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“…They are members of the Federation of Black Cowboys, which keeps alive the heritage of the forgotten black horsemen of the old West. They keep their horses at that dusty ranch, the Cedar Lane Stables, at the junction of Conduit Avenue and Linden Boule
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Thanks Tariq! “A bleak picture of the corrosive effects of ethnic diversity has been revealed in research by Harvard University’s Robert Putnam… the more diverse a community is, the less likely its inhabitants are to trust anyone – from their next-doo
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“the objection many African Americans have to comparisons drawn by gay lawyers and activists advocating for marriage between antimiscegenation statutes prohibiting Blacks from marrying Whites and state laws barring marriage between individuals of the same
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“Who knew that the most popular artist on MySpace was a Vietnamese American girl named Tila Tequila?… Is it gross that I am kindof excited that the most popular person on MySpace is Asian American?”
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Thanks Angry Asian Man! “After some of the missionaries are taken prisoner by sadistic Burmese soldiers, Rambo gets a second impossible job: to assemble a team of mercenaries to rescue the surviving relief workers…”
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“Born in Ethiopia and raised in Sweden by adoptive parents, Marcus Samuelsson has always bridged cultures and cuisines. The critically acclaimed chef rose to prominence in New York for his cooking at Aquavit, the Scandinavian fine-dining destination…”
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Re: recent Spelman College rapes. “…black women (and a few men) are often admonished for publicly criticizing and holding black men accountable for behavior that is clearly detrimental to our communities and our shared humanities…”
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“But I am reminded every Columbus day of the genocides on which the founding of America was based. My family had a refuge from genocide because of a previous genocide committed against the natives of America. How’s THAT for ambivalence?…”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
Adrianna wrote:
Diversity Bad ? What’s next Feminism ruining marriages! what a crock of bull!!
When it cme to sexual Assault I think it’s time for male privileged to be addressed, women have to get together regardless of color for the fight against sexual asssault.
I don’t celebrate Columbus day simply because thank to so called “discovery” of America by Columbus all the Arawaks have been wiped out in my country. At least there is still Native American left in the in The US
Posted 11 Oct 2006 at 10:00 am ¶
S wrote:
Yeah, Columbus Day is bull.
The Lila MySpace page: Should have known it would be some young (or young-looking) half or barley dressed chick using the F word.
Pleeeeeeease tell me that is NOT a song that has been published! She is cute, but that song is horrible.
I don’t know much about MySPace, but it seems like the place to go when you want to “act a fool”. Am I right? That’s all I ever hear about it.
Posted 11 Oct 2006 at 12:18 pm ¶
s wrote:
All we take for granted has been built on genocide —
Wow, I never thought about it that way. They were slaughtered. I was always taught (by elm. school teachers and documentaries that we watched) that Indians were merciless savages who were uncivilized murderers for no reason. Strangely, only the black and asian students eventually questioned this theory. It wasn’t clarified until middle school that whites wanted to take over, not share.
I do wonder how Indians feel about Columbus Day. I have never heard an arguement from their point of view (oddly enough). I hear about changing offensive mascots and logos but never about C-day. I wonder how the Indian community could take a stand and see some results on this matter…
Posted 11 Oct 2006 at 12:33 pm ¶
Lyonside wrote:
The Harvard study makes me laugh… I really wonder about how they got their data. Polls? Current events? Level of community activism? And did he consider non-ethnic factors like economic decline, suburban sprawl, etc.? Maybe those protests, etc. he noted are what happens when different people with different needs need to get their voices heard. How is that negative?
He should come to Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, PA. One of the more diverse Philly neighborhoods, not without its problems, but with a high degree of community activism and involved citizens.
Harvard isn’t exactly known as a bastion of diversity, though, so is anyone really surprised?
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Re: Columbus…
Two quotes come to mind: a history student’s LJ that I read often has said, “Every time you tell a child that Columbus sailed to prove the earth was roung, a history student DIES.”
The second comes from an old comedy routine (Maybe Sinbad?): if the Africans had known (in the 1700s) what the Native Americans had known, they wouldn’t have let the Europeans off the boat. “What? You want food? Sure, stay there, we’ll throw it to you.”
Posted 11 Oct 2006 at 3:48 pm ¶
Lyonside wrote:
s:
>Wow, I never thought about it that way. >They were slaughtered. I was always >taught (by elm. school teachers and documentaries that we watched)
That’s terrifying… my grade school made a point of saying that there were hundreds of tribes and languages, and that population decimation came from diseases brought from Europe, forced exile (the infamous Trail of Tears, just one of them) from lands the Europeans wanted, forced labor/enslavement, etc. Also, assimilation into colonial and frontier culture as well. Different tribes were used by the British, the French, and the newly formed Americans in their various turf wars over the frontierlands. Not to exclude Manifest Destiny doctrine, creation of reservations, lack of supplies/malnutrition/deliberate passage of disease, and outright war as treaty after treaty was broken.. My schools didn’t call it outright genocide, but it was obvious if one cared to care.
If interested, read/watch How the West Was Lost, which aired in 1993 on PBS and is occassionally reshown. It helps fill in the blanks in both our schools.
>I do wonder how Indians feel about Columbus Day.
Columbus Day was started as an Italian-American holiday, and is still seen that way by some. It’s almost a non-holiday anymore – schools and some public bldgs are closed, but banks and businesses are open.
Honestly, I don’t think C-Day is something to protest as much as ongoing racist mascots, mapping (Squaws Peak, etc.), stereotyping, and abuse of lands that should rightfully belong to tribes (i.e. the gov’t not paying rights for mineral and natural resources on land supposedly “managed” for various tribes, the use of sacred sites for, among other things, weapons research and nuclear waste storage).
Or the lack of services on reservations that are supposed to be administered by the government.
Those are way more important to many native peoples, I think, than a dead Italian sailing a deep river of denial (dude, 4 trips and he STILL thought he was off the coast of Asia?). He wasn’t the worst of the European conquistadors, he was just the first.
Posted 11 Oct 2006 at 4:03 pm ¶
S wrote:
Thanks, Lyonside.
I am trying to “re-educate” myself in regards to history, so your PBS reference will be utilized accordingly. It’s just a little frustrating to know that the public schools are not telling the whole truth, but instead, some are sugar-coating the bad parts. To this day there are children who perceive that the Indians were bad and the whites were victims so they decided to take over the land to stop the Indians. Yeah, thatREALLY helps race relations!
Posted 12 Oct 2006 at 5:15 pm ¶
gatamala wrote:
S About PBS..
Last week there was a special on Jack Abramoff & the donation/bribes he took from NAm tribes & funneled to DeLay’s pet projects. It’s worth checking out.
Posted 13 Oct 2006 at 7:28 pm ¶