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California paper Red Bluff Daily News covers Ward “Moneybags” Connerly’s recent speech at a Republican fundraiser. Interesting that the paper refers to affirmative action as “racial preferencing.” Anyway, here’s Ward’s usual load of bull:
“It shouldn’t be controversial for me to say that giving a person 250 bonus points simply because of his or her race […]

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The Los Angeles Times talks race with Senator Barack Obama. The interviewer assumes that Barack will have a hard time should he ever decide to run for the US Presidency, due to the things he discloses in his memoir, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. In this book originally published before […]

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The New York Times reviews new release, Angry Black White Boy - Or, The Miscegenation of Macon Detornay, by Adam Mansbach. Main character Macon Detornay is a “down whiteboy” who attempts to atone for his people’s sins and find acceptance within the black community by attacking and terrorizing other white people.
A graduate of Newton South […]

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Those of you in NYC may want to check out a rally in Union Square this Friday protesting the racist actions of local radio station Hot 97. It’s a community event organized by a coalition of hip hop artists and activists (the “Hip Hop Coalition“) to celebrate the true hip hop culture with guest speakers: […]

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Aaron McGruder of The Boondocks wrote “Moneybags” into Saturday’s strip….hmm…i’ve been wanting to give him a piece of my mind…gives me ideas. See it here.

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Just when you thought Ward “Moneybags” Connerly couldn’t possibly squeeze any more money out of pimping his mixed race identity to conservatives out to destroy affirmative action, along comes the Bradley Prize, which gave him a quarter million dollars for… well, just for being his adorable little self. The Washington Post reports on the evening […]

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Ego Trip’s Race-o-Rama, a 3-part series about race and racism in pop culture, premiered this week on VH1. (We told you about it late last month.) Last night’s episode was on “Blackaphobia!” and it explored why white people are so scared of blacks, and how the media has perpetuated these stereotypes.
So in one segment, […]

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Rebecca Walker spoke at U Mich Tuesday night as part of a series of events taking place this month at the University in honor of Black History Month, with the theme ‘Loud Words, Louder Actions.’
Walker is best-known for her first book, Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self, which reflected on her experiences […]

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Despite attempts by the misleadingly titled Michigan Civil Rights Initiative to claim that they have widespread financial support from Michigan residents, it turns out that over 70% of their funding comes from Ward “Moneybags” Connerly. Detroit Free Press reports that “according to campaign finance reports filed Monday, the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative received $500,693 from […]

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The New York Times reviews “Dear Senator,” the new memoir by Essie Mae Washington-Williams, the illegitimate biracial daughter of the late segregationist Strom Thurmond. The review does little to offset the widespread impression of Ms. Washington-Williams as…how do I put this…a total pushover?
Now she also has a ghostwriter: William Stadiem, who recently made himself […]

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The Michigan Daily reports that as of now, Ward Connerly and MCRI have the public’s support. They just collected more than the number of signatures needed to put the question of “racial preferences” to the voters of Michigan in 2006. It is now a question of making sure the signatures are not fraudulent and really […]

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The Ann Arbor News reports that the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative plans to submit to the state more than the required 317,575 signatures to put the affirmative action question on ballots in 2006.
The submission of the signatures will cap months of court challenges that forced the campaign to restart its signature-gathering effort in July. Despite […]

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USA Today columnist DeWayne Wickham proclaims that Tiger Woods should support the campaign for getting a presidential pardon for turn-of-the-century boxing champ Jack Johnson (the subject of a Ken Burns documentary “Unforgivable Blackness” that will air January 17th and 18th on PBS). He argues that Tiger was able to wed Swedish model Elin Nordegren last […]