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Does "Urging Israel" Amount to "Change We Can Believe In"?

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 09.05.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Terrorism, Fatah, Hamas, Obama Mideast Trip, Joe Biden, Sheikh-Jarrah, Race, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Jerusalem, Middle East, Avigdor Lieberman, Racism, Israel, Hillary Clinton, Al Jazeera, World News
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin

Expressing disappointment and calling on Israel not to repeat its actions is ineffective, so when will America's policy change from a slap on the wrist to a handcuff to international law?

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The Last Real American White Man Is a Woman

Caryl Rivers | Posted 09.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sarah Palin Resignation, Race in America, Sarah Palin, American Identity, Race, Post-Racial, Post Racial America, Politics News
Caryl Rivers

Sarah is a tintype of what we used to be -- or who we believed we were: rugged individuals who charged across the continent, ripping up trees and taming the prairies.

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White Racism Black Bigotry: The Talk About Race is All Wrong!

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Systemic Racism, Teachable Moment, Gates, Black Bigotry, President Obama, Issues of Race, Race Relations, Obama, James Crowley, Mud Fight, Racist, Converations on Race, Racists, Noel Cazenave, Liberals, Sgt. Crowley, Crowley, Boston Police, Rush Limbaugh, Politics, Bigotry, Lou Dobbs, Gate and Obama, Racism, Race, Racial Bigotry, Racial Profiling, Civil Rights Movement, Sociology, Police, White Racism, Glenn Beck, Skip Gates, Henry Louis Gates, Conservatives, Officer Barrett, Uconn, University of Connecticut, Obama Crowley Gates Beer, Sgt. James Crowley, Obama Beer, Politics News
Yvonne R. Davis

The problem with discussing "issues of race," is that it dummies down the issue of racism to an individual level, when the real problem is at the macro level.

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Where You Sit Is Where You Stand (on Crowley-Gates)

Natalie Holder-Winfield | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gates, Professor, Teachable Moment, Beer, Color, Obama, Race, Crowley, Politics News
Natalie Holder-Winfield

Many blacks cheered Obama for saying that Sgt. Crowley acted stupidly. They wanted more public dialogues on race. Instead, last night they saw a white guy get over again.

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The Cheers! That Changed The World

Julie Farby | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Beer, White House, Beer Summit, Obama, Robert Gates, Race, Rose Garden, Sgt. James Crowley, Politics News
Julie Farby

Now, not only is it possible to have a black man as president of America, it's also possible to get arrested before getting wasted.

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Before We All Have A Beer

Anna Deavere Smith | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Racial Politics, Henry Louis Gates, Barack Obama, James Crowley, Obama Beer, White House Beer, Obama Crowley Gates Beer, Race, Politics News
Anna Deavere Smith

There are many practical ways that we can do race work, not just race talk in our daily lives. But should we go back to work the same way as before?

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Sotomayor and the Vulcan Standard, Pt. 2

Terrance Heath | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Pat Buchanan, Ethnicity, Mark Krikorian, Sonia Sotomayor, Racism, Assimilation, Race, Barack Obama, Politics News
Terrance Heath

From the moment Sotomayor's nomination was announced, it's become evident that varied shades of white have blended into a much paler, but more uniform, color.

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Prison's Littlest Victims

David C. Fathi | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Human Rights, Race, Children, Prison, Crime, Politics News
David C. Fathi

It's long been fashionable for politicians to boast that they're "tough on crime." But by getting tough on crime, the United States has also gotten tough on children.

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Think Again: Why Does Barack Obama Hate America? (Hint: Blame ACORN)

Eric Alterman | Posted 08.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Racism, Glenn Beck, Conservatives, Henry Louis Gates, Gates, Race, Barack Obama, Obama Race, Media News
Eric Alterman

Obama's comments on the Gates arrest have demonstrated the dismal quality of conservative commentary these days.

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The Birther Movement Won't Go Away, and for Good Reason

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Birthers, Barack Obama Birth Certificate Controversy, White House, Conservatives, President Obama, Robert Ibbs, Gop, Race, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Every newspaper, magazine, talk show host that damns the birthers as a bunch of wacky, paranoid, Obama-haters stirs the pot even more, giving unintended help to the movement.

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Class and Race Again: Brewskies and Jungle Monkeys

Pam Spaulding | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: James Crowley, Henry Louis Gates, Race, Class, Justin Barrett, Barack Obama, Politics News
Pam Spaulding

The beer summit confirms the role of class in this whole brouhaha. Beer is a social signifier that Gates, Obama, and Crowley are just regular guys shooting the sh*t.

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A Case in Race: A Case in Foster Care

Lainey Shany | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Race, Children, Foster Care, Race in America, Glen Beck, Politics News
Lainey Shany

Let's face it. While we wait for our children to change our world, we taint them in the process. In doing so, we undercut whatever advantage they might have to make things right.

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Workplace Diversity: What Happens When White Men Don't Want It

Natalie Holder-Winfield | Posted 08.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Preference, Race, Business, Workplace, Identity Politics, Bias, Diversity, Racial Preferences, Business News
Natalie Holder-Winfield

Until senior-level white men take a stake in the success of their employees of color, their organizations' retention and promotion efforts will fail.

