Tag: obama
'Zona Defense: The Phoenix Suns vs. SB 1070
This Cinco de Mayo, Arizona’s NBA team, the Phoenix Suns, will denounce their state’s immigration policy on their uniforms. NBA.com reports that the Noche Latina tradition includes uniforms displaying the team name “as spoken by the Latino population. . . The Miami Heat, for example, is called “El Heat”; the San Antonio Spurs are “Los [...]
Posted: May 4th, 2010 under institutionalized racism, legislation, liberty, race, racial discrimination, racial profiling, racism, racist, segregation.
Tags: ACLU, apartheid, basketball, Cinco de Mayo, civil liberties, el heat, federal, hispanic, immigration, institutionalized, Jan Brewer, latino, law, liberty, los suns, Miami Heat, misdemeanor, NBA, Noche Latina, obama, race, racial profiling, racism, SB 1070, south africa, state, U.N., uniforms
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On The American Dream and Amber Waves of Great
The American Dream has great power. Merriam-Webster defines it as “an American social ideal that stresses egalitarianism and especially material prosperity”; but this is incomplete. The American Dream is also bound up in those four words, “the pursuit of happiness,” an “unalienable right” guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson and Franklin elided our right [...]
Posted: February 28th, 2010 under Declaration of Independence, Gay, Research, advertisement, agency, american dream, americans, gay marriage, human rights, humor, objectification, revolution, society, sociology.
Tags: agency, American, american dream, Applebee's, arrrested development, asian, ben franklin, black, Declaration of Independence, demographics, diversity, dream, estadounidense, gay rights, generation, george mason, gil scott-heron, happiness, hispanic, humor, hyperbole, i'm new here, material goods, materialism, merriam webster, mighty boosh, millenial, Millenials, nutrigrain, obama, pew research center, pursuit, revolution, rights, sarah haskins, spanish, tattoo, the revolution will not be televised, Thomas Jefferson, tolerance, u.s., unalienable rights, values
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Reviving Ophelia: GirlDrive and Feminists for Obama
Hello lovely revolutionaries! Welcome to 2010! ObjectifyThis has recently relocated to New York, delaying posts on this blog in favor of searches for shelter, income, and long-lost friends. However, I’ll be sure to get back atcha as soon as my schedule allows. I look forward to any semblance of monotony, believe me. In the meantime, [...]
Posted: January 11th, 2010 under New York Review of Books, art, clinton, femininity, feminism, obama.
Tags: anne kornblut, balkans, barack, clinton, Columbine, emma bee bernstein, female, femininity, feminism, francesca woodman, gender, geraldine ferraro, hillary, identity, identity politics, interview, journalism, lynyrd skynyrd, nona ellis aronowitz, NPR, obama, photography, politicians, power, presidential election, racism, road trip, romance, sex, suicide, the onion, tom ashbrook
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Glenn Beck on White Culture: "Americans Make Their Own Decisions"
If there was a takeaway message from Sarah Palin’s abominable performances on 60 Minutes with Katie Couric, it seems to have been: do not answer her questions. In the clip after the jump, Glenn Beck refuses to explain what he means by ‘white culture,’ if what he’s talking about is spelled that way and not [...]
Posted: October 1st, 2009 under race, racism, radical right.
Tags: coup, glenn beck, john l. perry, Katie Couric, military coup, newsmax, obama, race, racism, right-wing, sedition, white culture
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The Elephant in the Room: The Case against Corporate Personhood
NPR ran not one but two recent pieces about a pending Supreme Court case. It’s about Hillary: The Movie, which is a politically motivated defamation of the nation’s first female candidate which would have aired the night before the Democratic primary on Pay-Per-View TV. Because the group that made the movie, Citizens United, is a [...]
Posted: September 3rd, 2009 under Supreme Court, campaign, candidate, corporate greed, free, freedom, hillary clinton, law, lawyer, politician, politics.
Tags: campaign finance reform, citizens united, corporate rights, election, elephant, free, free speech, freedom, George Mason University, hillary, hillary clinton, hillary rodham clinton, hillary: the movie, human rights, law, lawyers, money, NPR, obama, on point, pay-per-view, politics, power, primary, Supreme Court, voting, voting rights
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Muslim Community Liaison Resigns Over Alleged Ties to the Muslim Community
Recently I was listening to this episode of This American Life (Act Two, to be precise) and realized that the American Muslim community is experiencing a frightening witch hunt. In short, Masan Azbahi was an Obama campaign liaison to Chicago’s Muslim community until he was accused of being a terrorist. Why? Because he had once [...]
Posted: March 27th, 2009 under Islam, Media, This American Life, discrimination, irony, media bias, muslim, obama, objectification, religion, religious extremists, terrorism, terrorist, terrorists.
Tags: anti-semitism, chicago, dow jones, fundamentalist, imam, investment, ira glass, irony, Islam, jamal said, masan azbahi, muslim, obama, racism, radical islam, terror, terrorism, wall street journal. this american life, war on terror
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Obama/Biden: United We Sit on Our Dads?
United we lolcatz? Ah well.
Posted: March 2nd, 2009 under obama.
Tags: biden, canihascheeseburger, conflict resolution, interacial, interracial, kids, lolcats, obama, parents, peace
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