TweetOn October 10, 1990 “Nayirah,” a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl, stood before Congressional Human Rights Caucus and tearfully asserted that she had watched 15 infants being taken from incubators in Al-Adan Hospital in Kuwait City by Iraqi soldiers who “left the babies on the cold floor to die.” The chairmen of the Congressional group, Tom Lantos, a California Democrat, and John Edward Porter, an Illinois Republican, explained that Nayirah’s identity would be kept secret to protect her family from reprisals in occupied Kuwait.
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WHOOPI WAS WRONG ABOUT RACE, BUT HOW WRONG WAS SHE?
TweetLet’s Talk about Race! When Mr. Schultz founder of Starbucks asked America to have a conversation about race nobody was interested in, the rich white billionaire explained why his “Race Together “camping failed. “”I’m not black, I haven’t lived a life in which I was racially profiled, and I wasn’t discriminated against because of the color of my skin,”. Americans have a hard time talking about race and racism; they don’t even want to teach it in schools. However, when a rich black woman expressed her view on a TV show called “The Views,” everybody raced to talk about it. Whoopi Goldberg’s comments triggered an avalanche of debate discussions filling…