Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Tuesday news

Read this article about the institutionalized racism against the Aborigines in Australia leading to a life expectancy 17 years less than their white Australian Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

This is a feature on Lani Silver, who has spent decades interviewing people about racism and holocaust.“The question is, ‘Why are we killing each other?’ ” she said. “Why did 150 million people die in war and genocide in the last century?”

This article is about discrimination in the UK. The Joint Committee on Human Rights says about a biometric immigration document that is being introduced for all non-EU nationals in the UK "The fact that such a document exists for non-nationals and can be requested to prove entitlement to services makes it highly likely in our view that members of black and minority ethnic communities in the UK will be disproportionately required to prove their immigration status."

Bank of America accused of racial discrimination in this article"The complaint alleges BofA and BAI regularly discriminated against African-American bankers and financial advisers, teaming them with other African-American bankers or advisers and steering more lucrative clients to white employees."

Its kind of hard...nearly impossible, for me to live my life and pretend like these things never happened,so I know everyone else probably feels the same. We are never going to get past it if we just ignore it and don't talk about it.


"I heard one of the girls say she would quit as soon as we hire a negro, and for your information she happens to be one of the most popular girls in the office. If she quits it could make an exodus that will make the one out of Egypt look like a quiet afternoon."

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