Month: April 2010

In my class and place, I did not recognize myself as a racist because I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness by members of my group, never in invisible systems conferring unsought racial dominance on my...

. See my previous comments in fp story by Migeru National mourning in Poland and Arthur Gilroy’s diary Putin Heads Investigation Into Polish Crash? Crash of Polish Air Force T154 at Smolensk Looking at ILS compatibility...

You’ll probably be shocked to learn that the prototypically-cracker governor of Mississippi, Republican Haley Barbour, thinks that concerns about commemorating the Confederacy “don’t amount to...

The sports teams I root for are a reflection of where I grew up and what teams were on my television for me to watch. So, I root for New York teams (excluding the ‘ets’* and Islanders) because I grew up in the New...

The Bridge by David Remnick, Knopf (April 6, 2010) Reprinted from the New York Journal of Books.   “Barack Obama is what comes at the end of that bridge in Selma.” —Congressman John Lewis David...