Day: March 13, 2010

Politics

Akram’s Razor – Reflections on Islam, Muslims & America: “Black Like Me” in Germany

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This story is simultaneously sad and funny. A German puts on bad blackface to pretend to be a Somali, to prove Germans are racist. Philipp Lichterbeck, film critic for the Tagesspiegel newspaper, says that Mr Wallraff’s disguise made him look like a clown. The fact that nobody suspected that something was amiss, he says, “does not exactly testify to the worldliness of the Germans”. Akram’s Razor: “Black Like Me” in Germany.

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Current Affairs

E.E.O.C. Sees Bias in Almontaser Ouster at Khalil Gibran School – NYTimes.com

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Acting on a complaint filed last year by the principal, Debbie Almontaser, the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found that the department “succumbed to the very bias that creation of the school was intended to dispel and a small segment of the public succeeded in imposing its prejudices on D.O.E. as an employer,” according to a letter issued by the commission on Tuesday. E.E.O.C. Sees Bias in Almontaser Ouster at Khalil Gibran School – NYTimes.com.

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