Posted in Law & Justice, Racism on Mar 31st, 2009
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle introduces Sherlock Holmes in the 1887 story “A Study in Scarlet.” In it, Holmes shocks his friend John H. Watson, M.D. with his ignorance, which “was as remarkable as his knowledge.” Watson is particularly surprised that Holmes is unaware that the earth revolves around the sun.
“Now that I do know it [...]
Posted in Anglo-European Primacy, Education, Relationships on Mar 30th, 2009
A young man stopped by to see me the other day. I looked up, delighted to see him. I hadn’t seen him in nearly two years. I heard that he moved to Chicago. I expected to see him on Oprah one day.
I met this young man at a diversity training opening week at the community [...]
Young Franklin, eyeing the perfect opportunity for his daily good deed as a newly-minted Boy Scout, politely asks the woman waiting to cross the road if he can be of assistance. She is clearly blind, and he is only too eager to help.
The woman graciously accepts his offer. Halfway across the street, she asks the [...]
Posted in Economics, Racism, Socioeconomic, Uncategorized on Mar 26th, 2009
The effects of racism are like the parts of a mosaic: Until the parts are assembled, its picture is unclear.
But what is racism?
Wikipedia says racism is the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another, that a person’s social and moral traits are predetermined by his or her inborn biological characteristics.
Belief.
A belief [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 26th, 2009
Fair question: What if this had been Houston Texans’ quarterback Matt Schaub instead of running back Ryan Moats?
Read the Dallas Morning News story. Watch the video. Imagine that it was your mom dying in her hospital bed.
Posted in Immigration, Mexico on Mar 26th, 2009
According to some, the United Sates has been over run by immigrants that exploit the prosperity of Americans. This is evident when you dine out, travel, play golf, or attend conventions. They have infested low paying entry level jobs such as yard keepers, maids, wait staff, construction, agriculture, etc.
A black municipal judge in Dallas is taking heat for a line from a newspaper column he wrote earlier this month: “Black folks have been cleaning up white folks’ messes for hundreds of years, so why should we expect any different now?”
Forget, for a minute, whether the statement is simply true or baldly bigoted. [...]
Posted in Advertising, Media, Race on Mar 25th, 2009
“Images of Black women that are in fact ‘national, racial, and historical hallucinations’ have been ingrained into the collective conscience of the United states since slavery. Black women have been depicted either naked, generally in an ethnographic context, or as laborers, usually domestic, their social status playing a crucial role in the development of visual [...]
Posted in Anglo-European Primacy, Arts, Culture, Education, History, Law & Justice, Racism on Mar 25th, 2009
When my friend Chidrup and I talked about racism in the US, there was a big chunk of information missing from his understanding: He didn’t know about the history of white domination and the enslavement of African people in the United States for nearly four-hundred years.
It was hard to tell Chidrup the truth. I’m proud [...]
Posted in Happiness on Mar 24th, 2009
I’m a HUGE fan of HGTV. I secretly want to be an interior designer, but that’s another blog post for another day — and probably another blog. Any whooooo…
I had the pleasure of luxuriating while watching a special program on HGTV Sunday evening called, “A Man Named Pearl”. Essentially, it is the story of Pearl Fryar, a man who has done extraordinary things with his property in one of the poorest, and by the county’s inhabitant’s own admission, still noticably segregated, counties in South Carolina.
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