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October 22nd, 2012
Written by Lori Hinnant - Associated Press in Religion's Mighty Rivers, Latest News with 0 Comments
PARIS (AP) — Twitter agreed to pull racist and anti-Semitic tweets under a pair of French hash tags after a Jewish group threatened to sue the social network for running afoul of national laws against hate speech, the organization said. The decision came a day after Twitter bowed to German law and blocked an account of a banned neo-Nazi group there.
The freewheeling social network is increasingly...
October 22nd, 2012
Written by The Associated Press in Latest News, Stereotypes & Labels with 0 Comments
HOBART, Australia (AP) — Interim WBA light middleweight champion Anthony Mundine has been accused of racism after making disparaging remarks about the heritage of his upcoming opponent and fellow Australian Aborigine Daniel Geale.
Mundine said of Tasmanian-born Geale at a pre-fight media conference that he thought "they wiped all the Aborigines from Tasmania out" — referencing a colonial-era...
October 22nd, 2012
Written by Judith H. Katz Ed.D. Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group Inc. in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 6 Comments
Most people understand that racism is wrong. However, it has become increasingly challenging for people to identify clear examples of racism in their daily lives, unless they are extreme. Few challenge the seemingly racist joke, the offhand remark dismissing an entire group, or the subtle behaviors that continue to put People of Color in a one-down position while reinforcing white people’s one-up...
October 22nd, 2012
Written by D. A. Barber in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 3 Comments
Results released this month from an ongoing University of Washington study of eligible voters indicate that partiality for whites over blacks is the strongest in the least politically-partisan voters and racial biases against President Barack Obama could produce up to a 20 percent gap in the popular vote in an otherwise equal contest.
"Although they may not determine the election outcome, race...
October 20th, 2012
Written by Steve Douglas - AP Sports Writer in Latest News, Our Daily Walk with 0 Comments
LONDON (AP) — Damaged by a yearlong racism case involving John Terry, English soccer will ask Premier League players to don anti-racism T-shirts during the warm-up for matches this weekend.
Football Association chairman David Bernstein said Friday that Terry's decision not to contest a four-match ban for racially abusing an opponent during a league game "hopefully brings to a close a difficult...
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