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The older I get the less I care about what others think about me and about what I look like. We are all made in the image of God. Not that we have a body like God because God is Spirit but we have certain attributes of God and they are not about what we look like but about what we think about. God has declared that He made us most wonderfully (Psalm 139:14) and besides, "Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised" (Prov 31:30). It is true that "bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come" (1 Tim 4:8). Christian Images
How true this is. You can put lipstick and earrings on a pig but inwardly they're still a pig so Peter writes that "the hidden person of the heart" is precious to God and the "imperishable beauty of a gentle and quite spirit" to God is "very precious" and that's all that matters eternally. We'll all get new bodies someday anyway and so why should we be so preoccupied with what we look like when God only cares about what we are like on the inside? Biblical Verses Image
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Then to Adam He said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat from it'; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life. "Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field; By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return."
Sadly, many people will look at us and judge us by appearances and as we've already read, they can miss-read us because they don't see what's on the inside which is what is of ultimate importance. Jesus said "You judge by human standards; I pass judgment on no one" (John 8:15). Every time that someone looks at us and they judge us by appearances, they are judging us by human standards and very likely miss-judging us. What they can't see is what is most important anyway. The religious leaders of Jesus' day were only concerned with what people saw them doing but God knew their hearts and saw that they were inwardly full of sin. Christian Images
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Then to Adam He said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat from it'; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life. "Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field; By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return." Biblical Verses Image
While many white musicians gravitated toward country, folk, and old-timey music to express their spirituality outside of traditional Christian hymns, Black Gospel music drew heavily upon the traditional spirituals that had been passed down from the days of slavery, picking up its more driving rhythmic emphasis from blues and early jazz. Composer and singer Thomas A. Dorsey crystallized the style in 1932 with his epochal "Take My Hand, Precious Lord," and went on to compose a great many songs that later became standards. When performed in the churches, the music was traditionally sung by a choir, with individual soloists sometimes taking the spotlight; this often happened in a form known as "call and response," in which either the choir or the soloist would repeat and/or answer the lyric which had just been sung by the other, with the soloist improvising embellishments of the melody for greater emphasis. As the music developed, these soloists became more and more virtuosic, performing with wild emotion (and, in the South, physicality) in order to properly express the spiritual ecstasy the music was meant to evoke. The music was quite egalitarian in terms of gender, as both male and female performers -- Brother Joe May, Rev. James Cleveland, Mahalia Jackson, the Clara Ward Singers, etc. -- gained wide renown among both black and white audiences. The small-group format was also prevalent, with major figures including the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, the Soul Stirrers, the Swan Silvertones, and the Dixie Hummingbirds; in general, these groups placed a greater premium on smooth vocal harmonies, although some performances could approach the raucous energy (if not quite the huge sound) of a choir-with-soloist group. As the years progressed, black gospel and black popular music influenced and borrowed from one another, reflecting the gradual change of emphasis toward R&B; black gospel also had an enormous impact on the development of soul music, which directed gospel's spiritual intensity into more secular concerns, and included a great many performers whose musical skills were developed in the church. As a recognizable style unto itself, black gospel music largely ceased to develop around the 1970s; progressing racial attitudes had helped black popular music reach wider audiences (and become more lucrative) than ever before, and tastes had turned towards the earthy hedonism of funk and the highly arranged, sophisticated Philly soul sound. The former wasn't quite appropriate for worship, and it wasn't all that practical to duplicate the latter in church services. However, the traditional black gospel sound survived intact and was eventually augmented by contemporary gospel (an '80s/'90s variation strongly influenced by latter-day urban R&B); plus, singers like Whitney Houston continued to develop within its ranks. Christian Images
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Mixed bag when US exam scores compared globally
So how do U.S. eighth-graders do in math and science when compared to their peers around the globe? Turns out it matters which state they live in, according to a study being released Thursday.
Massachusetts was the top performing state, but it still lagged behind some Asian countries in terms of its students' overall score on exams and the number of high achievers.
Mississippi, Alabama and the District of Columbia students scored below the international average on both exams, meaning their scores were on par with Kazakhstan and Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
West Virginia, Oklahoma and Tennessee students scored below the international average in math.
