Inside from the Inside

What do you want to be when you grow up?
Linnette Figueroa wants to become a veterinarian. Tanisha Diaz wants to be a lawyer and an entrepreneur.
The Springfield, Massachusetts teens are bright, hard-working and ambitious. So why shouldn’t they reach their goals?

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Andrew Sullivan points to Time’s new photo essay on high schoolers.  Listen to Kevin….

When I was about six or seven my father died. This was either the worst or best thing that ever happened to me. In fact, now that I think about it, it was both. That experience was both my blessing and my [...]

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My two sons and I spent the last ten days traveling in Guatemala with a friend who runs a nonprofit which brings Guatemalan students to the US to learn English and go to high school.  Guatemalan society is divided into three main strata; the descendants of the families of the original Spanish oligarchy, the mixed [...]

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i am not a coward

I can’t quite remember how I found Tiffany. I probably surfed through an ocean of websites before landing on YouTube.  Oh, I remember. I clicked on something and ended up on The Sable Verity.
Tiffany vlogs on YouTube. Through her vlog, Mulatto Diaries, Tiffany shares her thoughts and experiences as a biracial [...]

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We’ve all heard or read it:  “…in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.”  But who among you took it upon yourself to get past the initial wave of b.s. analysis and shock value by looking up Attorney General Eric Holder’s speech text [...]

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Dave Chappelle’s video spewed the N-word like Dillinger’s machine gun.

I armoured up by recalling Richard. He nailed it.

Thought about George. He missed it. By many a mile.

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It was the drive and the energy of the group of professionals that first attracted his notice.  A dynamic mix of individuals from a variety of backgrounds, united by the mission of helping each other and other Hispanics advance their personal and professional development. 

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Check out “Obama Fingers,” the new frozen food now available in Germany.  Nothing racist about it, says the manufacturer -  it is “an homage to the American lifestyle and the new U.S.  president.”
We could start a blog on any number of controversial topics - let’s pick abortion for the sake of this argument - and [...]

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Thanks to the wayward nation of Australia for doing what no U.S. media, in their white, self-congratulatory, post-election euphoria, have yet done, save C-SPAN and Bill Moyers Journal: In this clip from the Aussie news show, Lateline, Dr. Ron Walters, director of the University of Maryland’s African American Leadership Center, and a key strategist with [...]

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…now I understood something about my own country I didn’t understand before. I know why so many white people here don’t realize how serious the problem of racism is in the USA. I finally get it.

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