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Yung was booked on suspicion of possessing a destructive device, and of committing arson and making terrorist threats. And yes… he is Asian American. I don’t want to connect too many dots, but dude, what the hell is up with this trend?
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“Rather than having to invest in the often deplorable schools attended by home-grown minorities…the U.S. could simply attract the cream of the talent from other countries, individuals whose educations have been paid for by their home societies.”
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“Sen. Barack Obama scrambled Monday to soothe hurt feelings among some of his strongest supporters after they complained that a memo distributed by his presidential campaign was offensive to Indian Americans.”
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“One take-away point is that stereotypes are very easy to learn and very robust. They don’t require higher order attention, or apparently even attention to social stimuli, to develop. Stereotypes can be learned even in the face of damage to the ’social br
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“Beginning Thursday, Chicago will host a four-day conference titled, “Loving Decision Conference 2007: The Next 40 Years of Multiracial Communities.”…it will focus more on the issues affecting the offspring of interracial couples.”
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“It is incontestable that he has benefited from affirmative action at critical moments in his life, yet he denounces the policy and has persuaded himself that it played little part in his success.”
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“Unexplained delays in determining whether longtime residents pose a threat promise neither justice to the applicants nor added security to the country, they said. They blame bureaucratic mismanagement and poor coordination”
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“The panel ruled that Mr. Nifong had misled a judge and defense lawyers about findings from a private laboratory that showed DNA from four unidentified men on the body and clothes of the stripper. No DNA from any lacrosse players was found.”
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“In a place where talking about money is taboo, Aurora Nichols wants to tell you how much she spent on deodorant, train tickets and takeout. And so, as the finale to her Yale education, she took pictures of these purchases and put them on display in a cam
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Down South wrote:
That Clarence Thomas piece was very interesting. I don’t think I like him still, but I always thought there was more contradictions to him than the way he was portrayed, From what I understand the book is written by two black journalists from the Washington Post who aren’t fans him either, but they give him a pretty fair shake, so I’m going to try and make my way through this long work
But I got to say, however, that the silence on the closure for the Duke case has been really deafening given all the yelling last year. I thought they needed to be given a fair trial and when you had the other dancer trying to say what she knew she saw, someone needed to put the brakes on this thing.
I was brought up to hate and distrust, and this case tempted me, man, but I kept in check– just like the Tawana Brawley lessons I learned you got to dig more. So now what’s going to happen, and who’s going to speak up when race keeps getting exploited to stoke and railroad folks no matter who or what.
If we keep saying that justice is supposed to work for the people who don’t seem likable, isn’t that supposed to work across the board? Maybe these boys learned a lesson (doubtful but hopeful) but maybe we did do (hopeful but doubtful).
Posted 21 Jun 2007 at 5:43 pm ¶
R wrote:
Thanks for posting up that Courant article “Yale’s Other Class”. I’ve been the lower income student at selective schools, with largely upper class attendees for a while now (from elementary school through college). I know the stress that can come with trying to live within your means around others who consider your means chump change.
College definitely heightened my frustrations. For the first time I was living night and day with young people far out of my economic class and was able to observe more keenly the differences between our lives: how we viewed different neighborhoods around campus and the people in them, the differences in the ways we socialized and took leisure, what we could afford to spend on materials for class which could cause differences in our preparedness, etc. I don’t get angry at well off students for being well off, but it gets very tiresome being in an environment where you always have to define yourself as the person who is without.
Posted 23 Jun 2007 at 2:35 am ¶