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Newsbytes - Multicultural issues in the news
'The Loving Story' Takes Intimate Look At
Virginia's First Legal Interracial Marriage
"They Shot Him, Papa!": Finding Smarter Ways
to Talk to Kids About Diversity
An E-Mail From A Daughter To Her Parents - Be
careful of what you ask for
A black man talks to a white
man
Predictions for this Year's NFL
Season
Predictions for this Year's MLB
Season
Teaching Tolerance to Children 7
to 10
Call Me Negro, Black or
Afrian-American?
The Real Story
Behind the Ray Lewis Story
A Tossed Salad
Crayola Denigrates Native
Americans
Don't Laugh at
Me
Hate Crimes
The Kettle
N-word for the White
Guy
YouTube
Please Don't Censor Fred Sanford
Racism
Newsbytes
Books
Videos (Circle
of Recovery, Color
of Fear, Walking
Each Other Home & Stolen
Ground)
Related Issues: Talking With
Kids About Tough Issues
Periodicals
Resources
A black man talks to a white man
When I was born I was black,
When I grew up I was black,
When I go in the sun I'm black,
When I'm cold, I'm black,
When I'm scared, I'm black,
When I'm sick, I'm black,
When I die I'll still be black.
But you: When you're born you're pink,
When you grow up you're white,
When you go in the sun you turn red,
When you're cold you turn blue,
When you're scared, you're yellow,
When you're bruised, you're purple,
When you're sick, you're green,
and when you die you turn grey.
And you have the nerve to call me colored.
Be a link to erase racism.
'The Loving Story' Takes Intimate Look
At Virginia's First Legal Interracial Marriage
Nine years prior, in June 1958, the couple traveled to Washington, D.C. -- where interracial marriage was legal -- to get married. When they returned home, however, they were arrested and sentenced to one year in jail for violating the state's Racial Integrity Act.
According to court documents, the trial judge suspended the Lovings' sentence for a period of 25 years on the condition that they leave the State and not return to Virginia together for 25 years. He stated in an opinion that:
Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And, but for the interference with his arrangement, there would be no cause for such marriage. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.
After spending five years in Washington, where Richard worked as a bricklayer and where the couple had their three children -- Peggy, Donald and Sidney -- they sought out the help of a young attorney named Bernard Cohen who was volunteering at the time with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The Lovings requested that Cohen ask the Caroline County, Virginia judge to reconsider his decision, a move that would lead to one of the civil rights movement's most pivotal moments: the legalization of interracial marriage.
"They were very simple people, who were not interested in winning any civil rights principle," Cohen told NPR in an interview marking the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the conviction of Richard and Mildred Loving.
"They just were in love with one another and wanted the right to live together as husband and wife in Virginia, without any interference from officialdom. When I told Richard that this case was, in all likelihood, going to go to the Supreme Court of the United States, he became wide-eyed and his jaw dropped," Cohen said.
In June 1967, the court unanimously declared Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924 unconstitutional and ended all race-based marriage bans in the U.S.
During Richard and Mildred's epic "Loving v. Virgina" legal battle, LIFE magazine photographer Grey Villet traveled to Virginia to cover the case, but his photos offered a more intimate look at the couple and their family, their dedication to each other, daily life in Virginia and the countryside they cherished.
Villet's photos were uncovered by director Nancy Buirski during
the filming of her upcoming documentary, “The Loving
Story,” set to debut on February 14 on HBO, and will be on view
at the International Center of Photography in New York City from
January 20 through May 6, 2012.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/18/the-loving-story-takes-intimate-look-at-first-legal-interracial-marriage_n_1213451.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-sb-bb%7Cdl4%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D129475
"They Shot Him, Papa!": Finding Smarter
Ways to Talk to Kids About Diversity
This is how we found out that they were talking about race: over dinner, she announced that Martin Luther King Jr. wanted people with white skin and brown skin to be friends but people got mad so they shot him. While that is not an inaccurate summary of the history involved, it does pretty much foreground the assassination and diminish the rest of his accomplishments. It's a little depressing to think that the legacy of Dr. King's life could be boiled down into "Equality will get you killed."
