I sit up here in the lookout, watching the crane swing back and forth, with the new buildings on the waterfront gradually rising towards it, feeling a bit og collegiality with the operator of the crane (who has to climb even more ladders than I do to get to his perch).
My father is spending a week in a nursing home with his hip screwed back together. I'm severely delayed in my attempts to become a nurse. My son Tesfaye is sick. Small wonder I retreat up here when I should be studying for the nursing final (because a D is better than an F).
Then I turn the opposite direction, towards the rising hilltop of the Oregon State University campus, and think about the study recently conducted there.
William Loges of OSU and Adrian Carpusor of USC sent out e-mails to landlords, inquiring after apartments advertised for rent. The inquiries were identical, except for the signatures: Patrick McDougall, Tyrell Jackson and Said al-Rahman.
Loges and Carpusor were interested to see how much of a difference those names would make, hypothesizing that McDougall would get more encouraging replies than Jackson, who would get more than al-Rahman.
But no: McDougall got an 89% approval rating, al-Rahman 66% and Jackson 56%.
That's right: in spite of everything news and entertainment media working together have tried, African Americans are still more hated than Arabs.
Looks like all that "trouble" Trent Lott laments hasn't been quite enough trouble.
Do you feel troubled?
//The Magic 8-Ball says, "Better if you feel troublesome."\\
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