It's some time very interesting what you can find while looking for a story to write about. The story of John Howard Griffin is certainly one we should all read. It concerns ones color of skin and the prejudice...
Article subsequently published at the American Journal of Color Arousal (AMJCA)."Nazi" is still a dirty four-letter word in the USA, synonymous with hatred and annihilation of others aroused by their skin color, their religion or their nationality. Adolph Hitler killed...
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Officer's Extreme Color Aroused Ideation, Emotion and Behavior Point Toward Extreme Color Aroused Disorder A Boston, MA police officer, Justin L. Barrett, has been fired after writing an e-mail to a Boston Globe columnist in which he called Harvard University'...
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Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr Arrested for Demanding Officer's Name and Badge NumberThe afrosphere is very much abuzz with conversation about the arrest and release without charges of Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. by the Cambridge Police Department. But, there are many who...
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ugly worlddon’t we see enough ugliness in this world and why we have to fight in all thingand make all walks ugly?religion fighting again religionwho is real and who the truth God!win a day, voice a whilefighting...
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The New York Times and the white supremacist group Storm Front share a belief that there are significant and fundamental "racial" differences between color and linguistic groups based upon and residing in their genetic heritage. Today, for example, Ian...
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Cross-posted at the Francis L. Holland Blog and the American Journal of Color Arousal.A New York TImes story today by Susan Saulny, entitled "Voices Reflect Rising Sense of Racial Optimism ", uses variants of the word "race" twelve times, including the root word "race" in the...
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Each year on March 21, the United Nations marks the day in 1960 when peaceful protesters were shot by police in South Africa when they were demonstrating against apartheid there. Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights says that the massacre in 1960 represents...
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"Should Black History Month itself fade into history?Many have long argued that African-American history should be incorporated into year-round education. Now, claims that Black History Month is outdated are...
'The times they are a changing', is more then a Bob Dylan Lyric in Rock Hill South Carolina. After four decades, two men who were caught up in the racist south asked forgiveness of the...
The same week an African-American family moves into the White House, a movie about a Mississippi high school's first integrated dance debuts at the Sundance Film Festival. What's most significant about "Prom...
"Top advisers to Burris are suggesting that Reid doesn’t want an African-American to succeed Obama. “It’s interesting that all those who are viable are white women and the ones who are unacceptable are black men,” Prince Riley, a senior consultant to Burris,...
These are under reported disturbing events taking place since the recent Presidential election.As the article points out, this reflects the stubbornist of racism STILL holding rootsin America.I highlighted a few incidents, but the entire article is worth the read."Cross...
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Alice Walker on expectations, responsibilities and a new reality that is almost more than the heart can bear."Nov. 5, 2008 Dear Brother Obama,You have no idea, really, of how profound this...