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Saturday, November 14, 2009

Race in China & Obama's Visit

Good article on a very touchy subject - China confronts issues of race and long-held prejudice from the Washington Post.

The article did not mention that a half brother (who married a Chinese) of Obama's lives in China and will meet with the President in China. And China is becoming much more active in China, with China Pledges $10 Billion to Africa. But, in Africa there is also anger in many countries with Chinese companies not using local labor, but importing other Chinese to do the labor.

A previous blog post of mine - Mixed Race in China.

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Monday, January 21, 2008

Martin Luther King Day

The speach by Martin Luther King - I Had A Dream is incredible and every time I read it I appreciate it more. It is hopeful, truthful, and still relevant today - 45 years after it was delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC.

Only in 1967, 4 years after Dr. Kings speech did the Supreme Court in Loving vs. Virginia overturn anti-Miscegenation Laws that barred marriage between races saying it violated the equal protection and due process clauses of the 14th amendment.

14th Amendment
Section. 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Relevant Links:
Racism Against Chinese in the US

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Saturday, December 1, 2007

UC Berkeley - What Are You

24% of students at UC Berkeley identified themselves as mixed race. A big question is "What are you?" When you are mixed race it gets interesting. Assuming how a person will act just because of how they look is like judging a book by it's cover. Often it's wrong. Two sisters who were mixed identified themselves differently in surveys depending on how they felt. They were a couple of generation Japanese Americans with an English Father. One of the sisters arranged a blind date where I met my wife (so we know who to blame).

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