“I don't think it's entirely paranoid to suspect that one day, you won't be able to so much as question the primary tenets of anti-racism without going to jail.” ThinkingAbleOne DayRacismPrimariesSuspectsJailParanoidAnti Racism Author:Jim Goad
“Here's an easy one: "Race is an entirely social construct." No, it's partially one, depending on how any given society seeks to define it and its implications. But there are basic things such as skin color and hair texture. Even a Martian who'd had no exposure to human "social constructs" would be able to spot those differences. But no Martian, as hard as he tried, could point at a "culture" or to "equality." Those are the social constructs. Those can't be measured in the same way as human DNA.” WayHumansHardWould BeAbleCultureGivenSocialEasyDifferencesRaceColorHairSkinsSpotsConstructsDnaExposureImplicationsTextureSkin ColorMartiansBasic Things Author:Jim Goad
“I'm developing a mild rash at the idea of "plugging" anything, because it's not how I roll.” IdeasDeveloping Author:Jim Goad
“When you're indiscriminate in allowing people to post, the loudest and emptiest voices invariably drown out everyone else.” PeopleVoicePostsAllowing Author:Jim Goad
“In my long, long years toiling around the publishing industry, I've found that women simply don't stick to the writing with the same fervor that men do.” MenWritingYearsLongFoundIndustrySticksPublishingFervorToilingPublishing Industry Author:Jim Goad
“It is only with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement that you begin to see different examinations of not only Reconstruction but slavery itself, and there is a lesson to be drawn here about how the times influence the writing of history, something that we should never forget.” ShouldWritingDifferentForgetRightsInfluenceMovementLessonsSlaveryCivil RightsNever ForgetExaminationCivil Rights MovementReconstruction Author:Gerald Horne
“Germany had come late to feast at the table of colonialism and did not feel that the division of colonial spoils at that particular moment in time reflected its true strength and its true weight in the imperialist world.” WorldFeelsMomentsParticularLateWeightTablesGermanyDivisionColonialismSpoilMoments In TimeTrue Strength Author:Gerald Horne
“Africa, being the major target of colonial plunder, therefore becomes a major source of conflict.” SourceConflictMajorsTargetPlunder Author:Gerald Horne
“As long as colonialism was allowed to reign and fester in Africa, it was going to be a source of tension, if not war, as was evidenced by World War I itself, which, among other things, featured Germany on one side of the barricades and Britain, which had come earlier to the table of colonial plunder, on the other.” IfsWorldLongWarSidesSourceTablesWar Of The WorldsTensionGermanyBritainWorld War IColonialismReignPlunderBarricades Author:Gerald Horne
“In order to better charge Moscow with human rights violations, the United States had to bend with regard to the more excessive aspects of Jim Crow. It had to yield to the insistent cries on the ground here in this country.” HumansCountryStatesOrderUnitedUnited StatesRightsCryAspectRegardHuman RightsYieldViolationCrowMoscowJim Crow Author:Gerald Horne
