Even when they thought it was funny, it was still insulting
Archive for July, 2007
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Jul
07
Ghetto Superman
30
Jul
07
No Child Left Uncultured.
From Culture Grrl
Who would have thought that art would make it into July 23rds Democratic Presidential debate?
It made a cameo appearance during the discussion of education, when Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico actually said the “A”-word.
Let’s go to the transcript:
RICHARDSON: I would have a major federal program of art in the schools…
(APPLAUSE)
… music, dancing, sculpture, and the arts.
(APPLAUSE)
Instead of “No Child Left Behind,” which most of the candidates seemed to repudiate, it could be: “No Child Left Uncultured.”
Arts education also received strong verbal, if not financial, support yesterday from New York Mayor (and possible presidential aspirant) Michael Bloomberg..
Jennifer Medina reports in today’s NY Times:
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced yesterday that the city’s Department of Education will require all schools to maintain arts programs, and that principals will be rated in their annual reviews on how well they run those programs.
The announcement came just months after the department infuriated arts groups by eliminating a multimillion-dollar program to finance arts education.
Art is also on the mind of France’s new president, Nicolas Sarkozy, who is considering whether more of his countrymen might attend French museums if admission were free, according to Alan Riding in yesterday’s NY Times. But one of France’s most prominent cultural figures seems to be more of Richardson’s mind.
Riding reports:
“One learns to read at school, one doesn’t learn to see,” Pierre Rosenberg, the former president-director of the Louvre, wrote recently in the Paris daily Libération. “For decades art historians have been united in demanding that the history of art be required teaching in high schools.”
This, Rosenberg feels, is the key to attracting more of the French to their country’s tourist-thronged museums.
In any event, it’s refreshing that nationally prominent politicians are giving the arts even a few minutes of serious thought.
27
Jul
07
Venus Back on Tracks
23
Jul
07
Youssou N Dour
Youssou N’Dour (born October 1, 1959 in Dakar) is a Senegalese singer and percussionist. He helped develop popular music in Senegal, known in the Wolof language as mbalax, a blend of the country’s traditional griot percussion and praise-singing with the Afro-Cuban arrangements and flavors which made the return trip from the Caribbean to West Africa in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s and have flourished in West Africa ever since.
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20
Jul
07
Samuel Eto’o
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Eto’o seeks racism walk-off
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| Cameroon and Barcelona striker Samuel Eto’o says players should walk off the pitch if they face racist abuse.
Eto’o almost walked off the pitch last year at Real Zaragoza, who were merely fined US$11,000 for their fans abuse. “Promises have been made for change – for sanctions to be enforced – but the first move needs to be made by those who are being subjected to the abuse,” he said. “Part of me hopes that one day someone will manage to walk off the pitch in protest.” With the new season in Europe fast approaching, Eto’o believes the general public also have a role to play in clamping down on the problem. Eto’o said: “If we experience this in football it means our society is rotten and that means we’re in a dangerous situation. “That’s what we need to be fighting against. I think that football is a small thing, but society – just imagine! “I am treated first and foremost as a footballer, as Samuel Eto’o, but away from the cameras a black man is suffering from racism and nobody cares. “That’s the problem.” Taking to www.feelfootball.com, Eto’o also criticised some members of the media for disregarding his comments on the racist attacks he has suffered. He added: “I think the media tried to shoot me down (in the past) as if I was making too much of it, but the whole time I was just expressing how I was feeling. “I think that education is the problem, and the media have a full role to play in this. “It is just ignorance, that is all it is.” |
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(Racism) is just ignorance, that is all it is 19
Jul
07
Trevor Phillips
On 8 September 2006, Trevor was announced as chair of the new Commission for Equality and Human Rights (CEHR), which will take over the work of Britain’s three existing equality commissions in October 2007.
Trevor was appointed chair of the CRE on 1 March 2003 by the then home secretary David Blunkett.
Born in London in 1953, Trevor attended secondary school in Georgetown, Guyana, and then studied chemistry at Imperial College London. Between 1978 and 1980, he was president of The National Union of Students. He then went into broadcasting, becoming Head of Current Affairs at LWT in 1992. From 1987 to 2000, he was alternately the editor or the presenter of The London Programme. Trevor received awards from the Royal Television Society in 1988, 1993 and 1998.
He was elected as a member of the Greater London Authority in May 2000, and became chair of the Assembly later that month.
Trevor is a director of Pepper Productions, founded in 1995, and was the executive producer on Windrush (which won the Royal Television Society Documentary Series of the Year award in 1998), Britain’s Slave Trade, Second Chance and When Black Became Beautiful. He is a vice president of the Royal Television Society.
At present, he is chair of the Young Adults Working Group of the Financial Services Authority, and a board member of the Almeida Theatre in Islington, Aldeburgh Productions and The Bernie Grant Centre in Tottenham. He is a patron of The Sickle Cell Society. Between 1993 and 1998 Trevor was chair of the Runnymede Trust.
In addition to many newspaper articles and comment pieces, Trevor has co-written Windrush: The Irresistible Rise of Multiracial Britain (with Mike Phillips), published in 1998, and Britain’s Slave Trade (with S.I. Martin) published the following year.
18
Jul
07
animation vs animator
17
Jul
07
Dion Floyd’s Urban Sprawl
Iceburg™ |
This is a comic series I can’t wait to buy
Created by Dion Floyd,
Kevin L. Patrick and Maurice Robertson. The year is 2250. It is 140 years after the Net Wars of 2110 took its toll on the world’s economy especially the American region. Soon afterwards ‘Neo America’ formed an alliance with Japan and together they created the first international city called ‘Sanctuary’. Sanctuary was to be a Utopian city government that all cities worldwide would use as the template for their restructuring. An new law enforcement agency, Munipol, was put in place to serve and protect this next generation of civilization. The Sewer or Outer Sanctuary, lies directly in the wasteland on the outskirts of Sanctuary. It’s riddled with the poverty, organized crime, and all things that have no place what is to be the city of the future. Caught in the turmoil created in forging a New World Order are: a seductive African ninja and two determined Munipol Officers determined to find her first. Urban Sprawl Conceptual Artwork by Pat Presley. |
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