"Minorities Should Stop 'Stealing...White People's Superheroes'"
Sigh.Michelle Rodriguez is a functional actress.She is not an expert on comic books and popular culture--as far as I know.However, one of the joys of popular culture is that taste cannot be easily...
View ArticleArtie Lange Doubles Down on His Slavery Fantasies of Raping ESPN's Cari Champion
Several months ago, former member of The Howard Stern Show, comedian Artie Lange, enjoyed several days of public infamy (and scorn) for joking about being a white Southern slave master who rapes ESPN...
View ArticleThis is Surprising? The Department of Justice Details How the Ferguson Police...
White supremacy is a global social, political, economic, philosophical, and psychological system (and disposition) that is dedicated to redistributing resources to, and protecting the dominant power...
View ArticleA Conversation with Journalist Paul Rosenberg About America's Broken Politics...
Journalist and political analyst Paul Rosenberg is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show.Paul is a contributing writer to news outlets and websites such as Salon.com, Alternet,...
View ArticleUncomfortable 'Truths': Have You Read the DOJ Report on the 'Legal' Killing...
There has been justifiable outrage at the (not surprising) finding by the Department of Justice that the Ferguson police department and courts are profoundly and consistently racist in their treatment...
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#Notallfergusonpolice or When the Department of Justice Makes Racist Cops...
On occasion, the unconscionable mates with the ridiculous and gives birth to the absurd.As reported by the Daily Mail, there is at least one (of likely many) such occurrence in Ferguson,...
View ArticleThe Chauncey DeVega Show: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Star Trek
David Greven, professor and expert on Star Trek is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show.David is the author of numerous books including Gender and Sexuality in Star Trek:...
View ArticleFrom Slavery Then to Ferguson Now: How Anti-Black Racism Subsidizes White...
The Department of Justice report on institutional and day-to-day white supremacy by the Ferguson police and Courts against the black community was long and detailed. It contained many ugly gems of...
View ArticleDear Jonathan Capehart: 'Hands Up, Don't Shoot' is Built on the Truth
Darren Wilson killed Michael Brown on August 9, 2014.In response, the black citizens of Ferguson marched and protested against what they knew to be one of many instances where the lives of...
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The Real #Fearandrace: Where is NPR's Show About Why America Should be Afraid...
I am a black American.I am also a man.When I look in the mirror, I do not see a reflection of monstrous black masculinity.I see a human being.In contrast, the White Gaze views black men as something...
View ArticleSeparating Myth From Fact About the 'Harlem Hellfighters'
Dr. Jeffrey T. Sammons and Dr. John H. Morrow Jr. are the guests onthis week's installment of The Chauncey DeVega Show where we discuss their new book"Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War".They are both...
View ArticleMay You Have a Happy Zombie Jesus Pagan God Bunny Worshiping Candy Eating Easter
The phone rings.It is my mother."Hi, Chauncey. What are you doing? Did you start your day yet?"I reply, "yes mom, I am grading papers.""What are you doing for Easter? What are you cooking?" she...
View ArticleThe Christian Right's Worst Nightmare? Black Israelites and Indiana's...
Indiana's "religious freedom" law, i.e. a bill designed to legalize discrimination against gays and lesbians under the shield of "religious freedom" has been a source of national controversy. Indiana...
View ArticleHow Will White Conservatives Defend the Killer Cop Who Shot Walter Scott?
Another unarmed black man has been shot dead by a white police officer.The video can be watched here. I will not be posting or otherwise sharing it online.I do not want to contribute to the online...
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Three Questions That the Mainstream Media Won't Ask About the Killing of...
If you have not yet watched MSNBC's interview withFeidin Santana, the gentleman who recorded the killing of Walter Scott by the thug cop Michael Slager, I encourage you to do so.A hero is someone who...
View ArticleWhat Really Killed Eric Harris: How Common is It For Rich People to be Able...
Eric Harris was killed by a rich man who donated equipment to the Tulsa, Oklahoma sheriff's department so that he could enjoy some live action role-playing as a cop.The Daily Beast offers the following...
View ArticleAre Videos of Black Men Being Killed by America's Police the New Snuff Films?
