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 Dan Freeman's Profile |
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I was proven effective by clinical test, because some couldn't come to believe I was the best. |
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| Age: | 101 years old |
| Sex: | Male |
| Location: | Bay Area, CALIFORNIA |
| Country: |  United States |
| Zodiac: |  Sagittarius (Nov 22 - Dec 21) |
| Last Login: | Jun 15, 2008 (120 days back) |
| I am Here For Friends and Networking. | |
About Me |
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I'm primarily motivated by this: My passionate beliefs cause me to sometimes act like this: I'm a proud Black man, but there were a couple moments during puberty when I wouldn't have been too upset if I looked like this: As a geek and a nerd, I sometimes feel like this: Despite my materialist grasp of the world, my utopian side sees life like this: Your host is a communications, media, and technology consultant with over 15 years of experience in the corporate and non-profit arenas. He has worked with organizations such as Project Change (AntiRacismNet), Media Alliance (San Francisco), TAO Communications (now known as the Organization for Autonomous Communications), the Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO), the Black Radical Congress (BRC), and the Institute for Global Communications (The World's First Non-Profit Internet Service Provider), among many others. He is widely regarded as a legend of grassroots technology activism and advocacy (at various times referred to as "Johnny Appleseed," "Moses," and "The Father of Pan-African Cyberspace"), and was the first person to explicitly research and document African and African-descendent sociocultural production and usage in virtual environments (that's just a fancy way of saying that before white folks discovered the Digital Divide, he discovered the online Underground Railroad). Out of this work came the first Pan-African guide to online resources (a Yahoo and Google equivalent for it's time), which subsequently inspired a growth in online activity by African-descendents which is still being felt to this day. His reputation is also due in no small part to the fact that he was instrumental in the formation of some of the first ethnically and culturally oriented virtual communities for African-Americans, going back to the early days of dialup bulletin board systems, proprietary commercial networks, and other precursors to today's Internet. He is currently the principal consultant with Virtual Identity, a not-for-profit consultancy he founded, and a member and co-founder of the emerging Media Justice Network, a national coalition of grassroots activists and policy advocates who are putting a race, gender, and class analysis at the center of the movement to create a truly democratic media landscape. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Online Policy Group, a research, policy, and advocacy organization focused on equality in and equal access to cyberspace; the National Advisory Board of the Community Technology Centers' Network (CTCnet), an international association of public-access computer and media technology training centers; and is a member of the New Media Working Group of Amnesty International, the world's premier human rights organization. In 2000, he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by Marketing Opportunities in Business and Entertainment (MOBE) for his pioneering work as an "Influencer & Innovator of the Internet and Technology." In 2001, he was named an international "New Media Hero" by the Independent Media Institute (AlterNet). He is currently in the planning stage for a book and film project that will explore African and African-descendent people's relation to and engagement with technology from an historical, contemporary, and futuristic perspective. While the scope and influence of his work is international, he physically resides in the Bay Area of California, in the United States of America. QUOTE: W.E.B. Du Bois After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, -- a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost. He would not Africanize America, for America has too much to teach the world and Africa. He would not bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message for the world. He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of opportunity closed roughly in his face. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois "The Souls of Black Folk" A.C. McClurg & Company 1903 QUOTE: X-Clan Abra Cadabra Allah Baby Professor All hail Funkin' Lesson Sweet tongue, grand writer of scrolls Now behold, let the legend unfold Born in the Cosmos Where no time and space do exist Live in the midst of the chaos Mortals labeled me as illogical, mythological. They couldn't comprehend when I brought The Word A stick called Verb, a Black steel nerve Teachin' those actors and actresses Who write a couple lines on what Black is Really? Then they labeled me a sin When a brother just speaks what's within I guess I'm blacker than the shadow in the darkest alley That they're always scared to go in Boo! X-Clan "Funkin' Lesson" To the East, Blackwards 4th & Broadway 1989 QUOTE: Ralph Ellison I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids -- and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination -- indeed, everything and anything except me. Nor is my invisibility exactly a matter of a biochemical accident to my epidermis. That invisibility to which I refer occurs because of a peculiar disposition of the eyes of those with whom I come in contact. A matter of the construction of their inner eyes, those eyes with which they look through their physical eyes upon reality. I am not complaining, nor am I protesting either. It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves. Then too, you're constantly being