Writing a letter filled with so much hate and then sending it snail mail, especially in our world of the Internet. Imagine the time put into actually sitting down and I even received snail mail that was filled with hatred. Immediately after the publication of “Dear White America,” I began to receive vile and vitriolic white racistĬomments sent to my university email address, and verbal messages sent to my answering machine. George Yancy: Your point about discursive violence is an important one. But beyond this, shouldn’t we address the broader human realities of such hateful speech, and in particular, how this sort of discursive violenceĭirectly impacts the body of the person attacked? The American Philosophical Association put out a strongly worded statement criticizing theīullying and harassment of academics in the public realm. This conversation is with George Yancy, a professor of philosophy at Emory University and author, editor, co-editor of many books, including “Look, a White!” - Brad Evansīrad Evans: In response to a series of troubling verbal attacks you recently received following your essay in The Stone in December, “ Dear White America,” This is the second in a series of dialogues with philosophers on violence for The Stone. Mark Bradford, Dead Hummingbird, 2015, courtesy Mark Bradford and Hauser & Wirth Credit Once a fishery has brokenĭown, fixing it is fraught with difficulties. Have a collective interest in making sure marine life sticks around but it’s in each boat’s individual interests to grab as much as possible, as soon as possible. Overfishing is often seen as a classic case of what economists call the “ tragedy of the commons.” Clearly, fishing communities According to the United Nationsįood and Agriculture Organization, 90 percent of fish stocks are being exploited at or beyond their maximum sustainable It’s a situation that has been repeated around the world, as overfishing, habitat destruction and climate change cause fish to disappear from the oceans at alarming rates. Says Pettinger, who is now director of the Oregon Trawl Commission. “It was a perfect example of too many trawlers chasing too few fish,” Many fishermen found themselves stranded and facing bankruptcy. Sharp restrictions were brought in,Īnd the fishery was officially declared an economic disaster. Several critical species - from the spiky, orange canary rockfish to the large lingcod - had dropped to below one-quarter of their natural, un-fished levels. Fifteen years ago, America’s vast $50 million Pacific groundfish fishery, which stretches some 1,200 miles from Southern California to the Canadian border, “But I said, honey, who’s gonna buy them? At that time we just didn’t “My wife told me to sell the boats,” says Brad Pettinger, a longtime trawl fisherman in the Pacific Northwest. The Canisius acceptance comes with a scholarship from New York’s Higher Education Opportunity Program. And he certain never imagined that he could afford it.īut when I met Hennings earlier this month, he had already been accepted to one SUNY college in Buffalo and another farther north, and was waiting to hear from SUNY’s University at Buffalo and fromĬanisius, a Jesuit college there with a strong health sciences program (Hennings wants to become an occupational therapist). He’s also waiting to see if “I didn’t understand how to apply” to private school, or even to the State University of New York system “I never thought I’d get accepted to a private school,” he said. He assumed that he would go somewhere in the City University of New York system - probably York College, which was in the neighborhood, or a CUNY community college. “My mom and my family always said go and become someone,” he said. When Shane Hennings was starting his junior year at Jamaica Gateway to the Sciences High School in Queens, he knew he would go to college even though no one in hisįamily had gone. Fixes looks at solutions to social problems and why they work.
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