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- March 24th, 2005, 5:48 pm
- Forum: The Prison Industrial Complex
- Topic: Execution Schedule
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4650
Re: Execution Schedule
I used to live right next the Walls Unit. That's where they execute the inmates in Texas. I was around for Karla Faye Tucker's execution and Gary Graham's execution (I left town for that one). Karla Faye's execution was more like a frat party than anything else. People were getting drunk, sitting ou...
- March 17th, 2005, 8:58 pm
- Forum: Los Angeles Area News
- Topic: ROBERT BLAKE
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4123
Re: ROBERT BLAKE
I saw on CNN today an interview with a juror, and the wife's shady past was brought into question. He was asked whether or not her background played any kind of role in determining guilt and the juror said that her background didn't matter - that this was a horrible crime no matter what, etc., etc. ...
- March 9th, 2005, 7:55 pm
- Forum: Music and Sports News
- Topic: The Rev. Al Sharpton's Proposal
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1260
The Rev. Al Sharpton's Proposal
You think this is a feasible solution? Will a 30 day ban affect their sales? "Rev. Al airs gangsta ban plan" BY TRACY CONNOR and BILL HUTCHINSON DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS The Rev. Al Sharpton is calling for a 90-day ban on radio and TV airplay for any performer who uses violence to settle scores or h...
- March 6th, 2005, 9:30 am
- Forum: Race & Religion
- Topic: Interracial Dating or Marriage
- Replies: 350
- Views: 98738
Re: Interracial Dating or Marriage
Do you suppose that interracial couples is a popular trend nowadays - more like if it was in vogue (fashion)? Go with the flow sort of? Everyone wants to try it? No dis' to anyone - just an observation aftertought. Look at the media - it's popular. The new thing in advertising is to portray people ...
- March 3rd, 2005, 8:29 pm
- Forum: Race & Religion
- Topic: White teachers teaching black history
- Replies: 493
- Views: 109569
Back to the original topic...
I read this today, and it reminded me of this thread. A bit off topic with the homosexuality, but I still think it makes a point. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7037588/site/newsweek/ I Kept Quiet, and Lost My Job Anyway By teaching my students about prejudice without coming out, I missed the biggest o...
- March 3rd, 2005, 6:36 am
- Forum: Race & Religion
- Topic: are people from India black?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 17342
Re: are people from India black?
That is why when you are filling out forms and it asks for your race, one of the options will be "White (non-Hispanic)". Or at least they used to. I don't know what it politically correct anymore. The government just started making up races for their forms so that people wouldn't be offended. In Ame...
- March 2nd, 2005, 4:24 pm
- Forum: Race & Religion
- Topic: WHY CANT I GET A PERSON OF COLOR TO CARE???
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2060
Re: WHY CANT I GET A PERSON OF COLOR TO CARE???
How the hell did she explain her use of deadly force? How can this not be investigated? Have you contected the media? Do you have a union with whom you could make a complaint? In Houston, the Black Panthers are very active - Quanell X is very vocal. I may not agree with everything he advocates, but ...
- March 1st, 2005, 7:35 pm
- Forum: Race & Religion
- Topic: Interracial Dating or Marriage
- Replies: 350
- Views: 98738
Re: Interracial Dating or Marriage
My mother married a native Hispanic Texan (don't dare call him Mexican). This was both their second marriages, and his mother, a Pentecostal, was NOT happy with the fact that he divorced/remarried, especially with a white woman. Whenever she'd call the house and my mother or I would answer the phone...
- March 1st, 2005, 7:09 pm
- Forum: Prevention, Intervention, Education and Awareness
- Topic: Would You Hit Or Fight A Girl/Woman? II
- Replies: 82
- Views: 20464
Re: Would You Hit Or Fight A Girl/Woman? II
First of all, I'm not a violent person and I don't hit. But as a woman, I would fully expect that if I were to hit a man, then I would be hit back. A scrawny man doesn't expect a stronger man to pull any punches, so why should I expect any differently? Too many times I have seen girls joke around wi...
- February 26th, 2005, 5:57 pm
- Forum: Race & Religion
- Topic: White teachers teaching black history
- Replies: 493
- Views: 109569
Re: White teachers teaching black history
South Africa is an *example* of a country that tried to give blacks their own country. You mentioned a country that blacks could rule themselves, and I gave you an example of where it had been done. Just because South Africa is in Africa doesn't mean it is free of racism and whites. I never assumed ...
