In recent years, highly publicized controversies (such as the deaths of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown) have brought racial tensions to the forefront in America. As a result of these events, accusations of racism are being hurled at white people (and other non-blacks) like socially divisive weapons of mass destruction on a frequently recurring basis. However, the resentments blacks have towards whites are not new; they've existed for decades. Thanks to social media and the 24-hour news cycle, the feelings of acrimony blacks have towards whites are now on full display. Yet, despite the racial turmoil that currently plagues the U.S., the majority of white Americans "are not" racist; they "do not" harbor any hatred or feelings of superiority towards black Americans based strictly on skin color. Furthermore, the majority of blacks "are not" (and never will be) the victims of systemic (or overt) racism. Making matters worse, black Americans are failing to take full accountability and responsibility for the many urgent problems (high crime, high teen pregnancy rates, etc.) that have infested their community because they are too busy casting out misdirected, unjustifiable accusations of racism. But if most white people aren't racist and most modern blacks aren't victims of racism, where are these accusations of racism coming from? One key fact is instrumental in the formulation of these racial dissensions: Black and white Americans don't understand the difference between racism and "culturism." If black Americans understood "culturism," they'd no longer accuse white people of being racist. If white Americans understood "culturism," they'd no longer be on the receiving end of those accusations. More importantly, black Americans would begin taking full responsibility and accountability for fixing the problems that currently plague their community (instead of shifting blame). In this groundbreaking book, Scott Hampton irrefutably explains why "culturism" is the key to ending racial tensions in the United States, healing the black community, and making America a far more peaceful, harmonious, and hospitable place to live for citizens of "all" races.
SCOTT HAMPTON, PSY.D., who earned his doctorate in clinical psychology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, has been working in the violence prevention field for the past 20 years. During that time, he has worked with almost 4000 cases involving domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse and hate crimes. Currently, he is the Executive Director of Ending the Violence, a New Hampshire-based organization that provides educational classes to perpetrators of domestic and sexual violence. He is also the founder of the Consexuality Project, a sexual violence prevention initiative. "Tolerance, are you kidding? It's an insult! It's how white people feel better about themselves while continuing to hate Blacks." Study participant "Of course tolerance is awful. I'm just afraid that that is the best we can hope for." Holocaust survivor Tolerant oppression: Why promoting tolerance undermines our quest for equality and what we should do instead" addresses the problem with current campaigns to promote tolerance (taught in thousands of U.S. schools every year) as a way of fighting hatred. Those campaigns, though well intended, suffer from the same problem as the "separate-but-equal" doctrine of the 20th century - they reinforce, rather than challenge inequality and oppression with their condescending attitude. The book proposes that we abandon tolerance for less problematic concepts such as acceptance, respect, understanding and the appreciation of diversity. Only then can we approach equality and the peaceful co-existence we all need to survive and thrive. The book presents its case through logical analysis, research data, quotations from civic and religious leaders as well as from members of oppressed groups, and through the use of entertaining metaphors, stories and exercises. How can moving past tolerance help us deal with the following concerns? Abortion Managing grief Child abuse Prostitution and human trafficking Disabilities Religious oppression Divorce Sexism, racism and homophobia Domestic violence and sexual assault Suicide Drug addiction Terrorism and war Hatred, prejudice and discrimination Violence in sports and the media Interpersonal conflict FIND THE ANSWERS INSIDE.
Ce recueil renferme l'un des récits les plus fondamentaux de l'univers de Hellboy, avec la mort du Démon Cornu ! Ce cinquième volume, qui réédite les tomes 12 & 13 de la série standard, propose - en plus de la fin de la saga et de récits complets - également près de 50 pages de croquis inédits !
