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|Brad I
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|I just had a 2 day (12 hrs) workshop on undoing racism. For the Internet's sake, I'm stating that I am White. Someone I worked with, whom was white, said that I privilege. I took this personally, wondering, wait, I can't walk into a bank and magically get a loan, I can't pull a free college education out of my rear end, I can't do this or that w/o "work". I then went to this workshop and realized.. as the speaker (whom was white, along with a person of color, and a Hispanic woman) said, it's NOT personal, white people today did NOT CREATE the system that's been in place for 100's of years, but just by being white, you are a reflection of that system. And white privilege is like a "white American express card" you can't leave home without it, no matter how much you want to." Then that 2nd day, I signed up, and am looking into joining one of the anti racist groups. I had NO idea how entrenched racism is in this country's sordid history!
|Hudson Valley Rabbit
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|"im Proud to be Black" said the Black man.
"Im Proud to be Asian" said the Asian man.
"Im Proud to be White" said the racist'
"Anti-racist" is a code word for Anti-White.
|erin streeter
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|Cynthia Lindsey
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|Secretly dating an African American. My family's so backwards. I have a dream we can oneday be free.
|Father Lukey
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|Ms. Dessye Dee, I can relate to your struggle. I am but of Marietta, Ga where I try my best to squash Racism, at least in my Parish. Best of luck to you, you never know. God hopes we can do our best and in mysterious ways He loves us you take care..
|Dessye-Dee Clark, PhD, APRN
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|As the professional advisor for DBSA Missoula -an affiliated chapter of DBSA, I am interested to help consumers in our area become free of racism and not sure if Montana even allows for an 'anti racist'. But I see the need for this role.
Tel: 406-541-4436
|Anna Pierce-Slive
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|I'm writing from The Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS)'s apprenticeship, an educational program in organic gardening and farming in Santa Cruz. CASFS is committed to research and education in sustainable food and agricultural systems that are environmentally sound, economically viable, socially responsible, nonexploitive, and that serve as a foundation for future generations.
The six-month Apprenticeship offers instruction and daily work experience in organic gardening and farming, focusing on ecological interactions amongst plants, soils, climate, insects, and pathogens. Since 1967, over 1,400 graduates have gone on to apply this training in a variety of ways around the world: developing their own commercial farms, market gardens, and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) projects, starting community gardens, working as environmental educators, participating in international rural development projects, managing organic landscaping businesses, and pursuing degrees in agricultural studies.
Eight of us stay on as assistant garden managers and assistant educators for the next group of 40 apprentices in the spring. We are interested and committed to creating a community that is safe for all students to learn. We want to develop our skills and awareness in dismantling racism and all other isms, anti oppression, and allyship.
We, as the CASFS apprenticeship staff, would love to do a training with your organization before the new batch of apprentices arrive in April. I am still confirming our budget and timeframe but wanted to reach out as soon as possible, because time flies! Let me know if your staff is available and interested in working with us and how to proceed.
Thank you so much!
Anna Pierce-Slive
"2nd Year" Apprentice, CASFS
|Sherina Davis
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|Stace Zhang
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|Hey hey.
I really hope I get a reply.
I live in an area where color people are treated like animals.
Can't wait til the day I move out or justice is made!
|Daniel Hall
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|Not that anyone cares, but I wrote a publication entitled, "I am the author of "The Rhyme, Reason, and Rhetoric of Freeman Hall." It's about those who lived through the 60's, and 70's. I am just tired of the bullcrap, people calling me wigger and such. Let them Burn in hell, as they say. Recycling is NOT a myth and my homies stand by my side. If the worst thing that happens to white folks is a few African Americans who take pride in there pitt bulls making there mark on the sidewalk its NOTHING compared to Slavery, why can't they get it through there head? I'LL TELL YOU WHY: because they are racists, and a dying breed at that, thanks to organizations such as The Anti Racist Alliance. Peace, yo
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|We are ProtestABC committee composed of Chinese volunteers. We write to respectfully let you know our protests against Jimmy Kimmel Kids Table Show on October 16, 2013, which insulted Chinese and promoted hatred and violence in kids. During the show, a six-year-old boy proposed the idea of solving America's debt crisis by "killing everyone in China." Mr. Kimmel responded, "That's an interesting idea." He then asked the kids, "Should we allow the Chinese to live?" He received mixed answers. By not editing this taped segment, ABC should hold their accountable for teaching our children that killing others is an acceptable practice.
Late on, our voice was quenched and main media is keeping the silence.
NYC area protest
Time: Nov. 08, Friday, 12 pm – 1:30pm
Location: ABC station
W 66th St (between Columbus Ave & Central Park
West), New York, NY 10023
Nationwide protest (22+ cities will join)
Time: Nov. 09, Saturday, 12pm – 1:30pm
NYC Location: Time Square (200 42nd Street)
A lawsuit against ABC is being considered
Follow us @:
More info: www.weidb.com
We sincerely appreciate your attention and support.
|Jaiper Feliciano
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|The beauty of the topic kept me reading till it ended. It happens only for a few times in a month that i read everything in an article..
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|Dear sir and madam
Iam a refugee , i come from iran and currently i live in austria, i've lived in austria since seven years,
after seven years i dont have passport because my parent couldn't finde a job here without citizen ship and austria people are anti refugee , and here is same Auschwitz for me , when i asked a passport from austria goverment they said me ,if you leave austria without citizen pass , with travel document after one month i lose my refugee and you can only take passport from iran , but im refugee i cannot return to iran , and i've had allways problem with iran goverment and religion and i hate it , and i can not stay here because i hate racism believes , i cannot find a job in austria because i'm not europe ,if i want to study here only refugee must pay for university , we didn't choice here for life , after we fled and came here we didn't know ,in which country we are
i don't want to stay here and i hate come back to iran , specially austria is never safe form e and my family becase my aunt is jewish and my grandmather was jewish and they are now in glasgow in safe
could you help us please , we need help ,here is prison for us and we cannot leave here becase of travel document ,please help us
thank you
|Stephen Dixon
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|I'm writing on behalf of the Forum on Law, Culture & Society and Fordham University School of Law. We're preparing to host our annual Film Festival, a week's worth of film screenings followed by post-screening conversations, which aims to give viewers a unique opportunity to see the way the legal system is portrayed in film and to explore how the themes of justice and injustice continue to inspire the artistic imagination.
Particularly, I'd like to draw your attention to the Friday, Oct. 18 screening of "Betrayed," a film which explores the modern white-supremacist movement in the American heartland. Following the screening, Forum director Prof. Thane Rosenbaum will discuss the film with Debra Winger, Arliss Howard, and former CIA director William H. Webster. We think the subject matter and issues raised by the film might particularly appeal to your organization's membership.
We'd be incredibly grateful if you could circulate this information to your members. In return, we'd be willing to arrange a generous group discount should you decide to purchase a block of tickets.
You can find more information about the Festival and our special guests here: http://www.forumonlawcultureandsociety.org/film_festival/2013-forum-film-festival/
Thanks for your time and please let me know if you'd like more details.
Stephen Dixon
|Paul Janzen
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|Please delete my last entry. Please let me know if you need anything, such as my attorney's contact nifo.
|Paul Janzen
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|Hi, this is going to seem like spam. And perhaps it is. But I honestly thought that you might have some interest in playing cards that attempt to reimagine the "standard" deck to reflect human diversity. I'm certainly biased because I'm one of the creators, but I think it's a celebration of multiculturalism and therefore is anti-racist. Our vision was that this not simply be a novelty. And to that end I'm trying to promote our Kickstarter funding campaign to reach a wider audience in order to bring these cards to market. Here's the link if you'd like to check out the project, even if only to offer us some feedback: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/838274754/demograffiktm-playing-cards-a-bicycle-deck-by-paul
Thanks for your time,
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|Gareth Platt
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I am writing from the International Business Times in London. Jessie Daniels, an anti-racism campaigner based in New York, has written an excellent blog for our site about the Nina Davuluri twitter storm, and what it says about America's racism problem.
If you would like to tweet this, or link to it on your website, we would be delighted. I'm sure your members would be really interested in reading this, given the subject matter fits with your own agenda.
Gareth Platt
International Business Times
|Gareth Platt
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I am writing from the International Business Times in London. Jessie Daniels, an anti-racism campaigner based in New York, has written an excellent blog for our site about America's racism problem.
