4-day school weeks gain popularity across US - Yahoo! News: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"
How do you feel about a shorter school week? Should there be longer days and shorter weeks? Should the current school schedule remain the same? What do you think? Will school scheduling changes affect your life at all?
Friday, June 4, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Mummies of the World Exhibition at California Science Center
Under Heavy Security; Motorcade
Accompanies Rare Collection
to California Science Center
for World Premiere of Mummies
of the World Exhibition
American Exhibitions, Inc. Brings the Largest-Ever Exhibition of Mummies To the California Science Center July 1, 2010 for a Limited Engagement
LOS ANGELES, May 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The largest collection of mummies ever assembled will travel nearly 6,000 miles to make its highly anticipated arrival in Los Angeles on Friday, May 28. The mummies are traveling to the United States for the first time as part of the Mummies of the World exhibition, set to make its world debut at the California Science Center on July 1.
American Exhibitions, Inc. (AEI), will bring the priceless,
carefully guarded mummies and related artifacts on an 11-hour journey from Germany and land at Los Angeles International Airport, where a security-detailed motorcade will escort the treasured mummies along a 13.5-mile route to the California Science Center.
There, security will unload its precious cargo, and experts will spend the month of June unpacking and preparing Mummies of the World for its opening. This must-see exhibition premieres on July 1, launching a limited engagement at the California Science Center and a three-year, seven-city tour around the country.
"Inside every mummy is a story waiting to be told," says James Delay, vice president of American Exhibitions, Inc., who is traveling with the mummies as they make their journey to the U.S. "Using state-of-the-art scientific research, the secrets of the mummies are now revealed."
Mummies of the World is a highly distinguished project that has been years in the making for AEI, working with 15 world-renowned museums in seven countries to bring to the U.S. a never-before-seen collection of mummies and related artifacts from South America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, and Egypt. Its treasures include one of the oldest mummy infants ever discovered; a mummified family; a German nobleman discovered by his own descendants; and intentionally preserved Egyptian animal mummies.
-- The Detmold Child is a remarkably preserved Peruvian child mummy,This important exhibition dispels the notions and misconceptions about mummies and uses science tools to reach across time, demonstrating how scientific methods can illuminate the history of people and enhance our knowledge about cultures around the world. It also shows that mummification - both through natural processes and intentional practices - has taken place all over the globe, from the hot desert sands of South America to remote European moors and bogs.
radiocarbon dated to 4504-4457 B.C. - more than 3,000 years before the
birth of King Tut.
-- The Orlovits family - Michael, Veronica and their son Johannes - was
part of a group of 18th-century mummies found in a long-forgotten
church crypt in Vac, Hungary in 1994.
-- Baron von Holz is a 17th-century nobleman believed to have died in
Sommersdorf, Germany during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), who was
discovered in the crypt of his family's 14th-century castle still
wearing his boots.
-- Egyptian cat mummies, elaborately wrapped in painted linen bandaging,
date to the Ptolemaic period, and show how Egyptian cats were
intentionally preserved to accompany their royals into the afterlife.
Mummies of the World is a ticketed event and requires a timed-entry. Advance reservations are highly recommended. Tickets can be purchased online beginning June 6 at www.californiasciencecenter.org or by calling 323-SCIENCE (323-724-3623). Group reservations are available at 888-MUMMY TIX (888-686-6984)
More information about the exhibition is online: www.mummiesoftheworld.com.
American Exhibitions, Inc. is one of the leading exhibition producers in the United States, specializing in world-class touring exhibitions for science centers and museums. please visit our website at www.californiasciencecenter.org.
http://www.americanexhibitions.com/
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Free Local Mini Parent Conference in Gary, Indiana
The Gary Community School Corporation District Parent Advisory Council will present a free Mini Parent Conference Wednesday May 26, from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Pulaski School, 920 E. 19th Ave. Gary, Indiana.
The theme of the mini-conference is, "There's MORE to Parenting Than Meets the Eye."
