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Long before Hurrican Katrina exposed the racial and economic canyons of New Orleans for all the nation to see, Mayor Ray Nagin swept into office with high hopes of bridging those gaps. So how is it that now, in the wake of Katrina's devastation and dislocation, the Big Easy seems more polarized than ever about Nagin himself? To his fervent supporters, New Orleans' up-by-his-bootstraps millionaire turned city-hall reformer is just the right man for the job of rebuilding New Orleans, "the only guy who can assure accountability and transparency," says Tim Williamson, head...
...targeting all non-Native American schools that have Native American mascots,” said University of Illinois Professor Stephen J. Kaufman about the boycott proposal. Kaufman, who is also the leader of the coalition, explained that the goal of the effort is to “end the racial stereotyping that is inherent in using Native Americans as sports mascots.” While the letter has yet to elicit participation from other universities in the boycott, Kaufman has received affirmation from athletic directors who he said recognize the “seriousness of the issue...
...Learning from New Orleans I am a 62-year-old white woman responding to the pitch-perfect words of my black brother Wynton Marsalis. In his Essay "Saving America's Soul Kitchen" [Sept. 19], he wrote, "We always back away from fixing our nation's racial problems. Not fixing the city's levees before Katrina struck will now cost us untold billions. Not resolving the nation's issues of race and class has and will cost us so much more." America, listen to those words or reap the consequences. If the cries of human suffering don't move us, perhaps...
...Marsalis' essay struck a chord; in addition to his musical talents, he has amazing insight. Perhaps musicians share an understanding that easily transcends racial and class lines. Musicians seem to embrace the soul in one another, the soul of life. They appreciate something that treats race, gender and religion as being as incidental as the clothes we wear. Marsalis is right on the mark. Perhaps if enough people speak out, as he has, they might pierce the tone-deaf arrogance of the powerful. Peter Piaskoski Milwaukee...
...While racial incidents have not happened here, that does not mean bigotry is absent, cautions Kwame Owusu-Kesse ’06, the former president of the Black Men’s Forum...