The world's greatest paranormal investigator takes on a carnivorous house, space aliens, a vampire luchador, a vengeful lion demon, and more in this collection featuring the work of comic greats Mike Mignola, Richard Corben, Kevin Nowlan, and Scott Hampton. * Collects Hellboy in Mexico, Hellboy: Double Feature of Evil, Hellboy: The Sleeping and the Dead #1-#2, Hellboy: The Bride of Hell, "Hellboy: The Whittier Legacy," and Hellboy: Buster Oakley Gets His Wish. "Involves Lucho Libres, vampires, the Devil's smell and Hellboy in a demonic wrestling match. How can anybody who loves comics not be excited by something containing all of that?"-Geek Week
Natasha Romanoff ha sempre condotto un’esistenza quantomeno avventurosa. Addestrata come spia in Unione Sovietica, ha in seguito cambiato schieramento e si è affermata come un’eroina valorosa. Ma ora i suoi giorni come Vedova Nera potrebbero essere giunti al termine: Yelena Belova, una giovane e promettente “studentessa” della Stanza Rossa, infatti, ha tutte le intenzioni di reclamare tale titolo per sé. Tre miniserie complete ci mostrano uno scontro generazionale senza precedenti tra due assassine implacabili e ci raccontano un’avventura in solitaria di Yelena ambientata nel mondo del crimine moscovita. Storia di Devin Grayson (X-Men: Evolution) e Greg Rucka (The Punisher), disegni di J.G. Jones (Marvel Boy), Scott Hampton. (Batman: Night Cries) e Igor Kordey (X-Treme X-Men). [CONTIENE BLACK WIDOW (1999) 1-3, BLACK WIDOW (2001) 1-3, BLACK WIDOW: PALE LITTLE SPIDER (2002) 1-3]
Natasha Romanoff ha sempre condotto una vita avventurosa. Un tempo spia al servizio dell’Unione Sovietica, in seguito è diventata una super eroina, un membro degli Avengers e un agente dello S.H.I.E.L.D. I suoi giorni come Vedova Nera rischiano però di essere giunti al termine! Yelena Belova è la prima studentessa della Stanza Rossa ad aver superato i punteggi di Natasha, e ora è pronta a prendersi il titolo che ritiene le spetti di diritto. In un unico volume le tre minisierie che tra la fine degli anni 90 e l’inizio del decennio successivo hanno ridefinito il personaggio di Black Widow, scritte da Devin Grayson e Greg Rucka e illustrate da J.G. Jones, Scott Hampton e Igor Kordey, in un indimenticabile concentrato di spionaggio, azione e tragedia. [Contiene Black Widow (1999) 1-3, Black Widow (2001) 1-3 e Black Widow: Pale Little Spider (2002) 1-3]
Columbia University law professor Linus Hampton has been accused of murdering his wife and New York socialite Ellen Hunt. The Hunt Family, one of the oldest and wealthiest families in the United States, use their own media conglomerate to expose Hampton daily in an effort to attain justice. Money must have been his motive. The prickly law professor stands to inherit hundreds of millions of dollars now that his wife is dead. Hampton must be sent to prison at all costs. Yet inexplicably, despite the onslaught by the Hunt Family, Hampton is acquitted at his murder trial. Double jeopardy applies, and while he cannot be retried in criminal court, the court of public opinion has a different verdict. Hampton is free to walk the streets of Manhattan even if he is branded a murderer. The only recourse for the Hunts is to use their considerable influence over the insurance company to tie up their only daughter’s estate. It would be repugnant for Hampton to profit from murdering his wife, inheriting a large portion of the family fortune. All the while, Hampton has proclaimed his innocence. Now acquitted, he is suing Capstone Insurance and Finance—the institution withholding his inherited fortune at the insistence of the Hunt Family—in an effort to claim what is rightfully his by law. With the civil trial looming, Hampton must be deposed to get to the truth once and for all. On the other side of this deposition is a new life, whatever the outcome. He will either be destitute and forced into an ignominious existence, or he will be hundreds of millions of dollars richer and free to do what he wants—wherever he wants to do it. What becomes of the law professor hangs in the balance.
Colin Blakeney, 21st Century inventor of the technology that will give the world the transporter and the holodeck, is the victim of a treacherous attack that beams him out of this world -- and into forever. Three hundred years after Blakeney's disappearance, the crew of the Enterprise Spot a stray transporter beam in deep space. Little do they know that this beam contains a mystery for the ages!
