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		<title>Outside the Box of “Racism”</title>
		<link>http://insidefromtheinside.com/2009/07/31/outside-the-box/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monica Rix Paxson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the challenges for me personally about writing on the subject of racism is that I am driven to bring new ideas to the discussion, to look at things from unique points of view. Given that,  I sometimes see connections that aren&#8217;t obvious to anyone else, but are perfectly obvious to me. But making [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just How Racist are You?</title>
		<link>http://insidefromtheinside.com/2009/07/09/just-how-racist-are-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monica Rix Paxson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you have an unconscious preference for white people over black no matter what your race is? Do you have strong associations between weapons and people of one race? Do you have a gender or age bias? Or do you honestly think you don’t have biases? Now you can discover the unvarnished truth about these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Personal Truth Commission #1</title>
		<link>http://insidefromtheinside.com/2009/06/23/truth-commissio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monica Rix Paxson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am putting myself on trial here—at least in the sense of opening myself to public scrutiny—and I know that there is no excuse for what I am about to confess. Yes, there were circumstances. But so what? There is absolutely no justification. I actively and knowingly discriminated against many people on the basis of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nobody’s Fool: The Art of Pamela Colman Smith</title>
		<link>http://insidefromtheinside.com/2009/06/12/pamela-colman-smith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monica Rix Paxson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pamela Colman Smith was a painter whose legacy, at least in part because of her race, has been in danger of being forever lost in obscurity. Although Pamela was born February 16th, 1878 in Middlesex, England, the country where she lived most of her life, she was the daughter of African Americans. She also spent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regional Unfriendly?</title>
		<link>http://insidefromtheinside.com/2009/06/03/regional-unfriendly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monica Rix Paxson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past couple of weeks, two friends of mine had tasks that took them traveling to places in the southern USA. In both instances they expressed their reluctance to be in that part of the country. While they joked about it a bit, it was also pretty clear they were uncomfortable with the idea [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Critical Mass is What’s Critical</title>
		<link>http://insidefromtheinside.com/2009/05/27/critical-mass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 07:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monica Rix Paxson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, Inside from the Inside writer Tom Worth posted a CNN story about the newly elected mayor on Philadelphia entitled “Mississippi Burning” Town Elects Black Mayor. Here is a video of that not-to-be-missed story. Embedded video from CNN Video This story reminded me that when officials are elected by a simple majority, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Life in Transit</title>
		<link>http://insidefromtheinside.com/2009/05/20/my-life-in-transit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 07:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monica Rix Paxson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was no way around it. My daughter had been accepted into a unique language immersion school and my office was on the other side of the city.  Between the two points lay the vast and dangerous wasteland, the neighborhood known as Chicago’s “West Side.” The only reasonable route between dropping my child off at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There is Always a First Time</title>
		<link>http://insidefromtheinside.com/2009/05/13/first-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 07:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monica Rix Paxson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an exceedingly simple story. Yet from the first time I heard it, I sensed there was something very tender about it. The woman on the left is Tracie. She was my boss for over six years, until I was laid off recently. The man on the right is her co-worker, Mike. The story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back in the Saddle:Singing the Praises of a Genuine American Success Story</title>
		<link>http://insidefromtheinside.com/2009/05/06/back-in-the-saddlesinging-the-praises-of-a-genuine-american-success-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 01:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monica Rix Paxson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you think Americans have lost their way, maybe it&#8217;s time for us to take a gander at the inspired wisdom of Gene Autry, America&#8217;s Singing Cowboy, so we can all learn to be good cowboys and earn our white hats. Here&#8217;s the code that directed his long and prosperous life. Gene Autry&#8217;s Cowboy Code [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There Were No Slaves</title>
		<link>http://insidefromtheinside.com/2009/04/29/there-were-no-slaves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monica Rix Paxson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[enslavement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There were no slaves
There are no slaves now and never were.

The people we have been referring to as ‘the slaves’ were (and are) in fact enslaved men and women. They were people who had as much intelligence, dignity and capability as you and I have. ‘Slaves’ are not who they were.]]></description>
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