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Racism in the Presidential Race
Posted by taino8632 in activism, african-american, analysis, asian-american, demography, immigration, latino, news, politics, racism on May 14th, 2008
Racism in the Presidential Race
~U.S. News & World Report
The monster lurking behind the curtain in the Democratic presidential contest is racism. Up to now, Obama’s supporters in the extreme left wing of the…
Racist Incidents Give Some Obama Campaigners Pause
~Washington Post
… Mr. Obama expressed puzzlement at that perception, saying that in the black community in Chicago he had been accused of being ‘too close to the Jews...
The Media’s Perpetuation of Racism
~The Huffington Post
Reverend Otis Moss III, who succeeded Rev. Wright at Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ, offered an intimate and perspicacious meditation on the media’s obsession with Rev. Wright…
Study: Immigrants in U.S. adapt quicker than in the past
~Chicago Tribune
Immigrants of the past quarter-century have been assimilating in the United States at a notably faster rate than did previous generations…
Some Detainees Are Drugged For Deportation
~Washington Post
The U.S. government has injected hundreds of foreigners it has deported with dangerous psychotropic drugs against their will to keep them sedated during the trip back to their home country…
Nothing to “cheer” in TV sitcom on “Aliens in America”
~The American Muslim
It tells you how bad the situation is when Arabs and Muslims in America cheer a program that promotes the stereotype that they are “Aliens…
As cities revive, America’s poor are forced to the periphery
~Financial Times
The pattern of urban wealth and poverty has changed markedly since the US race riots of the late 1960s, but areas of deep divide and deprivation still exist throughout America - just hidden behind white picket fences…
Juan Crow in Georgia
Posted by taino8632 in -isms, immigration, latino, politics on May 9th, 2008
~The Nation
Immigrant Latinos live under a matrix of oppressive laws, customs and institutions.
