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 | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 245 views | 2 recommendations | 3 comments
Race and racial profiling seems to be front and centre after President Obama commented on the actions of the Cambridge Police Department when asked about the arrest of a black Harvard professor. As it turned out...
.There are two translations of his remarks listed below.I do not know which is more accurate but either way is inappropriate, or insulting. One report says the foreign minister was fired. I am going to look...
Nick Griffin, the leader of BNP is said to be officially a gipsy, according to researchers. The 1871 census records revealed that Griffin's ancestor's were gypsies who lived in caravans and peddled their wares in different locations.This came as a surprise since Mr Griffin...
opinion by Yommie | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 395 views | 2 recommendations | 3 comments
The 2009 Grandma's Marathon is now over and two American's, Christopher Raabe and Mary Akor have won for the men and the women. This was the 33rd Grandma's Marathon in Duluth. Christopher was the first American...
created by Amy Judd | 4 years ago | updated 3 years ago 1473 views | 6 recommendations | 0 comments
James Von Brunn, the man responsible for the death of African American security guard Stephen Tyrone Jones at the Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting June 10th, has a long history with a number of White Supremacy Groups and hate organizations. Von Brunn has his own website...
created by Amy Judd | 4 years ago 3067 views | 35 recommendations | 6 comments
Chad McDaniel, 34, has died from injuries sustained during the USAC/SMRS midget race last night in Knoxville, Iowa. He suffered head and neck injuries and was transported to Knoxville Hospital and then airlifted to Mercy Hospital in Des Moines, but died in the early hours of...
created by Amy Judd | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 4685 views | 2 recommendations | 8 comments
[Update -- May 25] David Reutimann won the postponed NASCAR Coca-Cola 600 Race. The race was delayed until Monday afternoon yesterday due to precipitation on the track. Today, the race was completed but cut short by more rain, going down in history as the shortest Coca-Cola...
created by Yuliya Talmazan | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 398 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
The New York Times and the white supremacist group Storm Front share a belief that there are significant and fundamental "racial" differences between color and linguistic groups based upon and residing in their genetic heritage. Today, for example, Ian...
created by francislholland | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 939 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
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 | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 504 views | 22 recommendations | 1 comment
While much of the world was keeping an eye on the 135th running of the Kentucky Derby, hundreds turned out in Baltimore, Maryland for a race of a different kind. The 11th annual Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race...
created by Jennings David L | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 2034 views | 94 recommendations | 7 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...
created by francislholland | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 162 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
Two British racers Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton went head to head with each other early in the race at the Bahrain Grand Prix in Sakhir. But Button was able to capitalize on Hamilton’s mistake at the end of the first lap, claiming the lead in the end. Today’s victory...
Today, on Patriots’ Day, April 20, 2009, the annual Boston Marathon took place in Boston, Massachusetts. Kenyan Salina Kosgei placed first in the women's race with the time of 2:32:16, while Ethiopian Deriba...
created by Yuliya Talmazan | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 971 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
WaPost Headline Declares, "Race a Dominant Theme at Summit: Subject Seen as Drawing Leaders Closer", with WaPost Using the Word "Race" Nine Times in One Article.Although many people, particularly the white-news media, act as though they are unaware of it, the Human Genome...
created by francislholland | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 19763 views | 24 recommendations | 11 comments