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Jeffco school board president Ken Witt needs to walk the walk
Re: "Working together for Jeffco schools," May 4 guest commentary.
In response to Jefferson County Board of Education President Ken Witt's statement about his personal priorities and vision for Jeffco, he should stop talking the talk and start walking the walk.
Transparency and accountability are only words, but providing an unredacted bill from board attorney Brad Miller would be a step in the right direction. Let the taxpayers know what they're paying for.
Living up to the district's promises to teachers would be another. Public negotiations went to impasse because the district bargaining team was never directed by the board to bargain anything. No agreement could be reached, because the team couldn't authorize anything, so impasse was declared. We know this because it happened in public.
Stop paying lip service to valuing teachers and put your money where your mouth is. Listen to the more than 13,000 respondents to the community survey and reinstate steps and levels, fund full-day kindergarten in low-income schools and keep class size low.
Lori Rubin, Denver
The writer is a teacher at Ralston Valley High School in Arvada.
This letter was published in the May 11 edition.
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February 22, 2014
MILTON, Ga. Members of the Milton Business Alliance (MBA) were given a Washington, D.C., update Feb. 20 by the local House member, U.S. Rep. Tom Price.
The short version is that Washington is a mess. But there are bright points.
Price spoke at the MBA meeting held this month at the American Family Care on Ga. 9.
"I think your Congress is very representative of the country," Price said. "We are a very divided country."
Republicans control the House, so they are in charge of legislating. However, Democrats control the Senate and the White House, meaning Republicans are also the opposition party.
This has created a sense of schizophrenia, as he put it, not just within his party, but within the U.S. Capitol, which has led to gridlock and constant showdowns.
"Even though we have been divided in the past, it didn't mean we didn't get things done," he said. "[Now] Congress is not addressing the challenges that need to get done. And those challenges won't go away."
One such challenge is job growth.
"We are not creating jobs," he said. "We have the lowest adult workforce since World War II."
Part of that, Price said, is because the Baby Boomers are retiring in large numbers. But there is more.
"It's not because the government hasn't been doing enough," he said.
Instead, it's the opposite.
Businesses and workers are not given the right incentives to hire or work. He said the government should step back from controlling and regulating businesses. The U.S. also uses an antiquated tax system including the highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world (39 percent). It needs an overhaul.
"Our tax system punishes risk and success," he said. "That makes it difficult to expand a business. We need fundamental tax reform."
Also, federal spending needs to be reined in. Ten percent of the budget is simply interest on the debt, costing $250 billion a year. In 10 years, that number will inflate to $1 trillion a year if nothing is done.
And then there is the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).
"A vast amount of people are looking at the ACA and saying, 'This is not what I thought it would be,'" he said.
Price said his party has 160 health care bills that could replace the ACA, however the party cannot agree on which is best. Even if they did, Democrats would not allow any to move forward. Republicans need to find another way that would work for all in the party.
"We need an alternative," he said.
Such a bill may be put forward in the spring.
"We are at a challenging time right now," he said. "We need better leadership and need to find common ground. We need real solutions that solve real problems.
"Elections will sort this out, I have no doubt," he said.
For more about Price, his views or to contact him, visit his website at tomprice.house.gov.

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Promise Made: I Will Vote. Promise Kept.
April 15, 2014 8:45 am in Increasing Voter Turnout by Michael Tuteur, Votenet CEO
Shaun Tomson, a successful businessman who was once a world champion surfer, received the worst phone call ever. His 15 year old son had accidentally asphyxiated himself in an attempt to get high. His son's death led Thomson to think deeply about the dangerous choices – drugs, alcohol and other risky behaviors – that teenagers make.
He also reflected on what decades on his surf board had taught him about life – lessons that helped him deal with his son's death and ended up in his first book, Surfer's Code: 12 Simple Lessons for Riding Through Life.
As a motivational speaker, he now teaches teenagers and adults about making positive, thoughtful decisions. In an exercise from his second book, The Code: The Power of 'I Will,' he instructs people to write their own version of the surfer's code – 12 promises to themselves beginning with the words 'I will.'
He told the Jewish Journal:
"When you sit down and just write 12 promises to yourself…they develop force and power. When you put 'I will' in front of them, it's a commitment. It's a bond between you and the future…You're not going to make a promise to yourself and flake out of it."
I will vote in the leadership election.
The surfer has the science right. When you make a promise, you create "a bond between you and the future" – you and your better self, the one who does the right thing. This is why breaking promises feels so wrong. We have an inner need to ensure that our beliefs (about ourselves) and our behaviors are consistent.
Blame that nagging conscience on cognitive dissonance. One of our regular webinar speakers Dr. Melissa R. Michelson, Professor of Political Science at Menlo College, explains:
"Asking individuals to commit to voting will increase their likelihood of doing so because they do not want to suffer the negative feelings that can result from behaving inconsistently with their initial answer." We want "to avoid holding dissonant or inconsistent cognitions."
President Obama's campaign team were familiar with this behavioral compulsion and used it to their advantage. They asked voters to complete a Pledge to Vote form on postcards and websites. The rest is history.
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Every day of the year, Americans across the nation remember friends and family members who have served and sacrificed for their country. Memorial Day is a day when we all come together to honor those who have given their lives in the defense of freedom and the principles we hold dear in this country.
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Even active duty military who continue to receive pay while in a hospital or on medical leave should consider applying for disability benefits if they are unable to work due to a disabling condition. Active duty status and receipt of military pay does not necessarily prevent payment of Social Security disability benefits. Receipt of military payments should never stop someone from applying for disability benefits from Social Security.
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KLCI climbs to 3-week high, Axiata, Public Bank up
By Joseph Chin
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's FBM KLCI rose to the highest since Nov 16, fuelled by gains in Axiata and Public Bank, tracking the firmer regional markets following the firmer economic data from China and the US.
At 12.30pm, the KLCI was up 11.27 points or 0.7% to 1,629.04 as investors pinned their hopes on window-dressing by funds. Turnover was 409.37 million shares valued at RM516.76mil. There were 246 gainers, 227 losers and 285 counters unchanged.
