Thursday, November 13, 2008

More race...

More race issues are popping up...this time around the world! NPR explores how Obama election has sparked many prejudice comments and newspaper headlines around the world: namely Europe (Poland, Italy, Germany). One of the problems is that many of these countries have never dealt with race as the U.S. has over the years:
Julian Bond, chairman of the NAACP, says, "The big difference here is that the United States has been thinking about and dealing with race since we were founded. These countries in Europe are relative newcomers to the conversation about race. They are much less familiar with confronting their own bigotry."

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