Arpaio Has Been Enforcing SB 1070 For Three Years
Even though Governor Jan Brewer only signed SB 1070 last Friday, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been enforcing the law for…
Category: Racism
Inside Black-Asian Tension: The Stuff That Doesn’t Make the Headlines
I posted earlier this week about inter-ethnic tension between the Black and the Asian community. That post has garnered a…
Jan Brewer Signs SB 1070, Prays for Re-election
In truth, the calculus for Governor Jan Brewer was straightforward: she could have signed SB 1070 into law and…
Leland Yee Receives Racist, Homophobic Hatemail from Palin-ites
(Hat-tip: Angry Asian Man) California State Senator Leland Yee reports that his office has been inundated with racist hatemail and…
Inside Black-Asian Tension: Sometimes It Is About Racism
Inter-ethnic tension between the Black and Asian communities has risen to the forefront of blogosphere discussion in the last couple of…
Confronting Racism Raises Self-Esteem
New America Media posts a story about a study that looked at methods for coping with racism. Scientists surveyed nearly 200…
Anti-Asian Assaulters Turned in by Parents
I posted late last week about a spree of anti-Asian hate crimes in Brooklyn: at least five elderly Asian women…
Adam Carolla Apologizes for Being a Racist Asshat
“[Manny Pacquiao]’s from the Philippines and because he’s prayin’ to chicken bones and stuff like that, everyone’s kinda like, ‘Well…
Anti-Asian Hate Crime Spree in Brooklyn
Caught this on my Facebook this morning: Asian women targeted in Lower Manhattan All of the victims were attacked in…
Hewlett-Packard Computers are Racist
HP responded, saying that the algorithm “measure[s] the difference in intensity of contrast between the eyes and the upper cheek…
Being Blasian in Asia
Over the past few weeks, media in the West has been quietly a-buzz over a story in China that has…
NY Daily News Picks Up Toby Keith “Chinky Eye” Controversy
Yesterday, I posted about how Toby Keith, country crooner, made a racial faux pas in Norway immediately following the Nobel…