by David Morse | Uncategorized
You may have already suspected this. But a disturbing new study from the University of Illinois puts some numbers to it. Looking at a comprehensive dataset from 42 studies done over the past decade in which people were asked to make split-second decisions on whether...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
We should specify that Korean-Mexican cuisine is big in Korea, but the fact that it’s being driven by Korean-Americans here – restauranteurs like Sid Kim – made us sit up an take notice. From an interview with Kim on NBC news: Blending Mexican and...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
Remember way back to 2013, when Barack Obama had won re-election and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, captured an anemic share of the Latino vote? The Republican national party did a post-mortem on what went wrong, and came up with a must-do prescription: reach...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
It’s going to be a long campaign season. Bernie Sanders, the insurgent candidate for the Democratic nomination for President against the frontrunner Clinton, just had his biggest rally so far. In Seattle, 15,000 came to hear him speak, dwarfing numbers for all...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
Well, we’ve been saying this all along. But it’s nice when an acclaimed director (and admitted undocumented American) Jose Antonio Vargas says it too. Vargas is the director of the documentary “White People,” and Vargas believes that whiteness...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
Many would call this progress. Others might decry the de-gaying of gay pride. This trend has been going on for years, and not just in Chicago, and is likely to accelerate in the wake of the SCOTUS ruling in favor of same-sex marriages nationwide. Some parade-goers...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
Gentrification has gotten a bad rap, with the term akin to “wealthy whites pushing out long-term residents of color and driving up rents.” In traditionally Latino Boyle Heights in Los Angeles, younger Latinos don’t have quite the same view about...
by David Morse | In the News
I used to laugh at the gay jokes. In fact, I used to tell them. I laughed in high school when the jock toughs proudly showed up at school with black eyes — they had gone gay bashing at the local bar. That’s how it was in Manchester, New Hampshire in the...
by David Morse | In the News
I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races –that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to...
