Article subsequently published at the American Journal of Color Arousal (AMJCA)."Nazi" is still a dirty four-letter word in the USA, synonymous with hatred and annihilation of others aroused by their skin color, their religion or their nationality. Adolph Hitler killed...
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Brazilian Constitution Forbids "Racist" Speech and BehaviorAccording to an article at NowPublic.com, "A doll depicting an African-American child wearing a hat that reads "lil' monkey" was pulled from Costco shelves following a customer complaint. The toy, called "Cuddle...
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Officer's Extreme Color Aroused Ideation, Emotion and Behavior Point Toward Extreme Color Aroused Disorder A Boston, MA police officer, Justin L. Barrett, has been fired after writing an e-mail to a Boston Globe columnist in which he called Harvard University'...
opinion by francislholland | 17 wks ago | updated 16 wks ago 306 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Police apparently lied or accidentally included patently false facts in their written reports after the Gates-gate incident when they said they had received a report that two Black men were trying to force the door of a house. The woman who made the report, Lucia Whalen,...
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Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr Arrested for Demanding Officer's Name and Badge NumberThe afrosphere is very much abuzz with conversation about the arrest and release without charges of Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. by the Cambridge Police Department. But, there are many who...
opinion by francislholland | 17 wks ago | updated 17 wks ago 237 views | 4 recommendations | 0 comments
The assumptions that I bring to all discussions about skin color in America are these: "Race" does not exist as a matter of biology and it never did. The concept was invented at a time when DNA had not even been discovered, much less understood. Now, the Federal...
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A couple of days ago, President Barack Obama whacked a beehive of public opinion on which Black and white voters often disagree by twenty points or more: the degree to which skin color of suspects determines the behavior of police in the United Staes of America. As I...
opinion by francislholland | 17 wks ago | updated 17 wks ago 169 views | 2 recommendations | 4 comments
The author is editor of the American Journal of Color Arousal."A Mississippi factory employee who had allegedly threatened black co-workers shot and killed five people yesterday at the aircraft parts plant where he worked, wounding eight others before committing suicide,...
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Today, I'm reading about reading about James W. von Brun (shot a guard at the Holocaust Museum) in an article co-written by Darryl Fears of the Washington Post (with whom I am acquainted because of an article he wrote for which he interviewed me and James Rucker of Color of...
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Cross-posted at the Francis L. Holland Blog.Judge Sonia Sotomayor is right. WIth a US Supreme Court that is 77% white male in a country less than 30% white male, Sotomayor's experience as a Latina woman is much more needed and "better" on the Court than that of yet...
According to the Washington Post's Peter Baker, of the 110 people who have served on the [U.S. Supreme C]ourt, only four were not white males. And yet the caption to his article states: "With President Obama’s pick of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, identity politics in America is...
opinion by francislholland | 25 wks ago | updated 25 wks ago 131 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
This is a case that was started over two years ago. Griffin attracted a legion of supporters last year with her desperate refusal to accept a judge's order that her son's father be given a chance to share...
opinion by AAPPundit | 27 wks ago | updated 26 wks ago 454 views | 2 recommendations | 3 comments
Cross-posted at the Francis L. Holland Blog and the American Journal of Color Arousal.A New York TImes story today by Susan Saulny, entitled "Voices Reflect Rising Sense of Racial Optimism ", uses variants of the word "race" twelve times, including the root word "race" in the...
opinion by francislholland | 29 wks ago | updated 29 wks ago 313 views | 22 recommendations | 4 comments
Today, by reading scientific results of studies instead of sociological commentary, I have learned something about African people that I didn't know before: Africans are more diverse genetically than people anywhere else in the world, finds a study that "was funded by the...
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Cross-posted at the Francis L. Holland Blog.Soon Conan O'Brien will replace Jay Leno as host of the Tonight Show. Let's face it: Conan O'Brien's foremost "qualification" to host the Tonight Show is that he is a white man. If he were not a white man, he would not even be...