Archive for category activism
Your Whiteness is Showing
Posted by taino8632 in activism, analysis, antiracism on June 30th, 2008
~www.timwise.org
This is an open letter to those white women who, despite their proclamations of progressivism, and supposedly because of their commitment to feminism, are threatening to withhold support from Barack Obama in November. You know who you are…
Immigration issues aren’t simply about Latinos
Posted by taino8632 in activism, asian-american, civil rights, happenings, immigration, politics on June 15th, 2008
Indians on Hunger Strike to Avoid Deportation
~New America Media
“…hundreds of workers from India who were trafficked to the post-Katrina Gulf Coast… demanded that the Attorney General grant them “continued presence” in the United States under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.”
Youngstown, Oh churches deal with racism
Posted by taino8632 in activism, antiracism, education, news, racism, the church on June 11th, 2008
People of many faith backgrounds participated in a discussion on race…
~vindy.com
“Racism is alive, but I don’t know how well it is,”
Pastor Pfleger apologizes
Posted by taino8632 in activism, antiracism, famous people, news, politics, racism on June 2nd, 2008
~Chicago Sun-Times
“…I have never presumed to be anything but imperfect, but I pray I can still beat the drum of justice, even if sometimes I am off beat.”
“We have as a country done many great things, but we will never become a great country until justice flows like a river and righteousness like a mighty stream to every human life, no matter race, creed, color or denomination, every human life.”
~Chicago Tribune
Faithful at St. Sabina stand by pastor; Trinity flock react to senator’s departure
“We pray for our member, who is a public servant; we pray for all public servants,” Rev. Otis Moss III wrote in a “Declaration of Interdependence” handed out to members as they filed out of the sanctuary. “We, the community of Trinity, are concerned, hurt, shocked, dismayed, frustrated, fearful and heartbroken. Our hearts break at this moment and my limited vocabulary is inadequate to describe the range of emotions flooding our spirits at this time.”
RACE Are We So Different?
RACE Are We So Different? - A Project of the American Anthropoligical Association
About the Project:
“We expect people to look different. And why not? Like a fingerprint, each person is unique. Every person represents a one-of-a-kind, combination of their parents’, grandparents’ and family’s ancestry. And every person experiences life somewhat differently than others.
Differences… they’re a cause for joy and sorrow. We celebrate differences in personal identity, family background, country and language. At the same time, differences among people have been the basis for discrimination and oppression.
Yet, are we so different? Current science tells us we share a common ancestry and the differences among people we see are natural variations, results of migration, marriage and adaptation to different environments. How does this fit with the idea of race?Looking through the eyes of history, science and lived experience, the RACE Project explains differences among people and reveals the reality – and unreality – of race. The story of race is complex and may challenge how we think about race and human variation, about the differences and similarities among people.”
‘Curious’ shirt choice
Posted by taino8632 in -isms, activism, african-american, analysis, antiracism, happenings, immigration, latino, news, politics, racism, stupid people tricks, the church on May 16th, 2008
~The Boston Herald
The Curious George cartoon character is getting dragged into the presidential race again in an ugly way…
Racism: An Unbiased Entity Alive and Well In America
~Digital Journal
As the political race narrows and the fight for the candidacy becomes more like a verbal MMA cage-fight, racism and discrimination are beginning to surface more often. But in America, it isn’t just a white thing. Racism itself is an unbiased entity.
The Deeper Racism in Iowa: Beneath the White Obama Craze
~The Black Agenda Report
“Much of his white support was premised on Obama being a ‘good,’ that is non-threatening, middle-class, academic-friendly, and ‘not-too fiery’ black.”
How to be anti-racist in a nut shell
~Fairfield Echo
An outline to help navigating Courageous Conversations about Race…
Lutherans Responding to People Affected by Iowa Immigration Raid
~ELCA News Service
Members of St. Paul Lutheran Church, Postville, Iowa, are responding to the needs of people who have been affected by a May 12 federal immigration raid at a Postville meat processing plant.
Does illegal immigration lead to more crime?
~St Charles Journal
Some recent studies by pro-immigration groups have indicated that there is no link between crime and undocumented immigrants.
Racism in the Presidential Race
Posted by taino8632 in activism, african-american, analysis, asian-american, demography, immigration, latino, news, politics, racism on May 14th, 2008
Racism in the Presidential Race
~U.S. News & World Report
The monster lurking behind the curtain in the Democratic presidential contest is racism. Up to now, Obama’s supporters in the extreme left wing of the…
Racist Incidents Give Some Obama Campaigners Pause
~Washington Post
… Mr. Obama expressed puzzlement at that perception, saying that in the black community in Chicago he had been accused of being ‘too close to the Jews...
The Media’s Perpetuation of Racism
~The Huffington Post
Reverend Otis Moss III, who succeeded Rev. Wright at Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ, offered an intimate and perspicacious meditation on the media’s obsession with Rev. Wright…
Study: Immigrants in U.S. adapt quicker than in the past
~Chicago Tribune
Immigrants of the past quarter-century have been assimilating in the United States at a notably faster rate than did previous generations…
Some Detainees Are Drugged For Deportation
~Washington Post
The U.S. government has injected hundreds of foreigners it has deported with dangerous psychotropic drugs against their will to keep them sedated during the trip back to their home country…
Nothing to “cheer” in TV sitcom on “Aliens in America”
~The American Muslim
It tells you how bad the situation is when Arabs and Muslims in America cheer a program that promotes the stereotype that they are “Aliens…
As cities revive, America’s poor are forced to the periphery
~Financial Times
The pattern of urban wealth and poverty has changed markedly since the US race riots of the late 1960s, but areas of deep divide and deprivation still exist throughout America - just hidden behind white picket fences…
