What's "wrong" with this story?

Here's a brief quiz for you to try out.

Recently this story received some attention in Jacksonville FL.

Local Teacher's Run-In With Homeland Security Creates Insecurities

Click on the link above and read the story. The focus of the story is obviously Homeland Security, but see if you recognize anything else about the story, something not mentioned but certain comments hint at...

Now click on this link.

Racial slurs and Rape incident

ABC News:

Forty-six players of the No. 2 ranked Duke University lacrosse team have submitted DNA samples to police amid allegations of sexual assault at an off-campus party during spring break. Police are investigating the claim of a woman who says she was raped, beaten and strangled at an East Campus party hosted by the Duke lacrosse team on March 13

NewsObserver:

He recalled the racially charged statements at least one man was yelling at the victim. “When I was outside, one guy yelled at her, ‘… Thank your grandpa for my cotton shirt,’ ” Bissey said. After a few minutes, everything seemed to calm down, he said. One of the women headed back into the house, saying she forgot her shoes. Days later, Bissey learned one of the young women reported being raped.

Sports Illustrated:

There have been angry protests in Durham and on the Duke campus for several days since the alleged incident was made public, indicating that there were existing racial, sexual and athlete-student (not to be confused with the nefarious term “student-athlete'’) tensions long before March 13.

Sharing our feelings

So, I had this idea.

When doing Anger Management type stuff and learning how to communicate, you learn a good structure to sharing your feelings:

"I feel.... when you..." and sometimes you throw in a "because..."

Inspired by a site where people make sort of collage-like postcards and send them into a website, I thought it would be really neat to do something similar using this 'sharing your feelings' structure, as it relates to RACISM.

For example:
"I feel like scum, when you write me off as another white male, because I have a unique experience too."

But, it would be much more creative and interesting if you used some artistic abilities and did a collage or something similar and sent them into to me.

UPDATE: We NOW have an Up and running website for this activity:

I Feel...When you...

Racial profiling at Walmart

It happens a lot of places and it rarely makes it in the papers.

What do you think about this one?

Racism in political battle in Florida

It's amazing the things people still say:

"I'm usually not prejudiced, but I don't want an Indian in my government," Sherrill, 69, told the Orlando Sentinel. "As far as I know, he could be a nice guy, but these kind of people get embedded over here. . . . You remember 9/11."

Read the article here.

For anyone looking for the entire script.

Don't know how long it will be up at this url, but here is the entire script of the film.

Interviews with actors and directors

For those interested in finding out more about the behind the scenes and making of, and insights from the actors concerning the film, you might like to listen to these interviews from NPR.

'Crash' Director Paul Haggis, Actor Brendan Fraser

'Crash' Co-Stars Ludacris and Larenz Tate

Origins of the Movie

Before we get to far into the discussion about the movie it would be good to get a little background.

Paul Haggis, the director and writer of the movie, had a personal experience that was sort of the beginning developments of the movie for him. He and his wife where robbed at gunpoint by two young black men.

He speaks about his experience here.

A discussion guide to accompany the movie Crash

This site is dedicated to putting together a thorough discussion guide to accompany the movie Crash. Based on the feedback of a number of people, we see that this movie evokes a lot of issues and interest in thinking through those issues. The movie though leaves a very incomplete picture of the things that it brings up. This site does not seek to complete any ideas, or even provide solutions, indeed the issues will become even more complex the more you look into them.

The goal of this site is to provide additional resources to people who have seen the movie and want to know more about what was said in the movie, and factual evidence or real life stories that relate to those portrayed in the movie.