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M i x i n g I s G o o d
Britain ready for black prime minister, study finds...yeah, right, seriously...
Extensive report on British and American racial attitudes shows two countries in close alignment
negroes, n******, blacks….done with a kind of sensitivity…
FROM THE MEGA-RICH HORSES MOUTH: "While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks."
Our leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched.
Black. Beautiful. Barely seen
Louise France meets the woman leading the fight against racism on the catwalk
Her parents were black, but she looks white. Kenosha Robinson on trying to figure out where she fits in.
While asking me about my daughter’s hair, please do not start touching it. Just because I am a vanilla parent this does not mean that you have an “in” to touch chocolate hair for the first time. I have had too many people tell me, “Oooh, I’ve always wondered what their hair felt like,” while pawing my daughter. She’s not an animal, she’s a human being.
(Source: chocolatehairvanillacare.com)
A few days ago on Facebook I watched two community activists have a throwdown over the phrase “mixed race.”
This exchange brought back some of the most difficult writing that I have ever done on Racialicious: where readers challenged my right to call myself, as a mixed race person with parents of two different races, mixed in a separate way from those who are mixed race but share the same identity as their whole family, for e.g. folks who are mestizo, Creole, African American, Metis, Peranakan…
(Source: racialicious.com)
