AngryBrownButch

Category: racism

  • From one war on people of color to another

    From a CNN report: “An amendment cutting Bush’s Iraq request by $1.9 billion to pay for new aircraft, patrol boats and other vehicles, as well as border checkpoints and a fence along the Mexico border crossing near San Diego widely used by illegal immigrants was adopted on 59-39 vote.” Really, when is the War on…

  • migraphobia

    Today’s post title comes to you from this funny and smart animation by Mark Fiore, which I discovered by reading a great post of the same name by Junichi over at Poplicks. Check that blog out for good reasons why we should be thankful that the immigration reform “compromise” bill wasn’t passed (and hopeful that…

  • Nothing new in The New World

    I’m really waiting for the Religious Right to flip out over the obvious immorality of this film – hello, pedophilia? When white America comes out with a movie that prominently features Native people, you can’t really expect much good to come of it, can you? So, when I saw the previews for Terrence Malick’s The…

  • See, even Uncle Ruckus knows what it’s really about.

    (see here for more on King Kong)

  • Leaving on a jet plane

    Well, my girlfriend and I are about to escape NYC for sunny Florida, to spend Christmas and the first couple days of Chanukah with my family. While I am in complete and utter support of the strike and the TWU, I’m also relieved to leave the madness for a little while. I hadn’t heard until…

  • The NY dailies: never flagging in their ability to annoy

    During my morning commute, I regularly get assaulted by images and headlines from NY’s astoundingly obnoxious dailies, the Post and the Daily News. I generally do my best to avoid those papers, but with so many people holding them up in front of my face on the F train on my way into work, I…