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‘Obamaphone’ attack ads flood Facebook

October 11, 2012 By dracutfire

Since October 10, 2012, a viral anti-Obama facebook post has been going around. It reads: Woman Admits to Having 30 Free Obamaphones Paid By the Taxpayers http://www.reagancoalition.com She carries six of them in her … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2012, cell-phone, debate, election, obama, obamaphone, racism

Racism in the Criminal Justice System: #NN12 series, cont’d

June 10, 2012 By Ryan

Among all the keynote addresses given at Netroots Nation, the one that seemed the 'least sexy' (ie, I didn't know any of the speakers), was also what ended up being my favorite. The main exhibition room was kept so dark that it was hard … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: #nn12, criminal-justice, netroots-nation, prison, racism

The Fading Allure of the Tea Party Movement

April 26, 2011 By steven-j-gulitti

For the newly elected Tea Party backed Republicans and their supporters, the easy part is over. Now that they have arrived on Capitol Hill and in statehouses across the country, the hard part is just beginning. At this early date, the news … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: Anti-Immigrant Attitudes, Anti-Intellectual and Anti-Elitist Rhetoric, Deficit Reduction Programs, Intra-Party Conflict and the G.O.P., No Tax Increases Pledge, Public Opinion and Entitlement Programs, Public Opinion Polls, racism, Tea Party Leadership, Tea Party Popularity, tea-party-movement, The Politics of Obstruction and Compromise

Race and the racist

March 26, 2011 By thurman-hart

Since I'm a big white guy from the south, people often feel comfortable in confiding their secret racist thoughts to me. Sometimes it's just a racist joke or two. Sometimes it's a snide remark about Al Sharpton or Charlie Rangel or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: racism

Hate is here in my neighborhood too.

September 28, 2010 By liveandletlive

With all the news media about personal attacks and hate directed toward Muslims, and with the many discussions we've had about it on this site, religious hate has never hit this close to home. My eyes are opened now. From Masslive.com It's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: fbi, fear, free-speech, palmer-massachusetts, racism, tea-party

Ford Hall Forum: “AIDS, Social Justice and the Politics of Transformation” (9/30/10)

September 28, 2010 By aidsaction

This event is presented in collaboration with the Old South Meeting House, a museum and National Historic Landmark dedicated to the free exchange of ideas, as part of the Partners in Dialogue series. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: aids, boston, discussion, drugs, event, forum, health, health-care, hiv, homophobia, lecture, poverty, racism, sexism, transphobia, violence

On Fear: The Islam Edition, Or, Do You Know My Friend Wa’el?

September 22, 2010 By fake-consultant

This world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those that feel --Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford, in a letter, August, 1776 So all of this took place at Newsvine...and if you're not familiar with how things work there, users … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: egypt, election-10, islam, islamophobia, national, politics, racism, wael-nawara

Cahill faces blowback for immense stupidity

May 28, 2010 By Charley on the MTA

You know, Massachusetts makes me proud sometimes. Really, profoundly proud. Not when one of our electeds tosses around terms like "pandering to special interest groups" and "political correctness run amok", and "playing politics with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bigotry, ma-gov, racism, tim-cahill

“Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black”

April 24, 2010 By tblade

Anti-racist writer Tim Wise crystalizes it: Imagine that hundreds of black protesters were to descend upon Washington DC and Northern Virginia, just a few miles from the Capitol and White House, armed with AK-47s, assorted handguns, and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: racism, racists, tea-party

Tea Party Activists call Congressmen “F*gg*t” and “N*gg*r”

March 21, 2010 By tblade

"Oh, but the Tea Party isn't predicated on racism and bigotry!" TPM: Just after [Rep. Barney] Frank rounded a corner to leave the building, an older protestor yelled "Barney, you faggot." The surrounding crowd of protestors then erupted in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: barney-frank, gop, hcr, health-care, health-care-reform, homophobia, john-lewis, michele-bachmann, n-word, racism, racists, republicans, tea-baggers, tea-party, teabaggers

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