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Friday, February 19, 2010

A Racial Framework

International conventions and domestic legal prohibitions against discrimination based on perceived racial difference are arguably useful tools in promoting equality, even if academia and the moral theatrics industry sometimes mischaracterize social conflict within a racial framework. The danger comes when this mischaracterization leads policy makers and activists to believe that oppressive relationships like those between Indigenous nations and corporate states can be resolved by equal opportunity within a capitalist system.

While not all states employ race as a criteria in exercising oppression, many utilize the colonial model developed by racially-biased European powers, and have adapted to the assimilationist structures for denying human rights to Indigenous peoples, regardless of skin color. In the end, it is this authentic distinction between ways of life that is most crucial to the survival of humankind, rather than superficial constructs like race.

Friday, February 12, 2010

Okay to be Gay

Thanks to Dead Horse for this article about America's charming illiteracy.

Thursday, February 04, 2010

Sabotaging Obama

As the Obama Administration begins pouring what's left of the US Treasury into a nuclear arms buildup, the only option left for people of conscience is civil disobedience. Anything else is child's play.