Overcoming Hate with Love
Saturday, August 29th, 2009 Posted in Society | 2 Comments »I have a hard time appreciating just how incredible the American Civil Rights movement was. I just watched this video, how to defeat the KKK, and then did minimal research on Wade Watts and read this story about his interactions ...
Race in the Obama Era
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 Posted in Society | No Comments »I came across two interesting stories last week involving race (apparently today is blog about stuff I found last week day). The first is a Newsweek article about a black family that adopted a white girl. It's an interesting story and ...
The Radical Words of Martin Luther King Jr.
Monday, January 19th, 2009 Posted in History, Society | No Comments »Last week I talked a bit about Martin Luther King Jr. being a radical. Today it seems appropriate to look at some of his radical words. On love vs. hate: "I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a ...
Martin Luther King Jr. the Radical
Monday, January 12th, 2009 Posted in History | 2 Comments »I've been reading The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House lately (can you guess why?) and have been fascinated by the perspective of history. Specifically Martin Luther King Jr. Admittedly, my understanding of current history (say, the ...
Yes We Can: Hillary Clinton Made Me Cry
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Posted in Politics | 1 Comment »Let me start by saying I don't like Hillary Clinton. But I got teary eyed watching her tonight during the Democratic National Convention. There were two moments that got me: Her introduction video when she said, "See, you can be ...
Historic Poverty Data and Race
Thursday, June 12th, 2008 Posted in Society | No Comments »After I wrote this I was wondering about race and poverty. I made the comment that if you're black you're more likely to be poor and I wondered what data backed that up. So I found historical poverty tables from ...
What’s Race Got to do with Test Scores?
Thursday, June 12th, 2008 Posted in Society | 6 Comments »A new batch of Minnesota test scores were released this week. Overall it sounds like good news with 75% passing the new test. But it gets interesting as the media starts talking about the various demographics (PDF). I was listening ...
Mississippi Town Holds First Integregated Prom
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in Society | 1 Comment »Segregation ended more than 50 years ago but a Mississippi town just held its first integrated prom. Charleston, Miss. has held separate, privately funded proms for black students and white students. Going back to 1997 actor Morgan Freeman, who lives ...
Shattering Barriers
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 Posted in Politics | No Comments »Yesterday while watching Barack Obama's speech and seeing the unbelievable crowd in St. Paul it started to dawn on me just how ground-breaking it is that the Democratic nominee for president is a black man. Seeing that diverse crowd (and ...
Pretentious Literary Snot
Tuesday, November 19th, 2002 Posted in Books | No Comments »Sometimes I'm a pretentious literary snot. Unlike most debt-ridden, almost-newlywed, post college twenty-somethings, my wife and I have a library of nearly 800 books (and the number swells monthly). Now we justify it by picking up the books cheap at ...
