Posted in Advertising, Economics, Equity, Struggles on Aug 13th, 2009
The fight against health care reform is in full force. Two polar opposites are generating surges of electricity in the media and the masses, so it seems. On one end of the spectrum are powerful special interests and uninformed people fighting for profits and the status quo. The other side has President Obama, health care reformers and [...]
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 Equity, Socioeconomic on Apr 27th, 2009
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I recently became involved in a community project to develop a plan to increase pathways to employment for the homeless. The initial discussion included defining homeless. The stereotypes abound: drunk on the corner with the sign and his dog, drug addict, mental illness. The realities include a much broader segment of the [...]
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, 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.
Posted in Anglo-European Primacy, Equity, Racism on Mar 23rd, 2009
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 [...]
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 Economics, Education, Equity, Uncategorized on Mar 9th, 2009
Economic Bust, Schools, and Civil Rights
Buildings crumble. Teacher pay hovers at the bottom rung of the pay scale ladder. The public school system in America has long needed an overhaul. With the economy tanking, most schools will face very real and sizable budget cuts. Recession spells disaster for the public school system in the United [...]
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