Obviously, race murder was not the subject we'd expected to be discussing when we asked "How was school, honey?" so we probed to find out what else she had learned. All she could remember was that people have different skin colors and that some people really don't like people with brown skin. As a mixed race girl in a school 95% white, this was not a small thing to ponder.
This theme continued all week at school, with her classmates making paints to match their own skin colors, which I assume was meant to be empowering, but which only cemented the notion of pigment being key. I was volunteering in class that week and was asked to make a rainbow using the skin colors labeled by student name; I counter-proposed and suggested a collage, with all the colors mixed. Both ideas are ways of saying "we're all in this together" but the second approach moved away from any kind of spectrum in which similar colors would be closest to each other.
The hearts of all involved were in the right place: the school for making diversity part of the curriculum and the teachers for trying to explore the theme in hands-on activities. But the truth is that this particular approach was a little clumsy, even if representative of how a lot of people handle the topic of diversity: sincerely, but in misguided fashion, seeking easy languages and metaphors for inclusion that nonetheless inadvertently emphasize division and otherness.
By the end of the week, the limits of this approach had been made clear when a white boy told a boy of color -- one of his best friends -- that they couldn't play together anymore because of the boy's brown skin. This reaction, I have to admit, was a fairly logical outgrowth of the white child's understanding of the lesson he'd just learned in school: that a white man killed a black man because the black man wanted their races to get along. For the white boy hearing such a message, not playing with his African-American pal could equal watching out for his friend's safety.
Good news: the divide didn't last -- the boys are back to playing to "Star Wars" again. But it illustrates why it is so vital for schools to find more sophisticated, meaningful ways to approach the subject of diversity. Here are 5 simple suggestions from a Dad on the front lines:
My daughter was right, Martin Luther King Jr. died; but he dreamed
first -- and he dreamed big enough to change the world. I think
that's something worth celebrating and teaching.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com/david-valdes-greenwood/talking-to-kids-about-diversity_b_1193801.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl12%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D127909
or http://bit.ly/yqyOnH
An E-Mail From A Daughter To Her Parents - Be
careful of what you ask for
You'll be happy to hear that I have finally left my black boyfriend. I know you both didn't approve of him because of his race and the fact that he is ten years older than me. I found, as you suggested, a nice white Canadian boy the same age, as I.
Attached is a recent photo of the two of us. He's looking forward to meeting you both.
Your Loving Daughter
Predictions for this Year's NFL Football
Season
AFC East - New England Micks over New York Kikes
AFC North - Baltimore Wops over Pittsburgh Pussies
AFC South - Houston Wet Backs over Tennessee
Ridge-runners
AFC West - Denver Sissies over San Diego Beaners
NFC East - New York Spicks over Philadelphia Guineas
NFC North - Green Bay Herring-chockers over Detroit
Greasers
NFC South - New Orleans Gippos over Atlanta Niggers
NFC West - San Francisco Faggots over Arizona Pale Faces
Did you find any of these team names offensive? If so, were you
immediately offended by the very first paragraph of this story?
Particularly the last sentence where I mentioned the Washington
Redskins and the Kansas City Chiefs? Well, hundreds of thousands of
people are offended by those names. If your high school or college
uses such racist names, speak out against it? If you do,
maybe the pro-football owners and particularly those in Kansas City
and Washington, DC and pro-baseball owners in Atlanta (Braves)
or Cleveland (Indians) or in the NHL - Chicago (Blackhwaks -
mascot) will start to
honor, respect and really understand that Native Americans aren't
mascots, they're people. The NBA understands the concept. Think
about it! (For our prediction of the ranking within each division and
who we project to win Super Bowl XLVI, click here.)
