GREECE, N.Y. - Alone in the gym after practice, Jason McElwain went through his elaborate pregame ritual.
The 17-year-old senior, manager of the Greece Athena High School basketball team, drained a 3-pointer, a double-pump layup and a free throw, kissed the back of his ring finger at center court and sped off to the dressing room to exhort and amuse his teammates. Continue reading »
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“Much of our educational system indoctrinates and teaches conformity and gullibility, rather than independent thought-making and moral courage.” -David E. Wilkins
(Source: Wilkins: A warrior walks on: The dwindling of Native America : ICT [2007/10/04])
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As a national holiday, Columbus Day has virtually nothing to do with honoring Italian heritage or culture, and it is not about celebrating mutually held values of decency, respect or justice. Columbus Day celebrates two critical developments integral to the establishment and advancement of the United States. First, it celebrates invasion and domination, especially of indigenous peoples’ territories; second, and much more importantly, it celebrates the invention and the legal institutionalization of the “doctrine of discovery.”
(Source: Morris: How Columbus Day Harms American Indians : ICT [2007/10/04])
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