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* My homeless self: White “resentment” and black power

January 25, 2014Clippings, Justice, National news, National politics, PovertyAvidit Acharya, Black power, Matthew Blackwell, Maya Sen, Race, Racial resentment, Racism, The Homeless Blogger, The Political Legacy of American Slavery, Upward mobilityWilliam Tell

“Generations of slavery and discrimination make it difficult for blacks to work their way out of the lower classes.”

Do you agree with that statement? If not, you harbor resentment toward blacks.

That is the premise, not the conclusion, of a recent study by three political scientists. As reported by James Goodman in the October 6, 2013 Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, the study’s conclusions seem indisputable. I question its premise. I ask whether “resentment” was the best or right thing to measure; whether this criterion statement was the best or right way to measure it; whether the criterion statement is factual, and if so, whether it matters.
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* The End of Anger, by Ellis Cose (2001) …

January 22, 2014Career goals, Media, National media, The William Tell ShowEllis Cose, Media, National, On air talent, Opinion, Polls, Public, Race, Radio talk show, Talk show host, The End of Anger, The Homeless BloggerWilliam Tell

… is a slim volume for $24.99. The description on inside front dust jacket concludes it “may well be the most important book dealing with race to be published in recent decades.” That strikes me as presumptuous. The front matter includes a list of the author’s other titles, from which it appears he seldom writes about anything else.

Yet the portions I browsed remind me of something I want to do on my own show. The preface examines in some detail changes in public opinion polls between 2008 and 2010. I don’t attach the weight to these facts that Cose does. But if, for example, the President’s approval rating rises with one group and falls with another group in the same time frame, I would like to find out from listeners whose opinions changed and why; to examine with listeners how their thinking works, and on what bases their opinions change.

(Originally posted 05/12/12 at Trojan Horse Productions. Reposted 10/26/17.)

* Michael Baisden seems increasingly preoccupied …

December 18, 2013Career goals, Media, National mediaMedia, Michael Baisden, National, On air talent, Race, Talk radio, Talk show host, The Homeless BloggerWilliam Tell

… with race and with aggrandizing his own celebrity.

May I never emulate either feature.

(Originally posted 05/01/12 at Trojan Horse Productions. Reblogged 07/20/17.)

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* Trayvon Martin

November 27, 2013Justice, National media, National newsCrime, On air talent, Race, Radio talk show, Talk show host, The Homeless Blogger, Trayvon MartinWilliam Tell

But for the racial aspect, the Trayvon Martin case would not be noticed.

I admit being less concerned about him than about the dozens of other teens who are gunned down every month across the country for no better reason and by people of their own race. Someone will object that a black perpetrator would have been arrested. I answer that an arrest and prison term won’t bring back the dead.

(Originally posted 04/16/12 at Trojan Horse Productions. Reblogged 04/06/17.)

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“Forgiving the cosmos” — Additional tags

December 31, 1965Uncategorized1 John 1:5, 1 John 4:16, 1 John 4:8, Child abuse, Evil, Holocaust, Jim Crow, Microaggressions, Middle Passage, Panentheism, Race, Racism, Resentments, Shoah, SlaveryWilliam Tell

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Forgiving the cosmos

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“Two Jews, three opinions” — Additional tags

December 20, 1965UncategorizedImmigrants, J. J. Hairston, Jews, Mark 9:33, Melisma, Naltrexone, Race, Racism, Schools, Seinfeld, Sickle cell anemia, Stereotypes, Type A personality, VivitrolWilliam Tell

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