Police officers have a duty to protect and to serve everyone in the community, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin or immigration status. They have a responsibility to follow facts, not bias.
Terrance Heath | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
Anger, if you are a minority, is dangerous. If you are a woman, a person of color, gay, etc., your movements must be calm, your voice must be modulated, and your anger must never show.
Robert Fuller | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
We were quick to look at the Gates affair through the lens of race. To bring things fully into focus, we need a second lens -- that of rank.
Jennifer Donahue | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics
The problem isn't so much what happened with Crowley and Gates. A greater problem is the divide between famous and easily identifiable people of color and those with no defense.
Lowell Thompson | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics
Even my most progressive white friends play down the differences in our American experience because of skin color.
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics
"Miss!" A large man with a crew cut pointed at me and exclaimed, "You have a bomb in your shoe!" This dude was talking to me. I was shocked.
Suzette Standring | Posted 08.07.2008 | Living
Tomatoes are seeing red at being wrongly blamed as the contamination cause of a national Salmonella outbreak. Now jalapeno peppers have replaced tomatoes as the possible culprit.
Ray Hanania | Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics
We have to learn to distinguish between real moderates and the extremists if we plan to defeat the terrorists. Profiling can't do that. Americans need more, not less education.
Sam Sedaei | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
The world's grievances with the US have little to do with its history of slavery. Most of the world is more concerned with how America treats other ethnicities, beyond black.
Nadia Tonova | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics