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“There was a time, however, when this small black liberal arts college here caught the attention of a nation: in the 1930s, Wiley’s polished team of debaters amassed a series of victories over white competitors that stunned the Jim Crow South.”
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“The more people vote, the more they vote. Even if you do so only because the most popular girl on campus told you to, hitting either the polls or a political rally…once makes it so much more likely that you will again.”
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“Sherri Shepherd showcased her amazing intellect during a discussion of the Greek philosopher Epicurus. Keep in mind that he lived from 341 B.C. to 270 B.C. when you hear Shepherd say “I don’t think anything pre-dated Christians””
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“It may be baffling to some people why the American public hasn’t become outraged by the fact that our government conducts torture in our name, even in the wake of Abu Ghraib…”
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“The thing is, systematic racism and slavery has nothing to do with purchasing illegal weapons, Bad Newz Kennels or making it rain. Sometimes that’s just us trying to be “real”"
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“Jury member says talk turned to American Indians’ drinking habits during deliberations”
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Was this comic racist? “It showed a farmer next to a chicken coop, talking to a woman who was staring quizzically at a chicken wearing a KKK hood. “It only lays egg whites,” the farmer was saying.”
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“UCLA fired Karl Dorrell on Monday, and now you can take one finger on one hand and use it to count on the other the number of African American head coaches remaining in major-college football.”
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“Right now I am so angry that people are still denying racism in Greece. Why aren’t more people outraged that this is going on ? How long are we going to ignore this hatred ?”
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Awesome article here in which Metcalf rips apart Saletan’s recent Slate article about race and IQ: “Saletan’s analogy implies that the conflict over race, intelligence, and genetics is a conflict between science and superstition.”
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“What do a British novel, a Dutch movie, a papal speech, and some Danish cartoons have in common with … a teddy bear?…All the above have at one time or another sparked serious confrontations between the Islamic world and the West”
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Shocker – not. “Black Americans are 10 times more likely to be imprisoned for illegal drug offenses than whites, even though both groups use and sell drugs at the same rate, according to a study released on Tuesday.”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
TierListE wrote:
Darnit! Why can’t I just sit down, and finally accept that my melanin content just makes me dumber? I keep making up all these excuses, when I should just sit down and thank the superior races for not leaving me to return to my naturally savage and uncomplicated life hunting lions.
I mean it took me 20 years to read. I just learned to tie my shoelaces. I made the lowest IQ score in my entire county and yet these poor superior races had to put me in an advanced learning program because I’m BLACK! *cries histerically* Oh the shame! I should just dig a hole in the dirt somewhere.
*sigh*
Posted 06 Dec 2007 at 6:51 am ¶