A Continental Breakfast will begin a 7:30 a.m. for participants.
For more information, please reach Program Associate Dwight E. Pointer at 219-881-4075 or Director, Dr. Cordia P. Moore at 219-881-4064.
The theme of the mini-conference is, "There's MORE to Parenting Than Meets the Eye."
A Continental Breakfast will begin a 7:30 a.m. for participants.
For more information, please reach Program Associate Dwight E. Pointer at 219-881-4075 or Director, Dr. Cordia P. Moore at 219-881-4064.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Texas Textbook Scandal and the Black Community
Considering the Texas Textbook Scandal, is there a national Pan African American history curriculum for K-12 and college level? There should be.
Contained within the organizations of the National Urban League and the NAACP are many, many educated professionals who know how and what
components comprise a proper school curriculum for all levels. Why not create a joint task force/partnership between the two organizations and create a national Pan African American history curriculum?
When we take leadership seriously and control our own history and information as a group, no one will change it, no one will challenge it.
No one changes Jewish and Hebrew history. They send their children to school to learn it. They are in control of keeping their cultural identity alive.
They take responsibility for it. African Americans should mimic that and control our historical identity so that no one does it for us.
On the TJ Holmes CNN blog website, a woman who said she writes textbooks
for a living pointed out that textbooks can be made to order as to highlight each state's contribution to American history or whatever.
On May 22nd, "maryann warren" said, "I write textbooks . . . and the major
publishers make an edition ONLY FOR TEXAS! Everything in that edition is NOT put into the National Edition. Other states also have their own
editions to meet their specific standards and "play up" their state history. So please don't panic people nationwide about good old Texas and
their unique material in social studies. science, and even health..."Additionally, any information disseminated within a textbook
should be made as accurate as possible by passing through a system of checks and balances. That history, in turn, can be taught in our churches
and community groups; made available to parents to read and teach to our children; placed into books at every reading level so that whosoever is
willing, can learn about our African American history, with African Americans serving as gatekeepers.
Those outside the race will continue to use us and any other group to their advantage and our disadvantage--that is just the way it is. What are
we doing that we cannot properly monitor our own history and information pertaining to it? Managing African American history alone is capable of creating a new commerce in which to employ people full-time to manage it.
Is the management of our historical information worth it? Are we worth it to ourselves?
I guess the first hurdle will be making the agreement or commitment to
work with ourselves, amongst ourselves.
Contained within the organizations of the National Urban League and the NAACP are many, many educated professionals who know how and what
components comprise a proper school curriculum for all levels. Why not create a joint task force/partnership between the two organizations and create a national Pan African American history curriculum?
When we take leadership seriously and control our own history and information as a group, no one will change it, no one will challenge it.
No one changes Jewish and Hebrew history. They send their children to school to learn it. They are in control of keeping their cultural identity alive.
They take responsibility for it. African Americans should mimic that and control our historical identity so that no one does it for us.
On the TJ Holmes CNN blog website, a woman who said she writes textbooks
for a living pointed out that textbooks can be made to order as to highlight each state's contribution to American history or whatever.
On May 22nd, "maryann warren" said, "I write textbooks . . . and the major
publishers make an edition ONLY FOR TEXAS! Everything in that edition is NOT put into the National Edition. Other states also have their own
editions to meet their specific standards and "play up" their state history. So please don't panic people nationwide about good old Texas and
their unique material in social studies. science, and even health..."Additionally, any information disseminated within a textbook
should be made as accurate as possible by passing through a system of checks and balances. That history, in turn, can be taught in our churches
and community groups; made available to parents to read and teach to our children; placed into books at every reading level so that whosoever is
willing, can learn about our African American history, with African Americans serving as gatekeepers.
Those outside the race will continue to use us and any other group to their advantage and our disadvantage--that is just the way it is. What are
we doing that we cannot properly monitor our own history and information pertaining to it? Managing African American history alone is capable of creating a new commerce in which to employ people full-time to manage it.
