Race, Perceptions & Stereotypes

I found this both extremely interesting and damn amusing. It had me laughing really hard. The title chosen by whoever uploaded it is pretty dumb and misleading though. Anyways, check it out. It’s only a minute and a half long.

Flying While Muslim: Racial Profiling Post-9/11

I just got this in my inbox. It’s interesting but the fact that Raed Jarrar is featured in it talking about his notorious T-shirt incident isn’t good because I don’t believe that counts as racial profiling. Yeah sure it’s pretty stupid for people to freak out just because he wore a T-shirt with Arabic writing […]

Walt Disney Introduces Its First Black Princess

Hmmmmm…

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that many people think Disney is racist because of you know… well let’s see… okay here’s one, in Aladdin everyone speaks with an American accent except for evil Jafaar who speaks with an Arab accent. And also in the movie The Lion King the good […]

Sudanese Internal Racism & Identity Crisis

Someone by the name of CommonSense commented the following on Hipster’s blog:
Sudanese people always delving into the identity issue. On top of defending themselves from racism….they are trying to find out who they are…whilst at the same time being racist to each other..that to me looks like a national issue not just one person.
It sums […]

My Thoughts On Taraji Mustafa’s Interview

I’ve blogged about Taraji Mustafa a month ago and gave my opinion on her based on an Arabic article I read. Now after watching a video of the interview she had with Al Arabiya, I have more to say.

After watching the video, one can quite easily notice that Taraji Mustafa was emotionally charged when she […]

Israel Carried Out Deliberate Radiation Poisoning of 100,000 Sephardic Jews?

Okay now this is news to me. I just read the following on a thread in Mideast Youth’s forum.
Has anyone seen this documentary [The Ringworm Children]? I’ve been trying to find a video of it but cannot find it anywhere.
Apparently this documentary reveals one ugly secret of Israel’s past: deliberate radiation poisoning of 100,000 Sephardic […]

The KKK Gets a Top 5 US Billboard Album

I did a few Google searches and found out that many blogs have been discussing the following highly disturbing article which I still don’t know where was originally published.
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RACISM GROWS
September 22, 2006
By Claudia Rosett and George Russell
What does it mean for Black America that a hate preaching music duo could debut on the Billboard albums […]

Darfur Children Dragged from Mothers & Shot

I have no words… only shock and tears… absolute shock and flowing tears.
(hat tip: Nominally Challenged)

Sudanese Activist in Canada Establishes an Organization Promoting Friendship With Israel

Two days ago I stumbled upon this article (Arabic sorry) which dropped my jaw all the way to the floor but no it didn’t stop there. My jaw actually went through the South East Asian earth crust where I am, right into the earth’s super hot core and finally exploded out of the other side […]

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