Racial Politics

Poison in America

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Hate Crimes, Trayvon Martin, Splc, Arizona, George Zimmerman, Southern Poverty Law Center, Arizona Anti-Immigration Law, Russell Pearce, J.T. Ready, Teaching Tolerance Program, Racial Profiling, Racial Politics, Hate Speech, Politics News

The growth in hate groups and the use of their divisive and negative language in the mainstream political and media arena is cause for national alarm.

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Obama: I Never Thought My Election Meant We Were Post-Racial

Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Racial Politics, Video, Race, Race in America, Bv-Politics, Al Green, President Obama, Black Voices News

President Obama offered a sober analysis of race relations in America, and said that he did not feel his presidency represented the end of America's r...

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We Can Defeat Alabama's State Hate Laws

Judith Browne Dianis | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Racial Politics, Immigration Reform, Alabama, Immigration, Alabama Immigration Law, Racial Discrimination, Illegal Immigration, Alabama hb56, Politics News

It is clear that the Alabama law is accomplishing its goal of, as one of its sponsors stated, making life "unbearable" for immigrants.

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Villaraigosa Faces Racism: 'Go Back To Mexico'

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Latinos, Villaraigosa Racist, Antonio Villaraigosa, Villaraigosa Go Back to Mexico, La, Los Angeles, Villaraigosa Latino, Racial Profiling, Villaraigosa Shoeshine Boy, Latino Politician, Racial Politics, Latino Politics, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Villaraigosa Racism, Racism, Go Back to Mexico, Los Angeles News

A man told Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to "Go back to Mexico" as the mayor was leaving the state capitol recently. Dan Morain of the Sac...

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GOP Candidates' Racial Rhetoric Stokes Concern

AP | JESSE J. HOLLAND | Posted 03.19.2012

WASHINGTON — Hoping to win the hearts of Southern conservatives, Newt Gingrich leaned into his argument that President Barack Obama is a "food s...

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Joe Arpaio Asks For Facts To Back Up Civil Rights Case

AP | By JACQUES BILLEAUD | Posted 01.05.2012

Read More: Racial Politics, Immigration Reform, Undocumented Immigration, Immigration, Undocumented Immigrants, Racial Profiling, Latino Voices News

PHOENIX -- An Arizona sheriff whose office has been accused of a wide range of civil rights violations conditionally agreed Wednesday to take part in ...

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Watch: What If Michael Vick Were White?

Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: Racial Politics, Black People, Michael Vick Dog Fighting, Video, Football, Espn, Race, Michael Vick, White People, White Michael Vick, What if Michael Vick Was White, Michael Vick White, Sports News

An ESPN article asking if Michael Vick, the NFL quarterback who was convicted of dog-fighting offenses, would have been treated differently if he was ...

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WATCH: The Untelevised Revolution: A Tribute to Gil Scott-Heron

Patrick Pressl | Posted 08.07.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Gil Scott-Heron, Poetry, Racial Politics, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Gil Scott Heron Dead, Jazz, Urban Culture, Performing Art, The Godfather of Hip Hop, Poets, The Black Bob Dylan, Race, Funk Music, Music, Arts News

On May 27th, poet/singer/songwriter/activist Gil Scott-Heron passed away at the age of 62. Scott-Heron, perhaps best known for his spoken-word piece "...

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Michelle Alexander on the Criminal (In)Justice System

Sarah Stern | Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: Racial Politics, Criminal Justice, War on Drugs, Mass Incarceration, Politics News

The U.S. has an extraordinarily high incarceration rate, with 1 out of every 31 adults incarcerated, on parole or on probation. In some states, like Georgia, that rate is 1 in 13.

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Are Chicago's Racial Politics Changing?

AP | DON BABWIN and SOPHIA TAREEN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Racial Politics, Carol Moseley Braun Mayor, Race Politics, Carol Moseley Braun, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Mayoral Race, Chicago Mayor, Jesse Jackson, Chicago News

CHICAGO — The plan was simple: The Rev. Jesse Jackson and Chicago's other black leaders would choose one black candidate to run for mayor, invok...

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Tensions and Frustrations: Remembering Oscar Grant on MLK Day

Wendy Carrillo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gun Violence, Racial Politics, California, Martin Luther King, Oscar Grant, La Impact, Identity Politics, Police Brutality, Gabrielle Giffords, Race, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Racial Profiling, Los Angeles News

On the evening of the horrible Tucson shootings where Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head, I met a young Black man who scoffed at th...

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Huck Finn's N-Word: Preserving Artistic Integrity or Ethnic Property Rights?

Irene Monroe | Posted 05.25.2011

As Americans we have a hard time talking about race in this country when the n-word is not involved. And when this epithet is, predictably, we behave schizophrenically.

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Will Redistricting Lead to A Great Disappearing Act?

Jessica Levinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Racial Politics, Politics, Redistricting, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Voting Rights, Voting, Politics News

Will Republicans be able to legally cause Democrats to disappear? Just maybe.