If you would like to tweet this, or link to it on your website, we would be delighted. I'm sure your members would be really interested in reading this, given the subject matter fits with your own agendy.
Gareth Platt
International Business Times
|Trisha Bloodstone
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|http://Does America still have a problem with racism?
|Mr. Platt,
I find it both refreshing and amazing that you have the courage to aks such questions, so I will answer.
1. Does America still have a problem with racism?
Sadly, the front page news indicates that this is the case. Look at how Aaron Alexis is being treated.
2. Which groups are being targeted?
Mostly African Americans, obviously. We cannot tolerate this any longer.
3. Why does the problem still exist?
We need education.
4. What is being done to combat the problem?
The AntiRacist Alliance is one of many groups but clearly the best.
I need to get back to my studies. I hope I have been able to shed some light on this.
"We have a long way to go..."
|Gareth Platt
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Hope you're well.
I am e-mailing from the International Business Times, a London-based online newspaper with 7 million readers across 234 countries. We would like to invite you to write an opinion article, for our site, about the prevalence of racism in American society.
IBTimes is one of the world's fastest-growing news sites, and we're looking for a opinion article in light of the racism storm which has erupted following Nina Duvulari's victory in the Miss America pageant.
Given that Duvulari's victory has prompted tweets calling her an Arab and a terrorist, we're looking for an article which explores the following:
1. Does America still have a problem with racism?
2. Which groups are being targeted?
3. Why does the problem still exist?
4. What is being done to combat the problem?
If you wish to write the article, we'd be happy to include a 'plug' for your site, which should attract great publicity for you. IBT has a substantial audience in America and our readers are just the type of informed, inquisitive people who would want to be part of your movement.
If you would like to write the article, please let me know by e-mailing firstname.lastname@example.com. I'd be delighted to answer any queries you may have.
Gareth Platt
International Business Times
|Janet Carter
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|My grandparents remember the days of Jim Crow. Unfortunately, they also miss those days...
I believe in God and Heaven. I want them to go there, but Our Society has a need for educating people like them before it is too late.
I thought about Volunteering at the senior center. Is there a way to integrate the two programs?
|willow joffee
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I'm looking forward to taking a workshop this fall. I am a Hunter College MSW graduate and a mother. I'm looking for age appropriate books/materials for my 8 y/o son and my step kids ages 7 & 10. I would like to deepen our conversations around, race, oppression and privilege. Do you have any suggestions? Also, are there any children's workshops on undoing racism?
Thank you much,
|Taylor Gulden
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|Forgive me, but I am INCENSED!!
Last Wednesday, I respectfully submitted to my Western Civ professor that we dedicate the day to discussing the impact of The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Junior's "I have a dream speech."
His answer: that we were currently covering WWI. And how, pray tell, is that supposed to help us as a society to get along, which is the purpose of this education?
I walked out. I had to stand up for my beliefs. That is why I am glad for this site.
Thank you,
|Tom Minogue
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|Hi, my public petition PE01491: Secret society membership declaration by decision makers is now open for support signatures/comments.
The petition can be summarised as seeking to have our decision makers (judges, juries, tax tribunal members) declare whether they are members of the Masons or similar fraternal societies which demand that their members treat fellow brethren differently from non-brethren.
Please read the details here: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/gettinginvolved/petitions/judgesmasonregister
If you agree with the petition terms, consider supporting it, and passing on to anyone who might think they have, or could be, disadvantaged by rulings of tribunals that are tainted by the old-boy network.
Thanks for your consideration.
Tom Minogue, petitioner.
|Katie Thornhill
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|All the wars humankind has fought, all the unjust verdicts and all the white collar crime can be traced to a single cause: Racism.
I could write a book.
Years ago, when I was a kid in grade school, my youth gruop won a prize for this prayer that I'd like to share.
I planned to have it taught in schools, but I had to come to terms with Separation Of Church And State.
here it is:
We honor your teachings
In Heaven as here
We treat our brothers
As you treted us
We don't judge color
We praise character
Dr. King, our guide
Help us to see the light
|Duane Bartek
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|Do we See the Outward or Inward Color of Others?
Today we live in a world with so many different types of people; Hispanic, White, African American, Chinese, Greek, Italian, Jewish, Arabic, Polish, Indian, Irish, and Native American. There are so many unique cultures and ideas from all of these types of people. Every type of people has a drastic effect on the progress and advances that take place in our world. However now days I think a lot of people find it difficult to see the beautiful differences between races, instead they use slang and derogatory terminology to describe people who are different in skin color than them. They falsely accuse them of being dirty, lazy, mean, violent, ignorant, and dangerous. The only explanation to the whole situation is insecurity on the party that is doing the persecuting. They are afraid that other cultures and races may be more important than theirs, so they ridicule them and tell them that they are inferior to them and that their culture isn't as sufficient as theirs. Those who persecute other races do this so that they may feel superior to other races in hope to feel more secure about themselves. These people lack the sense of equality. They lack the knowledge that God created all different for a very special purpose. The Cherokee Chief Attakullakulla quoted "I will eat and drink with my white brothers, and I will expect friendship and good usage from them. It is but a little spot of ground that you ask, and I m willing that your people should live upon it." The Native American Indians were persecuted by the white men for centuries, the whites constantly drove them out of their land and broke treaty after treaty with them until all of the land they possessed was taken from them. The whites sent them on the long and painful journey of the trail of tears that drove them out of the west and away from their original land. Yet Chief Attakullakulla the native of his land still had open arms to the white people and was more than happy to have peace with them. Chief Attakullakulla saw the inner color of people; he saw the inner light of people. The light exists in all people regardless of what color skin they have. There is also darkness that exists in all people regardless of what color skin they have. How many times now days do we all fail to see this? We get so caught up on the outside we fail to remember that there is inner light and darkness in people to. I recently analyzed a story about a young man named Trayvon Martin and an older man named George Zimmerman. Being from Florida, where the incident happened, I heard it all. I heard the prejudice towards blacks crowd say Trayvon deserved it because he was a black trouble maker. I heard the so called 'Anti Racism' crowds say we want justice because this man George Zimmerman was a racist. All the while both of these crowds failed to do a few things. They failed to love others unconditionally and that neither of these groups of 'know it alls' were even there when the incident happened between George and Trayvon and most likely it had nothing to do with race. Chances are it was a misunderstanding on both of their parts and I know that if George and Trayvon could go back and do it differently, they would. Rather than putting the topic to rest and moving forward trying to learn how to see the inner beauty of people, what do we do? We focus on the color of these two men's skin and say it must have been because of racism. My Lord, Jesus Christ, said "Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes the sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous." Instead of trying to make the world a better place by loving our persecutors and enemies we try to quarrel with them. We must learn to love. Our love needs to be unconditional; it needs to flow from us like a mountain spring. No one ever said that this was going to be easy, life is a constant battle to stay on the right side of good. Everybody in this world is carrying a burden and a cross. Nobody's burdens are heavier than anybody else's, they are all equally painful. In the midst of our burdens we must see the beauty of this journey were on and the beauty inside others. The Apostle Peter said "I truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him." Instead of looking down on someone because of their skin color, we need to learn to see the color that is inside everybody. We need to change, everybody. We need to get back to the core of loving your neighbor as ourselves. We need to put envy and the will to avenge our persecutors to death. My uncle Robert Maskal once told me "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves first." Our will to have revenge on those who have hurt us will only kill us in the end. It will only divide the cultures and races of people more. Until we humble ourselves and clothe ourselves with love and compassion, the racism, selfish pride and ignorance of this current world we live in will continue and we will allow darkness to reign. We have to ask ourselves today, right now, what have we been doing? Have we been seeing the inner or outer color of people? Have we been seeing the flesh or the Spirit? Have we been living for the better of this world or the better of ourselves?
|Jasmine McNiven
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I strongly support all of the work you are doing. I am incredibly passionate about anti-racism. I am currently writing a dissertation about modern lynchings and enslavement of the Black body in the USA. I was wondering if you had any intern programs coming up? I would love to get involved.
Thank you,
|Krysteen Roosevelt
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My name Krysteen and 100% anti racist. We all embrace Ebonics. Thusly, we converge in a non-hostile environment. Champion.
Thank ya,
|Kathleen Irving
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I am appreciating the resources, the space you have created, and the community. It supports me in holding myself accountable to being a part of creating an anti-racist organization.
|Maxton Collins
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|I would love to become a member and help out in any way possible.
|Melody Truilia
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|So sad...
