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Nigerian author Wole Soyinka, the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, argued that the Arab section of Sudan must confront its past and acknowledge its role in the violence in Darfur instead of remaining in a “state of amnesia.” In a speech last night called “Darfur: Anything to do with Slavery?” Soyinka addressed the ongoing violence that has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of displaced refugees. Soyinka argued that Arabs played a historic role in the African slave trade...
...national networks missed a chance to continue the conversation Imus started. Instead of silencing him, why not push him to talk more, and pointedly, about the issues his remarks have raised? Invite the Rutgers women’s basketball team into the CBS studio and make Imus and McGuirk confront the faces of the people they have offended on national TV. Press Imus’s two or three million daily listeners to think hard about why it’s funny to make misogynistic jokes about women athletes. And, as the Washington Post’s Sally Jenkins...
...cannot run from these issues. We have to confront them head on. It’s okay for a white person to bring up issues such as the aforementioned ones, but they should be willing to understand the entire question, and examine why these issues arise in the first place...
...common than we think. This is true; however, we cannot truly appreciate the commonalities that bind us together as humans rather than separate us as races without addressing the differences that continue to divide our society. We must embrace our similarities while still having the courage and audacity to confront and learn from our differences...
They were fourteen average Texas citizens, a mix of young and middle-aged, eight men and six women, but as the days went by Sharon Cave watched this Austin jury leave behind the mundane to confront the unthinkable. Over and over again, they viewed photographs of her 21-year-old daughter, her body mutilated and dismembered, and listened to hours of gruesome testimony, only to be told at the end of each day to go home to their families and friends and keep what they had seen and heard to themselves. Watching their struggle, Cave was convinced these jurors...