Orphée dépecé par les Ménades.1698. Ca' Rezzonico, Venise (?)

Marguerite Duras MARGUERITE TELLE QU'EN ELLE-MÊME

The quiet gardener

My alma mater 30 years or so ago named a building for an African-American freshman who had  accidentally drowned in the college swimming pool.

James Paroline, a Bronze star Vietnam war veteran, died as a result of one sucker punch which caused his head to hit the ground.  He had been tending a traffic circle garden and refused to move his garden hose as a group of young African-Americans had demanded he do.

The City of Seattle did not do anything to honor his memory, not so much as rename the traffic circle garden in his memory.

There were no protests, no calls for justice.  The young man was sentenced to 11 years in prison.  This was 9 years ago.  His two female friends, who had called him on their cellphone to "deal with" Paroline were not charged as accomplices.


https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/man-sentenced-to-11-years-for-fatal-blow/

Thoughts on race, again: Between black and white, there is a middle ground

I can't help but think that the Black Lives Matter protests are an extremely effective way of stoking racial fears among African-Americans (and liberal whites), no less pernicious--if not actually more, than stoking racial fears among white Americans.

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I hope my two white neighbors, both women, will not be tempted to have "another go" at me:  their harassment of me based on their racism--racial assumptions and prejudice--was very effective in meeting their personal needs.

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Musee a vendre (arte)

Savez-vous qu'il y a une alternative a Youtube?

https://rutube.ru/video/6213ed15c0363baa12e7c2272fa55bc3/

Racial attitudes towards Asian-Americans in Seattle

The underlying attitudes towards persons racially identifiable as "Asian" are expressed in, indirectly and sometimes directly, behaviors that express disdain and disrespect, especially, perhaps surprisingly, among lower socio-economic groups, including--and most virulently--other racial minorities.

Now that it is unacceptable to openly express reservations about African-American culture or to criticize individuals [a black person], without being very careful, it is still acceptable to treat poorly Asians and Asian-Americans.  One of the reasons being the generalized passivity of the latter.

I have personally observed this kind of situation at the downtown YMCA, Seattle Public Library, in Section 8 housing, supermarkets (such as Metropolitan Market) or department stores (Target, Nordstrom, etc.).  This may not happen all the time but often enough to make me wince...

Sometimes it is even Asians looking down or treating other Asians with disrespect or even contempt.

The components of hate: A preliminary analysis

My recipe based on what I have observed of myself and others



Hate =


rage + resentment +/- sense of injustice + a desire to destroy + pain + the inability to tolerate pain + blame +/- self-righteousness


Would love, then, be the opposite or +/- several of the attributes above?


Is hate the root of (all) violence?