Posted in Anglo-European Primacy, Education, History, Law & Justice, Racism on Apr 11th, 2010
“The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively not by the false appearance of things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.” – Schopenhauer Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse with partisan politics along comes an S bomb. Innocent [...]
Growing up in the Texas Hill Country we were glued every evening to find out the way it really was out in the world. Those days of yester year are over and so is the news legend that told us, Walter Cronkite. These days news is not the journalistic truth and reporting meter it once was. Is it any [...]
Posted in Anglo-European Primacy, Culture, Economics, Education, History, Law & Justice, Racism on Oct 1st, 2009
Posted in Education on Sep 18th, 2009
You cannot remove the racist from the person. There, I said it. But you CAN do things to immunize people on the wrong side of the institutional racism equation, many of whom have their demographics under-represented in the halls of academia and the ranks of the college degree-requiring professions, from some of the effects of [...]
Posted in Culture, Education, Immigration on Sep 3rd, 2009
This past month we memorialized the fortieth anniversary of Woodstock. It was an idealistic generation full of optimism and very anti establishment. They courageously stood up and defended their principles against causes they were passionate about, such as Vietnam. This hippie flower children generation has made profound changes for the better in our times. They [...]
Posted in Education, Racism, Uncategorized on Jul 24th, 2009
A collection of opinions from around the web on the arrest of Henry Louis Gates. Ta-Nahesi Coates sees both class and race at play: …for black people, this is the kind of issue that tends to cut across lines of class and politics. I would say that this is the sort of thing that angers [...]
Posted in Education on Jun 5th, 2009
Do you feel compelled to personally write a check to any black person you see, if you are white, because 200 years ago your ancestor may have profited from the slave labor of the black person’s ancestor? That’s what reparation is in the minds of many, and it is not appealing to anyone in that [...]
Posted in Education, Equity, Uncategorized on May 28th, 2009
Hispanics are center stage this week in the national theater with Justice Sonia Sotomayor being nominated for The Supreme Court. Let the debate begin! Will it be payback for the burning down in flames of Justice Robert Bork’s confirmation hearing? Will it be as controversial and contentious as Justice Clarence Thomas?
Posted in Education on May 28th, 2009
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Posted in Culture, Economics, Education, Race on May 13th, 2009
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 [...]
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