Asian shares clambered to a 16-month high on Monday as investors took heart from economic data from China and the US that raised hopes about the outlook for growth in the world's top two economies, Reuters reported.
Among the key regional markets, Japan's Nikkei 225 edged up 0.02% to 9,529.02; Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index added 0.43% to 22,285.70; Shanghai's Composite Index rose 0.48% to 2,071.70; South Korea's Kospi edged up 0.04% to 1,958.21 and Singapore's Straits Times Index climbed 0.68% to 3,128.34. Taiwan's Taiex slipped 0.35% to 7,615.36.
US light crude oil rose 25 cents to US$86.18 and Brent gained 47 cents to US$107.49. Spot gold climbed US$2.35 to US$1,706.43.
The ringgit weakened against the US dollar at 3.0570 versus 3.0557 the previous day.
At Bursa Malaysia, Axiata rose 19 sen to RM6.17, pushing the KLCI up 3.73 points while UMW and Petronas Dagangan gained 36 sen each to RM11.58 and RM24.
Among the banks, Public Bank rose 14 sen to RM15.78, HLFG 10 sen to RM12.86 and CIMB five sen to RM7.60.
Time dotCom rallied 51 sen to RM4.01 in active trade on its proposed DiGi shares distribution plan.
Crude palm oil (CPO) futures for third month delivery rose RM9 to RM2,306. NSOP rose 17 sen to RM5.90 but PPB Group fell 10 sen to RM11.98.
Exports of Malaysian palm oil products for Dec 1-10 fell 2.8 percent to 504,032 tonnes from 518,688 tonnes shipped during Nov 1-10, Reuters quoted cargo surveyor Intertek Testing Services saying.
Consumer stocks advanced, with BAT up 50 sen to RM59.94, Nestle 40 sen higher to RM11.58 and GAB 16 sen to RM16.30.
Shell fell the most, down 14 sen to RM8.75, Shangri-La 11 sen to RM4.03, Tasek and KYM 10 sen each to RM12.80 and 90 sen.
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If you were old enough to comprehend cop dramas in the 1980s, you may have fond memories of Hill Street Blues. I wasn't alive during its run, so I couldn't tell you whether STS' latest feature, Ill Street Blues has more in common with the series than 14/15ths of a title, but I can tell you that this newly-leaked mixtape cut has one dope ensemble cast. Over Trackmasters' swingin' jazz samples (not the show's theme song, if you were wondering), the dual ATL/Philly representative is joined by fellow Philly natives Black Thought (of The Roots), Truck North and Dice Raw, together known as the Money Making Jam Boys. There's too much talent on display here for me to pick a favorite verse, so I'll just quote the headliner's contribution: "Every verse immaculate, and that's from the conception..." Those digging this all-star collaborative track straight outta the City of Brotherly Love can find Ill Street Blues, as well as previously-featured tracks F*ck a Hook and Parachute, on STS' Demand More 2 mixtape,
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 9:47 am Post subject: Re: weekend predictions please....
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Made the call.
We win again.
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culpeppers_vikes wrote:
ummmmm....well considering the giants havent let the opposing team make a touchdown in the past three games.....GO VIKES?....
I said
That is why they will give 3 TD's and a field goal at the very end.
well well I hope you bet like I did.
I won 3 ways today.
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We all know that there's been a lot of talk about how we are all now living in a "post-racial" society. Though I think, most of us will respond to that with a "Yeah right."
But things are changing, albeit slowly, but they are changing. And it dawned on me last night, during an advance screening of G.I. Joe: Retaliation, that the one person who could be an example of this post racial utopia we're supposed to be living in, is Dwayne Johnson.
It should be very obvious by now the Johnson has been positioning himself to be a major A–list movie star. He easily could have just gone on to be a B-movie actor, content with doing supporting roles in action/exploitation films, and starring in direct-to-video movies, like some of his former WWE cohorts. But Johnson has much higher aspirations.
And it's not just the film projects that he's attached himself to, but also, either by design or by happenstance, how he's been perceived racially by the public. He has become a "race shifter" for lack of a better word.
Through his obviously ethnic, but not clearly defined looks (he's black Canadian/Samoan), he has managed to become "identified" as it were, by different audiences, as different things, and has used that to his advantage.
I should say that, of course, we identify him as black on S & A, or else we wouldn't always be reporting news about his various film projects. And Johnson has neither ever obscured, or refused to acknowledge his bi-racial heritage, unlike Vin Diesel, who has gone out of his way to not publicly acknowledge his mixed heritage, preferring to instead let people think he's, perhaps, Italian.
For example, in Johnson's recent film Snitch, he was clearly identified as "white" helping to save his white son in trouble with the law. However in G.I. Joe, he's clearly identified as being "black". His character in the film has two young black daughters who he dearly loves.
Yet, interestingly, the mother is never seen in the film, and there's no explanation or even a reference about her. Is he a widower, or did she happen to be in the kitchen in those scenes when he's with his girls? And perhaps one can argue that she's purposely not seen in the film to keep Johnson from appearing "too black".
However, later in the film, Johnson, on the run from enemies out to kill him, goes back to his old black urban ghetto neighborhood, where his old homies still live, as a hiding place. So he is definitely clearly identified or "coded " as a black man in G.I. Joe.
Yet the fact that Johnson can smoothly switch from "white" to "black" to even "other," without any comment or seemingly any notice from audiences, is intriguing.
Possibly a major factor for that is simply because Johnson has an incredibly charismatic and likable persona. Like any genuine movie star, he pulls you into the screen, not pushes you away. As the old saying goes, when Johnson is on the screen, Johnson is on the screen.
has slightly comic self-awareness of his
whole physicality and effectively uses it to even mock and send up the whole macho
man image, which makes him instantly likable. It's almost as if he's saying: "Look ,I don't take myself seriously, so why should you?"
And that fact may have crossed over to the audiences' perceptions of his own racial identity. Johnson can be whatever he wants to be because he's somehow bigger than life, a fantasy creation as it were, and, therefore, transcends any labels that can be put on him.
