That’s the price of affirmative action. It taints black achievements, in the mind of many, with the question of “would this man have succeeded without race preferences” even in cases where the answer is undoubtedly “yes!” The only price of affirmative action is the misguided attempts at disproving its usefulness in American society. Whatever your [...]
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Newt Gingrich has always painted broadly outside the racial lines, and his deft ability to cocoon himself inside of a pseudo-intellectual balloon curries favor for him in conservative circles on issues of race. This quote deserves and demands more examination: Republican Newt Gingrich told a Georgia audience on Friday evening that the 2012 presidential election [...]
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The Daily Show Tags: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook Everything else seems to be on the table–Why are rappers coming to the White House? Where is your birth certificate? Why are you playing basketball? Everything of course but jobs and things that affect real people. This is quite [...]
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Even if you’re in a Benz, you’re still a nigger in a coupe–Kanye West I realize this is a few weeks old, but it was just too revealing not to share. Thanks to Baratunde Thurston (Jack Turner) of Jack & Jill Politics–one of my favorite blogs. Turner writes: It was during my viewing of this [...]
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The straw grasping begins: Taitz thinks that the birth certificate should peg Obama’s race as “Negro” and not “African.” “In those years … when they wrote race, they were writing ‘Negro’ not ‘African’,” Taitz says. “In those days nobody wrote African as a race, it just wasn’t one of the options. It sounds like it [...]
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President Obama has played his card: The White House has released the long form of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate in response to festering questions about whether he was born in the U.S. The President believed the distraction over his birth certificate wasn’t good for the country. It may have been good politics and good [...]
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“Obama has produced his birth certificate. There were announcements that ran in two contemporaneous Hawaiian newspapers at the time. The head of the Hawaiian medical records has announced, ‘I have seen the long form you all want.’ I don’t know why the long form is considered more credible than the short form. They’re both from [...]
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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy I may be a tad bit late on this, but I wanted to add a little to this discussion. I don’t know how many times I’ve discussed this, but I suppose it’s worth mentioning once more: All black people do not live in [...]
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On April 4th, 1968, American history changed forever. At 6:01pm, gunshots ripped through the flesh of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., as he stood on the balcony of his motel room. The purest embodiment of the civil rights movement lay motionless from a gaping wound to his neck. Dr. King became that which most in [...]
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Ta-Nehisi shows and proves: It’s getting really hard to believe that there is no racial element in the shots this dude is taking. People literally calling for his death on national TV. Others hoping he’s injured on the field. Still others using him and Desean Jackson (??) as a stand-in for overpaid, craven players. (I don’t buy [...]
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