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Beliefs about race and ethnicity influence our cultures, politics, and relationships. What is race? What is ethnicity? This group explores those concepts.

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Racism and the effects of ethnocentrism are alive and well in the 21st century. Racism and humanism are incompatible by definition.

The most human, and humane, thing that we can do is acknowledge and support the humanity of people who are different from ourselves. Curiosity about what makes us human, by necessity, includes curiosity about our human ethnic heritage.

We are incredibly enriched by immersing ourselves in a diverse world. We are intellectually and emotionally impoverished when we exclude others who are not our mirror image.

This discussion group includes many topics about race and ethnicity. Feel free to comment to new threads, or resurrect old threads, if any spark your interest.

My 2 cents. Sentient Biped.

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Comment by Dallas (on hiatus) on October 4, 2011 at 8:52am: Legalized lynching is exactly right. And yeah, the story of Emmet Till is awful. I watched the documentary. I thought I posted that here years ago, but perhaps not. I'd have to check.

Comment by Steph S. on October 4, 2011 at 12:02am: Dallas that is such a terrible story of sanctioned racism. It's hard to believe that happened.

Comment by Sentient Biped on October 3, 2011 at 8:35pm: Dallas-

That was basically a legalized lynching - a slightly sanitized version of what happened to Emmett Till - also 14 but his execution was nonjudicial and he was mutilated. It's all disgusting. Whether S. Carolina or Mississippi are more civilized, or have had some civilization forced on them, is a question up for debate.

Comment by Dallas (on hiatus) on October 3, 2011 at 10:22am: Unbelieveable! Unacceptable in any century. That anyone could strap a child to an electric chair is incomprehensible.

This is the price of racism: New evidence could clear 14-year-old executed by South Carolina

Over 67 years after 14-year-old George Junius Stinney Jr. was put to death by the state of South Carolina, he may soon be cleared of the crime that people familiar with the case say he never could have committed.

A lawyer and an activist both told Raw Story recently that new evidence will show that the black boy could not have possibly murdered two white girls, 11-year-old Betty June Binnicker and seven-year-old Mary Emma Thames.

Stinney, the youngest person to receive the death penalty in the last 100 years, was executed on June 16, 1944. At five feet one inch and only 95 pounds, the straps of the electric chair did not fit the boy. His feet could not touch the floor. As he was hit with the first 2,400-volt surge of electricity, the mask covering his face slipped off, “revealing his wide-open, tearful eyes and saliva coming from his mouth,” according to author Joy James.

Comment by Sentient Biped on October 1, 2011 at 9:58am: Ethnic Cleansing of Alabama schools?

abcnews.go.com

Hispanic students have started vanishing from Alabama public schools in the wake of a court ruling that upheld the state's tough new law cracking down on illegal immigration.

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The law does not require proof of citizenship to enroll, and it does not apply to any students who were enrolled before Sept. 1. While most students are not affected, school systems are supposed to begin checking the status of first-time enrollees now.

Comment by Sentient Biped on September 27, 2011 at 11:42am: True. A bunch of little Lord Fauntleroys with their ruffled panties in a bunch because someone else thinks they are not so special

Comment by Dallas (on hiatus) on September 27, 2011 at 11:28am: It is nothing but cheap tactics perpetrated by privileged brats who don't have a fucking clue about the discrimination faced by other people.

Comment by Sentient Biped on September 27, 2011 at 11:26am: This is a great illustration of the shallow understanding that the young repuglicans - and many others, especially tea partiers and neoconservatives - have. Also their desire to push buttons. The polarization does not educate, it closes minds.

Comment by Dallas (on hiatus) on September 27, 2011 at 10:47am: Unbelievable! Just goes to show how fucking vile and clueless republicans are. This woman said it best:

"As a woman of color, when I first saw the event, I was appalled someone would post something like this on the Internet -- not only a different pay structure, but also to rank the races," she said. "It trivializes the struggles that people have been through and their histories."

But of course, conservatives ALWAYS play the victim card. They're always the victim of everything.

Comment by Sentient Biped on September 27, 2011 at 10:27am: Pay - by - race bake sale at Berkeley, set up by campus Rebublicans.

cnn.com

baked goods will be sold to white men for $2, Asian men for $1.50, Latino men for $1, black men for 75 cents and Native American men for 25 cents. All women will get 25 cents off those prices.