There have been a few disturbing things that have happened
this week, and I hope this is not a signal for the week to come.
Let us start with the emerging events in Washington DC:
“Developing:
Shooting At U.S. Navy Yard In Washington, D.C.” http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/09/16/223023740/developing-shooting-at-u-s-navy-yard-in-washington-d-c
We hope for the best.
This one just shows how social media can be used by the ignorant
and that we still have a long way to go with truly being a “melting pot”
country:
“A Lot Of
People Are Very Upset That An Indian-American Woman Won The Miss
America Pageant”
Let us just
say this was not our finest hour; read the comments yourself.
Higher
education should be better than this! “Student
Regent Wants to Debate Policy, Not Her Muslim Faith”
“Sometimes I get asked
ridiculous questions, like whether I support Hamas or Hezbollah or Al Qaeda.” Sadia
SaifuddinUniversity of California
at Berkeley
Please keep the politics out
of this!
And lastly: “As Slurs
and Offenses Multiply, Colleges Scramble to Respond”
“On a whiteboard on Stephen
Boyhont’s dorm-room door at Elizabethtown College, somebody scrawled “fag.” At
the University of Texas at Austin, Taylor Carr was the target of racial slurs
and balloons that appeared to be full of bleach. Danny Valdes encountered what
he describes as “intense transphobia” at Dartmouth College, both on campus and
online”.
“Reports of such incidents arise
each semester at colleges around the country: Somebody discovers discriminatory
graffiti or vandalism of a cultural center. An organization advertises a theme
party that caricatures a particular race or ethnicity. Walking across the quad,
or on Twitter, a student utters an offensive remark to another”.
When will this end?
Dr Flavius A B Akerele III
The ETeam
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