Cause and Civility: Minority Group & Racial Discrimination
Janice Ellis, the founder and publisher of USAonRace has written a column for radio, newspaper, and now online for more than thirty years. Ellis believes in the power of words to address problems and issues facing contemporary society. Her goal, through these commentaries, is to inform, provide perspective, and motivate thought and action. Ellis welcomes your comments.
December 15th, 2011
Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in Cause and Civility, Latest News, Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
Unlike our brave men and women coming home from Iraq after serving and getting the job done for their country, we cannot say the same about our elected officials here at home.
In the Halls of Congress, we see our elected officials take actions that defy plain old common sense, repeatedly refusing to pass needed legislation. What are sensible ordinary citizens to do when education, facts, and an...
December 6th, 2011
Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in Cause and Civility, Latest News with 0 Comments
When candidates for President of the United States choose to play to racial stereotypes, it does little to educate and improve race relations among a growing ethnically diverse electorate. The travesty and tragedy of resorting to using distorted, divisive and derogatory languages and images to describe a whole group of people have untold, and unfortunately, lasting consequences.Republican...
December 2nd, 2011
Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in Cause and Civility with 0 Comments
The specter of tuning in to the unfolding expose of the private life of Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain’s alleged extra-marital escapade after escapade brings to mind the plethora of double standards that govern our lives.It is a kind of public-private schizophrenia. We are one person in private, another in public. We tolerate, and indeed, practice certain behavior in our private...
November 17th, 2011
Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in Cause and Civility with 0 Comments
Today marks two months of a movement whose composition and purpose represent a microcosm of who makes up America and what being an American stands for — a rainbow of people from different ethnicities and racial groups who are exercising their right of free expression about a perceived wrong.Nothing binds like the perception that the majority is suffering economically because of the control and...
November 12th, 2011
Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in Cause and Civility with 0 Comments
One has only to look at the level of access and use of technology as an essential tool in schools that boast of delivering a high-quality education to see the institutionalized disparities in the educational system in the United States. The “haves” have access to the technology. The “have nots” do not. More often than not, the disparities are existent along racial and socio-economic lines.I was...
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