Tweet The Ventriloquist Racist Puppet in the White House…!! On one of my TV shows, the guests were two Pakistani Americans, talking about the controversial of opening a new mosque in North Western Suburbs, after lots of community oppositions, the mosque was finally approved by the city, “The Mosque now is sharing a building with the post office.” The guest explained. _That is great, now you guys get your hate mails faster, first thing in the morning. I joked, but the guests weren’t laughing, Pakistanis don’t have sense of humor, we all know that. But maybe it wasn’t a joke after all. As an Arab/Muslim living in America, I start…
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Notes from America: The dark side of Western fascination with Africa
Tweet The West’s fascination with Africa as a wild jungle or uncivilised continent has a long history that still lives with us today. Most Americans know Africa through National Geographic specials, topless natives and free roaming animals – a continent void of civilised people and culture, only famine, danger and wild landscape. Africa has also long been a place for Westerners to fulfill their peculiar fantasies, their wildest dreams, as a destination to escape the clutter of modern life and get back to the primitive, the pure. “The last 400-500 years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light…
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Racism & Police Brutality in America… , African Americans will change that!!
Tweet Racism & Police Brutality in America… ,Part II