My school's Math League partnered up with our Diversity Club to determine the Division Averages for a brief survey.
Here are the results:
72% of African American students sit in the back 3 rows on the chartered buses.
18% of African American students feel they have the same advantage as whites.
5% of African American students say their parents earn larger salaries than some white folks.
This affects over a dozen schools. What can be done?
It gets SO FRUSTRATING when I feel we're going BACKWARDS in society. When will this injustice end?
We need education, which is why I support this cause.
|Dee H.
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I happened to be surfing the net, and saw this one website that really needs to be shut down:
It's a very racist website, and some of it's brainwashed members think that it's telling the truth. It should be shut down and there is a petition to help shut down this awful website that shouldn't have been created in the first place:
Please do sign this petition, this hateful site needs to be done away with!
|Eyem Herdad
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|Two African American brothers, Kendrell and Kendrick, were unable to give their mother the kind of Mother's Day that so many of us take for granted.
Here in Alabama, many shopkeepeers are racist toward their customers. It's important to bear this in mind. Kendrell and Kendrick woods might have plenty to say about that...
On Mother's Day, the Woods twins walked into a store. It was Mother's Day. They must have been pretty desperate in order to fell prey to society's demands and resort to robbery.
They are being accused of making off with a few phone cards (probably to call their mother) and some cash. Maybe they wanted their mother to have some nice flowers for once, but they were arrested nonetheless. Punishment instead of education and assistance. And so the cycle continues...
Behind bars, unable to walk among the racists who go free every day. They are being held on SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLARS bail, I'm sure because their captors knew full well they weren't affluent. Talk about a double-standard!
|Earnest Philmoore
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|Hi there,
I recently found a funny website.
Some sarcasm, however deeply antiracistic in my opinion. Have a look at it and if you come to the same conclusions give the link to more people.
Yours, Earnie
|jan h. kalyoncu
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|Dear Mr. And Madam ,
My name is Jan. İ am living Turkey. İ am 33 years old. Very hopeless and desparate.Turkish peoples very racist and intolerant and unlove. İ am jewish and christian . İ live in racist attacks and harassment for many years. The military did not do it because it is anti-war. For all those reasons İ can not find is. Have not got a chance to legislative. Pls help me. Pls ... thanks...peace and love from jan
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|We protest white genocide!
Africa for the Africans,Asia for the Asians,white countries for EVERYBODY!
Everybody says there is this RACE problem. Everybody says this RACE problem will be solved when the third world pours into EVERY white country and ONLY into white countries.
The Netherlands and Belgium are just as crowded as Japan or Taiwan, but nobody says Japan or Taiwan will solve this RACE problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and quote assimilating unquote with them.
Everybody says the final solution to this RACE problem is for EVERY white country and ONLY white countries to "assimilate," i.e., intermarry, with all those non-whites.
What if I said there was this RACE problem and this RACE problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-blacks were brought into EVERY black country and ONLY into black countries?
How long would it take anyone to realize I'm not talking about a RACE problem. I am talking about the final solution to the BLACK problem?
And how long would it take any sane black man to notice this and what kind of psycho black man wouldn't object to this?
But if I tell that obvious truth about the ongoing program of genocide against my race, the white race, Liberals and respectable conservatives agree that I am a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.
They say they are anti-racist. What they are is anti-white.
Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white.
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|Right off the bat I can see a similiar trend manifesting itself in ur website that I also find in mainstream media of which is racism only seems to affect black people but what about worldwide racism and indifference to the problems faced by "brown" people ie people of middle eastern or latin american descent on a global scale the innocent brown person went from human being to being ignored or potential terrorist in the shadow of 911 so how about on your website or like minded organisation make a mandate for this very issue as so to educate others that racism dosnt just affect black and white people but everyone how about that or are you just going email me back claiming some bullshit facts and fake sympathy and not everyones like that bearing in mind I'm 24 years old and for the last 12 years I've taken a lotta from people and I'm getting tired of it and I'm not alone
|Alex Tomecek
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|Good Afternoon,
I am trying to reach Joyce James to inquire about her availability for a speaking engagement at Texas A&M University. I am inquiring for my boss, Dr. Becky Petitt, who would like to try to re-schedule her on a perviously canceled engagement on "Undoing Racism" that was canceled in 2011.
Please feel free to contact me via phone if that is easier at 979-862-2926.
Thank you,
Alexandra Tomecek
Administrative Assistant
|Teresa Goldberg
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|I was in a Chinese Drug store in New York City, I forget the name but you probably know it (I took a cab).
It's on Brodway somewhere btwn E 16th St and E 21st St.
Please do what you can- they are absolute racists!!
I was with my friend, an African American female. The store clerk eyed her like a hawk. I cried that night.
They keep all the Dark But Lovely behind the counter and are hostile towards African Americans.
I support Asian Americans of course, but this is an outrage of reverse discrimination, SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!!
Respectfully yours,
|Ken Murano
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|Dear Dream Book.
Is Meetup.com a Racist organization... I think so...
I'm not sure if you are interested in this experience I had with a organization called Meetup.com, but I have conclued it is a racist organization, or at least the people in authority over there have a racist agenda.
I joind Meetup.com as a member first, then paid an organizer fee to be able to hold events they call Meetups.
Then I created a Meetup group called " Romeo Maxx's Live Blues Dance Party ". The purpose was to allow people who enjoy the African American musical art form expression called the " Blues " to gather together, see live blues shows , listen to, dance to the " Blues " and be educated about this unique African American musical art form creation.
Considering this art form is a major part of the history of the United States Of America, it's a no brainer. What wonderful educational value it would have for people not aware of this type of music, and the historical value it imparts.
The Blues is popular all over the world, and is growing again...In Southern California alone there are hundreds of thousands of Blues lovers ...
I clearly stated this at the time of creation as a mission plan. I also said I would look for venues to hold these Meetups, promote the events through members so more people could find out about this great music. Two days later, I received an e-mail from Meetup.com saying my group was closed because I was promoting events at venues ...Odd since I never had any events yet, and had no members in the Meetup group yet, and never mentioned any type of venue at all.
I sent a message back to HQ at Meetup.com, and received the same generic message again..I sent several messages to the HQ team explaining my mission statement, saying they were in error. Then I was was sent a new message having a different new reason for the closure. This new reason said I was promoting a service. Odd again because I had no members in my group being only two days old, and had not offered anything. I re-sent my mission statement , saying HQ was in error again. Then I received a new reason for the closure saying I was promoting a particular band. I am active in the Blues music scene, and perform at many clubs and concerts, sing and playing the guitar, however I don't have a band, and have never mentioned I was promoting any band. I again re-sent my plan for the Meetup group, and received another new reason for the closure.
This time Meetup.com HQ team said there was no value in the " Blues " music for the community, and there would be no benefit for the community to allow my " Blues " music dance party group exist..They are suggesting that the unique African American musical expression, the " Blues "
has no value ?.
That would mean , according to Meetup.com HQ, there is no value this musical art form has added to the history of this country.
Cconsidering they allow all types of " Meetup " groups to be held like gay and lesbian meetups, east indian yoga meetups, other forms of music styles meetups, and every other type of cultural interest meetup event, I have only to conclude there are racists in authority there at Meetup.com. The information below may be of interest to you.
The rules and regulations for Meetup.com clearly say if I wanted to, I could hold events at venues, search for and secure venues for Meetup events, and there is even a section where Meetup.com offers resources to find venues for Meetup events. Yet they tried to charge me with holding and promoting events.
I pointed out in the rules and regulation that Meetup events are actually services being performed, such as educational, fun gatherings, informational gatherings, and so on. In fact, the whole organization of Meetup.com is a service offering platform...Yet they tried charge me with offering a service
The rules and regulations for Meetup.com clearly show how one can promote events, charge ticket fees, organization dues, admission prices and other discussions about money, yet Meetup.com HQ tried to charge me with conduction a business.. I have never conducted any business, or charged any money to anyone.
The rules and regulations clearly state how groups can be organized and run, and I read the whole thing over to make sure I wasn't out of line on anything. I made requests many times for assistance to help me with the creation of the group, yet never received any response with any questions about anything. Again, I have to come to the conclusion these people are Racists.