My dear friend Bill the Lizard, he who is a fellow Star Wars aficionado and occasional conversation partner on The Chauncey DeVega Show, called me yesterday.He explained that "I had a dream that you...
View ArticleIf He's Black, He's Dead: What Happens When a White Murder Suspect Attacks an...
We should never forget that America is a house built on the bodies of black and brown people. They are also the kindling for the fire that fueled the American melting pot.The State has a monopoly on...
View ArticleMichael Dyson Versus Cornel West is Not Boxing, It is Professional Wrestling
Michael Dyson and Cornel West are involved in a very public and ugly feud.Dyson attempted to "ether" West in an almost 10,000 word essay written for The New Republic called "The Ghost of Cornel...
View ArticleDear White America: Please Stop Talking About Martin Luther King Jr. and the...
Freddie Gray was killed by Baltimore's police. Baltimore's ghetto youthocracy responded with protests and an exhalation of random street violence. The killing of Freddie Gray, an unarmed black man who...
View ArticleBeyond Baltimore and Freddie Gray: How Race Riots and Theft Made White America
Baltimore’s young people responded to the police theft of Freddie Gray’s life with protests that eventually grew into a spasm of violence. While the direct motivator, Gray’s death is not the only...
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The Three Black Cops Who Killed Freddie Gray are Slave Drivers in the Age of...
The officers who killed Freddie Gray have finally been formally charged with murder and manslaughter.Three of the six officers are African-American. The most serious charges have been leveled against...
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Matters of Race and Class: How 'Whiteness' is One of the Greatest Scams in...
The idea of "whiteness" as a strict racial category superior to others is an invention of Europeans, who needed to legitimate and normalize a system of white on black chattel slavery, global empire,...
View ArticleBack to the Future: From Watts 1965 to Baltimore 2015, How Much Has Really...
In the United States, the colorline is a paradox. It is story of continuity and change.The colorline in the Age of Obama, and the post civil rights, era more broadly, are built upon a skeleton of white...
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Why Does the United States Still Honor White Supremacist Confederate Trash on...
Memorial Day was a tradition inaugurated after the American Civil War by (now) freed black Americans. Black America's history is American history, even while too many of those who are invested in the...
View ArticleWhite Racial Logic: The Real Difference Between Waco and Baltimore
Recently, outlaw motorcycle clubs engaged in a daylight gun battle in Waco, Texas.This combat involved hundreds of people. The mall where the riot occurred was left resembling a war zone, with hundreds...
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'The White Man' is a Monster Who is Very Real: Chicago Police 'Hunt' a Black...
And who is surprised?Writing at Salon, Jenny Kutner details how:A grotesque image recently made public by a Cook County judge shows two former Chicago police officers holding rifles and posing next to...
View ArticleIf 'Peevish' Cops Can't Kick Your Black Butt and Break the Law They Won't Do...
We are in the second day of the fundraiser for my site ChaunceyDeVega.com. I would like to thank the folks who have donated so far. Their generosity is much appreciated.If you can, are able, and...
View ArticleA Conversation With Dr. Henry Giroux About Neoliberalism, Race, Justice, and...
Dr. Henry Giroux is the guest on this week's edition of the podcast known as The Chauncey DeVega Show.He is the author of numerous books including the recent The Culture of Organized Forgetting.He is...
View ArticleFrom Ferguson to McKinney, Racial Battle Fatigue is Killing Black America
Black America is tired. The liminal existence of Ellison’s invisible man; Cornel West’s brilliant meditation on “niggerization” as a state of existential fear, where black and brown people are...
View ArticleLike the Republican Party, White Supremacist Terrorist Dylann Roof Also has a...
In the post civil rights era, it is obligatory that every white racist has a "best black friend".The Republican Party keeps a database of such "trot out in case of emergency negroes" who are human...
View ArticleYou Have Been Duped: The Republican Party's Confederate Flag Carnival Game...
The Confederate flag will no longer fly over the capital of South Carolina. It was taken down on July 10, 2015; an African-American member of the state color guard presented the American...
View Article"The Ritual": When Will White America Forgive Vester Flanagan?
Last week, reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward were killed by Vester Flanagan, a mentally ill former colleague, in a black on white racially motivated attack that was broadcast on live...