Is the management of our historical information worth it? Are we worth it to ourselves?
I guess the first hurdle will be making the agreement or commitment to
work with ourselves, amongst ourselves.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
CNN Special Black and White: Kids on Color
Please don't show it. Please don't tell!
Sitting and watching TJ Holmes present CNN's Black & White: Kids on Color, Tuesday morning,
I hoped that after the commercial break, I would not hear a discussion on blacks still being color struck.
But it happened anyway.
I guess it doesn't matter how wide a range of skin colors exist in American families.
The tester in the segment asked again and again: Which child is the pretty one, smart one, bad one, etc.
Most of the children chose darker skinned pictures as bad or ugly children and the lighter one as good or pretty. Only a few opted out of complexion stereotyping or as old folks say, being color struck.
The CNN series examines complexion-based internalized racism in school aged children from white and black races. The study mimics the 1939-1940 doll studies conducted
by two black psychologists.
First, the white children were asked questions about the cartoon pictures of asexual dolls, nearly hairless, arranged in a range of complexions from light to dark.
Most chose the lightest ones as a representation of good and the darkest ones of bad.
Then comes the African American children's responses. I held my breath. I tried not to watch. I didn't want to hear the truth.
"Why is this one pretty?" a tester asked after a child pointed to the lightest example as pretty.
"...because she is light-skinned," a pretty dark-skinned girl said.
"Bias towards white is still a part of our culture." A voice over said.
Don't fret Blacks because Whites have the same color struck conversations in their households. A
pinkish hue is still favored over ruddy or olive complexion--as long as there is still an ability to tan reasonably well.
But one needs only to look throughout their own friends and family to see these hurtful stereotypes repeated and reinforced.
It is a good thing that stunning beauty is held in the facial bone structure of an individual and not the skin color.
I wish someone would tell the kids the truth about beauty because skin color stereotypes are perpetuated through the generations, maintained in the home and reinforced in society. (Oh, good hair counts too.)
Read more: http://ping.fm/g7yZ4
Sitting and watching TJ Holmes present CNN's Black & White: Kids on Color, Tuesday morning,
I hoped that after the commercial break, I would not hear a discussion on blacks still being color struck.
But it happened anyway.
I guess it doesn't matter how wide a range of skin colors exist in American families.
The tester in the segment asked again and again: Which child is the pretty one, smart one, bad one, etc.
Most of the children chose darker skinned pictures as bad or ugly children and the lighter one as good or pretty. Only a few opted out of complexion stereotyping or as old folks say, being color struck.
The CNN series examines complexion-based internalized racism in school aged children from white and black races. The study mimics the 1939-1940 doll studies conducted
by two black psychologists.
First, the white children were asked questions about the cartoon pictures of asexual dolls, nearly hairless, arranged in a range of complexions from light to dark.
Most chose the lightest ones as a representation of good and the darkest ones of bad.
Then comes the African American children's responses. I held my breath. I tried not to watch. I didn't want to hear the truth.
"Why is this one pretty?" a tester asked after a child pointed to the lightest example as pretty.
"...because she is light-skinned," a pretty dark-skinned girl said.
"Bias towards white is still a part of our culture." A voice over said.
Don't fret Blacks because Whites have the same color struck conversations in their households. A
pinkish hue is still favored over ruddy or olive complexion--as long as there is still an ability to tan reasonably well.
But one needs only to look throughout their own friends and family to see these hurtful stereotypes repeated and reinforced.
It is a good thing that stunning beauty is held in the facial bone structure of an individual and not the skin color.
I wish someone would tell the kids the truth about beauty because skin color stereotypes are perpetuated through the generations, maintained in the home and reinforced in society. (Oh, good hair counts too.)
Read more: http://ping.fm/g7yZ4
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Commentary on Roland Martin's blog
I have a lot to say today.
Who Defines Leadership in the Black Community?
There are not many who do what Roland does in Our Community.
