Tuesday, October 24, 2017

UPDATED, WTNH Video & WTIC Podcast - DOUG GLANVILLE – FMR MLB PLAYER, ANALYST & AUTHOR – TO SPEAK AT UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH, 6pm Tues. Nov. 14



'Responding to Injustice in Ways that Work'
& Book Signing 'The Game From Where I Stand'





  • Good Morning CT 11-6-17





  • WTIC Podcast Posted 10-30-17




  • By RAND RICHARDS COOPER
  • Doug Glanville Hits It Out of the Park ...... as Player and as Writer





  • FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
    Contact: Diana Sousa,
    Director, Marketing & Communications

    Telephone: 860.231.5297
    Email: dianasousa@usj.edu


    WEST HARTFORD, CONN. (Oct. 23, 2017) – The University of Saint Joseph (USJ) today announced that the public is invited to attend a free event with former Major League Baseball (MLB) player, baseball analyst/commentator, and author Doug Glanville. Glanville’s speech, entitled “Responding to Injustice in Ways that Work,” will touch on sports, communication, and social injustice.

    According to the University’s President, Rhona Free, “Each semester USJ brings a wide range of outside speakers, performers and artists to campus to address social issues and current events. Glanville is part of our 2017-18 Speaker Series that includes presentations by the current President of the CT Entomological Society, an interactive Skype presentation by a former FBI special agent, and a Mariachi ensemble.”

    Glanville will also sign copies of his book, “The Game from Where I Stand: A Ball Player’s Inside View,” before and after the event, in the University’s Hoffman Auditorium in West Hartford on Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017, at 6 p.m.
    “It is a distinct honor to have the opportunity to share my experiences with the next generation of critical thinkers,” said Glanville. “I have been fortunate to have grown up in a town that was committed to diversity, not just as a buzzword, but as integral to our lives. Over the past five years as a Hartford resident, I have engaged on many levels regarding policy and legislation with respect to social justice and I have found our state to be in touch and serious about the work. This engagement has taught me many lessons about reform, but also about the many people who genuinely care about equity and equality. I hope to inspire and spark interest at the community of USJ from firsthand experience, but more importantly, to let them know that they can truly make a difference.”

    Raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, Glanville graduated from the school of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He was the first African American Ivy League graduate to play in the MLB. A nine-year Major League Baseball veteran, Glanville was a first-round draft pick by the Chicago Cubs, which led to his long career with the Cubs, Texas Rangers, and the Philadelphia Phillies. After retiring from baseball in 2005, Glanville began sharing his experience and knowledge through his writing, speaking, and sports commentary.

    Glanville, a former on-air ESPN baseball analyst, is a guest speaker throughout the country and has appeared in numerous media outlets. Currently, he is a contributor to The New York Times, where he offers insight about baseball and how the sport translates to everyday life. He authors a whimsical blog about parenting and fatherhood called “The Daddy Games,” which can be found on his website, www.DougGlanville.com.

    Glanville is a board member of the Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association (MLBPAA). He is also active in the community, where he is committed to raising the quality of public education through school equity and enhanced programming to support students of diverse backgrounds and educational needs. His advocacy extends to public policy and community safety through his work with the Connecticut Police Officer Standards and Training Council and the Connecticut State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

    The University of Saint Joseph (USJ) offers a wide range of coeducational undergraduate, graduate, and certificate programs that combine a professional and liberal arts education with a focus on service. Undergraduate programs for both traditional and adult students take place on our beautiful suburban campus and include more than 26 majors and seven pre-professional programs, taught by expert faculty in an engaging environment. Graduate master’s and doctoral degree programs are taught on the University’s two campuses in West Hartford and Hartford, Connecticut; at off-campus locations throughout the state; and online. Founded in 1932 by the Sisters of Mercy, the University of Saint Joseph welcomes students from diverse backgrounds and religious traditions. To learn more, view our website at www.usj.edu.

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    Friday, October 13, 2017

    UPDATED: @DougGlanville Book Signing / Talk / Q&A - #RespondingtoInjusticeinWaysthatWork

    UPDATED, 10-19-17
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  • The University of Saint Joseph is delighted to announce that Doug Glanville –former Major League Baseball player, ESPN analyst/commentator and author – will be speaking on Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017 at 6 p.m. in the Hoffman Auditorium. Glanville’s speech, entitled, “Responding to Injustice in Ways that Work,” will touch on sports, communication, and social injustice.




    In addition to his speech, Glanville will be signing copies of his book, “The Game From Where I Stand.” Signings will take place before and after the event. This is a free event open to the USJ community and general public.


