Sunday, January 29, 2012
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Monday, January 2, 2012
The Condition of Broken Hearts
While listening to Hill Harper's Letters to a Young Sister, I was struck by an interesting statement regarding the condition of broken hearts.
Some people believe that a broken heart is an open heart. This is the point Hill makes in his book, but the flip of this belief is that in many instances, broken hearts are completely closed and sealed by the jagged edges of brokeness!
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Racism: A History
A documentary which is exploring the impact of racism on a global scale, as part of the season of programmes marking the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery. Beginning by assessing the implications of the relationship between Europe, Africa and the Americas in the 15th century, it considers how racist ideas and practices developed in key religious and secular institutions, and how they showed up in writings by European philosophers Aristotle and Immanuel Kant.
Looking at Scientific Racism, invented during the 19th century, an ideology that drew on now discredited practices such as phrenology and provided an ideological justification for racism and slavery. These theories ultimately led to eugenics and Nazi racial policies of the master race. Some upsetting scenes.
The third and final episode of Racism: A History examines the impact of racism in the 20th Century। By 1900, European colonial expansion had reached deep into the heart of Africa। Under the rule of King Leopold II, The Belgian Congo was turned into a vast rubber plantation. Men, women and children who failed to gather their latex quotas would have their limbs dismembered. The country became the scene of one of the century’s greatest racial genocides, as an estimated 10 million Africans perished under colonial rule. Contains scenes which some viewers may find disturbing.
A documentary which is exploring the impact of racism on a global scale, as part of the season of programmes marking the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery. Beginning by assessing the implications of the relationship between Europe, Africa and the Americas in the 15th century, it considers how racist ideas and practices developed in key religious and secular institutions, and how they showed up in writings by European philosophers Aristotle and Immanuel Kant.
Looking at Scientific Racism, invented during the 19th century, an ideology that drew on now discredited practices such as phrenology and provided an ideological justification for racism and slavery. These theories ultimately led to eugenics and Nazi racial policies of the master race. Some upsetting scenes.
The third and final episode of Racism: A History examines the impact of racism in the 20th Century। By 1900, European colonial expansion had reached deep into the heart of Africa। Under the rule of King Leopold II, The Belgian Congo was turned into a vast rubber plantation. Men, women and children who failed to gather their latex quotas would have their limbs dismembered. The country became the scene of one of the century’s greatest racial genocides, as an estimated 10 million Africans perished under colonial rule. Contains scenes which some viewers may find disturbing.
The doc indicates that Europe has hidden this aspect of her history creating the idea that the Jewish Holocaust was some sort of ghost of European history, but truly the Jewish Holocaust was a natural progression in the marred history of European colonization, dehumanizing and murdering of ethnic peoples around the world.
The first Holocaust of the 19th Century happened to the Africans who had made Tasmania their home for 10,000 years until white, British, settlers lusted after the land. Watch the doc to learn the rest of the story.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
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