Round-up

1. This article says it's racism if you are against Muslim women voting while wearing the burqa. Fine. So it's misogynistic if you want them to wear the burqa. And what race is Islam again?

2. Administrators at an Iowa high school pulled copies of a student newspaper earlier this week after complaints arose about a racism survey in the paper, according to the Iowa City Press-Citizen. In a story on the paper's Web site on Wednesday, the Press-Citizen reported that City High School principal Mark Hanson removed copies of the Little Hawk newspaper's Oct. 19 edition. It included a survey finding that 13 percent of students polled viewed blacks unfavorably and two percent viewed whites unfavorably, the Press-Citizen said.

"He said there have been a growing number of black students at the school in recent years, a trend that has caused tension among some students."

Now I wonder: what are the demographics of this? Which group is causing the majority of the problems? Is it really just "whites vs. blacks"? What about Asians? Is there any tension going on between minorities? Does anyone know? Does anyone care?