Gentlemen, Start Your Engines!!”). The women were part of the “Joining Forces” initiative, which is in support of military families. The women stood next to retired Army Sgt. Andrew Barry, who was wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. [...]
The PolitiChicks Speak … about Gay Marriage and the Islam
November 16th, 2011 Greg Laden This is a joke, right?
Cain’s Sexual Harassment Problems
November 1st, 2011 Greg Laden It does look like there may be something to the allegations, and there does seem to be some denial followed by backpedaling. I would like to point out, however, that he was a male CEO, a person of power, wealth, and fame. This is often true of the men in the race, and in presidential [...]
Posted in Election 2012, Race and racism Tags: Election 2012, Herman Cain, race and racism 2 Comments »Michele Bachmann, Saint Cloud, Racism, Teabaggers and the Office of Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education
October 27th, 2011 Greg Laden Just so you know, it’s all connected.
Is gun control racist?
October 10th, 2011 Greg Laden That’s actually not the correct question. The answer to “Is gun control racist?” is no, because if I ask you that question, you assume I mean current modern day gun control efforts in the United States. If anything, gun control is the opposite of racist, give who is most affected by lack of it, ans [...]
Berkeley Campus Republicans: Native American Women are the Lowest Form of Life
September 25th, 2011 Greg Laden The Campus Republicans of the UC-Berkeley campus are having a bake sale with the cost per item set in relation to the buyer’s skin color and gender. White males would pay full price, but people who have very dark skin and are female get the food for less. Here’s the pricing structure: White $2.00 Asian [...]
Posted in Race and racism, Republicans Tags: Affirmative Action, Berkeley, race and racism, Young Republicans 24 Comments »Charles and Willie
September 22nd, 2011 Greg Laden The Kennedy School of Government had banned all smoking within the building, but had not yet banned smoking just outside the doors facing the Charles River, to the south of the complex. An African American woman, about fifty years of age, took a light from me, and we stood in the falling snow enjoying our [...]
Day of Justice, Day of Shame: The killing of Troy Davis
September 21st, 2011 Greg Laden I do not know for certain that Troy Anthony Davis is not guilty of killing Mark MacPhail, a Savannah Georgia cop. But I do firmly believe that there is more than reasonable doubt of his culpability to say he is legally not guilty, and I am not alone in thinking this. The other people who [...]
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