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Racial disparity: All active ethics probes focus on black lawmakers
The House ethics committee is currently investigating seven African-American lawmakers — more than 15 percent of ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Little “Obama Effect” on Views About Race Relations
A majority of Americans, 56%, believe that a solution to America's race-relations problem will eventually be worked ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Dallas police chief: Dozens of tickets issued for not speaki
Dallas police wrongly ticketed at least 39 drivers for not speaking English over the last three years, Police Chief ...via Jamal Dajani
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Judge Finds Abusive Gitmo Interrogations Yield False Confessions, Bad Info
A few weeks ago, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia released a declassified version of a ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
CNN Can't Have It Both Ways: It Can Either Broadcast Hateful Lou Dobbs or Have a Latino Audience
(Multimedia) Latinos across America are intensely concerned about CNN's hypocrisy: Broadcasting Dobbs' anti-immigrant extremism ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
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Republican Party white supremacists and...
(Video) Guests are Janeane Garofalo, Representative Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), and Thomas Friedman (3 time Pulitzer Prize ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Banish the Cyber-Bigots
The Internet could represent a flourishing of democracy. Instead it amplifies hate. The brutality of public debate ...Posted by Barry Grossheim -
Why They’re Mad
Maybe journalists have been asking the wrong question. In probing why a chunk of the country seems so ticked off ...Posted by Barry Grossheim
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Limbaugh's Fake Outrage at Fake Quotes
By now, everyone knows about the two fake quotes that have been attributed to Rush Limbaugh. What's being lost in ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
DeMint watches out for all of us
There is a saying that the Jews who are wealthy got that way not by watching dollars, but instead by taking care of ...via Memeorandum
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Birth of a Notion: Implicit Social Cognition and the "Birther" Movement
A black president, however, causes great cognitive dissonance in some. But members of the “birther” movement ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Interracial couple denied marriage license in La.
A white Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of ...Posted by Barry Grossheim
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A Mugging on Lake Street
Hate crime or boredom attack, my injuries are the same. One thing about being hated, though—you have an identity. ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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Obama battles great racial divide
Obama doesn't want this furor on his hands right now, given all the incredibly important policy decisions he's ...Posted by Barry Grossheim -
The Favor Jimmy Carter Did Us All
The former president did the country a favor by bringing up race. I think this journalist got it exactly right, ...Posted by Elsbet Roed Brosky -
Even Babies Discriminate: A NurtureShock Excerpt
Vittrup sent a third of the families home with multiculturally themed videos for a week, such as an episode of ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak
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The racist truth about Beck and Limbaugh
With admirable calm, President Obama has sought to deflect the supercharged politics of race by expressing his ...Posted by Barry Grossheim -
A culture war, literally
I don't know who coined the term “culture war” to describe our political divisions, but I'm reasonably sure he ...Posted by Barry Grossheim
