Wednesday, January 24, 2007
National politics from Dearborn, MI and Retracing Justice
Re: "In Arab Capital of US, Ethnic Divide Remains," New York Times, January 23, 2007.
Dearborn, Michigan hosts the largest population of Arab-Americans in the country. It's City Hall is nonetheless underrepresented by Arab individuals because of internal divisions among Arab Yemenis, Lebanese, Iraqis, and others. The game is not over! Although John O'Reilly holds 65% of expected votes, Abed Hammoud may have a chance of office with 30% of the city's support.
The implication of Arab-Americans running for City Hall may yield tolerance among Americans who typically associate an "Arab" person with terrorism. And even if the incumbent candidate, O'Reilly, wins this election, Arabs shall persist at achieving political offices in order to represent America's diversity more accurately.
A KKK member killed two young black men in 1964 in Mississippi. http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/nation/16541649.htm
The civil rights era consumed FBI officials into southern investigations of KKK and white-power violence against blacks. The case was unresolved until 2000, because the FBI had turned the case to local authorities in not long after the murder. James Ford Seale was presumed dead by the Justice Department due to reporters' accounts from Seale's family. Thanks to the documentary filmmaker David Ridgen, Seale was found alive in 2005. Preserving the effectiveness of the American judicial system may be the remaining visible evidence of upheld American values.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/nation/16541649.htm
Dearborn, Michigan hosts the largest population of Arab-Americans in the country. It's City Hall is nonetheless underrepresented by Arab individuals because of internal divisions among Arab Yemenis, Lebanese, Iraqis, and others. The game is not over! Although John O'Reilly holds 65% of expected votes, Abed Hammoud may have a chance of office with 30% of the city's support.
The implication of Arab-Americans running for City Hall may yield tolerance among Americans who typically associate an "Arab" person with terrorism. And even if the incumbent candidate, O'Reilly, wins this election, Arabs shall persist at achieving political offices in order to represent America's diversity more accurately.
A KKK member killed two young black men in 1964 in Mississippi. http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/nation/16541649.htm
The civil rights era consumed FBI officials into southern investigations of KKK and white-power violence against blacks. The case was unresolved until 2000, because the FBI had turned the case to local authorities in not long after the murder. James Ford Seale was presumed dead by the Justice Department due to reporters' accounts from Seale's family. Thanks to the documentary filmmaker David Ridgen, Seale was found alive in 2005. Preserving the effectiveness of the American judicial system may be the remaining visible evidence of upheld American values.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/nation/16541649.htm
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