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...Defining Moments,” the ten-year National Football League (NFL) veteran spoke to almost 100 students about the various turning points on the road to becoming a three-time Super Bowl Champion. “Defining moments happen to us all—they have no racial bias, no age bias, no gender bias,” Davis said. According to Davis, defining moments can only be identified by “looking back through the rear-view mirror of your life.” Although religion was a consistent motif in the life of Davis, he believes...
...Columbia University students were arrested December 2 in the school’s Ruggles Hall for allegedly committing a hate crime in which they drew graffiti of swastikas, racial epithets, and homophobic symbols on the walls of a suite. Sophomore Stephen Searles told police that he and junior Matthew Brown used red and purple markers to deface the walls of a Ruggles suite, according to reports in the Columbia Spectator and in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. Searles attended high school in Bozeman, Mont. “We were drunk and we wrote anti-Semitic graffiti on the walls...
...important to reflect on this misdeed, not because it exposes a “pattern of ignorance” or “atmosphere of racial tension” as many at Columbia are quick to allege, but because it demonstrates a broad and dangerous pattern of students at diverse liberal universities resorting to histrionics in the face of small, isolated occurrences...
Conjure an image of Australia in your mind, and you’re likely envision bouncing kangaroos and jovial tank-topped men throwing “another shrimp on the barbie.” You might like to think again. This past weekend saw racially charged riots break out in southern Sydney at a popular surfing spot in North Cronulla, resulting in attacks on police and ambulance workers as well as the destruction of over 100 vehicles. Adding insult to injury, the riots also unveiled Australia’s embarrassing secret: a deep-seated racial intolerance, normally hidden behind...
...Australians begin to reflect on the racial bigotry exposed at Cronulla, it can only be hoped that nation will finally awake from its slumber of small-mindedness. Over the last 30 years Australia has begun to develop a vibrant multicultural society, diversifying politics and culture while paving the way for integration into Asia. As Australia increasingly globalizes it must shed the ignorant roots of intolerance and embrace the multiplicity of nationalities already within its borders. If the North Cronulla riots are not incentive enough for change, then Australia risks a future plagued by disunity and disgruntled reaction to the faux...