http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/diversity/ en-us Wed, 8 Oct 2008 23:42:56 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100890/posts While the state has seen demographic shifts in suburban school districts, the isolation and intense concentration of minority students in the 31 Abbott school districts is worse today than it was 20 years ago.  That's the basis for a "friend of the court" brief filed jointly by the New Jersey Black Issues Convention and the Hispanic Directors Association, two influential umbrella organizations. They are among nine groups challenging the state's overhaul of the school funding formula that guaranteed additional aid to the state's neediest districts. Locally, Paterson, Passaic and Garfield are classified as Abbott districts.   The court is scheduled... northjersey.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100890/posts#comment Wed, 8 Oct 2008 23:42:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098106/posts In a town once predominantly Eastern European but now mostly Mexican, there's a flag flap blowing in the wind. Cicero residents recently complained that the Mexican flag was flying at the town's new Cicero Community Park. Although the U.S. and Illinois flags, as well as a sports flag, are flown there, some longtime residents accused town officials of being un-American and demanded the Mexican flag be taken down. "We are at war and you're flying a foreign flag?" Susan Masek, 56, said at last week's town meeting. "We want that flag down. This is the United States. Only the American... Chicago Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098106/posts#comment Sun, 5 Oct 2008 19:28:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2093113/posts WaMu Recognized as Top Diverse Employer—Again Washington Mutual, Inc., September 24, 2008 Washington Mutual, Inc. (NYSE:WM), one of the nation’s leading banks for consumers and small businesses, has once again been recognized as a top employer by Hispanic Business magazine and the Human Rights Campaign. Hispanic Business magazine recently ranked WaMu sixth in its annual Diversity Elite list, which names the top 60 companies for Hispanics. The company was honored specifically for its efforts to recruit Hispanic employees, reach out to Hispanic consumers and support Hispanic communities and organizations. The Human Rights Campaign, the largest national gay, lesbian, bisexual and... WaMu web site http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2093113/posts#comment Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:18:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2092958/posts President Bush will speak in a few minutes. Get to a TV and watch it, if you have the stomach for it. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2092958/posts#comment Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:32:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2092969/posts UNC-Wilmington decided recently that the way to bolster its failing diversity program is to dump more money into it. Without any help from the Bush administration’s financial advisors, they have decided that rewarding failure is a good way to ensure success. That’s why they created a new Associate Provost of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion position. And that’s why they paid big bucks to Jose Hernandez to fill the slot. According to a university press release, the new tolerance czar will focus on four areas of “diversity and inclusion” including the following: Centro Hispano, the Multicultural Center, the African-American Cultural Center,... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2092969/posts#comment Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:50:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091242/posts SEATTLE, WA (September 24, 2008) – Washington Mutual, Inc. (NYSE:WM), one of the nation’s leading banks for consumers and small businesses, has once again been recognized as a top employer by Hispanic Business magazine and the Human Rights Campaign. Hispanic Business magazine recently ranked WaMu sixth in its annual Diversity Elite list, which names the top 60 companies for Hispanics. The company was honored specifically for its efforts to recruit Hispanic employees, reach out to Hispanic consumers and support Hispanic communities and organizations. The Human Rights Campaign, the largest national gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) civil rights organization, also... Washington Mutual http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091242/posts#comment Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:04:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2090955/posts A Hamilton teenager is fighting for his right to wear makeup at school, but school leaders say it's a distraction. "They're gender stereo-typing. He's being sexually discriminated against. Nowhere in the rules does it say that males can't wear make-up" says Mindy Ball. The Hamilton mother says she stands 100% behind her son, 13-year-old Matt Allsup, an eighth grader at Garfield Middle School who wears black eye makeup, lipstick and fingernail polish. But on Monday, he was told to wash the makeup off his face, with the assistant principal telling him it was distracting and against dress code. "When I... WCPO.