It was 47 years ago yesterday- that I left Ann Arbor with some 40+ inches of snow on the ground. Leaving my Mustang behind, it having been stolen twice before while I resided in greater Boston. Taking my “relatively” brand new Dodge Dart on a 1000 mile trek to Charlottesvillle, VA, departing at 9 AM.
Tag Archives: prejudice
Memorial Day, 2022
I’ve written about prejudice and hate in the world (on my blog and other places such as Reflections of a Redhead). It’s something that is taught by parents to their children. It’s something that makes this world just a little tougher to survive.
Police Prejudice is Real
If this surprises you, it means you are a fan of Marjorie Taylor Greene or maybe TheDonald.
Of what am I talking? A study completed by Drs. Nicholas Camp (Michigan), Rob Voigt (Northwestern), with Dan Jurafsky and Jennifer Eberhardt (both from Stanford), published as “The Thin Blue Waveform: Racial Disparities in Officer Prosody Undermine Institutional Trust in the Police”, in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
We’ve been wrong all these years
This is going to be a bit depressing. We always thought we could teach people all sorts of things. But, four academics (3 from Princeton, 1 from Columbia, but one of the Princeton profs is also at the Hebrew University) just burst that bubble.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Just not in BedSty
It’s time to discuss institutional racism again. Yeah, I know many of you think it’s bullshit. That doesn’t make your thinking right. So, humor me- and read what I am going to discuss today with an open mind. (Breathe in, breathe out… breathe in, breathe out.)
Continue reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Just not in BedSty
A Sad Anniversary
It’s been two years.
Anti-Otherism has gotten permission from TheDonald and is running rampant across the USA.
Aiding and Abetting
So, Monday, we spoke how younger Americans are clueless about the Holocaust. And, I said that was one of the reasons why Anti-Semitism is on the rise. The other reason is our president, TheDonald. (I wrote about this most recently last year.)
Hatred of Others MUST Cease.
So, today is “fake” Columbus Day. Another example of our government manipulating events so we have 3 day weekends. The real Columbus Day is Friday- right after the new moon of (Mar) Cheshvan. It has the moniker ‘Mar’ (bitter) because it is the month of the flood- the one Hashem inflicted upon the world (or certainly the bulk of the Middle East)- way back when.
Walks like a duck. Talks like a duck…
NOTE: I have had enough. I must speak out. NOW.
I have written before about my experiences as a child and young adult. (I also spoke about groups spewing hatred. Also here.) Where, despite living in Metropolitan New York, my neighborhood was 99.9% Catholic, Irish and Italian. And most of the kids went to Catholic school, where they were taught that the Jews killed Christ. And, my brother and I were explicitly taught that we were going to be the targets of their vengeance.
Memorial Day
I grew up hearing my grandfather call today “Decoration Day”. And, it was today. The 30th of May. Not the “If it’s Monday, we need a holiday” version we seem to employ nowadays.