Another installment of Monday Morning Madness takes us to Sugar Sammy, an Indo-Canadian stand-up comedian who offers a narrative that is dripping with racial, ethnic and gender jokes, directed against Indians, and virtually every other major ethnic group in North America. Thanks to UK-based Trinidadian blogger, Jumbie’s Watch, for drawing my attention to these videos.… [Read more…]
March 28, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
…will consist of, first, the closing arguments for both sides of Ward Churchill’s wrongful termination suit, and second, the jury’s verdict. The trial was supposed to have ended yesterday (Friday, 27 March, 2009), on the 15th day of hearings. However, given bad weather, and some overtime, closing arguments are not likely to be heard until… [Read more…]
March 28, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
Chris Knight The latest assault against the freedom of academics as public citizens in alleged “liberal democracies” comes from the U.K., in the form of the University of East London‘s decision to suspend Dr. Chris Knight, an anthropologist and member of the Radical Anthropology Group, over observations he made on BBC Radio 4 concerning the… [Read more…]
March 27, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
“I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed . . . without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., April 1967, Riverside, California. While I am not prepared to predict the outcome of… [Read more…]
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March 29, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
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