Okay, following my own advice about keeping the blog going, voilà!
Concerning poetry, a couple of websites to check out, if you haven’t before.
http://international.poetryinternationalweb.org
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/index.html
I saw on facebook that “Rock Steady: the Roots of Reggae” has been held over at the Carlton Cinema. It was on yesterday but I don’t know if it’s on today. Klive Walker, author of Dubwise: Reasoning from the reggae underground, published by Insomniac Press http://www.insomniacpress.com/title.php?id=1-894663-96-9 recently sent me a review of the film. Perhaps he’ll agree to let me publish it or perhaps I'll be able to make the film myself.
Go to the website, anyway. That alone is worth the visit.
http://www.rocksteadyrootsofreggae.com/rocksteady.html
Finally (the scariest for the last), on a website advertising itself as “Christian Assemblies International,” I commenced reading an article called “Multiculturalism – The Canadian Experience”. Nazi, Proto-Nazi and race hate websites I know about, but this took me aback. Have a read for yourself. These people speak about "the White World!" No! They do not mean the Arctic and Antarctic! No! Their tongues are not in their cheeks! I really think Jesus had better come soon, and set things straight himself. For one thing, they may stunned to learn that he's a Jew. Meanwhile, I’m thinking of saying that I’m a follower of Jesus in future. No wonder so many people despise “Christians”! Here's the website. Keep your righteous cool! Selah!
http://www.cai.org/bible-studies/multiculturalism-canadian-experience
Perhaps a note about the garbage strike tomorrow, when we hope and pray it will truly have come to an end.
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Twelve years ago, I wrote a paper called "Global Village Idiots: The Racist Right on the Internet" for which I received an award from the Kentucky Political Science Association. If ever I can find a copy of the disk on which I saved it (a forlorn hope these days), I'll send you a copy. (I've no idea where it is, frankly.)
North American racism has traditionally been deeply associated with Christianity, and relied on the Bible for justification. No surprise there, the Bible, after all, endorsed slavery and commanded slaves to obey their masters. In the aftermath of slavery in the United States, organisations which emerged to sustain white supremacy did so in the context of the prevailing ideological system, which was Christian.
Thus, every Klan Klavern in the US had a chaplain called a Kludd, who would lead the sheetheads in prayer. This was a requirement of the Klan Klonstitution. That's what it was klalled, er, called. The heartland of the Klan in its heyday was not where it was founded, down here in Georgia, but Indiana, by the way.
There have, not at all by the bye, been a couple of studies on the role of Klan women in promoting the cause of women and raising issues germane to (white) women back in the 1920s.
More germane to the link you cite. I've seen this argument for the past fifteen years or so. It's a reflection of a deep-seated fear by a significant segment of white working class and middle class and middle class men as they face competition for opportunities that had in previous decades been reserved only for them. That's seen as the fault of threatening [women/Jews/blacks/Asians/Latinos] who are taking away [jobs/manhood]. The solution is to go back to the good old days when [white] men had everything their own way [or so they thought].
As my father once said, "I'm not going to talk about 'the good old days' dem was neva good".
FSJL: Thanks for this and for permission to post it. Post coming up!
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