I'm watching a season 6 episode of Deep Space 9 that involves Sisko in some kind of past reality, sometime in the 30s or 40s. All the main characters in the show are in this alternate reality. Sisko's...vicious hatred against white people for things that happened in the past. Grow up. Get into the present and look to the future. It's the only way things are ever going to really, truly get better

I cannot wait for this election to be over. I am hoping for a specific outcome, of course. This election has made me realize many things both good and bad. I have seen sexism, I have seen racism, ageism – just about any kind of "ism" you can imagine. I have also seen the first black person who has ever had the chance to become President, and a woman who came damned close. These two things give me...

...Democrats)" sounds rather similar to "How To Talk To A Liberal (If You Must)". ----- The discussion on the thread about Sarah Palin being hanged in effigy continues apace. Medium Dave on sexism vs. racism:  It’s easy to believe that X is worse than Y, if X affects you personally and Y does not. CoolAunt: It’s also easy to believe that misogyny is worse than racism since misogyny affects one half...

I was going to do a post about a slogan I saw buried in Comment 17 here , following a story about a Republican women's group leader in New Mexico who succumbed to Islamophobia and the temptation to lie...nothing to the sheer poetry of this icon by jehannamama of Texas: Rosa sat, so Martin could walk... Martin walked, so Obama could run... Obama is running... so our children can fly.

Palin Effigy 'Not A Hate Crime' But aren't all crimes hate crimes? Come on now. Every penalty handed down for every prosecuted crime should be augmented in severity to accommodate the hateful feelings...that jury and judge thus apprised can accord punishment in the proper scope. Only in this way may a fallen man step from the shadow of his own villainy. So say we all. Er, or something. ;-)

... It blows my mind that there are people still in existence who still think this way. I suppose it would be one thing if it were only elderly people who still retained racist attitudes, but it's not. Racism is taught . And obviously, it's being passed down to children everywhere within families and towns that have histories of racist viewpoints. Honestly, the first thing that comes to mind when I...

In the middle of a perfectly pleasant conversation with my 91-year-old grandmother when, without any context, she comes out with this: "Don't come back with a black woman or I'll have me fists out. Made of iron they are!" I just smiled nervously and said "Don't worry Granny, there's no chance of that".

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/jpodhoretz/39952 How could 'Hug a friend day' turn into 'Hit a Jew day'? Talk about a slippery slope. What is it next week? The burning of babies day?

...get better. Which is why I will not yet consider moving. We're going to have a chat with the detective on the case, and I am going to be very frank about my concerns about the underlying problem: Racism. And in all its varied forms. Part of me thinks that our house was trashed in the way that it was because we aren't welcome here.  When Damon was combing the streets looking for Yorick and asking...