AngryBrownButch

Category: people of color

  • A smart Puerto Rican

    I’m sure that most everyone has already heard about Sen. Joseph Biden’s inspired description of Sen. Barack Obama as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.” As if we needed yet another ignorant white presidential candidate. Less reported was that the current ignorant white president made similar…

  • Tancredo’s platform: too many Mexicans, and Blacks who identify as Blacks

    On Monday morning, I was listening to the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC while getting ready for work. Lehrer was interviewing Tom Tancredo, a Republican representative in the House from Colorado who is planning on running for the presidency. Now, this guy is a real gem; his recent antics include singing Dixie at a Confederate-flag-displaying…

  • Required Viewing: “A Girl Like Me”

    I think I’m a few months behind in blogging about this, but I hadn’t seen this film until a friend emailed me a news clip about it today. “A Girl Like Me,” by teen filmmaker Kiri Davis, explores how race and racism affect the self-esteem and self-image of young Black women and even younger Black…

  • A nice little bit of football history in the making

    First off: GO COLTS! What a game. That last interception by Marlin Jackson – just beautiful. With the Indianapolis Colts and the Chicago Bears winning today, that’ll put two Black head coaches – Indianapolis’ Tony Dungy and Chicago’s Lovie Smith – in the Super Bowl. This will be the first time ever that a Black…

  • ACTION ALERT: Entire Queens Family Arrested as Intimidation

    Note from Jack: I heard about this on NPR the other morning, but unsurprisingly didn’t get the whole story, not even from them. I’ve added emphasis on some parts of this press release from DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving), which is an important and kick-ass organization that everyone should know about. Also, for more…

  • That’s so thirty years ago.

    I have spent far too much time in the comments section of this post on I Blame the Patriarchy. I need to stop, and soon. But first, check out this doozy. I wrote this, in response to something that someone else wrote to the effect of “fight the REAL enemy”: See, slade, that’s the problem…

  • say it ain’t so

    The only comforting thing about this and this is that it sounds like it might be temporary. Please, please let it be temporary. It’s really fuckin’ sad and infuriating that the people who get the most heat and the most bullshit are so often the voices that we need to hear most. We need a…

  • post-post-Pride recap

    Here I am, blogging about my Pride activities from more than two weeks ago. Oops. I frame my conversation with pictures that people took of me at the front of two very different marches. Above, a photo from Workers World of the march that occured on the Trans Day of Action (TDOA). I’m the nearly-bald…

  • not all rainbow balloons and frolicking gay boys

    Not that there’s anything wrong with either of those things. But below is a press release from the Audre Lorde Project, an organization for queer people of color in NYC, that addresses a far less joyful and celebratory incident that occurred at Sunday’s Pride march. It’s a good reminder that, despite the raucous celebrations and…

  • Since apparently my many previous clarifications weren’t enough

    I’ve seen a lot of responses to my posts on gentrification, both in comments here and on other blogs, that question why I don’t want white people moving into poor neighborhoods of color. Some people wonder if I’m endorsing a kind of self-imposed segregation; some ask whether it’s not good that white people move in,…