どうもまだ、グーグル編集がクルクルパー。
AUGUST 17, 2011 · 1:03 PM
Boston Bar Faces Lawsuit, Accused Of Barring Black Patrons
Massachusetts AG Martha Coakley is taking legal action against Peggy O’Neil’s, saying Monday that the watering hole has engaged in “a pattern of not allowing customers of color to enter and use the bar.”
The Boston Globe reported that in December that two African-American men were refused at the door when they were trying to get in for a white friend’s birthday party.
The birthday girl tried to intervene, but according to the report, Caron O’Neil, the bar’s owner, refused to let the guests come inside – as 10 white customers were let in.
When they asked how much it would cost to get in, they were told “$10 or $15,” the Globe reported.
That’s when, the men say, O’Neil came out and asked if it was their first time there.
When they said it was, O’Neill replied “We don’t want any trouble tonight. I don’t know you guys, and you should try to find another place to go.”
Later that night, she allegedly told another group of black patrons “We don’t like people of your kind here. We’ve been doing this for a while and it’s been working fine and we don’t want any problems. . .I’m not letting you people in.”
Coakley’s suit seeks monetary damages, civil penalties and a request that the staff go through anti-discrimination training, WBZ-TV reported.
”黒人”お断りバー
民事訴訟で損害賠償、および、反差別の訓練を受けることを求める、と。
(外国人お断り)
AUGUST 17, 2011 · 1:01 PM
Ottawa Police Issue Racial Profiling Policy
More than seven years after Ottawa police handcuffed every black man in the Ambassador Bar and Grill, the police service now has a policy on racial profiling.
Staff Sergeant John Medeiros, who leads the Diversity and Race Relations department, said the racial profiling policy announced yesterday was developed as a result of the settlement of the Ontario Human Rights case concerning the Ambassador incident in 2004.
Outside of the bar that was under construction in South Ottawa in January that year, a heated exchange broke out between two groups of people.
Officers, who were instructed to “cuff everyone” at the bar, handcuffed and arrested several black men who were working there, while letting a white contractor go free, according to reports.
The lawyer in the case says the new policy unlikely to change the way officers use their power.
“This is helpful to the extent that they say what their policy is, but it is not an effective solution for the racism issue that we have faced in practice,” said retired lawyer Emilio Binavince.
Medeiros said racial profiling still happens among the ranks of the Ottawa Police Service, adding that, “Many of the racial profiling incidents come as a result of actions that are subconscious, that the individual officer may not intend to racially profile.”
Binavince disagrees. “I have faced so many of them that are conscious, I can tell you,” he said.
Before he retired, Binavince was a human rights lawyer as well as council for Ottawa’s police association.
Binavince said that police must hire the right people and train them well. “What the community needs is justifiable and responsible policing. And in that, race is irrelevant. They should know that.”
The new policy is accompanied by training, said Medeiros. As for individual officers, the policy does not outline the consequences for any who racially profiles the public.
カナダ レイシャルプロファイリングが顕著な事件があって、人種プロファイリングについて警官が訓練をうける、と。ただし、レイシャルプロファイリングが起きた場合、警官の処遇については未定。
AUGUST 17, 2011 · 1:00 PM
Kansas Man Attacked With Car, Racially Abused
Officers arrested three teenagers who yelled racial slurs at a man, threw bottles at him and tried to run him over with a vehicle, police said today.
The incident occurred around 8 a.m. Monday as a 46-year-old black man was walking in the 700 block of East Gilbert, near Lincoln and Washington, police Lt. Doug Nolte said.
Nolte gave this account: As a vehicle went past the man, three white males inside, ages 15, 16 and 17, yelled racial slurs and threw bottles at him.
The vehicle stopped, turned around and swerved at the man in an attempt to hit him. He managed to get out of the way, and was not injured.
Two of the three teenagers in the vehicle got out and pointed what turned out to be a BB gun at the man.