  • Glanville Hits It Out of the Park as Player & Writer


  • Preview of Appearance via WTIC


  • BACKGROUND

  • Facebook Event Page for ‘Responding to Injustice in Ways that Work’

  • CAMPUS UPDATE post


  • Wednesday, October 4, 2017

    Tonight’s Poem


    Closed After Columbus Day

    As if I were the sufferer
    And not the house. As if
    Complexity of diction had
    Obscured the facts. My poems
    Speak straight to the soul.


    One poem “remains, I think,”
    Said an esteemed critic
    And early admirer, “the most
    Unique and powerful piece
    Of imagination since Coleridge.”


    And yet is there one New
    London child reciting it today?
    My unbounded hope had been
    To make poetry unforgettable,
    Not erasable words and me


    Along with them, forgotten,
    Not that I need to be remembered;
    That is, praised, but mentioned
    On the tour, I should think,


    Yes! And what of my mother.

    Who shaped her speech
    All silver fine because she
    Loved words so? Must men
    Be our only remarkable souls?
    One reader noted that I am


    “A singer with a rare gift,
    A true poet, and,” so the reviewer
    Continues, “What has
    Surprised me is that magazine
    Editors have not realized


    What an excellent story awaited
    Them could they secure a peek
    At her home and give the public
    An appreciative study of this
    Remarkable woman” –


    September 8, 1921. And now
    A museum that does not honor
    Me; that makes no mention of
    My Name.


    -- Dennis Barone

    What Was Up With the Italian Baptist & Shiloh Baptist Churches 100 Years Ago? Lessons for 2017...

    Immigration & Migration & Two Baptist Churches in Hartford:
    Lessons From 100 Years Ago








    A Lecture by USJ Prof Dennis Barone



    English and American Studies Prof Dennis Barone will present the inaugural Sister Mary Ellen Murphy Faculty Scholarship Award Lecture on Wednesday, Oct. 11 at 4:30 pm in the AV Room of Brunette Anthenaeum at the University of St. Joseph.


    The award honors a faculty member for research and creative work.



    Barone's lecture, "Praying toward Acceptance: Aspects of African, Anglo, and Italian American Cooperation," will describe what is billed as “the circumstances” of the Hartford Italian Baptist Church and Shiloh Baptist Church, an African American congregation, during the early 20th century. The suspense is building as to the circumstances and what Barone will reveal.

    Barone is a past Poet Laureate of West Hartford and the author of more than a dozen books, including Beyond Memory: Italian Protestants in Italy and America.

    Sunday, October 1, 2017

    COMMENTARY: Staff Writer @indystudentnews Assesses @tanehisicoates on 'First White President' @TheAtlantic

    Is Trump Actually Our 'First White President?'




    By LAURA PEARSON
    lpearson@usj.edu
    Staff Writer
    http://indystudentnews.blogspot.com/
    @indystudentnews




    Ta-Nehisi Coates opens his widely-read essay in The Atlantic:

    “It is insufficient to state the obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not for this fact.”

    The headline for this piece is: The First White President.

  • Click for Coates Essay via The Atlantic

  • We all know the presidents were all white until 2008. What is Coates' point?

    As a young student, I sensed and witnessed the resulting tension and unrest from the deaths of Trayvon Martin in 2012 and Michael Brown in 2014. It doesn't take much time or insight to realize this tension and unrest has worsened since the presidential campaign and election of 2016.

    Police brutality, profiling and accountability are serious issues that Trump dismisses, focusing instead almost exclusively on police who are targeted.

    Coates delves into this development and others with a philosophical perspective that cannot be dismissed:

    “Trump truly is something new—the first president whose entire political existence hinges on the fact of a black president. And so it will not suffice to say that Trump is a white man like all the others who rose to become president. He must be called by his rightful honorific—America’s first white president.”

    Here's a longer excerpt from Coates:

    "His political career began in advocacy of birtherism, that modern recasting of the old American precept that black people are not fit to be citizens of the country they built. But long before birtherism, Trump had made his worldview clear. He fought to keep blacks out of his buildings, according to the U.S. government; called for the death penalty for the eventually exonerated Central Park Five; and railed against “lazy” black employees. “Black guys counting my money! I hate it,” Trump was once quoted as saying. “The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.” After his cabal of conspiracy theorists forced Barack Obama to present his birth certificate, Trump demanded the president’s college grades (offering $5 million in exchange for them), insisting that Obama was not intelligent enough to have gone to an Ivy League school, and that his acclaimed memoir, Dreams From My Father, had been ghostwritten by a white man, Bill Ayers.

