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'Why I Hate Blacks': Finally, an Apology
By Yoji Cole
March 02, 2007
'Why I Hate Blacks'-Finally, an Apology
AsianWeek Editor Ted Fang is apologizing for publishing a column titled "Why I Hate Blacks" that listed reasons to support discrimination, including that blacks are "the only race that has been enslaved for 300 years." Fang is editor-at-large of the San Francisco-based AsianWeek. "The newspaper is sorry that this got published, and I am personally sorry that this got published," Fang told The Associated Press. "The views in that opinion piece do not in any way reflect the views of AsianWeek." San Francisco's Asian-American leadership quickly denounced the article as irresponsible and blatantly racist. Accordig to The Atlanta Journal Constitution, groups such as Asian American Justice Center, Chinese for Affirmative Action, Coalition for Asian Pacific Americans and others began circulating a petition that calls for AsianWeek to:
- Cut ties with the writer.
- Issue an apology.
- Print an editorial refuting the column.
- Fire or demote the editors who published it.
You Can't Be 'Cured' of Being Gay-And You Shouldn't Want To
Here's this old chestnut again. Members of Phoenix-based Bethany Bible Church claim that LGBT people can be "cured" of their orientation. The church held an all-day event called "Love Won Out," sponsored by the evangelical group Focus on the Family. But the American Psychological Association (APA) disagrees. Clinton Anderson, director of the APA's Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Concerns Office in Washington, D.C., says so-called "conversion therapy" is not supported by science. Read more.
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Bush Administration Stirs Debate Over African Bank
The Bush administration wants the displaced African Development Bank, which fled civil war in its longtime home in Ivory Coast for a temporary refuge in Tunisia, to return to a country in black Africa. However, that suggestion has fueled a dust-up involving African pride and European colonialism, accusations of Arab racism and American arrogance. Many black African and European member nations agree in principle that the United States, by pressing the issue, is stirring up trouble. Since it was established in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, by African heads of state in 1964, the bank has provided more than $56 billion in financing. Tapping financial markets and rich-country donations, the bank's efforts include grants to fight the Marburg virus in Angola, loans to build roads in Congo and credits to support state banks in Tunisia. The United States, one of the 77 member nations, is contributing $138 million to the bank this year. Read more.
Nation's Top Law Firms Seek LGBT Lawyers
Health-care benefits for domestic partners, nondiscrimination pledges, sponsorship of gay organizations and recruiting at gay job fairs are all commonplace among "American Lawyer's" top 200 firms. According to a survey by the D.C.-based Human Rights Campaign, a gay-rights organization, those measures rank the legal profession high in gay-friendliness when compared with other industries. "It used to be the love that dare not speak its name," said Morrison & Foerster managing partner Keith Wetmore to The American Lawyer. "Now it's the love that cannot keep its mouth shut." Read more.
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rights movement has exploded on the national stage. Eric Marcus takes us
back in time to the earliest days of that struggle. Using the heart-felt stories of more than 60 people, he carries us through the
compelling five-decade battle that has changed the fabric of American society.
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NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk Methods Under Scrutiny
The New York Police Department enlisted the Rand Corp. to examine whether racial bias exists in its stop-and-frisk policy after statistics revealed that more than a half-million pedestrians were searched last year. Most people stopped, 55 percent, were black. Thirty percent were Latino and 11 percent were white. Of NYC's population, about 25 percent is black, 28 percent is Latino and 44 percent is white, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Rand, which is known for research and analysis on national security, will observe how officers on the streets conduct and record the stops and will review data on past stops to assess whether there are racial disparities. Read more.
No Spanish-Speaking Child Left Behind
English is the second language for approximately 5.5 million students in the United States, nearly one-tenth of the total U.S. student body, and by 2025, one of every four students in this country's public-school system is expected to initially be limited in English proficiency, writes Washington Post columnist Marcela Sanchez. What's troubling is that a 2005 Urban Institute report found that while 56 percent of children who enter high school with limited English proficiency are U.S.-born, "many children are not learning English even after seven or more years" in U.S. schools. Sanchez challenges Latino parents to motivate their children to learn English. "Knowing what we do--that having no high-school degree greatly reduces our children's chances to succeed--should we not apply the same determination that helped us get to this country to ensure that we send English-proficient children to school?" writes Sancez. Read more.
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