Tag Archives: racism

Michael Richards Redux

November 28, 2006 – 1:04 am

Today NPR had Michael Shermer on Talk of the Nation. On the show he echoed a lot of the things I wrote here about our reaction to Michael Richards. He also just wrote an Op-Ed piece for the LA Times. I’m not interested in Michael Richards, I’m interested in what people think of race in [...]

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Michael Richards is Easy

November 26, 2006 – 11:51 am

People keep bringing up Michael Richards and his racist rant. First it made me wonder about our future in general, where everything is caught on video and posted within the hour. I wondered what road we are heading down, where we don’t need “Big Brother,” because we are our own Big Brother… with all it’s [...]

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Racism & Classism

October 18, 2006 – 9:38 pm

I have a lot of opinions on race and class, and I don’t know that any of them are solid, but I do think that both issues are the core America’s problems. There is a lot to say about both and other people can write in detail about both better than I can, so [...]

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