Posts Tagged ‘ racism ’

Hey Professor, Call on my Middle Finger

May 11, 2012
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middlin

Classroom Experience: It’s two forty-five in my English class. And I am mad as hell. I leave and I am weary. I get home and I am furious. Okay, great, so now what? Now, I have decided that writing an essay, article, or academic timewaster on this sentiment is exactly what our generation doesn’t need. It is not what happens next. What do I do? Take to Facebook: the place where I can be myself and react like a human being, not a grade conscious or prestige seeking robot and post this as my status: Getting ridiculous:  Essentially, year after year I sit in class and hear that black people are treated as less than as second-class citizens, unjustly demeaned and pushed down, historically and in the present day, that not much has really changed, but isn’t that a great topic...

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Hate on High: Men Yell Asian Slurs & Car-Stalk OSU Students

April 29, 2012
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Editor’s Note: This article contains racial slurs. The Pulse is reporting the accounts of students that have experienced situations of hate on or off-campus. On April 15 at 5pm, Timothy Singratsomboune was walking north on High Street on the west sidewalk with a friend of Chinese descent, the street was heavily populated.  They saw a group of 3 white males screaming something out of a car headed south, on the side close to them. As the car got closer, Singratsomboune said they were screaming,

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Why This Isn’t An Article About White Crime Victims

April 2, 2012
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Pulsers, It’s been a while, but once you awaken the writing monster, it can be hard to stop. Over the past month, the country has sturdily begun the process of losing its damn mind over the Trayvon Martin case. When I first heard about it, I honestly didn’t think it was going to be this big, but that’s because I had the folly of putting it with the likes of Oscar Grant, Sean Bell, and Amadou Diallo, not O.J. Simpson, Laci Peterson, and Casey Anthony, which is where it is now. Now the vitriol is spewing and depending on the verdict, we stand on the verge of proving to the world that our history of race riots is not over, no matter who’s President. There’s been stupidity and “extra”-ness on both sides, but I’m here to address a particular...

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More Than Just a Dream

January 16, 2012
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America likes to pretend that the March on Washington was the finale of a decade long Civil Rights Movement; that MLK never wrote another word or spoke another thought after finishing his “I Have a Dream” speech; and that the only goal of his legacy and struggle was to bring Civil Rights to the Black community.

Here is King circa 1967 sharing his powerful vision for a more egalitarian world – a place where people are not just free from racism and discrimination but also free to access the necessities of life.

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Drunk Students Yell Racial Slurs

November 4, 2011
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Editor’s Note: This article contains racial slurs. It’s 3 am on a Saturday. You’re walking home with a buddy from a night out. As you walk down High Street, approaching your end of the campus and more than ready to go home and get some shut-eye, you hear

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