World Racism: Summer of Love and Hate
Whether you are the "hater" or the "hated," having a common enemy quickly unites people who are like minded -- for better or for worst.
Whether you are the "hater" or the "hated," having a common enemy quickly unites people who are like minded -- for better or for worst.
Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living
I have not only come to understand that racial prejudice exists, but I have also come to expect and observe it more than react to it.
Ruth Bettelheim | Posted 08.29.2009 | Media
"Us v. them" arguments do not engage our rational reflective capacities, but instead inflame us with an exhortation to battle.
Alex Storozynski | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
The United States has always had a totem pole of bigotry, where the latest arrivals were notched in at the bottom of the shame pole.
R.T. Eby | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics
In my early basic and advanced individual training I remember some of the young men from the south having a hard time living with, sleeping next to, and interacting with other young men who were not white. You see, unlike those southern men, the Army had been integrated for quite some time.
Lloyd Garver | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama and his family are now preparing to move into the White House - which was built with slave labor. That's progress, isn't it?
Bruce Tenenbaum | Posted 10.23.2008 | Home
Racial prejudice predominates among people born in the 60s or earlier, whether they realize their own racism or not. This is going to hurt Obama's chance of winning unless something is done about it.
Ken Allen | Posted 09.17.2008 | Home
He is too educated and yet not deep enough? An answer to the paradoxical arguments used against Obama may lie in our inability to fit him into the stereotypes we use to make sense of the world.
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 08.10.2008 | Politics
Bias festers beneath a surface sporadic civility in America that we have all seen break down under pressure of the current election cycle.
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
Poverty trumps ethnicity as a factor determining voter preference: if the dollar continues to sink, voters will vote their pocketbooks rather than their prejudices and Obama will glide into the Oval Office.
Reporters Uncensored | Posted 09.12.2009 | Entertainment