Race Matters
This guy is starting to sound like me. Steve Benen, who guest blogs at Crooks & Liars, has a post detailing the recent array of racist Racial problems flourish, covering a two week period.
Before I got sidetracked on the sexist stuff, I was putting a list together as well. I've already mentioned the Senator "Macaca" Allen incident and racial profiling of Arabs at airports and he has a few others. Especially poignant is the story about the Baptist Church who voted out a 12 year old boy from the parish because he was biracial -- because the membership didn't want the "black side" of the family in attendance. See, This Week in God (Benen's blog, The Carpetbagger Report).
And then there's this -- the back of the bus saga redux. The Shreveport Times reports that a bus driver ordered her 9 black students to the back of the bus (to share two seats), designating the front of the bus for white students. (Via My Left Wing)
The only other one I was going to add is the Segregated Survivor TV series, New Survivor Will Divide Teams By Race.... The Show had been criticized for not being diverse, so this was the result. After all, race matters very much today. In fact, for some people, it's the only thing that matters.
And for a little "local color," there's my post, This puts the South in Jersey, on happenings in Sea Isle and Wildwood.
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