We discussed this in class but I don’t want to hear your thoughts on the story itself but, rather, on the what people are writing in the comments section of this New York Daily News online article. If you go to the Reddit link and read the positive and heartfelt things that people wrote on… Read more »
Posts By: Sam Richards
I’m wondering how I would see things if I walked in this man’s shoes…
This is a bit of a disturbing story…and definitely one worth commentary. It was originally a CNN story and can be found HERE. What stands out for me is the idea that there are many documented instances in which the U.S. Military incarcerated innocent people. And I’m wondering about sowing the seeds of hatred… Read more »
What do you think about this?
Here is an interesting response from Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the president of the Union for Reform Judaism. this was printed in the New York Times: “The Sin of Sowing Hatred”
Yep – still working on it.
We’re making some changes to our web site…
so just bear with us until mid June when we have everything reorganized. You’ll then be better able to make clear sense of all of the things that we are doing. In the meantime, you can watch the introductory video (below) and you gain an understanding of some of our work at Penn State, but… Read more »
An Introductory Video of our Work at Penn State
The WinC Global Dialogues
George Zimmerman vs. Marissa Alexander
I hear people say, “If George Zimmerman had been black, he’d have been jailed immediately.” And I know that many people disagree with that statement, often silently, because political correctness or some other reason keeps them from objecting publicly. Most of us don’t know that we actually have a way to test this idea. It’s… Read more »
Some thoughts on “The Righteous Mind”
Racial profiling appears to be alive (and not well) in NYC
It’s tough to read this article and not experience a rise in one’s blood pressure by the end of it. Particularly unsettling is where the author discusses the differences in experiences between his sons and the young black men from the MCC. And then the boot in the face example. It’s incredibly difficult for me… Read more »
An example of a “resume generating event”
There’s been a lot of racial conflict and dissension in the past few weeks. Much of it started with the Trayvon Martin killing, but it’s been in the air in many quarters of our nation and culture. And then along comes this blog article by John Derbyshire. He really jumped into the deep end here…. Read more »
The saggy pants problem
If you have not heard about this law, it is likely because the state representative who wrote/proposed it is black. Had he been white, then we’d have surely had at least a moment of national conversation about the racism that some would say inspired it. Of course, saggy pants have gone far beyond black/brown urban… Read more »
The Hunger Games and race relations in 2012?
I’ve not seen this movie nor read any of the books and so I don’t have much to say about this article. However, reading it, and in particular the comments that the author pulls from Twitter, leave me questioning the full extent to which people’s relationship with “race” is driven most entirely by political correctness… Read more »
The “White Savior Industrial Complex”
A good deal has been said about the Joseph Kony 2012 video — much of it positive…some of it negative. This is an article that is pretty negative, as you might imagine from the title, but incredibly insightful. It’s written by a Nigerian writer named Teju Cole and he makes some pretty persuasive points about… Read more »
Voices from the classroom