Tapping the Vein (vol 1) es el libro que compila las adaptaciones gráficas que se han realizado de cuatro de las historias breves que componen The Books of Blood, colección de relatos de terror que, con sus inesperados y brutales giros, revolucionó en la década de los 80 el género. Sin censuras, el autor arremete contra la visión instaurada de la realidad, mostrándonos personajes que, a diferencia de la norma, no son personas cotidianas inmersas en situaciones peligrosas, sino seres sádicos y perturbados que buscan intencionalmente el mal en sus vidas. Un argumento que no deja indiferente, junto a ilustraciones de grandes maestros del comic –entre los que destacamos a Craig Russell, Scott Hampton, y John Bolton– hacen de este libro una de las obras maestras del terror ilustrado.
Written by Steve Niles Art and cover by Scott Hampton The saga of Simon Dark reaches its dramatic conclusion in this new volume collecting issues #13-18, as Gotham City's strangest hero tours the netherworld known as the In-Between and gets a peek behind the curtain into another world. Advance-solicited; on sale December 16 o 144 pg, FC, $17.99 US
Yelena Belova est la nouvelle Black Widow, l'implacable espionne russe. Pour le compte de son gouvernement, elle se voit chargée de récupérer une biotoxine mortelle des mains d'un général. De son côté, le Pentagone confie la même mission à la précédente Black Widow, Natasha Romanoff. Qui des deux femmes finira par l'emporter ? Retrouvez la trilogie imaginée par Devin Grayson (Ghost Rider) et Greg Rucka (Punisher) consacrée aux débuts de Yelena Belova dans l'univers Marvel. [CET ALBUM CONTIENT LES ÉPISODES BLACK WIDOW (1999) 1 À 3, BLACK WIDOW (2001) 1 À 3, BLACK WIDOW: PALE LITTLE SPIDER (2002) 1 À 3.]
It is said that man's extremity is God's opportunity. Christianity, at root, at its finest moments, in the finest sense of the word, is Evangelical, what I call "straight-Gospel Christianity." Straight-Gospel Christians - whether straight-Gospel Protestants or straight-Gospel Catholics or straight-Gospel Anglicans or straight-Gospel Orthodox - can relate to each other in Christ not just well but in some very deep and profound ways whose foundation is fundamentally that of the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Holy Scripture. They are already practically of one heart and of the one mind for which St. Paul pleaded (see I Corinthians 1:10) in imitation of our Lord's earnest prayer for the unity of His disciples (John 17) concerning the Gospel of our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ. In fact, St. Paul the Apostle himself - he who was once Saul the fiery and zealous Pharisee (the Pharisees are the ancestors of rabbinical Judaism) testified that in a certain mysterious sense Jews - who, after all, gave us Y'shua - Jesus - whom the early Christians - the followers of "the Way" - proclaimed as the Messiah (Hebrew mashiach) - are the foremost participants in the Mystery of Salvation (See Romans 9-11), for they were the first to proclaim the Gospel of the Kingdom (See, for instance, Isaiah 52:7-10). Therein lies our hope and our opportunity - and, more to the point, God's opportunity - for a Christian unity which will set the world on fire for Christ. It's God's time. It's Kingdom time. It's the fullness of time. It's God's opportunity!
Cast out of Heaven, thrown down to rule in Hell, Lucifer Morningstar has resigned his post and abandoned his kingdom for the mortal city of Los Angles. Emerging from the pages of writer Neil Gaiman's award-winning series The Sandman, the former Lord of Hell is now enjoying a quiet retirement as the propretor of Lux, L.A.'s most elite piano bar. But now an assignment from the Creator Himself is going to change all that. If Lucifer agrees to do Heaven's dirty work, he can name his own price--but both the task and reward are more than they seem. Thrown into a position of great threat and ultimate opportunity, Lucifer knows that threading a path through this maze will require the harshest of sacrifices.
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