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Feb
15

A Tweet Or Two

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20
Aug
14

Ferguson: The World Is Watching

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19
Aug
14

“I Love This Country; I Wish That My Country Loved Me.”

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The great irony of the USA; we will go far abroad to protect the rights of selected persecuted minorities, we will speak about fair elections, we will condemn others for their failures in human rights, while in our own country we have long been guilty of these sins ourselves. The leaders and citizens of other countries are well aware of this hypocrisy. When they sit across negotiating tables they will have as ammunition the long voting lines and all of the moves to hinder and deny the right to vote, the many tales of members of an oppressed minority gunned down in the streets, unarmed, peacefully protesting citizens being persecuted by heavily armed police (so much for our much-vaunted constitutional rights), a national media, financed and controlled by a small group of wealthy white men, and a white majority that hates and does all that it can to marginalize and destroy a small minority (that is still less than 13% of the overall population).

What can we dare to say to others when we have not cleaned up our own house, when we are guilty of the same crimes that we dare to take other countries to task? It is more than time that we truly take up all of our country’s ills and make a final push to cure them. For far too long, the sores have been covered with band aids, but it is so easy to pull them off and to see the infection underneath. When Buddhist monks, Amnesty International, and the war-torn and savaged Palestinans are compelled to reach out to help American citizens who are being persecuted from all sides, shows just how bad our unresolved racial issues are. I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. I love this country; I wish that my country loved me.

07
Mar
11

media matters … not so much

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26
Nov
10

game-wrecker

NPR, 2006

Thank you globalcitizenlinda!

17
May
10

in memory

Mariane Pearl holds up Adam Daniel Pearl’s arms after US President Barack Obama signed the Freedom of the Press Act in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, May 17, 2010. Mariane and Adam are the wife and son of slain journalist Daniel Pearl. The law expands efforts to identify countries where press freedom is being violated.




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