Racism and Race
TweetListen to a Tea Party leader in Arkansas tell this “black” joke to the audience and hear their subsequent laughter. http://www.mootmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Teapartyracist.mp3 “A black kid asks his mom, ‘Mama, what’s a democracy?’ “‘Well, son, that be…
TweetI think some people still think we’re living in 1963 instead of 2012. See what happens when this woman called this man a nigger.
TweetFlorida teenager Trayvon Martin died from a single gunshot wound to the chest fired from “intermediate range,” according to an autopsy report reviewed Wednesday by NBC News.
TweetRace is a volatile issue in America. See what we found average Americans think about Race today in our man on the street interviews we call, Moot Questions. Come back each month to see what…
TweetTrayvon Martin, a seventeen year old high school student was walking home in his father’s gated community in southern Florida, talking to his girlfriend on his cell phone and carrying an Arizona iced tea and…
TweetIt goes without saying that an anecdote about rural Arkansas is an unlikely point of departure for a discussion about the political implications surrounding the refusal of the Sanford, Florida police department to initially arrest…
TweetRecent events have once again brought race relations in America into the media spotlight, continuing the now long record that exists of an endemic discrimination against minorities in the Land of the Free. From the…
Tweet The complexities of race are something that I personally understand and feel I have a unique perspective on. I am biracial (half German and half African-American), whom is often perceived as either Hispanic or…
TweetGovernments Not Immune to Racism. The Shameful Truth. Surrounded by a metal fence, with some 30 video cameras and a controlled entrance, the Via Salone 323 camp, a segregated settlement constructed on the periphery of…
TweetI’ve never been much for playing the race card. In fact, I tend to go well out of my way to ensure that I don’t make what social scientists call a Type I error, or…
TweetThe New York Times reports that, “A surge of interracial dating and marriage in a multi-racial 21st century America, is now more visible and has clearly become more diverse than ever.” This cultural phenomenon comprises…
TweetIntentions? “He’s got his hand in his waistband and he’s a black male,” George Zimmerman told the 9-1-1 dispatcher. Do not follow him,…
TweetRecently, I was on the Seattle ferry and found myself a few seats from a beauty school student. We began talking hair and I told her of research I conducted on Black women and the…
TweetWhy would a simple act as offering an elderly woman my seat be imbued with Racial Overtones? So I am sitting on a pew With three other young women All White Watching a concert…
Tweet The most visible sort of racist seems to start either as a rich, old, white dude, or else as a poor, young, Southerner with a shaved…
Tweet Racism in America has special implications due to our history with slavery, the Native Americans, and the interment of the Japanese during WWII. How has race affected the people of the United States, both…
TweetThis “rent-a-cop” is obviously a “Good Ol’ Boy” down in Houston, TX, one of the most racist cities in Texas. See if you think this guy’s reaction to these two men videotaping a Wal-Mart is…
TweetMoot Magazine’s April Issue is Coming Soon! Features: Race In America Trayvon Martin Case Interracial Dating Minority Racists and of course our political content and much more! Look for our April issue soon!
TweetWatch Rick Santorum’s Freudian slip in this video.
TweetA photo of a bumper sticker on the back of a vehicle that has the Obama logo crossed out with “Don’t Re-Nig in 2012″. ”Nig” being short of what many Republicans and conservatives call our…
TweetOn Bill Maher’s Real Time last night, this video exhibited the issue with many Conservatives, especially Southern Conservatives and their delusional and self-destructive thought patterns towards our “half-breed” President, our healthcare system, and much more.…
TweetSo how many times have you said, at a dinner party or during a political discussion, how stupid Republicans and racists are ? Well now you have scientific proof. Researchers from Ontario, Canada’s Brock University have…
The Truth About Race
by Donovan Lord on Apr 24, 2012 | 4 Comments
TweetSo often people are concerned with race. In America, it is a most volatile subject, one that causes hate crimes, murders, hatred, bigotry, prejudice, discrimination and many other horrible consequences. To be concerned with race…
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