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Turks moreding Kurds
Turks are not less then Saddam or Hitler.
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I'm not teaching poor kids
The Milwaukee Public School system is having a hard time recruiting teachers to work in high-needs schools. High-needs is a euphemism for the ghetto. The best and most experienced teachers tend to gravitate towards the schools that excel while the high-needs schools get the youngest and least experienced teachers, if any apply at all. Seeing how we treat education as a product to be regulated by the free market, the location of a school is important when trying to attract qualified teachers, much like location is important to a business trying to attract customers. In a city that promotes school choice for parents, it can't be mad that teachers are following suit. Teaching is a noble profession, and one that doesn't receive the recognition it deserves, but it can't become an elitest endeavor. What kind of message is this sending to the kids who live in the poor areas of town? What does this say about the caliber of the people who are becoming teachers? It seems that as a society, we view the people and places associated with poverty as unworthy and undeserving of the very thing capable of bringing about a positive change. The Milwaukee Public School system is having a hard time recruiting teachers to work in high-needs schools. High-needs is a euphemism... more
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Wake up!: Central Banks run the world!!!!
This is one of the most interesting things I've seen about World History and The Rockerfellers, The Rothschilds etc....Central Banks are evil...take a really close look at our President's ancestors....there's even a reference to his great grandfather funding the nazis! I am taking a big risk posting this (I know) but if I were to go out for anything???? It would be this...also, if something just "incidentally" happens to me...you ALL know this stuff is true! WAKE UP!!!!!! This is one of the most interesting things I've seen about World History and The Rockerfellers, The Rothschilds etc....Central Ba... more
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White Privilege Checklist
The following are examples of ways white individuals have privilege because they are white. Please
read the list and place a check next to the privileges that apply to you or that you have
encountered. At the end, try to list at least two more ways you have privilege based on your race.
___ 1. I can arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time.
___ 2. I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed
or harassed.
___ 3. I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my
race widely represented.
___ 4. When I am told about our national heritage or about “civilization,” I am shown that people
of my color made it what it is.
___ 5. I can be sure that my children will be given curricular materials that testify to the
existence of their race.
___ 6. I can go into a music shop and count on finding the music of my race represented, into a
supermarket and find the food I grew up with, into a hairdresser’s shop and find someone
who can deal with my hair.
___ 7. Whether I use checks, credit cards, or cash, I can count on my skin color not to work
against the appearance of financial responsibility.
___ 8. I am not made acutely aware that my shape, bearing, or body odor will be taken as a
reflection on my race.
___ 9. I can worry about racism without being seen as self-interested or self-seeking.
___ 10. I can take a job or enroll in a college with an affirmative action policy without having my
co-workers or peers assume I got it because of my race.
___ 11. I can be late to a meeting without having the lateness reflect on my race.
___ 12. I can choose public accommodation with out fearing that people of my race cannot get in
or will be mistreated.
___ 13. I am never asked to speak for all of the people of my racial group.
___ 14. I can be pretty sure that if I ask to talk with the “person in charge” I will be facing a
person of my race.
___ 15. If a traffic cop pulls me over or if the IRS audits my tax return, I can be sure I haven’t
been singled out because of my race.
___ 16. I can easily by posters, postcards, picture books, greeting cards, dolls, toys, and
children’s magazines featuring people of my race.
___ 17. I can choose blemish cover or bandages in “flesh” color and have them more or less match
my skin.
___ 18. I can do well in a challenging situation without being called a credit to my race.
___ 19. I can walk into a classroom and know I will not be the only member of my race.
___ 20. I can enroll in a class at college and be sure that the majority of my professors will be of
my race. The following are examples of ways white individuals have privilege because they are white. Please ... more -
Defining White Privilege
white privilege, a social relation
1. a. A right, advantage, or immunity granted to or enjoyed by white persons beyond the common advantage of all others; an exemption in many particular cases from certain burdens or liabilities.
b. A special advantage or benefit of white persons; with reference to divine dispensations, natural advantages, gifts of fortune, genetic endowments, social relations, etc.
2. A privileged position; the possession of an advantage white persons enjoy over non?white persons.
3. a. The special right or immunity attaching to white persons as a social relation; prerogative.
b. display of white privilege, a social expression of a white person or persons demanding to be treated as a member or members of the socially privileged class.
4. a. To invest white persons with a privilege or privileges; to grant to white persons a particular right or immunity; to benefit or favor specially white persons; to invest white persons with special honorable distinctions.
b. To avail oneself of a privilege owing to one as a white person.
5. To authorize or license of white person or persons what is forbidden or wrong for non?whites; to justify, excuse.
6. To give to white persons special freedom or immunity from some liability or burden to which non?white persons are subject; to exempt. white privilege, a social relation ... more -
Glamour Editor: "Being Black is KINDA a Corporate DON'T!"