Usually, the only thing I hear about The Black Community is how we quiet often end up in jail or arrested or beat up by cops or have some other type of issue
interfering with quality of life. Maybe it's because I live in a black
city with an African-American based infrastructure, that I don't
understand much of what I see in the main news stream on the issue of the
Black Community. Then again, it is not necessarily their responsibility to
report to me through their eyesight on My Community. However, I heard what
Roland was saying.
Many people feel that way. Working people.
Even white people expect a bone or two to be thrown towards the Black Community from the current administration. They do it in Their Community. If anyone else
should somehow benefit from it, fine because they don't care. It's cool
because the bulk goes to them.
Example: If you have graduated from college, think of the number of offers
from African American companies compared to non-African American
companies. Can we not find work in our own community? Do we always have to
leave our community and beg another community for work? All the time? It
is an anomaly when non-African Americans can graduate from college and
find work in an African American company. It happens but they are not
dependent on Our Community for work as we are to them. If it were the
other way around, I would probably get irritated after a while--especially
if jobs were scarce.
Further evidence is a report by Wilhelmina Leigh, Ph.D Senior Research
Associate for the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies--a think
tank.
Ms. Leigh testified before the Congressional Black Caucus on March 17,
2010 about reasons why certain people are chronically unemployed. She said
a part of the reason was that there is an education gap between the races,
persistent discrimination and a lack of access to "job acquisition
networks." Can the NAACP or the Urban League help with these issues? How
about some of the Black Leaders? I don't know if any of these quality-of-
life issues require presidential intervention. However, a grassroots approach to the problem might help.
People who don't have jobs usually don't date, marry or start families. If
45 percent of Black men who ARE NOT IN PRISON, are considered chronically
unemployed, how does one thinks this impacts the Black Community as a
whole? It degrades the community so that it is not so much a community
rather than a group of similar people with no cohesiveness whatsoever.
People are going half on a baby these days. Why? What if Black women who
are unmarried just stopped having babies all together? It too would have a
negative impact on the community.
But I digress.
People judge others through how they understand themselves to be, so when there is no visible authoritative connection between the President and Black Leaders it seems strange because other racial groups seem more cohesive.
However, there has never been a president of color in office in anyone's
lifetime. It is as if the rope on the other end of the tug-of-war was
suddenly released and there is a big "Now What" in the middle of things. (wink)
President Obama is a prototype of sorts. He is a lot of things and a
good representation of an American. Our cultures rub off on the other and
we are all a little blended. However, the Office of the President is a
part of a system. It is not a stand alone office. Black Leaders and the
President should be working together in that system, since the Civil
Rights Movement has placed a lot of Black Leaders in office and in many
instances, long term. But things unseen are things unknown.
Should we all be on one page as far as the state of the Black Community?
Do we listen when the President of the Urban League or National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People, speak? Do we read the
Black Press and what they have to say? Are members of the Black Press remembering their audience and saying relevant things? I distinctly
remember one of the President's campaign mantras of, "change comes from the bottom
up." That means me and others standing next to me should be taking this
time to affect change when and where we can.
Finally, can the President count on The Black Community to pitch in on his
re-election efforts? It's a lot of hard work everyday but it pays off.
Average People
Times have changed and so have Black people. The President only appears to
have lost connection with black leaders but he has not lost touch with the black community. Coming up, he got in where he fit in, just like all the
other Black People I know. He said so in his books. Did anyone read them?
I make this assessment based on actions and inactions of the President. (what he does and does not do)
Note: I live in a 85 percent Black city,
with a black mayor and where the Black Power Movement found it's footing and it's strength, so when I say, "Any Other Black Person I Know"--I know black generalizations. (in my peer group)
The President lived in Hyde Park, on the South Side of Chicago. He is familiar with Average People in the Black Community.
I am not from the suburbs nor the modern ghetto but from Average Avenue. I
attended Average Public School and Average State College. There is a big group of us Average Folks.