With organizations like this that portray themselvs as social network advocates and places to meet, greet, learn new things and be educated, yet try to say African American musical artforms have no value, or the history it adds to this country, someone has put them under the spot light to expose this.
I have e-mails to them, and from them in case anyone is interested
Ken Murano
|Tricia E. Blackstone
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|I now feel I am ready to undo Racism.
I had some time to undo myself and thought, "How could I make a meaningful impact on the pressures and stresses of Life in today's modern world?"
Then it hit me... BOYCOTTON (Notten).
In other words, Boycott Cotton. No Cotton. At all. After all, it's your choice. It's impact on society and the environment... and of course the Slaves.
What I'm saying is I don't need cotton... What am I wearing now? A thin polyester green dress. It suits me fine; I like it in this weather ...or any weather, for that matter, as long as it's Notton (NOT Cotton). It goes well with my king bey sneakers and it was environmentally sound: I got it at a thrift store here in my progressive neighborhood (San Francisco, Cal).
What we need right now is a world without judgment. Without compromise. Without Fear.
Let's put the SOUL back in rock-n-roll!
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|After completeing The Undoing Racism Workshop this afternoon (3/27/'13 @ 3p NYC) I am thrilled to report life won't ever be the same for me!! Yaaaay! Trully life altering and deeply inspiring!! Our trusted workshop leaders (Maria, David, Cyndi) created a consistently safe, welcoming, lush environment that anyone willing could use to alter life as they previously knew it! Thanks for supporting me to save my life at a point where I was fed up up from the floor up of myself anf others, stuck and couldn't budge to get out of my own way. The enormity of the "Undoing Racism" conversation affirmed that I am not crazy and never have been!!! Thanks, thanks and thankd for everything that leads to Undoing Racism!! I commit to keep the work growing and the organization prospering!! Count Me In...!!! sincerely Zeus
|Elease Edmontson
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|I attended the Undoing racism workshop at my place of employment this week and cannot stop thinking about. Being of color does not mean one knows about race. This worksjop was powerful beyond description. I would like to attend the next meeting being held on the first Monday of the month in Montclair, New Jersey.
Thank you.
|Erna Sohn
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|I am a vet who gave her best to Air Force.
In return, I was molested, constantly harassed, discriminated, and injured.
To top it all, my children were taken away by dyfs. What am I guilty of? Wrong color of skin? Serving in the military? Sexual assult victim?
Please help.
|Annemay CLarkson
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|Agent Unprejudiced is back with a new single
and one again he push your awareness to further
"Wrong side of the moon" is a song about crimes in signs of racism
under an demonic full Moon that shines over the city a dark night
the single is alredy released for the digital stores like Sporify & Itunes and
will be in stores around the world soon
There is many lies about racism and you never know who is
to depend on when it comes to dark sides inside a human
the musicvideo contains some scenes from the movie "Freedom of Sweden?"
that has Agent-u and some young actors in the starring
The song is written by Agent-u and Henry Laze (co-worker whit the songwriter and Actor Henry Gibson)
Agent-u has since the single "Golden chance" was released last year
worked whit new songs in the record studio and also help other swedish singers/actors handle their careers
the song "Golden chance" did get #! on the swedish heatseeker-charts and the video
is prised by fans and many media-workers in Sweden
Agent-u managed to save some swedish singers and actors from commit suicide
at the time when "Golden chance" was released and he continues to support others
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|Neculai Ionut-Cristian
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|Hello I'm Neculai Ionut-Cristian from Romania, from Constanta City.
I'm a med student in the first year and I am a roma person. Here in the "University Ovidius From Constanta - Campus" I can't user at the lessons at laboratoris and curs. People and the techer (doscors) do not mind me and my insults addressed. Please help me to rezist at the school.
My esteem is on the floor, I responded very well in exams and gave me only 5 rating, please check my notes.
I am the only gipsy in the school an I'm feel lonly and expused at the risc.
My number it's 0769042200
|Robert C. Gumbs
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|I would like to be a member and would like to participate in the groups activities. I look forward to hearing from you.
Bob Gumbs
|Leonid Pidchybii
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How do I get money to fight racism in Ukraine?
Best regards,
Leonid Pidchybii, Human Right Activist
23 Entuziastiv St., Ap. 117
Kyiv 02154, Ukraine
|Maryellen Longwood
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|I am from Baltimore, where the BME (Black Male Engagement Initiative) is committing $200,000 to African Americans.
This is a small step, but a necessary one.
It saddens me that more cannot be done. Baltimore is a big city and we need to do something NOW for our African American community.
I encourage all other students to initiate Leadership Programs in their own communities. We must give back. Holding fundraisers and funding community projects is just the start.
We also need to bring assistance to the members of the African American communities in the form of donations.
We will never get anywhere by putting African Americans on unemployment and taking thir jobs while incarcerating the rest. What ever happened to justice?
|Douglass DeCandia
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my name is Douglass DeCandia. I am a member of WESPAC, and head food grower for the Food Bank for Westchester.
I work with at-risk youth and adults throughout westchester, to grow food for the hungry, and teach gardening/work skills.
I would very much like to attend the Anti-Racism Workshop, as I know myself and the farm program will greatly benefit our work as a group of racially integrated, intergeneration and focus-driven individuals.
I will not be able to make the entire time each day, March 8-10, but would like to attend around my other engagements.
is this possible?
also, are there scholarships, or discounts available?
thank you.
|Christian Nilsson
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|My name is Christian Nilsson and I work for HuffPost Live, the streaming network associated with The Huffington Post. Later this evening (4PM PST / 7PM EST) we are doing a live segment that follows up on Westchester County's attempt to desegregate the communities. We are looking for minorities from those communities to discuss with us whether or not it was a failure.
If you are interested in joining the live segment via webcam, let me know as soon as possible. All you will need to contribute is a webcam (computer, tablet, or phone) and a Google+ account.
|Victoria Baker
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I am a researcher for an online project that, in conjunction with the National Center for Education Statistics, created a National Education Index for students interested in pursuing undergraduate and graduate programs across the US. I was wondering if you're responsible for maintaining www.antiracistalliance.com? We've collected and compiled data from more than 19,000 educational programs at 2,240 universities throughout the nation, and have packaged the data into an easy-to-use database that I believe you will find to be very rich and informative.
By lowering the information barrier, we aim to encourage a new wave of first generation college students to consider the opportunities that graduate school can provide. Inspired by Black History Month, we are reaching out to groups that are statistically underrepresented in universities today. I strongly believe this database, along with all of our other featured resources, would be a great complement to your website for students interested in furthering their education. So far, over 200 universities and governmental agencies have utilized this database project for their communities. I thought this might be of interest to you and I'm curious if you'd like to see it? Please let me know and I'll send it over.
Thanks for your time,
Victoria Baker
|Tawana Pratt
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|Alot of my friends are white, I am embarrassed.
A month of Culture, A month of Heritage. Where have we gone wrong?
To recognize the contributions of the Latter Day African Americans is where.
Let us praise those that be. Let us hang a hungry face of Justice over the walls that separate us. Let us have kind thoughts as we raise our Spirit in praise Be. Unto the Lord, be kind sayeth thee.
They keep coming forward, they keep saying Racism Ends... what, forsaken Angel are these that bind us? Ropes? Nay! Chains? Nay!
I hearken those from 19th Century Bondage, CALL ME. Please be thee unto thine own Order.
Yes, soothsayer, yes, demon-dragon-lady-witch, we carve our intentions, shed our fears.
Billings Centre / After Dark
Naysayers begone! Skeptics, take heed. Student Center under Pale Lamps.
We end Race War. We nig on the neanta. Let them Pray. Goddess, Away!
Shark is sharp teeth. Ray-o-vac batteries 'neath. Harken last words, Tribe Leader. Spirit junctual Release. Sayeth thee!
|Camilo Shakir
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|In solidarity I'm reaching out to collaborate with others who believe racism is problem, that halts progression and unity. My family and my girlfriend are from different backgrounds and cultures.
I'm a anarcho-communist and I truly believe that racism is by product of capitalism.
|Angela Basston
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|My political science professor is a racist.
When discussing President Obama's Innaugural speech and how it tied into MLK day, I added, "we have a long way to go."
"What do you Mean? We have an African American at the highest point of employment," he retorted.
Honestly, I don't know how much more of this I can take. Does he not see the statistics concerning the incarcerated? Those in poverty? Those on death row?
