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linkage 1/30/07

Published at January 30, 2007 in linkage. 3 Comments
  • Via UBUNTU! by way of brownfemipower – “Duke-ing It Out in the Court of Public Opinion,” an op-ed on the Duke rape case from Wendy Murphy, a former prosecutor and law professor at the New England School of Law.
  • Piny from Feministe critiques the woman-disregarding concept of “fetal abuse.”
  • Via Poplicks’ Question of the Week: the Cartoon Network has decided to stop airing Speedy Gonzales cartoons because of their racist depictions of Mexicans. The question: do you agree?
  • The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is preparing to release a report on the state of our environment, which will include predictably grim news on the centuries of global warming ahead of us. One of the many disasters we may bring about: the loss of the Great Barrier Reef.
  • Prometheus 6 calls out John Ridley for his nonsensical criticism of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson for not rallying around a Black-on-white “hate crime: “So what about it, pal? How long have you been writing about Black folks? What was the last one that didn’t slam the majority of those Black folks it mentions? Aren’t you just the latest in a long line of negros hired to whisper dark nothings in white folks’ ears and throw sand in Black folks’ eyes?”

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  1. 1 P6
    Jan 31st, 2007 at 9:49 am

    Because my site is down for another couple of hours…
    It’s a Hate Crime, So Where Are Jesse and Al?

    But the fact that blacks have been convicted for violence against whites is no cause in particular for documentation and certainly not celebration of this crime. Violence, and especially violence motivated by hatred of race or gender or religion or sexual orientation or merely the fact that the vic is “different” is deplorable.

    Equally deplorable are those who pretend to stand for equality but who hypocritically allow such an injustice to pass without taking a stand against it.

    So in the aftermath of this whole mess there is one thing that stands out to me: the conspicuous absence from the scene of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. How is it that these two men, these two supposed champions of racial justice who went into a fit of histrionics when Michael Richards went on his “nigger” rant, were nowhere to be found when actual racial hatred manifest itself.

    The same way I find you, Black and Balanced, ragging on the Reverends without having written a word about Sean Bell’s death, or the assault on Naima Yancey. What did you write about Abner Louima…you were a writer then, right? Have you written about the mayor in New Jersey that got racial slurs and death threats? How about the Louisiana mayor? Not the one that was just shot at but the one that was murdered days earlier?

    So what about it, pal? How long have you been writing about Black folks? What was the last one that didn’t slam the majority of those Black folks it mentions? Aren’t you just the latest in a long line of negros hired to whisper dark nothings in white folks’ ears and throw sand in Black folks’ eyes?

    I think so.

    And really, “Where’s Al and Jesse” are so old and played…are you really going to repeat the last ten years of anti-Black rhetoric?

  2. 2 Jack
    Jan 31st, 2007 at 9:52 am

    hey, thanks for that. hope you get your site troubles worked out soon and easily!

  3. 3 piny
    Jan 31st, 2007 at 1:25 pm

    Thanks for the link, Jack.

    Because my site is down for another couple of hours…

    I was just gonna tell Jack the link was broken.

    It’s reminiscent of Jesse Dirkhising.

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