August 2009
August 12th, 2009
Written by Alakananda Mookerjee in Race & Politics with 0 Comments
In a utopian world, one would have expected the election of an African-American president to have spelled the end of the race debate in America. But ironically, it only appears to have stoked new flames.
Barely has the national burp of President Obama’s beer-diplomacy—brokered to ease racial tensions between Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and police officer James Crowley—subsided than...
August 11th, 2009
Written by Cassandra Frank... in Cover Stories with 0 Comments
O, mankind! We created you… and made you intonations and tribes that you may know each other, not that you may despise each other. – The QuranIt is a subject that ignites such passions that it is rarely broached in polite company. Some Americans would rather not acknowledge its presence. Others cannot resist it as a way to lord over those they see as less than themselves. Still others cannot...
August 8th, 2009
Written by Janice S. Ellis... in Cause and Civility with 0 Comments
Whether it was racial profiling, police power brandishing, or just male testosterone unleashed, the Henry Louis Gates-James Crowley incident and its aftermath implore more questions that need honest and open discussion if we are to move beyond the labeling and stop falling into the same old racial rut – more like racial pit.James Crowley, Henry Louis GatesAn overriding question: Why do we...