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“The way it is:” First Perspectives in South Africa | Truth Be Told Politics
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Truth Be Told Politics. On Citizenship, Race, and Responsibility. 8220;The way it is:” First Perspectives in South Africa. February 6, 2015. February 6, 2015. Cape Town’s economic disparity doesn’t vary widely from that of American metropoli; Indeed, both the glitterati of Rodeo Drive and the paupers of Skid Row call Los Angeles home. But it seems that South Africa doesn’t bother hiding its most destitute. And I spent some time with them on Tuesday. That’s not a novel claim, and it’s not one whose truths...
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On Leaving: Someone Else’s March | Truth Be Told Politics
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Truth Be Told Politics. On Citizenship, Race, and Responsibility. On Leaving: Someone Else’s March. June 13, 2015. June 14, 2015. When I was preparing to come to South Africa at the end of first semester, my friends committed themselves to a stream of facetious comments that all sounded something like this: Ami thinks he’s going to save Africa, or Can’t wait to hear about your African awakening. The comments were no more than friendly chiding, and they made for amusing dinner conversation. To know them, ...
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The Trouble with the Middle of Nowhere | Truth Be Told Politics
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Truth Be Told Politics. On Citizenship, Race, and Responsibility. The Trouble with the Middle of Nowhere. February 14, 2015. February 25, 2015. As published on the Huffington Post:. Ronnie had intended to sell fresh produce to passersby when he opened the space as a farm stall. He moved from the city to the countryside in 1989, and within a few weeks his drinking buddies had graffitied SEX. I found the store’s namesake (who wears a Jerry Garcia-meets-Gandolf look) behind the counter of the gift sho...
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Truth Be Told Politics | On Citizenship, Race, and Responsibility | Page 2
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Truth Be Told Politics. On Citizenship, Race, and Responsibility. The Trouble with the Middle of Nowhere. February 14, 2015. February 25, 2015. As published on the Huffington Post:. Ronnie had intended to sell fresh produce to passersby when he opened the space as a farm stall. He moved from the city to the countryside in 1989, and within a few weeks his drinking buddies had graffitied SEX. I found the store’s namesake (who wears a Jerry Garcia-meets-Gandolf look) behind the counter of the gift sho...
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My Taxi Driver Reads Chomsky: Reclaiming the Liberal Arts in South Africa | Truth Be Told Politics
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Truth Be Told Politics. On Citizenship, Race, and Responsibility. My Taxi Driver Reads Chomsky: Reclaiming the Liberal Arts in South Africa. February 24, 2015. February 26, 2015. As published on the Huffington Post. That happens a lot. About a year and a half ago, I wrote an article. Man So Stefano didn’t faze me. But Stefano’s was a different kind of scoff. That seems about right. Until you read the newspaper here. Two encounters last week proved to me that the will to actively seek out that social cont...
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About the Author | Truth Be Told Politics
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Truth Be Told Politics. On Citizenship, Race, and Responsibility. Is the author and founder of this site, Truth Be Told Politics. He is in his final undergraduate year at Emory University, where he studies U.S. History and African American Studies. Ami is also the co-founder of TableTalk. A framework for conversation between groups that would not otherwise interact. TalbeTalk currently has active chapters on four American college campuses. The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. And the Emory Wheel.
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Two stories about taxis | Truth Be Told Politics
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Truth Be Told Politics. On Citizenship, Race, and Responsibility. Two stories about taxis. April 23, 2015. April 24, 2015. Writing from Cape Town, South Africa. He’s stuck a shiny yellow taxi decal on the top of his car. Now he’s a taxi. He keeps staring. Oh, okay. We all get out and push our driver down Main Road. Minibus drivers are hurtling past and shouting expletives (I think) out their windows. A guy in a red station wagon makes sure we know that we’d better not pay that guy a cent! You’re le...
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‘You Can Just Say It’: What White America Can Learn From South Africa’s Blunt Race Talk [Talking Points Memo] | Truth Be Told Politics
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Truth Be Told Politics. On Citizenship, Race, and Responsibility. 8216;You Can Just Say It’: What White America Can Learn From South Africa’s Blunt Race Talk [Talking Points Memo]. May 6, 2015. May 6, 2015. As published on Talking Points Memo. I had been in South Africa for five weeks before I heard someone try to justify apartheid. You need to know that there are two sides to every story, he said. They fought us when we got here, so we fought back. That’s how things have always worked. I coach debate at...
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Two stories about taxis | Truth Be Told Politics
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Truth Be Told Politics. On Citizenship, Race, and Responsibility. Two stories about taxis. April 23, 2015. April 24, 2015. Writing from Cape Town, South Africa. He’s stuck a shiny yellow taxi decal on the top of his car. Now he’s a taxi. He keeps staring. Oh, okay. We all get out and push our driver down Main Road. Minibus drivers are hurtling past and shouting expletives (I think) out their windows. A guy in a red station wagon makes sure we know that we’d better not pay that guy a cent! You’re le...
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Ami Fields-Meyer | Truth Be Told Politics
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Truth Be Told Politics. On Citizenship, Race, and Responsibility. Straighten Up, or Stand in Fear? Fact-Checking Georgia State Rep. Tommy Benton on the KKK’s History. February 14, 2016. As published on the Huffington Post. Last week Georgia General Assembly Representative Tommy Benton (R-Jefferson) told the. That the Ku Klux Klan, the white supremacist group whose barbaric lynchings underpinned many generations of terror for Southern Blacks, “made a lot of people straighten up.”. Either Rep. Benton h...
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