Archives > 2008-07

Between 9 and 12 of July, I was staying in Berlin, Deutschland (Germany). It was a beautiful and interesting city. The purpose of visiting there was to learn history of holocaust and the Cold War era. The first place I visited was Holocaust Memorial. It is Wave of Stones. The memorial for 6 million Jewish victims. The place was near Brandenburger Gate and the Parliament Building. On one downtown street, I found small memorial plates. It is called "Stolperstein. (Hitting stones)" One of 1600-1700 existed on Berlin streets to mourn holocaust victims. I also visited some...

Last month, I mentioned the below ad was racist using monkey as OBAMA in presidential election campaign. The company that uses the ad, EMOBILE admitted the commercial was offensive to Afro-Americans considering the historical fact that monkey character had been used to portray Blacks as inferior creature to other people. Then early this month, they announced they would not air the...