Jack Buckley, commissioner of the Education Department's National Center for Education Statistics, which released the study, called the results a "good-news, bad-news scenario" that probably will bolster both those who say the U.S. is doing fine in global competitiveness as well as those on the other side.
Overall, a majority of states performed above the international average in both subjects.
"Our states really are scattered across the performance levels," Buckley said in a conference call with reporters.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a statement that the study provides "powerful confirmation that demography need not be destiny when it comes to school performance—state policies matter too."
The study compared every state, the District of Columbia and Defense Department schools against 38 countries and nine additional subnational education systems. Some countries, including China, India, France and Germany, did not participate.
Researchers took eighth-grade test results in math and science from the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to predict performance on the international comparative study test known as the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). Nine states participated directly in TIMSS.
NAEP includes the scores of students tested with accommodations; TIMSS does not. Buckley said statistical modeling was used to account for that difference.
South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan were the top scorers in math followed by Massachusetts, Vermont, Minnesota, New Jersey and New Hampshire.
In science, Massachusetts was behind the top scorer, Singapore. Taiwan was next, followed by Vermont. The top 10 also included South Korea and Japan—and New Hampshire, North Dakota, Maine and Minnesota.
Mark Schneider, vice president at the American Institutes for Research and a former commissioner for the National Center for Education Statistics, said one of the most disturbing results from the study is the low numbers of "advanced" achievers in the United States compared with other countries.
Even in high-scoring Massachusetts, where 19 percent of students reached the "advanced benchmark" in math and 24 reached it in science, there were fewer higher achievers than in some other countries. About half the students in Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore reached the high benchmark in math and 40 percent of students in Singapore did so.
On the other end, for example, Alabama had a lower percent of "advanced" achievers in math than Romania and Turkey—two countries it overall scored higher than.
"In a world in which we need the best, it's pretty clear many states are empty on the best," Schneider said.
Tom Loveless, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said one thing that's hidden in the results of this study is that even in high-achieving states, there are low performers who need to be brought up from the bottom.
"If we as Americans want to get all of our kids achieving at the highest level, in terms of worldwide academic achievement, we have a lot of work and it's not just the low scoring states where it's obvious," Loveless said.
The scores were ranked on a scale of 1,000.
In math, the average state scores ranged from 561 for Massachusetts to 466 for Alabama.
In science, the average state scores ranged from 567 for Massachusetts to 453 for the District of Columbia.
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What would drive a dad to kill his loved ones?
Two Midwestern daddies stand charged with killing their loved ones, and they face long prison sentences and even death should they be found guilty of the recent murders of their partners and children.
But the murders of Jessie Davis, a very pregnant Ohio mother, and of the Vaughn family in their sport utility vehicle in Illinois were driven by very different motives, experts said Monday.
Ohio policeman Bobby Cutts Jr. likely killed nine-months pregnant partner Davis in her North Canton home in a fit of rage after a fight that left her home in disarray, experts said.
And though his soon-to-be-born baby daughter also died inside her mother's uterus, Cutts likely wasn't thinking about the harm he was inflicting on anyone but Davis, said Geoffrey McKee, a forensic psychologist who specializes in infanticide and family murder.
Cutts, 30, was ordered held Monday on $5 million bail, charged with murdering Davis and the unborn baby June 13 in front of their 2-year-old, Blake Davis. Blake was unharmed and found home alone in a dirty diaper two days later by his maternal grandmother.
"It wasn't the child (Cutts was) trying to control, it's his partner," said Sheryl Cates, CEO of the National Domestic Violence Hotline.
Davis' pregnancy made her particularly vulnerable, Cates said. She would have been very focused on the impending birth of her daughter, whom she had planned to name Chloe, due July 3 –- perhaps distracted enough to make the baby's father jealous.
"Women really focus on the baby, which really creates a stressful situation for him," Cates said. "She's not caring for him as he wants or needs."
And Davis' fatigue at the end of her third trimester may have left her feeling more emotional in a fight.
An argument between the parents was more likely to escalate out of control.
"If (Cutts) did do it, he wasn't killing the fetus as much as he was killing his (partner)," said McKee. "Potentially killing the 2-year-old was not part of his plan."
