In 2005, then U.S. Senator Rick Santorum compared gay marrage to “man on child, man on dog or whatever the case may be.” It seems that Santorum is still on a roll with his logic that suggest that the acceptance of gay marriage will lead us to also accept incest, bestility, or pologaymy. Is his […]
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I really enoyed this episode of Left of Black!!! Here Mark Anthony Neil talks to Eddie Glaude Professor of Religion and African American Stides and chair of the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University about the state of Black Studies and the unique challenges of Black academics in balancing their roles as activists,
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Governor Rick Perry, Congresswoman Michelle Bachman, and Entrepreneur Herman Cain all said that God had told them to run for President. Recently, Pat Robertson announced that God had told him who the next president will be and also gave him a message to give to the world. Let me also add that Deanna Laney killed
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For those that know me, they are aware that I am in a season of bliss right now. On December 25th, the NBA basketball season began. Oh goodness, I’m smiling as we speak. I should be, my Miami Heat won last night in triple overtime without our two stars playing. At this moment others sports
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We can spend days talking about what is racism. If its merely an attitude, discriminatory and restricting actions based on race or if its direct or indirect disrespect of another’s ethnicity? I know words are powerful and although I don’t believe in sugar coating language to make perpetrators comfortable, I do know that sometimes ignorance
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I’m loving these videos from I’m Feminist Enough, a project created by Shannon Washington. In it, black women who consider themselves feminists, give us their mantras and their life codes. To me, feminism is realizing that women have value and worth as much as men. It’s the willingness to speak up and out about sexist
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These last few weeks so much has happened among women and it is nothing to celebrate. From the Egyptian woman getting beaten by the military to Rihanna being called a racist and sexist epithet, women are catching hell and have been for a while. In my new article in the Huffington Post, I take a
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MUST READ ARTICLES OF THE WEEK Stephen Marche: Esquire We are Not All Created Equal Louise Antony: New York Times Good Minus God Zaheer Ali: The Root What About Poor White Kids H. Samy Alim: New York Times What if We Occupied Language? Hugh Schofield:BBC Human Zoos: When Real People Were Exhibits Nelson George:NY Times
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Below is a comic and more funny version of Nozik’s “Utility Monster”. It’s one of several thought experiments used by Nozick to critique hedonism as a value and the ethical normative theory of utilitarianism. If utilitarianism is concerned with maximizing utility(benefit, pleasure, happiness), how does this interpretation of Nozick’s “Utility Monster” counter utilitarianism and exposes
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Its the end of the semester officially. I gave my last exam yesterday and now its time to relax. But before I do, I thought I’ll snark with the video above. Students I love you but this is very funny. And its funny because its just something that as a student you should never ever
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