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There’s no way to feel good about “The Help”

I have previously stated that I would not see the movie The Help, and I made this claim on two grounds: 1) Ablene Cooper who sued Kathryn Stockett for a mere $75,000 because Stockett stole her story had her lawsuit dismissed due to an elapsed statute of limitations. 2) Not only did the movie earn [...]

White Noise

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While indulging in a late afternoon nap, I was awakened by a phone call from a dear friend inviting me to see “White Noise: A Cautionary Musical” at the Royal George Theatre in Chicago. Produced by Whoopi Goldberg, and inspired by real-life singing white separatist twins, Lamb and Lynx Gaede, better known as Prussian Blue, [...]

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My blackness goes before me

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A steady anger burns within me Welling up from deep Deep inside Three-fifths of a human being The sacred constitution of the Red, white and blue Walking into a room My blackness goes My blackness goes Goes before me Those of the majority Not all Not few But many Still do not see See me [...]

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It seems that I can’t get Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom excerpt in last week’s Wall Street Journal off my mind.  Fellow Psychology Today blogger, Nancy Darling, described Chua’s piece as “ flinch worthy “.  I couldn’t agree more. I flinched many times. If you haven’t yet read it, here’s how it [...]

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The ruins and remains are this city’s history textbook, wide open for all to see, to read, to breathe. Mexico City – Past and present collide right in front of the amazed eyes of the spectator who stands  between the ruins of the Templo Mayor or Great Temple, and the Metropolitan Cathedral in downtown Mexico [...]

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David L. Wolper died last week at age 82. Many of you will wonder what the connection is between Wolper and Indian country. Wolper will go down in media history as the film producer who brought you the epic story of slavery with his award winning “Roots” which aired in eight parts on ABC in [...]

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The land that’s yours is mine, is shadows, which I see both dreaming and in the night when drums make our old selves dance, bring us to embrace those old ghosts weaving through. No one owns them or us,  nor the fearful asymmetries of our lineage, of our Caribe we left for new callings, a [...]

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This “golden boy” of social art has already created historic images. And he’s just beginning. For the thousands of people who have participated in recent pro-immigration marches and demonstrations in Arizona, the name Ernesto Yerena is not as popular as some of the posters he has created and which have become an emblematic symbol in [...]

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In 1952 the Bureau of Indian Affairs, a subsidiary of the U. S. Department of the Interior, initiated a program for Indians living on reservations that sounded a heck of a lot like a pogrom used in Nazi Germany during World War II. America’s “pogrom” was called the “Urban Indian Relocation Program.” Looking back from [...]

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Both were driven to the brink of annihilation by invaders. Both had their children ripped from their arms and placed into institutional boarding schools intent upon acculturation by whatever means (See the movie Rabbit Proof Fence). Aborigines make up two percent of Australia’s population of 22 million and, like their American Indian counterparts; they are [...]

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