Racial Prejudice

The Unbearable Lightness Of Obama's Alleged Elitism

Ken Allen | Posted 08.18.2008 | Home

Read More: Racial Politics, Obama Elitist, Racial Prejudice, Class, Barack Obama, Obama Celebrity, Home News
Ken Allen

He is too educated and yet not deep enough? An answer to the paradoxical arguments used against Obama may lie in our inability to fit him into the stereotypes we use to make sense of the world.

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Deluded We Stand On Race And Gender

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Women's Rights, John McCain, Gender Card, Racial Prejudice, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Gender Prejudice, Hillary Clinton, Civil Rights, Barack Obama, Race Card, Racism, Obama Race, Race, 2008 Election and Gender, Gender, Politics News
Kathleen Reardon

Bias festers beneath a surface sporadic civility in America that we have all seen break down under pressure of the current election cycle.

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Race, Ethnicity and the 2008 General Election

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Racial Prejudice, 2008 Presidential Race, 2008 Election and Race, Obama Race, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Politics News
Reese Schonfeld

Poverty trumps ethnicity as a factor determining voter preference: if the dollar continues to sink, voters will vote their pocketbooks rather than their prejudices and Obama will glide into the Oval Office.

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Bonnie Bernstein, ESPN, and Responding to Hurt with Forgiveness

Ray Hanania | Posted 06.30.2008 | Media

Read More: Sports, Espn, NBA Hopefuls, Racism, Palestinian Suicide Bombers, Forgiveness, Bigotry, Bonnie Bernstein, Racial Politics, Racial Prejudice, Racial Stereotypes, Media News
Ray Hanania

ESPN/ABC sportscaster Bonnie Bernstein's remark that Palestinians (as a people) push their kids to be suicide bombers was followed a debate that quickly shifted from attacking facts to attacking personalities.

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How Obama Can Win Over Seniors and Turn the November Election Into a Democratic Landslide

Robert Creamer | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Senior Citizens, Racial Prejudice, Values, Iraq War, Social Security, Privatization, Racism, Universal Health Care, General Election, Medicare, Barack Obama, Politics News
Robert Creamer

The key to neutralizing the natural advantage McCain holds with seniors is to convince them that Obama wants "safe change" -- that he himself is "safe" and predictable.

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White Parents, Black Kids, Tough Love

John Ridley | Posted 05.30.2008 | Living

Read More: MEPA, Racial Prejudice, Race, Transracial Adoption, Adoption, Living News
John Ridley

This week comes word that some child welfare groups are saying that the so-called colorblind adoption system can do more harm than good to black kids adopted by white parents.

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My Father's Eyes: Sean Bell & Me

Terrance Heath | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Police Brutality, Racism, Sean Bell, Sean Bell Verdict, Racial Prejudice, Race, Racial Profiling, Shawn Bell, Politics News
Terrance Heath

As a black man raising two black sons, I wonder just how I will prepare them for the reality of what they will likely face without catalyzing what I know is an inevitable loss of innocence.

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Why So Many Iraqis Hate Us? Try "Towel Head" On for Size

Phillip Martin | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq Surge, Video, U.S. Military, Racial Prejudice, Bbc, Middle-East, PRI's the World, Donald Rumsfeld, Racism, Baghdad, BBC Poll, Winter Soldier, Iraq, Southern Poverty Law Center, Klan, Abu Ghraib, Politics News
Phillip Martin

An added barrier to getting to know Iraqis beyond skin color and stereo-types is the wholesale ignorance of Islam.

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I Saw Oprah Introduce The Winner Last Night!

Martin Lewis | Posted 12.12.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Racial Prejudice, Debaters, Civil Rights, The Academy Awards, Trent Lott, Strom Thurmond, Entertainment News
Martin Lewis

I watched Oprah walk on stage last night and introduce the winner. The winner that I think we will see this spring. African-American. Powerful. Ch...

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Playing the Hate Card

Bob Burnett | Posted 10.23.2007 | Politics

Read More: Immigration, Politicis of Hate, Racial Prejudice, Illegal Aliens, Race and Ethnicity in the Election, GOP Conservatives, GOP Race, Illegal Immigrants, Politics News
Bob Burnett

Conservative demagogues suggest our economic woes are the fault of "those people;" only this time it's not "colored people," the Irish, or Jews, it's illegal aliens.

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