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Surely it has absolutely NOTHING to do with the racial composition of the uninsured. Of course not.
Archive for the ‘Race & related -isms’ Category
November 10th, 2009
by Jonathan Zasloff
Posted: Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 at
8:42 pm
26 Comments »
September 13th, 2009
by Mark Kleiman
“What I heard was an unspoken word in the air: ‘You lie, boy!’ “
Posted: Sunday, September 13th, 2009 at
5:09 pm
4 Comments »
August 20th, 2009
by Jonathan Zasloff
Category: Politics and Leadership, Race & related -isms, Right-wing terrorism, Watching Conservatives
Right-wing pundits who are keeping studiously silent about their base’s threats of violence against Obama had better hope that nothing happens to him. Because if something does, they will be responsible.
Posted: Thursday, August 20th, 2009 at
1:06 pm
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July 31st, 2009
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Race & related -isms
Is Dixie ready for self-government?
Posted: Friday, July 31st, 2009 at
6:24 pm
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July 30th, 2009
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Crime Control, Race & related -isms
A Boston cop on Henry Louis Gates. But don’t worry: he didn’t mean it “in a racist way.”
Good news: his fellow cops turned him in.
But can we now have a little less shocked surprise that Gates suspected racial animus behind the way he was treated by a cop in neighboring Cambridge?
Posted: Thursday, July 30th, 2009 at
9:47 pm
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July 24th, 2009
by Steven M. Teles
Category: Race & related -isms
We’re so far into this Henry Louis Gates thing that almost everyone has ceased to really care about what actually happened, or to try to understand both sides. At this point, the conflict is tribal–the side you end up on is determined by norms of appropriateness (whose side does a person like me support in [...]
Posted: Friday, July 24th, 2009 at
1:14 pm
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April 2nd, 2009
by James Wimberley
The multiple symbolism of Michelle Obama’s White House vegetable garden.
Posted: Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 at
6:36 am
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November 19th, 2008
by Andrew Sabl
Category: Race & related -isms, Torture
A Geneva newspaper headline suggests that insensitive but well-meaning pro-black racism abroad may be just what the U.S. needs.
Posted: Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 at
8:08 pm
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November 10th, 2008
by Jonathan Kulick
National stereotypes are fun!
Posted: Monday, November 10th, 2008 at
7:22 am
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November 5th, 2008
by Andrew Sabl
Category: Election 2008, Race & related -isms
Where are the few parts of the country where McCain out-polled Bush, and what do they have in common? No points for guessing.
Posted: Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 at
2:18 pm
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