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I’d Like the Same Plan Better If It Was Bill Clinton’s

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Tom Jacobs - Nov. 13 (Special Report) - Even among the most extreme opponents of President Obama's push for health care reform — those who equate his proposals to Nazi death camps or Soviet gulags — there's little overtly expressed racism. Aside from the occasional slip by Republican officials in South Carolina,...But implicit racism — prejudice unacknowledged in public and, in many cases, hidden from conscious awareness — is a factor in opposition to Obama's health policies

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Priest Attack in Florida Worries Muslim Leaders | Not in Our Town

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Not In Our Town - By Suefish - Nov. 13 (News Report) - Muslim leaders in Tampa, Fla., are concerned they might be seeing a backlash from last week’s attacks at Fort Hood. On Nov. 9, a Marine reservist attacked a Greek Orthodox priest who was visiting Tampa from Crete because he thought the clergyman was a Muslim “terrorist.” According to the police report, the priest followed the reservist into a parking garage to ask for directions. The reservist hit the priest with a tire iron, and called 911 to report a “terrorist” had attacked him after shouting “Allahu Akhbar,” "God is great" in Arabic. The priest does not speak Arabic. The reservist’s attorney countered that the priest had followed his client into the garage to sexually assault him. Tampa police spokeswoman Laura McElroy disputed that, telling reporters that Bruce did not mention a sexual attack when he called 911, and later changed his story several times.

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Marine reservist attacked Greek priest he mistook for terrorist

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

St. Petersburg Times - By Alexandra Zayas, Demorris A. Lee - Nov. 11 (News Report) - Bruce ended up in jail, accused of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. He was released Tuesday on $7,500 bail. Marakis ended up at the hospital with stitches. He told the police he didn't want to press charges, espousing biblical forgiveness.

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Racial disparity: All active ethics probes focus on black lawmakers

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By John Bresnahan - Nov. 03 (News Report) - The House ethics committee is currently investigating seven African-American lawmakers — more than 15 percent of the total in the House. And an eighth black member, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), would be under investigation if the Justice Department hadn’t asked the committee to stand down. Not a single white lawmaker is currently the subject of a full-scale ethics committee probe.

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Little “Obama Effect” on Views About Race Relations

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Gallup - By Frank Newport - Oct. 29 (Poll) - A majority of Americans, 56%, believe that a solution to America's race-relations problem will eventually be worked out -- a figure that is roughly the same as those Gallup found in the years prior to last fall's historic election of Barack Obama as president.

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Dallas police chief: Dozens of tickets issued for not speaki

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dallas Morning News - By Scott Goldstein - Oct. 25 (News Report) - Dallas police wrongly ticketed at least 39 drivers for not speaking English over the last three years, Police Chief David Kunkle announced Friday while promising to investigate all officers involved in the cases for dereliction of duty.

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Dallas police chief: Dozens of tickets issued for not speaking English

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dallas Morning News - By Scott Goldstein - Oct. 23 (News Report) - Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle said this afternoon that his officers have written at least 39 citations to people over the past three years for not speaking English

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What is the Color of Sin?

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Lee Drutman - Oct. 17 (Special Report) - Two psychologists show that our concepts of morality and sin are mentally associated with lightness and darkness, with potentially troubling implications for criminal justice.

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Interracial couple denied marriage license in La.

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Mary Foster - Oct. 16 (News) - A white Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have. Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long. "I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. "I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else."

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La. interracial marriage: Is life tougher for biracial kids?

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Patrik Jonsson - Oct. 16 (News Analysis) - Researchers are finding that multiracial kids can sometimes be better socially adjusted than single-race offspring. And with the high-profile success of multiracial progeny such as Tiger Woods, Halle Berry, and President Obama (who at his first press conference as president described himself as a "mutt"), stereotypes about the split world of the "tragic mulatto" have long fallen by the wayside.

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Judge Finds Abusive Gitmo Interrogations Yield False Confessions, Bad Info

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Christopher Flavelle - Oct. 15 (News Report) - A few weeks ago, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia released a declassified version of a judge’s ruling in the case of Al Rabiah, a Kuwaiti citizen who has been held at Guantanamo for seven years. The judge, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, found that the government could not credibly support its allegation that Al Rabiah was part of the Taliban or al-Qaida, and that the evidence against him wasn’t sufficient to justify his continued detention. She ordered the government to release Al Rabiah "forthwith."

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CNN Can't Have It Both Ways: It Can Either Broadcast Hateful Lou Dobbs or Have a Latino Audience

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Roberto Lovato - Oct. 15 (News Analysis) - Latinos across America are intensely concerned about CNN's hypocrisy: Broadcasting Dobbs' anti-immigrant extremism while running a Latinos in America special series.

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Birth of a Notion: Implicit Social Cognition and the "Birther" Movement

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Scientific American - By Steve Mirsky - Oct. 01 (News Report) - A black president, however, causes great cognitive dissonance in some. But members of the “birther” movement have found a clever solution: Obama isn’t really president! Because he wasn’t really born in the USA!