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2090955/posts#comment Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:14:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090556/posts A poster promoting Israeli-Palestinian peace at an AC Transit bus stop in front of UC Berkeley’s Eshelman Hall has been repeatedly vandalized with anti-Semitic slogans and swastikas, authorities said. The poster—part of the “Only in Israel” public awareness campaign launched by San Francisco-based BlueStarPR and sponsored by the Jewish Community Federation and Foundation of the Greater East Bay—has a picture of Israeli Arab soccer star Sowan Abbas calling for coexistence among communities. The poster also gives an example of a soccer team consisting of Jews and Arabs training together in the Arab-Israeli town of Sakhnin. Gabe Weiner, a campus coordinator... Berkeley Daily Planet http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090556/posts#comment Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:06:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089161/posts As panicked politicians prepare to fork over $1 trillion to rescue Wall Street......one villain has slipped notice: illegal immigration, crime-enabling banks and open-borders Bush policies.......cities hardest hit by the foreclosure wave happen to be some of the nation's largest illegal alien sanctuaries. Half of the mortgages to Hispanics are subprime. A quarter of all those subprime loans are in default and foreclosure. The National Council of La Raza and its Development Fund received millions in federal funds to "counsel" on obtaining mortgages with little to no money down; the group almost succeeded in attaching a $10M earmark for itself in... NY POST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089161/posts#comment Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:44:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2087106/posts I am going to keep this short and to the point. I do a fair bit of air travel and have for the last decade or more pondered why CNN is the only station ever available in every airport in the US. Does anyone else ever question this media monopoly which is able to capture the attention of every air traveler in the country? I don't get it. Why does CNN have this exclusive monopoly in public airports? They have the lock on the attention of the millions of air travelers that move throughout the country. Why is CNN allowed... ME http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2087106/posts#comment Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:12:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086029/posts Blacks rally against Obama. 10+ hold homemade signs. Intentional, well executed protest inside Obama rally. Obama shaken. Brietbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086029/posts#comment Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:37:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2085340/posts Yesterday I reported that Swift Plant had caved into the demands of the Muslims who work there. Now the details of of the deal have come out. All non-Muslims have had their hours cut and were told that they can make up the time by coming in on Saturdays!! Obviously the non-Muslims at Swift have had enough and have staged their own walkout. Islam in Action http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2085340/posts#comment Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:26:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2084716/posts Spokane, Wash. (AP) -- Sherry Jones knew it would be hard to get her first novel published. Getting "The Jewel of Medina" into bookstores was even harder. After overcoming the formidable hurdles any new author faces, Jones was overjoyed to sell the book to Random House. Then Random House canceled its publication at the last minute for fear the historical novel about Aisha, child bride of the prophet Muhammad, would incite riots in the Muslim world. AP via SFGate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2084716/posts#comment Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:40:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083804/posts Government professor Lisa L. Martin, who served as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' first diversity dean and chair of the Standing Committee on Women, has left Harvard for the University of Wisconsin at Madison, criticizing Dean of the Faculty Michael D. Smith's commitment to hiring minority and female professors on her way out. As a leader of female and minority recruitment, Martin compiled and released two reports on hiring. Her first report raised alarm when it found that the female tenure rate in 2005-2006 had fallen to 21 percent - half the rate of the previous year. Martin started... BG News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083804/posts#comment Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:10:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2078359/posts "A nine-year-old girl has the same sexual capacities like a woman of twenty and over". Thus reads a fatwa issued by Skeikh Mohamed Ibn Abderrahmane Al-Maghraoui, according to Moroccan daily 'Aujourd'hui Le Maroc'. This immediately sparked off a hot debate, with most of the public opinion absolutely against this stance which is a permit for paedophilia, many say, among other things. Among the various stances against the fatwa (in the Islamic culture, a decree of religious character issued by Islamic experts which regulates issues of topical character), the daily reported those of extremist MP Abdelbari Zamzami and the president of... ANSAmed http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2078359/posts#comment Tue, 9 Sep 2008 19:34:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2075700/posts An African-American from Generation X, two White Guys from the Silent Generation and a woman from Generation X. Arguably, the greatest diversity the U.S. has ever seen in its leading general election candidates for the Presidency. I think that’s a healthy thing. The progress our nation has made on the topic of diversity is, surely, the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. But, he taught us not to judge people based on observable differences – e.g. the color of skin (or the age of skin or the shape of skin). Rather, his instruction was to base judgment on content of... A Few Days With Figgins http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2075700/posts#comment Sat, 6 Sep 2008 00:35:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074509/posts black and Asian youths fight it out in broad daylight on the streets of London. The terrifying scenes were captured