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Everything Professor Gates and Sergeant Crowley Needed to Know, I Learned at a Montessori School

Jehmu Greene | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Disorderly Conduct, President Obama, Cambridge Police, Jim Crowley, Racism, Henry Louis Gates, Race, Conflict Resolution, Politics News
Jehmu Greene

Both Sergeant Crowley and Professor Gates had more than enough intellectual resources to identify alternatives in a heated confrontation -- both men chose not to use them.

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Jim Crowley: Racist or Thuggish Bully?

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Disorderly Conduct, Gore-Vidal, Racism, Sgt James Crowley, Gates Racism, Obama, Harvard Professor Arrest, Peace Officer, Racial Profiling, President Obama, Conflict Resolution, Jim Crowley, Politics News Professor Gates, Cambridge Police, Race, Henry Louis Gates, Politics News
Blake Fleetwood

Obama was right in the real world (maybe not politically). Crowley certainly did act "stupidly." But Professor Gates acted stupidly as well.

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Arthur Delaney

Disorderly Conduct: Conversation About Gates Arrest Precedes Arrest

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Disorderly Conduct, Henry Louis Gates, Cambridge Police, Race, Politics News

A lawyer who moments earlier had been complaining to friends about police overreaction in the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., got a...

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National Urban League Kicks Off Conference In Chicago

AP | KAREN HAWKINS | Posted 08.29.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Cherlye Jackson, National Urban League Convention, National Urban League Chicago, Race, Civil Rights, Marc Morial, Biden Urban League, National Urban League, Chicago News

CHICAGO (AP) -- Ninety-nine years after it was founded to serve the needs of poor blacks in the nation's cities, the National Urban League's work is a...

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Back to Black Man 101

Terrance Heath | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blacks, President Obama, Profiling, Police Brutality, Race, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Henry Louis Gates, Class, Racial Profiling, Politics News
Terrance Heath

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.

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Gates Got Arrested Because He Hurt Sgt. Crowley's Feelings?!

Michael Fauntroy | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cambridge, Police, President Barack Obama, Racism, Michael Fauntroy, Hillary Clinton, Sgt. Crowley, Joe Biden, Race, Henry Louis Gates Jr. Harvard, Henry Louis Gates, Skip Gates, Politics News
Michael Fauntroy

For every Henry Louis Gates, with resources, notoriety, and connections, there are countless others like him who have to live with the reality of racism in anonymity.

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Jason Linkins

Fox News Reporter Asks Tough Questions On Obama Beer Diplomacy

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Video, Barack Obama, Beer Diplomacy, Beer, Henry Louis Gates, James Crowley, Obama Beer, Race, Media News

This Thursday night, the White House will host the most important Single-Serving Beer Drink-Off in the history of America as Obama imbibes with Henry Louis Gates Jr. and James Crowley. At stake: racial transcendence for all America.

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Beer Metaphor Becomes Frosty-Cold Reality

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, General Grant, Have a Beer With, Policeman, President Obama, Racial Relations, Stupidly, Teachable Moment, Winston Churchill, Andrew Jackson, Obama, Civil War, Race, Sarah Palin, Bush, Abe Lincoln, Log Cabin, Professor, Grant, Teaching Moment, Harvard, Republican Cloth Coat, Clinton, Abraham Lincoln, Honest Abe, Cop, Acting Stupidly, Dubya, Lincoln, Bill Clinton, George HW Bush, Whiskey, Man of the People, WC Fields, Beer, Cormac O'Brien, Massachusetts, Stupid, Bubba, Ulysses S Grant, Have a Beer, Barack Obama, Jackson, Attitude, Chris Weigant, Secret Lives of the US Presidents, George W Bush, Hillary Clinton, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon, Arrest, Churchill, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Barack Obama is the first president to not just accept the premise of the "having a beer" test, but to embrace it and turn it into reality.

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Mark Another Coup for David Axelrod

Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, President Barack Obama, David Axelrod, Obama Centrist, Henry Louis Gates, Race, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Racial Profiling, Politics News
Richard M. Benjamin

Why do economic and racial segregation still dog us in 2009 -- the forty-fifth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act -- and what, if anything, can be done?

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A Teachable Moment: Pride and Prejudice

Denise Dennis | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cambridge Massachusetts, Race, Harvard University, Henry Louis Gates, Class, Race Relations, Cambridge Police, Politics News
Denise Dennis

Gates' and Crowley's confrontation was a clash of egos in which pride and prejudice -- on both sides -- came into play.

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Obama's Gates Trainwreck

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Backlash, Henry Louis Gates, President Obama, Harvard, sgt.james Crawley, Race, Health Care, Racial Profiling, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Obama spoke from the heart and said what needed to be said about the thorny issue of racial profiling. No apology needed for that. He just said it in the wrong case and at the wrong time.

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UPDATE: Gates, Crowley To Join Obama For Beers On Thursday

Huffington Post | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Gates, David Axelrod, James Crowley, Obama Beer, Gates Cambridge, Harvard, Gates, Henry Louis Gates, Race, Robert Gibbs, Racial Profiling, Gates Arrest, Politics News

UPDATE: There are several reports that the beer diplomacy between President Obama, Cambridge police sergeant James Crowley and Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...

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