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...Racism, intentional or unintentional, is detrimental to the people on the receiving end,” Tam said...
...Editorial Cartoon, April 12). The cartoon, featuring a Herculean Israel surrounded by a Hydra of snakes, a clear reference to Palestinians and potentially a reference to surrounding Arab countries is a disgusting racial slur and an affront to decent journalism. If you agree that even implied racism is intolerable, it is irrelevant that the cartoon fell short of placing a Palestinian or Arab label on the snakes. To refer to Palestinians as snakes not only reflects plain bigotry but it also reveals greater malice: by de-humanizing and vilifying Palestinians, and failing to highlight the Israeli killing of civilians...
...Americans today have become quite successful, despite the fact that all face the same aftermath of slavery. Therefore, if not all blacks are bound down by the historical fact of slavery, and if the true problem is “on-going injustice” in the form of racism, why would reparations for slavery be paid to African-Americans? What about Hispanics, Asian Americans and recent African immigrants...
...reparations are not necessary for the many blacks who have not been “cemented in the underclass,” but are rather intended to address the consequences of racism, where is the justification for excluding the tens of millions of other Americans who have suffered discrimination either individually or as groups? Many groups, not just blacks, have suffered at the hands of others in our history. Descendants of Chinese railway laborers, Irish famine refugees, American Indians, Jews and more recent Asian immigrants have all faced the same problems of racism and discrimination, and would have just...
...Racism is a grown-up disease—let’s stop using our kids to spread it,” she said...