- February 26th, 2005, 1:24 pm
- Forum: Race & Religion
- Topic: White teachers teaching black history
- Replies: 493
- Views: 109569
Re: White teachers teaching black history
as long as we live under you peoples rules and system,we will forever remain with the shyty end of the stick.We should have our own schools,own laws,own everything.And I dont mean segragation like it was under the white man.I mean the black man should have his own nation,own constitution and own la...
- February 24th, 2005, 10:41 pm
- Forum: Race & Religion
- Topic: White teachers teaching black history
- Replies: 493
- Views: 109569
Re: White teachers teaching black history
You left out Abraham Lincoln. And yes, schools DO teach that the Founding Fathers weren't perfect. It's not hidden that they were slave owners and no one tries to justify that. Malcolm X made some mistakes in his life, but we still learn about him, his contributions, and WHY he felt he had no choice...
- February 24th, 2005, 7:44 pm
- Forum: Race & Religion
- Topic: White teachers teaching black history
- Replies: 493
- Views: 109569
Re: White teachers teaching black history
Black history *can* be an elective at some high schools, but I have not seen one. In public schools in Texas, it is mainly taught in history classes during February. I teach black history whenever the need arises to give students background knowledge. I don't teach it during an assigned month. Seali...
- February 24th, 2005, 3:16 pm
- Forum: Race & Religion
- Topic: White teachers teaching black history
- Replies: 493
- Views: 109569
Re: White teachers teaching black history
I asked my students today what THEY thought about this (this is 7th grade, mind you), and they were a little startled, but said they did not have a problem with it. Since I am a white teacher and didn't know if they were saying that because I was white, I phrased it in a different way - What problem...
- February 23rd, 2005, 9:58 pm
- Forum: Prevention, Intervention, Education and Awareness
- Topic: Sexual Violence
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4776
Re: Sexual Violence
Rape isn't about sex. It's about violence and control.
Prostitutes can be raped. Married women can be raped. Drunk women can be raped.
And even though I say women, it can happen to anyone, regardless of sex.
Prostitutes can be raped. Married women can be raped. Drunk women can be raped.
And even though I say women, it can happen to anyone, regardless of sex.
- February 23rd, 2005, 9:34 pm
- Forum: Race & Religion
- Topic: White teachers teaching black history
- Replies: 493
- Views: 109569
Re: White teachers teaching black history
I'm a white teacher. So, I'm not qualified to teach historical background knowledge for Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry just because of the color of my skin? Take things on an individual basis rather than lumping people in a category because of skin color. Just because I'm white doesn't mean that I've ...
- February 22nd, 2005, 5:14 pm
- Forum: Open Section for Other Random Topics & Controverisal issues
- Topic: Eight Steps To Destroy America
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3614
Re: Eight Steps To Destroy America
So isn't it only natural to assume that America's end as super power is fast approaching, regardless of educational and other political policies? History, like the Bible, is too easily twisted for personal agendas. That's a common fallacy - using history to beef up your argument when in reality it h...
- February 20th, 2005, 7:13 pm
- Forum: Open Section for Other Random Topics & Controverisal issues
- Topic: Eight Steps To Destroy America
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3614
Re: Eight Steps To Destroy America
There is a bit of confusion as to who actually wrote this, but it SOUNDS as if Dick Lamm authored this piece (Snopes’ message board) America started out promoting bilingualism. Fear of Eastern European immigrants and WWII stopped bilingual education. If you look at the statistics (from anywhere but ...
- February 17th, 2005, 8:18 pm
- Forum: Race & Religion
- Topic: Mexican Slang You Always Wanted To Learn?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 18239
Re: Mexican Slang You Always Wanted To Learn?
I started out teaching 9th-11th grade at an inner city high school and dealt with this on a daily basis. I feel like that I am here to help, not to judge. My previous school had a full time gang awareness staff and they taught the teachers what to look out for. They dealt head on with the problems- ...
- February 16th, 2005, 7:04 pm
- Forum: Race & Religion
- Topic: Mexican Slang You Always Wanted To Learn?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 18239
Re: Mexican Slang You Always Wanted To Learn?
When my students start throwing out words and phrases that I don't know, I always go to http://www.urbandictionary.com. I try to keep pretty current with movies and trends, but I can't stomach MTV anymore, so I know I'm way outta the loop in some aspects. I find out all sorts of things from the stud...
