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The 'C' Word
They made us hold the name coolielike a cutlass it bit us coming to Guyana – From "Coolie" by Rajiv Mohabir For as long as I can remember, the word "coolie" has been thrown around casually when referring to Indo-Caribbeans—even by Indo-Caribbeans themselves. It was only a few years ago I learned the actual meaning and history behind the word, and I was extremely surprised. I had never considered what the word really meant, or where it had come from. It was always used loosely around me, so I didn’t think it came from a negative place.
Tiara JadePublished 5 years ago in The SwampDear America...
Dear America, My name is Johnny Reed, a freelance Journalist from a city called Leeds in the UK, somewhere that geographically seems a million miles away from El Paso in Texas. Yet for some reason, today I can’t help but feel close to the Texan community in a way I never thought I would.
Jonathan ReedPublished 5 years ago in The SwampIn a Perfect World
There are so many things I could address with the problems we currently see in today's society. While social class, gender, and race are their own category, I feel they all can be put under one word: discrimination. While this country may have moved three steps up during the 1960s, we have certainly moved two steps back. To me the main problems with society now is still that difference makes one unequal. Whether it be sexuality, the sex you identify yourself as, the pronouns we use, the cultures we see, and the colors that come with it, everyone is not equal. At least not in this country anymore. I want to focus on two main categories, race and transgender individuals.
Madison RheamPublished 5 years ago in The SwampTop Three Avoidable Deaths *Must Read*
There are many dangerous things that creep along every crevice of this world. I think we are all fully aware that the world as we know it is slowly falling apart. It's a huge regression that people love to speak on but don't actually work to fix. For centuries this word has been slowly crumbling and becoming the number one source of our problems. How?
The Darkest SunrisePublished 5 years ago in The SwampWhy I Want to Run for President
First of all, I’m shy. I’m dreadfully shy. So nobody break down my email box with emails, please. I want to run for Governor of California and serve as the Senator of Los Angeles when I move to Sacramento, after getting my Ph.D. along with everything else, which is on my blog or Facebook page, and then I become a congressional representative in Washington, D.C. After that, the door is wide open to run for president. The old Man used to say that being president is a man’s job, and how dare I even think it?
Iria Vasquez-PaezPublished 5 years ago in The SwampSecond 2020 Democratic Presidential Debate, Part 2 of 2
The headline of the second part of the Second Democratic Presidential Debate on CNN last night is that Joe Biden did a lot better than he did in the First Democratic Presidential Debate on MSNBC last month. He was still a little inarticulate at times, and a little too prone to let the moderators interrupt him, but he was very impressive. And so was just about everyone else on stage in Detroit tonight.
Paul LevinsonPublished 5 years ago in The SwampHave the Far Left Taken Over Green Movement?
Have extreme socialists taken over the “green” agenda? It is a historical norm for genuine public concerns and popular causes, to be taken over by political activists and usually by extremes of political view points. They then try to use the popularity of a cause to subvert democracy and gain both power and influence while hiding behind a genuine concern.
Peter RosePublished 5 years ago in The SwampSecond 2020 Democratic Presidential Debate, Part 1 of 2
I thought the first part of the second 2020 Democratic Presidential Debate, on CNN last night, was much better than the first part of the first 2020 Democratic Presidential Debate on MSNBC last month. By "much better," I mean that almost every candidate on the stage expressed her or himself better than what we saw last month.
Paul LevinsonPublished 5 years ago in The Swamp- Top Story - July 2019
Discussing the Importance of Respecting a Memorial (And How We Can Still Learn from the Yolocaust Project)
This June, before heading to a (blistering hot) Berlin, just a week earlier I found myself discussing the topic of respectful behaviour at memorials and sights of tragedy with friends. Our discussion was prompted by a recent tweet we had seen from the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. The tweet included pictures of visitors to the camp posing on the famous train tracks. The account (@AuschwitzMuseum) accompanied these photographs with the following caption:
Georgi KatePublished 5 years ago in The Swamp - Top Story - July 2019
Missing The Debates? Don't Feel Bad
It feels pretty bad to be interested in politics but not want to sit through these three-hour candidate debates that keep cropping up. Featuring ten candidates—three or four you actually have heard of—these events purport to be an honest examination of the issues facing the United States in the 2020 Presidential election.
Steve LlanoPublished 5 years ago in The Swamp The US Government Wants to Ramp Up DNA Testing at the Southern Border
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have confirmed that they are using rapid DNA testing at seven locations along the US-Mexico border, in order to identify groups of people falsely claiming to be families. The technology can produce a result in around 90 minutes—compared to the previously used police testing process which would take weeks.
Dave SmithPublished 5 years ago in The SwampShaun King and 'The North Star'
Does everyone know what The North Star is? It was a newspaper founded by freedman Frederick Douglas. It was an abolitionist newspaper started in Rochester, New York in 1847. Writer, Shaun King, has revived The North Star. Shaun King cites current news outlets that don’t fight against social injustice and the problems economic and social inequality create for people of color as one reason he writes at The North Star.