Human Relations
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Race is a contrived characterization about humans that has no foundation in science or in logic. |
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March 24, 2008 Obama's speech proved what it disclaimed. Sen. Barack Obama presented himself as a presidential candidate without racial identity and loyalty. This self-characterization riled some old guard civil rights leaders, political commentators and hidden racists. They refused to allow his escape from a racial identity, because this idea of humanness absent race may undermine the foundations of America's race-based society. They had to take him down.
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February 25, 2008 Racial stereotype as offensive as hanging of noose. Someone hung a noose from a freeway overpass in Vallejo, California. Then, Vacaville residents found flyers promoting white supremacy spread in their neighborhoods. My response is, “So what?” This only means that some powerless people are trying to cause a reaction from society to feel a momentary sense of importance.
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February 18, 2008 The press denies Obama the right to a self-image. Barack Obama believed he had the vision and leadership qualifications to help America heal its economic and social ills. So, he announced his candidacy for president of the United States. He only declared himself a Democrat political candidate.
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January 21, 2008 Martin L. King's dream was the people's instruction to their political leaders. Martin Luther King made his “I Have a Dream” speech forty years ago. Still, many Americans are confused about his goals and those of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. A recent controversy over the King legacy between some Democrat presidential candidates show that many Americans probably share this confusion.
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2007 Group labels minimizes the homeless problem. This is the holiday season of goodwill, gift-giving, and family togetherness that characterizes American culture. Exchanging gifts is fun and harmless. However, the best gift we can give to others is to recognize them as individuals.
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December 10, 2007 Baggy pants laws may do some good Pine Lawn, Mo joined cities that ban baggy, low-slung pants. Low-slung pants often slip down and expose the young male’s underwear or the body parts underwear should cover. This undignified style disgusts many people although the young males who wear it believe it makes them special.
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November 26, 2007 Academic achievement gap is a symptom of a problem. People refer to an “academic achievement gap” in public schools as if it is something with physical properties like a gulch or steep hill blocking the path to knowledge. Instead, it is an abstract term someone invented to explain how race, ethnicity and class affect American students’ school experience. Another term like the “barrier to equal academic opportunity” describes this experience as well or better.
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November 12, 2007 Censoring Words has bad results. I learned last month that students, teachers and others in Vallejo City Unified School District could not access my website www.ethicalego.com. Vallejo School District uses a web filtering service that blocks my website and assigns an “R” rating for the use of adult language.
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October 29, 2007 Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas still looking for acceptance. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas claims his 1970 Yale law degree was worth only 15-cent. He wrote, “I learned the hard way that a law degree from Yale meant one thing for white graduates and another for blacks, no matter how much any one denied it. I'd graduated from one of America's top law schools, but racial preference had robbed my achievement of its true value."
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October 15, 2007 Solano Coalition for Better Health seeks race-based health solutions. The Solano Coalition for Better Health started a program called the African-American Disparities Elimination Project. Helping people gain better health is a noble goal. However, doing it with a racially segregated program is unacceptable and too high a price for the service. |
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October 8, 2007 The Jena racial conflict has more than one side. The news and entertainment media often present a slanted version of the racism-fueled controversy in Jena Louisiana. I was especially appalled by how the Dr. Phil television show presentation this racial conflict. He presented himself as an unbiased moderator seeking harmony between racial groups. The show’s perspective did not impress me as neutral.
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August 27, 2007 Multiculturalists worked hard inculcating ideas of separate black and white racial cultures. Now, with increasing frequency they report some bogus study that supports a finding that people labeled black are innately different and not American. This past week I read reports of three studies in local and national newspaper that used this tactic. [Read more.....]
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August 13, 2007 Ending urban violence requires more than a block party. Across the nation, people organize block parties and other events to take back their streets from violence. This approach implies that past action or inaction by residents in those neighborhoods helped crime flourish there. This approach isolates certain neighborhoods as islands of crime where only its residents are responsible for ending it. [Read more.........]
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July 23, 2007 The nature of change in baseball. Baseball players labeled black were 27 percent of Major League Baseball (MLB) players in 1974 and 9 percent now. I thought this trivia when I read it a few years ago. However, other people believe it statistical proof that players in MLB labeled black are disappearing from the league. They see this as a problem that needs fixing. [Read more....]
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July 9, 2009 Supreme Court ruled against race-based school admissions. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 28, 2007 that public schools may not rely on racial classifications to make school assignments even for racial balance. The Court claims that it based this decision on the previous Brown v. Board of Education decision and Fourteenth Amendment protections. [Read more....]
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June 11, 2007 Repeating a racial label does not change its meaning. Schoolteacher Elizabeth Kandrac claimed Charleston School District officials created a racially hostile work environment when it allowed African-American students’ to direct racist remarks to her. A jury and federal judge agreed ignoring the true cause of this corrosive school environment. Read more...............
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June 4, 2007 Racism in the U.S. hidden in the open. American society eased the intense attack against racism in the 1970s believing overt racism was over or not caring if some remained. Prematurely ending the direct attack allowed racism to survive and to reinsert itself more powerfully hidden in the open. Read more......
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May 28, 2007 Democracy requires citizens' concern for others. Save women and children first was the order when a fire, flood, ship sinking or other disaster happened. The supporting idea was twofold. One was that men were stronger and better able to survive the emergency. The other was that women and children represented the future and potential to revitalize a family, a nation or a culture after a disaster. Read more....
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April 30, 2007 They use the generalized racial stereotype to justify discrimination. Recently Major League Baseball (MLB) celebrated Jackie Robinson day to honor the man who desegregated the league sixty years ago as a player. It was a fitting to honor the man, but hypocritical for the league and society. Major League Baseball used the social idea of the generalized racial stereotype to desegregate MLB. Jackie Robinson was the model for their generalized stereotype for Black American baseball players. Read more..... |
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April 23, 2007 Slander is not just an unfortunate remark. Don Imus, a nationally famed radio broadcaster, falsely and intentionally maligned the reputation of the ten members of Rutgers University women’s basketball team. He called them nappy head Hos (whores). The resulting discussion in the news media should have centered on his disregard for decency standards. Instead, it mostly became an indictment of Black Americans for some vulgarities in Black Entertainment Television (BET) programming and complaints about reverse racism. Read more...... |
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April 16, 2007
Americans do not have the habit of serious dialog. Newt Gingrich talked about the problem of significant discussion during his March 21, 2007 speech at the Independent Woman’s Forum. He said our political system is incapable of serious conversation. We have no habit in America of serious dialog or serious citizenship. I agree this has been a problem in America for a long time. Read more............
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