Daily Archives: October 4, 2017

Urban Black Basketball

Here’s an excerpt from an Esquire interview with Steve Oney: EC: There are a few lines from Brown that suggest a racial insensitivity that today would not be permissible but at the time was a more accepted part of the … Continue reading

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NYT: ‘Texas Man’s Death Sentence Thrown Out Over Racist Testimony’

New York Times: Duane E. Buck barged into his girlfriend’s Texas home after she broke up with him and killed her and a friend. Later that morning in July 1995, he fired a rifle at his stepsister, who survived because … Continue reading

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Haaretz: ‘White Man’s Burden’

None of these people who pushed for the 2003 Iraq invasion seem to have paid any price for their idiocy. A smaller percentage of American Jews thought the war was a good idea compared to the general population, but a … Continue reading

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