    "It is often said that Trump has no real ideology, which is not true—his ideology is white supremacy, in all its truculent and sanctimonious power. Trump inaugurated his campaign by casting himself as the defender of white maidenhood against Mexican “rapists,” only to be later alleged by multiple accusers, and by his own proud words, to be a sexual violator himself. White supremacy has always had a perverse sexual tint. Trump’s rise was shepherded by Steve Bannon, a man who mocks his white male critics as “cucks.” The word, derived from cuckold, is specifically meant to debase by fear and fantasy—the target is so weak that he would submit to the humiliation of having his white wife lie with black men. That the slur cuck casts white men as victims aligns with the dicta of whiteness, which seek to alchemize one’s profligate sins into virtue. So it was with Virginia slaveholders claiming that Britain sought to make slaves of them. So it was with marauding Klansmen organized against alleged rapes and other outrages. So it was with a candidate who called for a foreign power to hack his opponent’s email and who now, as president, is claiming to be the victim of “the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history.”


    How could large swaths of people vote for a candidate who so clearly shows his racism while racism still causes so much suffering for so many people?

    As I ponder that question, I ask readers to do the same.

    I find the rationalizations offered by liberals like author / chef / TV personality Anthony Bourdain lacking in thought and courage.

    Bourdain's assertions include the claim that certain elites including himself missed the boat by discussing "red-state, gun-country, working-class America as ridiculous and morons and rubes."

    Does this not seem petty and self-centered to think a large population of people elected their own president just because of a small group of elites looked down on them? Could it not be something more?

    As I have learned throughout my own life, smaller towns with mainly white people don’t interact with minorities regularly. They form their own biases and racist attitudes through what they see on TV and hear on the news. This racial separation is part of the reason Trump was elected.

    If the idea that white people are superior to minorities still exists, then it wouldn’t matter what kind of person we elect, even if they have no experience in politics, even if they have been accused of and admitted to sexual assault, as long as they are white.

    “The mind seizes trying to imagine a black man extolling the virtues of sexual assault on tape (“When you’re a star, they let you do it”), fending off multiple accusations of such assaults, immersed in multiple lawsuits for allegedly fraudulent business dealings, exhorting his followers to violence, and then strolling into the White House,” Coates wrote.

    If Hillary Clinton had admitted to sexual assault, there would be an uproar and calls to have her imprisoned. Yet, Trump was able to get away with all of this. Because, when you’re a white man and when you’re a reality-television star, they let you do it.

    Our country chiseled the idea into law that to be black meant to be less than other people and to be white meant to be superior. This idea still survives today, as black people are stereotyped and discriminated against purely because of the color of their skin.

    By focusing his run for the presidency on the negation of President Barack Obama’s legacy, Trump attracted white supporters who also supported the undoing of the Obama presidency. Evidence contradicting the pundit’s theories, Coates wrote, show that “the racial and ethnic isolation of whites at the zip code level is one of the strongest predictors of Trump’s support.”

    “From the beer track to the wine track, from soccer moms to NASCAR dads, Trump’s performance among whites was dominant,” Coates wrote. “According to Mother Jones, based on pre-election polling data, if you tallied the popular vote of only white America to derive 2016 electoral votes, Trump would have defeated Clinton 389 to 81, with the remaining 68 votes either a toss-up or unknown.”

    The pundits who insist that the discrimination directed at white working-class voters was at fault for the emergence of Trump are not taking into credit the amount of support Trump had among all white people, no matter their income. In this assumption, these liberal pundits are ignoring the minority working-class voters, as Coates explains, who were not among his strong supporters. If these white working-class people only voted for Trump because they wanted more jobs and were tired of being ignored by establishment politicians, why, then did the black and Hispanic and immigrant working-class not vote for him as well?

    Coates' essay is a warning we all must heed -- especially people who believe that racism had little to do with the election.

    “The first white president in American history is also the most dangerous president—and he is made more dangerous still by the fact that those charged with analyzing him cannot name his essential nature, because they are too implicated in it,” Coates argued.

    I take his valid point this way: Political pundits have become so entrenched in the idea that those in the white working-class are not racists or bigots that they can’t see that racism is why Trump was elected.

    Does this mean everyone who voted for Trump is racist or at least agrees with the racist things he has said? We can’t say that for sure. Coates considers this idea as well. He concludes: “Certainly not every Trump voter is a white supremacist, just as not every white person in the Jim Crow South was a white supremacist. But every Trump voter felt it acceptable to hand the fate of the country over to one.”

    I believe many voters chose to support a racist. Some in Jim Crow territory just happened to live in a place run by racists. It doesn’t mean they are all racists because of this.

    That last point gives me hope.

    In places with more diversity – for example, here at the University of St. Joseph – people are able to get to know and become friendly with people of other races. This experience tends to teach them that the stereotypes they have seen expressed in movies, TV shows, and the news are not a reality. To overcome our racial divide, we need to come together and learn more about each other.

    Laura Pearson is a Public Health major and Political Science minor. Contact: lpearson@usj.edu

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