Author Archives: Diverse & Inclusive

http://www.rif.org/us/literacy-resources/multicultural/2015-multicultural-booklist.htm

Great resources!

So much for a thoughtful and compassionate Christian!

http://thegrio.com/2015/02/15/lawmaker-opposes-education-funding-from-going-to-black-people-on-welfare/Independence Hall and Liberty Bell 07Freedom of speech!

Does the KKK have rights under the Constitution?

In no way do I support/believe what the KKK stands for. In fact I detest the Klan. However, if other groups are allowed to pass out literature about their beiefs, then under the Constitution the KKK should also be allowed to do so.  Individuals have the right to refuse to take the literature.

http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2014/12/kkk_loses_lawsuit_over_handing_leaflets_to_drivers_in_missouri_town.phpKlan photo

KKK is still KKK

Really, a new and improved KKK?  Then change the name and change the attitude! See this article.

http://madamenoire.com/488386/huh-one-chapter-ku-klux-klan-wants-black-people-join/#sthash.RQNfD4Iq.gbpl

Racism alive and well in the home of the Free

Is there any question that the media helps keep racism alive in this country? Nope, and you can see this in the headlines of our “free press” since Obama has been president.  Perhaps Mr. Obama will teach some lessons once he is out of office by suing media outlets that have been so racist against him.  Common, on, still using “watermelon” to belittle POTUS? Oh, you say, “give it up!”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/01/obama-watermelon-cartoon-boston-herald-newspaper_n_5914152.html

Kinda Racist?

Whose the racists? Why? Why not?

Ferguson’s Two separate realities? Or just “out of sight, out of mind?”

Dependng on which ethnic group, it seems that the residence of Ferguson, Missouri have been living in two separate realities, as is the case in far too many American cities. Please take a few to read this article. Ask questions? Seek answers? Propose solutions.

http://www.salon.com/2014/09/06/theres_a_hunger_to_deny_that_race_matters_the_new_segregation_and_white_americablack_america_divide/

 

KKK wants to see corpses on the Border! Shameful…

Anyone know why this terrorist group continues into the 21st Century?

http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2014/07/31/kkk-joins-immigration-debate-with-calls-for-corpses-on-the-border/#more-17439

Are these the People We want to Follow?

Found on Facebook.  Please do not like this page. Simply report it to Facebook. Get garbage of the internet.

https://www.facebook.com/Obamamustdie 

Tea Party Group shows Racism!

Morally I can not have respect for a group of people, or should I say, Fellow Americans, who so blatantly display so much hate and racism. You are only demonstrating that facts mean nothing to you. Therefore, you demonstrate your totally stupidity and lack of moral character. 1000865_228817383933708_1555384563_n

Stop the Hate against President Obama and His family now on Facebook

There is a Facebook group titled Stop the Hate against President Obama and his family that I think merits a read. It publishes what the site perceives to be acts of hate toward the Obama’s and his presidency. You will be shocked at so much “racism” directed toward the President.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/112895548793967/

Education Leader not a role model

People are entitled to their own opinions and freedom of speech. Yet I worry when public officials, be it a Congresswoman, Senator, Governor, Police Chief or State Superintendent of Education, etc. make statements that “sound racists.”  This is my opinion of Dr. Huppenthal, Superintendent of Education, for the state of Arizona, he is a public official, charged with the education of all children K-12, and he is not a role model! His anonymous blogs, are deplorable. He has referred to those on public assistance as “lazy pigs,” and he has called for the elimination of all Spanish language media in Arizona. He refuses to resign, which may be his freedom of Choice. He is however, up for election in August, and my hope is that he is not reelected as the state’s educational leader.  Someone, please tell me where have all these haters been hiding for so long? 

For more information click the following:

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/politics/2014/06/25/huppenthal-says-he-wont-resign-over-blog-posts/11361853/

Author Jan Wahl Still Sees Children as Our Greatest Hope

I had an opportunity to chat with one of my favorite children’s authors, Jan Wahl, from Toledo, Ohio. He was born on April Fool’s Day, sometime during the 1930s.

As is my tradition, while chatting with Jan, I was actually interviewing him because I wanted to know him better. He has written over 100 children’s books, many are already out of print.  Jan lived in Mexico and Denmark. He collects Mickey Mouse objects, and wears a Mickey Mouse watch. He is sometimes referred to as Dr. Mouse, apparently a name given to him by a child. He attended the University of Michigan.

I first met Jan Wahl when our no longer in existence organization, Cambios, brought him to read to children in a couple of our Lenawee County public schools. We purchased about 100 copies of his book The Candy Shop, a book that dealt with “racism” and how children find ways to deal with it.  The book was donated to every elementary in the county, and the public libraries. A few years ago, Alexander Elementary school brought Jan to read to students, at my recommendation.

I asked Jan to tell me which was his favority book (of the over 100 he had written). He thought for about a second and responded How the Children won the War!  He added that he still believes that children may have the solutions to our problems.  Jan gave me a copy of this book several years ago and I plan to pass it on to my great neice, Madeline, because I too think that the children will find the solutions.

I look forward to reading his new publication The Long Tall Journey, to be released in the fall.

This is a link with a book list http://www.paperbackswap.com/Jan-Wahl/author/