I sent him an email letting him know that I am part of the AntiRacist Alliance and he can fail me for all I care. He's a dum-dum anyway with stupid velcro sneakers.
Let's stop racism before it's too late.
Angela Basston
|L. Monroe
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|Greetings Activists, I too am working towards dismantling racism. I write opinion pieces about race on my blog listed above. Some of the topics include: "N-Word and Racial Double Standard in Films," "The Media's Biased Coverage of Huck Finn" and "Black Childen, Negative Black Bias Conditioning." My recent posts include a 3 part series, "The Biased Presentation of a Racial Bias TV Special." It discusses the CNN Special "Black or White: Children on Race." This Special perpetuates a negative Black bias and white superiority. It's really a great series. Please visit. It's more than worth your time.
|Juan Ramirez Gonzalez
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|To Whom it may concern,
my name is Juan Ramirez Gonzalez. And I live in the state of Washington, where last year during my home town Spokane's annual MLK march a live bomb was found luckily before any one was hurt. You may have not heard of it as our local authorities did there best to down play the event and sweep under the rug. Still a year later the attitudes sure have not changed, our local craigslist is filled anti-semetic racists. Being a minority in the area I am forced to deal with it everyday and am constantly getting low balled on my grades in college. For this reason I write to you, hoping that you be of any help. I find myself wanting to get involved,but there no support anywhere. Please write back at-least so I know someone is out-there.
Juan Ramirez Gonzalez
|Patricia Longworth
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End Racism in White Plains
Come one, come all... WhiteStock W.A.R. -- what is it?? It's time to wake up. It's time to hit White Privilege right where it counts.
My mother, who suffers from Gulf War Syndrome, is a die-hard Right-Wing Conservative. She believes that her African American comrades were "lucky enough to make it home." According to her, they were "half-burnt by Hell already."
IN THIS DAY AND AGE. Yes, we have a big hill to climb, brothers and siters.
I am putting a stop to this. Whomever will be in the White Plains area Aug 15-19 2013, please keep your EYE out for: WHITESTOCK: WEEKEND ASKING RETRIBUTION to be held in a location TBA.
|Samuel Mekgoe
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|We are hosting an anti-racism summit on the 17 january2012. We would like you to be a partner in this initiative.
•Swartruggens town has been in the national and international news since 2008.The random shooting, wounding of many and killing of 4 residents by Johan Nel calls for this town to add to the voices of many South Africans in the quest to fight racism.
•Ketleng Rivier Local Municipality since the incident on the 14th January 2008 has been making an annual commemoration. Kgopane Investments (Pty)Ltd is being appointed to execute the commemoration for 2013.The event for 2013 is scheduled to be a seven day festival of remembrance and healing with the absolute aim of restoration of human dignity, bridging the racial divide, healing the wounds and creating a progressive society leaving together in harmony.
Objectives of the Commemoration
•The project is aimed at sparking a national dialogue on anti-racism .
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I am writing to ask for your help to shut down the American Renaissance (AmRen) white supremacist national conference that is going to be held at Montgomery Bell State Park in Dickson, Tn later this year. AmRen is led by a man named Jared Taylor who is a well known white supremacist. Their event draws a wide array of racist and fascist hate groups and people to the Montgomery Bell park is a clear and present danger to the public health and safety of park patrons and the people of Dickson. We started a petition that is being forwarded to the park and state and local politicians urging them to take action (http://signon.org/sign/montgomery-bell-park) and will ultimately be delivered in person. But we need help drawing attention to this campaign. This is the second year in a row that this conference has been held at this park. Last year we gathered a petition, alerted the community, contacted the media, sent emails and made phone calls to the park, and protested outside of the entrance. However, the local media was apathetic to the story, we were unable to mobilize a large resistance in this small rural town, and ultimately we made little headway towards actually shutting down the conference. We need a broader coalition behind us to actually accomplish this. Anything you can do to draw attention to this will make it easier to organize to #ShutDownAmRen and will be greatly appreciated.
|Cheryl Conway
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|Joyous Kwanzaa!
Today we celebrate UNITY and the rich African heritage carried on by our African American brothers and sisters.
I am passing this along to help spread the joy.
Unity, I feel, is an appropriate theme for the first day of Kwanzaa. There is such a good feeling that comes from celebrating an alternative to the white man's holiday.
May we all reflect on this holiday and what it means to African Americans.
|Brenda Lett
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|Greetings we are currently working holding a POC Leadership Summit in Portsmouth NH - Saturday, February 23, 2013 and would love some help framing the open plenary. Please contact and let us know if you could help us with this work to ensure POC continued preparation to lead the work
|Tricia Magnolia
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|We are in the process of moving. My parents and I have been looking online at houses, and I found one with everything we're looking for, well within our price range.
I wrote down the listing number and our Real Estate Agent looked it up.
"Oh no," she said. "You don't want to move there." When I asked why, she said it was because the house is in a "Black Neighborhood" and spewed a bunch of race-tinged commentary about "home equity."
I was appalled. I was speechless. My father just said, "Hmm..."
How could a Real Estate Agent be so racist? And on top of that, how could she assume my family was racist?
My parents have not made a decision yet. To me, this house is a win-win. It has everything we're looking for and the advantage of cultural diversity to boot.
I don't know if they would have to buy it through her, but once they do I plan to report this Agent. Not to get her fired, but to alert human resources that they have a prime candidate for sensitivity training. It's my little way of making this world a better place.
I hope this gives us the chance to broaden our horizons and embrace urbanity.
Thank you for this site.
|Realexis Castro
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|I have a blog that seeks to generate open dialogue about understanding and peace in the world. I've written an article concerning racism, and I see the quality of the work on your site, hopefully you can use my article. I'm offering it for free to promote free ideas and open expression and understanding.
|Angela Jones
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|Good morning:
My name is Angela Jones. I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Farmingdale State College, State University of New York. On April 20, 2013, we are hosting a social justice and diversity summit on campus. Our conference has been made possible thanks to the SUNY Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion's Explorations in Diversity and Academic Excellence Grant. The conference invites faculty, students, student organizations, staff, the local community, non-governmental social justice organizations, and local government officials to the first conference of this kind on our campus. It will combine cutting-edge research on the persistence of inequalities such as: gender inequality, environmental injustice, educational inequalities, racism, disability rights, and LGBT issues with information on getting involved in local non-profit organizations aimed at addressing these quagmires. The primary objectives of the conference are to: disseminate information about pressing social issues and to foster social change through civic engagement. Our goal is engage in meaningful dialogue about how we here on Long Island, in New York, and in the United States can work towards achieving equality, social justice, and equal access to vital resources regardless of race, ethnicity, class, age, religion, gender, disability, and/or sexual orientation.
We are writing for your support. First, we would love to invite as many of your members/volunteers as possible. Do you have an email list serve? We would love to circulate information about the conference to your members/volunteers/workers. Second, we would love for members/workers/volunteers of Anti-Racist Alliance to attend the conference. We would love to have a booth set up where you can talk to attendees about your organization and how attendees can sign up to be involved or donate. Finally, all conference attendees will receive a gift bag that will contain a folder with information on NGO's that they can become involved in. If you agree to join us, we would appreciate 250 pieces of literature that could be placed in every attendee's bag. If you are not the correct staff member to coordinate this with, can you please put me in touch with the approrpiate person. Thanks.
We hope that you are able to join with us in our journey to help foster social justice on Long Island and in society.
Please see our conference page (registration is free and the conference is open to the public).
Thank you.
|Desiree Mannington
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Tomorrow night, at MIDNIGHT EST, there will be a candlelight vigil held to end Racism and white privilege.
My friends Caitlin and Ashley are coming over with their boyfriends to hold an "End Racism Now" vigil in the Student Centre at Berkley College. Join us if you can, students and Alumni alike; we hope to make it worldwide, with peace in mind.
Please celebrate us, wherever you are, and help stamp out Racism once and for all.
Thank you,
Desiree M.
|Stephanie Midler
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|The African People's Solidarity Committee would like to offer you the opportunity to endorse the International Conference of the African People's Solidarity Committee, "African Resistance, White Solidarity" which will be held in St. Petersburg, Florida, January 6-8, 2013.
This conference takes place during one of the greatest periods of social and political transformations in history.
Six hundred years of parasitic capitalism built and maintained through Europe's assault, enslavement, genocide, plunder and occupation against African people and the majority of the world are coming to an end.