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Dogs Make Great Running Coaches!

Michael Boblett | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Sports, Runners, Running, Marathons, Marathon, Dogs, 2008 Beijing Olympics, Racial Politics, Kenya, Africa, Healthy Living News

My running coach is an 8 lb. chihuahua named Bam. She has arthritis. She also kicks my butt! But with great skill and patience, she is teaching me the ancient art of distance running.

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Obama's Achilles Heel: He's Not African-American

Yvette Carnell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Racial Politics, Obama, Barack Obama Race, Post-Racial, Politics News

African Americans' expectation was that Obama would display some of the steeliness so overtly recognizable in the African American persona. But President Obama's perspective is international, not African American.

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North Carolina School Board Debate Over Potential Resegregation Sparks Fiery Protests

AP | MIKE BAKER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: North Carolina, North Carolina School Board, North Carolina School Board Protests, Wake County School Board, Wake County School Board Protests, School Resegregation, Racial Politics, Politics News

RALEIGH, N.C. — Protesters and police scuffled Tuesday at a school board meeting in North Carolina over claims that a new busing system would re...

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Are Religious People More Racist?

Daniel Cubias | Posted 05.25.2011

Researchers found that "religion is practiced largely within race" and as such, "religious in-group identity promotes general ethnocentrism." This study focused on white Protestants, but the researchers believe that their findings apply to other groups.

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Immigration Reform: An Unbridgeable Gap?

Daniel Cubias | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Racial Prejudice, Ethnic Profiling, Ethnicity, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Arizona, Prejudice, Racial Discrimination, Racial Profiling, Racial Politics, Ekaterine Bautista, Hector Tobar, Immigration Reform, Illegal Immigrants, Racism, Arizona Immigration Law, Bigotry, Politics News

At some point, immigration reform will happen. But it will be ugly, and everyone will be at least a little disappointed, so don't get your hopes up.

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Gov 1.0 and Powerful Happenings

Alan W. Silberberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gov 2.0, Camp Obama, South Central LA, Politics, Media, Congress, Public Affairs, Karen Bass, Government 2.0, California Assembly, Government, Los Angeles, Barack Obama, Racial Politics, Citizens, Race, Civics, People, Tv, Camp Karen, Gov 3.0, Gov 1.0, Politics News

We need more "Camp Karen" types of activities in all of our civic spaces. In bringing dignity back to politics, we all grow as a people.

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The Latino 11th Commandment: Thou Shall Not Criticize the "Leaders"

Fernando Espuelas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Latinos, Leadership, Anti-Latino, Antonio Villaraigosa, Ronald Reagan, Hispanic, Az Law, Political Leadership, Immigration, Democrats, Racial Politics, Immigration Reform, Politics, Arizona Law, Latino Voters, Latino Politics, sb1070, Republicans, Los Angeles News

The Latino activist community has by any objective standard failed in its stated mission of achieving immigration reform.

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It's Time for the Media to Integrate the Race Beat

Dori J. Maynard | Posted 05.25.2011

Whatever the initial rationale behind "mainstream media" leaving white people out of the race beat, recent events argue that it's time to reexamine that decision.

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Stand Up and Be Counted... Or Not: Why Latinos Have Issues With the Census

Daniel Cubias | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Latinos, Latino, Paranoia, Ethnicity, President Barack Obama, US Census Hispanic Count, Hispanic, US Census, Multiracial Americans, Multiracial, Right Wing, Hispanics, Race, Racial Discrimination, Barack Obama, Pew Hispanic Center, Racial Politics, Census, 2010 Census, Michele Bachmann, Ethnicities, US Census Bureau, Christopher Lambert, Right Wing Paranoia, African Americans, Bigotry, Fortress, Politics News

It seems that right-wing nuts aren't the only ones who believe the Census is all a plot. Just 57 percent of native-born Latinos believe that census participation is good for their community.

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The Cancer Killing the GOP

Fernando Espuelas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gop, Karl Rove, Latinos, Allan Mansoor, Midterm Elections, Jerry Brown, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Illegal Immigration, Steve Poizner, Pete Wilson, Immigrants, Arizona, J.D. Hayworth, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Racial Politics, Politics, Tea Party, Politics News

Tea Party radicalism aside, the real threat to the Republicans' long term viability is its increasingly rancid appeal to racial politics.

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Is Torii Hunter Right to Call Latin Americans "Imposters"?

Daniel Cubias | Posted 05.25.2011

I may owe Sammy Sosa an apology. In a recent post, I wrote about Sosa's apparent use of a skin product designed to make him appear whiter. I wondered...

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Lynching Reference on Cover of New Orleans Music Magazine Brings Anger and Outrage

Jordan Flaherty | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Strange Fruit, New Orleans, Racial Politics, Offbeat Magazine, Racism, Billie Holiday, Lynching, Politics News

OffBeat Magazine is a monthly print publication based in New Orleans. They claim a circulation of 40,000, mostly through free distribution in bars, st...

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