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“A national black Republican group is running a radio advertisement accusing Democrats of starting the Ku Klux Klan and saying Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican, a claim King researchers challenge…”
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Another hilarious installment of Jenn’s live-blogging. Cao Boi tells a racist joke and the other Asians tell him to shut up, the Latino rocker dude declares he identifies more with metal culture than with Latino culture, and oh yeah, the Asians won again
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Another great post from Rachel, analyzing how the media keeps pushing the racist elements of this story to the back of the agenda. This is the case in which a couple kidnapped their 19 year old daughter to force her to have an abortion because the baby’s
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HighJive tears apart a letter to the editor from an Ad Age reader. Similar to my recent rant on Addicted to Race, the reader claims that the NYC Commission on Human Rights’ requests for the advertising industry to diversify its hiring practices is “racist
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“…Blacking up has become acceptable in the same way that pole dancing is now sold to women as an empowering thing to do. Both assume that the thing they are poking fun at no longer exists - ie discrimination, racism and sexism. But of course they are wr
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“…Phillips believes the blackface tradition in the UK is less rooted in ideas of racial superiority than in the US but is baffled by its resurgence…”I am all for satire but I don’t understand how the image has re-emerged. It doesn’t seem to be satire
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Gawker points out awful the comments were in reaction to Thursday’s New York Times piece on the lack of blacks on Wall Street. You can guess it: all about how blacks need to shut up, stop complaining and do some work, a healthy dose of oppression olympics
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“…as other institutions consider eliminating these programs, they should also strongly consider adopting another policy that has caught on at Harvard and other institutions — full financial aid, with minimum debt burden, for most needy, academically e
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“Princeton University announced this week the creation of a Center for African American Studies — a plan that includes doubling the number of faculty in its African American studies program, enhancing the undergraduate curriculum and seeking funds to en
Slant Truth » Blackface Is The New Cool on 24 Sep 2006 at 2:04 am
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