racism
June 2, 2009
- Some Australians are racist. Indians are the targets right now. BUT, rightwing Indians used the same racist argument against their own people not too long ago.The former PM John Howard became their hero. We got emails titled, “India Needs A Leader Like This!” Today, as I think of the young students in Australia, my thoughts also go to those myopic people who were distributing that sort of ...
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June 1, 2009
- It is very sad that in the period of a moth there are more then 20 violent attacks on Indian students studying in Australia mainly in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. Australian police are biased on all the complaints made by Indian students. Australian gang ...
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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 2, 2009
- It's been a good long month of Sundays, a year of backward Wednesdays since I've been called a racist. In fact, I don't think I've ever been called a racist, at least to my face. Of course, I will admit to having grown up one. I was raised in a very white community, raised by two parents from the Mid-West, both of whom grew up with beliefs about race and class that they passed on to me. ...
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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 17, 2009
- Some of you are aware of bits of my past. Some are familiar with much of my work…both overseas and here in the USA. This has produced nightmares that have not ended. I began emailing my beloved husband at work when I am suddenly awakened by night terrors.He is a medical professional and often works midnights. He suggested that the emails I’d sent be saved and included in the book I ...
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March 14, 2009
- An editorial in the March 14, 1965 New York Times had this to say about the turmoil in Selma: “The past week in Alabama has been a time of dangerous competition between the forces of racism and reason, of violence and law, of the defeated past and the struggling future.” It was a lot to consider as I rode into Selma on a 50-seat plus bus filled to capacity with African Americans spanning ...
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March 11, 2009
- An odd point of irony from this particular writer’s life: I have boarded planes that touched down in places hundreds and thousands of miles from my home state of Georgia (USA), traveling to California, England, Germany, Scotland, and elsewhere. But somehow I never journeyed west, just next door, to the state of Alabama until visiting the rural town of Selma last Sunday, March 8, 2009, during ...
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March 3, 2009
- Singing Us Back to Ourselves
Kathryn Stripling Byer
Writers have this quaint idea that words matter. Quaint because many people no longer
seem to care about using language well. Words are simply advertising or political tools,
used without precision or passion. Hearing the language that they love being violated sets
writers’ teeth on edge. And no wonder! This is the age of media ...
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March 2, 2009
- Today again I'm taking this post right from the “Southern Poverty Law Center” web site (www.splcenter.org/) This article is the idea of Tom Tancredo. Of course, anything Mr. Tancredo says needs to be taken “with a grain of salt” I don't want to waste much space writing about him, but you can find information regarding him online.He’s another Republican who should have the ...
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