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“Mrs. Clinton suggested on Sunday that Mr. Obama’s campaign, in an effort to inject race into the contest, distorted remarks she had made about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.”
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“the elementary school their daughter goes to begins using a textbook that says Muslims want to kill Christians. This and other stories of what happens when Muslims and non-Muslims try to communicate, and misfire. “
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“One of the NFL’s major stories this year could be an American sitcom called the “The Assimilation of Randy Moss.” At the start of the season Moss was a down-and-out malcontent…Then he gets shipped off to a New England boarding school”
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“This inventory includes the names of 2,400 of the African-Americans who were lynched in the United States from 1865 to 1965. The inventory is necessarily incomplete. Records are scant…”
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“when Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood that I won’t say what he was doing, but he said it in his book,” [BET founder Bob] Johnson said while campaigning at Columbia’s largely black Northminster Presbyterian Church.”
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“For example, numerous Asian voters were asked to provide more identification than other citizens. Those not on voter rolls but still eligible to vote were often not given provisional ballots to complete. That’s illegal.”
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“While I applaud the growing consideration of African American and Latino issues in the debate between presidential candidates, I am deeply concerned about the exclusion of Asian American issues from the debate.”
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“The mock funeral, which aims to get participants to map out a better future by reflecting on their past, is part of a new trend in South Korea called “well-dying.” The fad is an extension of “well-being,”
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“The Chicago-area city of Evanston, Illinois is looking to make itself a safe place for immigrants by blocking police and other authorities from inquiring about legal status”
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“It’s not that black Americans are more inclined to signal wealth; rather, poor blacks are more likely than poor whites to be a part of communities where they are relatively rich enough to participate in the signaling game.”
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“both Young and Johnson are calling Obama an Oreo; for the uninitiated, the epithet means that Obama is black on the outside and white on the inside.”
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“According to the newspaper El Universal, Naomi and Hugo have been together for two months, but have been carefully hiding their relationship.”
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“Lastly, the show’s elimination-style competition between contestants for Tila’s affections enforced monogamy as the only option”
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“Racial harassment cases have more than doubled since the early 1990s, hitting an all-time high of 6,977 in 2007, according to EEOC data. (Blacks file nine out of 10 race harassment charges.) “
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of 
Wendi Muse wrote:
i really liked the post on tila tequila’s shot of love, this being one of my favorite points:
So Tila Tequila’s “A Shot at Love” ultimately squandered the possibility of offering a radically different vision of sex and sexuality. Instead, it reinforced the racism embedded in our society’s hierarchy of desire; where Asian women are sexually desirable but Asian men are invisible, and interracial relationships must always involve a White partner. And the show’s treatment of female bisexuality largely pandered to the voyeuristic fascination of straight dudes, featuring Tila making out with other bikini-clad women. Finally, Tila’s ultimate choice of a dude reinforced the reassuring idea for straights and paranoid fear for queers that bisexuals ultimately choose heterosexual partnerships.
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it’s something that i was afraid of from day one when i heard about the show in its most nascent stages. as the author also wishes, i hope that the 2nd season is a little deeper
Posted 15 Jan 2008 at 12:40 pm ¶
EH wrote:
The work place comments are typical.
“You’re not ‘experiencing’ racism, you’re imagining it. I know. Because I’m white! Now *reverse* racism is quite rampant and is always brushed away unlike racism is You minorities just like complaining.”
Posted 15 Jan 2008 at 7:02 pm ¶