cavanami Posted December 12, 2011 Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 MLK and that group pushed and pushed and pushed for equal rights and all that...now they got it! and they can have it!! not as easy as they thought it was!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamui Posted December 12, 2011 Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 Oh, more alive and accute in America. 4 out of 10 black Americans have been jailed. Black women steer clear from anyone who had been in jail, understandable, anyone would. Now they (black American women) have each 4-5-6 non-jailed black Americans to fight for. "Man sharing", they call it. They might unlikely marry down (like a professional Black woman marrying a postman) but they would never not marry "out" (like marrying a white man). Marrying a white man recalls the days of slavery and white men are not sex-appealing. (The Economist published an excerpt from that research) While we are having that, we still dig the Yasakuni shrine and who visits it. What an unexpected angle it may be. Those (black Americans) being more race aware than anyone, during peace time. Japanese being ruthless racists pale compared to above. As I said, the Japanese war atrocities have not been buried by the past decades - and the Chinese use this matter frequently for mostly internal political gain. Today's news on this matter: Christian Bale defends 'Rape of Nanjing' film Christian Bale (L) says the film explores how a crisis can reduce people to animalistic behavior Chinese massacre film stirs debate Can Chinese film rival Hollywood? Scarred by history: The Rape of Nanjing Actor Christian Bale has defended his role in a Chinese-language film portraying the 1937 massacre of Chinese by Japan's imperial army in Nanjing. Critics say the film is nationalistic and anti-Japanese, but Bale says the film is not Chinese propaganda. "It's far more a movie about human beings and the nature of human beings' responses to crisis," he said. The film, The Flowers of War, will be released across China on Friday and in the US in late December. CriticismThis year China has released several big-budget epics with strong patriotic themes. The films have coincided with a slew of major anniversaries, such as the Communist Party marking 90 years since its foundation. And Chinese officials have encouraged film-makers to push China's message to the world. But Bale, who last year won an Oscar for his role in The Fighter, dismissed criticism of the film. He said it was a historical piece, and anyone describing it as propaganda was not looking at it closely enough. He told reporters it was an exploration of how a crisis "can reduce people to the most animalistic behaviour but also raise them up to the most honourable behaviour you could ever witness". The Nanjing massacre, which is also called the Rape of Nanjing, is one of the most notorious episodes of Japan's invasion and occupation of China. Some 140,000 Chinese were slaughtered, according to international observers, although Chinese historians put the figure much higher. For many Chinese, the apologies offered by Japan have never been enough, and the event still tarnishes relations between the countries. BBC News Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamui Posted December 12, 2011 Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 No, but the government's handling of past misdeed is abominable. The Japanese government's refusal to accept responsibility for the "comfort women", for instance. Yet while insisting it wasn't their doing, they set up a fund to "compensate" those who were forced into prostitution for years. Most of the women refused to accept the money without a genuine apology. Japan generated extremely negative publicity around the world from this incident. No one hates the Japanese today, at least I have never met anyone. But as I said, the prime minister's visits to the graves of war criminals is simply unbelievable. Can you imagine a German leader paying respects to the graves of Nazi war criminals? The Italian PM honouring Mussolini's fascists? The Japanese government simply does not seem to understand how the world views their actions. The fund for to compensate the Comfort Women was set up with an non governmental entity, for to avoid that other victims to claim compensation. And to make matters works the official who ran the fund was a bureaucrat involved organizing the Comfort Women system during WWII. By the way, Japanese media mostly ignore this matter or play it down. It is like the Japanese Atomic industry, which oppressed any public criticism before Fukushima, the Japanese conservative elite tries to chokes any large scale debate about this matter. Here is some background on this matter from Wikipedia: The Nanking Massacre or Nanjing Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, was a mass murder, genocide and war rape that occurred during the six-week period following the Japanese capture of the city of Nanjing (Nanking), the former capital of the Republic of China, on December 13, 1937 during the Second Sino-Japanese War. During this period hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians and disarmed soldiers were murdered and 20,000–80,000 men, women and children were raped[1] by soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army.[2][3][4]The event remains a contentious political issue, as various aspects of it have been disputed by some historical revisionists and Japanese nationalists,[3] who have claimed that the massacre has been either exaggerated or wholly fabricated for propaganda purposes. As a result of the nationalist efforts to deny or rationalize the war crimes, the controversy surrounding the massacre remains a stumbling block in Sino-Japanese relations, as well as Japanese relations with other Asia-Pacific nations such as South Korea and the Philippines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redbaron Posted December 12, 2011 Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 Pretty sure it happened.... I remember having conversations about it with my son's grandfather who was there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted December 13, 2011 Report Share Posted December 13, 2011 Many years ago, the Japanese gov gave $$$ for the Korean comfort women but the Korean gov farked off with the $$$, go figure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamui Posted December 13, 2011 Report Share Posted December 13, 2011 Many years ago, the Japanese gov gave $$ for the Korean comfort women but the Korean gov farked off with the $$, go figure. Yep, Japan paid some reparation to the Korean government which was a dictatorship at that time, but until today they deny individual compensation to the victims. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julian2 Posted December 15, 2011 Report Share Posted December 15, 2011 Former Nazi hit man starts serving prison A 90-YEAR-old man convicted last year of killing three Dutch civilians while he was part of a Nazi SS hit squad during World War II has been taken to prison to start serving his life sentence. Robert Deller, a spokesman for prosecutors in Aachen, said Heinrich Boere was taken by ambulance yesterday from the old-age home where he lived to a detention facility. He declined to specify the prison's location. Deller said today a court-appointed expert's report had determined that the wheelchair-bound Boere was fit to serve his sentence and officials found a "suitable" facility. An Aachen court in March 2010 sentenced Boere to life in prison for the 1944 killings of a bicycle-shop owner, a pharmacist and another civilian in the Netherlands. A federal court rejected his appeal. http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/breaking-news/former-nazi-hit-man-starts-serving-prison/story-e6frea73-1226223424228 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted December 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2011 << About 10.4% of the entire African-American male population in the United States aged 25 to 29 was incarcerated, by far the largest racial or ethnic group — by comparison, 2.4% of Hispanic men and 1.2% of white men in that same age group were incarcerated. According to a report by the Justice Policy Institute in 2002, the number of black men in prison has grown to five times the rate it was twenty years ago. Today, more African-American men are in jail than in college. In 2000 there were 791,600 black men in prison and 603,032 enrolled in college. In 1980, there were 143,000 black men in prison and 463,700 enrolled in college. >> While a huge figure and nothing to be proud of, this still hardly equals "4 out of 10 black Americans". My link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamui Posted December 15, 2011 Report Share Posted December 15, 2011 << About 10.4% of the entire African-American male population in the United States aged 25 to 29 was incarcerated, by far the largest racial or ethnic group — by comparison, 2.4% of Hispanic men and 1.2% of white men in that same age group were incarcerated. According to a report by the Justice Policy Institute in 2002, the number of black men in prison has grown to five times the rate it was twenty years ago. Today, more African-American men are in jail than in college. In 2000 there were 791,600 black men in prison and 603,032 enrolled in college. In 1980, there were 143,000 black men in prison and 463,700 enrolled in college. >> While a huge figure and nothing to be proud of, this still hardly equals "4 out of 10 black Americans". My link That's the wrong thread. You can count African-Americans in Japan probably within a few minutes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julian2 Posted December 16, 2011 Report Share Posted December 16, 2011 It's relevant if they are all in jail though. I'd hate to see the figures for Australian Aboriginal men in jail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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