I  agree…racism exist everywhere and all over not just in the south but the north , east west. We must be careful in pointing fingers…I do agree with the points you are both making…But lets focus on the problems here .. Just like Bush did we are “Othering” people…  We do it in this country daily…one example is in the way we educate or treat learners in this country or the curriculums we choose for people..
Sandra



Sandra Vernon-Jackson
Phd Student
Urban Graduate Research Collaboration 
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA 







Lauren E Ellington/FS/VCU <leellington at vcu.edu> wrote:


>As long as we are mentioning being particularly offended, I find your 

>statement about the South to be a rather narrow-minded view.  By your 

>comments, racism only exists in the South.  This is certainly not true.  I 

>am a very proud Southern who is not a racist and know many who are just 

>like me.  While I agree with your statements about Bush, please don't 

>become just as bad as he is by proclaiming one geographic area as racist.

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>Lauren Ellington

>Online Training Specialist, 

>Learning Disabilities Specialist, and

>Writer of Update and Update on LD

>Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center

>Virginia Commonwealth University

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>And these remarks were particularly offensive:

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>                 "I am deeply concerned about the spread of

>radicalism, and I know you

>                 are, as

>                 well. We long for the days when people don't feel

>comfortable or

>                 empowered

>                 to take innocent life to achieve an objective. One

>reason radicals are

>                 able

>                 to recruit young men, for example, to become suicide

>bombers, is

>                 because of

>                 hopelessness. One way to defeat hopelessness is

>through literacy, is

>                 to

>                 giving people the fantastic hope that comes by being

>able to read and

>                 realize dreams.<<

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>A number of the Islamic, Irish, Hindu, Nepali,

>Congolese, Sri Lankan 'radicals' were educated. A

>greater number were unemployed. And a number dislike

>American international policy. He completely left out

>the conservative Bible Belt and the everyday racism

>that is experienced by non Bible thumpers in the

>South. He left out the KKK, he left out the lynch

>mobs.... the police, one could go on.

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