That's contrary to the very deliberate, fatal shootings of Kimberly Vaughn, 34, and her three children, Abigayle, 12, Cassandra, 11, and Blake, 8, McKee said.
The children were found June 14 in a SUV parked off Interstate 55 in unincorporated Will County, Ill., some 45 miles southwest of downtown Chicago, each with two shots to the head. Their mother had one bullet wound in her head, the shot fired, police said, to make it look as if she pulled the trigger herself.
Christopher Vaughn had a bullet wound in his leg that he told investigators his wife had inflicted on him before turning the gun on her children and herself. He also told police in another version of his story he didn't know how he got wounded.
Investigators used ballistics testing – including gunshot residue tests on Kimberly Vaughn's hands – to determine she had not fired the weapon.
Christopher Vaughn was arrested Saturday in St. Charles, Mo., right before his family's funeral. He also faced a judge Monday in Missouri, where his bail was revoked. Illinois began extradition proceedings to return him to Will County, Ill., a procedure Vaughn's attorney said he will fight.
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Ofer Vardi's Going Paprikash is a nicely organized cookbook in the form of an app for the iPhone and iPad…
Above are the title page and the index as they appear on the iPhone.
Ofer Vardi is a journalist with 25 years of experience, currently the Life Style Editor at Israel Hayom. Having always been a foodie who's been gravitating more and more to write about Israeli and Hungarian cuisines, this app is a loving tribute to his late Hungarian grandmother whose food and kitchen aromas he grew up with. It is based on a well worn notebook of recipes he found after she passed away.
Here are two recipes from this app:
Last eve I broke the fast with the following soup, a perfect summer dish:
'Dud-va-vanil' Soup
Grandma passed away on a Saturday afternoon. Her apartment remained empty for many long days afterward. The aroma of her cooking was no longer there, and the fridge, where we'd always rush on a Friday afternoon to see which cake awaited us for dessert, was now bare.
On the balcony table sat her well-worn notebook of recipes, with which she'd concocted her delicacies like only a grandmother can. The yellowed pages are still adorned with her notes and comments. Five eggs instead of eight, she wrote alongside the ingredient list for a chocolate cake. Here, it turned out, is where the secrets of her success were hidden.
We called her Nana; this was the name I gave my grandmother the day I started to speak, and that's what it remained, though her name was actually Rózsi.
Armed with this culinary inheritance that Nana left behind, along with countless memories, I embarked on a quest: to try and recreate the beloved flavors of a time gone by.
I gained a lot over a year spent in Budapest, and not just when it came to my weight. During my long stay in the Hungarian capital I became even more connected to one of, if not the, world's best cuisines.
Grandpa, who passed away when I was four, was known as a 'leveses' – 'soupy' or 'soup lover' in English. That's how Grandma liked to tell it. Every meal began with a steamy and comforting soup course.
Hungarians love soup, and every self-respecting meal begins with a liquid course, or at least offers one on the menu, even in the middle of summer. Only soup, they believe in Budapest, properly awakens the appetite.
The most famous and beloved of the summer soups, which Grandma often prepared, of course, is meggyleves (MEDGE-LEVESH) – Cherry Soup, or, as my grandmother called it, 'dud-va-vanil soup', because, despite 50 years in Israel, she never could say the Hebrew word for cherry, 'duv-de-va-nim', correctly.
Cherry Soup :: MEGGYLEVES
What you need (for 4 servings)
- 1 lb. 2 oz. (½ kilo) cherries (pitted)
- 3 cups water
- 1 cup (250ml) whipping cream or 1 cup (200ml) sour cream
- Juice and zest of 1 lemon
- 3/4 cup (150 grams) sugar
- 4 cloves
- 1 level tablespoon flour
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon or 1 cinnamon stick
What you do
- In a large pot, cook cherries with water, lemon juice, lemon zest, cinnamon, cloves and sugar for 10 minutes.
- In a separate dish, mix flour and sour cream or whipping cream well until a smooth and uniform mixture forms.
- Keeping pot over heat, add the flour-sour cream mixture to the pot very slowly while stirring continuously. Continue cooking for an additional 5 minutes. Important: if you are using sour cream, do not to boil the soup because boiling will cause the sour cream to separate.
- Cool thoroughly. Serve with whipped cream if desired.
