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Thx Kimberly. “Black women who walk across the stage and receive college degrees become 145 times more likely to suffer sexual, domestic or other abuse than those who did not finish high school, according to a recent study.”
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Thx HighJive. “four years after NASCAR launched a program called Drive for Diversity to produce elite minority and female drivers, it has no blacks or women competing regularly in either of its top circuits, the Nextel Cup and Busch series.”
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Thx AAM. “The lead character…is an Asian-American playwright named “DHH” who realizes that a white actor has been mistakenly cast as an Asian in the playwright’s latest Broadway flop.”
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T-shirt of Chinese food container. “Yet another one to file under stupid racist t-shirts: Where My Dogs At? And in case you were confused, the accompanying description reads, “Everybody knows that the cutest dogs are orange flavored.”
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“Senator John Edwards released the following statement…”The recent radio skit of these two hosts was beyond disgusting. As individuals and as a nation, we have to condemn this kind of language – there is just no place for it in our public dialogue.”
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Thx Tereza. “”A lot of Muslim kids are tired of being told what to do, how to think, what to believe in, and how to act, by their parents. . . There’s so much animosity towards Muslims and we need a dissenting voice to say ‘fuck you’ to people who pigeonh
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Thx Tereza. I’m shocked. Shocked!
“Black, Hispanic and white drivers are equally likely to be pulled over by police, but blacks and Hispanics are much more likely to be searched and arrested, a federal study found.” -
Thx Tereza. “More than 142 years after a band of state militia volunteers massacred 150 sleeping Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians in a misdirected act of vengeance, a memorial to the tragic event was officially dedicated Saturday.”
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This is fucking disgusting. Thx Tereza. “Allies offered $854 million in cash and in oil that was to be sold for cash. But only $40 million has been used so far…Most of the aid went uncollected, including $400 million worth of oil.”
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Thx Milan. The Roots drummer ?uestlove gets harrassed by the DEA at the airport.
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“Led by mixed race celebrities like Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Tiger Woods, race, culture and identity are changing in America. Is being multi-racial an identity all its own, or a delicate balance of old divides?”
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Thx Tereza. “More than 350 letters that university officials call racist were sent to seven dorms on the Ohio State campus. The essay style writing of the letter, titled “On Average, Blacks Are Less Intelligent Than Whites,” has students talking.”
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The Octavia Butler Book Club
(Click the book for the latest conversation) Feminism for Real – Jessica, Latoya, Andrea
Yes Means Yes – Latoya
Sex Ed and Youth – Jessica
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