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Racist much?

June 17, 2008 By Mr. Lynne

From ThinkProgress: A booth at this weekend's Texas Republican convention sold buttons asking, "If Obama Is President...Will We Still Call It The White House?" These people know where some of their support will come from.  I'm just … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: gop, racism

Shutting down the school to prison pipeline – what can we do?

May 28, 2008 By AmberPaw

Here is the bibliography:http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/05/28/problem_students_in_pipeline_to_prison/ School to prison pipeline:  http://www.naacpldf.org/conten... NAACP Legal Defense … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: crime, discrimination, disproportionate-impact, education, naacp, prison, racism, school, special-education, volunteerism

Clinton and the Bitter, Bitter End

May 21, 2008 By massmarrier

Hillary Clinton has gone on for far too long while not going far enough toward her party's nomination. Today's leads in Salon and Slate, as well as many papers, join Obama in exasperation. Slate asks Can Obama do anything to get Clinton … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: clinton, democrats, massmarrier, obama, racism, sexism, superdelegattes, voters, womencount

The racial context — it’s not pretty

May 13, 2008 By Charley on the MTA

Here's a disturbing article about the reception some Obama canvassers have been getting in PA and IN. Victoria Switzer, a retired social studies teacher, was on phone-bank duty one night during the Pennsylvania primary campaign. One … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: hillary-clinton, obama, president, president-08, race, racism

Clinton Apologizes

March 13, 2008 By Laurel

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton did something Wednesday night that she almost never does. She apologized. And once she started, she didn't seem able to stop. Her biggest apology came in response to a question about comments by her husband, Bill … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: clinton, ferraro, racism

How we choose…

February 6, 2008 By pipi-bendenhaft

In my opinion, however, it appears that Barack Obama has  resolved his struggle around his identity as a bi-racial black person in a white world (In his self-reflective book "Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance") in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: barack-obama, hillary-clinton, privilege, racism, sexism

Amy Chua: Nativism at Yale Law

December 18, 2007 By kyledeb

Our English language is under assault and our schools are drowning in ethnic violence, rapes, drugs and gang warfare. In California, Texas, Florida and Arizona, our hospitals suffer bankruptcies from non-paid services for 350,000 annual … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: alan-wolfe, amy-chua, appeal-to-melanin, appeal-to-the-migratory, bill-oreilly, boston-globe, compromise, duke, emma-lazarus, english, foreign-affairs, frosty-wooldridge, hate, immigration, immigrationprof-blog, kevin-johnson, migra-matters, migrant, mitt-romney, national-identity, nativism, nezua-limon-xolagrafik-jonez, numbersusa, osaro-agbongiague, pluralism, racism, samuel-huntington, statue-of-liberty, tolerance, u.s.-declaration-of-independance, unity, washington-post, yale

63% of the juveniles in lock ups are minority – ACLU flunks the Bay State

December 10, 2007 By AmberPaw

For the whole report, go to: http://www.aclu.org/intlhumanr... You can see their results for most states. For Massachusetts: The study also found fault with what it called state inaction on the disproportionate rate that children of color … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: aclu, disparities-in-sentencing, juvenile-justice, racial-profiling, racism

Ron Paul: Black Men Are ‘Actual and Potential Terrorists’

December 4, 2007 By jhutson

Paul's deflection that he did not write those words and did not know about them prior to publication rings false. At the time, he did not denounce those words or announce the firing of any staffer involved in propagating this racist … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: david-duke, don-black, racism, ron-paul, stormfront, white-supremacist

Beware Of Genetics!

November 10, 2007 By tedf

There are a bunch of responses that seem clearly improper right off the bat:1. It would be obviously wrong to conclude that such a link permits any moral, ethical, or political conclusion that one race is superior or inferior to another.2. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: genes, intelligence, national, race, racism

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