bumped against by those of poor vision. Or again, you often doubt if you really exist. You wonder whether you aren't simply a phantom in other people's minds. Say, a figure in a nightmare which the sleeper tries with all his strength to destroy. It's when you feel like this that, out of resentment, you begin to bump people back. And, let me confess, you feel that way most of the time. You ache with the need to convince yourself that you do exist in the real world, that you're a part of all the sound and anguish, and you strike out with your fists, you curse and you swear to make them recognize you. And, alas, it's seldom successful. Ralph Ellison "Invisible Man" Random House 1952 QUOTE: Sun Ra How do you know I'm real? I'm not real, I'm just like you. You don't exist -- in this society. If you did, your people wouldn't be seeking equal rights. You're not real. If you were, you'd have some status among the nations of the world. So we're both -- myths. I do not come to you as the reality, I come to you as the myth, because that's what Black people are -- myths. I came from a dream that the Black man dreamed long ago. I'm actually a present sent to you by your ancestors. Herman Poole "Sonny" Blount (Sun Ra) "Space Is The Place" Rhapsody Films 1974 QUOTE: Nina Simone As I became more knowledgeable I came to my own conclusions about separatism. In the white man's world the Black man would always lose out, so the idea of a separate black nation, whether it was in America or in Africa, made sense. But I didn't believe that there was any basic difference between the races -- whoever is on top uses whatever means they can to keep the other down, and if Black America was on top they'd use race as a way of oppressing whites in exactly the way they themselves were oppressed. Anyone who has power only has it at the expense of someone else, and to take that power away from them you have to use force, because they'll never give it up from choice. That is what I came to believe, and it was a big step forward in my political thinking because I realised that what we were really fighting for was the creation of a new society. When I had started out in the movement all I wanted were my rights under the constitution, but the more I thought about it the more I realised that no matter what the president or the supreme court might say, the only way we could get true equality was if America changed completely, top to bottom. And this change had to start with my own people, with Black revolution. Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) "I Put A Spell On You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone" Pantheon Books 1992 QUOTE: James Baldwin Negro speech is vivid largely because it is private. It is a kind of emotional shorthand -- or sleight-of-hand -- by means of which Negroes express, not only their relationship to each other, but their judgment of the white world. And, as the white world takes over this vocabulary -- without the faintest notion of what it really means -- the vocabulary is forced to change. The same thing is true of Negro music, which has had to become more and more complex in order to continue to express any of the private or collective experience. James Baldwin "Sermons and Blues" New York Times Book Review March 29, 1959 QUOTE: Arthur Jafa The very proposition of an authentic Black cinema, a cinema as rich in its power and alienation as Black music, instills dread and anticipation in the hearts of those who want to consign Black creativity to the realm of 'freak n!@@&r shit,' as if it were no more the result of profound intellectual activity than the clotting of blood. Arthur Jafa "La Venus Negra" Artforum January 1992 |
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My Interests |
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Surrealism Collage Philosophy: Afrocentrism Afrofuturism Dialectical Materialism Existentialism Historical Materialism Politics: Anarchism Anti-Racism Black Feminism Black Power Democratic Socialism Environmental Justice Human Rights Libertarian Socialism Negritude Pan-Africanism Reparations Revolutionary Nationalism Social Justice Womanism Religion: Black Theology Christianity Gnosticism Liberation Theology Natural Theology Quakerism Unitarian Universalism Sports: Badminton Baseball Tennis Volleyball Games: Strategy Games Chess Science/Technology: Artificial Intelligence Bioethics Biotechnology Distributed Networks Free Software Nanotechnology Open Source Software Patents Supercomputers Communications/Media: Communication Rights Copyright Cyberspace Intellectual Property Media Consolidation Media Justice Media Policy and Regulation (...yes, I'm something of a Black Radical Technologist, but just admit it, you like me this way.) |
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I'd like to meet:Black folks who love each other like this: Superheroes who look like this: Hip-Hop heads who think like this: Deities who are cool like this: People who can identify this: |
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Music:Hip-Hop helped politicize me, but my full interest in music is ridiculously diverse and varied. With that said, there are a few folks I want to give thanks to, as much for their convictions as their music:A Tribe Called Quest Afrika Bambaataa Arrested Development Blackalicious Blue Scholars Bob Dylan Bob Marley Bomani Darel Armah Boogie Down Productions Brand Nubian Bruce Springsteen Common Da Lench Mob De La Soul Dead Prez Dilated Peoples Dixie Chicks Erykah Badu Fela Kuti Gang Starr Gil Scott-Heron Harry Belafonte India Arie Iyeoka Jimmy Cliff John Lennon KRS-ONE Last Poets Lauryn Hill Mark J. Medusa Meshell Ndegeocello Michael Franti/Spearhead Miriam Makeba Mos Def Mystic Neil Young Nina Simone Odetta Ozomotli Paris Paul Miller/DJ Spooky Paul Robeson Peter Gabriel Pete Seeger Poor Righteous Teachers Public Enemy/Chuck D Queen Latifah Rage Against The Machine Sistah Souljah Skin/Skunk Anansie Saul Williams Stevie Wonder Sun Ra Sweet Honey in the Rock Talib Kweli The Clash The Coup The Roots Tracy Chapman U2/Bono Wanda Coleman Watts 1965 Watts Prophets Woody Guthrie X-Clan (...and a special mention for Finesse & Synquis, because only me and Saul Williams remember them.) |
