Michael Steele on the Democratic Party and Being Black

Imagine how race-based politics will play out if Steele instead of McCain was running against, let’s say… John Kerry. Something tells me African-Americans (who are overwhelmingly Donkeys) will get a headache.

Government Inflaming Things by Randomly Arresting Darfurians In Khartoum

WTF? This is so stupid. They’re pouring more fuel into the fire. I’m telling you, if the sectarian monster gets unleashed within Khartoum, we are going to have some very bad times ahead.
I like the SLM leader’s wise language in this one.
“The Sudanese regime should stop arresting people according to their skin color because this […]

Loving the Creations of Those You Hate

I was out with a Sudanese friend yesterday when the subject of racism towards people with African ethnicities popped up. Well, actually that wasn’t the core subject. We were talking about the contradictory attitude of retarded people who are racist towards blacks but yet still love, and I mean love hip-hop and reggae. I’ve personally […]

Obama’s Speech and Pastor

The former was really good. The latter is just plain nasty.
I thought Obama made a great speech in which he explicitly rejected and opposed the inflammatory and victimhood-infested statements made by his former Pastor. However he should have distanced himself away from Rev. Wright further than he already did.
At first, I thought the whole event […]

Sudanese Identity: Wisdom on a Post-Racial World

Check out this piece by the Sudanese Mohammad Ali Salih and the great responses to it at Sudanese Online.
I too, found it troublesome that Muhammad Ali arranges the way he sees himself as follows:
When I came to Washington , D.C. , in 1980, I was ambivalent about the racial divisions in […]

Anti-Black Arab Racism

I found this great article by Nesrine Malik, a fellow Sudanese, via a link at Ali’s blog. I can strongly relate to her story.
As a Northern Sudanese, I’ve always found it funny how we have no problem whatsoever being racist towards our fellow countrymen with darker skin from Darfur and the South but then start […]

Obama Wins, No Matter What

I’ve seen too many Elephants engaging in smear and personal attacks against Obama. Others keep banging his policies. This article, by an Elephant however is different. It criticizes what Obama stands for but doesn’t miss a very important part of the big picture, one that puts a big smile on my face and cheers me […]

Some Sandmonkey Wisdom

Yes, tell them. Please tell them. And when Egyptian soldiers shoot Darfurians trying to cross into Israel and beat them to death it’s just a blip on the radar.

An Open Letter To Arun Ghandi

Many of you by now must have read Arun Ghandi’s distasteful article in the Washington Post. I found it very shortsighted. Mideast Youth wrote a hilarious and genius response to it. Enjoy…

Israel: Four Young Jewish Ethiopian Girls Segregated At Religious School

I was not happy when I read this story:
It was recently discovered that four Ethiopian girls enrolled in Lamerchav Elementary School are learning in complete isolation from their peers.
They study in separate classrooms, have their own recess time and are even reportedly given daily cab fare so as not to ride home on the bus […]

White Muslim Identity

Bin Gregory Vs Umar Lee. What an extremely interesting read!

Sudanese Refugees Missing Since Deported By Israel

What the…
Haaretz reporter Ben Lynfield says:
48 African refugees missing since deported by IDF
Concern is growing about the well-being of the 48 African refugees, most of them Sudanese, who have been unaccounted for since they were detained by Egyptian security forces more than two months ago after being deported by the IDF to Sinai.
WHAT? Did he […]

(Free) The Jena Six

I had no idea what the hell it was until 2 days ago, which was the first time I heard about it. I was sitting inside the US Embassy waiting for my turn to be interviewed for my Visa and CNN was on. I watched the news but I was a little confused and clueless […]

Intel Ad: Racist?

Hmmm…

One way of looking at it is as a compliment. We’re the fastest people on the planet. Yaaay! But seriously, six sprinters? All black? That’s just asking for it.
What do you think?
Intel withdraw the ad and posted an apology on their blog, (yes even companies have blogs which are increasingly being used for PR and […]

Kizzie: Sudanese Inferiority Complex & Pathetic Arab Coverage of Darfur

Kizzie wrote a nice post about Sudanese inferiority complex. I disagree with one small thing though. Inferiority complex is not implanted in every Sudanese but I would say most.
She also wrote a rather angry but really good post on the pathetic Arab coverage of Darfur. I feel you girl!
The problem is Sudan will rather be […]

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