若者3人が中年の”黒人”について人種差別的な言葉をなげかけ、瓶をなげ、車でひこうとして、逮捕。
(ヘイトクライム)
AUGUST 17, 2011 · 12:57 PM
Video: Police Investigate Hate Crime, Looking For Alleged Victim
Police are looking for a black male that officers believe was the victim of a hate crime during an assault Sunday afternoon in the area of Bolivar and Thomas streets.
Details are scant as the alleged victim has not been identified, but police said two males approached the alleged victim in broad daylight before the assault.
One male suspect was driving a black pickup truck while another male suspect accompanied him on foot, police said.
The two approached the alleged victim at about 2:45 p.m. while he was riding his bike, police said.
One of the males uttered a racial slur before assaulting the alleged victim, police said.
The suspects fled the scene once they realized witnesses in the area had called police, police said.
City police Sgt. Mike Jackson said police are treating the assault as a racially motivated hate crime.
こちらもヘイトクライム。被害者 ”黒人”。ただし、その”黒人”も現場から逃げ、目撃者が警察を呼んだら、容疑者は逃走。いまだ逃亡中。
AUGUST 17, 2011 · 12:59 PM
Update: FDNY Fireman Who Found Noose In His House Locker Testifies
A black ex-fireman testified Tuesday he believed he was in danger, not from a fire but from his fellow Bravest, after finding a noose near his gear.
The notorious incident inside a Brooklyn firehouse was recalled Tuesday in federal court, where a judge is mulling whether to appoint a special monitor to oversee the predominantly white FDNY.
“I was very upset,” Lanaird Granger, 46, said of finding the 18-inch rope at Engine Co. 238 in Greenpoint in January 2005.
“I felt threatened physically, very uncomfortable to work or enter the firehouse anymore,” Granger said.
He lamented that nobody was ever held accountable.
“The person who did this was never found or suffered any consequences,” Granger added.
He said the noose, a symbol of the lynchings suffered by blacks in the South, was retaliation for his vocal opposition to the FDNY’s hiring of two ex-cops who were tried and cleared in the infamous police shooting of Amadou Diallo
裁判
無罪になったが裁判にかけられた元警官を消防士として雇うことに反対したら、(”黒人”をリンチにするときにつかった絞首刑にするときの)締めなわが所持品のよこにおかれて恐怖を感じた、という、”黒人”の消防士
AUGUST 17, 2011 · 1:05 PM
NYU Pays $210,000 To Worker Over Racist Ridicule
An African immigrant received a $210,000 payout from NYU after his abusive mailroom supervisor repeatedly ridiculed him as a “monkey” and a “gorilla.”
“Do you want a banana?” his boss asked NYU employee Osei Agyemang in one of many racist remarks reportedly made to the native of Ghana from July 2007 through January 2009.
The boss mocked the immigrant’s accent as “gibberish,” while telling him “go back to your cage” and “go back to the jungle,” according to a September 2010 suit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The settlement between the Manhattan university and the one-time worker at the Bobst Library was made public yesterday.
“This suit shows that ugly harassment and retaliation can happen anywhere, even at a prestigious university,” said EEOC attorney Gilliam Thomas, who represented Agyemang.
The lawsuit accused NYU of ignoring Agyemang’s complaints about the stinging insults and racist cracks made while he worked in the library.
According to the suit, the harassment ended only after Agyemang’s request for a transfer was granted. “This case goes back some years and involves the actions of an employee who is no longer with the university,” said a statement from NYU spokesman John Beckman
職場のハラスメント
アフリカ系の移民を誹謗していじめる。
(職場差別)
Tragedy in Norway borne out of seeds of racism and intolerance in UK, EU
BY STARLA MUHAMMAD -STAFF WRITER- | LAST UPDATED: AUG 16, 2011
ノルウエーの悲劇は特例ではなく、その背景に、欧州の反移民・人種差別がありますよ、と。
On July 27, The Guardian reported Italian politician Francesco Speroni, a former minister of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said, “Breivik's ideas are in defence of western civilisation,” while making comments on a radio show. Mr. Speroni is a member of the Northern League, the junior partner in Mr. Berlusconi's conservative
イタリアの元大臣は、容疑者の思想は、西洋文明の防衛である、と述べていたようですね。
RACE: Are We So Different?
