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Michael Meyers is executive director of the New York Civil Rights Coalition.

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Racial Politics and the Non-White Vassals of White Politicians

0 Comments | Posted February 10, 2012 | 4:49 PM

I am cussin' every time I turn on the TV and hear liberal pundits accuse the GOP Presidential candidates of outright racism and of the use of racial code words. It's as if we're existing in a pre-civil rights revolution time warp instead of the 21st century where race in...

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Pat Buchanan and MSNBC's Suicide Pact with Censorship

0 Comments | Posted January 18, 2012 | 4:34 PM

I don't agree with anything that Pat Buchanan writes or says about race and eugenics -- his views on immigration, integration, and politics are worse than extremist, and far harsher than bizarre. And I especially take exception to his latest book Suicide of A Superpower -- another anti-Semitic, pro-white screed...

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Mayor Bloomberg's Discriminatory Young Black and Latino Men's Initiative

0 Comments | Posted August 9, 2011 | 4:33 PM

I do not like the mayor's announced "Young Men's Initiative" -- a $127-million "public-private partnership" that throws big bucks at rescuing black and Latino males, they who are disproportionately in lockup in the state's prisons, dropouts from its schools, and unemployable because of their felony convictions, indolence or...

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Doing the Bidding of the 'Slave Masters'

0 Comments | Posted June 9, 2011 | 1:24 PM

Hazel Dukes and Benjamin Jealous of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) are the New York City teachers union's best champions.

That came through loudly when the NAACP sided with the teachers' union lawsuit to block the shutting of failing public schools in...

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Schooling Blacks in Segregationist Thinking

0 Comments | Posted January 31, 2011 | 3:08 PM

A public high school in Lancaster, PA is rebelling against the nation's avowed commitment to color-blindness. It is functionally repealing the civil rights laws by intentionally segregating its black students. The principal of Lancaster's McCaskey East HS, Bill Jimenez, is actually gloating about separating out his black students and placing...

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Blacks Should Toss Noose as Symbol, Hear History

0 Comments | Posted October 30, 2007 | 12:12 PM

Anti-racist students and staff at Columbia University's Teachers College were outraged recently about a hangman's noose on a black professor's office door, and protested it as a "hate crime."

They also lambasted the climate on campus as "racist," chanting, "No diversity, no university!" One sign declared: "Protest Racist Lynch Rope...

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Enough of Gara LaMarche and his Descent into Ad Hominem Invective

0 Comments | Posted November 5, 2006 | 12:23 PM

Gara LaMarche keeps writing about the ACLU, although he hasn't held a position in the organization for nearly a decade and has no first hand knowledge of the controversies between the leadership and its critics.

On July 15 LaMarche wrote without addressing the merits of the...

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Speech Rules Mar ACLU's Ideals

0 Comments | Posted May 30, 2006 | 9:34 PM

The ACLU, America's once proud and stalwart defender of free speech and a free press, is turning on its own board members and staff who differ publicly with the leadership's party line.

In an astonishing piece of hypocrisy and reversal of roles, an ACLU National Board committee offers "best practices"...

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