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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Race, Politics and Hypocrisy in 21st Century America

Freedom Rider: Black America at the Bottom New U.S. Census data show “black Americans are at the absolute bottom of the economic heap in a county still teetering from the effects of a seemingly endless recession.” With the median household income at $50,000, African American households earn only $32,000 – $5,000 per year less than Latinos. Insanely, however, Black Americans are more optimistic about the economy than all other groups. Obama twists Black minds. “Most black people still love the president who looks like them but who goes out of his way to ignore them and their needs.”

People of color just can't seem to get a fair shake when it comes to jail sentences and clemency. They have to deal with disparities in arrest, jail sentencing, and now it seems in clemency too. A report just came out regarding Presidential Pardons, which have been majority whites.

Republicans Racialize Abortion Debate The Washington Post reports that Arizona Republican Rep. Trent Franks (who once argued that, because of high abortion rates in black communities, African Americans were better off under slavery) chaired a Tuesday House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on legislation he is introducing that would make it harder women to have abortions – especially black women.

Communities of Color Oppose Punitive School Reform
New research on communities of color and public school reform shows that African-American and Latino parents support much of the AFT’s agenda for improving schools. In particular, the parents and other caregivers surveyed want to fix public schools rather than close them down, to help teachers improve rather than weeding them out of the profession, and to provide rigorous college-prep courses for far more students.

Black Voters Told, 'Relax, Don't Vote'Those who are still confused about why Republicans spend so much energy making it harder for people to vote should pay some attention to a case that concluded this week in a courtroom in Baltimore. There, the campaign manager for 2010 Republican gubernatorial candidate, and former Maryland governor, Robert Ehrlich was tried and found guilty of election fraud based on an attempt to suppress the African-American vote by authorizing the use of misleading robocalls.Hmmm..that sounds familiar...Alabama Democratic Party officials are asking state and federal authorities to investigate and Republican leaders are condemning a Tuesday election day prank by a Huntsville radio commentator.
Conservative commentator Dale Jackson of WVNN in Huntsville read a phony news release on air and posted a copy to his Web site Tuesday morning, the Huntsville Times reported. The release made prominent use of the Alabama state seal.
Different results.


How to tell if a white person is racist  First, the definition. According to the Oxford Dictionary a racist is someone who believes: each race or ethnic group possesses specific characteristics, abilities, or qualities that distinguish it as inferior or superior to another such group.

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