Remembering Dr. King
For those who may wonder what he was like, I can offer this: I heard Dr. King speak three times in person and each time he delivered a magnificent speech. He always spoke for love, non-violence, and brotherhood . . . .
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Author: Roger
SAME SEX MARRIAGE: THE CALIFORNIA QUESTION
How does one balance the historic right of states to pass laws concerning marriage with the change in public attitudes that is slowly moving toward acceptance of gay marriage, at least according to recent polls? . . . . Meanwhile, another “minority community” has fought its way up from deep beneath the sea of second-class citizenship toward the light of a new and brighter day!
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Being and Thinking
The “freedom to do anything” means little if one’s life is perpetually defined by rules and requirements not of one’s own making.
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America of Two Minds: On Racial Profiling
VIEW #1: racial profiling is necessary and justified, mainly because some individuals among minorities (people with distinguishably darker skin-tones than Caucasians) commit crimes . . . .
VIEW #2: Racial profiling is wrong because it stereotypes and marginalizes certain groups: historically, those racial and ethnic minorities that typically have suffered the most discrimination in our nation’s history . . . .
Blogging Arizona Marx and Engels
It may seem that the events of Arizona have nothing in common with these two nineteenth century thinkers, but that’s the point they keep missing in Arizona, isn’t it? Or, put another way, perhaps that’s the connection they have gone to great lengths to bury; they want to ensure that no teacher or student ever makes such a connection within Mexican-American Studies! Such classes, sadly, may be defunct now, but valuable ideas are not so easily eliminated: as Dr. King noted, “Truth crushed to earth will rise again!” Historically speaking, if we take the long view, the Arizona Legislators still remain on a collision course with the predictions of Marx and Engels. None of their little bigoted temper tantrums in the state legislature will change this truth one iota. Wait and see!
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