He's human Teflon.
But is this racial shifting a good thing? Is it a genuine sign of progress, or is it just an easy way to avoid dealing with the serious issues of racism and intolerance that still linger?
It could be easy for people to easy: "Look at Dwayne Johnson. He doesn't make race an issue, so why do you people still have to?"
What do you say?
Tai | July 24, 2014 5:08 PM
Yes, dwayne us playing it safe by not fully establishing himself in a fully developed black character roll. Nor does he play lead male opposite any black female leads....AT ALL....with the slight cameo appearance in Tyler Perry's "Why did I get married, too" as a possible love interest for Janet Jackson's character. ...But it's Tyler Perry and Janet Jackson, who'd say no to that resume boost. I won't downplay his efforts or deligents on creation a name for himself in Hollywood or cleverly marketing his ethic diversity....but just how propelled would his career be if, in fact, he did go for roles or use his now famous star, to portray a black family man with a female costar and mostly ethnic cast?
Tess | June 6, 2014 7:46 PM
Samoans always find humour in everything, over analysing something (which you western people do) is missing the point. Ask any Samoan if they have mocked relatives 99.9% of them will say they have been. We even like to mock ourselves not to mask issues that people dissect and turn into something that its not but we do it because we love to laugh. The issue of racism in any Pacific Islander doesn't come the the people themselves it comes from white man over thinking complex issues I mean really? Your remaining lingering questions about racism made me LOL as they say Samoa " Chillax Man be cool " LOL
Bucky O'hare | May 10, 2014 5:00 PM
no, he's not a "race shifter", he's "ethnically ambiguous". and considering that largest portion of the media pie, film & television especially, is dominated in front of and behind the camera by people of European descent, that's even better for him, considering his heritage.
think about it: if you're writing or producing a television show, for instance, and you're ethnicity is [fill in the blank], who are the major players on that show gonna look like?
woodoow | May 10, 2014 3:41 AM
Many people who claim the one-drop rule are wearing rose-colored glasses. Most of them do not look white (see a photo of Princess Diana if you need a clue about what traditional white people look like). As for the Hispanic populations that refuse to acknowledge their African ancestry--especially Dominicans--took a look in the mirror; the same for Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Brazilians and every other Hispanic country in the western hemisphere. That's not to say there are not isolated pockets of indigenous people that did not mix with Africans or mixed Africans--I'm not talking about them. And for those who have lived in fairytale communities of mixed people that are blind to their African ancestry either intentionally or because of the brainwashing done to them by their parents and their culture, look around you and you'll realize you are not the definition of white nor would you be accepted as white by true white people--they will still see you as something other than white even if they are your best friends. Just like that woman on the jury of the George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin trial who was listed as Hispanic. Phenotypically she is clearly of African descent regardless of her Hispanic cultural upbringing and some amount of mixture--hair, facial features, etc., present a woman of African descent first and foremost. So yes, you may have been raised in a Hispanic culture and have some other racial mixing in conjunction with your African ancestry, but most are clearly visibly phenotypically African regardless of how fair their skin may be. In fact, a number of the fairer skinned mixtures look more African in their facial features and their hair texture than their darker skinned relatives. And yes, Derek Jeter's African ancestry is clearly present just looking at his face. You can claim all the mixture you want, but don't forget to include your African ancestry.
Evie Hanlon | April 17, 2014 3:37 AM
Well there you go, I always had him pegged as a Kiwi Maori... :)
I'm a white woman, I'd go see him anywhere, and I think if you canvassed white women in Aus, you'd find a surprising amount would go see him in a romantic anything. He's just got the personality for it... As we speak, I've just had three friends post pics of him as he's looking at buying property on the Gold Coast on FB. They'd all go see him anywhere, they're all white women. :)
I'd like to see more mixed race everything at the movies, because from where I sit, that's where we're at...
mimi | February 9, 2014 11:50 AM
It does not matter if you are black mixed with black we all have red blood regardless what our skin color are.no one want to be black because to claim black means you will be treated differently look at the people from India a lot of them are darker than some blacks but do not call them black.I think being black is great even if you go through hell being black. I thought samoans were mixed with black also what other race of people have kinky hair except africans people need to get over it if you have black decendants be proud and stop lying.
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countrygrl | February 5, 2014 12:23 AM
First let's start with Vin Diesel. I knew what he was. I know a lot of black guys that look like him. I never thought he was nothing other than black. He will never grow his hair out because it is very kinky. Italian? Really? Italian is considered white; this is just another way of not admitting you have black in you. Now Dewayne Johnson. Yeah, he is considered ambiguous until he commits a crime to someone white. Then he will be a negro like the rest of us. I have heard him speak on his father and mother. Both parents have the same pheno type if you ask me; color, hair texture and so on. But, the key is the hair; he is not going to let his grow out either, no longer than what it is now. If he did he would definitely look more black.
Chacha | February 2, 2014 3:57 PM
Folks, one of the many things Mr. Johnson and his " Team Bring It" has is "Star" power! When you can Executive Produce, Produce, Manage a movie or television show, you can pretty much dictate who you would like to cast in certain roles. It's all about the MONEY! If you pretty much have the Director in you pocket or payroll, then you can have placements of products, people's pictures-may it be your real family, ect., on the set. Remember ,Mr. Johnson's "Handlers" are pretty much dictating what and how they want him to be perceived. His former wife, still his manager and probably head of the whole "Team" is white skinned Cuban therefore, I believe his wives are cast in images of herself. I can't count, and don't really want to, how many pretty Spanish appearing wives and children were cast to be with him. (Kristin Davis, what- really?!)You won't see a beautiful Black woman as his wife. If anything, you may see an unattractive Black woman so they can say, " we gave you One-why are you still complaining?" I have always sensed a certain attitude in their selections-he goes along with it-Pg. 72 "The Rock Says..." personally, I like to look at him;] I prefer his action films-Remember, he has "Star Power 1.3 billion worth!" Our beloved Megarexic Action Hero can call the shots and so can his Management, Executive production Team. Nepotism is alive and well with "Team Bring It!" :/
Alias | January 3, 2014 7:14 PM
Johnson is an anomaly who is able to succeed because he's got great charisma and an everyman factor that draws audiences in. Much like Denzel, men want to be him and women want to be with him. He's quickly replaced Will Smith as the black action star able to transcend global audiences and bring in the green to Hollywood. But I would advise against viewing him as a "race shifter," and looking to him (or the business model of his career) as some indicator that white audiences and executives are, somehow, ready to embrace a less myoptic view of race.
