Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 2004 — Page 3

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2004

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FILM ► Continued from Page 1 tiate a review process that they say will determine whether or not v the film is inappropriate for middle school-aged children and if paren- ( tal notice should be provided in the ; future. , “Our policy manual spells out a .'specific review procedure, and this reviewprocess isset upto take alook „a everything from library books to other curriculum material,” said 0 Richard Hogue, assistant superinr tendent of Hamilton Southeastern schools. ‘There’s a specific polity in place in which material could be

SAME SEX ► Continued from Page 1 “Both of these initiatives passed with strong bipartisan support, offering a clear pie^ ture of Indiana General Assembly’s views on the subject of same-sex marriages,” he continued. “Our opposition to the idea has been a part of the public record and state law since 1997, well before the current furor over same-sex marriages erupted in Massachusetts and California. “Indiana has been in the forefront in the county in prohibiting same-sex marriages,” Mahern said. Mahern urged residents to examine existing state law, specifically Indiana Code 31-11-1-1, to see current state policy on the subject of same-sex mar-

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“The law is clear: same-sex marriages are not allowed in I ndiana and will not be allowed in Indiana,” Mahern said. “Even if you are married in another state, Indiana does not recognize that union.” Mahern said that spending time on discussions on legislation that is already in effect in Indiana takes valuable time away from other issues of importance to the people of Indiana, including full-day kindergarten tax relief, economic development initiatives and affordable prescription drugs for Hoosiers. “With the record so clear, one must begin to wonder whether those who are pressing this issue have a different agenda in mind, one that reflects a desire to create a controversy out of thin air, just in time for a statewide election,” he noted. “Let us move on to other issues that have an impact on the lives of all Hoosiers. This issue is settled. Indiana has one of the nation’s

looked at to determine if thev should be eliminated or not" Rev. Johason’s meeting with the principal this week is actually the start of that process. Hamilton Southeastern Junior High School principal Shari Switzer did not return phone calls that w ere placed to her office on Mondav. During a Mondav afternoon appearanceon“Aftem(x>aswithAmos,’’ on WTLC-FM (106.7) Johnson indicated that he would also be le;iding efforts to persuade the Hamilton Southeastern district to hire more minority faculty members. The district’s minority student population experienced an increase thisyear to 13 percent from last year’s 3.8 percent But less than 1 percent of teachers and other facultv members

are minorities. Today, however one has to ask the question: How can a word that has been taboo in polite society fqr over 40 years still inspire so many emotional reactions? The n-vvord remains extremely ()ffeasive, as proven last month in the state of Washington when a lawmaker, Alex Deccio, was asked to resign aftercallingafellovvlavvmaker the n-vvord. In New York City, a member of the city council introduced a narrowly defeated resolution that would haveencouraged citizens from using the n-vvord in any context. A T h grade teacher in St Louis recently found herselfin trouble after

tciiching a chapter from Rand;ill Kennedy’s book “N r: The Strange Career of A Troublesome Word.” “’N r' is the nuclear bomb of racial epithets,” Quincy Ewell recently wrote in “H illtop,” the student newspaper of Howard University. “It is a word that whites have employed to wound and degrade African Americans for three centuries." ■'Hie word still inspires so much passu >n tcxlav because it was used to separate as. d<nvngrade Black pe< iple and make us feel inferior during slavery and the repressive decades that followed.” added Lorna Brummer, assistant curator of the Crispus Attucks Museum. The mu-

seum chronicles load Black history and the development of Crispus Attucks Middle School, which was built due to racial segregation. Brummer, herself a former school teacher, agreed that instructors mast he me ire careful about how historical material is presented in the context of race relatioas. “I know today’s children hear the n-vvord often through masic and even among African Americans, but I think the negative use of this word was reinforced in an environment where there’s really no Black adult presence," Brummer added. “I love Sidney Poitier, but I'm sure it’s not the only piece ofBlack history the scfrxil could have shown. Ifyou want to teach BlackhLstory.digdeeper

into the positive legacies of African American inventors, scientists and mathematicians. You'd be surprised at how interested kids would be in those facts.” Greg Tate, ajoumallst for the Village Voice, summed the Issue up by noting that the n-vvord. more than any other Black racial slur, ignites so many negative passions because it’s a term that has permeated so many of America’s institutions. The n-vvord hits Ixen everywhere, seen everything, known and influenced people high and low, moved freely from theouthouse to the courthouse, the locker room to the stateroom, and from our killing fields to our fields of higher learning.”

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