Preparing the soup one day in advance is recommended.
Here is another great recipe, (I have to try it!) and a delightful little story to go with it:
What do Dragons Eat?
Once upon a time, many years ago, there lived a huge dragon with 24 heads that ate 24 beautiful young girls every day for lunch, fed to him by residents of the town in the valley. If he wasn't given what he wanted, threatened the dragon, he would breathe 24 flames of fire onto the village. When the time came for Balaton, one of the village men, to feed his beloved to the monster, he flat out refused. "Over my dead body," he declared.
The dragon grew very angry. The hills shook with 24 ear-splitting roars and the dragon, with his 24 fire-breathing heads, emerged from his lair. In a rage he scraped at the earth until he'd dug a deep crater. Water seeped into the crater, turning it into a large lake whose water seeped over, filling the valley, and whose waves almost drowned the village. Balaton donned his sword and armor and set out to fight the dragon. There was a mighty battle. One by one, Balaton valiantly cut off the dragon's heads. But when the last head fell, Balaton collapsed, fell into the water and died. In his memory, the village people named the lake after him – Lake Balaton.
During the hot Hungarian summer, the natives retreat to the shores of the large lake. While the lake appears to be dressed for a party, the guests themselves are entirely stripped down. As the seasons change, it isn't just the clothing that changes in Budapest, but the menus as well. In summer there's no need for an insulating layer of fat, and even the traditional Hungarian dishes make an attempt at dieting. A favorite main dish for a blazing hot day is Paprikás Krumpli (PAP-RIH-KASH KRUM-PLI), a potato dish in a juicy smoked sausage paprika sauce.
On a boiling day, cooking is done in a bogrács (BO-GRATCH), a traditional cast-iron cauldron, hung over a fire. On the shores of the Balaton, while half-naked revelers grow red from the sun, the boiling potatoes get some color of their own. Though Grandma Nana made do with her made-in-Israel stove and pots, the Paprikás Krumpli she made in the middle of heat wave – a hamseen, as we call it in the Middle East – is impossible to forget. Perfectly square cubes of potato, soft to chew and swimming in purplish pepper sauce. After we'd cleaned our plates with the soft white insides of a loaf of bread, we too were flushed with warmth and pleasure.
Potato Paprikash :: Paprikás Krumpli
What you need (for 4 servings)
- 8 potatoes, peeled and cubed
- 1 onion, diced
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 1 pepper, diced
- 1 tomato, peeled and diced
- Water as needed
- 9 oz. (¼ kilo) kolbasz (dried or smoked Hungarian sausage) or 2 fresh sausages, sliced into rounds
- 1 level tablespoon sweet paprika
- Salt to taste
What you do
- Brown onion in oil. Remove from heat and season with paprika.
- Add a cup of water, pepper, tomatoes and salt – to taste – and return to low heat to cook for half an hour. Add more water as needed during cooking to prevent burning.
- Add potatoes and enough water so that the potatoes are completely immersed. Cover and cook until potatoes are soft.
- Add sausage and cook for another five minutes.
Some people also add crushed garlic, a pinch of marjoram or hot pepper.
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Q&A: Samuel Johnson Solos Mount Hayes
Samuel Johnson has completed a solo ascent of the east face of Mount Hayes (13,875 feet) in the Alaska Range.
On April 15, Samuel Johnson completed a bold solo ascent of the east face of Mount Hayes (13,832 feet) in the Alaska Range.
Johnson is based in Anchorage, Alaska and has completed numerous first ascents in Alaska and throughout the world, including the Pillar Arete (V 5.10b) in the Arrigetch and the Direct West Face of Mount Hayes (V AI3R 6,500 feet) and the Northeast Buttress of Mount Balchen (V AI4 M6 3,500 feeet) in the Alaska Range.
Rock and Ice caught up with Johnson to get the full story on his impressive solo.
What inspired you to climb this route solo?
I've always wanted to solo a large face in a remote environment, but it wasn't the plan. We [Ryan Johnson and I] experienced temperatures too cold for for our route on the East aspect, which received sun only in the morning. We shifted focus to the sunnier southeast face for a consolation objective as we felt the temps would be better. When we awoke in the morning, my partner Ryan Johnson was ill with a respiratory infection and was unable to eat. After a short discussion I opened the possibility of myself soloing the face and Ryan supported me in doing so.