I agree it's interesting how audiences seem to view him and how he's been cast in movies with racial identities of being a black man and a white man, and, seemingly, audiences simply accept his roles as such. But, again, I think that has more to do with the stories themselves. Again, action-themed vehicles, with a few comedies sprinkled in, in which there's not a lot of self-reflection of a situation, like a relationship, say, between a man and a woman.
I think the real test of his brand, if you will, would be to have him in a romantic comedy or drama -- something that he's really not been cast in yet -- in which their is tension in a relationship with a woman. I know I've read that Johnson would like to play a romantic lead.
However, I have to believe that studio executives are smart enough to know that they have to
tread carefully in casting if they were to embark on such a project with him. Johnson could garner a HUGE female audience if he were cast in a romantic comedy, but only if he were cast with the "right" actress (i.e. Sanaa Lathan, Anika Noni Rose, ...even, perhaps, Maya Rudolph). NOT a WHITE actress. I believe he has a tremendous black fanbase of women, even if they don't flock to his action movies, but they like "The Rock." ... And as an aside to a black fanbase of women would be other women of color who, likely, find him incredibly appealing as well. ... With all the choices that white women have, yearly, to choose from, in terms of romantic comedies, I'm not so sure their demo is an automatic buy-in to go see him in a movie. Period.
On the flip side of the coin, depending on how one chooses to measure success, the Racial Ambiguity coin isn't, necessarily, working for the few actors who don't fit into a neat box. ... I think Maya Rudolph has enjoyed a healthy career in Hollywood and, like Johnson, hasn't really been pegged to a box. Rudolph is clearly comfortable with her blackness and knows who she is. She has created many funny characters - black and white -- that were comedic genius to watch when she was on SNL. She's been cast in movies as the love interest/wife of black men and white men. And I think it's fair to say that, at her level, both black and white audiences enjoy her work and support her. (Her backstory alone makes her endearing to many blacks).
I suppose the real test -- consider it her next level of stardom -- will be when her new variety show airs on NBC, to see how audiences take to her being out front, for the first time, alone. I certainly believe she will fair much better than Rashida Jones. As an aside, did anyone else see Rashida honoring Carol Burnett on the Mark Twain Awards on PBS and say to themselves, huh? ...Since when is Rashida a comedic actress and why is Carol B. hanging out with her? That through me for a loop ('cause I LOVE Carol Burnett).
But, I digress. And now I'm stepping down.
Claudia | January 3, 2014 3:10 PM
If you want properly analyse how Dwayne Johnson is racially portrayed you should look at all his pictures, and not just a couple, and you will find a lot more interesting facts. Having a white son or black kids, doesn't make his character white or black, on the contrary, it highlights his bi-racial identity. If he is playing a black+white mixed race character, regardless being black/ Samoan in reality, that means he might have both dark as fair skinned children. It is undoubtedly, progress, since there is no "races" (just the human kind), and we have been mixing since the beginning. But if we don't want to look at our past, we can observe that there is more and more mixed race couples and children, seldom portrayed on movies.
dnwilliams | January 3, 2014 2:51 PM
Food for thought, but I don't understand this passage:
"Johnson has neither ever obscured, or refused to acknowledge his bi-racial heritage, unlike Vin Diesel, who has gone out of his way to not publicly acknowledge his mixed heritage, preferring to instead let people think heâs, perhaps, Italian."
Vin Diesel broke out with Multi-Facial - a short he wrote, directed, produced and starred in - which dealt directly with his relationship to his multiracial heritage and identity and put him on Steven Spielberg's radar. I think it's insanely unfair to say that someone who made their way into the film industry with that project (which everyone should watch, it's on YouTube) "goes out of their way" to not publicly ignore their heritage is extremely unfair.
T.J. | November 8, 2013 5:34 PM
Wtf Derik. how did you find this. Quit stalking me ya damn creeper
T.J. | November 8, 2013 4:27 PM
I am 50% Tongan(which is similar to Samoan ,basically Polynesian) and 50% White and a lot of people mistake me for other races. My black friend said at first he thought I was an Italian who liked to go tanning a lot. Some racist dude thought I was Mexican and called my a beaner and I beat the turd out of him since one of my friends is Mexican. Some of my white friends say I look like a true Tongan and wouldn't mistake me for anything else. I've done my share of race shifting.
T.J. | November 8, 2013 4:09 PM
I am 50% Tongan(which is similar to Samoan ,basically Polynesian) and 50% White and a lot of people mistake me for other races. My black friend said at first he thought I was an Italian who liked to go tanning a lot. Some racist dude thought I was Mexican and called my a beaner and I beat the shit out of him since one of my friends is Mexican. Some of my white friends say I look like a true Tongan and wouldn't mistake me for anything else. I've done my share of race shifting.
Miss Ess | October 24, 2013 12:20 PM
Good article! Cracked up when I read "was she in the kitchen....?" Another commenter said it is progress, and avoidance of the issues. I agree it is progress, but for whom? When the "girl who might be in kitchen" is allowed to come out and be an integral part of the story---in ALL of her varieties, and just not the ambiguous and naturally curly-haired kin-folk, then I might agree we can say progress for all. It's good for Dwayne, and Vin Diesel and others that have never been cast in leading roles, but what does it really mean? It's like "passing" back in the day, except that everybody knows. If the girl in the kitchen gets to come out, it was through the door to the reality show studio---but hey it's gotten pretty ambiguous there too hasn't it?
