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John M. Eger
Van Deerlin Chair of Communication and Public Policy
Executive Director, International Center for Communications
College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts
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Dear John:
(1) Many thanks for your very interesting write-up again;
Moving
Past the Color Line (See
ATTACHMENT I
below)
Dear E-Colleagues:
(2) Pls enjoy reading it.
JohnÕs previous essay was;
(03/06/08)
John Eger's essay on "Arts in Contemporary Education"
http://tinyurl.com/5rl3uq
Dear John:
(3) I wholeheartedly agree with your contention;
ÒFormer
President Bill Clinton, a major proponent of globalization and free trade
argued "that we have to move from interdependence to integration, to an
integrated global community." To do that we must have a critical
mass of the world with shared benefits, shared responsibilities and shared
values.Ó
(4) These are
exactly what we are trying to do, as said elsewhere before,
(a) the
principle of packet-switching technology (the basic of Internet) is SHARING,
and
(b) the principle of GRID technology is COLLABORATION.
Best, Tak
ATTACHMENT
I
From: john eger
<jeger@mail.sdsu.edu>
Date: Mon, 5
May 2008 03:22:05 -0700
To: john eger <jeger@mail.sdsu.edu>
Subject: Re: I
thought the attached might be of interest
Moving Past the Color
Line
By John
M. Eger
Barak Obama's speech on race, some analysts predicted, would effectively end
his candidacy for president.
He shot himself in the foot, they said, by shifting the focus away from the
economy and the war in Iraq, and in the process unearthed people's worst fears
of a racially divided nation.
By acknowledging that the body politic was not ready to talk about race or
color or ethnicity, Obama committed political suicide.
There is a counter argument, however, worth talking about. Whether Obama
succeeds in his race for the Democratic nomination, there are some who believe
he unleashed something much bigger than an explanation of his pastor's
ill-considered sermons: a dialogue about race, religion and gender.
Daniel Bell, author of "The Coming of Post Industrial Society,"
predicted some years ago that, "increasingly, the nation state is under
pressures that are cracking it."
A striking thing, if you look around, is with all the talk of globalization and
national integration in the political arenas of the world, you'll find factors
for disintegration. In Northern Ireland it is religious, in Canada and Belgium
it is lingual and in Nigeria it is tribal.
Benjamin Barber, author of "Jihad vs. McWorld" framed the issue this
way: "What Jihad, the bloody search for bloodlines, and McWorld, the
bloodless search for markets, have in common is anarchy, the absence of common
will, and the conscious and collective human control of the guidance of law we
call democracy." Fifty years ago the Kingston Trio - a popular folk music
group - put the idea to music: "They're rioting in Africa. There's strife
in Iran. What nature doesn't do to us, will be done by our fellow man."
Color Domination
W.E.B. DuBois predicted that the problem of our century would be "the
color line," which included the Jim Crow South, but also "racial
oppression," as Manning Marable wrote in "Globalization and
Racialization." This "included British, French, Belgian and
Portuguese colonial domination in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America
and the Caribbean, among indigenous populations."
Marable called it global apartheid, or the "radicalized division and
stratification of resources, wealth and power that separates Europe, North
America and Japan from the billions of mostly black, brown, indigenous,
undocumented immigrant and poor people across the planet."
There is no doubt that the forces of transnational capitalism - what we now
call globalization - has had unsettling effects not only on economies of the
world, but political and social structures as well.
These new structures are accelerating mass unemployment, incarceration and
disenfranchisement while creating an ever-widening circle of social
disadvantage, poverty and civil death that touches the lives of tens of
millions of people across the United States and the world.
Former President Bill Clinton, a major proponent of globalization and free
trade argued "that we have to move from interdependence to integration, to
an integrated global community." To do that we must have a critical mass
of the world with shared benefits, shared responsibilities and shared values.
These are issues, Obama clearly said, that "this nation cannot afford to
ignore right now. Equal citizenship under the law still needs to be
perfected."
Blogs and other talk forums make it clear that the world that is watching the
U.S. presidential race almost as closely as Americans. They want to be heard.
They want America to take the lead once again and are looking for a U.S.
foreign policy that includes listening to them.
John Eger,
chairman of communications and public policy in the School of Journalism &
Media Studies at San Diego State University, is a member of the Envision San
Diego partnership, a media forum for discussing public policy issues affecting
the region.
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John M. Eger
Van Deerlin Chair of Communication and Public Policy
School of Journalism and Media Studies
Executive Director, International Center for Communications
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive
PFSA 160
San Diego, CA
92182-4522
telephone 6195946910
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Steve Weber
President
San Diego State
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John M. Eger
Van Deerlin Chair of Communication and Public Policy
School of Journalism and Media Studies
Executive Director, International Center for Communications
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive
PFSA 160
San Diego, CA
92182-4522
telephone 6195946910
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