We are not ballers or wear grills or any other shiny jewelry in our faces
but we listen to the songs of those who do such things. Those who do
participate in the Glamorous Life, are not Average and are not in the
group. We have children and are for the most part, Average Parents. We are
Thirty and FortySomethings. And anyone who remembers that show is either
in The Group or actively avoiding the Group!
We are never found too far outside of Normal. We are not unlike conformists.
This blog post is a really an exciting and daring thing for me to be doing. Really.
However, when was the last time black leaders, whoever and wherever they may be, checked in with the black community on the same issues pressed upon the POTUS? I'm talking about kitchen table issues important to
Families and Individuals. I'm talking about Black Leaders paying attention
to their own community and all of our own business, outside of any talk show or mainstream newspaper column. There is a such thing as the Black Press. We used to get all of our news from the Black Church but I don't know too many people who have culled out the time to attend church every day. Things have changed.
Maybe the Black leaders are a little out of touch, then again who said all
Black People think the same? We all want different things out of our leaders. Until the Individual takes responsibility for his or her
community there will always be an "at issue" situation. That is a
description of change from the bottom up. No one agreement, train of thought or campaign will do for the entire black community--and
apparently, this is as close as we will get to a national conversation on
the issue--blogs and commentary.
What About the Black Agenda?
There is no Black Agenda that is promoted actively but there used to be
one. The idea is revived and batted around but no real press or marketing structure is involved. It has been rendered kitchen table discussion of
the past almost lore and in spite of conventions held in honor and
celebration of the Black Agenda, the Average Person has no idea of what
the Black Agenda is or who is involved in it and if they, are indeed
involved in it. Then, I ask, whose agenda is it?
Those who do know what the Black Agenda is, may want to avoid it and any
label of Black Nationalism. That's the thing about Average Folks. They
want to be Average and they have responsibilities and chores more so that
goals and dreams. They don't always pay attention to the news. Sometimes,
they are too tired to stay up for it or they are already at work. Maybe
they don't have cable or satellite.
Maybe they are not the voracious reader and settle for the local paper.
Sometimes, that is what Average People do: Go to work, read the paper,
listen to the radio in the car on the way to work as they sit in traffic.
After work, maybe they can snag a few minutes of their favorite show in
between household chores and children and spouse. That doesn't leave much
room for Agendas.
Average Folks have to make room for it and if no one bothers to explain
why they should sacrifice their valuable time to dedicate to moving
forward with the Agenda, then they won't do it. That is where Black
Leaders should step in. They can explain it to members of the Black Press
and they can in turn, write about it and write about it and write about
it. The Agenda does not have to be promoted in the mainstream as it is not
a message pertinent to everyone but to Blacks, thus, The Black Agenda.
If Average Folks hear or sense the attitude that no one should have to
explain the Agenda to them, then the attention of a very large and
influential group of people have been lost. What a loss.
It would be nice if interested people with MBAs and degrees in Marketing
and Advertising could help the Black Leaders advance the Agenda.
Out of Work but Not Out of Hope: Addressing the Crisis of the Chronically Unemployed
Roland Martin's Blog
Who Defines Leadership in the Black Community?
There are not many who do what Roland does in Our Community.
Usually, the only thing I hear about The Black Community is how we quiet often end up in jail or arrested or beat up by cops or have some other type of issue
interfering with quality of life. Maybe it's because I live in a black
city with an African-American based infrastructure, that I don't
understand much of what I see in the main news stream on the issue of the
Black Community. Then again, it is not necessarily their responsibility to
report to me through their eyesight on My Community. However, I heard what
Roland was saying.
Many people feel that way. Working people.
Even white people expect a bone or two to be thrown towards the Black Community from the current administration. They do it in Their Community. If anyone else
should somehow benefit from it, fine because they don't care. It's cool
because the bulk goes to them.
Example: If you have graduated from college, think of the number of offers
from African American companies compared to non-African American
companies. Can we not find work in our own community? Do we always have to
leave our community and beg another community for work? All the time? It
is an anomaly when non-African Americans can graduate from college and
find work in an African American company. It happens but they are not
dependent on Our Community for work as we are to them. If it were the
other way around, I would probably get irritated after a while--especially
if jobs were scarce.
