Then you haven’t ever paid much attention to Muslim women and our long histories of feminism, though you claim to care so much for our rights in your follow-up comment below.

I don’t want to shut down or diminish articles on race (particularly on Jezebel, which sorely needs it), but this article is basically a shorter re-write of Dr. Jeanne Theoharis’ piece in today’s Washington Post - cited, eventually, about 2/3 into this piece. I’m not sure what this is adding? Is the point to broaden…

Sort of - the first Arab migrants to the U.S. were Christians from what was then Greater Syria, and because becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen was not a privilege non-whites enjoyed, many of these Levantine Christians used their Christianity in U.S. courts to “prove” their whiteness (the assumption in the U.S. being…

“surprisingly”

I look forward to the Muslim brain drain America would be confronted with should morons like this actually have a role in our future in this country. Every bodega and falafel cart in NYC: SHUT DOWN. Health care? EVISCERATED. Government “specialists” on terrorism and the “Arab world”? Well, they’re a self-invented…

No, these sorts of moments of silence are routine at the start of football matches. A *better* excuse you could have come up with is that French national football player Lassana Diarra’s cousin, Asta Diakité - Muslims, by the way - was killed in the attacks in Paris. But it still doesn’t matter: the Turks probably…

Women’s suffrage in Britain did indeed include large advocacy and leadership among British women of colour in Britain and its many colonies, and the abolitionist movement in Britain was led in part by freedmen and women from the colonies and in Britain. So that argument, largely made by the usual…

The only person dressed for last night’s insane SoCal winds.

Strays in Istanbul are considered deserving of social welfare - you’ll often see people stopping by a shop after work to buy food to put out for the cats and dogs of Istanbul, and there are a number of traveling veterinary services that work with the public to spay and neuter animals they see daily. It’s much the same…

She is reading Claudia Rankine’s CITIZEN. That is the best part.

She’s not being “democratically” elected if an entire ethnic and religious group is barred from voting and she’s not trying to bring democracy to her country if she’s silent on the ethnic cleansing of said ethnic and religious group. Those dispossessed citizens forced to flee for their lives have every right to oppose…

It’s intimately tied to race, which makes it doubly crazy but very a familiar battle for black women and other WOC with curly hair over the last century+.

Could you also mention the other three people violently arrested for jaywalking in Austin this week? How has this not been covered by anyone at Gawker or Jezebel yet? http://www.attn.com/stories/4057/a…

The victim was speaking either Swahili or Somali (most articles from yesterday indicate Swahili), because she is Kenyan Somali and Minnesota also has a huge Somali population also I don't know what the hell to say to these forms of violence anymore. Ugh.

So tomorrow night I am embracing my hair texture and dressing up as the Bride of Frankenstein to attend a screening of the 1931 Dracula, showing with live accompaniment by Philip Glass and the Kronos Quartet and followed by a black & white ball at the Ace Theatre in downtown Los Angeles. I’m going to settle on that…

No, I think it’s only Americans that like Aussie accents. The British/Irish/Scots/forever and on and on are right there with you. Mostly because Aussies are so painfully unaware (read: worst jocks on the planet).

Remains the accent that clears women out of pubs everywhere in London. The worst bros are Oz bros.

The mufti was a war criminal, but the “Final Solution” was well underway before al-Husseini endorsed it, and he does not and never did represent Palestinians, then or now. In fact, masses of Palestinians and other Arab (and African, and Asian) men of fighting age fought on the side of the allies - thousands of…

Hamilton was an immigrant but has also been read by some historians - as he is in the musical - as potentially black himself (his mother lived in the British West Indies, his paternal parentage is questionable, and he was referred to in a West Indian paper by a term indicating “quadroon” racial heritage). He could’ve…

That Valentino dress though - that works wonders for her.