Kojak's Wig | October 20, 2013 5:11 AM
Sergio, once again you have said it plain and simple. Much love for D"The Rock"J, but it is both progress AND avoidance of the issues. Either way, I'll happily support Rock's movies first weekend, while Vin's flicks I'll wait to catch on bootleg for free from my Uncle Frank's 125 St collection.
Hayley | October 20, 2013 3:18 AM
Great more Ni##ers to pollute television.
eh | October 16, 2013 6:25 PM
LOL, and I thought we had discourse in good old South Africa. Wake up USA we are all human. Live, love and get over your hang ups. Keep well.
frank conner | October 13, 2013 12:41 AM
every race is special and should be preserved... thing is, this media is Anti-white and every race is allowed to speak up for their interests except white people. Think about that for a second. You have BET, Telemundo, Shalom TV, but there are no "white" chanels that talk about white interets or culture. There are no political interests groups like NAACP for blacks, La Raza for mexicans, Jew World Congress for Jews but if whites have a group its "racist".... enough of this hypocrisy... white people need to wake up savewhitepeople. com
Ms. Dai | October 11, 2013 12:26 PM
We're all different! Racial division has nothing to do with acknowledging the racial differences; ignorance and bigotry are the culprits!
Leslie Trefethen | October 10, 2013 3:46 PM
Since we're trying so hard to get past being racially divided, then it doesn't really matter what race Dwayne is, does it? Maybe if we would stop pointing out these differences every chance we get, then we might finally move on to what's important. Getting along.
Nicole | October 6, 2013 5:28 PM
(((WHY ask why?)))
I'm Nicole...
I'm Black
I'm not ashamed to say so
I refer to myself as AFRICAN-American...
...which acknowledges MY PAST and celebrates my PRESENT...
(((my choice. Deal with it)))
...but make no mistake, there is only ONE race that cultivates my FUTURE
"the HUMAN race!"
Connor | October 1, 2013 10:31 PM
I can race-shift from White to Hispanic like George Zimmerman and fool the world!
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Eeekkkkk | September 30, 2013 3:28 AM
But is this racial shifting a good thing? Is it a genuine sign of progress, or is it just an easy way to avoid dealing with the serious issues of racism and intolerance that still linger?
It's AWESOME in every way, trust me ;-) every time it's completely ignored as a plot point.
If we like the story and believe the character, we the audience will take your ride and come back for more. Reading down through these comments is an eye opening experience.
There is nothing more beautiful and strong in this world than the mutt and no ride more fascinating than the study of the just how it got to be that mutt, but as long as people equate race with culture--well. Like any other prejudice, it's a choice. And for those of you out there
who don't think one drop of another race makes you that race at all, let me tell you a story. A very expensive little story.
I went through severe trauma in late teens to twenties; severe acne was one result, head trauma another, and both left deep scarring. Raised, pocks, ropy, you name it, it's a continuous process to remove it 20 years later. The first two surgeries I had to remove scarring had results that disappeared within six months. The next surgeon asked if they had taken my race into account.
I was floored. I am extremely fair skinned, straight brown/black hair, eye color is green hazel with brown. Skin only oily in t-zone. He explained the reason he asked was because the scarring was raised and so far outside the wound perimeter, and while people with mixed ancestry may not appear dark skinned, their still D.N.A. instructs the immune system to over-produce collagen at the wound site. African and Asiatic skin cells behave differently, and wound healing/scarring poses different issues for non-Caucasoid and mixed race patients.
This doctor's surgeries have been far more successful, and now the skin on my jaws is scar free. What a beautiful start. What a wonderful
thing has happened because a doctor recognized race as an important factor--recognizing a
difference let me open my mouth all the way. Someday I'd like to do genetic testing, but that's an expense that will follow these surgeries, and of interest, but it's not my highest priority. And maybe, just maybe Dwayne Johnson is a similar reflection--his race is certainly important.
But when we watch him, it's not our--or his--highest priority.
GollDee | September 28, 2013 12:00 PM
I don't understand first of all, why Black people think they're African? Africans are from Africa. Black people are a mixed race people us usually of African, Native American & European as in the case of Creole, Latino & or Hispanic people, so if the one drop negro blood rule applied to Creole & Hispanic people they'd all be Blacks. Lets make that very clear. If your family some how stood the test of x from the slavery days till now without mixing in with Europeans & or Native Americans then which is highly doubted, then you are a African American, if your family is presently from Africa & you are now a US citizen you're a African American, but if not you're Black which is indeed a mixed race. For the the record, most so-called Blacks are already mulattos as are Hispanics, so if your Black & or Hispanic (same thing, different heritage & or culture, Hispanic or Latino is not a race) & you have a kid with a white person as in the case of Derek Jeters parents it really doesn't make sense to call him mulatto, because his Black (mixed race) is already mixed.
Richard Buckner | September 27, 2013 9:54 AM
I don't know blacks that hate being black, and I know and am friends with many. I say be proud of who you are regardless of race, I am attracted to women of different races strongly, why? Just am. Wish Asian women would stop doing so much facial plastic surgery, you're beautiful stop it! And goes to say not all people of all races are attractive, just sad that most of these people develop a bad attitude like "Don't F with me" about everything. And there are people so perfect that think, "Why are you even talking to me" type personality. The ones in the middle most of the time have by-far the best personalities overall. Black women, I have seen some damn good looking black women as well white women.
Mike | September 25, 2013 7:51 AM
I never knew until now that Black people hated being Black so much. So many of these posts are full of vitriol for being "forced" to claim themselves as Black... Do they even know what Black is? Do they have an understanding of the African Diaspora? One commentor mentioned how Jews have embraced and overcome some of their shame issues, yet in the same breath seems to suggest that "mixed race" Blacks are somehow an entirely different racial makeup... "huh?" Ok. Maybe it's cause I'm not Black... but.. why do so many of the "Blacks" posting replies here seem to hate themselves so much? You got African blood.... That makes you Black... get over it.. or freakin redefine Black so it's palatable to you...but denying it is just.. well.. Dumb.
