tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57418246235492440212024-03-13T08:42:25.814-07:00collideCollidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14854909586915416751noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5741824623549244021.post-32209958831754476602010-05-10T20:52:00.000-07:002010-05-10T22:02:48.823-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:12px;"><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zmLXZ6_PW9A&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zmLXZ6_PW9A&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:12px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">A very interesting clip from Tim Wise. </span></b></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">He addresses the N-word in this </span></b></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">video and the difference between whites </span></b></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and blacks saying it.</span></b></i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I have always obviously been against this word even if the person saying it is black. </span></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I just felt like if black people said it then it gives white people an excuse to </span></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">think it is okay to say it, and it is absolutely not. </span></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I just found it disrespectful to both cultures.</span></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Please watch this video and let me know what you think!</span></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">ABOUT TIM WISE: </span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Tim Wise is well known and well respected anti-racist writer and activist</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Wise is the author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, and Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White, and his fourth book, Between Barack and a Hard Place: Race and Whiteness in the Age of Obama was released in spring 2009. </span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', serif;"><a href="http://www.timwise.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">TIM WISE WEBSITE</span></a></span></div>Collidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14854909586915416751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5741824623549244021.post-62429035162603445642010-05-06T11:53:00.000-07:002010-05-10T20:45:39.810-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">Collide </span>-To come together with violent, direct impact.</div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-to crash together with a violent impact.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">These are two definitions of what it means to<i> collide</i>. I feel like this describes perfectly what this blog is going to hopefully be about. My hope is that we <i>collide</i> into some major issues facing the white and blacks relationship in the nation. I want to hear from every side about where we are when it comes to race. We must address these issue in a productive and respectful way . It is 2010 and we need to put these issues at the for front of our daily lives and make that next leap to making America a more equal country.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I know this is a very heated discussion but I hope that anyone who reads this or comments will respect the opinions of others and comes to each other with love and drive to really change the way things are. We have to change we cannot keep this gap between races alive. We must stand up one by one and realize that it starts with us. We must start taking this into our own hands. We must educate ourselves with the things that are going on in our country when dealing with the white and black cultures.</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">To start the <i>colliding</i> effect we must <i>violently </i>crash into it.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">-me </div>Collidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14854909586915416751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5741824623549244021.post-62134890969507632122010-05-05T00:26:00.000-07:002010-05-06T12:02:06.357-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(75, 75, 75); line-height: 17px; "><h2 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(91, 88, 81); font-family: Georgia; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span id="ppt19458960" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.bvblackspin.com/2010/04/29/sandra-bullock-baby/">Sandra Bullock's Baby: A Curious Case</a></span></span></h2><div><br /></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">In the article above there are many accusations presented and even more questions raised. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">(all quotes are from Lola Adesiove from the online site Black Voices)<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"> </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;font-size:12px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> -In regards to Sandra Bullock and other celebrities adopting a black child-</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;">"Why do they want a black baby as opposed to a white one, when there are also white kids who are up for adoption? Are they buying in to the idea that poor black children must be saved by altruistic white people."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;font-size:12px;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><i>I recently posted this article to facebook and I think we are pretty much all in agreeance that it is a good thing to get black children out of the foster system, no matter what the race is of the parents, as long as they love </i>them. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;">"Black children are overrepresented in the adoption system, making up 32 percent of all children in foster care.They stay longer in the system, tend to experience multiple placements and find it harder to be placed with one permanent family."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;font-size:12px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">Questions that this article raised:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b>1. "</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b>What are, for example, the cultural implications for a black child that is raised by a white family? Do they struggle to find themselves?"</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;font-size:12px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;font-size:medium;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size:12px;">"There is definitely something to be said for the importance of a deep-rooted sense of culture and heritage and growing up around other people who look like you. It can be hard for someone who is not black to really grasp exactly what that means and how important that is for a person's psyche. Even the most culturally aware white person cannot know what it is like to be black, and I doubt whether it is something they could be taught or teach."</span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;font-size:12px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;font-size:12px;">"One could also argue that even black children in black families go through some period of figuring out who they are and what their identity is. It is not as if black children in black families do not wrestle with those issues themselves."</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;font-size:12px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;font-size:medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b>2. Does the black community have a roll in keeping the children out of the system?</b></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 17px;font-size:medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 17px; font-size:13px;"> "</span>And, there is a key point that we are forgetting: Black kids are in foster homes because black parents put them there. If we would prefer not to have black children raised by non-black parents, we should do a better job of keeping them out of the foster care system in the first place. And, if we black people do feel strongly about this, it is incumbent on all of us to ensure that we help people like Sandra Bullock make sure that their child is well adjusted and supported. What do you think??</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;font-size:12px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;font-size:12px;">please respond openly as possible and at the same time being respectful.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;font-size:12px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;font-size:12px;">let the colliding begin.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;font-size:12px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;font-size:12px;">-Me </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;font-size:12px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Collidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14854909586915416751noreply@blogger.com0