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The Story of The Earth People
Posted in Uncategorized on March 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
HI-404: As You Guys Float…
Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2011 | 5 Comments »
As you guys float on into your personal, social, academic, and professional futures, please leave me with this gift. I want to know what worked, what did not work, what was over-done, done just right, and under-cooked. This helps us make this experience better and better, knowing that no two groups of students is ever [...]
They Keep Preparing my Kids for Jail
Posted in Uncategorized on April 7, 2011 | 15 Comments »
This is tough though tough. If we actually achieve a post-racial world, what’ll we do with all those jokes about Asians, and Blacks, and poor Whites, and the physically and mentally handicapped, and gays, and… I mean if we can’t caricature people what would Jeff Dunham do? What would Tosh.O do? What would Martin Lawrence [...]
HI 404-016 #9: This is all Nonsense.
Posted in Uncategorized on April 6, 2011 | 14 Comments »
We have spent almost three months examining how issues of race and diversity inform, consciously and unconsciously, and impact a wide range of human concerns: from justice to education to health to democracy to … the list has been long! But – what about the folks who say we live in a post-racial society and [...]
HI 404-016 #8: I’m not African American. I am Black
Posted in Uncategorized on March 28, 2011 | 31 Comments »
I’ve had Jews compare their histories and experiences with Blacks – yet we see how they’ve moved ahead. I’ve had Latinos compare their struggles with those of Blacks – yet in many social dimensions, they have moved ahead. I’ve had a paraplegic soldier tell me that he feels left out and cast aside…just like a [...]
HI 404-016 #7 Fighting for the Margins
Posted in Uncategorized on March 7, 2011 | 28 Comments »
We’ve had some really interesting conversations to date this semester. We’ve talked with folks representing racial and ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, LGBTQI youth and young adults, and we’ve read some interesting perspectives. It seems that there are some very fundamental issues of inclusion and exclusion that are faced by all marginalized communities. It also [...]
HI 404-016 #6: MY OWN MOM WAS BI-RACIAL
Posted in Uncategorized on February 24, 2011 | 22 Comments »
My own mom was bi-racial (black-white). We Never knew it. We Never thought of it. It Never mattered in my culture. She was just…mom. …and I remember witnessing dogs play with cats, pigs teasing dogs, and rats harassing cats. You see this all the time on America’s Favorite Video. They were all in the same [...]
HI 404-016-2 Reflections on Crash
Posted in diversity, education, Oppression, Success, Uncategorized, tagged diversity, Movie on January 27, 2011 | 39 Comments »
Share your thoughts on any aspect of the movie Crash…not on the movie as a whole. Site fragments of the movie to bolster your comment. Link your thoughts to something physical or emotional as evidenced in the movie. Here are a few tag words to jar your writing. POWER INSENSITIVITY TENDERNESS FEAR APPREHENSION PAIN IGNORANCE [...]
Talking To Myself: CAN YOU HEAR ME!!!!!!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged diversity, education, race, Racism on January 20, 2011 | 27 Comments »
She looked at him – somewhat meekly – as if asking forgiveness. Her eyes were joining yet avoiding. “So I’ve never seen a Black man before” she declared. “No need to get all pissy about it! I grew up on a farm – just north of here. Ain’t no Black folk ‘round there. I mean [...]
The Man With the Golden Pipes
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ted Williams on January 8, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I make it a general point not to write on issues of Pop Culture…of things you would find on TV. Not that it’s not my forte, but…let someone else do that. A most recent situation has compelled me to take a brief diversion – very brief. Many of you have, by now, seen or heard [...]