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Jimmy Carter: Wilson's Outburst 'Based On Racism' (VIDEO)

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Sep. 16 (News Report) - "I think it's based on racism," Carter said at a town hall held at his presidential center in Atlanta. "There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president." The Georgia Democrat said the outburst was a part of a disturbing trend directed at the president that has included demonstrators equating Obama to Nazi leaders. "Those kind of things are not just casual outcomes of a sincere debate on whether we should have a national program on health care," he said. "It's deeper than that." Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/15/jimmy-carter-wilsons-outb_n_288003.html

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4 Deadly Delusions About Afghanistan Held by Obama's Top Advisors

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy In Focus - By Conn Hallinan - Sep. 15 (News Analysis) - Delusion #1 In his address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Obama characterized Afghanistan as "a war of necessity" against international terrorism. But the reality is that the Taliban is a polyglot collection of conflicting political currents whose goals are local, not universal jihad.

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A Mugging on Lake Street

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

chicagomag.com - By John Conroy - Sep. 09 (Special Report) - Hate crime or boredom attack, my injuries are the same. One thing about being hated, though—you have an identity. You’re a member of a distinct class who is important to the attacker. If you are attacked without reason, you’re nobody— you’re of no importance whatever. Mulling this over makes me question the whole notion of prosecuting hate crimes. Why is a racist thug more dangerous than the man who just feels like beating someone—anyone—up? The racist might send a message to a large population, but the nonracist sends a message to an even larger group, a message that says, “You count for nothing” and “No one is safe.”

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White House Environmental Adviser Van Jones Resigns Citing "Vicious Smear Campaign Against Me"

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Sep. 08 (News Report) - For the past month, Fox News has run a series of reports on Jones’s alleged association with communists and his decision to sign a petition calling for a congressional probe of the 9/11 attacks. Jones is the founding president of Green for All and author of the book The Green Collar Economy. We speak with James Rucker, who co-founded the group Color of Change with Van Jones, and with Malkia Cyril, founder of the Center for Media Justice. We also talk to Ben Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP.

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Rep. Mike Pence, Who Led Witch Hunt Against Van Jones, Took $1,000s From Extremist Erik Prince

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Jeremy Scahill - Sep. 08 (News Report) - Rep. Mike Pence, an Indiana Republican whose name has been mentioned as a potential GOP presidential candidate (and who is not sure if he believes in evolution), led the witch-hunt to force the resignation of White House Green Jobs advisor, Van Jones, over comments Jones made years ago and a 9/11 "truth" petition Jones signed which he said he did not read in its entirety. Jones apologized for some of his comments, which were made before he took his job with the Obama administration and said the petition "certainly does not reflect my views now or ever."

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Israel Authorizes 455 New Settlement Units

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Common Dreams - Sep. 07 (News) - Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has authorized the construction of more than 450 new housing units in settlements in the occupied West Bank, his ministry said in a statement on Monday.

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Fox News host sparks outrage

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Edward Luce - Sep. 02 (News Analysis) - If the White House is trying to figure how it lost control of the debate over healthcare in August, it could take a look at Glenn Beck’s television and radio ratings. The conservative talk radio host, who also has an hourly slot on Fox News every day, has seen his viewer numbers soar even as opponents have pressed companies to withdraw advertising from the show.

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Glenn Greenwald on CIA Interrogation Probe, Obama and Why the Media Failed on Covering Torture

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Glenn Greewald, Anjali Kamat, Amy Goodman - Aug. 26 (News Analysis) - Attorney General Eric Holder has opened an inquiry into CIA torture. On Monday, Holder appointed veteran federal prosecutor John Durham to look into whether CIA interrogators and contractors should be charged for the torture and abuse of foreign prisoners. Holder says he ordered the probe in response to a Justice Department recommendation to reopen nearly a dozen prisoner abuse cases that the Bush administration had closed. Holder says he was further influenced by the 2004 CIA report on the prisoners’ torture and abuse, which he released on Monday.

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FBI Paid Right-Wing Blogger Charged With Threats

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By David Kravets - Aug. 20 (News Report) - A notorious New Jersey hate blogger was an FBI "agent provocateur," paid tens of thousands of dollars for years to spew rhetoric, his lawyers says. Now the government has turned the tables on Hal Turner, charging that his online rants amounted to an invitation to kill judges and ...

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Advertising - Companies Remove Ads From Beck Program on Fox News - NYTimes.com

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Brian Stelter - Aug. 14 (News) - mediabistro.comHost Loses Some Sponsors After an Obama RemarkNew York TimesABOUT a dozen companies have withdrawn their commercials from “Glenn Beck,” the Fox News Channel program, after he said late last month that President Obama was a racist with a “deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture. ...Fox News' "Glenn Beck" loses advertisersReutersGlenn Beck hemorrhaging advertisers after calling Obama “racist”Examiner.comGlenn Beck Loses Advertisers After Calling Obama RacistSeattle Post IntelligencerFOXNews?-AlterNet?-Human Eventsall 75 news articles??

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Youssef Megahed Speaks Out from Prison

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Aug. 14 (News Report) - Florida student Youssef Megahed was arrested by federal immigration agents in April just three days after a jury acquitted him on federal explosives charges. He now faces deportation on the same charges. But this time, he won’t be tried by a jury of his peers, but by an immigration judge.

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SPLC Report: Militia Movement Resurgent, Infused with Racism

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Southern Poverty Law Center - Aug. 12 (News Report) - Almost a decade after virtually disappearing from public view, the antigovernment militia movement is surging across the country, fueled by fears of a black man in the White House, the changing demographics of the country, and conspiracy theories increasing.

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