Further evidence is a report by Wilhelmina Leigh, Ph.D Senior Research
Associate for the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies--a think
tank.
Ms. Leigh testified before the Congressional Black Caucus on March 17,
2010 about reasons why certain people are chronically unemployed. She said
a part of the reason was that there is an education gap between the races,
persistent discrimination and a lack of access to "job acquisition
networks." Can the NAACP or the Urban League help with these issues? How
about some of the Black Leaders? I don't know if any of these quality-of-
life issues require presidential intervention. However, a grassroots approach to the problem might help.
People who don't have jobs usually don't date, marry or start families. If
45 percent of Black men who ARE NOT IN PRISON, are considered chronically
unemployed, how does one thinks this impacts the Black Community as a
whole? It degrades the community so that it is not so much a community
rather than a group of similar people with no cohesiveness whatsoever.
People are going half on a baby these days. Why? What if Black women who
are unmarried just stopped having babies all together? It too would have a
negative impact on the community.
But I digress.
People judge others through how they understand themselves to be, so when there is no visible authoritative connection between the President and Black Leaders it seems strange because other racial groups seem more cohesive.
However, there has never been a president of color in office in anyone's
lifetime. It is as if the rope on the other end of the tug-of-war was
suddenly released and there is a big "Now What" in the middle of things. (wink)
President Obama is a prototype of sorts. He is a lot of things and a
good representation of an American. Our cultures rub off on the other and
we are all a little blended. However, the Office of the President is a
part of a system. It is not a stand alone office. Black Leaders and the
President should be working together in that system, since the Civil
Rights Movement has placed a lot of Black Leaders in office and in many
instances, long term. But things unseen are things unknown.
Should we all be on one page as far as the state of the Black Community?
Do we listen when the President of the Urban League or National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People, speak? Do we read the
Black Press and what they have to say? Are members of the Black Press remembering their audience and saying relevant things? I distinctly
remember one of the President's campaign mantras of, "change comes from the bottom
up." That means me and others standing next to me should be taking this
time to affect change when and where we can.
Finally, can the President count on The Black Community to pitch in on his
re-election efforts? It's a lot of hard work everyday but it pays off.
Average People
Times have changed and so have Black people. The President only appears to
have lost connection with black leaders but he has not lost touch with the black community. Coming up, he got in where he fit in, just like all the
other Black People I know. He said so in his books. Did anyone read them?
I make this assessment based on actions and inactions of the President. (what he does and does not do)
Note: I live in a 85 percent Black city,
with a black mayor and where the Black Power Movement found it's footing and it's strength, so when I say, "Any Other Black Person I Know"--I know black generalizations. (in my peer group)
The President lived in Hyde Park, on the South Side of Chicago. He is familiar with Average People in the Black Community.
I am not from the suburbs nor the modern ghetto but from Average Avenue. I
attended Average Public School and Average State College. There is a big group of us Average Folks.
We are not ballers or wear grills or any other shiny jewelry in our faces
but we listen to the songs of those who do such things. Those who do
participate in the Glamorous Life, are not Average and are not in the
group. We have children and are for the most part, Average Parents. We are
Thirty and FortySomethings. And anyone who remembers that show is either
in The Group or actively avoiding the Group!
We are never found too far outside of Normal. We are not unlike conformists.
This blog post is a really an exciting and daring thing for me to be doing. Really.
However, when was the last time black leaders, whoever and wherever they may be, checked in with the black community on the same issues pressed upon the POTUS? I'm talking about kitchen table issues important to
Families and Individuals. I'm talking about Black Leaders paying attention
to their own community and all of our own business, outside of any talk show or mainstream newspaper column. There is a such thing as the Black Press. We used to get all of our news from the Black Church but I don't know too many people who have culled out the time to attend church every day. Things have changed.
