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All About Race

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All About Race is the place on the web for honest, passionate and open discussion about race in America. A wide range of ideas are represented and encouraged. Sometimes we agree, sometimes we don't. But we talk with each other in the hope of finding common ground.

Added on: Feb 1st, 2009
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Carmen Rosenzweig
Listed in: Culture
Tags: race in america racisim racial issues racial conflict racial reconciliation how to talk about race

Recent Posts

On Thanksgiving: Truth and Celebration

Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 11:31 in history, thanksgiving, waking up, headline, squanto, day of mourning, truth about pilgrims, truth thanksgiving

Being an honest, yet enthusiastic American requires the ability to consistently integrate the pretty, mythic narratives that our nation holds dear with the always more complicated and often very ugly truth of our American story. Like my experience of...
Anti-Black Hate Crime Rises 8% in 2008

Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 13:08 in featured, hate crimes, headline, southern poverty law center, hatewatch, check these out, hate crime statistics, fbi hate crime statistics, fighting racism, fixing the problems, anti black hate crimes, hate crimes underreported

The FBI released its 2008 Hate Crime Statistics report yesterday. Overall Hate crimes were up 2%. That’s bad and it gets worse. In the wake of President Obama’s election, hate crimes against blacks rose 8%. Hate incidents related to the ...
Ole Miss Klan Rally Kaput in Ten Minutes

Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 12:12 in headline, fighting racism, anti klan protest ole miss, klan protest booed, ole miss 10 minute klan protest, ole miss klan protest

The Mississippi Klan stirred up plenty of protest and not much else when they marched onto the University of Mississippi campus last Saturday. OXFORD, Miss. — Wearing traditional red, black and white robes and carrying flags representing the infam...
Glenn Beck announces a ‘March on Washington’ on Anniversary of MLK Speech

Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 09:30 in media, pet peeves, featured, headline, they said what??, glenn beck the plan, glenn beck march on washington, glenn beck refounding america, refounding, refounding america

You have to hand it to Glenn Beck. He is a wizard at whipping up controversy and, therefore, publicity. Beck’s latest dangling shiny object comes in the form of an announcement that in order to support the sales of his upcoming book which will ...
Mike Huckabee on Obama ‘Give Credit Where Credit is Due’: When Ordinary Becomes Exceptional

Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 07:22 in politics, language, featured, headline, point of interest, fixing the problems, they said what??, huck vs rush, huckabee stands up for barack obama, huckabee vs rush limbaugh

Mike Huckabee has done something reasonable and, in these divided times, that makes it newsworthy and admirable. In a talk at the Hudson Union Society, where he discussed his forthcoming book, “A Simple Christmas”, Huckabee pushed back ag...
Post Remix: Crazy

Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 12:07 in depression, waking up, bootstrap, headline, check these out, health care reform, mental health care, bootstrappers

Given discussions about health care reform and mental health care swirling around right now, I thought I would re-post this piece which first appeared here at All About Race in 2008. People love to cast me as an example of the American dream. And I l...