Have you read this article in the NY Times? It SCREAMS shadiness if you ask me… This seems like bribery in so many ways. How can you take $500,000 (legally) from a foriegn investor to guarentee them a 2 year visa?? AND THEN on top of that, how can you rezone an area just to say that it is in a needy section of NY when in fact it is not? This is allowed?!?!?!?!?!
Come on people!!!! These aren’t..they can’t be…no notjustmythoughts
Just another day in media’s unfair portrayal of minorities. This article is about the Native Americans – the Lakota Indian Reservation specifically. 20/20 had a special titled “Children of the Plains.” This piece was an unfair characteristic of the Lakotas without touching on the deeper issues that create the poverty in their communities…
this is all too familiar… BUT the Lakotas fought back putting out a video. So I know for certain that the unfair portrayal of minorities in the media is notjustmythoughts… check out the article by colorlines.com it icludes the video. http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/12/native_american_youth_to_abcs_diane_sawyer_were_more_than_poverty.html
This is just the kind of thing I’m talking about…
RACE, RACE, RACE!!!
This is happening to American Muslims… I know it’s a religion, but it’s a race issue! I mean Jewish is a psuedo race, when it’s a religion and ethnicity… so I guess that’s the same for Muslims… Either way… this is the stuff that makes me angry!
http://www.amptoons.com/blog/files/mcintosh.html
I responded to someone’s blog with a comment about “White Privilege”… would you believe the person responded back to me saying I was ignorant and that race doesn’t always have to do with the issues of society.
I am not big on judgement, but I do presume this person was a white male. Just the way he responded I could feel that his privilege has clouded his thoughts into believing that is something that does not exsist.
My belief is that race is inherently imbedded into every aspect of society. How could it not be…this country, from the moment Europeans set foot to land, persecuted those who were unlike them (Native Americans). Then it moved on to Slavery. Then the abollishment, that really was something that just happened and not necessarily what Lincoln set out to do. But even with Abollishment… we had Jim Crow and other segregation laws. Racism is something that is imbedded in the very nature of what it is to be America.
Now, just to clarify. I am happy to be American. I am thankful for the privilege that comes with being an American… and that American Privilege has sometimes clouded my ideas of other people…. but then I started traveling… and educating myself more… on things that maybe this country hasn’t shared so openly (and we know the gov’t hides things!) and sometimes… well sometimes I don’t like being an American… all the things that happened to get me here… I guess that’s really what I don’t like.
And now that I rambled a bit… I say all this, just say, check out the article on white privilege… It’s a real thing and white people write about it. 🙂
notjustmythoughts, keep reading friends and share your thoughts with me. I love to read your comments!
check out this article. It’s from 2005, but really, not much is different: http://blackcommentator.com/131/131_guest_black_struggle.html
Personally, I very much believe this (racism manifests) is real. I am Latina, but face a lot of the same fates. The racism I have faced is not in the form of Jim Crow or the ‘new’ immigration laws of Arizona or Alabama (yes I liken these to Jim Crow), but I have faced it. Here are some way’s I have seen it manifest…
I have never gotten a job where I went on the interview with my curly hair. In fact, I was turned down for the position and one year later was called back to work with this person’s associate. I wore my hair straight for that interview and got the job. Seeing the person who turned me down – well they “didn’t recognize [me] with straight hair.”
Whether my hair is curly or straight I often hear, “your black right?” I am not offended. Black (and every other race/ethnicity) is beautiful, but really? Why, I always ask. I have never received a reply. I believe this is a racist statement because my hair is on the verge of kinky.
People refer to all seemingly immigrant Hispanics as Mexicans.
On the note of Mexicans: the Coto/Margarito fight, someone commented about Margarito, “get him, he’s a damn illegal.” In fact, Margarito was born in California – though of Mexican decent. I sharply turned around with a scathing look and accused this person of being racist. He denied it of course. I told him how he was racist (by making such a comment of being illegal just because the person is Mexican) and realizing he was in a room full of Hispanics back tracked his statement. I did not speak to him again.
Let’s not (or maybe we should) get started on the news. This is the GREAST racist tactic of all. Blacks and Latinos don’t grace the front page of the paper – they are mug shot there. What I mean, never the story of positive only a negative will be on the front page if they are Latino or Black… unless of course they are athletes…
I guess that’s all we are good for eh? crime, violence, or sports.
We have Obama you might say… well people have been hanging that man to dry since the day he was announced president.
I have tons more examples, these were just the first to escape my finger tips. The article I included really resonated with me because of the words “racism manifests.” I’ve been thinking about it a lot.
These can’t be, no… notjustmythoughts…share yours…
http://www.latina.com/lifestyle/news/watch-rock-center-special-report-crisis-alabama
Must see video. I can understand the concerns over immigrant workers, but at the same time, there are benefits to immigrant workers. Small family owned business depend on the help they get from these workers. The danger they pose to the economy NOT being arround surpasses the pros.
I know these are notjustmythoughts.
So I’m still on this Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Slavery shall be prohibited in all forms. I wonder who dictates the forms. I would argue that Slavery does still exist. Continually the poor (especially in other countries) are subjected to low wage jobs, extended hours, and poor conditions. They are forced to stay in these jobs because their country (or possibly thier education) has limited them from other employment opportunities.
I recently watched a documentary about Haiti, prior to the quake. The title escapes me, but I will post a comment to this post once I have that information for you. The film was about women being the strong hold of the community and the sole economic provider within the family. They often work in factories making only a few dollars a day. They are forced to endure conditions that ended in this country years ago. They can’t speak, they can’t stand, they can’t use a sanitary bathroom. BUT they must stay at this job to support and provide for their family. Many of the homes are in shambles consisting of one room. This one room is the bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, etc.
Isn’t this servitude? A few dollars a day can’t be considered anything but…
These are my opinions, however i know they are notjustmythoughts.
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