A third grade girl was suspended from school for shaving her head to support her friend battling cancer.
Any difference is picked on and criminalized.
Other news stories have been about natural African hair not being okay with the school.
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“Dr J. Marion Sims (1813-1883), a White American surgeon, is widely considered to be the father of American gynaecology. He founded Woman’s Hospital in New York, the first of its kind in the country…”
If you read this whole article, it will underscore Dr. Cornel West’s quote : “The notion that black people are human beings is a relatively new discovery in the modern west.”
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A California woman says she was asked to cover up while working out at her gym because she was intimidating people.
How is really harassing who here?
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“A principal who allegedly prohibited students from speaking Spanish will lose her job, the Texas press reports.
Administrators voted Monday night to discontinue a job contract for Amy Lacey, principal of Hempstead Middle School, who had been on paid administrative leave since December after reportedly using the intercom to tell students that speaking Spanish is forbidden on school grounds.
“When you start banning aspects of ethnicity or cultural identity, it sends the message that the child is not wanted,” Augstin Pinedo, director of the League of United Latin American Citizens Region 18 told the Houston Chronicle. ”
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Ally Fogg: While activists for heterosexual victims of domestic violence have ensured measures such as Clare’s law, LGBT people have fallen through the cracks
This article is from the UK, but makes a good point about overlooked communities.
See on www.theguardian.com
“Our project was inspired by the recent ‘I, too, am Harvard’ initiative. The Harvard project resonated with a sense of communal disaffection that students of colour at Oxford have with the University. The sharing of the Buzzfeed article ‘I, too, am Harvard’ on the online Oxford based race forum, ‘Skin Deep’ led to students quickly self organising a photoshoot within the same week. A message that was consistently reaffirmed throughout the day was that students in their daily encounters at Oxford are made to feel different and Othered from the Oxford community.Hopefully this project will demonstrate that despite there being a greater number of students of colour studying at Oxford now than there has ever been before, there are still issues that need to be discussed. In participating in ‘I, Too, Am Oxford,’ students of colour are demanding that a discussion on race be taken seriously and that real institutional change occur.”
An Oxford Tumblr with quotes of microaggressions and negative assumptions.
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This post is broken into two parts for the sake of length: Anti-Asian Bias in College Admissions?: Part 1 – An improper comparison Anti-Asian Bias in College Admissions?: Part 2 – In support…
My question is, how can we get more students to go to college?
What do we as a culture (U.S. culture) need to provide to our children so they can attend college?
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“There are plenty of things to celebrate about being American, but being possessed by a blind mania for working yourself into the ground, buying more stuff and mocking people in other countries just isn’t one of them.”
Another reason I’m not gonna buy any product by Ford (the owners of Cadillac).
Ford is the company that intentionally bought lower priced tires from Firestone that they knew were not rated to support the weight of the Ford Explorer. Then, tires started failing, causing rollovers and over 200 deaths.
Now this Cadillac commercial is trying to sell us on how great the U.S. is by bashing other countries.
One line says “We’re the only ones going back up there”, referring to going into space. They can’t even get their bashing correct.
Citizens of 38 countries have flown in space, and China and Russia have current space programs.
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“Arizona lawmakers are already feeling the heat after passing Arizona Senate Bill 1062, which would legalize discrimination:”
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