The Modern Racist Paradigm

From the description:

The documentary addresses many modern-day internalized racist psychological dispositions (subconscious forms of internalized racism) which are unknowingly passed down from generation to generation due to the globalization and pervasiveness of “Whiteness”; a cultural assimilation process of which, is directly derivative to historical European expansionism, colonialism, and imperialism.

I really like this anecdotal mash-up, although the focus of zionism seems a bit much. The effects that domestic and casual racism have in geopolitics (which is of course perpetuated by the media) is enormous because it lends itself to the views from two or three cultural sources remaining dominant.

David Brooks at the World Affairs Council

David Brooks, a “Nancy Pelosi-Democrat”, talks with Jane Wales at the World Affairs council, describing his “Arethra Franklin policy”. Mr. Brooks is smart, pragmatic and engaging and seems to think that there’s been a shift away from economics and towards identity politics across the globe, specifically in Iraq, and in the US.

Identity and Violence – Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen is a definitive voice on developmental economics and a winner of the Nobel Prize for economics in 1998. In this lecture at UC Berkley, he talks about a convergence of a identity and violence.

The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations – Edward Said

At this lecture at the University of Massachussets at Amherst, the late Edward Said refutes the thesis and the material of the book and essay “Clash of Civilizations” by Samuel Huntington. For me, Edward Said is an incredibly lucid speaker and consistently tears down a certain western tendency to categorize and organize ‘the mysterious east’.