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Asians as “Model Minority” — A Shield Against Racism
I have no answer to the epidemic problem of racism on the Internet, but
The Five Reasons Why We Are Our Brother’s Keeper – {QP Two}
I just stumbled upon Kendall F. Person’s blog and came away quite impressed. I would recommend anyone to check out his posts. Good stuff!
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Sudan Foreign Ministry States Christian Woman Sentenced To Death For Apostasy Will Be Freed
As an Eastern Orthodox Christian, I try with all my might not to judge any person or group on all things spiritual. I admit I was not so successful in judging the Government of Sudan harshly for the perverse and the ultimate in senseless violence–a Government-ordered death sentence to a lady whose dignity.(what, if any, of it) was worsened by forcing her to give birth while in leg shackles. All of these atrocities were ordered because of some Sudanese government official deemed that his vision of spirituality proscribed the death sentence of a Sudanese citizen because she married a man who happened to practice Christianity. My hope is that sometime before I leave this earth how an organized religion in today’s world could not only tolerate these type of atrocities, but actually support them.
By Darren Smith, Weekend Contributor
After an international outrage and widespread condemnation following the death sentence of a pregnant, Christian Sudanese woman accused apostasy and adultery for her marriage to a Christian man, the Sudanese Government has publicly stated it would instead release Meriam Yehya Ibrahim from custody.
BBC News reports that Abdullahi Alzareg, an under-secretary at the foreign ministry, said Sudan guaranteed religious freedom and was committed to protecting the woman who was to be release in a few days.
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Is America Going Insane (not a rhetorical question)
Is America Going Insane? (Not a rhetorical question)
Insanity is right. This kind of senseless violence is reported so frequently I am afraid the next generation will be so numb to it that society will simply slide into anarchy. Maybe the world of Mad Max isn’t that far off . . .
RIP IVY. — American Doll’s lone Asian doll discontinued
Reading the article in the link below brought back some bittersweet memories, and even greater disappointment. When my daughter was 8, my wife daughter and I took a trip from our Kentucky home (though our house is old, having been built in 1840, I am refusing to make any reference here to Stephen Foster or my Commonwealth’s state song) to Chicago to meet up wIth friends. The highlight of the trip was planned well in advance of our departure–a trip to the huge, beyond belief, American Girl Store and Salon. I remember well the smile on my daughter’s face when, after looking at rooms and rooms crammed full of (very expensive) dolls, all with European features, when we finally stumbled upon “Ivy”, the only Asian American doll among the thousands of dolls for sale. My wallet was nearly emptied as my daughter not only bought Ivy, but also matching outfits for her new doll and herself. She continuously stared at Ivy the rest of the trip and smiled up at me, asking, “Papa, She looks just like me, doesn’t she?” And indeed she did. Though, to be honest, the trip through that huge building crammed full of both dolls and little girls was not my favorite experience of the trip, my daughter’s smile made it not only bearable, but in some inexplicable way enjoyable.
For the foreseeable future, there will be no more Ivy’s or other Asian American dolls for sale at the AMERICAN DOLL store for all those little Asian girls like my daughter so accustomed at such a young age to feeling like an outsider in their own country.
Though, I have not seen any evidence of Ivy’s presence in our house in years, and my daughter is well past the doll phase and deeply into sports now, the story of Ivy’s demise did sadden me in an unexpected way.
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