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April 11th, 2013
Written by Glenn Minnis in Race Relations with 1 Comment
Justice Clarence Thomas speaks on plight of minority communities
Clarence Thomas doesn’t have any answers as to why such widespread levels of hopelessness and poverty continue to dog minority communities. All he can tell you for certain, is everyone was born equal and the need for affirmative action, if it ever existed, has long since run its course.
Thomas, whose do-as-I-say not as I do view as...
April 10th, 2013
Written by Glenn Minnis in Stereotypes & Labels with 5 Comments
LL Cool J & Brad Paisley lyrics on race relations creates negative stir within both music genres.
Music has long been celebrated as a language all of its own. Nonetheless, industry trendsetters LL Cool J. and Brad Paisley are being taking to task for what critics blast as their naïve lyrics on the issue of race relations.
Conceptually ambitious by current industry standards, critics,...
April 10th, 2013
Written by Russell Roberts in Common Ties That Bind with 1 Comment
Highlighting racism In Cuba brings punishment.
Often the people bold enough to point out racist aspects in our society are punished and this almost certainly seems to be the case with a leading Cuban official who recently decried the “blatant racism” on the island in an opinion piece published in the March 23, 2013 edition of the New York Times.
After publication of the piece, Roberto Zurbano...
April 10th, 2013
Written by Jennifer Peltz - Associated Press in Stereotypes & Labels with 0 Comments
Ending the NYPD stop and frisk policy is a national priority.
NEW YORK (AP) - Ending the New York Police Department's extensive use of stop and frisk is a top goal for the nation's oldest civil rights organization, NAACP President Benjamin Jealous said Tuesday in pressing for new laws to rein in a practice he said amounted to racial injustice on a massive scale.
"Stop and frisk is the largest...
April 9th, 2013
Written by Michelle Faul – The Associated Press in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
Did Margaret Thatcher support or denounce Apartheid?
Was Margaret Thatcher a supporter of Apartheid? How will history judge her actions or inactions in one long and tyrannical system of white-minority rule in Africa?
The former British leader supported the apartheid government when it was at its deadliest, killing many in the late 1980s in state terrorism at home and abroad in bombings and...
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