via Colorlines, The Shrinking Black Middle Class What the graph means: The graphic above is arresting. This comes from the Economic Policy Institute’s upcoming State …
Terms I wish we could resurrect: Parrhesia
Parrhesia, a concept related to free speech, but also to truth: In the classic discipline of rhetoric, parrhesia is a figure of speech described as: …
(Not very) Dear Editors of the New Yorker
Anne Hays, a New York resident and long term subscriber of literary magazine the New Yorker has posted an amazing letter on Facebook that is …
Loud? Check! Obnoxious? Check!
hague-nite: redlightpolitics replied to your post: Oh, look. I don’t know how to feel. I have a significant number of followers and I cannot think of a single …
Blackface is TOTALLY NOT RACIST, GUYS!!
As seen in a comment left on this post from this morning: What a ridiculess article, why cant white actors play black people when black …
Pile ups
Regarding the criticism about the pile ups against Tracie: No. Pile ups are an effective way of gathering crowd dissent. If they were a real …
About internet friends
and all the discussions about trying to explain “internet friends” to people who are not familiar with the concept: I met my husband on the …