Ed. The story of racism at the University of Wisconsin rings all too true. A few years ago there was a murder suicide at the University of Washington. A Taiwanese resident shot and killed Roger Haggitt, a Professor of Pathology,. The resident then committed suicide. A horrible story fo[...]
Posts Tagged ‘American Diversity’
BREAKING NEWS: Kucinich to Run in Seattle?
Speculation: Is Dennis Kucinich Exploring McDermott’s Seat? The Seattle Times reports that Dennis Kucinich is pondering re-rooting his career west of the Cascades. The Times says that Kucinich might run in the the yet to be drawn new WA 10th Congressional District or for Democratic U.S. Rep. J[...]
President Obama’s Intelligence Director Postpones His Honeymoon.
The current choice to lead the National Counter terrorism Center is high testimony to the President’s own remarkable combination of judgment with courage. The agency played the key role in gathering the intelligence needed in the killing of bin Laden. There is glaring contrast with the [...]
MLA meeting in Seattle Jan 2012
127th MLA Annual Convention The convention will begin on Thursday, 5 January, and end on Sunday, 8 January. Registration opens in early September for MLA members. PARTICIPATE The deadline to submit program forms and session proposals has passed (1 April). If you have already submitted program copy, [...]
The Hard Lesson of White Racism
I am embarrassed. When Mr. Obama became President I celebrated. I was happy because, as a Jewish American, I have never believed someone like me could become President of this white christian country. I stupidly saw Barack Obama as being another ethnic name .. like Schmuel Mosheh Negri .. [...]
April 28th, 2011 - 4:20 pm § in Uncategorized
POLITICS: Rick Santorum Channels Langston Hughes
A student in New Hampshire asked Rick Santorum if he knew that the choice of his campaign slogan, “Fighting to make America America again,” was borrowed from the “pro-union poem by the gay poet Langston Hughes.” Let America be America again. Let it be the drea[...]
April 28th, 2011 - 6:58 am § in Politics
Humor: The West Trump Ticket for President
Brother Cornell West should run with Brother Trump as Veep. They certainly would get the hair dresser award! Cornell could do this as a sabbatical, beginning with visitng Alaska to study polemics with Palin. Princeton could help by giving Trump an honorary doctorate. Maybe Trump would reciproc[...]
A Racist Birth Certificate
Damnitall .. It now appears the birthers were wrong . Barack Hussein Obama is a Hawaiian! But .. a new scandal is arising. Note that the certificate identifies Barack senior as racially an “Aftrican.” This makes some sense, at least if we assume the self identified Kenyan came from A[...]
American Diversity .. Two “Mr.s” Rise to the Top of American Academe.
from the UW’s Young to MIT’s new hire Ed. Yesterday I heard that China should surpass the US as the world’s #1 1 economy by the end of President Obama’s next term. Perhaps, and Mussolini made the trains run on time! What these scenarios miss is the huge strength of Americ[...]
April 24th, 2011 - 5:57 pm § in America
TREME … back tonight on HBO …
Ed. BRS and I have not missed an episode. This is GREAT TV! Mr. Gray’s review understates what we feel …… from the PI, by Lester Gray excerpted. TREME: HUMANITY AMONG THE RUINS ….. Then Katrina turned the benighted into the ineffably tragic…… In a dystopian landsc[...]