tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32837873292066902052024-03-13T08:06:56.104-05:00RACEDObservations on African Americans and other people of color and the significance of "race" in a (purportedly) colorblind worldRon Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05022440461216618841noreply@blogger.comBlogger1055125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283787329206690205.post-82528316141315601962011-11-06T01:34:00.002-05:002011-11-06T01:36:46.876-05:00Honoring The First Black MarinesClick <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/story/2011-10-26/first-black-marines-honored/50945902/1">here</a>.Ron Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05022440461216618841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283787329206690205.post-13347078799421445752011-11-06T01:31:00.003-05:002011-11-06T01:34:05.031-05:00CT Scans And Minority Children<a href="http://www.orthosupersite.com/view.aspx?rid=88854">From OrthoSuperSite</a>: "African-American and Hispanic children are less likely than Caucasian children to receive a cranial CT scan in an emergency department following minor head trauma, accoridng to a study presented at the 2011 American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition."Ron Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05022440461216618841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283787329206690205.post-83486033899009595712011-11-06T01:27:00.002-05:002011-11-06T01:30:23.697-05:00The Political Outlooks Of Black And White VotersConsider <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-10/uoc-baw102811.php">this</a>.Ron Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05022440461216618841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283787329206690205.post-43973955470846313952011-11-06T01:22:00.002-05:002011-11-06T01:26:56.031-05:00"Moving Beyond Civil Rights"Check out Stanford law professor <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/opinion/moving-beyond-civil-rights.html">Richard Thompson Ford's recent NYT op-ed</a> and his argument that "[i]f civil rights ideals are to be as relevant in the 21st century as they were in the 20th, we must adapt the tactics of the past to the complexities of the present."Ron Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05022440461216618841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283787329206690205.post-56289851437604089172011-11-06T01:20:00.001-05:002011-11-06T01:22:14.302-05:00"Clarence Thomas: Black Nationalist?"Juan Williams <a href="http://www.theroot.com/views/defense-clarence-thomas?wpisrc=obinsite">takes up the question</a>.Ron Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05022440461216618841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283787329206690205.post-670275539846685702011-09-30T16:19:00.002-05:002011-09-30T16:23:59.710-05:00"Black Nationalism For White People"Check out <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/09/black-nationalism-for-white-people/245937/">Ta-Nehisi Coates' piece</a> in the Atlantic.Ron Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05022440461216618841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283787329206690205.post-90866017152289869642011-09-30T15:59:00.002-05:002011-09-30T16:02:47.294-05:00"Anita Hill's Long Memory"Click <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/magazine/talk-anita-hills-long-memory.html">here</a> for Andrew Goldman's Q&A with Anita Hill.Ron Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05022440461216618841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283787329206690205.post-1831592672667395302011-09-30T15:54:00.002-05:002011-09-30T15:58:05.019-05:00More Than Half<a href="http://nebraska.statepaper.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2011/09/23/4e7c3a6a374d5">More than half (52.2%) of black children in Nebraska live in poverty.</a> The numbers for other groups living in that state: 49.7% of Native American children, 33.8% of Latino children, and 14/5% of white children.Ron Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05022440461216618841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283787329206690205.post-67227640534482676682011-09-30T15:43:00.003-05:002011-09-30T15:53:27.085-05:00More Pat Buchanan<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/30/pat-buchanan-black-liberal-plantation_n_988714.html">From the mouth of Pat Buchanan</a> (still a commentator for MSNBC!): "I think what he is saying is they bought a lot of liberal propaganda on the liberal plantation and I think he's right!" (Buchanan was referring to Herman Cain's statement that black voters "have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view.")<br /><br />By the way, Buchanan's forthcoming book gives "special thanks to Marcus Epstein for the invaluable assistance and untold hours he devoted to researching ideas, issues, and anecdotes." It has been <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/201109290018">reported</a> that Epstein "was previously arrested for attacking a woman with a 'karate chop' and calling her the n-word." I'm just saying . . .Ron Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05022440461216618841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283787329206690205.post-58626281236853267852011-09-30T15:38:00.002-05:002011-09-30T15:42:23.122-05:00Racial Bias In Lead Study<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/us/suit-accuses-baltimore-institute-of-exposing-children-to-lead.html">From the NYT</a>: A class action lawsuit filed against the Kennedy Krieger Institute (affilaited iwth Johns Hopkins University) alleges that over 100 black children were knowingly exposed to lead poisoning in the 1990s as part of a study of the hazards of lead paint.Ron Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05022440461216618841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283787329206690205.post-63652342530202161752011-09-16T22:37:00.001-05:002011-09-16T22:39:05.211-05:00The Barbara Jordan StampClick <a href="http://www.thegrio.com/politics/stamp-honors-political-trailblazer-barbara-jordan.php">here</a>.Ron Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05022440461216618841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283787329206690205.post-1052167706305644802011-09-16T22:17:00.002-05:002011-09-16T22:21:17.794-05:00Dahlia Lithwick's "A Killer Issue"Dahlia Lithwick's <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2303922">Slate article</a> argues that the "same Republicans who are dubious of government's ability to do anything right have an apparently bottomless faith in the capital-justice system. Everything is broken in America, they claim--except the machinery of