Monthly Archives: October 2007

Intermarried…with Children

Hostile stares and epithets were the least of their problems when Edgar and Jean Cahn first dated. Twice the couple — he a white Jew, she a black Baptist — were arrested simply for walking the streets of Baltimore arm in arm. When they wed in 1957, Maryland law barred interracial marriages, so [...]

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Nobel Winner Issues Apology for Comments About Blacks

I’ve seen these theories about inferiority of IQs of black people vs white people. And perhaps the same comparison can be made among coloured people and white people. I do not know enough about the scientific research into this sensitive area to make a comment but I will say for now I think the jury [...]

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Am I, who I say I am?

What happens when you haste the structure of your own social identity? Buffalo flats, a small coloured community in East London, a place where day to day living is a typical life structure. The sun rises and sets in this community with the same struggle at mind for the “community leaders” Since the days of [...]

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