Spooky
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The United States has strongly criticised Zimbabwe's Government for "serious human rights abuses" as the looting of white-owned farms continues. A State Department spokesman said the US was "deeply concerned about the level of political violence and intimidation in Zimbabwe", as well as the country's rapid economic decline. "The situation is taking a toll on southern Africa as a region and it's discouraging foreign investment, creating a potential for a refugee crisis and food shortages, and reducing trade within the region," he said.
"We condemn the serious human rights abuses and growing climate of fear and intimidation for which the Government of Zimbabwe bears primary responsibility," he added.
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hmmm intersting. US makes a comment about Zimbabwe. They are also threatening sanctions on Zimbabwe. There are no amercians there, and they have no direct interest there, am I hearing things? Since when have America cared about anything that does not affect their national interest?
/me smells blatent hidden agenda.
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Yale University has been embarrassed by research revealing deep ties between itself and several prominent defenders of slavery in America.
The disclosures coincide with Yale's 300th anniversary, which is being used to trumpet its record of supporting abolitionism and the emancipation of black people.
A paper published yesterday by three doctoral students at Yale reveals that the Ivy League university continued to name buildings on its campus after champions of slavery until 40 years ago. It also notes that Yale's first scholarships and endowments were funded by money linked to slavery.
Yale thus finds itself drawn into the fast-growing debate in America over whether the government as well as corporations and other institutions with slavery in their histories should apologise to the descendants of those held in bondage in the 18th and 19th centuries and offer them financial compensation.
America is threatening to boycott a UN conference on fighting racism that begins in Durban, South Africa, on 31 August, partly because it opposes any references in a final statement to making any such formal apology or to reparations for African Americans whose ancestors were slaves. It also objects to paragraphs criticising Israel and linking Zionism to racism.
As the first American university to open a department dedicated to studying the abolitionist movement, Yale might have thought itself immune to criticism of its role in the history of slavery. But the new article, "Yale, Slavery and Abolition", suggests that it has much in its past to confront.
Eight of Yale's 12 residential buildings are named after former slave owners. One of its colleges bares the name of John Calhoun, a vice-president who fought to preserve slavery through the early 19th century. Some of the first scholarships offered by Yale were funded by revenue from a slave plantation owned by Bishop George Berkeley. There is a Berkeley college, too.
Antony Dugdale, one of the students who wrote the article – it is on the internet at www.yaleslavery.org – said Yale had a duty to respond to its findings. "Universities are first and foremost supposed to stand up for the truth," he said. "But there's been a real absence of any real discussion or real scholarship on the history of universities themselves, or their role, with regard to slavery."
The university, which is in New Haven, Connecticut, issued statements arguing that it was hardly alone among America's oldest institutions with skeletons dating back to the country's slave-owning past. Last year, for instance, Connecticut's main newspaper and the oldest in the US, The Hartford Courant, was forced to apologise for taking revenue over many decades from small-ads placed in it by slave-owners. Helaine Klasky, Yale's spokeswoman, said: "Today, we regret and renounce these evils and seek, through scholarship and communication, to better understand them, but we cannot undo them."
The article calls on Yale to convene a conference of all universities with histories going back to the slave-owning period to consider what part they played in supporting the slave culture in America.
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sp00ky
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There's nothing nice in my head. The adult world took it all away. Wake up with same spit in my mouth. Cannot tell if it is real or not. I try and walk in a straight line. An imitation of dignity. From despair to where.
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