All Posts Tagged With: "prejudice"

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Fat Prejudice

America, Love It or Fix It.  We don’t know who these folks are.  They produced the following video on prejudice of obese people.  We don’t know what to make of this – it this a good thing or not?
Certainly the video does a good job of pointing out sarcasm, prejudice, and even plain old meanness.  [...]

7Nov2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 0 comments | Continued
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To The Mountaintop

By Joe Klein
Word comes that Barack Obama’s grandmother has died. The timing is ridiculous. But think, for a moment, if you will of Madelyn Dunham, a white woman from Kansas, strolling the aisle of a supermarket, or having lunch in a coffee shop, with her grandson–way back at the turn of the 1970s, when such [...]

3Nov2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 0 comments | Continued
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A Personal Experience with Prejudice

The winter of 1963-64 was a rough one. I was in the eighth grade. John F. Kennedy had just been assassinated. My school was becoming integrated (the authorities sent one African American boy to our school and called it good enough). It was code (sic) outside. And my teachers did not like me. (At least, [...]

20Mar2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 1 comment | Continued