By Krissah Thompson
There is a glaring irony in the wake of Shirley Sherrod’s firing and subsequent reinstatement offer, say those who know her in Georgia.
She lost her job in a matter of hours under the suspicion of racism, but officials in the Department of Agriculture who were found to have withheld loans [...]
It looks like the mainstream media has finally decided to quit ignoring the rancid stench of race based hatred that fuels a lot of the anger behind the Tea Party movement. I guess the media thinks now that they deserve a pat on the back for taking an entire year to conclude [...]
By Steve Lopez
May 2, 2010
As usual when the topic is immigration, there’s lots of heat out there and very little light.
The anti-illegal immigration law in Arizona has been called Nazi-like by Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony and condemned by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, but it’s been hailed by others around the country [...]
Red Panties represents the title of my memoir that I am writing these days and desire to have available for your reading pleasure soon. The memoir will cover the period of 1946 through 1986 and reveal the types of things that I went through being a Christian saved and sanctified with the gift of Holy [...]
The actions of the Christian militia group raided in Michigan are part of a growing trend of militant activity across the U.S. because of the weak economy and an African-American president, experts and a civil rights group said today.
Hutaree, a militia based in Lenawee County, allegedly planned an uprising against the U.S. government by plotting [...]
Demonstrators outside the U.S. Capitol, angry over the proposed health care bill, shouted “nigger” Saturday at U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia congressman and civil rights icon who was nearly beaten to death during an Alabama march in the 1960s.
Protesters also shouted obscenities at other members of the Congressional Black Caucus, [...]
A Walmart store announcement ordering black people to leave brought chagrin and apologies Wednesday from leaders of the company, which has built a fragile trust among minority communities.
A male voice came over the public-address system Sunday evening at a store in Washington Township, in southern New Jersey, and calmly announced: “Attention, [...]
As a mixed-race girl growing up in this most cosmopolitan of mainland Chinese cities, 20-year-old Lou Jing said she never experienced much discrimination — curiosity and questions, but never hostility.
So nothing prepared Lou, whose father is a black American, for the furor that erupted in late August when she beat out thousands of other young [...]
It’s Obama’s America, is it not? Obama’s America, white kids getting beat up on school buses now. You put your kids on a school bus, you expect safety but in Obama’s America the white kids now get beat up …”
So, I guess that now that we have a black man in the White House, it’s [...]
After calling President Obama a racist, Fox News commentator Glenn Beck started losing advertisers, and now 33 companies have pulled their commercials from his show. They include Wal-Mart, CVS, Clorox and Sprint.The trend may affect other political talk shows, since advertisers prefer “safe” environments and the likes of Keith Olbermann, Sean Hannity, Rachel Maddow or [...]
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