Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 17th, 2009
I’m starting to focus in a lot on health and healthcare disparities – especially as relates to race and socioeconomic “status”.
If you’ve ever heard someone say that racism is institutionalized, it’s this type of story to which they are referring.
I read this press release issued by the University of South Florida Health and was absolutely stunned.
I never really thought about it until I heard a young woman whose parents were Hispanic and white talk about the tension in her family. Her mother’s relatives, the white folks, never accepted the young woman as part of their family. Her father’s relatives, the Hispanic folks, never accepted her either. She said it took [...]
Posted in Racism on Mar 16th, 2009
Sometimes, pulling the Race card is pointless and stupid, only serving to draw attention from more important issues surrrounding a subject. An African American Point of View is a nice little newspaper,
Posted in Racism, Relationships, Struggles on Mar 13th, 2009
Ours was not a harmonious relationship. The few adult conversations we managed only cemented our divide with righteous opinons, thrown from both sides of the tent. He died unexpectedly in 2006. A year or so before, he made a rare appearance at my home. The time of his arrival signaled this was not just a [...]
Posted in Anglo-European Primacy, Business, Education, Labor, Socioeconomic on Mar 13th, 2009
But if you’re aren’t the most powerful person on the face of the earth, you ain’t makin’ this list as a black person. Asian, Arab, Indian, woman, sure! However, the only one with a discernible amount of the blood of black Africa running through his or her veins to be included on the Financial Times [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 12th, 2009
If you haven’t seen it, there’s a wonderfully addictive blog filled with passive aggressive notes found in public spaces. None, however, comes close to this letter sent in 1865 by a freed slave to his former master, who had graciously invited the man and his family back from the North to serve him in freedom. [...]
Posted in Racism on Mar 12th, 2009
Posted in Entertainment on Mar 11th, 2009
Long before its scheduled release this coming Friday, March 13, Resident Evil 5 (RE5), the next installment in the immensely popular and influential survival-horror videogame series, started coughing up blood…and controversy: In the narrative, a white protagonist, Chris Redfield, sets down in what appears to be an African or Caribbean country decimated by a mutant [...]
Posted in Business, Economics, Immigration, Labor, Law & Justice, Mexico, Racism, Struggles on Mar 11th, 2009
Luís Argueta, director of the award-winning film “The Silence of Neto,” (Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival; Best Movie, New York Latino Film Festival), along with co-producer Vivian Rivas, are now in the post-production phase of their new full-length documentary “abUSed – The Postville Raid,” about the arrest of nearly 400 immigrant workers in a single [...]
Posted in Racism on Mar 10th, 2009
There’s a freakin’ scorpion in my tub.
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