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 oversight [...]
Posted in Anglo-European Primacy, Culture, History, Racism on Apr 4th, 2010
“A man of knowledge begins with fear. When he overcomes fear he develops clarity. This allows him to see the not so obvious and to peer into hidden agendas. The clarity can be blinding and frightening that many revert back into fear. The seeker of knowledge breaks through to power and this can become a [...]
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 wonder [...]
Yesterday Hispanic blogosphere was buzzing with the news of Lou Dobbs exiting CNN. Some claimed victory from their efforts to force CNN to muzzle Mr. Dobbs on his anti immigrant anti Hispanic vitriol.
Personally, having worked in media for so many years I understood his strategy of content branding. With the explosion of cable leading to the fragmentation of [...]
Posted in History, Law & Justice, Racism on Nov 10th, 2009
These last few days have been hard on our country and our fabric way of life. On the economic front while we are no longer hemorrhaging, the recovery is going to take a long time. Unemployment is high and perhaps higher than what the numbers tell us because some have just stopping trying to find [...]
Posted in Anglo-European Primacy, Culture, Immigration, Law & Justice, Mexico, Racism on Oct 22nd, 2009
The whole Latino story needs to be told facing honestly the not so pretty chapter of illegal immigration. It’s a story some Hispanics would like to sweep under the rug and only present the shiny varnished version. You saw portrayed the primal drive of survival that drives people to risk their very lives to come [...]
A broad stereotype of Hispanics is that we are undocumented criminals who use and traffic drugs. This may have something to do with a “Brownout” in TV news programming. This is the name of a study of Latino coverage in TV news networks done by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
Wrap your mind around this [...]
Posted in Anglo-European Primacy, Culture, Economics, Education, History, Law & Justice, Racism on Oct 1st, 2009
Posted in Racism on Sep 4th, 2009
The problem is that there is nothing real, tangible, flesh and blood, or for that matter, ink on paper, to fight against.
A battle against an attitude, or a state of mind, or a personally held belief, would not seem to be a winnable battle, any more than would be a battle against an army of [...]
Posted in Racism on Aug 27th, 2009
History is riddled with stories of progress and good coming from disasters and atrocities. Racism can be added to that list of “bad” seeking good. No I’m not some pollyanna, in fact I am more of a realist than a glass half full optimist.
Few would disagree that the temperature related to race relations has been [...]
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