I'll acknowledge my Irish heritage... yes there's shame there... but I'm Irish. I deal with it cause there's a a lot of good too. Gotta ask.. what's wrong here?
Betsy | September 21, 2013 11:15 PM
1. Many posts here refer to the "one drop rule" as if it were some scientifically-based formula for determining race. Please know that it was actually made up in the antebellum South when
nervous lawmakers saw fit to pass new laws further dehumanizing Blacks and needed to make sure that everyone knew to whom they applied. 2. People are what they are racially, although e ethnic/cultural identity may be more subjective and relative. I one taught a light-skinned Black student who stated that his mother told him that his family had always been light, but is 100% Black. He grew quite angry at the suggestion that most African Americans are mixed with White, and that accounts for those whose eyes/skin/hair might be lighter. In a later discussion, other students claimed to be "100% Puerto Rican." When I gave them a brief history lesson on why some of them had many of the same characteristics as or appeared as Black as their African American peers they referred to with the "n-word," that most are descended also from Spaniards who brought slaves from Africa plus the indigenous native population that interbred/died out, most became livid. As Hispanics, they "knew" that the Spanish were not slavers, they themselves were certainly were not Black, and, bottom line, they were the original people of PR, just as they are. I was told by administration that this was not an appropriate topic for school. What? IMO, lack of education feeds the type of ignorance that results in needless social discord.
alissa richardson | September 15, 2013 9:11 AM
Ok..so what about Derek Jeter? He's half Black and half White, but his features came out Caucasian. I would classify him as "Mixed". That is even a category that is on applications now. Sigh....I wonder why we still have to discuss this anyway? Take a look at a picture of planet Earth, look around the whole universe, then we will all see how insignificant we All are. We're here temporarily then thats it. There are so many other things to worry about than color and DNA. I'm trying to figure out what the remark someone posted about "Whites are becoming the minority in the US" (myth) and to "Take advantage"...hmmm....that sounds hostile. Put anyone on the operating table and see whats inside and we are all the same.
dennie boykavich | August 31, 2013 12:59 AM
The pro-wrestler was born to a Samoan
Mother and an African Canadian father....so clearly is black coz his dad was black get ur facts ryt....:-)
Haywood Jablome | August 28, 2013 10:03 AM
If you have "one drop" of urine in your coffee, do you still drink it or pour it down the sink?
mytwocents | August 9, 2013 5:00 PM
O.K. Tommy Sotomayer makes it clear why mixed raced people should NOT identify as Black because it HURTS the Black community....
Youtube vid: "Why Mixed People Should not be called Black"
thomas finn | August 6, 2013 11:55 AM
so Imean if an africa american goes around beating up people we the general public should shrug our shoulders and o well thats just how there kind behaves and go on our way... with out giving a second thought so the question is ... is the law the law or is person have their own set of rules & regulations even though the constitution says all men are created equall.!
Thomas | August 2, 2013 4:50 AM
Same old dumbass conversation. As a mixed race creole myself with an Asian eyed Cherokee grandmother I still get dumbass racial questions from other ( yes I said other) blacks. Yes I am black AND more. The rudeness I sometimes get from AA dark skinned women sometimes saddens me. As if I did something wrong by being me. of course growing up with sisters who looked like me and cousins who were light and some white and some euro Latin at times makes it easier to relate to mixed race lighter folks of AA decent. Duh! That's normal and if you can't accept that then that's YOU'RE being a moron. Shared experiences right? Same as shared experiences I have with my black brethren growing up together as young men in hoods and playing ball. Brothers for life. My (insert that word)s!! But I am still mixed still black and still have a German grandmother on one side and a couple of native ones on the other. And all light skinned family including both mixed race parents who both are whiter that me. Yet I need to explain my blackness to anyone? Like prove it by dating black? And then getting ranted on if my views don't conform to the majority. Bullshit! Be what you want and whites or blacks that don't like it eff em!
Christina | July 31, 2013 2:10 AM
I writing in response to those who have anger towards unambiguous black people. The issue isn't cut and dry and goes beyond your feelings and how you want to see yourself. For those of your who are multiracial and don't understand let me try to clear it up. The are some facts you can't deny that play in to how and why "real" black people react to you. 1. In most parts of the world people have negative feelings or views of black people. Black is not a race that if given a choice most nonblack people would choose. Be real about this. You have people in Sudan and Kenya who have one drop of Arab blood and a curl to their hair but look unambiguously Black and call themselves Arab and hate blacks. 2. Yes the one drop rule is out dated, but for people born in Civil Rights era that was their reality. And it wasn't that long ago. So light skinned and/or mix raced blacks shared the black experience. There wasn't a choice. You lived with other black people, when to church with other black people, school, college, used the bathroom with other black people etc. So for a dark-skinned person to assume a light skinned person didn't share a common experience would be absurd. Everyone was in the same boat. The one drop rule created a shared experience that is not easily shaken off by a 3 or so decades. So for some blacks especially older ones, to perceive a mixed race person as denying or belittling their black side is insulting. Especially since most black people on some level know we are considered the mules of the earth.
3. People go by what you look like. Mixed race people need to get that in their heads and stop being insulted when some one sees you as black. Why are you insulted in the first place? I don't think half if you all would be insulted if people were always calling your white. I know of mixed race people who look more black or as black as other black people who have two black parents. So that is where the confusion comes in sometimes. The white blood from slavery hasn't been erased from everyone's features that has 2 black parents. I know people who have no immediate white ancestors but look mixed race. i.e. Vanessa Williams, Tom Joyner, Henry Gates Jr, and any other light skinned famous person. So in theory you really can't limit mixed race to immediate nonwhite ancestors. It boils down to what you look like. THat is how people perceive you. If you looking like Beyonce and telling people you aren't not Black, yes the average black person will give you look. Get you heads out of the clouds. And when black people call a mixed race person out for having African ancestry they are not ignoring your other side. They are just letting you know you have something in common. 4. The reason you may be feeling love from white people is that they aren't as interested or as perceptive in noticing racial clues in people's features as black people. Tell them you have black in your dna and see if the love will be still there. Why do you think on those family tree shows some people don't disclose their total racial make up. There is a price to pay in this country and in others when you are perceived white later to be found tainted with chocolate.
