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To: Brumar89 who wrote (727890)	7/20/2013 5:38:05 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1583412

Editorial: Obama stirs the pot ........................................................................................ Saturday, July 20, 2013 Boston Herald editorial OK, he’s the President of the United States — and the nation’s first African-American president — and so when he feels the need to vent about race in this country, well, he does have the bully pulpit after all. But six days after George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, a time when the rallying has died down, the interviews tapered to a precious few and relative calm has returned to this long, hot summer, along comes President Obama to stir the pot — again. Obama’s surprise appearance in the White House briefing room yesterday was a mixture of self indulgence and political exploitation of the tragic death of the Florida teenager. It did nothing to advance the cause of better race relations — even as the president himself had to acknowledge that life is indeed better for this generation — for his own daughters — than it was for his generation. “You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot, I said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago,” Obama said. “And when you think about why, in the African-American community at least, there’s a lot of pain around what happened here, I think it’s important to recognize that the African-American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that — that doesn’t go away. “There are very few African-American men in this country who haven’t had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. That includes me.” He acknowledged that young black men are disproportionately both the victims and the perpetrators of crimes but in the end he fell back on the administration boilerplate about better training for police and taking a closer look at “stand-your-ground” laws such as Florida’s. “Where do we take this?” he asked aloud. But apart from calling for “all of us to do some soul-searching” never really gave the nation an answer. bostonherald.com

To: Brumar89 who wrote (727890)	7/20/2013 6:49:58 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1583412

NPR sells Soros transgender Line ................................................................................................. NPR Transcript July 16, 2013 Americans are becoming more accepting of gays and lesbians and, in some cases, transgendered people. At the same time, a new generation of young people is challenging our understanding of gender. They're calling for more fluid categories beyond just male and female, as NPR's Margot Adler explains. MARGOT ADLER, BYLINE: It began with a speaking event at Oberlin College in Ohio. I was at dinner with the college chaplain and 16 students on his interfaith council. I was startled when everyone introduced themselves saying their name, what year they were, what they were studying and then described their preferred gender pronouns. I wasn't taping but it sounded similar to these high school students introducing themselves to me recently in New York. RUSSELL LASDON: I'm Russell Lasdon and I use he/him/his pronouns. KETZEL FEASLEY: I'm Ketzel Feasley and my PGP's are she/her/hers. ADLER: For those of you who have never heard this done, as I hadn't, this is happening on many campuses. It's a way of being supportive or an ally to those who are transgender or gender non-conforming. Those who are not cisgender - that is, their emotional gender identity does not match their biology. <edit> ADLER: But some students are going further. At one college that Joy Ladin visited, things were so fluid you could make up a different pronoun for a different event. LADIN: So you can be she/her at one event and then you go to lunch and you say, OK, now I am he/him. And then one charming young woman told me, oh, yes, today, I'm just using made up pronouns. LYNN WALKER: We encountered high school students who said, I want you to call me Tractor and use pronouns like zee, zim and zer. And, in fact, I reject the gender binary as an oppressive move by the dominant culture. ADLER: That's Lynn Walker, a director at Housing Works, an organization that provides housing for those with HIV. About 10 percent of their clients are transgender. Walker teaches a course called Trans 101 for all new hires. When she started coming across people who were gender non-conforming in so many different ways, she began to ask new questions. WALKER: And then part of the intake is to say, well, what pronoun do you like today? It might be just today. ADLER: Because Walker has clients who might be Jimmy one day, and Deloris the next. WALKER: Once you develop the habit of saying, oh, that person, that is a she, that's Delores. It doesn't matter that she looks rather like Jimmy or looks like she was called Jimmy by her parents. ADLER: And your decision doesn't depend on gender reassignment surgery, which is expensive and is something often only a certain class of people can do. What you look like, she says, isn't always who you are. FERNANDEZ: In a perfect world, your gender would just be what you want it to be. Gender would sort of just be an individual title, not really a male or female thing. Article