Mar 6, 2015 | mic, Race and Racism, Supreme Court and Other Judicial Issues
Published: Daily Dot (March 6, 2015) Michael Brown's parents announced this week that they are planning on filing a civil wrongful death lawsuit over their son's death “very shortly.” Coming on the heels of the ongoing lawsuit against New York City by Eric Garner’s family, it’s easy to inaccurately characterize this story as a symptom of our nation’s allegedly lawsuit-happy society (although...
Feb 24, 2015 | Arts and Entertainment, Immigration, Race and Racism
Published: Good Men Project (February 24, 2015) Sean Penn forgot that behaviors which may seem appropriate in private are often inappropriate in public. ___ For those of you who haven’t heard, two-time Academy Award-winning actor Sean Penn is under fire for a racist joke he made during the Oscars on Sunday. As he presented “Birdman” director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu with the award for Best...
Feb 4, 2015 | History, mic, Race and Racism
Published: Daily Dot (February 4, 2015) As we celebrate the 102nd anniversary of Rosa Parks’ birthday, it is useful to compare and contrast the civil rights movement in which she fought sixty years ago with the one developing in America today. While there is a world of difference between the challenges facing the Montgomery bus boycotters and those confronting the Twitter activists who turned...
Feb 2, 2015 | Gay Rights and Other LGBTQIA Issues, Jewish Experiences, mic, Race and Racism, Scandals
Published: Daily Dot (February 2, 2015) Prospective Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is well-known for his opposition to same-sex marriage and other LGBT rights causes, so recently he decided to protect himself from accusations of bigotry by relying on a popular fallacy. "People can be my friends who have lifestyles that are not necessarily my lifestyle," he insisted. "I don't...
Jan 30, 2015 | Arts and Entertainment, Race and Racism
Published: Daily Dot (January 30, 2015) America’s obsession with celebrities has a tendency to reveal the complex depths of our social and cultural prejudices. In the case of Kim Kardashian, one observation becomes very clear: Americans need to stop seeing race as a black-and-white issue, and on the Internet, people clearly have no idea what to do with her....
Jan 22, 2015 | Arts and Entertainment, Conservativism, Internet Culture, mic, Original Source Salon.com, Political Ideologies, Race and Racism, Religion and Religious Issues
Jan 19, 2015 | Foreign Policy, Media Issues, mic, Race and Racism, Terrorism, World Affairs
Published: Daily Dot (January 19, 2015) Starting on Jan. 3, hundreds of Nigerians were slaughtered in an attack on the border city of Braga by the notorious Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram. Shortly after, two girls blew themselves up at a market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing at least 19 people. All of this came on the heels of reports last month that a 13-year-old...
Jan 6, 2015 | Extremism, mic, Original Source Salon.com, Political Ideologies, Race and Racism
Dec 2, 2014 | Arts and Entertainment, Gender and Sexism, mic, Race and Racism
Published: Daily Dot (December 2, 2014) There is a deeper lesson to be learned by the racist backlash against the casting of John Boyega as a major character in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It’s cliché these days to point out that “geek is chic,” but 2014 may be remembered as a turning point for the nerd subculture once associated with social marginalization—namely, the year in which it was...
Nov 28, 2014 | Criminal Justice/Prison-Industrial Complex, mic, Race and Racism
Published: Daily Dot (November 28, 2014) In Ferguson, the streets are on fire, and so are the media as they follow rioters through clouds of tear gas and across lines of National Guard troops. Months after the death of Michael Brown at the hands of Officer Darren Wilson, the people of Ferguson have yet to see justice; But the unrest is bigger than either Wilson or Brown. Here are the nationwide...