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Tag Archives: racism
Awareness of Racism and Singing to the Choir
In the past few months, I have been exposed to more works by African Americans and to more documents about the black condition in America than usual. So far, I haven’t learned anything really new, perhaps because I am a … Continue reading
The Great American Racial Awakening (Part Two): “Get over it!”
For most of my fifty-plus years living in this country, I have thought that white Americans have not digested the facts of slavery beyond the most basic level. I think they have avoided emoting about them and also about the … Continue reading
Three Roads to Racism
Are you a racist? Anyone can feel free to answer this question any way it/she/he wishes; they wish. And that’s the problem. In this short essay, I aim first to do a little vocabulary house-keeping. Second, I try to trace … Continue reading
White Supremacists
“White supremacy” has become a central part of the left’s narrative. In an hour and a half of casual news watching on television in early October 2017, for example, I heard three references to white supremacy. That’s more than I … Continue reading
Facts vs Narrative: American Peronismo
Anyone who has written anything other than an accident report, maybe even only three letters to his mother, knows or guesses the following: facts often interfere with the quality of a narrative. Only very great writers manage to incorporate all … Continue reading
Posted in Socio-Political Essays
Tagged abortion, Argentina, Arizona immigration law, Buenos Aires, Canada, climate change, Communist Party, Cuba, Deomocratic Party, fascism, GDP/capita, glass ceiling, global warming, illegal immigrants, Mercedes Sosa, out-of-wedlock births, Peronismo, racism, Rio Grande, summer camp, tango, War on Poverty
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Ron Paul Won’t Get My Vote
My low-level research on Ron Paul has paralleled his rise in the polls. What I have done is to give a number of opportunities to people who I know favor his candidacy and to people and organizations who I think … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events
Tagged anti-Semitism, Congressman Paul, end of the world, iolationism, Libertarian, Maya calendar, Mayas, racism, Ron Paul, Syria
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Immigration: More on Conservative, Liberal Ignorance
I have heard conservative radio talk-show callers express indignation at immigrants who don’t “become American citizens,” as if it showed ill-will on the part of the immigrants, or lack of love for America. These calls demonstrate a basic lack of … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Socio-Political Essays, Uncategorized
Tagged Asians, citizenship, conservative ignorance, discrimination, federally protected categories, foreigners, illegal immigrants, immigrants, immigration laws, immigration' green card, Latin Americans, legal immigrants, liberal ignorance, naturalization, racism, white Europeans
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Pure Racism and Chinese Dining
There are several kinds of racism. The roots and the dynamics of racism are among the most interesting sociological issues. Here is a small but important fragment of the whole matter. The most common kind of racism involves three separate … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Studies
Tagged beef tendon, Chinatown, Chines food, Chinese restaurants, crab with snow-peas, racism, San Francisco
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Sotomayor, Semi-Literate; Obama and Competence.
Judge Sotomayor is only a small part of the disaster but a symbolic one. With an activist liberal President commanding absolute majorities of course, we would have had a liberal appointment to the Supreme Court. Could have been worse than … Continue reading
Indecent Stories for Decent Women: Fiction by John René Adolph, a Man (2017)
Les pumas de grande banlieue: histoires d'émigration (2014)
I Used to Be French: an Immature Autobiography (2014)
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Le racisme americain
Hier, Dimanche le 5 Fevrier, on a assiste a une manifestation typique de racisme americain. A l’occasion du plus grand evenement sportif de l’annee (le “Superbowl”), plusieurs dizaines de gladiateurs millionaires se sont heurtes violemment devant un public assoife de … Continue reading →