October 11, 2009
imho is just a polite way to say I know you don't give a hoot what I think but I'm going to say it anyway
My children are, in the common lingo, “mixed”. Or, if they want to be hip when they grow up and get into identity politics, they can call themselves Hapa, or, indeed, whatever the hack they want. If they want to call themselves a mutt, the way Prez. Obama did, fine with me too. But despite [...]
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September 23, 2009
this i believe
Some of you may know about this already, since this Frontline documentary was first aired in 1985. I have only heard about the “Blue-eyed vs. Brown-eyed” experiment done by a daring 3rd-grade teacher, but I have never actually seen the documentary until today. Through Twitter, of course. There is something to be said about the [...]
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“No, Newt, You’re the Racist” Thank goodness someone more elequont wrote this rebuttal…
May 29, 2009 imho is just a polite way to say I know you don't give a hoot what I think but I'm going to say it anywayto the charge by some Republicans against the Supreme Court Nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, as being a racist against the white people, and specifically, white male people. I first saw this charge when I was waiting to board the plane. (You know the CNN scrolling texts on the bottom that drive everybody crazy but, I have [...]
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