#CrimingWhileWhite is a growing movement of white people sharing stories of how, when they were caught doing something illegal by police, they were treated with kid gloves compared to the way black people might be treated. As more and more white people publicly admit that they aren’t always held to the same harsher standards that black people are, it will become increasingly […]
There is no doubt that many Republicans are racist when it comes to President Obama. The president has been forced to endure racism, hatred and malicious lies and rumors like no other American president. As Timothy Egan of The New York Times reported last week in an Op/Ed piece, From the day he took office, […]
CNN published an interesting article in December 2014 entitled The new threat: ‘Racism without racists.’ The rather lengthy article deals with the failure of any meaningful “national conversation on race,” noting that “such conversations rarely go anywhere: Whites and racial minorities speak a different language when they talk about racism, scholars and psychologists say.” The […]
Fox News has jumped into the controversy surrounding rape allegations made against Bill Cosby. Taking the position that “liberals are turning on Bill Cosby over rape allegations,” Fox News host Howard Kurtz claims Cosby’s treatment by the media is driven by distinctions between how conservatives view Cosby versus the opinions of liberals. Kurtz writes and […]
As the Los Angeles Times reports, “there’s a special kind of irony emanating right now from the UC Berkeley campus. A group of offended students is trying to get the political satirist Bill Maher banned as the school’s winter graduation speaker, even as the campus is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement.” […]