Author: theory friction practice

So since the recent worker rally that was epically successful—at least in terms of turnout—there has been a lot of chalking done on Pomona College’s campus. I trace it back to the rally because I remember seeing the northern door of Frary Dining Hall covered with the phrase “Black and

No one has seemed to notice that the phrase “F— Whitey,” and some other related phrases were scrawled in chalk in a few places on Pomona’s new dorms. The chalk was up for at least four days since Saturday and perhaps the same person/people is/are re-chalking the phrases, or the

I have a Facebook account that I use in strange ways. Currently my profile photo is some stock photo of Rick Santorum posing for a portrait in front of an American flag. While the combination of my queerness and his anti-gay politics could be funny enough, the image doesn’t stop

In 2010, Tyler Clementi, a student at Rutgers University in New Jersey, threw himself off of the George Washington Bridge three days after his roommate had video-recorded and broadcast one of Clementi’s sexual encounters in their shared dorm room. There were many suicides that year that came close on the

There is a white woman. She is baking a chocolate cake for her little white son, Timmy. She turns around to grab something from off of the counter and Timmy takes some of the chocolate frosting and rubs it all over his face. He says, “Look, Mommy, I’m black!” His

The title of Claremont McKenna College (CMC) alumnus Charles Johnson’s article on the recent college scandal is “Did Top Liberal Arts College Falsify SAT Data to Legitimize Racial Preferences?” I think this is a misguided and misinformed question, to which I shall assert the complication, “Does the SAT manufacture racial