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Why We Eliminated the Death Penalty in Maryland

September 1, 2013

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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 […]

Are You Smart Enough to Vote in Louisiana?

July 2, 2013

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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to you courtesy of the Supreme Court of the United States who have legally declared racism to be over and effectively repealed the Voting Rights […]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 Germantown Protest (1688)

February 22, 2013

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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 […]

Snouting Up to the Government Trough

January 9, 2013

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You’ve heard it.  If you’ve been following a public comment thread on the Idle No More movement, you may have encountered it already today.  If you think of Stephen Harper and his government as a source of accurate information about Aboriginal people, you might even believe it.  That Aboriginal people allegedly receive more government largess […]

Racism Is Not White

December 30, 2012

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Racism is characteristically a function of colonialism.  Thus racism was olive-skinned during the long era of Greek colonialism in the Eastern Mediterranean.  It was the colour of the Japanese during the era of Japanese expansionism into Korea and China.  It was Aryan during the era of Nazi Germany.  It is pale-skinned here and now in […]

The Mayan Apocalypse and Other Eurocentric Fantasies

December 20, 2012

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In Stargate & the 7 Rules of European Progress, I presented the following quote from JM Blaut: Since Europe is advanced and non-Europe is backward, any ideas that diffuse into Europe must be ancient, savage, atavistic, uncivilized, evil—black magic, vampires, plagues, “the bogeyman,” and the like. He continued on to say, although European culture and […]

Whitestream Attitudes and the Fate of Aboriginal Education

November 4, 2012

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Aboriginal Education in the City, Part 3 I suppose it was in the late 1990s when the provincial government introduced the grade twelve First Nations Studies course.  The Vancouver School Board duly put together a training workshop for Social Studies instructors on how to teach the course, which, rather than being an actual set curriculum, […]

Easier as a Latino, Mitt? [video]

October 18, 2012

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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 […]

The Joy of the Jailer

September 27, 2012

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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 […]

How I Learned My Place

August 30, 2012

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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, […]

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