by a photographer who had been waiting in the street to take a photo of the actress Julie Christie, who lives nearby. Instead he was faced with a brutal illustration of life in modern Britain as gang warfare erupted around him in broad daylight. Daily Mail online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074509/posts#comment Thu, 4 Sep 2008 14:20:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070871/posts ‘Burying women alive for honour is tribal tradition’ * Baloch senator Israrullah Zehri says members should not politicise issue ISLAMABAD: The killing of women for honour is a demand of the tribal traditions, Balochistan Senator Israrullah Zehri informed the Senate on Friday. Zehri was responding to Senator Yasmeen Shah’s statement in which she had drawn the House’s attention towards reports that five women had been buried alive in Balochistan in the name of honour. She called it a sheer violation of human rights. Zehri asked the members not to politicise the issue, as it was a matter of safeguarding the... Daily Times, Pakistan/LGF http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070871/posts#comment Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:56:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2069166/posts Devout Muslim found guilty of forcing boys to flog themselves in religious ceremony Last updated at 15:41pm on 27.08.08   A devout Muslim was found guilty of child cruelty today in a British legal first after forcing two boys to beat themselves during a religious ceremony.The jury at Manchester Crown Court found 44-year-old Syed Mustafa Zaidi guilty of two counts of child cruelty.The boys, aged 13 and 15, were forced to beat themselves with a zanjeer zani, an implement containing five curved blades, during a ceremony to commemorate the death of a Shia Muslim spiritual leader.Zaidi, of Station Road,... The Evening Standard (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2069166/posts#comment Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:57:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2067684/posts Am I Diverse Enough? by: Deborah Lambert, August 25, 2008 When Andrew Quinio graduated from Berkeley in May 2008, one of his proudest achievements had to be serving as editor-in-chief of the California Patriot, the conservative campus magazine. However, in a recent column on mindingthecampus.com, Andrew noted that it was impossible to reflect on his four years at Berkeley without thinking of the word “diversity.” While the goal was supposedly a climate of “cultural tolerance and understanding,” Berkeley “appeared to encourage a divisive culture of victimhood and entitlement.” For example, “housing students by race seemed . . . an odd... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2067684/posts#comment Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:04:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066805/posts ANNAPOLIS, Md. - The U.S. Naval Academy is building on efforts to increase student diversity with the help of a new commercial and a graphic novel. ... Vice Adm. Jeffrey Fowler, the academy's superintendent, wants to make the academy's student body as diverse as the Navy's enlisted force, in which minorities make up about 47 percent. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066805/posts#comment Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:15:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064167/posts The famous writer Roger Kimball has issued a challenge: Name the silliest argument to be offered by a serious academic in the last 25 years and to be taken up and be gravely masticated by the larger world of intellectual debate. A leading contender is Global Warming. Kimball's own entry is Francis Fukuyama's "end of history" thesis. Kimball's rules of the contest: "I'll collect proposals for the next week or two and then announce the winner. (The decision, from which there is no appeal, will be determined by a committee staffed, overseen, and operated entirely by me.)" This tournament reminds... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064167/posts#comment Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:34:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062423/posts An outstanding speech by the reincarnate Thomas Paine. Utube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062423/posts#comment Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:17:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060204/posts Hundreds of riot police chased a group of roving youths early Monday after a night of rioting and vandalism in a North Montreal neighbourhood set off by the fatal police shooting of an 18-year-old man over the weekend. The park is in a predominantly Haitian neighbourhood where tensions between police and young people run high, according to residents. "The police are always creeping around here, hassling people," one unidentified youth told CBC News as he stood in front of a looted butcher shop. The violence began after a Sunday afternoon protest at Henri Bourassa Park, the site of Saturday's police... CBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060204/posts#comment Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:36:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060601/posts One third of whites claim they are victims of racism Last updated at 10:16am on 12.08.08  A growing number of white people believe they are the victims of racial prejudice in Britain, official research has found. Almost one in three - 29 per cent - said they now expected to be treated worse than other races by key public services.  And the number of whites claiming to have been refused a job or discriminated against at work for reasons of race has doubled in the last five years, according to the Government study.   Flashback: Riots in Burnley, Lancs, 2001 when... The Evening Standard (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060601/posts#comment Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:07:59 GMT