Attention Grabbing Posts
There were two posts this morning that particularly caught my eye.
The first contains strong language, but is a powerful post from Consuela on Barack Obama race in America:
When we say “racially transcendent” we mean “a black man that white people can like.” That so many black people seem to like Obama (he got 91% of the black vote in Mississippi, as Pat Buchanan kept insisting, just before he told a black woman to shut up), that he goes to a decidedly black church, that his wife seems to be exactly the kind of black woman that makes white people nervous, that he is running his campaign with funds drawn from black wealth and the hard-earned dimes of working class black folk–all this makes white people nervous. Obama is fine as long as white people can chant “Yes We Can” at rallies and forward the will.i.am video to everybody in their address book. But point out America’s racist past and present, suggest that the same American flag that you want me to get teary eyed over is the exact same one that my ancestors were slaves under, the same one that my grandparents were denied the right to vote under, the same one under which my mother attended segregated schools, the same one under which I didn’t go to integrated schools until 1982, and watch all the warm, fuzzy, feeling fade away.
The second is from Mama Says and highlights a British proposal to track the DNA of problem children:
Do people really think that invading children’s privacy, treating kindergarteners like criminals, and making teachers into judge and jury over a students possible future actions is a good thing? What could a five year old possible do that would indicate he is going to become a lifelong violent criminal? Any terrible action that I can think of is a more likely indicator that better parenting, a different educational approach, or some other intervention is needed - not that he’s the next Hannibal Lecter.
Heather @ March 18, 2008