- “If the initiative is approved, gay and lesbian couples would enjoy the same civil, patrimonial, inheritance, housing and adoption rights as heterosexual couples.”
- “Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Richardson used the word maricón in an exchange over a year ago with shock jock (and racist) Don Imus and now Richardson is scrambling to apologize.”
- “Barcelona’s Cameroonian striker, Samuel Eto’o has continued his campaign to eradicate racism in football by asking fans to make their opinions known in an internet survey.”
- ” In the e-mail, she urged Dolock…to read Jeff Benedict’s Without Reservation…and spoke of privileges Indians enjoy and reparations “paid today — by us — to folks who simply by accident of birth can claim Native American blood in some fraction
- “Is it so hard to believe people feared him because they thought he was a volatile jerk? Or that a white actor of middling fame who disrupted his workplace would have also been fired? In his rush to make himself a martyr, Washington fails to consider thes
- “Groups that have been in this country the longest are likely to develop cancers that are most common here, like breast and colorectal cancer…Recent immigrants…suffer from the same types of cancer that are predominant in their native countries, like s
- “Their crossing that night was financed, according to court documents and testimony, with payments totaling $225,000 by an Encino sports agent who would become the first agent ever convicted on federal charges of smuggling athletes.”
- “An estimated 50,000 Iraqi women and girls who have fled from the civil war into Syria have turned to prostitution in their desperation to eke out a living.”
- ” The NAACP filed a federal lawsuit today against 13 sub-prime mortgage lenders alleging discriminatory lending practices against blacks.”
- “Even infants at 3 months of age demonstrate signs of racial preference, but this preference is limited to the race they are mainly surrounded by. Heightening cross racial contact mitigates the effects of the bias.”
- “But when I turn to the mirror in my bedroom to admire us together, I am shocked. She seems so alien. With her long, dark eyelashes and shiny, dark brown hair, she doesn’t look anything like me.”
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The Octavia Butler Book Club
(Click the book for the latest conversation) Feminism for Real – Jessica, Latoya, Andrea
The Same Woman – Thea
I Speak For Myself – Fatemeh
Yes Means Yes – Latoya
Sex Ed and Youth – Jessica
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