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 | Uncategorized
A new report is out from the ACLU that shows black Americans were unfairly targeted by banks in the run-up to the housing crisis. The report says that blacks were subjected to redlining, or denying services and being charged more for services. How blacks suffered far...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
There’s a reason for that. Today, after a young white supremacist opened fire in South Carolina’s historic black church, killing nine, we get the usual apologists who say: – Well the government couldn’t have stopped this. – Guns...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
By now you’ve probably seen or heard about the video of McKinney, Texas, Police Cpl. Eric Casebolt’s outrageous and abusive behavior toward a group of black teens at a pool party celebrating the end of the school year, which included pulling a gun on...
