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7 Microlog entries tagged with ‘racism’
Some real Shock and Awe: Racially profiled and cuffed in Detroit
A truly depressing story. If it’s true what the AP story says, that they were reported by cabin crew, that makes it even worse. Permalink ·
Farms of fear
A recent Sunday Times Magazine story on an extraordinary spate of racism-fuelled killings in South Africa’s Limpopo province. If it does only one thing, it shows just how much further the country has to go, socially and economically, before full reconciliation can ever be reached. Permalink ·
Photojournalist Simon Wood meets the people who lost most when Mandela won
Id est, the Afrikaaner underclass in today’s South Africa. There’s still a lot of bitterness, still much resentment. But by and large, they only have themselves and/or the apartheid goverment’s protectionist policies to blame for their current predicament. Permalink ·
White off the scale
The Observer Music Magazine explores the murky underworld of neo-Nazi hate music. A great place to start for those previously unaware, although it does ignore two factors: that a) as a contributor to the letters page points out, plenty of (if not most) skinheads are anti-racist, which has been the case since the culture first emerged over 40 years ago, and b) the insidiousness of many elements within the black metal scene, where white supremacism and anti-semitism are rife. Permalink ·
Forty-one percent of Israel’s Jews favour segregation
I hate to bring up the ‘A’ word, but… Permalink ·
Guardian Newsblog: Helping Hoder
See my comment? The first in the list? It was actually in response to a comment left by the apparently racist Deric Williams who appears repeatedly further down the thread. I wish they’d edited mine to keep it in context, or just left in the original remarks, but anyway… Permalink ·
Blogger denied entry to US after guard googles him
Forget the main story for a moment and breeze through the comments. Who would have thought that tech nerds could be so disgustingly jingoistic and xenophobic? Permalink ·
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