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Happy Endings? No, we need to go further with multiracial casts
Today, ABC announced that “Happy Endings” would be canceled. The three-year-old show was about a group of six friends with twists: they lived in Chicago instead of New York and one of them was black....
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THE ORIGINS OF SCIENTIFIC RACISM ARE NOT SCIENTIFIC AT ALL
We are still fighting over whether being a member of one race or another makes you smarter than members of other races in this country. Now conservatives are trying to use this totally discredited...
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Family can be the Most Difficult Test of Forgiveness
There is an article today in the New York Times about the difficulty of having a relationship with an abusive parent who becomes needier as he or she grows older. I have faced this difficult dilemma...
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Cheerios and Multiracial Families? Not Everybody is Ready for This!
I was doing something else when the commercial came on my TV for the first time I’m aware of. A little girl with sandy blond wavy curly hair decides to put Cheerios cereal on her daddy’s chest because...
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Hair, Racial Ambiguity and Entitlement Often Spawn Rudeness
Some young women put on a unique exhibit in New York City this weekend. They are holding up signs saying people can touch their hair, which ranges in style from large natural, to strawberry blond...
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Sources I Use: Part III
Here is an informal listing of some sources of information connected to my latest post. Segrest, Mab. “On Being White and Other Lies” in Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray!: Feminist Visions for a Just World...
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Paula Deen, the white queen of Southern cooking,
Paula Deen, the white queen of Southern cooking, admits to saying nigger sometimes. If you have read the Jezebel.com and colorlines.com and other posts that have inundated the web for the last few...
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My Oral Testimony at the Texas State Senate
This is what I said to the Texas State Senate Committee on Health and Welfare Committee on July 8, 2013. Thank you for this opportunity to speak in opposition to SB1. I am Starita Smith. I live in...
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My Oral Testimony at the Texas State Senate
My Oral Testimony at the Texas State Senate.
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You Can Legally Stand Your Ground, But Only if You Have a Gun
Originally posted on colorfulcommentary: As I have been thinking about Stand Your Ground laws, an incident that happened to me years ago keeps coming back to me. I was new to the city of Gary,...
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