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"Called “IndiVisible,” the exhibit was inspired by the Cherokees vote two years ago to exclude most members of African descent, a continuing controversy treated—quite fairly, I must say—in one of 20 panels of thoughtful text and telling photos."
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"There are disturbing accusations of anti-Semitism at a Collier County school. Ten students are serving suspensions for their roles in what was called "Kick a Jew Day" at North Naples Middle."
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"Best Buy has struck a nerve deep in the heart of Americaland for including a “Happy Eid Al-Adha” note to Muslims in a holiday circular."
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"A national Italian-American organization based in New Jersey says an MTV reality show that depicts Italian-American beachgoers as the "hottest, tannest, craziest Guidos" is offensive and should be scrapped before it airs."
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
Sobia wrote:
I heard about the Best Buy story yesterday. I’m speechless. Wow…just wow. Being a Canadian, where I’m used to people hiding their hate of others, I’m always amazed at how blatant “real Amerkans” can be in expressing their hatred of others. It’s almost as if they’re proud of being hateful.
The comments on the bottom of the Best Buy page are scary. America is a Christian nation?? Since when? I always thought it was secular. And a free nation? If wishing Muslims on our holidays leads to such hatred that’s not called freedom. If the assumption is that one can only be Christian in America, then again, that’s not called freedom! Do these “real Amerkans” even know what freedom means?
Posted 26 Nov 2009 at 1:01 pm ¶
Sobia wrote:
Oh…and “kick a Jew day”!!?? WTF??
Posted 26 Nov 2009 at 1:05 pm ¶
Ruchama wrote:
I could swear I remember hearing about a similar “kick a Jew day” at a school about a year ago.
I can’t believe that they’re actually using the word “Guido” in the promotions for that MTV show. I mean, I grew up in NJ, and in high school, we used that as pretty much a descriptive of style, in the same way as “preppy” or “hippie” or “grunge” or whatever, but once I got to college, I learned pretty quickly that it’s really not thought of in that way outside NJ, and once I started paying more attention to how it was used within NJ, I noticed more negative connotations than I’d thought it had when I was in high school.
Posted 26 Nov 2009 at 2:32 pm ¶
JC wrote:
It seems that some of these “real Americans” who want to stop Muslim holiday greetings are not real enough to read the first amendment of the constitution.
Posted 26 Nov 2009 at 9:36 pm ¶
GüeraLola wrote:
I hate to admit this but despite living in a diverse city I had limited contact with people with Italian-American heritage. Considering that I meet people who were Mexican,Ukrainian, W.A.S. P, Koren ect. But now that i’m college I have a professor who is Italian-American and feel so guilty for doing this but since he has a very slight NY accent I tend to think of stereotypes of Italian-Americans when he talks. on Mtv issue, this isn’t the last show that exploited a stereotype of race or ethnicity (Tila Tequila any one? or VH1’s Flavor of love? ) *Sigh* I noticed in reality TV shows, stereotypes of a race or ethnicity , sex, gender,religion are their bread and butter .
On the Best Buy- Geez, how is including “Happy Eid Al-Adha” any different from Happy Kwanzaa or happy Hanuka?
Posted 27 Nov 2009 at 12:51 am ¶
Whitney wrote:
re: “Kick a Jew Day.”
Incidents like this is why when my grandfather escaped Nazism (as a Czech Jew) and came to America, he changed the spelling of his last name and never told anyone he was Jewish and said he was Protestant, and from New York (instead of Czechoslovakia). People shouldn’t have to hide their religion and ethnicity for fear of being tormented, assaulted, and harassed.
I just can’t believe that kind of stuff is still happening.
@GüeraLola:
“On the Best Buy- Geez, how is including “Happy Eid Al-Adha” any different from Happy Kwanzaa or happy Hanuka?”
Because apparently that’s like wanting the terrorists to win, because naturally every single terrorist is Muslim, and every single Muslim is a terrorist.
*rolls eyes*
But you know, I imagine there was a time when saying “Happy Hanukkah” was controversial and pissed off “Real Americans” because of our country’s intense hatred for Jews, and were the scapegoats. So it’ll just take time, unfortunately.
I honestly don’t understand why that would bother anyone. It’s such a stupid thing to be upset over.
Posted 28 Nov 2009 at 4:30 am ¶
petitfour wrote:
I really wish I hadn’t scrolled to the comments section of the article: Maybe your great grandmother really was Cherokee.
Posted 28 Nov 2009 at 12:13 pm ¶