For most of humanity this is a cause for great celebration. For North Americans or Europeans, Israelis, or whites in South Africa, who have been imperialism's beneficiaries, gaining our opportunities, rights and prosperity from colonial plunder, slavery and war for so long, we find that everything we took for granted about the past and the future is wrong.
But imperialism's crisis need not be our crisis.
The African People's Solidarity Committee is the organization of white people working in our own communities under the leadership of the African People's Socialist Party, which leads the worldwide movement for African liberation, unification and socialism.
The APSC international conference offers a unique chance for white people to come together in the presence of African People's Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela and other Party leaders. We can begin to understand the Party's theory of African Internationalism and embrace this worldview of the enslaved as our own. African Internationalism is political theory not just to interpret the world but to change it.
Please join us by endorsing this conference.
If you believe that white people everywhere need to recognize our interests in joining the vibrant worldwide transformation to end imperialism and the system of oppressors and the oppressed, endorse this conference and help to make it a success!
Endorsement means:
Your organization unites with the importance of this conference
Your organization's logo and website link will be added to the international conference's endorsement page online
You will send send out an email about the international conference to your email list
You will post a promo image to your website with a link to http://apscuhuru.org/events/2013-conference/index.xhtml
If at all possible, you will send a representative of your organization to the international conference to present a solidarity statement. If a representative is not able to attend, the statement could be sent via email to be read. (Visit www.apscuhuru.org for more info)
We have limited tabling space at the international conference but will extend priority to our endorsing organizations. If you are interested in reserving table space, we ask for a $25 contribution.
To confirm your endorsement, simply respond directly to this email and include your organization's logo image and web link that we can post to our website.
Thank you for considering endorsement of the International Conference of the African People's Solidarity Committee, "African Resistance, White Solidarity". Please contact me with any questions.
Stephanie Midler
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|Lindsay Barnsworth
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|Modern Santa: The New Christmas
I'd like to share a news item that took place in the next town over from where I attend school.
A young African American man was arrested for robbery by 2 white cops. They took him away from his family and set the bail so high that he couldn't afford to pay it. To make matters worse, they impounded his car and are charging him with 2 counts of theft. All the while not considering what he "stole" from this retail giant: an iPad, an Xbox 360, a DVD player and a modest sized flat screen.
These were only Christmas gifts for his children. He took absolutely nothing for himself. It wasn't even enough to fill his Escalade. Yet the cops didn't care. Instead of recognizing his altruism, they threw the book at him!
We need to end white privilege. I believe in Karma, and these cops will get theirs!
Thank you for all the public education your site brings.
|emanual vanwyk
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I am white South-farmer who married a black girl from Etiopia while working for USAID in Ethiopia. We love and respect each other and try to buildt a life together. Until ....
My goverment dont want to issue her a visa to enter South-Africa. Me and she visit SA embassy in Addis Ababa more than 20 times - they always have just another excuse not to give her a visa. (and all the embassy people are black) Therefor i have to leave my wife behind in Ethiopia and returned to South-Africa.
Back in South-Africa I am thrown out by the white community because of my wife. I cannot find any work (before my marriage i couldt choose between jobs)
The result is i am sitting in South-Africa - jobless - without money - my wife struggle back in Addis and we are busy to die of sadness of our situation. Is there a God? How this can happen? How cruel the world can be.
I fight this sick system now for more than 2 years. I finish all my resources. End of the month i will loose everything. Forbitten love? Racisime from both sides?
How far will you go to fight for the love of your love ones?
Must i go and kill all these people against us? Go to jail to put the worlds attention on it?
Christmas is coming up - and we seems not to manage to be together!
Any one who can help us +27825766996
Whe just want to be together and live in love like other.
God bless u all.
Emil van Wyk
|Tammy Lynne Wilkins-Fox
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|I'm ashamed to say... that I am white.
And I'm ashamed at the way my ancestors treated African Americans over the centuries.
It boggles the mind how many people live in the Inner Cities. Disadvantaged, and in poverty.
Wat is the Government doing? They need to do more!
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And talk to Sarita and Maria as they define artist as a loose definition, like The ART of COmmunity Organizing/Teaching/Healing, etc. HELP SPREAD THE WORD please.!!!
|Amanda Billows
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|My boyfriend and I camped out last night to get a flat screen on Black Friday.
Just as the store's opened, an African American walked into the store... my boyfriend started complaining that it was unfair of him to cut in line. "Excuse me," I said to him. "You have no idea what he struggles with, you don't know what schedule is like and as far as I'm concerned, he can have your flat screen!"
He stood his ground, but I walked away in tears and had my sister pick me up.
Later on, he texted me, apologizing. I feel in my own little way, I stood up to racism.
I have zero tolerance for white privilege.
Thank you,
|Izzie J
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|The anti-racist work being done by your organization is making the world a better place! Thank you-Izzie J
|Mindy Paulson
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|My father and I went to a Jazz and Blues club last night. It was a real eye opener.
I must say, I was quite impressed with my dad's interpretation of the Blues: it's all about the plight and struggle of the underprivileged.
I was able to feel the pain and opression with every note. It was as though the music was speaking to me directly. The years of struggle came through to me in an unimaginable way.
Which is why I absolutely must attend a seminar. Hopefully there will be one not too far from the Westchester area.
Now that I have a taste of what African Americans face, I feel it is only right that I do what little I can to make a difference. I didn't aks to be born white. I am truly sorry for what my ancestors did, but of course the guilt lingers...
The struggle continues and I want to help! So glad this site is out there to help them. I pledge myself to undoing White Privilege.
|Audria Campbell
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|Hi I'm Audria and I attend St. Peter School in Antioch, IL. I have a research paper on racism and I have an interview I need to do. I would like to e-mail someone over e-mail to just ask 10 short questions it would be so kind if I can interview someone from this website over e-mail thank you!
|Jillian Moore
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|I am in the process of completing my Masters.
Just before I returned to school for the Fall Semester, I was visiting my parents for the summer. I've seen the farms in the area like a hundred times, but a month or two ago I saw something shocking: a young African American picking cotton!
It was very distressing and I had to pull over. I wish I had something to offer this gentleman, but all I could do was sob. It's been haunting me ever since.
When will this end? We must keep trying to put a stop to racism once and for all. I would welcome the opportunity to head an ARA Chapter for my school. I feel I can really reach people.
Thank you.
|Kendall Reynolds
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|Could you send me any information that you have on advancing your cause? I would prefer it be mailed to me at
451 Prospect Street
Warren, PA 16365
I could also take calls at 8147230465
Thank you so much!!
Let's end racism now!!
|Linda Rosenfeld
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|My parents explained to me at a young age that being born white is a privilege that comes with responsibility.
My father, an attorney, charges a reduced rate to his Minority clients. But that is only when business is slow, otherwise he represents them PRO BONO.
Our cable provider gives us PBS for free, but we didn't get BET until we purchased the expanded package. That in itself is an outrage!
Is there anything in Connecticut as far as seminars?
|Jaye Miller
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|Idealist member, participant in groups and workshops @ JBFCS.org
|Jaye Miller
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|Attending Staten Island monthly meetings @jbfcs.org, and have attended workshop/training at JBFCS.org, Manhattan.
|Annette Wilson
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|I'm hoping we can arrange an Intervention for my brother...
He likes Skinhead music!!
It could just be a matter of going as a family to a meeting. We'd just tell him it's an Atheist meeting or something.
He listens to songs like, "Reich and Roll," "Shine on the Street." Sickening.
Once he understands White Privilege, I'm sure he'll stop blaming minorites for crime and realize that we are the real criminals here.
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|Hello. I have a question to which I am hoping you may have the answer. There is someone in my area who has a racist sign on their lawn. It really bothers me, and I am wondering if it could be classified as hate speech, and they could be asked to remove it, or if it is their right to display it even if it is very offensive. Any knowledge you may have on the issue would be appreciated.
Thanks for your time.
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|It makes a difference...
Usually, when I call companies, be it for a credit application, party planners, decorators, etc., I always try to remember to ask if the company is Minority Owned.
The Economy is bad enough without siphoning money away from struggling Minority Owned busniesses.
I strongly encourage everyone to only support Minority Owned businesses. It's our best hope for getting this mess straightened out.
