The New Face of Race: A Community Discussion
The New Face of Race: A Community Discussion
Documentary Viewing: January 19, 2010 Seabrook Auditorium 2:00 p.m. & 6:00 p.m. Radio Interview: January 20, 2010 WFSS Bronco Cafe 1:30 p.m. Roundtable Discussion: January 21, 2010 Seabrook Auditorium 6:00 p.m. Book/DVD Signing: January 21, 2010 FSU Bookstore, Bronco Square 7:30 p.m.
President Obama’s election has caused many to discuss whether race is still an issue in America. However, in his speech “A More Perfect Union” delivered in Philadelphia in March 2008, the President said, “The fact is that the comments that have been made and the issues that have surfaced over the last few weeks reflect the complexities of race in this country that we’ve never really worked through - a part of our union that we have yet to perfect. And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American.”
The documentary; A Conversation About Race, by filmmaker Craig Bodeker is one example of trying to “work through” the issue of race and racism in America. In it, Mr. Bodeker questions a diverse group of Colorado residents about their thoughts on such things as why white students score better than black students on standardized tests, why the NBA is nearly 90% black, whether they consider themselves racist, whether whites are better at anything than blacks and if its okay to say so, and how they feel about immigration. The result is a provocative discussion piece. In his new book, Rights, Race, and Recognition, University of Kansas Professor Derrick Darby draws on the legacy of race and racism in the United States to argue that all rights are products of social recognition. He asserts that rights have been grounded in divine agency, human nature, and morally justified claims, and have been used to assess the moral status of legal and customary social practices. The orthodoxy is that some of our rights are a species of unrecognized or natural rights. For example, black slaves in antebellum America were said to have such rights, and this was taken to provide a basis for establishing the immorality of slavery.
In a Chancellor’s Distinguished Series first, we invite the campus and community to participate in three days of activities geared at promoting an educational and positive discussion about the new face of race in America. On Tuesday, January 19, 2010 we will host two showings of Mr. Bodeker’s documentary. The following day, Dr. Darby will be interviewed on WFSS during the Bronco Cafe. Then on Thursday evening, panelists from diverse backgrounds will participate in a moderated discussion on the issue of race as it relates to politics, education, and civil rights. Following the roundtable discussion, Mr. Bodeker and Mr. Darby will sell and sign DVDs and books in the FSU Bookstore. All events are free and open to the public.
Confirmed roundtable discussion panelists are:
Born and raised in Minnesota, Craig Bodeker atttended the University of Hawaii at Manoa. There he studied acting, however in 1992 he began producing short promotional videos. Over the next few years he visited Asia and compiled video footage that would be used in two 2007 projects- a short video “21 Hours in Bangkok” and a documentary “China 95.” In 1998 he returned to the U.S. mainland and settled near Denver, Colorado. 2008 was a watershed year for Mr. Bodeker. He changed his political affiliation from Republican and then founded New Century Productions in order to produce his first feature documentary which would focus on issues raised in the 2008 elections, specifically race. Since the release of this documentary, Mr. Bodeker has traveled the country encouraging dialogue on the issues raised in his work. This includes filming his visits to different parts of the country for future works. For more information about Mr. Bodeker and his documentary, please visit www.aconversationaboutrace.com.
A native of Queens, New York, Dr. Derrick Darby is the author of Rights, Race, and Recognition (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and Hip Hop and Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason, co edited with Tommie Shelby (Chicago: Open Court Publishing, 2005). He is currently an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Kansas. His areas of specialization are Social and Political Philosophy and African American Philosophy. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh and his B.A. in Philosophy from Colgate University.
For more information about Dr. Darby, please visit http://www.philosophy.ku.edu/People/Faculty/Darby.shtml.
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"As the National Journal's Ron Brownstein has been reporting, white America is increasingly alienated and distrustful of all our major economic and political power centers - the banks, big corporations, the government. And, for the first time in our lifetimes outside the South, white racial consciousness has visibly begun to rise."
~ Patrick J. Buchanan
Obama team's panic over losing whites by Patrick J. Buchanan
“President Obama’s election has caused many to discuss whether race is still an issue in America.”
