➜ HAITI'S REAL DEAL WITH THE DEVIL
haiti is caught in a deal with the devil, and the devil is us.
Fear Of A Black President: Conservative Media Drumming Up Racial Fear
(via mediamatters4america)
Let’s hear it for the angry black guy. Nothing to really defend here when you see whose doing the talking (the usual suspects, no less). But it’s actually fun watching these haters lose their shit over President Obama.
I thought this would be a real intellectual and critical movement. It seems to have settled instead into hipsters copy-and-pasting press releases.
— oliver wang on the state of hip-hop blogs, speaking @ the music bloggers roundtable redux
Speaking primarily of other hip-hop blogs, it is shocking how little thought or discovery goes into the most successful sites. These blogs have become nothing more than press outposts for major labels and the handful of indie artists with strong enough publicity behind them. Their feeds are nearly identical to my junk mail box.
— noz of cbrap, speaking @ the music bloggers roundtable redux
CALIFORNIA APOLOGIZES TO CHINESE AMERICANS
on july 17, the california legislature quietly approved a landmark bill to apologize to the state’s chinese-american community for racist laws enacted as far back as the mid–19th century gold rush, which attracted about 25,000 chinese from 1849 to 1852. the laws, some of which were not repealed until the 1940s, barred chinese from owning land or property, marrying whites, working in the public sector and testifying against whites in court. The new bill also recognizes the contributions chinese immigrants have made to the state, particularly their work on the transcontinental railroad.
read the entire article at time magazine.
THE CRISIS OF CREDIT VISUALIZED
admit it, you don’t really get exactly how this recession started. don’t worry, just watch the animated piece.
