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...college in Iowa. Among my students were an immigrant from Guatemala, an Indian who grew up in London, a Japanese-American out of North Carolina, a Philippine-Chinese-American, and several very blond students from the American heartland, including a white supremacist who defended her family's racism in front of the class. This extraordinary mix of students strikes me as a perfect representation of America, a land where a boy raised at the back of an Indian grocery store in London easily started a friendship with a boy from Morning Sun, Iowa, population...
...fact Black.White. is a minstrel show that reveals nothing and diminishes everyone. The white father is so thick-headed that he thinks the only way to prove racism exists is for someone to come up and yell, ?Hey, Nigger,? while he?s in black make-up. The black father is so paranoid that he sees racism in every little twitch and movement made by whites. Characters attempt to get the black experience by playing dominos and doing spoken word, while their counterparts seek the white experience in knitting and charm school...
...McCarthy’s remarks, reflected a carefully assembled cross-section of viewpoints. Margaret C. D. Barusch ’06 gave a comprehensive set of remarks, with her discussion of transgender issues expanding into questions on the borders of feminism. “Poverty is a feminist issue. Racism is a feminist issue. Classism is a feminist issue,” she said. Paloma A. Zepeda ’06 also posited a broader definition of feminism in her discussion on what she termed “feminist misdirection.” Zepeda, author of the conservative blog Bikini...
...incident showed, particularly in Spain. Although players of African descent are routinely harassed during soccer matches, it took the three-time African Player of the Year's near departure from the field to jolt the country - or at least its media - into recognizing how entrenched racism has become among fans. Many are now asking why Spain - a country that, after the terrorist bombings in Madrid of March 11, 2004, prided itself on its tolerance toward outsiders - can't seem to curb the ugly scenes that blight its stadiums. Such scenes are not new. "Ultras" - fans whose ardent devotion to their...
...This country has come a long way since the Civil Rights Act was passed, but most black men would surely tell you that racial profiling-in all its many, insidious forms-remains a frustrating, demoralizing and all-too-common experience. As Dave Chappelle noted to Oprah when explaining the racism he felt he encountered in show business, ?What is a black man without his paranoia intact?? Sadly, these days, still not much...