人種について動画
Race is a powerful idea that was invented by society.
Many of the ideas we now associate with race originated during the European era of exploration. Europeans like Christopher Columbus traveled overseas and encountered and then colonized and conquered peoples in Africa, Asia and the Americas who looked, talked and acted much differently from them….
…By 1776 when “All men are created equal” was written into the Declaration of Independence by a slave holder named Thomas Jefferson, a democratic nation was born with a major contradiction about race at its core. As our new nation asserted its independence from European tyranny, blacks and American Indians were viewed as less than human and not deserving of the same liberties as whites.
人種は社会的に構築されたものである、と。
独立宣言で 全ての人間は平等に造られている、と奴隷の保持者である、ジェファソンによって唱えられ、”黒人”やアメリカンインディアンなどは人間以下にみられ、”白人”と同じ自由を享受するに値しない、と考えられていた、と。
Japanese Sumo Wrestling: Foreigners Need Not Compete
August 17, 2011 1:
Nevertheless and in 2010, the Japan Sumo Association ruled that they would define "foreign" as "foreign-born." This means that naturalized Japanese citizens, even if they have Japanese ancestry but were not born inJapan, would be counted as "foreign." Moreover and since there are only 52 sumo stables and roughly 800 professional sumo wrestlers registered with the Japan Sumo Association, the new rules would severely limit future "foreign" participation in Japanese sumo wrestling.
外国人力士人数制限ウィキ
同年2月23日に理事会は先の制限を、帰化者含む「外国出身力士」を1部屋1人までに制限するものへ強化することを決定した。[8]
制限が日本人力士の育成や伝統的な相撲文化の維持発展につながるという考え方も強いが、閉鎖的で国際化の流れにそぐわないとか人種差別であるとの批判もある。
まあ、出身者差別であるが、国籍が基準であれば、他国でも見られる、サッカーや野球などの外国人枠と同様といえるかもしれないが、出身で区切ったためかえって不当な差別、ということになろう。
これについて議論の詳細は忘れたが、相撲協会に電話した覚えがある。しっかり受け止めたかどうか。
この点、メディアも指摘する新聞社もあったが、もっと各社が指摘すべきであった。相撲協会に対してかなり甘すぎる。その甘さが後に大きな問題になってしまったわけだ。この構図は原発問題でも、警察問題でも、同じである。
政官業も、メディアも警告を真剣に受け止めず、メディアが政官業について問題提起できず、かえって擁護する側にまわり、大きな事件になってから、今度は過剰なヒステリー状況になる場合がある。
因みに有道氏のJTの記事が引用されていて、
Worse, the JSA will now define "foreign" as "foreign-born" (gaikoku shusshin), meaning even naturalized Japanese citizens will be counted as "foreign." This, according to the Yomiuri, closes a "loophole" (nukemichi).
Sorry folks, but this rule is unlawful under Japan's Nationality Law, not to mention the Constitution. Neither allows distinctions between foreign-born and Japanese-born citizens. Under the law, a Japanese is a Japanese ― otherwise, what is the point of naturalizing?
