By John K. on February 24, 2011
Racism starts with the belief that there are races, and that the skin colour can reduced to nature of a people.
Fashion faux-pas, or underlying racism of post-colonial France?
http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/beyonce-tribal-photos-criticised-2556463.html
http://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-610995.0.html
http://hard2knockshoppe.blogspot.com/2011/02/beyonce-criticized-for-blackface-photo.html
Beyonce has been criticised after appearing in a photo shoot daubed with brown face paint.
The Crazy In Love singer – who was recently photographed looking fairer than usual – is now under fire for a tribal-inspired look in French publication L’Officiel Paris. Continue reading »
Posted in Articles, Media watch Tagged Celebrities, France, Racism
By Noel on February 13, 2011
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/0212/1224289636274.html?via=mr
- The LGBT lobbying group Act-up and the 9th Collective of the undocumented (people) have plastered that poster to highligfght the fact that in Sarkozy’s vision of the wolrd, an undocumented migrant does not qualify as “people”.
RUADHÁN Mac CORMAIC in Paris
FRENCH PRESIDENT Nicolas Sarkozy has declared multiculturalism a failure and has taken issue with Muslims praying on the streets of French cities.
In a televised exchange with selected voters, aimed at setting out his plans for the year ahead, Mr Sarkozy echoed the recent critiques of multiculturalism by British prime minister David Cameron and German chancellor Angela Merkel.
“It’s a failure,” he said. “The truth is that in all our democracies, we’ve been too concerned about the identity of the new arrivals and not enough about the identity of the country receiving them. This raises the issue of Islam and our Muslim compatriots.
“Our Muslim compatriots should be able to live and practise their religion like anyone else . . . but it can only be a French Islam and not just an Islam in France.”
Mr Sarkozy’s public approval ratings have held constant at about 30 per cent for the past year and cracks have begun to appear in the centre-right coalition that ensured his victory in 2007.
With a presidential election due next year, his UMP party has been unsettled by the improved standing of the far-right National Front under its new leader, Marine Le Pen. Continue reading »
Posted in Exclude, Media watch Tagged France, Institutional forces, Racism, Religions
By Noel on December 10, 2010
http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/national-news/anger-over-race-discrimination-2455619.html
Friday December 10 2010
Ireland’s record on eliminating racial discrimination has been criticised by the human rights watchdog.
The Irish Human Rights Commission (IHRC) demanded the Government do more to protect the rights of asylum seekers, the Traveller community, migrant workers and victims of human trafficking. Continue reading »
Posted in Articles, Media watch Tagged Asylum seekers, Discrimination, Institutional forces, Ireland, Racism, Trafficking, Travellers
By Irish Pink Adoptions on October 6, 2010
http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/independent-woman/celebrity-news-gossip/x-factor-gamu-nhengu-ordered-to-leave-britain-2367351.html
By Nick Collins
Wednesday Oct 6 2010
Gamu Nhengu, the X Factor contestant whose departure from the show caused outcry, has been ordered to leave the Britain.
The 18-year-old, from Zimbabwe, had been tipped to win the competition outright but failed to even qualify as one of the final 12 contestants after being rejected by judge Cheryl Cole.
Reports earlier this week claimed Gamu’s failure was related to issues with her visa, and on Tuesday night the Home Office confirmed her family had been sent an official letter telling them to leave Britain.
The order was the result of an investigation into £16,000 in benefits wrongly claimed by her mother, Nokutula, The Sun reported. Continue reading »
Posted in Exclude, Media watch, TV Tagged Celebrities, Fraud, Institutional forces, Racism, UK
By John K. on September 14, 2010
http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0914/roma.html
The European Union is considering taking disciplinary action against France over its treatment and expulsion of Roma migrants.
EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding described the actions of the French government as a ‘disgrace’.
She added France had been duplicitous in how it had dealt with the European authorities over the issue.
Ms Reding said she believed proceedings should be brought against France in the coming weeks.
‘I am personally convinced that the commission will have no choice but to initiate infringement proceedings against France,’ Ms Reding said.
She rebuked the French government over a leaked memo which ‘openly contradicted’ assurances given by two ministers to the Commission that specific ethnic groups had not been targeted in France. Continue reading »
Posted in Exclude, Media watch Tagged Bulgaria, France, Institutional forces, Racism, Romania
By Noel on September 12, 2010
Take the “Skin-tone”, “Race”, “Asian”, IAT: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/takeatest.html
Then you can try the one about sexuality, and other ones about other minorities.
It is well known that people don’t always ‘speak their minds’, and it is suspected that people don’t always ‘know their minds’. Understanding such divergences is important to scientific psychology.
This web site presents a method that demonstrates the conscious-unconscious divergences much more convincingly than has been possible with previous methods. This new method is called the Implicit Association Test, or IAT for short.
One of the reasons we never use te concept of “race” on this site, is that races do not exist. It a make-pretend concept that has no scientific validity whatsoever.
But racism exists, and we will need to raise our internationally adopted children in the awareness of racism, without giving in into the prejudices that races do exist… because that would mean we agree with the racists on their fundamentally flawed view of the world.
Posted in Exclude, Media watch Tagged Racism
By Noel on August 6, 2010
Full story: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2010/0806/1224276308471.html?via=rel
FRENCH PRESIDENT Nicolas Sarkozy’s controversial vow to crack down on Gypsy criminals has brought the subject of Roma rights back into sharp focus across Europe.
Mr Sarkozy says he wants to revoke the French citizenship of immigrants who endanger the lives of police officers, and to make it easier to expel Roma who are in France illegally. He also pledged to tear down hundreds of Gypsy camps around the country, calling them a source of trafficking, prostitution and child exploitation.
Posted in Exclude, Media watch Tagged Bulgaria, France, Institutional forces, Racism, Romania
By Irish Pink Adoptions on March 1, 2010
Not reviewed yet. On the recommended book list.
In search of belonging, reflections by 'transracially' adopted people, Perlita Harris,
British Association of fostering and adoption (www.baaf.org.uk), 2006 |
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Posted in Books Tagged Books, Intercountry, Racism, Recommended list (AAI), Stage 1, UK
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