prejudice
November 26, 2009
- When I was a kid, Thanksgiving meant tracing your spread-out fingers on construction paper to make a colorful turkey cut-out, and listening to prepackaged accounts of harmony among the early European settlers and the Native Americans who took pity on them, teaching them to grow corn, hunt deer and catch fish. At home, we cooked a turkey to cottony dryness, moistening the meat with slices from a ...
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November 21, 2009
- many things cause me to become deliriously angry. http://redroom.com/blog/steven-robert-travers/radical-liberalism-is-ironic-result-of-american-success encapsulates most of them. i am sometimes compelled to respond to these things, and i am enlisting the help from any other person who may have a talent to dig under this sort of prejudicial and self-righteous skin and sow some doubt in the ...
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November 13, 2009
- The puppy is adamant, as only she can be when her determined little soul is focused on her determined little belly. She cruises the kitchen counters with a thoroughness to make Julia Child blanch. “Brisket! Brisket!” she chants.I offer her a MilkBone as an appeasement. “I said brisket, not biscuit!” The puppy gives me The Look which adds “idiot” to every statement she ...
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August 27, 2009
- For almost all my life, I have been plagued with bad manners. Not the kind that I would write about to, say, Miss Manners for some advice, because she might laugh at me or at least not take me seriously. But it’s been a huge problem nonetheless. I have been nice. Too nice. Oh, I can see you all, sniggering, rolling your eyes, making that circular motion to your head, looking a ...
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June 12, 2009
- Anti-Semitism has been a fact of my life for its entirety, from the first time, at age 5 or 6 I was told I was going to hell because I did not believe in Jesus, to the countless times I was called a “stupid Jew,” a kike, a baby killer, and a host of other names; from the time when, after the tent revivals rolled into town and everyone got “saved” (for the first or fifth time) the saved ...
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April 3, 2009
- Cultural hatred or racism. Religious bias or insensitivity toward the nature and background of one person is indeed a barrier to communication.All of these stem from our thought process.The thought process is an interaction of forces outside man, but it is man himself who has the power to choose which images must control his psyche. Cultural hatred is a stereotyped emotion that oftentimes ...
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March 31, 2009
- Excitement! Excitement! My new children's fantasy novel, Shadowland, came out today! (For a description and excerpt, see www.chitradivakaruni.com). It is a stand alone book, but it's also the final novel in the Brotherhood of the Conch trilogy, a project I began in 2002--a long haul. I want to share with you a bit of the story of how all this came to be.At that time I'd been writing for several ...
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February 28, 2009
- Unless you are just now emerging from the safe room you built in anticipation of the Y2K disaster, you probably know Latinos are the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States. That widespread fact has caught the eye of marketers across the country and many have rushed in to exploit this rich, untapped vein of consumers. Not surprisingly, this “gold fever” has spawned some ugly ...
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December 21, 2008
- I came across this on-line somewhere some time ago: "Terrorist strikes on four American cities. Russia rolling into Eastern Europe. Israel hit by a nuclear bomb. Gay marriage in every state. The end of the Boy Scouts All are plausible scenarios if Democrat Barack Obama is elected president, according to a new addition to the campaign conversation called “Letter from 2012 in Obama’s ...
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December 6, 2008
- A lot of people seem to be reading these posts, but no-one is leaving comments. Of what are you afraid? Leave me comments, people! The dissection of 'what went wrong' with the recent Proposition 8 results has been on my radar a lot lately. I have been astounded by the low level of discourse from those opposed to same-sex marriage and civil rights for years, but it seems to have sunk to a ...
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