5. The poster who said mixed race experiences aren't the same is right. It does depend on where you were born and raised.
Daniel | July 18, 2013 1:00 PM
dont see a black in this picture, not even close
i see an asian...
could be thai or phillipino
Daniel | July 18, 2013 12:53 PM
How in the blue hell is johnson black? i know he has a "black" father but not even his dad looks like a "real full black" and his mother is asian (samoan, pacific islander) the rock doesnt even look black, he looks samoan! just that beard makes him look "black" but when u watch other pictures of him. u can almost guess that he has asian decent. i mean look at his eyes. or his grandfather. or yokuzuna (who played a japanese character, but was samoan) back in wwf days.
Monique English | July 5, 2013 8:53 AM
Its pretty sad that even today we are still going through this racial identity here in America. I am an African American woman with a multicultural background. My mother is bi cultural and so is my dad. However my dad was darker skinned and my mother is slightly lighter. My maternal grandmother was native american and hindi indian and her husband was black. My grandparents. However I look black but my hair was always an issue. I have what they called mixed race hair. My daughter on the other hand inherited her great grandmothers hair and she is often mistaken for Puerto Rican or Hindi Indian with black ancestry. Both her dad and I are multi cultural black people but only identify as black because thats what you see. However my daughter's great great great grandmother was from dublin ireland on her father's side. Her sister is puerto rican and black with fair skin and kinkier hair and when they are together peolpe actually think my daughter is puerto rican.It just irritates me with all of this racial feautures .. I always related to bicultural people more so than black people because I always get that where you get that hair fom you ust be mixed with something. Its painful and disgusting. I'm clearly a black woman but my hair was always and issue with other black women. Now my daughter is going through the same bull crap. Enough is enough already!
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Shelvie brown | June 23, 2013 6:14 PM
I wonder why Dwayne the rock Johnson never plays a black man roll in movies or ever have black love interests? Is he ashamed or denying his ethnicity?or is it strictley
CuteBlackwoman | June 14, 2013 7:13 PM
Love the skin you were born in, love you. Because if you don't love you. How can you expect some one else to? And to those who feeling more supreme, lucifer fell hard and so will you.. it is written for and to all of those with that supreme Lucifer mentality. Ijs.
Good for Dwayne Johnson God blessed him to be able to play what ever race, and took him from being poor to rich.
Cuteblackwoman | June 14, 2013 6:52 PM
Imo sense the fall of man in the garden of Eden, mankind has put way to much emphysis on their outter appearance just like Adam and Eve when they sinned and knew they was naked. African Americans/Black Americans race still need to be healed and delivered from the slave mentality and so do other races. Because not only black people were slaves, but those who enslaved us were to. The white man was a slave to sin and the devil to be used by him to cause so much pain and suffering. And just like Lucifer who thought he could be a more supreme god, the whites and those of lighter skin thought they were better, while the blacks just like Adam and Eve became self contous of the color of their skin because of the lies Satan was telling through his slaves (white people). God asked Adam and Eve who told you, you naked? Black people who told you, your inferior, not beautiful ? Answer: the devil. Think... if the white man hated and really thought black people were ugly, then why did they rape them ? Lawd if you black. Or have darker skin and feel. Inferior to those of lighter skin, your a modern day slave and are programmed by the lies of the devil! And to those of you who think your more any thing because of the lighter skin you may have your a slave to, living a lie. Who told you, you were better? There's only one race in the eyes of God, the human race. And God seperate the human race by their sin, are they forgiven or not. The whole human race need to repent and ask God for forgiveness and be healed and delivered! Because our number one problem in our world today is sin, and not hearing and knowing the voice of God. So folks is listening to every other voice but the right voice, the voice of our creator.
Mixed Girl Who is "REALLY MIXED" and not "JUST BLACK" | June 13, 2013 11:53 PM
@PasseBlanc ....It breaks my heart to know that's how they feel about us. What are we to do about that? We can't change the way we look anymore than they can change the way they look. This is why there needs to be more black pride....If they aren't comparing themselves to whites, they will be secure in feeling superior in their own right. There is beauty in all races. Whites are slowly becoming the minority in this country....Now is the time for non-whites to take advantage of this time...It's only the beginning. Maybe the next generation will realize their new found power....at least I hope so.
Mixed Girl Who is "REALLY MIXED" and not "JUST BLACK" | June 13, 2013 8:34 PM
@Lynnie WTF!!??? ....You are actually going to sit there and lie to everyone by saying that ALL African Americans are mixed??!!! You all lie about that crap so much, you even believe it yourselves!!! ...I'm so tired of hearing that hogwash....There may be some truth to a MAJORITY of AAs being mixed--and that would be MULTI-GENERATIONALLY....going back several generations to slavery days! ...Don't begin to insult people's intelligence and true mixed race people and try to diminish our true mixed race heritage by saying such absurd crap! I've heard this said so many times--clearly by self-hating blacks who don't seem to be proud of their own African heritage and want to feel exotic or special in some way!!! You're black....African American...not mixed!!!! DO YOU HAVE PARENTS OR FIRST GRANDPARENTS OF DIFFERENT RACES???? (I emphasize 1st grandparents because I don't want to hear--"Well my great great great great great great grandmother was Cherokee Indian", or some crap like that!) ...If not, then your just plain black....accept that!! ....Be proud of that and be happy!!! Why is that so wrong???!!! You all need to check yourselves!! ...So I guess this is the new plan??? If you can't make us black like you, you figure you'll join us by saying that you're mixed like us???!!!! C'mon!!! There was a time that we were treated like shit!!! ....Us mixed folks were some shameful dirty secret that people wanted to hide--or just call "Black". ...Now we are getting some respect and recognition and you can't deal with that or something???
