A boy was busy throwing bottles against a wall. Some broke because they struck a hard part of the wall. Some broke because they struck in a weak spot of the bottle. Some broke because they were picked up and thrown again. Other bottles survived because they weren’t thrown quite as hard. Other […]
Concerning Welfare and Welfare Bums You talk about people on welfare and immediately you have a chorus of other people explaining how they (or sometimes their parents) avoided it because of some sense of pride and enterprise which made them (implicitly) above welfare. I was too good for that. I was taught better than that. […]
It happens four times a year and always at Christmas. Every welfare recipient knows about it, the dreaded five week month. Welfare recipients live from Wednesday to Wednesday, because cheque day is always on Wednesday. Sometimes it’s four weeks away, and you have maybe $50 a week after rent and utilities to get through those […]
A Message from Governor Martin O’Malley State of Maryland, Office of the Governor Thank you for contacting me regarding your support of repealing the death penalty in the State of Maryland. As you may be aware, the General Assembly passed Senate Bill 276 – Death Penalty Repeal – Substitution of Life without the Possibility of […]
Set your timers and put your perfection shoes on, and see if you can answer the following 30 questions flawlessly and thus qualify to vote in Louisiana. This test comes to you courtesy of the Supreme Court of the United States who have legally declared racism to be over and effectively repealed the Voting Rights […]
The first (White) discourse against slavery in the American colonies. In 1688, some settlers from the Rhine Valley, fleeing persecution in their homeland, looked at the institution of slavery as practiced by some of their fellow settlers, and identified that as persecution as well. We would not wish this done to us, they said, which […]
One of the most telling moments in Mitt Romney’s famous “47%” video is when–to the hilarity of his well-heeled, largely White audience–he claims that he would have a better shot at the presidency if he were Latino. Instead of a rich White privileged male. This is classic paranoid White male syndrome. A rather extreme case, but […]
Is it really such innocent fun? Let’s build more prisons, Stephen Harper says. Let’s pass more laws to fill those prisons. People like locking other people up. There are whole television franchises concerned with the issue of whether the felon of the week gets his. There oughta be a law, we say. We’ve been taught […]
Some windows on a racist education: First Nations Education in the City, Pt. 2 In grade eight I found myself in a remedial math class in Cloverdale. Because that’s what they do. They put you in a remedial math class whenever you change schools, and I’d just moved to Cloverdale. The teacher was asking questions, […]
First Nations education in the city, pt. 1 The question got asked, Should we open a school in Vancouver for Aboriginal students? It became obvious to me right away that it was a question with no meaningful short answer. There are too many questions and considerations behind that issue which we have to get past […]
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