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Movies:I've seen far too many films for a listing to have any meaning. However, I do want to mention the following people, who make it possible for a non-stereotypical Black aesthetic to exist in cinema beyond just a few films:Arthur Jafa Ayoka Chenzira Bill Duke Bill Gunn Billy Woodberry Carl Franklin Cauleen Smith Charles Burnett Ernest Dickerson Euzhan Palcy Gina Prince-Bythewood Gordon Parks Haile Gerima Ivan Dixon John Akomfrah Julie Dash Kasi Lemmons Leslie Harris Marlon Riggs Melvin Van Peebles Neema Barnette Orlando Bagwell Ousmane Sembene Raoul Peck Reginald & Warrington Hudlin Robert Townsend Rusty Cundieff St. Clair Bourne Stan Lathan Tim Reid Wendell B. Harris William Greaves Yvonne Welbon Zeinabu Irene Davis (...and a special "white Negro" award goes to John Sayles, for being one of the only non-Black American directors to portray Black people as fully realized human beings.) In terms of film genres or aesthetics, I'm most interested in the following: Anime Documentaries Neorealism Politics Satire Science Fiction Surrealism (...and yes, I'll admit that when it comes to guilty pleasures, my so-called feminist and intellectual self finds the often bloody and ridiculous Giallos entertaining.) |
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Television:I don't watch live TV, it's nothing but DVDs for me, and the list of shows I consider worthy of mentioning is short:Aeon Flux Ghost in the Shell: SAC Homicide: Life on the Street Iron Chef Millenium New York Undercover Spawn Star Trek: Deep Space Nine The Prisoner The Twilight Zone (Original) (...OK, I admit that the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (G.L.O.W.) was a favorite when I was struggling through puberty.) |
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Books:I can't even begin to list all the good books I've read, but here are a few classics for those who share my philosophical proclivities:A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (Zinn) A Wrinkle in Time (L'Engle) Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Watkins) All the Women are White, All the Blacks are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies (Hull, Scott, & Smith) American Negro Slave Revolts (Aptheker) Animal Farm (Orwell) Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness (Gilroy) Black Awakening in Capitalist America: An Analytic History (Allen) Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Collins) Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (Robinson) Black No More (Schuyler) Black Reconstruction in America: 1860-1880 (Du Bois) Black Skin, White Masks (Fanon) Caste, Class, & Race (Cox) Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement (Crenshaw, Gotanda, Peller, Thomas) Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (Thomas) Detroit: I Do Mind Dying (Georgakas & Surkin) Discourse on Colonialism (Cesaire) Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (Watkins) Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (Kelley) How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America (Marable) How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Rodney) I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (Payne) Kindred (Butler) Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Chomsky & Herman) Mumbo Jumbo (Reed) Natural Theology (Paley) Negroes With Guns (Williams) Network Nation (Hiltz & Turoff) Pan-Africanism or Communism? The Coming Struggle for Africa (Padmore) Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Freire) Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power (Tyson) Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism (Gates) Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Lorde) The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Shabazz & Haley) The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (James) The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Hughes & Rampersad) The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (Cruse) The Matrix (Quarterman) The Mis-Education of the Negro (Woodson) The Souls of Black Folk (Du Bois) The User's Directory of Computer Networks (Laquey) The Wretched of the Earth (Fanon) They Came Before Columbus (Van Sertima) Think Like a Grandmaster (Kotov) This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Moraga & Anzaldua) Women, Race, & Class (Davis) Zen and the Art of the Internet (Kehoe) (...and no, I don't think any of these have ever been featured on Oprah's Book Club.) |
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Heroes:My Earthly Father. He taught me the true meaning of Black Power, without ever raising his fist in the air. A luta continua, Daddy.My Heavenly Father -- the "Revolutionary Humanist" and "Libertarian Socialist" -- Jesus, The Christ. People: A. Philip Randolph Aime Cesaire Albert Einstein Amilcar Cabral Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones Angela Davis Anna Julia Cooper Arthur Ashe Audrey Lorde Barbara Lee Barbara Smith Basil Davidson Bayard Rustin Bill Fletcher, Jr. Canada Lee Charlotta Bass Che Guevara Chris Hani C.L.R. James Constance Baker Motley Cyril Briggs Denmark Vessey Dennis Brutus Dom Helder Camera Ella Baker Fannie Lou Hamer Frances Beale Frantz Fanon Fred Hampton Frederick Douglass Gloria Akasha Hull Gloria Watkins/bell hooks Grace Lee Boggs Harold Cruse Harriet Tubman Harry Belafonte Harry Haywood Harry T. Moore Herbert Aptheker Hubert Harrison Ida B. Wells James Baldwin James Boggs James Cone James Forman John Brown John Henrik Clarke Johnnie Tillmon Julius Nyerere Kali