Let’s not get “side-tracked” here.
The problem is not to be laid at the feet of the white man.
I saw a video today of a Chechnyan woman being decapitated by Muslim “men,” who murder innocent people in the name of Allah. This horror was performed in front of her boyfriend. I have also seen pictures of Muslim women whose faces were melted, by having acid thrown into them. Some of the women had no eyes,lips or noses and many were reduced to raw skull showing.
These Muslims think it proper to reduce the Crown of Creation–the human being–to rank animal status, as if he were a beast to be slaughtered. These people who are loathe to eat the flesh of a pig, because it is ostensibly “unclean,” think nothing of the filth on their own souls, when they murder a human being, as if that human were a hog.
The American people are witness to a Muslim “president,” who everyone knows is an anti-American usurper, and direct threat to our Constitution, and our national security.
Obama is a primary impediment–along with the other Muslims–to better race relations, as no culture appreciates being subjugated Genghis Khan-style.
The only thing to be discussed is what punishment will be meted out to Obama for committing treason against the Constitution, by his usurpation of high political office.
Americans don’t really give a fig, about his race, it’s his politics, religion, and illegal alien status which are the problem.
The Muslim has proven time-and-again to the world that he is indeed a subhuman, fit only for an extermination camp.
Race means culture–as evidenced by the so-called “honor-killings” of Muslim immigrant women, who fall victim to their own fathers and brothers. These fathers and brothers rape their own daughters and sisters, and then–after they have been sullied, through no fault of their own–the Muslim men murder the female members of their own family, to “preserve the family honor,” never taking responsibility for having raped them in the first place.
The Muslim “immigrant” is nothing more than a cancer on the national life of Western nations.
Yes, race is a primary issue, especially when a Mexican occupation army infests American territory. These “new Palestinians” imagine that our land is theirs, and hence, they have come to claim it, with a massive assistance from our treasonous Congress and fictitious “president.” This usurper plans to grant “amnesty” to these Mexican nationals, who come in the name of “La Reconquista.”
Race determines everything insofar as it pertains to questions as to whether the Muslim can indeed assimilate to the dominant Western culture of the host nation.
If we have learned anything from the events which transpired on Sept. 11th, 2001, it is that this alien race from jihadistan, is clearly NOT compatible with Western man, and indeed is a direct threat to our national security, which must be dealt with in a very decisive manner.
No more waterboarding Mr. Nice Guy!
Mecca, Medina and the grave of the “prophet” (with a small “P”) must be vaporized, and hammered flat. All mosques, minarets and towers of the enemy must be reduced to rubble.
This is the American way; total war for our national survival and way of life.
The enemy has established the ground rules for this race war by his cowardly attack on Western shrines of democracy, and world cultural heritage sites–not to mention how he treats women!
This writer is talking about the total extermination of a religion– and culture, if necessary– for those who blindly adhere to it in a fanatical manner. Let them be nuked and taught about who really holds the title of warlord. This deliberate national resolve is what makes a “Greatest Generation.”
The enemy has no problem with the total incineration of cities and people; why do we, as a response to that challenge for the survival of our country?
All Muslim “immigrants” must be rounded up and put in detention camps–as were the Japanese-Americans during World War II– until such time as it is determined whether they will be liquidated as enemy combatants or deported, as enemy aliens.
The question should be a lot easier this time around, as it will not be complicated by the fact that the detainees are American citizens, as those who attacked the World Trade Center, were clearly Saudi nationals.
Race becomes especially pertinent, when one observes what happens to Western cultures when they admit Muslims into their midst. Right now, Britain is under complete onslaught from the Muslim hordes. The British race is being extinguished by this spearhead of Muslim immigration/invasion. The character of the British people and culture is being submerged under the new Sharia law of the alien culture, which has come to replace it and make new demands.
If anyone has any doubts about the question, he need merely familiarize himself with the philosophy of the Mechista mindset of the Mexican “Mi raza primero” invader, who openly proclaims: “Race determines destiny.”
http://www.truthtube.tv/play.php?vid=2133
The alternative to blaming the white man is seeing minorities for what they really are.