What gear did you take?
Lots of layers, a scarf, two thick pairs of gloves, eight little hottie packets, two liters of water, an MSR reactor stove, a 60-meter half-rope, half set of nuts, three cams, three ice screws, a few pins, and a v-threader.
What was the climbing like?
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How were route conditions? Were you concerned about objective hazards like avy danger?
Route conditions were good. The snow was for the most part firm. Climbing so much relatively steep alpine ice, free solo, was mentally taxing as well as tiring on the calves. When I could, I would link together segments of neve [snow that has melted and refrozen] to eliminate some of the strain. My primary concern was a worry I would bump into pockets of hard slab on the upper mountain and would accidentally be spit off route in a matter of seconds for a 2000m (6,562 feet) ride.
How was the descent?
The descent was nerve wracking. The east ridge of Hayes is a 7000-foot route that I hadn't climbed before, and is notoriously crevassed. I was all eyes and ears as I focused to navigate around crevasses, cornices, and occasional dense alpine-ice downclimbs. The descent down the last part of the east ridge below Levi's bump was unpleasant as the upper portion was a couple inches of incredibly dense, thin alpine-ice over gravel, making v-threading impossible. After downclimbing a while I found good ice, and finally neve. Seeing Ryan's headlamp pop over the edge of a rise on the glacier was a breath of fresh air. I guess it was around that point that I realized I had had a really kick ass day out in good style and that I was going to get to rest and be safe for a while.
Check out this video below of Johnson and his partner Ryan Hokanson climbing in the Mount Hayes area:


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LOL - and that hydrogen peroxide is actually PRICELESS!ReplyDelete
Hydrogen peroxide IS super good. Now if I could just get my husband to understand that and not run screaming!ReplyDelete
He's a wise one. He must know how much fun it is to watch that hydrogen peroxide bubble. Gets me every time.ReplyDelete
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"Not many generations out of slavery, and forging our own existence despite heavy odds, the Negro is a marked race, hence our activities share the spotlight of constant scrutiny. when we reach the height of success none will be able to deny us our rightful share of recognition and applause. We should strive to leave great footprints in the sands of time," my father writes below.
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Eating profits: Restaurants weigh menu-price increases amid rapid rise in food bills
First dairy prices shot up. Then meat and seafood followed suit. Now higher grain costs are causing the cost of bread to rise.
It all adds up to steeper prices on the menu, and small independent restaurants are feeling the pinch. They're weighing whether to eat the costs or try to pass them along to diners.
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Rising demand for food supplies in China and India has pushed global prices higher. And the lingering high cost of fuel has prompted many food suppliers to tack surcharges on deliveries to restaurants.
Even national chains such as West Roxbury-based Uno Restaurant Holdings Corp. are feeling the effects.
Larger operators have the ability to negotiate annual contracts with suppliers and lock in fixed prices on commodities such as beef and chicken, so they can temporarily avoid increased costs.
But Uno, which operates more than 200 Uno Chicago Grill restaurants in 29 states, has been affected by last month's increase in the federal minimum wage from $5.15 to $5.85 an hour. The company raised beverage prices this summer to offset the cost, CEO Frank Guidara said.
''In today's cost climate, if you're not up 3 to 4 percent in sales, you're having a difficult time paying the increasing cost of commodities and everything else,'' Guidara said.
Using drink prices to offset rising costs isn't possible for high-end restaurants such as Siros, which derives about 70 percent of its sales from food. Vierbickas estimated Siros' food costs have risen 5 percent in the past year. He's thinking about adding more vegetarian entrees to hold costs down.
Most suppliers now impose up to a $3 fuel charge per delivery, Vierbickas said. Swordfish and halibut, which had cost as little as $7 a pound last year, now cost up to $11 a pound, and lobster has increased from $5.75 to $10 a pound. Most recently, the price of baby spinach and mixed greens shot up because of dry weather in California's ''Salad Bowl'' produce region.
''It's really something that affects every restaurant,'' Vierbickas said.