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Teaching Tolerance to Children 7
to 10
Though I have been involved in men's work since 1976 and did my first 'Un-learning Racism' workshop in 1979, it wasn't until seeing debute of the film, 'The Color of Fear", that I really got it. And I was in the film, but it didn't really hit me how deeply the racism from growing up and living in a basically all-white area with a nice liberal stance, had kept me from really seeing my part in keeping the system going. And how I have used the "Priviledge" of being white to keep me from feeling the pain and loneliness that isolation from our diverse culture has left me with. See this video or better yet, buy it and see it with friends! (If we have any show dates, they'll appear in "Calendar".)
Shortly after filming, I got the idea to replace my 'I Believe You Anita' bumper sticker with 'I Believe You Rodney'. As I was placing my order at the printers, fear rushed through my body. I got to thinking about the potential danger I might put myself or my car in by driving around that 'identified'. I really connected at that point with the priviledge I have being white and driving almost anywhere in safety and how by putting that bumper sticker on might be in a small way similar to being black and being watched driving through most communities and maybe being singled out in some.
I ended up getting those bumper stickers printed for any
white-liberals out there who believe that the color of a persons skin
doesn't matter in this culture, that we're all treated the same and
we all have the same opportunity. Would you be willing to test your
assumptions by putting an 'I Believe You Rodney' bumper sticker on
your car for the next couple of months? (See "Merchandise" to begin
the test.) We've looked for a long time at the "melting pot" theory
that suggests we all become the same. I like the "tossed salad"
concept better, myself. Think about it.
Crayola Denigrates Native Americans
I was very disturbed to see that the new 64 pack of Crayola’s I just purchased contains a color called "Indian Red". I’ve returned it to you and have thrown out the rest since I don’t want to expose children to what I believe to be a racist image.
Does it represent "Indians" from the Southwest, or the East or Eskimo. Actually, Indian’s are from India. Native American’s in this country are not nor do they call themselves "Indian". That, like the word "savage", were imposed terms given them by our government. Much like the government’s use of Hispanic, though the word "Indian" carries a lot more damaging history with it.
It may not be intentional, but surely your people with all their creativity can come up with a more suitable name for the color.
I am not Native American. And I am offended. I would be most interested in knowing where you stand on this situation and will report the progress on our website. Yours in continued growth.
Editor's Note: Our initial reply from their PR people was to
defend it's use saying it was the name of a color in India. However,
since that time they have announced that the name will be dropped
from their line. It doesn't always take more than one person to get
corporations thinking. Change can happen. And, a big "THANK-YOU? to
Binney & Smith. They had plausible rationale for the use of
the name that couldn't be argued with and yet they took the position
to remove the name from their product line. That's commendable. -
Gordon Clay
Please Don't Censor Fred Sanford
But I would kindly ask the TV Land folks to stop censoring 'Sanford and Son,' specifically editing out the n-word from several episodes of the hit comedy, which ran from 1972-1977. ...
I've noticed that on several episodes, when the word nigger is uttered by a character, another word is substituted in its place.
For example, in the original broadcast of the 'Big Money Grip' episode, when Grip, an old friend of Fred Sanford, declares Fred's son, Lamont, is his own child, Aunt Esther exclaims "What did you say, nigger?"
The original line brought howls of laughter from the studio audience, but you wouldn't know that from watching the show on TV Land. The word sucker is clumsily dubbed into the audio track.
I can remember at least two other instances where the n-word is pulled from the original broadcast. I'm not sure who or what is to blame. Political correctness, perhaps, but it's funny how we have regressed.
Hearing the n-word doesn't cause black people to turn into a pile of dust. Yes, I admit it is still a word that can start a fight if uttered by the wrong person in the wrong tone of voice. But that's not what we were talking about in the 'Sanford and Son' episodes. There, it's part of an extremely funny joke.
So come on, TV Land. Let Fred Sanford and Aunt Esther speak the
way they were intended.
Source: www.blackvoices.com/blogs/2009/02/13/sanford-and-son-n-word/?icid=200100397x1218182448x1201241580
Nothing will change until we demolish the we-they mentality. We are human and therefore all human concerns are ours. Sam Hamill
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