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Thread ID: 18868 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2005-06-27
2005-06-27 21:34 | User Profile
Sick anti-racist site in Indiana
[QUOTE]History
The history of prejudice and hate in Indiana is even older than the state itself. The earliest examples emerge from the heinous treatment that Native Americans received at the hands of white settlers. Some of the most recent cases relate to the contentious debate over gay marriage.
This timeline provides thumb-nail sketches of some of the people and events that reflect Indianaââ¬â¢s history of intolerance. Most of the entries speak of the stateââ¬â¢s struggle with race relations. However, as work on this web site progresses, the timeline will become more comprehensive; it will identify incidents of prejudice and hatred directed toward other disenfranchised populations as well. We also hope to incorporate entries that signify advances made in the fight against intolerance.
Visit the Timeline
NOTE: Please be advised that some of the language and graphics found on this timeline are disturbing. Therefore, viewer discretion is strongly advised. Suggestions for additional timeline entries should be directed to Dr. Beth A. Messner, [email]bmessner@bsu.edu[/email], Department of Communication Studies, Ball State University, Muncie, IN
Learning From a Legacy of Hate [url]http://www.bsu.edu/learningfromhate/default.htm[/url] [/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Students get Center help in tolerance project Your donations at work
The Learning From a Legacy of Hate website
June 15, 2005 -- Inspired in part by Center staff and using Center resources, 15 university students in Indiana created their own website dedicated to combating hatred and intolerance.
The website, Learning From A Legacy of Hate, was modeled in part on the Center's web-based activism site, Tolerance.org. It was the end product of Ball State University's innovative interdisciplinary immersion seminar by the same name.
Students accepted into the class developed the project through interviews with victims of hate crimes. They also toured a number of institutions throughout the country, including the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Southern Poverty Law Center, to develop ideas for their project.
A goal of the seminar was to develop a magazine-style website and companion CD-ROM that addresses the damage that hate speech can do to individuals and communities. The primary focus of the website is to examine the legacy of hate in Indiana and the prevalence and power of hate speech.
During the February visit to the Center, students met with Center website project manager Laura Maschal and Teaching Tolerance curriculum specialist Jeff Sapp. Maschal advised the students on the technical aspects of developing an activist website, and Sapp assisted the students with an educational component from the Center's Teaching Tolerance magazine, "Teaching Tools."
In a letter to Maschal written after the visit, the students thanked her for her input in the project.
"Thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us," they said. "You provided a lot of wonderful advice that will be useful in building our website design. We greatly appreciate your time and your enthusiasm for your work."
The venture was made possible in part through the seminar's participation in Communicating Common Ground (CCG), a service-learning project of the National Communication Association (NCA). The Center began the project with NCA and the American Association for Higher Education in 1999 and is a co-sponsor. CCG is designed to engage senior communications majors at colleges around the country in developing tolerance-related projects.
Dr. Beth Messner, associate professor of communication studies at Ball State, led the seminar. She said the Center's contribution to the website went beyond its sponsorship of Communicating Common Ground.
"I can't say enough about how inspired my students were by meeting with your staff," Messer said. "The support really motivated and buoyed them. We felt very much connected to the Center and were very conscious of furthering the Southern Poverty Law Center's mission through our own work."
The students' goal is to give a voice to the victims of hate speech in order to give others an opportunity to listen to and learn from their experience. Their mission is to recount incidents of hate speech in order to "help people better understand that messages of hate aren't 'just words,'" they say.
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2005-06-28 18:09 | User Profile
Just ask them why they hate white people so much.
2005-06-28 18:29 | User Profile
Wow. The passage of an anti-abortion law, the Northwest Ordinance and the creation of Indiana as a state all made the "hate" timeline. Someone should point this out to the freepers. I think even they would smell a rat.