...And as for Beyonce...If you don't believe she's Creole, than explain why she looks the way she does---Of course she wears wigs, hear pieces, etc.!!! ...Her and just about every other female performer in the entertainment business---WHITE or BLACK!!!! ...What does that prove???? ...Did you forget about her own mother????!!!! ...Yeah....Beyonce's mother looks like every other black woman in America!!! lol :) ...You believe that crap, I got some swamp land to sell you in Louisiana!!!
Self-hating black folks get on my nerves. Why can't you all just be proud of who you are????!!!! I'm more proud than you and I'm only PARTLY Black!!! I'm proud to be mixed!!! I'm glad that I'm allowed to be today...FINALLY!!! I don't have to be ashamed anymore!
Sad...Sad...Sad... Why is it only black folks that do this??? ...Even the Jews went through their shameful stage in history, but now....look at them! There seems to be more successful Jews than any other group of people in this country!!! ....Somebody figured it out there!!!
PasseBlanc | June 13, 2013 7:51 PM
African Americans never try to claim Black Latinos by using the "one drop rule". This is because the United States Census has LEGALLY created a separate racial box for Black Latinos. They can tell African Americans that they don't have the right to try to claim them with the "one drop rule" because the law says they are a different ethnic/racial group.
The reason there is still soooo much controversy over Biracial/Mixed raced people of African American descent is because there has yet to be an actual racial box to be created by The United States Census. Once the racial box called "Mulatto" (or some other term) is created then Black people with have no more use for arguing about this subject. The LAW would have classified "Mulattos" as a separate racial group. "Mulattos" could tell Blacks that they do not have the right to claim them according to the law.
Vincent | June 12, 2013 6:32 PM
I say what is wrong with Vin Diesel being Italian, he is half Italian and you make it sound like it's something wrong! I also knew he was half African American because I read it on the web so it's not like he's ashamed or trying to keep that a secret. And to be totally honest with you I didn't know he was half Italian either until I read the same article, so it's not like he parades around saying he's Italian. Yes, I am Italian American, and my name is Vin, but I have had African American friends with the same name so it's not like "Vin" Diesel is a dead give away that he is half Italian. I may have just misunderstood the way you expressed yourself, but I don't think Vin Diesel has gone out of his way to NOT recognize his mixed heritage. Like I said, it's there on the web for anyone to read, and until I did just that I didn't know he was half "paisano" either!!
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I think black Americans on this site are really racist they want mixed race people to choose the black category when many of them DON'T WANT TO. Black people need to realize the one drop rule days are OVER! Biracial and mixed race people have a right to self identity they SEE THEMSELVES. Vin Diesel doesn't call himself black because he doesn't see himself as a black man he is a mixed race man who looks almost white. The Rock isn't even African American so I don't know why people use that racist language. The Rock is a BLACK CANADIAN his father Rocky is from Nova Scotia Canada which has a rich black Canadian heritage and his mother is Samoan. There is nothing white in The Rock's racial lineage.
Why would someone like Wentworth Miller or Vin Diesel call themselves just black that's stupid, those guys clearly look more white than black. Wentworth Miller both his parents are mixed and the man looks almost white so of course when he gets cast in films he's most likely is going be cast as white because that's how he looks. Biracial actors and I'm also including Beyonce they use their mixed heritage to their advantage. Blacks get all upset when Beyonce proclaims she isn't just black and she's correct she's part French and Native American. Beyonce with her light skin, and blonde hair is not just an African American.
Now, with Tiger Woods the black American community turned their backs on him because he refused to deny his Asian heritage since his mother is from Thailand.
Mixed Girl Who is "REALLY MIXED" and not "JUST BLACK" | June 1, 2013 5:13 PM
I think celebrities like the ROCK are a refreshing breath of common sense...FINALLY! Why is it wrong to embrace all of your identities?! I'm mixed and I feel fortunate to be as unique as I am. I hate it when a black person accuses me of "Wanting to be White" just because I don't loudly proclaim that "I'm black, and only Black!" Why should I do that? I feel equally foolish saying "I'm White, and only White!" ...Just as if I were to say "I'm Asian, and only Asian", in spite of the fact that this small percentage of my DNA seems to supersede my overall appearance. ...And why is it that I'm confronted by blacks with such a claim, when people of other races accept who I am???? This has always been an anomaly to me.
I know that I appear racially ambiguous to everyone who meets me, so I don't feel the need to lean on one side of my tri-racial heritgage more than the other. I'm Mixed, that's what I am, and I am proud of who I am!!! ...Just like mixed-race celebrities who choose to stay ambiguous as well. We're no longer living in a Jim Crow era where you're pressured to choose a side and I say THANK GOD that is over!!!! I'm free to be who I am, What I REALLY AM!!! :)
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TnT73 | May 29, 2013 7:33 AM
The Rock and Vin diesel are good looking????
Simeon | May 26, 2013 4:22 AM
I say fair play to him. I'm mixed and I see it as an advantage, given the obsession the worldstill has with 'race'. DJ never hides away from who he is.


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Your club's blog feature is scheduled for this Friday. September 13th falls on a Sunday. Did you mean to put September 12th?
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Seven years ago SHS was billed for a new location as part of the UConn 2000 initiative, but because it did not include funding it was not made a top priority.
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"It is important that we work together closely with the administration of the UConn Health Center in order to assure that our facility is 'right sized' and provides the appropriate types and levels of services," said Student Health Services Director Michael Kurland. " We are closely collaborating to identify operational synergies and avoid duplication of services. This will assure that the general community and student body are best served with cost effective care."
The new building will include Counseling and Mental Health Services, which previously had its own location, and will feature an expanded pharmacy with a larger retail area for over the counter medication. Kurland also hopes that an increase in parking availability will also be a part of the plan, as students have often complained about inadequate parking services at the current location.
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"Our current facility is outmoded and functionally inefficient. The intelligent design of a new facility using best practices should enable us to optimally and efficiently use space." Kurland said.
This step towards efficiency and the desire to make the facility more functional is consistent with UConn's LEAD initiative, which is a focus on sustainable and green development.
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Judy, wife to my Catholic deacon husband ... homeschooling mother to my four girls and now a BOY!!! Forever remembering our loss (8/11) .
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