The silence is… well – silence.

Gloria Steinem, Where Are You Now?
When white feminists look the other way when Michelle Obama is callously referred to as “Obama’s Baby Mama,” when Sonia Sotomayor is savaged by right wing conservatives who engage in the basest types of sexism, or more broadly, when women of color across the country face higher rates of abuse, [...]

Read Full Post »

Sadness

Just learned of this today….
Ronald Takaki, pioneering scholar of race relations, dies at 70

BERKELEY — Ronald Takaki, a professor emeritus of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and prolific scholar of U.S. race relations who taught UC’s first black history course, died at his home in Berkeley on Tuesday (May 26). He was [...]

Read Full Post »

And one more

amazing

Read Full Post »

A song for Monday

Read Full Post »

I was having a crappy day then I got happy and now suddenly… crappy again

Because I read this.
The Explorers program, a coeducational affiliate of the Boy Scouts of America that began 60 years ago, is training thousands of young people in skills used to confront terrorism, illegal immigration and escalating border violence — an intense ratcheting up of one of the group’s longtime missions to prepare youths for more [...]

Read Full Post »