Double Standard

If Wright Were White

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 04.30.2008 | Home

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Leonce Gaiter

In this election cycle, there was always going to be a Jeremiah Wright. In America, there are different standards. Black people are more quickly judged intemperate and arrogant and angry.

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Abstinence is the New Feminism (And Other Things I Learned at Harvard)

Shelby Knox | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics

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Shelby Knox

The last thing anyone, male or female, needs on a college campus is a rancorous and harmful debate about the merits of sex or no sex.

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Ferraro Keeps Getting it Right: Obama Should Apologize to Her

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Let rival Clinton (or God forbid, hubby Bill) even breathe the R word about Obama and the screeches from the clinically obsessive Hate Hillary Clubbers are swift and loud.

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You Can't Say That on Television: Jane Fonda and the C-Word

Jessica Wakeman | Posted 02.17.2008 | Living

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Jessica Wakeman

I don't want the only people who are "allowed" to say "dirty" words about women to be the people who are trying to hurt us.

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Injustice in Black Leaders' Response to Thomas Case

Byron Williams | Posted 12.02.2007 | Politics

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Byron Williams

The Thomas affair smacks of a clear double standard among black leadership. Sure, some called for Thomas' dismissal, but not with the same gusto as with Imus.

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Deciding to Be Human

John Brady Kiesling | Posted 11.02.2007 | Politics

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John Brady Kiesling

Most of us applaud the efforts of the UN to impose a universal code of behavior. But international law is not always compatible with our more Homeric instincts.

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Better Imus on the Air Than Off

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.11.2007 | Media

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Imus would be the permanent broadcast poster boy for what can happen to shock jocks that stray over the line of racial trash talking indecency.

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