- “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.”
- “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
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “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”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “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”
- “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.”
- “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”
- “A Florida jury found eight former boot camp employees not guilty of causing the death of a juvenile offender in their care.”
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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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