Tag: race
What's the Point of Robbery When Nothing Is Worth Stealing?
gerrymander.
Posted to Etcetera on Tue Jan 05, 2010 at 12:02:08 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
As it turns out, a good science education goes against the liberals' Bible, too.
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Governor Paterson: The Man is keeping me down
pO157.
Posted to Politics on Tue Aug 25, 2009 at 08:23:44 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
In a radio interview political observers are calling "bizarre" highly unpopular NY Governor David Paterson (D-No Chance in Hell of Election) recently lashed out at the mass media, blaming his political misfortune on alleged racist conspiracies against him.
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Featured Diary: Race and crime reporting
joshv.
Posted to Media on Wed Aug 12, 2009 at 11:15:46 AM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.
One of Chicago's more affluent neighborhoods has been suffering a rash of late night (or early morning depending on your perspective) street muggings, so far unsolved. Despite repeated robberies, which all of the victims survived, the race of the attackers was never mentioned in press reports. We were only told that it was a group of three to four individuals that surround, then attack and beat the victim, stealing wallets and cell phones.
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Blue Demon
gerrymander.
Posted to Politics on Tue Jul 21, 2009 at 08:24:10 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
This time around, Duke University has a "white rapes black" story that no one is protesting.
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The Name's The Thing Causing Me The Pain
MayorBob.
Posted to Politics on Tue Jul 14, 2009 at 08:40:01 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
The power of names and a respect for history are about to knock heads up in Rhode Island. That's because there's a sizeable portion of the citizenry who are convinced the name of the state conjures up the very worst memories for them as a group. Then there's a sizeable number of the citizenry who say, its been our name throughout our history and people should just get over it already. In the middle is the state legislature about to decide on a referendum which could force the official name of the state to change.
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There Was Something In The Water And It Wasn't Just The Chlorine
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Fri Jul 10, 2009 at 10:09:58 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
It seemed like a lovely idea at the time. A suburban Philadelphia swim club reaches out to a city day camp to afford the primarily black kids the opportunity to swim and frolic the summer away. Not only would it help fill the suburban swim club's coffers with memberships that had fallen off due to the economy but it would be an affirmation that at least one small piece of suburbia was moving past color as an issue. Alas and alack, something got into the water beyond the 60 or so black and Hispanic kids from city. At least, that's the way it appears to day camp and others as the idea lasted a total of one day as the city kids were asked not to return and people are shouting racism.
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Attorney General: America is "a nation of cowards"
pO157.
Posted to Politics on Sat Feb 21, 2009 at 11:54:30 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
The new Attorney General made headlines with a speech he gave to Justice Department employees about Black History Month. In it he stated that the United States is "essentially a nation of cowards" for not talking about race and allegedly "self-segregating" itself during private time.
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The Juice is Loose Juiced
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Posted to Legal on Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 01:59:03 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Thirteen years later, Orenthal James Simpson has been found guilty of a major crime. In 1995, Simpson was acquitted of the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her boyfriend Ron Goldman, and was found liable for damages in a 1997 civil court case. Found guilty on charges of kidnapping and armed robbery, Mr. Simpson's prosecution had a few bumps what with trouble seating jurors and the victims either contradicting themselves or turning against the prosecution.
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Dean's 2008 Scream - GOP Is The `White Party'
MayorBob.
Posted to Politics on Tue Aug 19, 2008 at 10:22:18 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
If you thought the race card had been retired from the deck of 2008 political playing cards after that blow up over Senator John McCain's (R - AZ) reaction to Senator Barack Obama's (D - IL) reaction to McCain's celebrity internet ad, think again. This time former Vermont governor, presidential candidate and primal scream enthusiast, Howard Dean, inadvertently (or advertently) introduced the issue again.
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Obama calls for fathers to step up
pO157.
Posted to Etcetera on Wed Jun 18, 2008 at 09:03:45 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Senator Obama (D-IL) gave a landmark speech in church on Fathers' Day, calling on more African-American men to step up and act like parents.
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Racial Flame War Over World War II
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Wed Jun 11, 2008 at 10:07:08 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
The immensely talented Spike Lee has never been one to shrink from controversy. In the past, he's taken on former US Senator Trent Lott (D - MS), calling him a "card carrying member of the KKK" for being nice to Strom Thurmond. He was reported (falsely he claims) to say that someone should shoot former NRA president Charlton Heston with a ".44 Bulldog." He took on cable channel Spike TV because he thought they were capitalizing on his fame by using his first name. When Lee made a documentary about Hurricane Katrina's devastation of New Orleans, he alleged that federal neglect was as much to blame as a storm to what happened to a majority black city. But, now he's feeling lucky by taking on Clint Eastwood.
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Racial Disparities In US Cancer Treatment
novy.
Posted to SciTech on Thu Jan 10, 2008 at 12:16:19 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
US blacks receive inferior cancer treatment compared to whites. Disparities in treatment first documented in 1992 have continued despite all efforts to erase them. Researchers studied treatments for cancer given to more than 143,000 Americans over age 65 from 1992 to 2002 under Medicare, and their findings were published by American Cancer Society.
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