Dec 19, 2009

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Precious

An illiterate and morbidly obese 16 year old Black girl scrambles out of KFC with a stolen bucket of fried chicken, then races to the waiting room of a special school for delinquents. While in the waiting room, she lurches forward and vomits into the garbage can because she’s pregnant with her second child. The father of the child is her own HIV Positive father, who viciously...

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Dec 17, 2009

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Good Hair

Even the most oppressive tyrannies have their jesters. Comedians, particularly Black ones, are about the only people free to draw attention to what the rest of us are obliged to ignore. A White man would barely be allowed by law to explain the difference between Black people and “niggas” in public, yet Chris Rock can do it on HBO. Dave Chappelle was making tens of millions of...

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May 23, 2009

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Race and the South, Part III:
Refuting the Neo-Confederates

Editor’s Note: This is the third and final online installment of this essay, which originally appeared in Samuel Francis, ed., Race and the American Prospect: Essays on the Racial Realities of Our Nation and Our Time (The Occidental Press, 2006), available for purchase here. Read part I here. Read part II here.What do the neo-Confederates cite as evidence for their case?Their...

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May 20, 2009

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Race and the South, Part II:
The Civil War Really was about Slavery

Editor’s Note: This essay, which will appear online in three parts, is from Samuel Francis, ed., Race and the American Prospect: Essays on the Racial Realities of Our Nation and Our Time (The Occidental Press, 2006), available for purchase here. Read part I here.Contrary to the contentions of the neo-Confederates, race, i.e. slavery, was the primary cause of both secession...

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May 18, 2009

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Race and the South, Part I:
The Real Case against Slavery

Editor’s Note: This essay, which will appear online in three parts, is from Samuel Francis, ed., Race and the American Prospect: Essays on the Racial Realities of Our Nation and Our Time (The Occidental Press, 2006), available for purchase here.“Across our path stands the South with a flaming sword”—W. E. B. DuboisSeven weeks after the election of 1856, in which the...

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