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Thanks Tariq! Harold Ford, Jr has been darkened up in photos the GOP is distributing to East Tennesseans (99% white).
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I interact with many White people who blanche (no pun intended) at the mere mention of race, or who almost instinctively respond with the nigh-hysterical statement, “I’m not racist! I don’t have a problem with race!…”
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“I think most of the reasons we talk in generalizations about “Africa” are inherently racist. You might have scene a infomercial about starving children, full of young dark skinned children longing for help, and you decide something must be done for t
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merq wrote:
I’m glad someone (besides me) is speaking against that whole “Africa-as-nation/city” thing. I was beginning to think I was crazy!
Posted 09 Oct 2006 at 9:41 am ¶
merq wrote:
oh, right… and the whole “darkened Ford” thing?
The best shit since OJ’s TIME/Newsweek covers!
Posted 09 Oct 2006 at 9:45 am ¶
Lyonside wrote:
Merq:
Count me in on the “problems of Africa” thing… I’ll be trying to catch NPR’s discussion of African issues this week (on their morning news program) - this morning they mentioned that compared to other CONTINENTS in the developing world, sub-Saharan Africa as a whole has improved the least. But they then proceeded to point out that this was despite having less wars on the continent now than 10 years ago, and the successes in certain nations re: ending some civil wars, maintaining a stable government, etc.
There are some issues that seem to affect the entire continent: HIV-AIDS education, prevention, and treatment, and agriculture, primarily… but yeah, many other problems appear to be regional, not continental, and others APPEAR to be the same, but have very different actors and causes.
Posted 09 Oct 2006 at 3:37 pm ¶