Obama has said, "I identify as African-American - that's how I'm treated and that's how I'm viewed. I'm proud of it."
"We do not have our first black president," the author Christopher Hitchens said on the BBC program "Newsnight." "He is not black. He is as black as he is white."
A Doonesbury comic strip that ran the day after the election showed several soldiers celebrating.
"He's half-white, you know," says a white soldier.
"You must be so proud," responds another.
Pride is the center of racial identity, and some white people seem insulted by a perception that Obama is rejecting his white mother (even though her family was a centerpiece of his campaign image-making) or baffled by the notion that someone would choose to be black instead of half-white
NEW YORK (AP) -- The brother of an Ecuadorean immigrant beaten to death in an apparent hate crime asked his neighbors Sunday for help finding the killers, saying he and his family were heartbroken.
Diego Sucuzhanay called the brutal attack "a wake-up call" to the public.
"It shows how far we must still come to address the devastating problem of hate crimes in our communities. Only by exposing these crimes and working together will we be able to make a difference," Sucuzhanay (pronounced suh-KOO'-chen-eye) said at a news conference outside the Queens hospital where his brother, Jose, died late Friday.AP Dec 14 By RICHARD PYLE
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Jose Sucuzhanay, a 31-year-old real estate broker, was accosted on a Brooklyn street by men who yelled anti-Hispanic and anti-gay slurs at him and his brother, Rommel, early Dec. 7, according to police. The two were walking arm in arm after attending a church party and then stopping at a bar.
Rommel Sucuzhanay was able to get away and call police, but Jose Sucuzhanay was attacked by three men who smashed a beer bottle over his head, hit him in the head with an aluminum baseball bat and kicked him, police said.
The attack on Sucuzhanay came about a month after another Ecuadorean immigrant, Marcelo Lucero, was stabbed to death in Patchogue, on suburban Long Island.
14.12.2008
Authorities Search for Skinhead After Police Chief Stabbed
A manhunt was under way Sunday, Dec. 14, for suspected neo-Nazis after the police chief in the southern German city of Passau was seriously injured in a knife attack.
The 52-year-old official was stabbed after answering the door of his home in the Passau suburb of Fuerstenzell on Saturday, Dec. 13. Police on Sunday said chief Alois Mannichl's injuries were not life-threatening and that he was recovering.
Police linked the attack to a series of raids against extreme right-wing groups in the city this year.
The police chief told investigators the attacker, a 1.9 meter-tall (6.2-foot), bald man, wished him greetings from "the national resistance," according to Bavarian Interior Ministry spokesman Oliver Platzer.
If suspicions of neo-Nazi responsibility for the attack prove true, it would represent an "escalation of violence" and "a completely new dimension of violence from the right," Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said.
While emphasizing that indications of a far-right attack needed to be confirmed, Herrmann told the daily Passauer Neuen Presse in an article to appear Monday that such violence would reignite discussions over whether to ban the far-right NPD party.
The NDP has legislative seats in two of the 16 German states, but no representation at federal level.
Last month the extreme right-wing party NPD accused the police director of harassing its members during a rally to remember Germany's war dead.
Far-right extremists went on the rampage in July after the grave of a deceased functionary was exhumed and police removed a Nazi flag that had been draped over the coffin during the burial.
The Bavarian Interior Ministry has said the number of crimes related to right-wing extremism in and around Passau has more than doubled in the past year. Police has investigated 83 crimes so far in 2008, compared to 40 in 2007.
There are around 31,000 members of extreme right-wing groups in Germany, about 10,000 of whom are prepared to resort to violence, according to the domestic intelligence agency, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
Some 377 people were injured in attacks by right-wing extremists last year, according to national police. In all, there were 17,000 crimes with a right-wing extremist background. In the first nine months of this year, the figure was up nearly 9 percent, police figures show.
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even if you do want to be in Japan for the long term, how could you ever be satisfied working at the functional equivalent of a janitor just because it’s in a country you like?
日本に居たいとして、掃除屋さんと同じことをしてまでいたいのか？
How Much Experience Do I Have? That doesn’t even factor in racism where a job candidate is chosen for his nationality.
Can I Drive in Japan? That’s probably not even an option since the driving test is extremely difficult.
The Networking Plan. Again, a foreigner probably won’t have any “networks” to speak with because of their length of stay in the country, nationality, and the Japanese tendency to avoid strangers.
Am I prepared to take “living in Japan” to the next level if the current job disappears? Yeah get a Japanese wife or girlfriend, don’t bother with this list and live off her or her parents.
経験なんて関係ない。国籍が問題、人種差別だから。
運転できるかって？運転テストは難しすぎ。
ネットワーク？外人には難しい。日本人は赤の他人とはつきあわない。
今の仕事がなくなったらどうするかって？
日本人の彼女か、奥さんもらってやしなってもらえばええじゃんか！！！
・・・・ The English teachers I have met seem to lack self esteem .・・・・・ I have never seen a white taxi driver, gasstation worker or denki shop personel.・・・・ Ive worked in several sectors, and I never stay at once place for over 2 years. Im getting close to 40, so that means its time for me to leave・・・・・Speaking Japanese isnt what the foriegn community says it is. Most Japanese look down on you if your fluent and treat you different. Its one of the many weird things about this place.
おれのあった英語の教師はみんな自己評価が低い・・・白人のタクシードライバーやガソリンスタンドや電気屋の従業員はみたことない。いろんなところで仕事をやってきたが、２年以上いたことない。もうすぐ４０才、つまり、そろそろおいとまする時期だな。日本語しゃべれるのは在日外国人たちがいうようなもんじゃない。ほとんどの日本人は日本語しゃべれる外人を軽蔑するし、扱いがあるい。おかしなところだよ
Jim- True that lots of English teachers lack self-esteem and feel ashamed・・・・・ As for learning J and getting less respect, I’ve sort of come to this conclusion too.