Thank you.
|David Edwards
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|Hello my name is David Edwards and I work on behalf of the Institute for Gulf Affairs, an NGO that focuses on human rights in Saudi Arabia. Right now I am working on a campaign that explores the conditions of blacks in Saudi Arabia. I wanted to know if anyone in your organization would be interested in learning more about this issue. Right now we are just trying to raise awareness.
|Annette Towers
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|I am writing a play that will change the World.
Its entitled, "White America's Privlege." We all know what this is about, but allow me to share it's uniqueness...
We all have a culture. But some is buried. Giving opportunities to are friends, no that's NOT buried. Helping out someone with the same color of skin? Need I go on?
As Dr. King said, we will go on. We Will Prosper. It may take a long time to get to the mountaintop, but We as a people, brown, black, yellow red green and white, we'll get there.
THANK YOU for this site. It has opened my eyes.
|Patrick Carter
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|Good afternoon.
I am writing to you in an effort to seek the support of Canadians across the country to voice their concerns about the racist comments made against Georges Laraque by Toronto Star columnist Cathal Kelly. As a black Canadian, I find it offensive, and very difficult to turn the other cheek when blatant, ignorant comments are made linking, as a metaphor, jungles and captured black people forced to do things against their will. I did not want to jump the gun and email you until I discussed this with several other people of many races, and they have all come to the same conclusions that I did, as mentioned in my email below. After you read and listen to the interview I reccommend, at minimum, that we encourage, to the best of our ability, Cathal Kelly, the Toronto Star, and Team 1260 Edmonton as well as the host of "The Pipeline" Guy Flaming, to make a public apology to Georges Laraque for their offensive and racist metaphors.
I appreciate your attention in this matter. I will be sure to forward this to other community organisationsacross Canada for their support.
On Sunday, September 16, 2012, Guy Flaming, host of the radio show known as "The Pipeline" on TEAM 1260 Edmonton (or heard around the world at www.thepipelineshow.com), posted an article on thepipelineshow.blogspot.ca about how he pulled some quotes from what he calls "One of the strongest columns on the CHLPA thus far", a column written by Toronto Star writer Cathal Kelly on August 25th, for the story he wrote on
Tuesday, September 4, 2012, entitled "CHLPA Still A Big Mystery". Wanting to revisit the column, he decided that "the best way to go about
that was to get the columnist himself on the show. Kelly's write up was no holds barred and cut through all the B.S. so effectively that I
couldn't wait to see if, three weeks later, he still felt the same way about the CHLPA. His appearance on TPS Saturday morning was nothing
short of audio gold."
Let's examine some of this "audio gold".
Saturday's interview with Cathal Kelly begins with Mr. Flaming playing excerps from "The Origin", a recently released video Of Georges
Laraque of the CHLPA. Kelly was then asked to "offer a synopsis of his piece from August for the benefit of listeners who had not come across
the story when it first was published." The following is quoted from Cathal Kelly's synopsis:
"I don't know if your listeners have seen them but they seem like something that comes out of the Colombian jungle. It's as if the CHLPA has
kidnapped Georges Laraque and he's being told to recite demands. This whole thing is farcical. It's like an extended Saturday Night Live
I beg your pardon, sir?
This is clearly insinuating that a black man from the jungle is being taken, against his will, like a slave, and forced to do something...
very VERY clearly.
It also depicts the CHLPA as slave drivers, forcing black people out of the jungles, kidnapping them, and forcing them to do things against
their will. Like it or not, for very good reasons, these stereotypes depicted by Cathal Kelly are the exact stereotypes that I, as a black
man, take offense to, and see as ignorant and damaging to the cultural progress of black people in this country. I realise that after people
read this it might be simple for them to say "He's just another black guy playing the race card." But when ignorant comments are thrown
around connecting black people with jungles it becomes a little difficult for me, as a black man, to just sit back and let it slide. I feel
that I speak on behalf of most black people when I express my concern about caucasians connecting black people with jungles and being taken
into captivity on public radio programs, or in general for that matter. You would think that in 2012 somebody on a public radio show might be
able to keep those comments to himself.
Another interesting part of this is that the host, Guy Flaming, seems to get a good chuckle out of the comment and then goes even further by
saying that he AGREES with Cathal Kelly. The two of them shared a pretty good laugh at the expense of a caricature image, which Cathal Kelly
painted, depicting captured black men being pulled out of jungles and forced to do things against their will. Cathal went even one step
further, comparing these images created in his mind of black people, captured out of jungles, forced to do things against their will (as if
this were not a significant event in history) with a "farcical" extended Saturday Night Live skit. Farcical comes from the word farce, which
1. a light, humorous play in which the plot depends upon a skillfully exploited situation rather than upon the development of character.
2. humor of the type displayed in such works.
3. foolish show; mockery; a ridiculous sham.
As if Lorne Michaels (the creator of Saturday Night Live) would ever consider allowing a skit to air, depicting the images which Cathal Kelly
has created.
There is nothing about the video that is similar to a kidnapping in a jungle in Columbia. In fact, there is a picture of a former NHL HOCKEY
PLAYER and in the backdrop there is a picture of a logo with a hockey player on it. I'm not sure how these obvious images of hockey can
relate at all to jungles. There is nothing in the video that shows Georges in shackles, being held to speak on a topic against his will. I
don't see any palm trees or jungles in the background.
In fact, the only thing the video DOES show is a NHL hockey player trying to protect other hockey players. In the background there is a logo
with a hockey player in it. There are no similarities to jungles, or the mistreatment of humans, in the video whatsoever.
Cathal Kelly clearly couldn't control his tongue without showing his racist views, explaining what he sees is a black man taken from the
jungle against his will. I wonder if he also imagined shackles on the wrists and feet when he watched those videos. Or maybe he envisioned
spears and blow darts as well.
There is nothing about the video that is similar to a kidnapping in a jungle in Columbia from what I could see. In fact, there is a picture
of a former NHL hockey player, and in the backdrop there is a picture of a logo with a hockey player. I'm not sure how hockey and jungles
relate exactly, but Obviously, Cathal Kelly has figured out a way to bind them together. There is nothing in the video that shows Georges in
shackles, being held to speak on a topic against his will.
For a while I was really hoping that the host of the interview would address the racist comment made by Cathal Kelly, but that didn't happen.
He just went on to urge people to listen and called the interview "Awesome."
Yours Truly,
|Julie Rafferty
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|I found racism... in my own family!
My uncle commented on an article about a man who turned his life around; a man who fell into the wrong crowd when he was younger.
Well, my uncle took the article out of context. Instead of being positive about the man's rehabilitation, he was judging the actions of a sixteen year old!
I suppose the pre-rehabilitative armed robbery that took place when the man was a juvenile hit a little too close to home for my uncle, who is a convenience store owner.
Anyway, my uncle thought the rehabilitated man's juvenile juvenile record should follow him to "warn" potential employers.
THAT'S EXACTLY THE PROBLEM! Honestly, it was like talking to a brick wall.
How are we gonig to be free as a society if we keep taking jobs from the people on the street who are left there with their hands empty?
THANK YOU for this site; it's like an oasis in the middle of a ghost town in the middle of a desert.
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Times are changing. In a world where there really is no safe haven from the violence of the cold and harsh world. As an American citizen one might believe that they could send their children to an institute of learning and their children would be safe from harm and far from losing their lives. But now that idea is not reverently supported. American children have been attacked. This should not be tolerated by America and America should do whatever they can to stop these needless acts of violence on our children. So whom should we target? Well that is the shocking part of the argument. Globally, children are conducting this onslaught on children. So as a people, as a World Community, we ask ourselves why is this happening? Where did we go wrong? Why are children rebelling in such an outrageous way? And what can we do to stop the violence? These are all questions that have been troubling the American public and throughout all Nations since school shootings started...
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|Yesterday we partook in a Celebration of a day called Labor Day.
I honor of the working class.
Well, I had the day off. But not for the same reason as the Many. They are Unemployed and therefore did not have the day off: their struggle is 24/7.
This obstacle is twofold: the Economy and Racism.
We cannot end White Privilege, and we cannot fix the Economy. until we give more jobs to Minorities, who make a large percentage of the population, why make them wait?
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|models hired by Hollister came to South Korea and did racist things.Koreans are very upset with this. Plz look into this.
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|In my Social Sciences class, we broke into groups to discuss the implementation of a social program that would bring the most benefit to humankind. Our idea was an iPhone App that empowers the user to log racial incidents: time, location, nature of incident, etc. We must be vigilant, but we must also remain connected. I thank my future colleagues for bringing the ARA to my attention.
