Posts tagged Racism
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Knowledge in movement
Incredible interview with James Baldwin. Quite telling of our history, and it’s disturbing.
“It’s one of the great problems of being an American Negro in the first place. You are taught, really, the entire weight of the republic, teaches you to despise yourself. When you open your eyes in the world and look out at it, there is nothing reflecting you.”
“I think white Americans consider themselves something else. They seem to assume that I live in a segregated society. And they don’t realize that they live in a segregated society, that we do. And that the white child, is really just as victimized by this peculiar midieval system as a negro child. And what’s worse with the white child is the white child doesn’t know it! And his whole attitude toward the world and toward reality…”
Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law
“NPR spent the past several months analyzing hundreds of pages of campaign finance reports, lobbying documents and corporate records. What they show is a quiet, behind-the-scenes effort to help draft and pass Arizona Senate Bill 1070 by an industry that stands to benefit from it: the private prison industry….”
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Baseball Alarmed by Arizona Immigration Law
Interesting article on baseball and the new immigration law in Arizona. I would love to see every Latin American baseball player refuse to play in Arizona. I really hope they change the 2011 all-star game from Phoenix as well. Check the article…
“Hundreds of teenage ballplayers arrive every year in the United States trying to make a better life. They come from the Dominican Republic and Venezuela and Mexico and elsewhere, all to play the most American of games. Most grew up in poverty. Few know English. The game welcomes them anyway.
“In less than two months, the Arizona Rookie League begins its season. Nearly 140 young players born and raised in Spanish-speaking countries will congregate in Phoenix and its suburbs for their first taste of professional baseball. They may do so as the nation’s most controversial law – the one that says some people who look like them are most certainly not welcome – goes into effect in late July…
