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“She and others across the country asked white passers-by to pay reparations for enslaving black people, and then they gave money to black passers-by. Each got a receipt.”
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“Black residents do not think New York life is worth what it costs, do not prefer today’s city to that of a generation ago and about 40 percent of them believe that the city would be a better place “if there were fewer wealthy people
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“African American women will make up 29 percent of voters. One place Clinton and her main opponent, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, think they can reach them is at the hairdresser’s.”
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“The police and city education officials said yesterday that they were investigating the appearance of a racial slur on a bench that was to be used by a Harlem high school football team at a game on Saturday at Staten Island Technical High School.”
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“Home buyers in predominantly black and Hispanic neighborhoods in New York City were more likely to get their mortgages last year from a subprime lender than home buyers in white neighborhoods with similar income levels”
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“Korean-born actor John Cho of “Harold & Kumar” fame has been cast as Sulu in the new “Star Trek” feature, playing a role immortalized by Japanese-American actor George Takei.”
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“The camera pans over to a chain-link fence, through which creeps a troop of illegal immigrants. At their tail is a man dressed in a bunny costume….When they finally pin the rabbit to the ground…He’s an Asian man.”
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“will feature a bare-bottomed Barack Obama, nude Hillary Clinton and open-shirted, ear-nibbling Rudy Giuliani. The cover was inspired by the now-infamous March 2006 Vanity Fair “Hollywood Issue” cover”
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“Appearing on Donny Deutsch’s CNBC show, “The Big Idea,” on Monday night, columnist/author Ann Coulter suggested that the U.S. would be a better place if there weren’t any Jewish people and that they needed to “perfect” themselves into — Christians.”
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“In Edison, New Jersey, there have been a series of reported attacks at an apartment complex which seem to be targeting Indian immigrants. Police in Edison report eight incidents such as assaults and vandalism involving Indian victims”
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“A Florida jury found eight former boot camp employees not guilty of causing the death of a juvenile offender in their care.”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
Ike wrote:
Reading the comments after the Seinfeld article makes me wish I had patented the “learn to take a joke” response.
Posted 16 Oct 2007 at 9:27 am ¶
Hopping mad wrote:
This country disgusts me sometimes, what type of stupid discipline leads to the death of a child. That was murder, intentional or not, did that child ever kill anybody? I don’t know why I continue to expect better from the American justice system.
Posted 16 Oct 2007 at 1:13 pm ¶
Blanky wrote:
1. As a Jew who greatly dislikes Coulter’s politics, I must still contend that her statements were not “racial” but “religious antisemitism.”
2. Wait, the reparations art bit is based on having people who look white for directly enslaving people who look black? Wow.
By that logic, my friend who looks somewhat like the Persian Darius the Great owes reparations to my Greek friend who looks somewhat like the Miletian Thales for directly destroying Miletus.
Posted 16 Oct 2007 at 4:25 pm ¶
Neneh wrote:
RANT: Why are 99% of everyday Black folks interviewed for a media story found in a barbershop, hair salon, or church? Do we not go to the supermarket or gas station? If the story uses a Black church choir as backdrop in its initial moments, I automatically shut it off.
Posted 17 Oct 2007 at 9:25 am ¶