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Favorite anti-racist inspiration:
Sivanandan, Angela Davis, Sonia Sanchez, Damali, Tim Wise
About Me:
Getting weary of living in the Netherlands and trying to get people to care. Trying to understand why people here live in cloud cuckoo land and imagine they are not racist.
The website below is one organisation I am associated with. There are more...
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http://www.kerwin.nl

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A poem about racism

We were talking, my friends and I About racism And how it works How it arcs through the air like a brick through the window of a mosque Whispers, shouts, chants, insults Stands in the way, won’t let you pass Sings so high it shatters glass Racism taunts, bears arms Passes down the chain of command Like an order being followed Racism hides, disguised Lingers longer than a kiss Racism lurks in doorways sneaks down alleys, and under doors, like zyklon B easy to miss if you don’t recognize the hi… Continue

Posted on June 18th, 2008 at 12:07pm — No Comments (Add)

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At 6:38am on June 18th, 2008, Flora said…
hi amina,
i come from Europe too...from Italy, and the racism here is rife, institutional racism is legitimized, we even have a xenophobic party in government.
recently there have even been pogroms against members of an ethnic minority - the roma (gipsy) people- with the politicians blaming the victims....
i have two kids who are black. i hate having to send them to school where they are not represented in the books they use, or in the play material...
where they never see any black face in a position of authority....
i desperately tried to find multicultural children picture's book in Italian....and i was horrified, the only i could find with non-white children in it , still portray african kids naked living in huts!
In a book about "multiculture education" it actually states , i quote, that "In africa kids don't usually wear clothes and in the evening sit around the fire listening to stories"....
can you believe it?
At 3:34pm on May 1st, 2008, Amina said…
This is an inspired development!
Thank you.
 
 

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