Do you wonder if there is a place in Boston where mid-century attitudes about black people still abound unfettered? Perhaps you have not read the Globe's piece about the tenure process at Emerson. It turns out that the college has only given tenure to three black people in its 129-year history. That's a lot of discrimination, even for Boston!
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Harvard historian Niall Ferguson just came out and said it. Obama is a lucky black man! No, really. That's pretty much what he wrote in the Financial Times: "President Barack Obama reminds me of Felix the Cat. One of the best-loved cartoon characters of the 1920s, Felix was not only black. He was also very, very lucky. And that pretty much sums up the 44th president of the US[.]" Not only that, but Ferguson also thinks that Obama is totally wrong about everything. Do you think he eats lunch a lot with Skip Gates? [via Brainiac]
The Boston Herald reports that Boston cop Justin Barrett got himself a dose of administrative leave after admitting to writing an email in which he called Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. a "jungle monkey." Barrett, who had been assigned to District B-3 (Dorchester and Mattapan), presumably knows that black people are human beings, but he may have been concerned that Boston's nationwide reputation as America's most racist city had been jeopardized by the Cambridge police when they arrested Gates.
We get it, Boston Phoenix. Apparently, Sam Yoon is some kind of Asian—represented in the graphic above by a Chinese food container—and Mayor Thomas Menino is some kind of superhuman white man who springs forth from pure Asianness to conquer the electorate with his shirtless whiteness and his chopsticks. Very classy, but also very racist. What will the Phoenix run if Yoon wins the election? A picture of Fu Manchu bursting out of a pizza box? [Via Sociological Images, since we apparently don't actually read the Phoenix]
"There are not many certainties in life, but it is for certain that Sgt. Crowley will not be apologizing," said Sergeant James "Arrestsalot" Crowley after Henry Louis Gates, Jr. kindly asked him to apologize for putting him in the cooler for four hours for the dubious crime of being a black college professor in his own house who also happens to possibly like yelling at white cops who are trying to arrest him for no reason. This was presumably before the President of the United States said that Crowley acted "stupidly."
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