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“After blowing the whistle, Ephraim is being forced to resign or face termination of his employment as a BPA…Unfortunately, time is up. Ephraim will be turning in his resignation letter today.”
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“Infuriatingly, the accused couple are defending themselves by arguing that, in Indonesia, self-mutilation is common. In other words: “the Indonesian women are different and barbaric”
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Racism in fashion PR: “she accused us of using fake last names because our names are English/European yet we don’t look European (Basically non-white people are not allowed to have European surnames according to this genius PR girl)”
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Interesting stuff. A chart of how many whites, Asians, Latinos, blacks and Native Americans are on each of the president candidates’ staffs.
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Interesting discussion here about the Senate’s investigation into highly-paid televangelists. “Is it ethical for these preachers to use what appears to be tithes and offerings on such extravagance?”
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“After ColorofChange.org helped drive the Black netroots toward the Jena 6 campaign…radio host Michael Baisden has dragged some disgruntled family member on the air to accuse the non-profit org of “stealing” money.”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
pearl wrote:
About the slavery case involving the Sabhnanis:
I went to HS with their kids — my sister was friends with one daughter who was her year. When the news came out about, it was even more bizarre to know about this enslavement, because it was happening so close to me. I thought the socio-economic issues were bad enough in my “town” (really, my school district) growing up in an area with many “professionals” (doctors/lawyers/et al) and some “nouveau riche”. This was just downright disgusting.
What’s especially upsetting is that they themselves are Southeast Asians. I’m not naive enough to think that it’s impossible that one non-white group can enslave the other (it’s certainly occurred historically), but sometimes I want to believe that shared minority status with the Indonesian women might have made them rethink it at some point. Sadly, no. (Of course, the truth is that this case is a matter of class, not race.)
Worse is, brought to attention in the above link from Reappropriate, their comments about some sort of “common” Indonesian self-mutilation — an assertion rife with all the racism and cultural essentialism that too often marks this kind of discourse.
Posted 09 Nov 2007 at 11:40 am ¶