Tal Kimberle Crenshaw Williams Kwame Nkrumah Kwame Ture/Stokely Carmichael Langston Hughes Leon H. Sullivan Leonard Tim Hector Leopold Senghor Malcolm X/El Haj Malik El Shabazz Manning Marable Marcus Garvey Martin Luther King, Jr. Michelle Wallace Muhammad Ali/Cassius Clay Nat Turner Oliver Cox Oscar Romero Ossie Davis Patrice Lumumba Patricia Bell-Scott Patricia Hill-Collins Paul Robeson Paulette Nardal Queen Mother Moore Ralph Bunche Randall Robinson Richard Stallman Robert F. Williams Robert L. Allen Robin D.G. Kelley Ruby Dee Sekou Toure Sojourner Truth Sonia Sanchez Steven Biko Suzanne Cesaire Toni Cade Bambara Walter Rodney W.E.B DuBois William L. Patterson Winnie Mandela Yuri Kochiyama Organizations: African Blood Brotherhood (ABB) African National Congress (ANC) All-African People's Revolutionary Party (AAPRP) Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Combahee River Collective Deacons for Defense (DFD) Five Percent Nation/Nation of Gods & Earths (NGE) Free Software Foundation (FSF) Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) League of Revolutionary Black Workers (LRBW) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) Republic of New Africa (RNA) Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) Universal Zulu Nation (UZN) Movements: Abolitionist Movement Anti-Apartheid Movement Black Arts Movement (BAM) Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) Black Power Movement (BPM) Civil Rights Movement (CRM) Harlem Renaissance Negritude Movement Niagara Movement (...and billions of others not affiliated with either the Democratic or the Republican parties.) |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| MaritalStatus: | Single |
| SexualOrientation: | Straight |
| Hometown: | Los Angeles |
| Religion: | Christian - other |
| Smoker: | No |
| Drinker: | No |
| Occupation: | Media & Technology Consultant |
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My Blog |
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A Mistake or a Proposition? |
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| Have you ever gone to a restaurant or fast-food place, ordered something, paid for it, but then, ended up getting much more than you were supposed to?Did you ever wonder to yourself, did I just get lu... Posted by Dan Freeman on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 02:56:00 PST |
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Non-Sexist, Non-Racist, and Non-Homophobic Cursing? |
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| Does anyone have any suggestions on how progressive people can learn to curse people out, or say really disparaging things about that which they despise, without resorting to racism, sexism, or homoph... Posted by Dan Freeman on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 02:50:00 PST |
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Tim Russert: 1950-2008 |
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| ... Posted by Dan Freeman on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:52:00 PST |
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Black Lesbian or Black Gay Films |
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| Does anyone know of any films in which two Black lesbians or two Black men fall in love with each other?As a cinema junkie and political philosopher, I love all kinds of cinema, including LGBT cinema,... Posted by Dan Freeman on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:28:00 PST |
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From Oreo To Negro |
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| ... Posted by Dan Freeman on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:46:00 PST |
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Dear Mr. Mexican Man |
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| Dear Mr. Mexican Man Who Lives Next Door,Pardon me, I don't know if you speak english, and I unfortunately don't speak spanish, but maybe a kind soul will translate this so as to insure you get my mes... Posted by Dan Freeman on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:09:00 PST |
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The Death of Independent Video Stores |
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| Total shock. That's all I'm feeling right now. Talk about bittersweet. The video store I've mentioned in previous blogs, which I worked at as a second job and managed, was recently named the best in t... Posted by Dan Freeman on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:01:00 PST |
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Capitalism Created Racism? |
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| If you ever travel in lefty political circles, inevitably you will run into the white Marxist or Anarchist, who will parrot the supposed universal truth that "capitalism created racism."I'm going to b... Posted by Dan Freeman on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:49:00 PST |
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Dear White Women |
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| Your Whiteness is Showing:An Open Letter to Certain White Women who are Threatening to Withhold Support From Barack Obama in NovemberBy Tim WiseJune 6, 2008This is an open letter to those white women ... Posted by Dan Freeman on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:10:00 PST |
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Michael Moores White Liberal Racism |
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| The Americans Who Matter: Michael Moore's White Liberal Racism in Bowling for ColumbineWith Allies Like These, You Don't Need Enemies: Michael Moore and the Racism of the White LeftStupid White Movie:... Posted by Dan Freeman on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:42:00 PST |
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