racism | racism
Mar.21.2012
By now, you probably know the shameful details, but they are worth repeating, in any event.
On the evening of February 26, George Zimmerman, a self-appointed “neighborhood watch captain” in a gated, upscale Orlando suburb, shot and killed 17-year old Trayvon Martin.
Because Martin was black...
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Feb.19.2012
Most of the afternoon, I prepped for a phone interview I'm to have next week.
The interview will have to do with what I know about the growth of student activism at my alma mater of Kent State University in the 1950's. The centerpin, perhaps, will be events leading up and away from the...
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Feb.05.2012
More than once upon a time, mass protest movements have arisen in this country. In some of these, I have been privileged to witness and take part. If you believe there might be something to learn from experience, read on and judge for yourself. In three sections, I describe my personal...
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Feb.03.2012
I’m not that old, even if my nineteen-year-old daughter Laura thinks I am. I say this because whenever I start talking about the time before Laura was born (1993), she rolls her eyes and make jokes about me walking five miles to school in bare feet through snowstorms, which, for the record, I...
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Jan.25.2012
In a waiting room before an appointment, Gerald picked up a Carbondale Times and read about Jim Loewen’s upcoming lecture at the John A. Logan Museum at Murphysboro. He commented that he’d like to attend. We seem unable to do many such activities, so even though I knew I would also...
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Jan.24.2012
Cover of Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Life Upon These Shores.
Historian Carter G. Woodson, who during the Harlem Renaissance founded Black History Week––later to become Black History Month––was a powerful visionary able to resist the constant denigration of his people’s humanity as represented...
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Jan.23.2012
Oprah Winfrey walking the seedy bylanes of Mumbai on a work assignment in India, Jeremy Clarkson dropping his pants for a reality show, and tourists paying to watch naked Jarawa tribals dance are part of the same deal: Branding Blahdcasting Corporation.
Should outsiders be permitted to...
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Jan.16.2012
Racism Lives—Deal With It.
Dedicated to the heroes of Philadelphia’s Edison High School—more of its students died in Vietnam than from any other American high school.
Santa Barbara, California, July 2009 While resting in a lovely Santa Barbara park overlooking the peaceful Pacific, I sat admiring...
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Jan.12.2012
She has not read the book, she does not care about people’s perceptions because they would not know, yet she sends out clarifications. I am disturbed by what she seems to have a problem with:
“I guess it's more interesting to imagine this conflicted situation here and a strong woman. But...
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Dec.04.2011
A news-story that has hit my whole relationship (and the religion I grew up in) to a big grinding what the hell stop happened this week when a simply adorable little baptist church tucked away in the gorgeous landscape of the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky decided to do the most adorable thing:...
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