November 19, 2008
November 16, 2008
This ‘letter to my son’, published in Newsweek magazine, is excellent: No election can wipe away racism, and bigotry will show itself to you in ways subtle and not. But it is easier today than it was yesterday to see that racism, once a barrier, is now more like a hurdle. What a fine new...
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Earlier this week, VivirLatino published a letter from an Indigenous community in Colombia to President Elect Obama. One point that we, and other blogfriends have been trying to make ever since the start of the very long road to the White House, was that the way race and racial politics are talked...
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Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008, is a date that will live in fame (the opposite of infamy) forever. If the election of our first African-American president didn’t stir you, if it didn’t leave you teary-eyed and proud of your country, there’s something wrong with you.- Paul Krugman, NY TimesThis sight br...
go to article »November 15, 2008
Thanks to Frau Sally Benz, I found out about Marcelo Lucero, a Latin@ man in New York that was murdered by a group of teens that were "looking for some Mexicans." I'm all about speaking intelligently, making coherent arguments and putting things in context, but Marcelo Lucero was MURDERED simply b...
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Ralph Nader in effect called Barack Obama an "Uncle Tom". Nader said that it was Obama's choice so far to be an Uncle Tom to the giant corporations. Ralph was a bad boy. He should apologize immediately.But if he doesn't, so what? It's Ralph's thing to "rage against the machine." He's an activist gad...
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The fact that people all over the world, yes, not just America, are so elated that an African-American has been elected as president is quite amusing. What has race got to do with running a country? Did everybody suddenly forget of Obama's white heritage? Why do they insist on calling him an African...
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Rosa sat so, Martin could walk, so Obama could run, so our children can flyThis is one of the best comments I saw on Facebook the past 2 days. Describing the sacrifices of minorities in America ,including Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King and now Barack Obama....
go to article »November 13, 2008
I really like this Zapiro cartoon when I first saw it. It not only screamed tolerance to me, but gave me a glimmer of hope for the global community. As seen in the cartoon, Barack Obama had an African father, an American mother, and an Asian upbringing. He also has a Middle Eastern middle name, w...
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