1. Anyone who persists in believing we have achieved a “color blind” society in the United States should read this article by Patricia J. Williams. A fertility clinic used sperm other than the planned father’s to create a child. They used African-descended sperm, to be exact. The family already had such DNA on one side, but not the other, and they wanted to be sure their child would be lighter than its mother, not darker. Now they are suing for “wrongful birth.” It is painful for them to have a darker child, they say, and life will be painful for the child because she is dark. She was wrongfully born.
2. Referring to this post and events surrounding it a bright friend – and a man, por más señas – says, but this man is not entirely bright! He is citing pseudoscientific evidence to allege rationality, but did his wife not leave him precisely because he was controlling and cold? The sociological and therapeutic discourse he cites to defend the rationality of his proposals has been invented to provide non-intelligent people the illusion of intelligence! Of course you are exhausted – speaking with less than intelligent people is exhausting, do you not know this from giving certain courses?
3. I was delighted with these sentences, and my evil mood may soon lift therefore. I was particularly delighted with the sentence I have bolded, because I think it speaks to Reeducation: a way to give non-reflective people a way to simulate reflection, and non-spiritual people a way to simulate meditation, while in fact functioning to further interpellate them as subjects of the dominant culture.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
Prof. Z
See my last two posts.
Prof. Z
Now I’ve read the post, people don’t need much of a reason to whip-up on people.
See Sunnis vs, Shiites.
Color is just part of a long laundry list.
“…speaking with less than intelligent people is exhausting, ”
…at last an explanation for my exhaustion at the end of the day….thanks for clearing that up professor.
CB, yes, people do seem to like to fight. Barbie (hi!), it had to be explained to me, too. I keep feeling bad about myself for not having more stamina, not being able to put up with yet more silliness, but the fact is, it is tiring and not replenishing, and I am not a Bodhisattva (although actually I think a Bodhisattva would be more likely to avoid silliness than to put up with it).