Is your Halloween costume racist?
Single-Minded: A Q&A with the leaders of an Ohio University campaign against offensive garb. By: Helena Andrews Via: http://wapo.st/rBFLaq Halloween is nothing like it used to be. I was a late-October baby, and my childhood birthday pictures swap cakes and candles for ghosts and ghouls. Two Halloweens in a row I was a “movie star,”...
On X-Men, Race Relations & The Elephant In The Room
The X-Men comic book franchise started in 1964 as a daring parable: gifted individuals (more engaging/descriptive word?) persecuted for being born “differently” than the rest of the world. These “mutants” had two divergent leaders in Professor X, the MLK stand-in who believed humans and mutants could live together in harmony and Magneto, the Malcolm X radical who...
