Working on stuff
Right now I'm working on another one of those racism essays. In the process of pulling together a few good quotes I found a souple of excellent resources: Paul's Crime and Justice Page and CrimeTheory.com.
I found several useful quotes for this essay at CrimeTheory.com, but I'll be exploring Paul's Crime and Justice Page for a while, in particular the Abuse of Power by Corporate and Governmental Elites, ore Elite Deviance, pages. At the site's home page I found this very interesting statement:
I get irritated that Philip Morris spends $2 million on domestic violence programs, then $108 on advertising to tell out about it. Then there's, Nike which paid Michael Jordan more for endorsing its trainers ($20 million) than the company paid its entire 30,000-strong Indonesian workforce for making them.
The Nike/Michael Jordan case is an example of what's wrong with our relationship with the rest of the world, while Philip Morris case is an example of what's wrong with out relationship with ourselves.
Another very interesting section of the site is
Black Genocide? Preliminary Thoughts on the Plight of America�s Poor Black MenOur aim in this article is to offer an examination and preliminary defense of the claim that poor African American men are subjected to conditions of life that are sufficiently destructive to amount to an instance of genocide. To make our case, we define the term genocide and apply measures of this phenomenon to the life experiences of poor black American men. Our focus is on grossly disproportionate death rates among this group, which we examine as one of a number of products of social deprivation. The emphasis is on understanding indirect genocide (which involves creating life conditions which destroy a group and facilitate black on black violence), and the problem of inferring direct intent because of ideological racism
I thought that would be a good thing to share.
posted by Prometheus 6 at 7/13/2003 10:16:51 AM |
Posted by P6 at July 13, 2003 10:16 AM
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