Archive for the ‘Race Relations’ Category.
Aug 13

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Is there anyone who actually means it when they say they want equality? I’m not sure I believe it anymore. In an ironic twist, most people I know (having lived for quite awhile in Illinois) are exhaustingly bleeding heart, and use the term “equality” to invoke sympathetic endorsements (and “yes, yes” chants from the audience) regarding affirmative-action, [...]
Aug 10

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~Illegal immigration and steak~
I want to close the open doors and windows which allow uninvited neighbors and strangers to enter my house. I don’t care if they clean my bathroom (a job I don’t want to do), they’re not invited and I don’t want them to enter.
Is that hatred? If we concede, as we truly [...]
Jul 01

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Where does this data come from that’s constantly inferred in the recitation of an apparently understood truism - that “most of these illegal immigrants are good, hard-working people”.
I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not even saying it’s not probable. But where’s the data that permits us to accept this automatically? How can this “statistical [...]
Apr 28

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Pieces of our heritage and vocabulary are being pilfered and co-opted beneath our noses. A recent blog attempt of mine was rejected on a site for my use of the phrase “queer arrangement” (As in “peculiar arrangement”). So we can’t even use the term queer anymore as an adjective describing something odd or peculiar?
This is [...]
Apr 21

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In the wonderful classic film “Miracle on 34th Street”, the young janitor Alfred (who loves to play Santa clause), is counseled by the repressed and ugly psychiatrist, Dr. Sawyer; who informs Alfred that his delusion of playing Santa in order to enjoy seeing children smile is actually an illness. He describes this illness as a [...]
Mar 30

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Ironic content floats to the surface of The Magic Candidate’s campaign and his wondrously shiny oratory masterpiece.
Barack Obama is a black man. But his mother is white…So how much “black” does it require to befit this title or status? Does ANY strain of black blood raise one to this stature? If the cradle of civilization [...]