Maybe the Black leaders are a little out of touch, then again who said all
Black People think the same? We all want different things out of our leaders. Until the Individual takes responsibility for his or her
community there will always be an "at issue" situation. That is a
description of change from the bottom up. No one agreement, train of thought or campaign will do for the entire black community--and
apparently, this is as close as we will get to a national conversation on
the issue--blogs and commentary.
What About the Black Agenda?
There is no Black Agenda that is promoted actively but there used to be
one. The idea is revived and batted around but no real press or marketing structure is involved. It has been rendered kitchen table discussion of
the past almost lore and in spite of conventions held in honor and
celebration of the Black Agenda, the Average Person has no idea of what
the Black Agenda is or who is involved in it and if they, are indeed
involved in it. Then, I ask, whose agenda is it?
Those who do know what the Black Agenda is, may want to avoid it and any
label of Black Nationalism. That's the thing about Average Folks. They
want to be Average and they have responsibilities and chores more so that
goals and dreams. They don't always pay attention to the news. Sometimes,
they are too tired to stay up for it or they are already at work. Maybe
they don't have cable or satellite.
Maybe they are not the voracious reader and settle for the local paper.
Sometimes, that is what Average People do: Go to work, read the paper,
listen to the radio in the car on the way to work as they sit in traffic.
After work, maybe they can snag a few minutes of their favorite show in
between household chores and children and spouse. That doesn't leave much
room for Agendas.
Average Folks have to make room for it and if no one bothers to explain
why they should sacrifice their valuable time to dedicate to moving
forward with the Agenda, then they won't do it. That is where Black
Leaders should step in. They can explain it to members of the Black Press
and they can in turn, write about it and write about it and write about
it. The Agenda does not have to be promoted in the mainstream as it is not
a message pertinent to everyone but to Blacks, thus, The Black Agenda.
If Average Folks hear or sense the attitude that no one should have to
explain the Agenda to them, then the attention of a very large and
influential group of people have been lost. What a loss.
It would be nice if interested people with MBAs and degrees in Marketing
and Advertising could help the Black Leaders advance the Agenda.
Out of Work but Not Out of Hope: Addressing the Crisis of the Chronically Unemployed
Roland Martin's Blog
Thursday, May 13, 2010
What About the Kids, Arizona Legislators?
Arizona was the last state to sign the Martin Luther King Day bill into law. I took note of that then and I take note with parts of their anti-ethnic education bill.
Why is it that the people of Arizona feel the way they do about minorities? What are they going through every day that makes them not accepting of minorities and why can't they handle their frustrations any better than they have been doing?
Granted, if a politician runs for office and is elected by the people for the people he or she should serve the people completely. More qualified people should have run for office if the people wanted a smarter legislature. However, why stop the African American education curriculum in public schools? Really.
Every ethnic race, Eastern European, African, Hispanic, Dominican, Italian etc. deserves to be highlighted for their race's achievements in American history. The culmination is that we have all contributed in making this country great, so why cull those parts out? It is not a good solution to the problems in Arizona. Students in Arizona won't know or understand who they are or where they come from when they are not taught about European immigrants and what they did to establish their place in American history and culture. Damn shame. There are a lot of European immigrants in this country.
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Why is it that the people of Arizona feel the way they do about minorities? What are they going through every day that makes them not accepting of minorities and why can't they handle their frustrations any better than they have been doing?
Granted, if a politician runs for office and is elected by the people for the people he or she should serve the people completely. More qualified people should have run for office if the people wanted a smarter legislature. However, why stop the African American education curriculum in public schools? Really.
Every ethnic race, Eastern European, African, Hispanic, Dominican, Italian etc. deserves to be highlighted for their race's achievements in American history. The culmination is that we have all contributed in making this country great, so why cull those parts out? It is not a good solution to the problems in Arizona. Students in Arizona won't know or understand who they are or where they come from when they are not taught about European immigrants and what they did to establish their place in American history and culture. Damn shame. There are a lot of European immigrants in this country.
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