Review of Cult of the Constitution by Mary Anne Franks
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Critical Race Theory and Publicly Funded Education
Critical Race Theory (CRT) has created emotional outbursts at school board meetings. President Trump’s executive order banning CRT in government agencies and FOX News rantings all feel like impolite and annoying uninformed racism. But what is at stake is the future of public education and the creation of a multicultural nation without racism. Supporting and promoting CRT is important, not just to ensure a quality American education, but for the future of America.
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What Can I Do About Racism
A small group at the church I attend is reading Isabel Wilkerson’s book, Caste. We are an all-white group learning about racism. One of the participants said, “I wish I knew something that I can do about racism.” Since then, the question has haunted me.
What can I do
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Trustees Need to Address Racism
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A Campus without Racism?
Racism needs to be on the agenda of college and university trustees because integrity and sustainability can be threatened when resources have not been directed to create an anti-racism environment. Addressing racism is also an essential component of fulfilling the larger responsibility that higher education has to sustain
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Immigration Legislation of 1987
This year ABC-CLIO published Michael C. LeMay's book, Immigration Reform: A Reference Handbook. The book is 368 pages of data, opinions, history, lists of resources and more. It is a comprehensive reference of all the issues and the people who have worked on immigration reform. Available from the publisher, Abebooks.com or Amazon.
The book contains an essay that my dad, Berkley Bedell, and I wrote about the Congressional process that resulted in the Immigration Reform Law of 1987. Now at 98 years old, Dad has some ideas about the process that would make it possible for immigration law to be fixed.
Is Trump a Racist?
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Is President Trump a racist? The question presents an opportunity to reflect on racism and how we, as a nation, can overcome racism. A good place to begin is by defining who is a racist. Immediately the contested nature of racism appears. On one point there is very little disagreement. A person who participates in an association based on the belief that white people are superior to people of color is a racist. So, members of the KKK are a clear case of racists.
But what about President Trump who doesn’t appear to be a joiner and claims, “I don’t have a racist bone in my body.” Can he still be a racist? Answering this question requires considering what racism and race are.
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Endorsements
Ken Bedell's Realizing the Civil Rights Dream: Diagnosing and Treating American Racism is a roadmap to understanding racism and its affect and influence on civil rights efforts and policy makers during the 1960s and beyond.