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- Thank god justice is being served for this horrific hate crime, which we told you about back in April. Two white boys sodomized a Latino boy with a sharpened plastic pipe and poured bleach all over him to try an destroy DNA evidence.
- “If he is so enthralled with human sacrifice, let him make some films about Euro-American-Australian human sacrifice…about the centuries of human sacrifice in America/Australia (Gibson’s original invader state) to keep the race “pure” through the lynchi(tags: indigenous movies)
- Thanks HighJive! “the language that scholars call Virginia Algonquian has come back from the dead…The result, for Virginia Indians such as Custalow, has been a stunning opportunity — to speak in words that their grandparents never knew.”
- Thanks Adrianna! “One ad in particular, called ‘So White’, features the tagline ‘So young…so pretty…So white!’ and is marketed to attract the impressionable young female consumer.”
- Thanks Rob! The Los Angeles Times seems reluctant to cover a black on white hate crime in which “three young white women were surrounded and severely beaten by about 30 black youths…comments like “We hate white people, f— whites.”
- Thanks Rob! “”Ask yourself,” Greenfield says, “is there any other major public figure who dresses the way [Obama] does? Why, yes. It is Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad…And maybe that’s not the comparison a possible presidential contender really wa(tags: politics)
- Thanks Tariq! “The West Virginia Human Rights Commission is investigating charges that an elementary school teacher used a biracial kindergarten student as a prop to illustrate differences in skin color and ethnic backgrounds during a world cultures class
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