- February 12th, 2005, 8:49 am
- Forum: Race & Religion
- Topic: Blacks Are Enslaving themselves?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3683
Re: Blacks Are Enslaving themselves?
It sounds to me like an activist wrote it, trying to enrage people to the point of action. It brought up some good points, but it gets people pissed off, and with no further instructions. Just "Prove them Wrong"? What CAN people do? http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1264/is_n8_v27/ai_188786...
- February 12th, 2005, 8:30 am
- Forum: Race & Religion
- Topic: Why has there never been a war over Buddhism
- Replies: 51
- Views: 19731
Re: Why has there never been a war over Buddhism
People have used religion as an excuse for centuries to validate crimes against humanity. Most religious warfare, in my opinion, is based on power, and they just USE religion as an excuse. It's an easy out - "This person offends my God. It is better that he and his people should die than live and in...
- February 11th, 2005, 5:33 pm
- Forum: Books, Magazines, TV, Film & Videos
- Topic: The Shield
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1775
The Shield
Was browsing another thread about gang involvement with cops, and it reminded me of The Shield.
Any thoughts on that show? How realistic do you think is?
Any thoughts on that show? How realistic do you think is?
- February 10th, 2005, 3:08 pm
- Forum: Race & Religion
- Topic: Hollywood discriminates against dark Latinos
- Replies: 71
- Views: 24760
Re: Hollywood discriminates against dark Latinos
Just because the history happens to be racist does not mean that because I know it, I believe it. Like it or not, that's the history, and it still has lingering effects today. More links - http://www.interaction.org/files.cgi/3524_caste_systems.rtf http://www.multiracial.com/readers/farmer8.html htt...
- February 9th, 2005, 10:29 pm
- Forum: Race & Religion
- Topic: Hollywood discriminates against dark Latinos
- Replies: 71
- Views: 24760
Re: Hollywood discriminates against dark Latinos
There was (is?) a caste system in the Americas. When the Conquistadors came to the Americas, they had children with the native women. The children, obviously, were of a lighter skin color than the natives. Hence, the lighter skinned children were associated with power (the Europeans). The lighter yo...
- February 9th, 2005, 10:06 pm
- Forum: Race & Religion
- Topic: Beating a dead horse - The Word Nigger
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1903
Beating a dead horse - The Word Nigger
Nigger : The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word by RANDALL KENNEDY With all the discussion and speculation of the word on this board, this book is a must read for people who want to be informed. (cut and pasted from Amazon) Product Description: It’s “the nuclear bomb of racial epithets,” a word th...
- February 9th, 2005, 9:56 pm
- Forum: Race & Religion
- Topic: irish racism
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6981
Re: irish racism
The fight has been going on a long time. Back in the 1600's, the best part of Ireland (the Northern part) was taken from the native Catholics and was given to Protestant settlers. The fighting has been going on ever since. Ok, so that was really condensed. The BBC has a lot more info about it. http:...
- February 9th, 2005, 9:40 pm
- Forum: Open Section for Other Random Topics & Controverisal issues
- Topic: DO you support homies and what they symbolize?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8390
Re: DO you support homies and what they symbolize?
I think if the stories were accesible to the people that bought them, that would be one thing. But for the majority of the people that buy those toys (at least out of the vending machines), you don't know anything about the "background" of the toy. At the inner-city high school that I taught at, my ...
- February 9th, 2005, 9:24 pm
- Forum: Prevention, Intervention, Education and Awareness
- Topic: Do You Have A Hard Time Getting A Job DU 2 Gang History?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 10551
Re: Do You Have A Hard Time Getting A Job DU 2 Gang History?
My husband owns his own business and he has hired ex-cons, ex-addicts, and ex-bangers, but he has gotten screwed by all of them. Most of the time, they end up stealing from him or showing up to the work site intoxicated. I consider him lucky if that's all that happens. The worst was when he held a j...
- February 5th, 2005, 7:05 pm
- Forum: Gang Questions, Info & News - General - U.S.A.
- Topic: Schools dress code
- Replies: 28
- Views: 8764
Re: Schools dress code
First of all, the teachers don't make up the dress codes. They just enforce them. I may not agree with all dress codes, but I'm not going to get in trouble just because some kid decided to color his pockets or roll up his left pant leg. I would (and I have) gone to the principal and/or dress code co...