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|I am interested in your movement. please send more information . I live in Harrisburg,PA. Thanks. Galen
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|I want to talk about Church. What my church did to me.
As a person of color, I nerver felt welcome, I'm sure you can understand. Every Chistmas Pagaent I was the same Wise Man.
Well I wised up. What the Bible, it says about gays, is well, not for this Time in the new milenniem.
No body handed an Education to me. But I stayed in school as long as I could.
Now we have a society more racist then ever.
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|Dear Anti-Racist Alliance,
My name is Elreta Dodds. I am an author and independent publisher (dba Press Toward The Mark Publications). My latest book, "Racism, The Bible, and The American Dream" (subtitled, "From Slavery to Obama: A Frank Discussion, from a Christian Perspective, on Racial Discrimination in America, and its effect on Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness") is WINNER of the 2012 International Book Award in African American Studies and is also WINNER of the 2011 National Indie Excellence Book Award in Social Change. If you'd like more information about the book (e.g. press release, fact-sheet etc) please feel free to contact me at email@example.com or you may call my business phone at 313-527-0068. Please also feel free to visit my website at www.elretadodds.com and/or my blog at www.racismthebibleandtheamericandream.blogspot.com. Thanks!
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|Summer is here, and African American children perish each day. They are drowning much more rapidly than white kids, as though it's a death sentence.
Look at the statistics.
Due to the ripple effect from times when African Americans were not permitted in public swimming areas. There needs to be more education and swimming programs for these kids!
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"There is evidence there will be a major flu epidemic this coming fall. The indication is that we will see a return of the 1918 flu virus that is the most virulent form of the flu. In 1918 a half million Americans died. The projections are that this virus will kill one million Americans in 1976."
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My name is Edgar J. Steele.
After careful, close study and review of reports from around the world, I have concluded that the current Swine Flu "Public Health Emergency" is a false alarm.
Even so, I believe there is a very important lesson to be gleaned from the way we all responded to this threatened global pandemic. In fact, it may well be the real thing, but something that plays out over such a long period of time that immediate panic is grossly unwarranted. More on this below.
America Jumps In Once It's Safe
The American government seems to agree with me, because it ignored this burgeoning flu epidemic altogether until at least four days after other countries had reacted, placing even the United States on their "travel advisory" lists. Only after it became clear to me that we are in no immediate danger did the US government suddenly start reacting, declaring the "Public Health Emergency," holding congressional hearings and issuing statements right and left.
The initial reports, available days before America reacted, indicated that something serious was afoot:
Britain was (and still is) on full alert. New Zealand, France, Spain and several other countries reported suspected outbreaks. Cases of swine flu quickly were confirmed in California, New York, Ohio, Kansas, Eastern Canada (Nova Scotia) and Western Canada (British Columbia). Russia, along with several other countries, banned the import of meat products from Mexico, California, Texas and Kansas. Travel alerts were issued by several countries (not the US, though, until after the danger seemed to me to be past) about Mexico. Several included the US and/or all of North America in their travel alerts.
WHO's on first?
The World Health Org (WHO) held an emergency meeting in Geneva and "asked countries around the world to 'intensify surveillance for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.'" Like an Abbot-and-Costello routine (Who's on first?), WHO dithered hopelessly about what to do and still they kept the pandemic alert level at phase 3 until the public outcry after the weekend caused it to raise it to phase 4, indicating that the virus showed sustained ability to pass from human to human, something that thousands in Mexico had known for up to a week, already.
WHO stated that Phase 5 would be reached "if the virus
is found in at least two countries in the same region ...
(and would be) a strong signal that a pandemic is imminent
and that the time to finalize the organization,
communication, and implementation of the planned mitigation
measures is short ... Phase 6 would indicate a full-scale
global pandemic."
Clearly, we were at phase 4 a week ago and, probably, phase 5. Thankfully, the cases outside Mexico were much milder and there still have been no reported deaths aside from a couple of irresponsibly-attributed cases in California and the total in Mexico, which remains suspiciously low, even now.
As could be expected, Mexicans were freaking out right and left and piling out of the country. Guess where they are coming...
However, on Sunday night the overseas stock and currency markets quite simply did not react to this as though it were a true pandemic, bent upon killing millions. Monday morning on Wall Street looked perfectly normal. That said a lot to me. Only on Tuesday, after the US declared its Emergency, did the markets seem to react, but then only cursorily, as though just the moribund and uninformed were the only ones jumping in and selling.
Furthermore, the reported infections stopped blossoming around the world almost as soon as the reports started coming in over the weekend. Most telling, however, there have been no confirmed flu-related deaths outside of Mexico from this thing, despite those sloppy reports from California and despite people being sick upon arrival from a recent visit to Mexico, implying that even the initial strain is not particularly virulent.
Flu Happens
If this were flu season, then the results we have seen would be peanuts, in terms of both infection and death rates, compared to the normal flu season. During a normal flu season, between 250,000 and 500,000 flu-related deaths occur, worldwide. Flu happens, to coin a phrase.
Also keep in mind that the conditions in Mexico, where poverty reigns and people are crowded together in unsanitary conditions, provide the ideal breeding ground for sickness. Health care in the US is much better and people see doctors for every little complaint, a major draw for the Mexicans who have come here since they have figured out that medical care is free for them. In Mexico, by the time doctors get to see the sickest, they likely already are goners.
I reached my decision on Monday morning, after having considered over the weekend calling my adult children home for the duration. I stood down from any sort of alert status myself. As always, I encourage others to make their own evaluations based upon their own experience and act accordingly.
Only later on Monday, after the stock markets had closed, did the U.S. government react, declaring a "Public Health Emergency." What did that imply? Dunno, but didn't you feel much better once you knew that DHS' Janet "I-hate-all-conservatives-and-love-Mexicans" Napolitano was on the job? (http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/04/26/20090426swineemergency.html?source=nletter-breakingnews)
Notice, however, that those embarrassing stories about torture memos and bailouts have been bumped to the back pages and off the TV news shows altogether.
Trial Run?
The evidence seems to suggest that this was no accident. There are nagging reports of this flu's DNA carrying clear earmarks of having been intentionally engineered, with avian and swine strains from different continents, spliced together with a human vector to enable its entry into the general population.
Ever the conspiratorialist, I suspect that this was a trial run by "them" and I expect the real thing to come along at any time - likely within the next year or so. Or, it could be that this is the real thing, just the precursor to what will happen later this year, in an important parallel to the course of the flu pandemic of nearly a century ago.
The 1918 flu targeted the healthiest segment of the population because it was a form that turned victim immune systems against their owners. Thus, the young were the most susceptible to the resulting "Cytokine storms," wherein the body's immunological response to the flu actually does more damage than the consequences of the virus itself, killing the host with an overproduction of response. Most troubling about the current epidemic in Mexico is that it targets the same population segment as did that 1918 pandemic flu.
The Real Lesson for Today
Maybe this will blow over. Maybe it won't. Right
now, however, there appears to be little real danger to us.
Clearly, this flu strain is communicable, but not clear is whether it is airborne. Masks are useless, as the viral agents are much smaller than the openings in the fabric of all masks. Touching things, including others, then your face, is what does it, for sure.
Less clear is whether and/or how it might mutate.
Every body infected is another Petri dish in which the flu
gets a chance to reformulate itself, drawing upon the DNA of
its new host. On its own, this flu might become more
lethal or it might mutate into something harmless.
Regardless, remember that the flu comes in waves, with each wave usually worse than the last, and it could go on for months, if not years. That's what happened the last time, ninety years ago. If this is the real thing, destined to become a virulent global pandemic, that likely will not occur until the coming Fall and Winter, just as in 1918.
Note well that a declaration of phase 6, if it comes and whenever it comes, likely will bring with it a declaration of martial law from our government, including our loss of the ability to talk with each other like this over the Internet. Now is the time to consider how you should respond.
This was (if "was" is the correct term to use at this juncture) a good wakeup call for all of us. It certainly got me thinking about how I should respond to the real thing. And therein lies the real value of this experience to all of us.
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4) Recommendation for (your name and/or the name of the institution to which you are applying)
I hereby grant permission to the above named person/authority to release academic information to the individual and/or institution receiving this recommendation.
Student's signature and date are required.
View guidelines for requesting letters of recommendation.