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Thx nsekuye. Just who we wanted to hear from about this tragedy: The Pied Piper himself. “R. Kelly has written a new song, “Rise Up,” about healing in the aftermath of the April 16 shootings at Virginia Tech.”
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Thx Tereza. “Barack Obama’s popularity is gaining on rival frontrunner Hillary Clinton, according to the Rasmussen Institute poll released Monday. Obama leads among voters under 40, it said. Clinton, 59, is strongest in the 65-and-older bracket.”
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Thx Ananser. “Few of those at Mr. Wright’s tribute in March knew of the pressures that Mr. Obama’s presidential run was placing on the relationship between the pastor and his star congregant.”
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Thx Kyla. “A genealogy Web site has taken a bold step in exposing the details of the British slave trade by publishing a list of Barbados slaves.”
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Thx Ananser. “Consumer companies and advertising executives are focusing on ways to use the cultural aspects of the Muslim religion to help sell their products.”
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Thx Ananser. “The federal courts have ruled that the statute of limitations has expired for the victims and heirs to sue the city of Tulsa and OK over losses during 1921 race riots that left more than 200 blacks dead and 400 businesses and countless homes
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Thx Ananser. “Oakland city officials Wednesday announced two new resolutions condemning recent federal immigration raids and formalizing the city’s intention not to cooperate with the U.S. government effort to deport undocumented residents.”
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Thx Sylvia. “To add insult to injury – literally – Kensington Publishing has canceled its book deal with Shoshana Jonson, the country’s first African-American female prisoner of war.”
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Thx Ananser. “Japan’s abhorrent practice of enslaving women to provide sex for its troops in World War II has a little-known sequel: After its surrender — with tacit approval from the U.S. occupation authorities — Japan set up a similar “comfort women”
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Thx joy princess. “Eng also claims to “admire” Cho for the worst individual mass-murder in American history, and tells the Voice that he, at one time, planned to go on his own killing spree while he was a student at NYU, but couldn’t afford a firearm.”
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“Let’s talk about white kids who consider themselves more enlightened than their granddaddy because they would never call a black person ‘nigger,’ yet pay black men to call black people ‘nigger,’ and black women ‘ho’ and ‘bitch’.”"
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“BAD NEWS FOR LOU DOBBS and those who dream of a culture with no flava. …HP today announced two additions to its HP Pavilion product line specifically for U.S. Hispanic consumers.”
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“Maureen Dowd’s admiration for “cheeky women” who “puncture the ego of a cocky guy” comes with a caveat: the women have to be white…her distaste for Michelle Obama’s attitude toward her husband.”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
FEB wrote:
Interesting little piece on HP customizing computers for the growing Latino market in the US. Makes good business sense.
As for Lou Dobbs getting all hot and bothered about it… yeah, he’s gonna piss and moan on his television soapbox, but then he’s gonna recommend HP as a “buy” on his investment columns.
Dobbs is a hypocrite; he is nothing short of a nativist agitator who masquerades as a **cough – cough** journalist, while he makes money off the same companies he accuses of exploiting undocumented workers and exporting jobs.
I am somewhat disappointed at how few minority and anti-racism Web sites, including Racialicious, have taken a pass on challenging Dobbs and exposing his race-baited, small-hearted, and mean-minded mendacity.
Posted 02 May 2007 at 1:35 pm ¶
gatamala wrote:
good callout on his HP remarks. I detest Dobbs & the other curmudgeonly so-called “tell it like it is” types that major networks hire these days.
Posted 03 May 2007 at 8:27 am ¶
FEB wrote:
Gatamala,
As a supposed journalist, Lou Dobbs understands how word choice affects perceptions on any issue. It’s not a case of “telling it like it is,” but more like “tell it in a way that incites fear and anger.” It’s no accident that he chooses adjectives like “war, invasion, and criminal” to dehumanize and demonize Latin American immigrants.
Another aspect of Dobbs’ bias is that he never addresses how economic treaties and policies are generating poverty in the Latin American countryside. Small farmers are being driven out of business and losing their lands to American corporate farms. So now they’re crossing the border to work on American farms: pretty ironic if you think about.
Finally, he unabashedly admits to being a populist as if it were some kind of badge of honor. Mussolini was a populist, Peron was a populist, and Hitler was a populist. Gee Lou, I knew you ran with a rough crowd but this… wow.
Posted 03 May 2007 at 1:02 pm ¶