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In the last few months, the Republican Party has spoken to many ideas. Many of them very important to the GOP. They speak freely on the economy, foreign policy, education and government spending. What they do not talk about very often, is their plan on how to unify an America so much more diverse than what the founding fathers created. They steadily evade any deep discussions on race (unless it is
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The top GOP candidates who emerged from yesterday’s Iowa Caucus have a few things in common: They’re all white. They’re all men. And they’ve all been accused of racism. Some of these claims proved baseless, but others — we think — are legitimate.
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The NewsOne Team put together a short list of the top GOP
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Over the last few weeks American Muslims have been in the news a lot. It started with controversy over the TV show All American Muslim. Then it continued after Muslims boycotted Lowe’s hardware stores for pulling ads during the show due to outside pressure. Not long after Muslim community leaders in New York boycotted Mayor Bloomberg’s dinner invitation. They said he was allowing the NYPD to harass and spy on Muslims who are good
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An activist was beaten and arrested at a Dutch Christmas celebration after attempting to call attention to the racist depiction of Zwarte Piet, a beloved Santa’s-helper folk character in the Netherlands.
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For the last few years, activists have worked to reform or change Zwarte Piet. In 2007, Piet’s face was depicted as multicolored instead of black.
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BERLIN (AP) — An American Jewish group is applauding German police for taking former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke into custody before he could address a far-right gathering.
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Elan Steinberg, vice president of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants, said Wednesday the move “sends an important
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Pat Robertson never fails to deliver. More foolishness from America’s favorite crypto-Christian conservative crackpot. This via the Huffington Post:
Read MorePat Robertson appeared confused about macaroni and cheese while hosting “The 700 Club” Wednesday on the Christian Broadcasting Network following a clip of host Kristi Watts interviewing former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. In the clip, Watts asked Rice what dish she had to have at Thanksgiving. “It’s mac and cheese,” Rice
On his radio show yesterday, right wing pundit Rush Limbaugh talked about the recent booing of First Lady Michelle Obama at a NASCAR event.
Limbaugh defended the booers, claiming that they had a right to do so, considering her healthy eating initiatives and vacations, accusing her of “uppity-ism.”
The term “uppity” has historically been used to describe African-Americans who didn’t know their place.
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Campus administrators and officials at an upstate New York university are investigating several racist signs that have popped up on campus this semester.
SUNY New Paltz, one of the state of New York’s many universities, has recently been bombarded by racist signs most notably, one by a water fountain that harkens back to the Civil Rights era with a sign reading, “Colored Only.”
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A TSA agent at O’Hare airport in Chicago has been fired after he posted anti-Muslim and racist comments on his Facebook page.
Roy Egan worked at the airport for close to a decade and was suspended in October after TSA found him to be in violation of employee conduct on and off the job.
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The connection between race and capital punishment has been a hot topic this year, and it’s likely to remain one after a new study found a shocking pattern in the way one Texas county sentences people to die.
Of the last 13 men that have been sentenced to death in Harris County, 12 of them are black, according to an analysis of prison and prosecution records by the Houston Chronicle. The discovery
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