tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16607511.post3085403596720296235..comments2008-02-29T12:33:23.039-03:00Phillipe Copelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18342490962831946701noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16607511.post-76164064621542994352008-02-29T12:33:00.000-03:002008-02-29T12:33:00.000-03:00Dear Phillipe... Thanks for this post... All the more reason for the Baha'is in America to arise and carry forward the Guardian's Double Crusade. Over ten years ago Dr. Mitchell delivered a speech to a packed hall in Wilmette asking "Where is the Double Crusade?"<BR/><BR/>The Baha'is in America are supposed to "attack" the long-standing evils that have inflicted the character of this nation... We've yet to do it.<BR/><BR/>J HarrisonJ. Harrisonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16607511.post-29341808598669661872008-02-29T12:05:00.000-03:002008-02-29T12:05:00.000-03:00Thanks Pauline, feel free to critique this research, nothing wrong with that. The whole relationship between mind, body and sociology is a deep issue worthy of much exploration. It's true that much of the popular notions about racial equality do not take into account the biological impact of racism and economic injustice. Racism is more than skin deep and isnt't just about individuals being mean to each other.Phillipe Copelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18342490962831946701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16607511.post-86317364218513357952008-02-29T11:23:00.000-03:002008-02-29T11:23:00.000-03:00Phillipe, <BR/><BR/>I am truly shocked and surprised at this reasearch. I am not questioning the results but I am really surprised that the effects start so young. <BR/><BR/>It seems that the legacy of poverty and it's effects will be harder to overcome than one may suppose. It is also should be a stark warning to those of influence in a country that their responsibility to eradicate poverty is an urgent one as it's existence is producing damaged citizens. <BR/><BR/>Whilst we are all created from the same dust it seems each one of us may be molded in ways that we have no control over. When certain racial groups in a society are suffering the consequences of poverty in signifigantly larger proportions than other racial groups there cannot be equality even if, on the surface of things, we are told there is an equality of opportunity to apply for any job or enter places of higher education, for example. <BR/><BR/>When I was studying to be a teacher I took a couple of units on psychology of education. We started with conception and the effects from that moment of what sex the child would be or if they had a genetic abnormality. Nobody mentioned then the impact of race or poverty! I wonder if they are mentioned to today's students on that course. <BR/><BR/>PaulineAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com