View ArticleHow White America Emotionally Abuses Black People
White America emotionally abuses black people.The abuse takes many forms. It is an unwillingness to admit to harms done, a denial of the pain caused to others, and a habit of selective remembering and...
View ArticleSocial Dominance Theory and the Popularity of Donald Trump
Recent public opinion polling data demonstrates that Trump's supporters are extremist, conspiranoid thinkers.Their beliefs are also mainstream within the Republican Party.From Public Policy Polling:Our...
View ArticleMy New Favorite Online Comment: "I Believe White Conservatives Love Blacks..."
I believe white conservatives love blacks. #Black lives MUST matter because white racist are completely obsessed with black people. I have never seen a group so preoccupied with another. White racist...
View ArticleThe Problem of "Evil" and the Madness of the Republican Mind
As part of my "opposition research" I subscribe to a number of Right-wing news services, here news being loosely construed as the information they disseminate is almost all poorly written editorial and...
View ArticleIslamophobia and Donald Trump's Dangerous Eliminationist Rhetoric
Eliminationism is a belief that whole groups of people should be killed because of their ethnic, racial, religious, cultural, or other socio-political identity.As reported by ThinkProgress, during a...
View ArticleChris Harper Mercer's "Mixed Race" Identity and the Umpqua Community College...
It is a new/old day in America. On Thursday, there was another mass shooting. On Friday, today, and tomorrow, and in the week's thereafter America's politicians will do nothing to stop the plague of...
View Article"Negrophobia", "Rational Racism", and Rebutting Donald Trump's Willful Lies...
Donald Trump is continuing his overtly nativist and racist campaign strategy. Why shouldn't he? In terms of crude political calculus he is leading the GOP 2016 presidential primary field precisely...
View ArticleThe Banality of White Supremacy During "Black Friday" in Chicago
American society is structured around the maintenance of white privilege (unearned advantages for those identified as "white") and white supremacy (the dominance of whites as a group over non-whites in...
View ArticleAmerican Exceptionalism? ISIS and the Christian Right are More Alike Than...
American Exceptionalism is a state of amnesia.It allows the American people to look abroad, aghast at the barbarism of ISIS and how the latter burns human beings alive, while proclaiming “such a thing...
View ArticleA Debate Question That Will Not Be Asked: Trump, Do You Disavow Your White...
Tonight’s featured Republican 2016 presidential primary debate is minutes away. It is a spectacle and a farce. Few substantive questions are likely to be asked. CNN, like the other members of the...
View ArticleLast Night's GOP Debate was Grotesque: "UnAmerican?" Dalton Trumbo Versus the...
xYouTube VideoTuesday evening's CNN Republican Primary Debate was a disgusting spectacle. All parties involved should be embarrassed. CNN should be ashamed for aiding and abetting lies. The GOP's 2016...
View Article"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is a Remix of "A New Hope"...That is Both a...
I have now seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens twice. Instead of a traditional review, I have decided to offer up some thoughts in the form of questions and answers. I have been writing about and doing...
View ArticleWe Must Face the Facts: Donald Trump is a Political Cult Leader
It is clear that Donald Trump is the center of a cult of personality. But after watching his ascendance in the 2016 Republican presidential primary race, I have come to the disturbing conclusion that...
View ArticleThe Fascinating Story of Gary Gygax and the History of Dungeons and Dragons
Given that there are 1) lots of fans of Dungeons and Dragons and 2) a legion of Star Wars followers I thought I would share the most recent episode of my podcast series here at Daily Kos. The Chauncey...
View ArticleLet's Be Honest: Tamir Rice is Dead and the Police Will Go Unpunished Because...
An Ohio grand jury has decided that the police thugs who de facto executed Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black child for the "crime" of playing with a toy gun, in a locale where white people are legally...
View ArticleThey Show You Who They Really Are: When White Conservatives Celebrate the...
I take my daily safari to Right-wing websites so that you do not have to.Right-wing humanzees are very entertaining. They fling political feces and expose themselves in public both for their own...
View ArticleWhite Privilege and the Bundy Brigand Militia "Standoff" in Oregon
The human products of public moocher and rogue Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's seed are causing a ruckus in Oregon. Bundy's sons, Ammon and Ryan, are leading a group of approximately 150 insurrectionist...
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