国籍法が引用されているが、国籍法は関係ない。帰化したら国籍法に従って、日本国籍を取得するわけだが、だからといって、外国出身者が、日本出身になるわけではないからである。
氏を引用している時点で、このIBTimes とやらが、取材能力もなく、信頼できない、ということはほぼ断定できるかもしれない。
朝日社説
野田氏の発言―言葉を選ぶ器量を待つ
野田氏は、小泉内閣への質問主意書に以下の趣旨を記した。
「戦犯」は関係国の同意のもと赦免・釈放され、あるいは死刑が執行されている。刑が終了した時点で、罪は消滅するのが近代法の理念である――。
刑を終えたのだから、もはや犯罪者ではない。まつられているのが犯罪者でない以上、首相の靖国参拝にどんな問題があるのか、という理屈立てだ。
だが問われているのは刑を終えたか否かではなく、彼らの行為が戦争犯罪かどうかであり、歴史認識である。野田氏の議論は焦点を外している。国の内外を問わず、戦争で肉親を失った数多くの人々の心情をいたずらに傷つけるだけだ。
野田氏は現職閣僚であり、まもなく行われる民主党代表選に立候補する意向を固めている。首相になれば過去の歴史を背負い、日本国を代表して発言しなければならない。行動を慎み、言葉を選ぶのが当然だ。
一方で、野田氏はこの終戦記念日に参拝しなかった。02年に代表選に立候補した際は「外交問題を引き起こす」ことを理由に、首相になっても終戦記念日の公式参拝はしないと言った。
外交を大切にするのなら、誠意ある言葉で説明すべきだ。発言を受けて、韓国外交通商省は「侵略の歴史を否定しようとする言動だ」と批判している。中国や韓国のみならず、東京裁判を主導した米国との関係にも良い影響は及ぼすまい。
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Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda should think more carefully about the implications of his words when talking about sensitive topics if he wants to become prime minister.
Noda recently said the Class-A war criminals interred at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo--wartime leaders of Japan who were convicted by the postwar Tokyo tribunal--are no longer war criminals.
During the administration of former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Noda rebutted Koizumi's argument that they were war criminals. In an Aug. 15 news conference, Noda said his position on the issue had basically not changed since that time.
Noda put his view on the issue in a written question to the Koizumi Cabinet. The war criminals were pardoned, released or executed under agreements between the countries running the postwar judicial process, he argued. A basic tenet of modern law is that a person's criminal guilt disappears when the sentence has been carried out.
In short, Noda believes the war criminals are no longer criminals because they paid their debt to society. He went on to ask what was wrong with the prime minister's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine if the people enshrined there were not criminals.
The question here is not whether the sentences given to the wartime leaders were carried out. It is a historical issue about whether their acts were in fact war crimes.
Noda is off the mark. What he says does nothing but unnecessarily hurt the feelings of many people, both Japanese and foreign, whose relatives were killed in the war.
Noda is a member of the Cabinet and intends to run in the Democratic Party of Japan's upcoming election to choose its president. If he becomes prime minister, he will have to speak about Japan's past as the representative of our nation. He needs to exercise discretion in both action and words.
Noda did not visit the Yasukuni Shrine on Aug. 15, the anniversary of the end of the war. When he ran for the party leadership race in 2002, he said he would not make an official visit to the shrine on the anniversary if he became prime minister, saying such an act would cause a diplomatic row.
But, if he puts importance on Japan's diplomacy, Noda should explain his views about this and other war-related issues. South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has criticized Noda's remarks as an attempt to deny the facts about Japan's invasions of its neighbors.
Noda's stance on the war criminal issue would have unwanted effects on Japan's relations with China and South Korea but also the United States, which led the Tokyo tribunal. Noda will face questions about this issue during the party leadership contest. He needs to offer convincing and responsible answers to these questions and talk about his ideas about the war if he wants to be recognized as someone qualified to head the party and become Japan's prime minister.
In an article on the agenda he would pursue as the nation's leader, published in the September issue of the Bungei Shunju monthly magazine, Noda expressed his determination to tackle three crises: the decline of domestic industry, energy shortages and Japan's fiscal ills.
These certainly should be the top policy priorities at the moment and Noda should try to create a political environment that will allow for effective efforts to grapple with these formidable challenges.
Japan has been making serious, long-term efforts to come to terms with war-related issues. Japan's leader should not do or say anything that could undermine the progress that has been made or create a situation that makes it difficult for the nation to tackle the real problems it faces today.