death."Ron Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05022440461216618841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283787329206690205.post-17449416342275351802011-09-16T22:09:00.002-05:002011-09-16T22:13:56.392-05:00"The GOP War on Voting"Check out Ari Berman's <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-gop-war-on-voting-20110830">article in the Rolling Stone</a>. From the article: "Just as Dixiecrats once used poll taxes and literacy tests to bar black Southerners from voting, a new crop of GOP governors and state legislators has passed a series of seemingly disconnected measures that could prevent millions of students, minorities, immigrants, ex-convicts and the elderly from casting ballots."Ron Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05022440461216618841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283787329206690205.post-928287854072420172011-09-16T22:07:00.002-05:002011-09-16T22:09:13.552-05:00David Remnick On The Making And Remaking Of Malcolm XIn <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2011/04/25/110425crbo_books_remnick">The New Yorker</a>.Ron Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05022440461216618841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283787329206690205.post-23622955595039462552011-09-16T22:03:00.003-05:002011-09-16T22:07:13.037-05:00Driving While DreadlockedJohn McWhorter's <a href="http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/94827/why-police-are-bad-at-racial-profiling">New Republic piece</a> addresses the question why the police are so bad at racial profiling.Ron Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05022440461216618841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283787329206690205.post-71587644773592416952011-09-16T22:02:00.000-05:002011-09-16T22:03:16.825-05:00RecommendedDavid R. Dow, The Autobiography of an Execution (Twelve 2011).Ron Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05022440461216618841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283787329206690205.post-58053792548176948042011-09-16T21:59:00.002-05:002011-09-16T22:41:19.620-05:00RecommendedRandall Kennedy, The Persistance of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency (Pantheon 2011).<br /><br />Kennedy recently <a href="http://video.pbs.org/video/2114625102">discussed his work with Tavis Smiley</a>.Ron Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05022440461216618841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283787329206690205.post-51748420174921736932011-09-14T19:33:00.006-05:002011-09-14T19:48:33.524-05:00Uh OhThe <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/09/14/benzinga1917811.DTL">San Francisco Chronicle reports</a> that, according to the National Enquirer, Joe McGinnis' new book on Sarah Palin "alleges that, in her twenties, Sarah Palin had hush-hush sex with then-University of Michigan star basketball player Glen Rice. Sort of redefines her stance on 'Drill, Baby Drill,' doesn't it?" According to the <a href="http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/world-exclusive-sarah-palin-book-secrets-revealed-joe-mcginnis-rogue">Enquirer story</a>, "McGinnis claims Sarah had a 'fetish' for black men at the time . . ." (I know, consider the source, etc., but the story is now out there.)Ron Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05022440461216618841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283787329206690205.post-19457213012743128022011-09-14T19:24:00.003-05:002011-09-14T19:25:41.642-05:00"Is The South Still Prejudiced?"<a href="http://cartersville.patch.com/articles/is-the-south-still-prejudiced">James Swift</a> considers this question.Ron Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05022440461216618841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283787329206690205.post-86602074520539298932011-09-14T19:21:00.002-05:002011-09-14T19:23:58.723-05:001 In 4That's the <a href="http://newsone.com/nation/thegrio1/black-americans-families-are-going-hungry/">number</a> of African-American families suffering from hunger.Ron Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05022440461216618841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283787329206690205.post-89754647889816712942011-09-14T19:18:00.002-05:002011-09-14T19:20:57.542-05:00Do White Americans Have Better Health Care Than African Americans?From the <a href="http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/health/2011/09/do_white_americans_have_better.html">Baltimore Sun</a>.Ron Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05022440461216618841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283787329206690205.post-27858533441621994352011-09-14T19:16:00.001-05:002011-09-14T19:18:13.096-05:00Eighty Six PercentThat's the <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/149390/Record-High-Approve-Black-White-Marriages.aspx">percentage</a> of Americans who approve of interracial marriages.Ron Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05022440461216618841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283787329206690205.post-29062287249656414672011-09-14T18:56:00.004-05:002011-09-14T19:01:15.936-05:00"Rick Perry's Lethal Overconfidence"Check out <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/09/09/rick-perry-and-the-death-penalty-executing-innocents.html">this terrific Daily Beast piece</a> by my friend and colleague David Dow.Ron Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05022440461216618841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283787329206690205.post-69946426330462612492011-09-14T18:49:00.002-05:002011-09-14T18:54:16.253-05:00Duane Edward BuckFrom the <a href="http://www.texastribune.org/texas-dept-criminal-justice/death-penalty/pardons-board-says-no-clemency-racially-tinged-cas/">Texas Tribune</a>:<br /><br />"The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles today voted against recommending clemency for Duane Edward Buck, rejecting the pleas of his lawyers, a victim he shot and a prosecutor who was on the team that sentenced him to death.<br /><br />"During Buck's 1997 capital murder trial in Houston, Dr. Walter Quijano told jurors that the fact that he was black meant Buck was more likely to be violent in the future."<br /><br />A colorblind world?Ron Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05022440461216618841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283787329206690205.post-59847872177126952622011-09-14T18:43:00.001-05:002011-09-14T18:45:01.226-05:00Time Magazine's 9/11 Commemorative: No African AmericansThe Root <a href="http://www.theroot.com/blogs/white-house/no-blacks-pictured-911-commemorative">reports</a>.Ron Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05022440461216618841noreply@blogger.com0