2 month ago
Rod Begbie : Is Sarah Palin as racist as her supporters? - Unashamed racist waiting in line outside a Sarah Palin rally. McCain/Palin may not be being outwardly racist themselves, but they're certainly creating an atmosphere where racists feel comfortable sharing their abhorent views. [via] #
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2 month ago
deusx : McCain's attacks fuel dangerous hatred -- baltimoresun.com - "John McCain and Sarah Palin, you are playing with fire, and you know it. You are unleashing the monster of American hatred and prejudice, to the peril of all of us. You are doing this in wartime. You are doing this as our economy collapses. You are
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7 month ago
nelson : Ridiculous headline - "Powdered cocaine not just for white yuppies any more"
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10 month ago
nelson : Romney's down with black folks - "dogs out" and "bling bling' shows he respects MLK's legacy
Ethan Marcotte : Oh, just stop talking. Please. - Someone please put this on a t-shirt, and hand it to Mitt. ∞
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13 month ago
gleuschk : Memo to the Reed College community from Lisa Moore, assistant dean for multicultural affairs - The Oregonian Extra - OregonLive.com - jesus h. christ.
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13 month ago
nelson : Ron Paul endorsement - Stormfront comes out for him, so he's got a lock on the white supremacist vote
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14 month ago
adamrg : Through a Lens, Darkly: Politics & Power
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23 month ago
plasticbag : Media Guardian talks about the impact the Big Brother race row could have on the respective futures of Channel 4 and Endemol - In the end, it's a TV show, and I suspect six months down the line it will seem like a very small event indeed, although the repercussions themselves will last and last...
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38 month ago
kayodeok : Rosa Parks, 92, Founding Symbol of Civil Rights Movement, Dies - Rosa Parks, a black seamstress whose refusal to relinquish her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Ala., almost 50 years ago grew into a mythic event that helped touch off the civil rights movement of the 1950's and 1960's, died yesterday at
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kayodeok : Body and Soul: Rosa Parks, 1913-2005 - "At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in." -- Rosa Parks
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38 month ago
Matthew M. Boedicker : the social logic of Ivy League admissions
plasticbag : Malcolm Gladwell on selection policies for Harvard (much more interesting than it sounds, and weirdly much less judgmental than it could have been) - "If Harvard had too many Asians, it wouldn’t be Harvard, just as Harvard wouldn’t be Harvard with too many Jews or pansies or parlor pinks or shy types or short people with big ears."
jkottke : Harvard's admissions process - Malcolm Gladwell's description of how Harvard decides on who to admit strikes me as similar to how many companies in the tech/web industry hire employees. "Subjectivity in the admissions process is not just an occasion for discrimination; it is also, in b
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39 month ago
kellan : Is FEMA New Orlean's punishment for the sin of voting overwhelmingly (78%) for Kerry? - Whiskey Bar: Where There's a Will #
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39 month ago
kayodeok : Do You Know What It Means to Lose New Orleans? - But to my country I want to say this: During this crisis you failed us. You looked down on us; you dismissed our victims; you dismissed us. You want our Jazz Fest, you want our Mardi Gras, you want our cooking and our music. Then when you saw us in real t
deusx : Do You Know What It Means to Lose New Orleans? - New York Times - By Anne Rice - "But to my country I want to say this: During this crisis you failed us."
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40 month ago
Andy Baio : Racism in AP's Katrina photo coverage - everyone's talking about this one; you decide
kayodeok : Racism on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Look at the two of these photos on Yahoo News - notice anything different between them? According to Yahoo, black people "loot" -- white people "find."
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