Our Daily Walk
May 14th, 2013
Written by Marlene Caroselli in Our Daily Walk with 0 Comments
“Handle them carefully,” warned Pearl Hurd Strachan, “for words have more power than atom bombs.” On a more peaceful note, think about the positive power a single word can have on the development of inter-cultural respect.
To illustrate, for a year in my young life, I traveled throughout Europe. It was impossible to learn many words from the language of each country my roommate and I visited, but...
April 15th, 2013
Written by APNewsNow in Our Daily Walk, Race Relations with 0 Comments
BERLIN (AP) - About 2,000 people are protesting in Munich against the terror of a neo-Nazi trio suspected of killing nine businessmen and a police woman since 2000.
The far-right murders hit the immigrants hardest, because eight victims had Turkish roots.
Dpa news agency quoted an imam, Benjamin Idriz, telling protesters Saturday that the victims had come to build a secure future for their...
April 11th, 2013
Written by Glenn Minnis in Our Daily Walk with 0 Comments
Justice Clarence Thomas speaks on plight of minority communities
Clarence Thomas doesn’t have any answers as to why such widespread levels of hopelessness and poverty continue to dog minority communities. All he can tell you for certain, is everyone was born equal and the need for affirmative action, if it ever existed, has long since run its course.
Thomas, whose do-as-I-say not as I do view...
March 28th, 2013
Written by Veselin Toshkov... in Our Daily Walk with 1 Comment
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) - UEFA wants players to speak out against their own teammates and fans following a series of racist incidents at football matches.
The executive committee of European football's ruling body also called for tougher sanctions on Thursday, hours before a European fans' monitoring group, Fare, said it sent FIFA reports of "racist or xenophobic abuse" at three World Cup qualifiers...
February 22nd, 2013
Written by Marlene Caroselli in Our Daily Walk with 0 Comments
Have you ever been guilty of an occasional verbal faux pas, making an accidental, unintended bigoted statement, or asking a bigoted-sounding question? No doubt, many of us are guilty of being the accidental bigot.
I have been guilty of being the accidental bigot more than once, unfortunately.
Like all of my dinner parties, the one this week had an interesting mix of people, from a wide array of...
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