Tweet On Memorial day, two simple phone calls to the police ended up tragically , both shook the nation to the core Amid pandemic. They revealed, and exposed two realities in which two communities live divided by the color of their skin. At 8 a.m. Monday, Amy Cooper, a white woman, was walking her dog in Central Park New York. Christian Cooper, an avid birdwatcher who happened to be black. Both have same last name, and that where the similarities between them end. Mr. Cooper asked Ms. Cooper to put her dog on a leash as she should. Ms. Cooper took an issue and got into his face, she threatened…
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Yes, The Confederate Flag Represents Heritage … a Heritage of Racism!
TweetThe Confederate Flag Represents a Heritage of Racism! Last Wednesday around 9 p.m., Dylan Roof, a 21-year-old white supremacist, entered the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. According to police, during a weekly Bible study meeting, he opened fire killing nine people. Mr. Roof’s racism and hatred toward blacks was demonstrated in his website, which was discovered Saturday. The website appears to offer the first serious look at his deep and twisted mind. A mind of lots of Americans who still think Civil War is not over and still raging on. “I hate the sight of the American flag,” he wrote. “Modern American patriotism is an absolute…
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Arab Americans are blacks now!!
Tweet On the job application that I filled out 30 years ago, Arabs and people of Middle-Eastern descent were included in the box under ‘white.’ Lots of Arabs didn’t mind that and enjoyed the ride of white privilege at least on paper. In the good old days, that is before the 9/11 tragedy, which changed the Americans’ psyche toward Arabs and Muslims forever, Arabs thought of themselves as invisible, and racism and racial profiling were just black issues, not theirs. Although, Arabs have their own misplaced racist attitudes toward darker-skinned people–even of their own ethnicity. The issue of Arabs and African identity is still a sad reality even though lots…