Elio Ricci, owner of the Raffael's restaurants in Hull and Walpole, said he's been trying to limit menu price increases to avoid driving away customers. Ricci's restaurants have been paying higher food costs and fuel surcharges to vendors.
''It just comes off the bottom line,'' Ricci said. ''We're making less of a profit than we were in past years.''
Rising wheat prices are translating into bigger bread bills for many eateries.
Wheat futures are trading at a 10-year high on the Chicago Board of Trade, driven by poor growing conditions that have depressed harvests in the U.S. and abroad. Local bakeries recently notified the Tavern at Quarry Hills in Quincy of a 40 percent increase in bread prices, food and beverage director Brian Leonard said.
''You can't really pass along all the increases to the customer,'' Leonard said. ''If something goes up 40 percent, you can't raise the price 40 percent. It's a juggling act.''
Fireking Baking Co. of Weymouth has been hit with more than a half-million-dollar increase in flour costs in the past year as the price of flour has risen from 11 cents a pound to 22 cents a pound, owner Greg Acerra said. The company sells its products at restaurants and manufactures private-label breads for grocery and discount club chains.
''I can't raise my price every week, but the price is going up so fast you can't control it,'' Acerra said.
If all of the costs remain at current levels, restaurants will have no choice but to pass the costs on to customers, said Darren Tristano, executive vice president at Chicago-based restaurant consultants Technomic.
''It's getting to a point where operators have to raise prices,'' he said.
Restaurants are looking for savings in other areas, such as cutting utility costs, and trying to maximize their food investment by reusing leftovers in soups or other items, Tristano said.
High-end chains will suffer from the trend the most, Tristano said, as consumers seek out mainstream casual chains with average checks of $30 to $35.
''We may not see a return to lower prices,'' Tristano said.
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How to tell if a White American is racist against blacks:
First, the definition. According to the Oxford Dictionary a racist is someone who believes:
each race or ethnic group possesses specific characterisitics, abilities, or qualities that distinguish it as inferior or superior to another such group.
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- They believe that whites are naturally better than blacks – more intelligent, more moral, more trustworthy, more beautiful, more hard-working and so on. Like if they think whites are Basically Good while blacks are not. You know these people are racist because this is pretty much a restatement of the definition.
- They believe stereotypes about blacks. The bad stereotypes, at least, fit the definition of racism.
- They use the n-word, racist slurs or tell racist jokes – meaning they feel the need to disrespect blacks. Why is that? If they do it against Asians or Latinos, then most likely they are racist against blacks too.
- They play down slavery like it is no big deal. Because to them the suffering of black people is no big deal. Because blacks do not count as, like, Real People. Unlike, say, the Jews whose Holocaust we must never forget (and rightly so). Key expressions:
- Get over it!
- It was the times!
- Africans sold their own people as slaves!
- Arab traders sold slaves too!
- Slavery is universal!
- My family never owned slaves!
- They think racism is no longer a big deal. Only a racist could look at American society and think there is nothing seriously wrong.
- They think blacks are imagining racism, which is racist in and of itself since it assumes that blacks have extremely poor judgement.
- They think blacks are their own worst enemy. Black pathologies, blaming the victim and all that. Which in practice is just another way of saying racism is no big deal.
- They are against reparations, affirmative action, etc – against any serious, concrete policy to undo the damage done and provide equal opportunity. Why is that?
- They think blacks are unreasonably angry, have a chip on their shoulders, complain, whine, etc. After the history blacks have gone through and are still going through, they have every right to be angry!
- They use the tone argument where they say they would listen to you if you said it nicer. This puts white feelings above black feelings. Why?
- They think racism is natural. Which, of course, means it seems natural to them. Why is that?
One or two symptoms might not mean much. Three or more indicate illness.
Some quick-and-dirty tests:
- Ask them about reparations. Less important than whether they agree is how important they think the lives of black people are in comparison to whites.
- Ask them what percentage of white people they think are racist. Subtract that from 100 to get a rough measure of their own racism (a score of 100 means they are completely racist).
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Iran's getting ready for its first election since Mahmud Ahmadinejad's disputed return to power. Three and a half thousand candidates are running for a seat in parliament, but pro reform candidates are not taking part: they've either been banned or are actively boycotting the poll. A vote that pits conservative hardliners against each other.
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