minorities

This came from a conversation about the Quarter Back Vince Young of the Titans. For those that don't know Young had somewhat of a breakdown this past weekend when he was booed for a couple of interceptions. Now it is quite possible (and from what is know publicly more likely) that he got...

OK. Here goes. TAM was an incredible conference and it's really wonderful that they had more attendees than ever this year. We have more younger attendees, more women and it's all really inspiring. I was, however, one of maybe 10 or 15 non-white attendees and that got me thinking. I...

I had a disturbing conversation yesterday. A recently hired coworker of mine is Chaldean. I had never heard of Chaldeans until I moved to Detroit, but there are a lot of them here. Chaldeans are an ethnic minority in Iraq. They are also found in Syria and Lebanon. Perhaps other places...

At TAM 2 it didn't occur to me that there weren't many people of minority status present. At TAM 3, I did notice. This is probably because of Girl 6's thoughtful comments and the fact that I'm enrolled in a grad program that is constantly hammering into my skull concepts such as "white...

Hi all, I got sucked into a debate recently with someone who basically made the claim that it is a lie that the Democratic Party does anything for minorities. He actually tried to base this on the members of the Democratic Party who were against civil rights legislation, etc. (I tried to point...