race
October 10, 2009
- You do not have to be an expert in history to know that hatred, blind, bigoted, ignorant, cruel hatred is a pervasive element in the human psyche. Perhaps, given the bloody record from the beginning of time, it is one of the most dominant features of the human condition. The litany of hatred is infinite. Yes, there are people who hate blacks because they are black. People hate Jews because they ...
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September 21, 2009
- SLAVES TO DO THESE THINGSbyAmy King~~~~I'm portable. My mind travels / the verse and valleys of whole people says the poet. Correct! Readers of this book will discover their own memories. They will melt in them, amazed, lullabied, dramatized, shocked that they exist. Amy King is a true bard.— Tomaž Šalamun Smoke n’ hott, these poems emerge as … audible diamonds that cut, where ...
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August 28, 2009
- I’ve found the nearly perfect kanji sandwich! Check this out: 徒競走 (tokyōsō: running race) to go on foot + to compete + to run What a thing of beauty! If you took the first kanji, 徒, and removed 彳 (a radical that Henshall defines as “movement along a road” and that Spahn has as “to walk a short distance, stop, linger”), you would have a completely symmetrical ...
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August 27, 2009
- Two Days in August (Version #2 - Bad Manners) Sitting in my car, staring at the back of a dirty Jeep stopped in the middle of the road in front of me, there is nowhere for me to go. All I can see of the driver is her ponytail. Next to her, in a truck pointed downhill, is a middle-aged man in a cowboy hat. I'm returning home after having lunch with two friends who live a couple of ...
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July 13, 2009
- Your assignment: spotlight science fiction and fantasy titles where people of color are the leads, works by people of color in these genres or discuss your thoughts about race in these genres. Do you notice the absence of color? In what ways is race portrayed in fantasy and science fiction beyond using traditional racial terms like black and white? If the book covers prominently features people ...
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June 26, 2009
- The radio is blasting Michael Jackson features. All of them end with the same note, that he was planning a "comeback tour." It appears he had to leave to come back, as befits a figure whose early dive into the oceanic adoration of celebrity turned his life inside out. I find myself thinking this morning of the concept of "transcending race," a strange and knotty idea. To ...
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May 29, 2009
- Begin with a human figure—a silhouette of a human figure, for the moment, backlit by sunset—a human figure walking down a road. The road is a dirt road, hard-packed reddish-beige earth. Down its center a pair of bare ruts run, where passing cars and trucks and tractors have flattened, hardened, and buffed it to a kind of ceramic sheen. The person in view, however, does not walk in the rutted ...
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May 29, 2009
- The sky at ten thirty pm is a soft apricot with a tint of blue, a wash of something else that is not possible to describe and a segment of moon that looks like it was torn fresh from a tangerine and thrown at the horizon where it sticks and hangs tentatively. Peaceful place. Heavenly home. All around me peace. I can hear the magical, comforting sound of my fourteen year old son talking ...
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May 29, 2009
- Yesterday I was tooling around the interwebs and--in the inexplicable way that these things happen--came across some reviews for a book the title of which I now can't remember. But the title isn't important. It's one of the reader reviews that caught my attention. I've been thinking about it since reading it, and still haven't quite decided what I think about it.Basically the reviewer said (and ...
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May 14, 2009
- The polarization of America's news media was supposed to have ceased with the dawn of the Obama era. With Fox on the right and CNN on the left, the media establishment was racing away from the center faster than the Milky Way fleeing from the Big Bang. The presidential election was supposed to bring about a new era of bipartisanship and bridge-building. From reading the medias' web ...
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