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“Sampson’s theory may be the most provocative yet. Could America’s cities be safer today not because fewer unwanted children live in them but because a lot more immigrants do? Could illegal immigration be making the nation a more law-abiding place?”
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“South Africa today is a grand experiment in multicultural democracy, where the leadership is black, money largely white and the line between empowerment and exploitation ever shifting…”
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(reg required) “The Supreme Court is set to hear a case today filed by a predominantly white parents’ group from an affluent Seattle neighborhood. Their children were denied admission to a majority-white school, and instead assigned to mostly minority sch
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“…black Americans and Hispanic Americans are compared with “Asians”, as if somewhere along the road from 1750 to 2006, “Asians” found the fountain of knowledge and drank from it while their fellow peers of color were busy fighting The Man…”
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“Look up the word “redskin” in your personal dictionary and you will see that it is taken by all Indians to be an insult. Then why does the “R” word grace the lips of sports announcers and their fans and why is it printed without fear of reprisal
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“Guy and Madonna’s relationship – which has previously been rocked by the singer’s busy work schedule and her fascination with the Kabbalah – reportedly came under a new strain after Guy felt left out from the highly-publicised adoption battle for…David
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Thanks Jason! “it’s early December, and no one’s asked me yet to come and be black for them in February…If you’re black, February is the optimal time to cash in…”
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“Unfortunately, some people still view these adoptions as noble, humanitarian acts by the parents. They believe that selfless white families are rescuing African-American and Latino children from their dysfunctional, poverty stricken, single parent famil
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“Over on his blog, deep thinker/afro-joke-goes here New Yorker scribe Malcolm Gladwell ponders the recent Michael Richards imbroglio and comes up with a few simple ways to determine the racism level of public outbursts. Gladwell boils it down to three fac
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“a 12-year-old Connecticut boy sitting next to him asked: “Do you still see the KKK on the streets every day?” That prompted the advertising executive to spend his own money on a campaign to dispel Mississippi’s image as a forlorn state of poor, ill
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Lyonside wrote:
>Could America’s cities be safer today not because fewer unwanted children live in them but because a lot more immigrants do?
This cartoon was in Sunday’s paper in my city:
http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2006/12/03/
Personally, I think that there are many different immigrants (legal and illegal) who come for various reasons. If someone is here to work hard and usually stay (regardless of whether they’re legal or not), they are most likely to stay out of trouble. Also, if they join part of an established familiar community through family, the neighborhood, church, etc. they’ll get the support and structure they need.
But there are those, usually young single men, who send money home, who are a bit aimless/driftless without commununity ties ro family to back them up/keep them grounded. That seems more likely to fall into bad situations and habits (drinking or worse).
Posted 05 Dec 2006 at 11:29 am ¶
Katie wrote:
The shit is hitting the fan over at blackprof.com about that adoption post. Lots of “who cares if they’re white? they’re doing a good thing.” Also much “if the kids’ homes weren’t so crappy due to bad (insert ethnic minority) parenting, they wouldn’t have to be adopted by kind white folks.”
hmmmmm…..
Posted 06 Dec 2006 at 4:51 pm ¶