One of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s deputies leads a prisoner, arrested for his shaky command of the English language, toward the chain gang. Racist and abusive Arizona police may not be…
How we embraced hate. I was watching the CBC News this morning, Suhana Meharchand was the host. Talking about Attawapiskat, she interviewed NDP/MP Charlie Angus. Hostilely, she asked him, “What…
First there was this. Combining flag waving patriotism with Islamophobia and use it to take a stab at “the other”. The Globe item has 1779 comments on it. I’m going…
The creation of enemies both at home and abroad during bad economic times is nothing new and that the Harper Conservatives would resort to this most dangerous of tactics is…
I wrote a piece the other day on Attawapiskat, and how it enrages me. Not just the case in those communities, but how it’s representative of Canada’s largely racist relationship…
Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan tells an outright lie in this chance encounter on the stairs at the CBC. As if that is not bad enough, the Minister goes on…
Trying to sort through the muck the HarperCons are spinning around the humanitarian crisis on the Attawapiskat First Nation and First Nations communities across the country? Well, here are two…
Canadians’ racist neglect of our first people’s seems unshakable. We had Davis Inlet, and we didn’t wake up to any systemic problems. That was just a one off? And now…
You have to hand it to right-wing blowhards like Rush Limbaugh. They are not afraid to come right out and say racist things, PC be damned. After all to Rush…
Nascar has a nasty – and deserved – reputation for being a collection of racist rednecks. They’re the stuff of the old south, where ignorance and bliss arrive at the…
We live in a society that now ostensibly accepts equality and egalitarianism as a normative moral basis for our society. Not just the founding principles of classical liberalism with equal…
Racist Halloween costumes aren't all the rage this year, thankfully.
When Barack Obama was elected to be the 44th President of the United States, the simple fact that he is black was itself symbolic, momentous and meaningful. As Obama was…
Christians. Church. God. Jesus. Occupy. What do these words mean to you? For many, the connotations are negative. Personal experiences with judgemental, rigid, frozen people who identify themselves as Christians…
This has nothing to do with 'judgement' but with racism. Pure and simple.London police nab the man who threw the banana peel at Philadelphia Flyer Wayne Simmonds. He was charged…
Baird was the attack dog for the Harper government at the UN yesterday with his meandering rant that read like it was written by the Israeli ministry of international propaganda.…
Four years ago, I was writing about HalloweenMart’s Sexy Indian Squaw costume. They’re back at it again this year with another take on being a sexy Indian for Halloween. Is…
“Human rights have a dysfunctional relationship with justice. The language is certainly beautiful, but it’s all dressed up with nowhere to go,” charged Dennis Edney in a scathing lecture at…
Doesn't sound like much today. But think about it. A mere 46 years ago, a group from England had to stipulate in its contract that it would not play to…
