Sam Richards
“I’ll eat a taco.” Thanks, pal.
We’ve been talking in class about immigration and I was making the point the other day about how immigrants are so often viewed not simply second class people, but just as often as not fully human. I regularly read comments to articles on web sites in which people reference Mexican immigrants by using words such [...]
Do I really need to learn Spanish?
posted by Sam Richards Do you have any idea how many times you’ve been lied to and didn’t know it? Really…think about it. How often does your silly, gullible self accept something as true because…well…because you believed the source? And how often have you passed on the lie to others? It’s painful for me to [...]
Alabama’s Migrant Workers – Colbert’s Perspective
I’m curious about what you think of this video and the essential idea that immigrant labor is critical for the functioning of our economic and social system. There’s a lot in this video that calls forth some sort of response. The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Alabama’s Migrant Workers www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report [...]
The Racial Wealth Gap and Progress
Given that the wealth gap between black and white and Hispanic and white households has increased in the past decade and a half, it is no wonder that blacks and Hispanics are less likely to see “progress” in race relations, as the article below discusses. As I mentioned in class the other day, in 1995 [...]
Painful Narrowmindedness
But because it’s also painfully funny, it’s tolerable. Wait…actually, that any group or single individual could be so narrow in their thinking is not really funny. I’d like to believe that the clip is edited in such a way that this appears more troublesome that it really is. But as I’ve been watching the fear-mongering [...]
Karim’s Third Doha Journal
For this blog I would talk about a couple of pictures. The first picture is of me meeting HRH (his royal highness) Prince Hassan Bin Talal of Jordan. He is the brother former King Hussien, and long time crown prince of Jordan before he was replaced by now King Abdullah. This was an amazing experience [...]
Karim’s Second Doha Journal
Understanding, helping others, grass-roots, educating the youth, diversity, intercultural dialogue. Those are just some of the buzzwords that have constantly been ringing in my ear these past couple of days at the conference. Whether it is from a conversation I had with a community developer in Kenya over lunch about the importance of intercultural understanding [...]
