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September 26, 2002
Political Animal
Student in Tangle Over Dreadlocks May Enroll in Kalispell 
" 'Unbelievable,' House said. 'I got called every name in the book. (I heard from) people from all across the United States, from Georgia to you name it.''I think it's a sad commentary on people that are barking just to be barking about something they know very little about. … It's OK to disagree, but let's do it with respect.'He also heard from supporters who applauded the school for standing up for family values." Dreads are not all that outlandish. And how are family values at stake? Do they have TV in northwest Montana? Daily Interlake
Fnord
U.S. Seeking West African Oil "'West African oil doesn't have the strategic bottlenecks that other nations have. We generally have good political relations with African oil producers. And if it lessens our dependence on a particular section of the world, that's good,' Royce said." This can't be good. Austin American Statesman
September 15, 2002
Weblog
Boxer Rebellion "Of course, not everyone likes the ad. It is, after all, a grinning-and-dancing black man, and it's no surprise it reminds at least some people of the unpleasant history associated with such an image." Slate.com
September 5, 2002
Weblog
Crossing Division Street " When the big things happened--the pep rallies and the assemblies and the elections and even the fooling around in the cafeteria--the black kids were invisible to all the white kids. They couldn't be pretty or handsome or cool or important: They couldn't even really be present, not truly present, because we made them not there with our eyes. It's not child's play, that trick of the eyes. It's the first step, the very beginning of the process that ends with the trains and the ovens." Dallas Observer