Posted in seeker, tagged gender, race on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
From here:
On this day in 1980 the Archbishop of San Salvador following several years of tension where he denounced the right wing death squads within the context of defending the rights of workers in El Salvador, while celebrating mass he was shot through the heart. The irony was lost on few.
A friend just sent a [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged gender, Obama, race on March 16, 2008 | 14 Comments »
This is a hard time for antiracists. The most popular candidate in the US is black. Geraldine Ferraro said that gave him an advantage, and she was forced to resign from Clinton’s advisory board. Smart liberal capitalists like Keith Olbermann are saying it’s racist to say that the US would really like to have a [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged gender on March 9, 2008 | 12 Comments »
By the time of Jesus, Hebrew was a dead language; the Jews and their neighbors spoke Aramaic. The phrase that’s usually translated as the “kingdom” of God or Heaven is, in the Greek text, basileia. The Aramaic word is malkuta or malkuthakh. Hebrew scholars would write mamlaka. All of these words are feminine. Writing “queendom” [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged gender, race on March 7, 2008 | 19 Comments »
Sometimes I’m told many silly things that I think class matters, but gender and race do not. The quick clarification:
1. Do racism and sexism exist?
Yes.
2. Are racism and sexism institutional?
Depends on the institution.
3. Does racism, sexism, or class matter more?
Given that there are twice as many whites as blacks living in poverty in the USA, [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged election, gender, race on January 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In a discussion about feminism today, pompe, who lives in Sweden, wrote:
A migrant-descended Swede woman argued that the reason why we (here) focus a lot on ethnicity (and I suppose that’d be what goes for “race” in your country) instead of class is that class issues we actually _can_ do something about. Ethnicity is a [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged gender, race on January 23, 2008 | 23 Comments »
People who focus on race in the USA think these figures from the US Census are most important:
Poverty rates in 2006
Non-Hispanic Whites: 8.2 percent
Blacks: [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged gender, race on January 21, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Two people I respect recently said things that bother me. One claimed I think race is not an issue in the USA; the other said he disagreed with my take on racism and capitalism.
If I’ve ever said something as idiotic as “Racism is over” or “race doesn’t matter” or anything to suggest that race is [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged gender, race on January 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
note: I may have edited this post more than any I’ve written in ages. When you use words like “nigger” and “bitch”, tone of voice is a wee bit tricky.
For Democrats this week, it’s down to deciding whether to be sexist or racist. That nicely sidesteps the simple truth: The D.L.C. loves Obama and Clinton [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged abortion, death penalty, gender on September 22, 2007 | 24 Comments »
I just read “Catholics refuse abortions with anguish”. And I knew all of it. And it’s still pissed me off so much that I have to say this: Someone should rape the Pope and implant a watermelon in his stomach. Then he might get a clue.
I love liberation theology and Catholics who take “thou shalt [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged gender, race on August 10, 2007 | 61 Comments »
—are the prejudices I have.
Getting past sexism was surprisingly easy, not just because my mom and sister are amazingly strong people, but because my dad didn’t discriminate in chores: my brother and sister and I all washed dishes, cleaned house, did the laundry, mowed the lawn, hosed down dog pens, etc. Dad does have a [...]
