RACISM IN THE ARAB AMERICAN COMMUNITY, A CONVERSATION WITH PROF. FOUZI SLISLI.

 

The Arab American Community was shocked by the Holyland’s unfortunate racist postings episode. Some people called for an honest conversation about racism and anti-blackness in the Arab American Community… here is one with Fouzi Slisli, Professor of literature, teaching Race and racism!! “Not only as a CEO, but as a father, it is my duty and responsibility to ensure my family and Holy Land team members all demonstrate high integrity and moral compass guidelines,” Majdi Wadi wrote on the company’s Facebook page. “We will now work, harder than before, to better ourselves through education, volunteering, and open conversation and forums with all our community to ensure we leave a positive impact.” Lianne Wadi issued her own apology via Instagram.

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THE FATAL CALL… AND THE TRAGIC DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD!

 

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 him that she would call the police and tell them “An African American Man is threatening her life”   Ms. Cooper assumed what millions of white folks do that the police would be on her side because she is white and he is black. This call on the black man didn’t end up as tragically as they usually do when people, call police on black men, Ms. Cooper instantly became a household name Amid pandemic. Her video went viral; millions watched her idiotic racist behavior. She lost her job and her dog too, 

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A SOMALI ARTIST FROM CIVIL WAR TO THE PANDEMIC!!

The Somali multimedia artist Ifrah Mansour, Minnesota-based Somali playwright and performer IN HER ONE WPOMEAN SHOW HOW TO HAVE FUN IN CIVIL WAR,  revisitED her childhood memories during the 1991 Somali civil war to confront violent history with humor, and provide a voice for the global refugee stories of children. How to Have Fun in a Civil War, is a one-act multimedia play, which explores war from an idyllic viewpoint of a seven-year-old Somali refugee girl. The play weaves puppetry, poetry, videos and multiple oral stories taken from community interviews to tell a captivating story about resilience while pushing the audience to engage in a healing process that is still raw for survivors of the war. .. NOW talks about her life as a Somali Woman artist in the middle of Pandemic.

watch on my YouTube Channel

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