If you think Americans have lost their way, maybe it’s time for us to take a gander at the inspired wisdom of Gene Autry, America’s Singing Cowboy, so we can all learn to be good cowboys and earn our white hats. Here’s the code that directed his long and prosperous life.
Gene Autry’s Cowboy Code
The Cowboy [...]
Posted in Anglo-European Primacy, Economics, Politics on Apr 20th, 2009
I wander around the Internet like a child in a candy store. So much to look at, so little time. I end up in places without any idea how I got there and wonder if I could get there again. In many ways, the Internet feels like a wilderness back country where you blaze your [...]
Posted in Economics, Education, Socioeconomic on Apr 10th, 2009
Let’s say President Obama’s bow to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia earns him a gift, in the form of a gesture to help shift the balance of power in America from the white upper and middle class base that currently holds it. The goal would be that 60 years from now, there would be a [...]
Posted in Anglo-European Primacy, Business, Economics, Equity, Immigration, Uncategorized on Apr 9th, 2009
“……. Northern Europeans are a superior subspecies of the white race. The Nordics were superior to the Alpines, who in turn were superior to the Mediterraneans, and all of them were superior to the Jews and the Asians.” This is how Rice University professor Stephen Klineberg described the racist immigration laws in the United States prior to [...]
Posted in Business, Economics, Labor, Racism on Apr 7th, 2009
One of the world’s leading diamond producers, DeBeer’s, has decided to halt production in their diamond mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo, withthe reason being the current economic climate makes the project no longer viable.
Translation:
Posted in Business, Culture, Economics, Education, Equity, History, Immigration, Labor, Mexico, Socioeconomic on Apr 1st, 2009
When I told Chidrup, who is from India, that I am working on a project about the problems of racism in the US, he was puzzled. He sees the US as a place of education and boundless opportunity for everyone.
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 Culture, Economics, History, Law & Justice, Racism, Religion on Mar 18th, 2009
…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.
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 [...]
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