Race & Politics
August 19th, 2009
Written by David Wolfford in Race & Politics with 0 Comments
On the eve of India’s Independence Day, 14 August, U.S. immigration officials stopped Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan upon arrival at Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey.
The 44-year-old actor, who has appeared in over 70 movies and enjoys a wide fan following both within India and the Indian diaspora globally, had flown into the United States to attend an Indian Independence...
August 17th, 2009
Written by Alakananda Mookerjee in Race & Politics with 0 Comments
Early in August, a Muslim woman was prevented from taking a dip in a swimming pool in the town of Émerainville, in the eastern outskirts on Paris, for donning a “burquini” – a baggy head-to-toe swimsuit that resembles a hooded wetsuit and is regarded as an Islamic-friendly swimwear.The pool management reportedly turned away the woman – a French convert to Islam – not out of religious intolerance...
August 12th, 2009
Written by Alakananda Mookerjee in Race & Politics with 0 Comments
In a utopian world, one would have expected the election of an African-American president to have spelled the end of the race debate in America. But ironically, it only appears to have stoked new flames.
Barely has the national burp of President Obama’s beer-diplomacy—brokered to ease racial tensions between Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and police officer James Crowley—subsided than...
June 8th, 2009
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Recently, former Vice President Dick Cheney appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation to defend Bush administration interrogation techniques early in the war on terror, methods critics call “torture.” But the torture began at the conclusion of the interview when moderator Bob Schieffer asked Cheney whether he preferred conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh or former Secretary of State Colin Powell...
May 21st, 2009
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In early 1965, President Lyndon Johnson addressed the nation on live television to announce his proposal for a voting rights bill. He ended his speech with, “We Shall Overcome.” This conclusion reassured civil rights leaders that he was fully on board and more federal protection against voting infringement was coming. Congress passed the Voting Rights Act by August of that year. Among other...
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