--The Asahi Shimbun, Aug. 18
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東京裁判では関係ないむしろ、日本と共に戦った側の韓国がとやかくいうのもなんだが、しかし、この件に関して、野田氏はあまりにも脇が甘すぎる。十数年国内外の新聞を、秘書も本人も読んでいなかったのではないか、とさえ思える。この戦術のなさで、かりに首相になったら、他の分野でもかなり危ういものになるかもしれない。
靖国が霊魂を祀る、というならまだわかる。
霊魂など本当はないのであるが、それがあり、それがしかじかの性質をもっている、あるいは、もっていない、と信仰するのは勝手である。霊魂は犯罪者ではなく、東京裁判の判断がどうでもあろうとも、どなたさまの霊魂でも、生前の罪・ケガレを崇拝しているわけではなく、その荒ぶり、悲しむ霊魂を祀り、清めているのだ、とかなんとか、ならまだ、わかるが、野田氏の理屈はどうもわからない。
たしかに、例えば、Aさんは窃盗罪を犯して、裁判をうけて収監されて、刑期を終えて、でてきました。彼は犯罪者で”あった”が、いまでは犯罪者ではない。しかし、それと類比していえば、世間で問題にされるのは、A級戦犯が犯罪者で”あった”か、どうかである。東京裁判の判決を受け容れるとすれば、当然、犯罪者で”あった”、ということになる。ところが、彼等は現在、すでに死んでいないのだから、その存在しない人達の現在の状況を話をしても、無意味である、というより、世間の理解を得るのは難しかろう。
霊魂の話は宗教に任せるのがよい。
読売社説
泊原発営業運転 電力危機回避の一歩にしたい(8月18日付・読売社説)
朝日社説
泊
原発の運転―次は厳しい新基準で
この夏、電力不足は東日本にとどまらず全国的な問題だ。とくに北海道は、被災地東北へ連日60万キロワットを融通している重要な供給源でもある。これらの状況を考えると、営業運転への移行は理解できる。
朝日は現実を踏まえた上でより慎重にという態度は評価できる。
脱原発脱原発というのはいいが、しかし、暑さ寒さも凌いでいかなくてはならない、また、工場も精一杯稼働してもらわなくてはならない。脱原発推進論の企業や個人が、まずは、ソーラーパネルを自社・自宅にそなえて、節電に協力し、原発なくても大丈夫じゃない、と示せれば説得力も増すだろうが、しかし、原発は危険だからだめです、だけでは説得力に欠ける。
危険なものは周囲に山ほどある。自動車はかなり危険で実際かなりの犠牲者がでている。自動車の性能をいくら高めても回避できない、という意味では自動車に内在する不可避な危険であるが、だからといって、自動車の利用をやめることはしない。自動車の安全性を高めながら、また、交通ルールなどの周辺の態勢を整備しながら、自動車を利用していく。
微量な放射線の影響は不明なところがあり、長期的な観察が必要であるが、当面は、退避することで回避できるであろう危険である。ただ、危険を回避するためのコストが莫大なのである。原発ミニマムでもいいが、しかし、安全性、安全体制、退避体制を整備・向上させて、原発の維持・新設も可というほうが、合理的に思えるが、原発が現代の悪魔のように扱われている風潮ではなかなか通らない議論かもしれない。
それはそれで今の風潮で仕方ないのかもしれないが、であれば、この風潮を政官業の癒着の徹底的な摘発・断絶に利用したい。原発村をめぐる政官業の癒着は、当面は原発が維持されるのであるから、徹底的に指弾されなければならない。そして、それは、脱原発色がつよい、朝日・毎日にせよ、原発推進色が強い読売・産経にせよ、すべてのメディアがやって、その立場の不利にならない、活動であろう。ここで誤魔化さないで徹底した方が、安全をアピールできて、推進するにも都合がいい筈である。
そして、それをバネに他の分野の政官業の癒着も糾弾してもらいたいものである。