tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16394200.post2811162378179501774..comments2023-07-20T06:37:07.860-05:00Comments on Janet Morrison-Lane's Community Dialogue: Opening our eyes to White privilegeJanet Morrison-Lanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13155012134161023319noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16394200.post-69227509698767832372008-09-17T14:41:00.000-05:002008-09-17T14:41:00.000-05:00Janet: your response to "Anonymous" is right on t...Janet: your response to "Anonymous" is right on track. The more I've read and studied and talked to people (example: a Communist from Russia!), the more I find out that we had been fed lie after lie. I believe it's been an attempt to make us believe that we are indeed the superior nation (much like Hitler did with the Jews). We're told how evil universal health care is -- could it be because Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16394200.post-50373455700202521352008-09-17T08:55:00.000-05:002008-09-17T08:55:00.000-05:00Belinda~Yes, there are a few that are more about i...Belinda~<BR/>Yes, there are a few that are more about issues between dems and repubs...but as I re-read them, even in those, they have truth about the black/white issues in them that need to be paid attention to.<BR/><BR/>The one about names isn't a repub/dem issue. And I find it to be very true. I have listened to people talk about how "stupid" and "made up" African-American names are...yet, Janet Morrison-Lanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13155012134161023319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16394200.post-55692153255724735562008-09-16T15:37:00.000-05:002008-09-16T15:37:00.000-05:00That is the biggest piece of liberal propaganda Bu...That is the biggest piece of liberal propaganda Bull*hi* I have ever read. You liberals really need to read some real history and burn those revisionsit history books....if you can read at all!!<BR/>Oh yea, I'm sure that's a republicans fault too!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16394200.post-34416680426001531512008-09-16T15:14:00.000-05:002008-09-16T15:14:00.000-05:00I'd say some of these are more republican vs. demo...I'd say some of these are more republican vs. democrat instead of white vs. black.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16394200.post-34657301295553026092008-09-15T07:14:00.000-05:002008-09-15T07:14:00.000-05:00Here are a few more to add to it:* If you grow up ...Here are a few more to add to it:<BR/>* If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you’re “exotic” and ”different.” <BR/><BR/>* If you grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, It is a quintessential American story. <BR/><BR/>* If your name is Barack you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim. <BR/><BR/>* If you name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you’re a mainstream patriotic American. <Janet Morrison-Lanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13155012134161023319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16394200.post-85964999042645851382008-09-15T05:59:00.000-05:002008-09-15T05:59:00.000-05:00Short of a little bias, very little, this article ...Short of a little bias, very little, this article is a strong voice toward making visible the invisible. <BR/><BR/>Privilege is such a strange animal. It is only in its absense that it is easy to see that it is gone. In its constant presence, however, it is detectable only by an intentional effort to get outside oneself...whcih requires at least a heart of compassion or a damn good imagination. <Fajitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704189756009543355noreply@blogger.com