It is absolutely perfect.  They are so cute!

It is awesome.  Thanks for digging it up!

it's Subbodh Chandra (former candidate for Ohio's Attorney General) 's children...

Here is Chandra's commercial, comparing himself to Apu and his opponent to Homer Simpson.

Race is over, but check out this commercial.

http://www.chandrafo...

Just read my comment.  Didn't mean to imply that I found the the picture, just that my friend informed me that it was the Chandra tripletts.

The Sepia Mutiny, a blog by and for South Asian Americans, apparently...

Controversy is of course surrounding the concept behind the latest iteration of the flagging "Survivor" show - in an effort to re-energize the franchise, they've decided to organize the tribes by ethnicity.
I heard a rumor about whose idea this actually was.
I don't know if it's true.
But if when the thing airs, we find one of the groups is called the Macaca tribe -
we know Felix was in on it.

I want one...

Buzz...Buzz

this is now my wallpaper!!!

never studied Kant.

Using kids like this for crass political gain.  Very nice.  You should be so proud.

He's extremely bright and well-educated and most likely has run across Kant and a few other Western philosophers.  He's also a very devoted and involved father.

Do you fear he will possibly do something radical like send his kids to public school?

If you have genuine concerns about child exploitation, you've taken a wrong turn here.  Check out some of the pix of kids - orphaned, mutilated and dead - in Iraq.  On the homefront consider the politicized and abused children in the Phelps clan who have grown up as tools and not so long ago protested Coretta Scott King's funeral, etc.etc.

Then those cute kids have many years to look forward to of being used as means for their father's ends.  Quite sad.

these two situations are comparable?

Actually, I'm not surprised at all that you'd say so. 

is far worse.

The the Republo-kids are clearly having theirs closed for them.  Very sad.

What they can look forward to is handling racial and ethnic slurs and discrimination in an assertive manner rather than through internalization.

Their dad has contributed to Jim Webb as a result of this incident, and he has his own experiences being singled out.

With his words, the senator reminded many second-generation Indian-Americans of all the times that we’ve been told we “talk good English” even by people who have not been speaking it as long as we have.

And Allen’s comments -- and the way his audience laughed as Allen singled out Sidarth -- reminded us that who our leaders are matters. Leaders who instill us with a sense of higher common purpose, rather than exploiting the human tendency to think in simplistic us-versus-them terms, make our country stronger for it.

I am eagerly awaiting my first grandson.  This is a deeply personal matter not only for people of color, but also those of us who have - or anticipate - family members who do not benefit from the accident of being born purely white.

Actually, it is a deeply personal matter for all fair-minded Americans who are committed to nondiscrimination.

"Critique Of Pure Reason."
Pshaw.
A=A.
Good night, Immanuel.

The consequences of an act are morally neutral; it is the act itself (which reflects the will of the actor) that has moral relevance, right?

Thus:

1) Act- Dressing up kids with shirts that employ an offensive term to protest the term.  Morally reprehensible? Perhaps.

End- protest against someone in authority who used that term.

2) Act- Mocking someone publicly in terms with strong racist and xenophobic overtones. Morally reprehensible? I'd say so.

End- short term political gain.

Try applying Katian ethics to such acts of Bush/Allen as the pre-emptive invasion of Iraq, easing standards that prohibit torture, secret prisons, kidnapping suspects and secreting them away to secret prisons, etc. In each case, I would conclude that these are immoral acts.