A recent slide show by an unidentified Glamour editor on the "Do's and Dont's of Corporate Fashion" at a New York law firm shed some light on the topic, according to this month's American Lawyer magazine. A recent slide show by an unidentified Glamour editor on the "Do's and Dont's of Corporate Fashion" at a New York ... more
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African American Hair: Glamour gets sued for upper management remarks
The incident that Rosenberg is talking about involves Ashley Baker, a white former associate editor at Glamour, who touched off a firestorm of controversy last summer when she told a roomful of female attorneys at law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton that afro-style hairdos and dreadlocks are Glamour "don'ts."
" 'No offense,' she sniffed, but those 'political hairstyles really have to go,' " reported American Lawyer magazine, which first broke the story.
Stripped of its appalling delivery, was Baker's observation wrong?
"Black hair is sensitive," said Anna Holmes, the managing editor of Jezebel, a celebrity, sex and fashion blog for women, which followed the Baker story closely. "What Baker said was inappropriate, but was she inaccurate? No. She hit a nerve ... society is uncomfortable with ethnic hair and it is uncomfortable about race. And it's tough talking about all of it because emotion gets in the way."
Over the years, lawsuits have been filed against companies for discriminating against black employees for their ethnic hairstyles. Corporate-image experts, both black and white, subtly advise black women to remove their braids, dreadlocks and other ethnic hairdo before interviewing at corporate jobs, experts confide The incident that Rosenberg is talking about involves Ashley Baker, a white former associate editor at Glamour, who touched off a fire... more -
Obama's Victory Speech: Hope is the Bedrock of Our Nation
Obama speaks to America like a President. His theme is not just change, it is a new unity. As a Black man, he helps heal the past as well as forge the future. This was history tonight.
This was the moment we stopped being afraid. This was the America we have missed and have found again. Pay tribute to hope.
A photograph and the video of his speech are included. Obama speaks to America like a President. His theme is not just change, it is a new unity. As a Black man, he helps heal the past as... more -
BREAKING NEWS: Racial Hate Crime commited in Arlington, TX
The city of Arlington, TX (future home of the Cowboys) is in an uproar after a racially motivated hate crime took place in a normally quiet suburb. A 66 year old woman is in jail after shouting racial slurs at a young African American couple who was constructing a new home in the neighborhood and striking the woman with a 2x4. Racial profanities were also painted on the couple's garage. A rally is scheduled for tomorrow morning in front of the house and your's truly will be front and center. The city of Arlington, TX (future home of the Cowboys) is in an uproar after a racially motivated hate crime took place in a normally ... more
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Black-on-Black
Black-on-Black sheds light on negative issues that plague the black community. Will the tolerance of these issues ultimately destroy the black community? You be the judge. Black-on-Black sheds light on negative issues that plague the black community. Will the tolerance of these issues ultimately destroy... more
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The African American's experience in America immortalized!!!!!
This is the ONLY such museum in the COUNTRY!
That, alone, is very telling!
Those that sit idly by and feel as though YOU YOURSELF are not benefitting from the actions (and non-actions) of your ancestors, I say
SHAME ON YOU! Open your eyes and see the African Americans and YOURSELVES for what/who you are!
Start at the link above... This is the ONLY such museum in the COUNTRY! That, alone, is very telling! ... more -
His Own Black History
Lawrence Hoo talks about the lack of positive education he received as a child about his ancestry and cultural background. We visit his primary school and at the gallery where he is exhibiting photographs and poetry illustrating a personal journey of African History and identity. Lawrence Hoo talks about the lack of positive education he received as a child about his ancestry and cultural background. We visit hi... more
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Why Are So Many Americans in Prison?
According to a 2005 report of the International Centre for Prison Studies in London, the United States?with five percent of the world?s population?houses 25 percent of the world?s inmates. Our incarceration rate (714 per 100,000 residents) is almost 40 percent greater than those of our nearest competitors (the Bahamas, Belarus, and Russia). Other industrial democracies, even those with significant crime problems of their own, are much less punitive: our incarceration rate is 6.2 times that of Canada, 7.8 times that of France, and 12.3 times that of Japan. We have a corrections sector that employs more Americans than the combined work forces of General Motors, Ford, and Wal-Mart, the three largest corporate employers in the country, and we are spending some $200 billion annually on law enforcement and corrections at all levels of government, a fourfold increase (in constant dollars) over the past quarter century. According to a 2005 report of the International Centre for Prison Studies in London, the United States?with five percent of the world?... more
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Milwaukee: A closer look in comparison to the nation...
I was disturbed (but not surprised) to read the statistics in this report. As an African American woman, I feel this in my life!
YOU? I was disturbed (but not surprised) to read the statistics in this report. As an African American woman, I feel this in my life! ... more
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